2016 Cincinnati Opera Program Book

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The 2016 Program Synopses and Notes Die Fledermaus ...................... 10 Fellow Travelers ......................16 Fidelio ................................... 22 Tosca .................................... 28 Board of Trustees ....................... 8 Season Artists ........................... 36 Orchestra and Chorus ............... 50 Donors ..................................... 64 Cincinnati Opera Guild ............. 78 Celebrations and Honorariums ... 80 Remembrances ......................... 86 Society of Angels ...................... 88 General Information .................. 96 PRODUCED BY Publisher Ivy Bayer Carew Tower, 441 Vine Street, Suite 200, Cincinnati, Ohio 45202 Phone: (513) 421-4300 Fax: (513) 562-2788 www.cincinnatimagazine.com

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Patricia K. Beggs The Harry Fath General Director & CEO

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From the General Director and Artistic Director

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elcome to Cincinnati Opera’s 2016 season, our 96th summer of grand opera. Your surroundings may be unfamiliar, but as you are about to discover, the Aronoff Center for the Arts is as well-suited for unamplified opera performances as it is for Broadway blockbusters. We are proud to present our 2016 and 2017 seasons in the Aronoff ’s theaters, but also look forward to returning in 2018 to our longtime home—the revitalized Music Hall.

Patricia K. Beggs Evans Mirageas We offer our sincere thanks to you, our Cincinnati Opera Family, for your support throughout the Music Hall renovation project. We are confident that the acclaimed team of professionals who are leading this major undertaking will build upon our beloved Music Hall’s world-class acoustics and retain its historic grandeur even as they transform the building’s amenities, access, and backstage space to create an even better patron and artistic experience.

Our 2016 season is a blend of old friends and a brand-new commission. Two works are returning to our stage for the first time in a generation: Johann Strauss, Jr.’s Die Fledermaus, in a new production set in 1930s Vienna, and directed by the head of the University of Cincinnati CollegeConservatory of Music (CCM) Opera program, Robin Guarino; and Ludwig van Beethoven’s only opera, Fidelio, in a timeless production that will have us all questioning how far society has really progressed since the opera’s premiere 211 years ago. To close the season, Puccini’s Tosca is featured in a glorious new set and exquisite Italian-made costumes, and features a fiercely independent heroine who struggles to save her man and herself.

We are very excited to present our second mainstage world premiere in as many years: Fellow Travelers, composed by Gregory Spears with a libretto by playwright Greg Pierce. Much like last season’s Morning Star, we discovered this new opera through the Opera Fusion: New Works program, our groundbreaking collaboration with CCM. This year, we’re adding a new dimension to that relationship; with Fellow Travelers, we are presenting our first partnership with CCM on a mainstage production.

On a bittersweet note, we join the Opera’s Board, Guild, and staff in extending our sincere appreciation to Mu Sinclaire as we salute him for three years of extraordinary service to Cincinnati Opera as our President of the Board of Trustees from 2013 to 2016. In addition to working tirelessly on behalf of the Opera, Mu also assumed the leadership of the Cultural Facilities Task Force in 2014, led the private philanthropy initiative for the Music Hall project, and continues to serve on the board of the Music Hall Revitalization Company. Bravo, Mu Sinclaire. Grazie mille!

Patricia K. Beggs The Harry Fath General Director & CEO

Evans Mirageas The Harry T. Wilks Artistic Director

Note: While we watch the transformation of Music Hall, we invite you to become a part of the process.

Please visit the Cincinnati Opera website to find information on the revitalization plan or to learn more about contributing to the fundraising effort. cincinnatiopera.org/musichall

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Greetings from the Board President

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n behalf of Cincinnati Opera and its esteemed Board of Trustees, I am pleased to welcome you to the 2016 Summer Festival, my last as President of the Board. As my term draws to a close, I reflect with gratitude and pride on the extraordinary leaps Cincinnati Opera has achieved with support of our tireless Board, Center Stage Board Associates, Opera Guild, Opera staff, and most importantly you, our patrons. I’d like to share a few highlights: •C incinnati Opera is “on the move” with fresh, innovative programing and community initiatives, including the Opera Express (a mobile performance space housed in a truck), Opera Goes to Church Murray Sinclaire, Jr. and Temple, Community Open Dress Rehearsal, Opera Outbound (offering student and family entertainment), Opera in the Park, and Back to the Zoo. Last year, we interacted with over 120,000 people!

•T he Opera presents its second solo world premiere in decades with Fellow Travelers this summer, following last season’s Morning Star.

•O ur training program for SCPA students, developed in conjunction with our second stage at the School for Creative and Performing Arts, pairs high school students with professionals from the Opera and IATSAE Local 5 to gain invaluable behind-the-scenes theater experience.

•S trategic partnerships with three smaller arts organizations, through which we share expertise, office space, and data software and management to help these organizations grow their audiences, continues the Opera’s long tradition of collaboration.

•O pera Fusion: New Works, a joint program with CCM designed to workshop new operas in a safe and nurturing environment, has produced five premieres on U.S. stages, including our own.

•P rudent fiscal stewardship has grown our budget to $7.8 million and endowment to $30 million, while sustaining a positive bottom line for 27 of the last 28 years.

•C incinnati Opera is approaching 100 years young, so to celebrate our centennial in 2020 and insure the Opera’s future, we introduced the New Century Campaign. To date, we’ve raised $10,100,000!

The success of a city is measured by the quality of its arts organizations. This can only be accomplished if many people, foundations, and businesses share this belief and join together to enable our cultural institutions fulfill their promise. The Cincinnati Opera Family and its stakeholders are unwavering in their commitment to this mission, so it has been a privilege to serve as president during this time of unprecedented growth and change. I want to thank my predecessors for their inspiring examples of leadership, and extend my best wishes to Gary “Doc” Huffman, as he takes over as Board President in the fall. The future of Cincinnati Opera is bright!

Murray Sinclaire, Jr. President

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Board of Trustees Officers President Murray Sinclaire, Jr.

Secretary Alva Jean Crawford

Co-Chairmen Cathy Crain Robert W. Olson

Vice-Presidents Boris Auerbach Dorothy Anne Blatt Charlin Briggs Joseph E. Brinkmeyer Mark J. Busher John G. Earls James T. Fitzgerald Liz Kathman Grubow

Barbara Hahn Lisa M. Hillenbrand Donald E. Hoffman Kevin C. Jones Richard I. Lauf, Ph.D. Jonathan McCann Julia B. Meister David Motch Edward B. Silberstein, M.D. Elizabeth M. Stites John M. Tew, Jr., M.D. Ronna K. Willis

Ex-Officio Patricia K. Beggs, The Harry Fath General Director & CEO

Matthew Garretson Cynthia Goodman, Ph.D. Madeleine H. Gordon Barbara Gould Peter Graham Liz Kathman Grubow Barbara Hahn Julie Grady Heard Lisa M. Hillenbrand Donald E. Hoffman Gary T. “Doc” Huffman Gordon Hullar Barbara Hummel, M.Ed. Kevin C. Jones Mona Kerstine Sid Khosla, M.D. Timothy Kimmel Roger Henry LaGreca

Richard I. Lauf, Ph.D. Margaret M. LeMasters, M.D. Lee Ann Liska George Mandybur, M.D. Peggy Ann Markstein Michael Marrero Jonathan McCann Julia B. Meister Ryan L. Messer David Motch Ran Mullins Monica Newby, D.D.S. Robert W. Olson Penny Pensak Pamela Spangler Reis Denise Revely Harry H. Santen Russell Shelton

Edward B. Silberstein, M.D. Murray Sinclaire, Jr. Christopher Smith, CFRE Litsa Spanos Peter Stambrook, Ph.D. James Stapleton Cynthia Starr Elizabeth M. Stites John M. Tew, Jr., M.D. Catharina Toltzis, Ph.D. Nydia Tranter Jane Votel Ronna K. Willis Jeannine Winkelmann Shelby O. Wood Mario Zuccarello, M.D.

Frank J. Andress Ron Bates Edward C. Bavaria Elaine Billmire, M.D. Robert W. Boden Mary Ann Boorn Christopher J. Canarie Arthur B. Casper Melanie M. Chavez Evan Corbett

Daniel B. Cunningham Vivian A. Dobur Harry Fath Frederick R. Good Morton L. Harshman, M.D. Suzanne Hasl Theresa Henderson Edita Hoffman Mary J. López Joanie Lotts

Eric D. Louden Jenny Magro Sherie Marek Donald S. Mendelsohn Wendell O’Neal, Ph.D. Joseph A. Pichler David Reichert Melody Sawyer Richardson Susan Robinson Nancy Rosenthal

Eugene L. Saenger, Jr. G. James Sammarco, M.D. Ann Gallagher Schoen Kathy Selker Marcella G. Trice Ray van der Horst Carla D. Walker Anne M. Zaring

Presidents’ Council

Ex-Officio Members

Center Stage Board Associates

Honorary Members

Boris Auerbach G. Gibson Carey Cathy Crain Harry Fath Kingston Fletcher Donald E. Hoffman John S. Hopple Lawrence H. Kyte Robert W. Olson Harry H. Santen Murray Sinclaire, Jr. Ellen G. van der Horst

Patricia K. Beggs The Honorable John Cranley Emilie Johnson Sarajane King Peter Koenig Dean Peter Landgren Jill P. Meyer

Tracy Agyemang Asif Alikhan Aine Baldwin Kristy Davis Michael Dean Stephen Eadicicco Shannon M. Glass, Chair Megan Hammann John T. Lawrence IV Janice Liebenberg Katie Lutes Ashley Burnside Maguire Arti Masturzo, M.D. Mary Newman David Sanders Megan Selnick Candice Young

Courtis Fuller Patrick Korb Sue Alexander Mouch Zell Schulman Trudie Seybold Paul A. “Gus” Stuhlreyer III Joyce VanWye Nancy Walker

President-Elect Gary T. “Doc” Huffman Treasurer Timothy Kimmel

Sarajane King, Opera Guild President Shannon M. Glass, Chair, Center Stage Board Associates

Regular Members Vicki Alpaugh Boris Auerbach Christopher Baucom Jennifer Bellin Dorothy Anne Blatt Thomas F. Boat, M.D. Charlin Briggs Joseph E. Brinkmeyer Mark J. Busher Michael L. Cioffi Sheila Cole Peter George Courlas Cathy Crain Alva Jean Crawford Eric Dauer Benjamin G. Dusing John G. Earls James T. Fitzgerald Advisory Members

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Evans Mirageas The Harry T. Wilks Artistic Director

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Production Underwriter Murray Sinclaire, Jr., and Ross, Sinclaire & Associates, LLC Opening Week Sponsor Ohio National Financial Services Evening Sponsors Elizabeth M. Stites and Kevin C. Randall The Alpaugh Foundation, and Peter Alpaugh 10 | 2016Vicki Summer Festival

Season Presenting Sponsor PNC The opening week performances are dedicated to the memory of Robert J. Hasl, M.D.

Die Fledermaus Music by Johann Strauss, Jr. Libretto by Carl Haffner and Richard Genée Sung in English, translated from the original German Based on the plays Das Gefängnis by Julius Roderich Benedix and Le Réveillon by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy World premiere: April 5, 1874, at Theater an der Wien in Vienna, Austria Cincinnati Opera premiere: August 5, 1928, at Cincinnati Zoo Pavilion June 16 and 18, 2016, at Procter & Gamble Hall, Aronoff Center for the Arts 23rd and 24th company performances of Die Fledermaus CONDUCTOR STAGE DIRECTOR SCENIC DESIGNER COSTUME DESIGNER LIGHTING DESIGNER HAIR & MAKE-UP DESIGNER CHORUS MASTER CHOREOGRAPHER ENGLISH VERSION & SUPERTITLES PRODUCTION STAGE MANAGER

David Charles Abell Robin Guarino* Allen Moyer Candice Donnelly* Thomas C. Hase James Geier Henri Venanzi Sarah Hairston Robin Guarino & David Pountney Liam Roche

Cast (in order of vocal appearance) ALFRED, an unemployed tenor

Alek Shrader* Nicole Haslett* ROSALINDE VON EISENSTEIN, a famous stage actress Nicole Cabell EISENSTEIN, Rosalinde’s philandering husband Zach Borichevsky* DR. BLIND, an incompetent lawyer Thomas Glenn DR. FALKE, a prominent Viennese psychiatrist Hadleigh Adams* FRANK, concierge at the Imperial Hotel Thomas Dreeze PRINCE ORLOFSKY, a wealthy young Russian aristocrat Kelley O’Connor IDA, a dancer and Adele’s sister Adria Caffaro+ BELLHOPS Stephen Michael Hanna*, Eric Shane Heatley*

John Humphrey*, John Tibbetts* ADELE, the Eisensteins’ chambermaid

* Cincinnati Opera debut + Cincinnati Opera Young Artist

A new co-production with Indiana University’s Jacobs School of Music.

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Synopsis The performance will last approximately 2 hours and 20 minutes.

There will be 1 intermission.

ACT I Vienna, between the world wars. The actress Rosalinde and her husband Eisenstein are in Vienna to celebrate the New Year. At the suggestion of their friend Dr. Falke, they are staying at the Imperial Hotel. Unbeknownst to both of them, Falke has hired the hotel concierge as part of his revenge plot on Eisenstein, two years in the making. Falke has even found an old lover of Rosalinde—an “unemployed” tenor named Alfred—to keep Rosalinde busy, along with a troupe of actors and dancers paid for by a bored Russian aristocrat, Prince Orlofsky.

Soon, Eisenstein is accused of cheating at the hotel casino in a rigged card game, and is ordered under house arrest. A lawyer, referred by Falke, makes the situation worse and doubles Eisenstein’s sentence. Falke urges Eisenstein to come with him to a costume party in the hotel ballroom hosted by Prince Orlofsky before going to jail, and Eisenstein secretly agrees.

Secretly, Falke has also sent Adele, Eisenstein’s chambermaid, an invitation to the party, leaving Rosalinde alone to Alfred’s embraces. Through artful misrecognition, Alfred is arrested in Eisenstein’s place just as a bellhop hands Rosalinde her invitation to the party.

INTERMISSION

ACT II The party is already in full swing as Falke promises Prince Orlofsky that he will not be bored tonight by his entertainment, “The Revenge of the Bat.” Eisenstein arrives costumed as “Marquis Renard” and is immediately invited by Orlofsky to drink a round of vodka. Already a little tipsy, Eisenstein correctly mistakes Adele for his chambermaid, and the hotel concierge is announced as the “Chevalier Chagrin.” As the pièce de résistance, Rosalinde arrives disguised as a Hungarian countess.

Eisenstein immediately sets his designs on the “Hungarian” and uses his special pocket watch as a lure, promising that he will give it to her only if she reveals her identity. Rosalinde manages to steal the watch, and to prove that she really is a Hungarian countess, she sings the Csárdás, a Hungarian folk tune.

Prince Orlofsky asks Falke about his “Bat” story and Eisenstein overhears, boasting that two years before, after a similar costume party, he left a drunken Falke to sleep it off in a public square dressed as a bat—thus Falke’s nickname, Dr. Fledermaus, which is German for “bat.”

As the party disperses, Adele asks the “Chevalier” if he can help make her a star, and he asks her if she’s got talent. Back in the lock-up, Alfred is still serving time in place of Eisenstein, and he requests a lawyer. Rosalinde finds Alfred there just as Eisenstein does a quick change with the lawyer, hoping to catch his wife in the act. As the pocket watch chimes, Rosalinde reveals herself as the Hungarian countess, Falke declares his revenge, champagne flows, and the party resumes to Orlofsky’s laughter.

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—Courtesy of Robin Guarino

That Cold Dish

by Anne Arenstein

Under the direction of CCM’s Robin Guarino, Indiana University students put on a dazzling performance of Die Fledermaus in November 2015, and it was so good we had to share it with our Cincinnati audience. Bring on the glitter cannon! Photo courtesy of IU Jacobs School of Music.

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f justice—whether delayed, denied, or fulfilled— is the theme for this year’s Cincinnati Opera season, another underlying motif for all these works is revenge, which can hardly be deemed justice. But no other opera has as much fun with revenge as Johann Strauss, Jr.’s Die Fledermaus.

Strauss’s librettists Carl Haffner and Richard Genée could not have chosen better than to adapt a French farce by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy, the writers responsible for the libretti for many of Offenbach’s hugely successful comic operas.

Disguises and amorous intrigues are the perfect accompaniment for Dr. Falke’s scheme to get back at his friend, Eisenstein. Two years earlier, they had attended a costume ball, and on the way home, Eisenstein unceremoniously dumped Falke out of the carriage. Waking the next morning in a public park, still clad in his bat costume, Falke was the subject of public ridicule.

It’s not an experience easily forgotten, even if this is a farce. Director Robin Guarino, the J. Ralph Corbett Professor of Opera at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, makes her Cincinnati Opera debut staging this production. For Guarino, Falke’s humiliation was the starting point for her and the production team. “In our discussions, we asked, does the punishment fit the crime, and where do you tell the story?” she said. “We decided to use the time period just after World War I and to have everyone staying at this slightly faded but still opulent Viennese hotel, on the order of The Grand Budapest Hotel, where the entire story plays itself out.”

The first act is in the hotel lobby, the secondact party is set in the hotel’s grand ballroom, and the third act takes place in a holding area for gamblers unable to pay off the house. The hotel setting also allows a wider arena for Falke

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to stage his revenge. All the hotel staff and guests are in on the plot, and Frank is no longer the jail administrator, but the head concierge who helps mastermind the proceedings.

Guarino was inspired by the Viennese author Stefan Zweig’s writings, especially The Society of the Crossed Keys, a selection compiled by film director Wes Anderson, who drew directly from Zweig in creating The Grand Budapest Hotel. Zweig’s haunting, evocative stories convey overripe, sensual lifestyles, along with a code of honor that World War I destroyed. But even after the Great War ended and the Austro-Hungarian Empire was no more, Vienna retained its own sense of style.

And revenge fantasies never fail to survive.

Although Dr. Falke is described in the libretto as “a notary,” (Dr. being an honorific given to certain professionals), Guarino sees him as a disciple of Freud, skillfully orchestrating the setup, the hooks, and, finally, the revelation. “The music conveys Falke’s pleasure in every step, and he knows Eisenstein well enough to manipulate his weaknesses,” she explained.

Falke lures in Eisenstein by inviting him to a costume party (shouldn’t Eisenstein’s warning lights be flashing?) given by the Russian émigré Prince Orlofsky. At the party, Eisenstein is introduced to Orlofsky (Eisenstein is drawn to royalty), Eisenstein’s wife’s maid Adele, disguised as an actress (Eisenstein has been after Adele), and Eisenstein’s own wife Rosalinde, masquerading as a Hungarian countess who knows a thing or two about the Csárdás (and pocket watches) as well as her husband’s penchant for beautiful women. And to complete the set-up, the guests are eager to hear Falke’s account of the bat escapade, but it’s Eisenstein who jumps in to regale the crowd.

There’s nothing dark or mysterious about it, according to Guarino. Falke achieves his goal of embarrassing Eisenstein, and in front of a far

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larger audience. “Falke says something like ‘I have the tools to totally unravel your life. Or… we could have some champagne.”

Those words will be spoken in the first performances of Robin Guarino’s English language adaptation of the spoken text, translated from the German by David Pountney, Artistic Director of Welsh National Opera. Since the 1874 premiere, Fledermaus’s dialogue has morphed into a verbal torte, with layers of self-referential in-jokes, depending on the era and locale. Guarino streamlined much of the repartee, especially in Acts II and III, and even the speaking part of Frosch the jailer was incorporated into the role of Frank, the hotel concierge.

Guarino assures the audience that nothing will be lost in translation. A pared-down libretto means getting to Strauss’s glorious score more quickly—and what a score it is. The exuberant waltz first heard in the overture became one of Strauss’s signature tunes, and love songs, duets, and large ensembles have all the buoyancy and wit needed to convey the delight in sending up Eisenstein’s pretensions.

Thanks to its vibrant score, Fledermaus is one of very few Viennese operettas still performed. It was never a failure; it was only withdrawn after the first sixteen performances due to a scheduling conflict. After the issues were resolved, Fledermaus returned for an extended run.

As the wily bat takes wing, it’s giving nothing away to say that the show ends with champagne. Which is also best served cold.

Anne Arenstein’s writings appear regularly in CityBeat. She has also written for Cincinnati Magazine, the blog Parterre Box, and Santa Fe Opera. Arenstein’s interviews can be heard on WVXU’s Around Cincinnati. In 2009, she was an NEA Fellow in Classical Music and Opera Journalism.

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Production Underwriters The Carol Ann and Ralph V. Haile, Jr./ U.S. Bank Foundation David C. Herriman Opening Week Sponsor Ohio National Financial Services

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Evening Sponsors Cincinnati Opera Guild Peter G. Courlas, in honor of Nicholas Tsimaras Barbara Gould Ryan L. Messer and James A. Musuraca-Messer Edward and Nancy Rosenthal Edward B. Silberstein, M.D., and Jacqueline M. Mack

Additional Support The Gale Family Foundation The CCM Harmony Fund The Estate of Dr. Stanley M. Kaplan The National Endowment for the Arts OPERA America The University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music G. Sterling Zinsmeyer

Season Presenting Sponsor PNC The opening week performances are dedicated to the memory of Robert J. Hasl, M.D.

Fellow Travelers Music by Gregory Spears Libretto by Greg Pierce Based on the 2007 novel by Thomas Mallon Developed and co-commissioned by G. Sterling Zinsmeyer Sung in English A Cincinnati Opera World Premiere June 17, 19, 21, 23, 25, 28, 30, July 6, 8, and 10, 2016, at Jarson-Kaplan Theater, Aronoff Center for the Arts

Mark Gibson* Kevin Newbury Victoria (Vita) Tzykun* Paul Carey* Thomas C. Hase James Geier Constance Dubinski Grubbs

CONDUCTOR STAGE DIRECTOR SCENIC DESIGNER COSTUME DESIGNER LIGHTING DESIGNER HAIR & MAKE-UP DESIGNER PRODUCTION STAGE MANAGER

Cast (in order of vocal appearance) HAWKINS FULLER, a State Department official TIMOTHY LAUGHLIN, an aspiring reporter POTTER’S ASSISTANT/BOOKSELLER/ PARTY GUEST/TECHNICIAN/FRENCH PRIEST TOMMY MCINTYRE, a reporter and friend of Sen. Potter SENATOR CHARLES POTTER/GENERAL AIRLIE/ BARTENDER MISS LIGHTFOOT, a secretary in Hawkins’s office MARY JOHNSON, Hawkins’s assistant ESTONIAN FRANK/INTERROGATOR/ SENATOR JOSEPH MCCARTHY

Joseph Lattanzi Aaron Blake Christian Pursell* Paul Scholten Vernon Hartman Alexandra Schoeny Devon Guthrie* Philip Cutlip* Talya Lieberman*

LUCY

* Cincinnati Opera debut

Presented in partnership with the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music.

A new production constructed by Cincinnati Opera.

Used by arrangement with European American Music Distributors Company, sole U.S. and Canadian agent for Schott Helicon Music Corporation, New York, publisher and copyright owner.

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Synopsis

The performance will last approximately 2 hours and 10 minutes.

There will be 1 intermission.

September 1953 to May 1957, in Washington, D.C. Eisenhower is president. Senator Joseph McCarthy is stoking fears that the U.S. federal government is full of Communists, Soviet spies, and homosexuals.

SCENE 1 Park in Dupont Circle. A fledgling reporter, Timothy Laughlin, sits on a bench reviewing his notes from McCarthy’s wedding when he is approached by State Department employee Hawkins Fuller.

SCENE 2 Senator Charles Potter’s Office. Timothy is hired as a speechwriter for Senator Charles Potter.

Timothy meets Tommy McIntyre, who gives him unsolicited advice about Washington politics.

SCENE 3 Hawkins’s Office. Timothy stops by Hawkins’s office to drop off a thank-you gift. He meets Hawkins’s assistant and best friend Mary, and his secretary Miss Lightfoot, who mocks Timothy after he leaves.

SCENE 4 Timothy’s Apartment. Timothy is at home cooking soup and writing his sister a letter when Hawkins unexpectedly stops by to tell him about the delights of Bermuda, among other things.

SCENE 5 St. Peter’s Church. In the afterglow of last night’s encounter with Hawkins, Timothy is torn between his deep Catholicism and his blossoming passion.

SCENE 6 The Hotel Washington. At a Christmas party, Timothy is approached by an Army general about enlisting; Mary warns Hawkins about his reckless behavior with Timothy; McIntyre tells Potter about McCarthy’s latest political troubles; Miss Lightfoot overhears an intimate exchange between Hawkins and Timothy.

SCENE 7 Interrogation Room M304. An interrogator puts Hawkins through a series of humiliating tests in an attempt to determine whether or not he is a homosexual.

SCENE 8 Timothy’s Apartment. Timothy and Hawkins discuss the interrogation, McCarthy, and Hawkins’s illicit amusements in New York City.

SCENE 9 McCarthy’s Office. Senator Potter warns McCarthy that the “Adams Chronology,” which details how Roy Cohn and McCarthy pressured the Army to give Cohn’s friend David Schine special treatment, will be McCarthy’s downfall unless he gives up Cohn.

INTERMISSION

SCENE 10 Mary’s Kitchen/Timothy’s Apartment. Mary invites Timothy over to warn him of Hawkins’s fickle nature. She tells Timothy she is pregnant from a one-night stand. In Timothy’s apartment, Hawkins rejoices that he’s been cleared of allegations of homosexuality. Timothy is shocked by how Hawkins wants to celebrate.

SCENE 11 Roof of the Old Post Office. Timothy, in agony over his fraught relationship, tells Hawkins he’s decided to enlist in the Army.

SCENE 12 Hawkins’s Office. Mary tells Hawkins she is quitting, as she can no longer work in an atmosphere of panic and persecution.

SCENE 13 Timothy in France/Hawkins in Chevy Chase. Three years pass. Timothy writes letters to Hawkins and Mary from France, where he is stationed. Hawkins is now married to a woman named Lucy, with a house in the suburbs, but would clearly like to rekindle his relationship with Timothy upon his return.

SCENE 14 Brick House. In a house in D.C. that Hawkins has rented for his afternoon flings with Timothy, Hawkins expresses that he cannot be everything Timothy wants. Hawkins resolves to end the affair himself.

SCENE 15 Mary’s Kitchen/Brick House/Room M304. Mary is packing when Hawkins stops by, distraught.

Hawkins confesses that in order to push Timothy away, he has given Timothy’s name to those investigating alleged homosexuals. He asks Mary to tell Timothy about this betrayal in hopes it will make Timothy hate him.

SCENE 16 Park in Dupont Circle. His dreams dashed, Timothy decides to leave Washington, D.C., and Hawkins Fuller for good. Both heartbroken, they say goodbye.

–Courtesy of Greg Pierce

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Back when downtown window displays featured the latest in cathode-ray tube television technology, passersby would stop to watch breaking news. In 1954, the lead story was Republican Senator Joseph McCarthy of Wisconsin (seen here with his aide, Roy Cohn) and his daylong hearings investigating possible Communist threats. © Grey Villet/Getty Images

Notes from the Novelist

by Thomas Mallon

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n Washington, D.C., where I live, news of Justice Antonin Scalia’s death brought many mentions of the mutual love of opera that played a part in his ideology-transcending friendship with Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. (In fact, Scalia/Ginsburg, an opera by Derrick Wang about them, had its world premiere over in Virginia last year.) It’s perhaps worth noting that neither of the Supreme Court’s two great operalovers was ever a “swing” vote. Metaphorically, at least, Justice Ginsburg sits furthest left on the Court’s bench, just as Scalia sat furthest right.

Perhaps this says something about the outsized nature of opera’s passions, enough at least to make me, a writer of fiction, think about the adjectives derived from each art form’s noun. “Fictional” is a neutral term, but “operatic” is a loaded one, mostly pejorative when applied to anything except opera. In my writer’s mind, “operatic” seems connected to “melodramatic,” a descriptor for excessive feeling and display,

something to be avoided on the page, lest one’s villains become too villainous and one’s heroes too saintly. Understatement is supposed to be the tonal route to three-dimensionality.

And yet a work based on one of my books, Fellow Travelers—the story of Timothy Laughlin and Hawkins Fuller, two government employees caught up in the homosexual purges of the early Cold War—is now receiving its world premiere at Cincinnati Opera. When first approached several years ago about the book’s adaptation, I was somewhat surprised. A decade before, I had green-lighted an attempt to make an opera from an earlier novel of mine, Henry and Clara. That effort didn’t cross the finish line, but I understood right away why it seemed to have potential: Henry and Clara, about the couple who occupied the box at Ford’s Theatre with the Lincolns on the night of the President’s assassination, was bursting with war, mental illness, and two separate murders. However

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restrained my telling of it may have been, there was no denying the “operatic” qualities of the material.

But Fellow Travelers? So much of the action is furtive, and necessarily so. The book’s characters are masked, strategically secretive, playing out a private drama in claustrophobic spaces on which the shades have been drawn against the larger, hostile world. But as the opera developed, the idea of the book’s transformation—a more accurate word than “adaptation”—made more and more sense to me. My increasing acquaintance with the splendid previous work of composer Gregory Spears, librettist Greg Pierce, and director Kevin Newbury led me to a point where I came to believe that the book may all along have been waiting for a musical expression of itself.

I look back at the Washington Post’s generous review of the novel and see it referring to “hyperbolic gestures,” an “over-the-top” aspect and a certain “artificiality”—all of these things remarked upon in a complimentary way, and none of them qualities I was conscious of while writing. But they refer, I realize, to extravagances that are there—intense behavior squeezed from the characters by the circumstances oppressing them. If they couldn’t be fully themselves in the outside world, these fictional figures would be twice themselves behind closed doors. The excess comes not from freedom but from suppression.

At one point in the book, as the two drive from Washington to Charlottesville, Timothy Laughlin, the callow protagonist desperately in love with the more worldly Hawkins Fuller, feels “exhausted with relief ” from a moment of forgiveness he’s been granted by the slightly older man. I note a passage in that

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scene containing what may be the only direct reference to opera in any of my novels: “He slept until the beginning of a bright orange sunset made itself felt through his closed eyelids and woke him to the sight of a hundred pink flowering trees, the smell of their blossoms rushing through the car’s open windows like the surge of violins on one of his sister’s Puccini records. He burst into sobs.”

I often have instrumental music playing in my study while I write, and it occurs to me now that when I worked on Fellow Travelers I sometimes listened to an old cassette-tape compilation called Opera Without Words. I know that when I wrote the long seventy-four-word sentence in which Fuller decides at last to say “I love you” to Tim—a declaration that will lead him to execute an almost immediate, selfdefensive betrayal—I was trying to make the words crescendo toward a crash that would feel inevitable, unstoppable, as when the music in “Quando me’n vo’,” unable to control itself any longer, seems to explode in a starburst.

I still handwrite my first drafts on lined paper, and Fellow Travelers is the only book I can remember literally pushing away from myself, one night when the pain of the material—some of it obliquely autobiographical, displaced through time—seemed more than I could stand. Years would pass before I heard the soft ostinato with which Greg Spears’s opera begins, but when I did, I felt the pulse of the music pushing me toward something I had still not fully allowed myself to feel.

Thomas Mallon’s most recent novel, Finale, was published last fall. Originally printed in OPERA NEWS, Volume 80, No. 12. Reprinted with permission.

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Production Underwriter Cincinnati Opera Board of Trustees Evening Sponsors Ann and Harry Santen

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Season Presenting Sponsor PNC These performances are dedicated to the memory of Phyllis J. Weston.

Fidelio Music by Ludwig van Beethoven Libretto by Joseph Sonnleithner Sung in the original German Based on the 1798 play Léonore, ou L’Amour Conjugal by Jean-Nicolas Bouilly World premiere: November 20, 1805, at Theater an der Wien in Vienna, Austria Cincinnati Opera premiere: July 7, 1931, at Cincinnati Zoo Pavilion July 7 and 9, 2016, at Procter & Gamble Hall, Aronoff Center for the Arts 9th and 10th company performances of Fidelio CONDUCTOR STAGE DIRECTOR SCENIC DESIGNER COSTUME DESIGNER LIGHTING DESIGNER HAIR & MAKE-UP DESIGNER CHORUS MASTER FIGHT DIRECTOR SUPERTITLES AUTHOR PRODUCTION STAGE MANAGER

Jun Märkl* Chris Alexander Robert Dahlstrom Rebecca Senske Thomas C. Hase James Geier Henri Venanzi Gina Cerimele-Mechley Jonathan Dean, Seattle Opera Megan Bennett

Cast (in order of vocal appearance) Thomas Blondelle Laura Tatulescu* Nathan Stark Christine Goerke Nmon Ford Chorus Men John Tibbetts Russell Thomas Daniel Sutin*

JAQUINO, Rocco’s assistant MARZELLINE, Rocco’s daughter ROCCO, chief jailer LEONORE/”FIDELIO,” wife of Florestan DON PIZARRO, governor of the prison FIRST PRISONER SECOND PRISONER FLORESTAN, a wrongfully imprisoned nobleman DON FERNANDO, minister to the king

* Cincinnati Opera debut

Production originally created by Seattle Opera Scenic and Costume Shops.

Original costumes designed by Catherine Meachum Hunt for Seattle Opera.

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Synopsis The performance will last approximately 2 hours and 30 minutes.

There will be 1 intermission.

ACT I A prison, in the present day. Jaquino is wooing Marzelline, with little success; Marzelline refuses his advances because she loves young “Fidelio,” her father Rocco’s new assistant. Fidelio, however, is really a woman named Leonore; she disguised herself in order to search for her husband, Florestan, who was imprisoned two years earlier for his political views. Rocco, pleased with Fidelio’s diligence and ingenuity, gives his blessing to the wedding of Fidelio and Marzelline.

Leonore offers to assist Rocco with the restricted lower cells of the prison. The prison governor, Don Pizarro, must approve such a request, says Rocco, and even if he did there would still be one cell Fidelio could never enter. Marzelline asks if that is the location of the “special prisoner” she’s heard Rocco mention. Upon learning that the prisoner has been there for two years, Leonore realizes it could be her husband.

Don Pizarro arrives with soldiers. He is handed a letter alerting him to a visit by the Minister of State, Don Fernando, who is coming to investigate charges that Pizarro is holding political prisoners.

Distressed by the possibility that Fernando will discover Florestan (who Fernando thinks died two years ago), Pizarro vents his fear and anger, then orders Rocco to kill Florestan. But Rocco—who ordinarily is easily bullied into doing Pizarro’s dirty work for him—draws the line at murder. Pizarro orders Rocco to dig a grave while Pizarro kills the prisoner himself. Leonore, who has overheard, denounces Pizarro and resolves to save her husband.

Leonore and Marzelline persuade Rocco to let the prisoners walk in the yard. Blinded by daylight, the prisoners enjoy a moment of freedom as Leonore looks for Florestan among them.

Rocco, having gained Pizarro’s consent, asks Leonore to accompany him to the forbidden cell.

Marzelline and Jaquino enter with the news that Pizarro is in a rage about the prisoners’ walk in the yard. Pizarro enters and confronts Rocco, who explains that this is a diversion while Florestan is killed.

Pizarro orders the prisoners locked up and tells Rocco to meet him downstairs.

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ACT II Florestan, near despair and death, accepts his misfortune from having taken a stand against injustice. He imagines Leonore as an angel, leading him to heavenly freedom, then falls, exhausted.

Rocco and Leonore enter the cell. At first, Leonore does not recognize the prisoner. When she hears his voice, however, she realizes it is her husband. Pizarro enters and identifies himself as the man Florestan had sought to overthrow years ago. As Pizarro moves to murder Florestan, Leonore rushes between them, crying out, “First, kill his wife!” There is a struggle, but suddenly a trumpet call signals the arrival of Don Fernando. Jaquino enters with guards to escort Pizarro away. Overcome with joy and relief, Leonore and Florestan embrace.

Outside, people fill the prison courtyard. The crowd hails Fernando as an emissary of their enlightened leader, releasing the prisoners from unjust imprisonment. Rocco presents Leonore and Florestan to Fernando, who is astonished that his friend is alive.

After hearing of Florestan’s misfortunes and Leonore’s heroism, the crowd calls for Pizarro’s immediate arrest. Fernando gives Leonore a key so she can remove Florestan’s chains, and the crowd salutes the depth of her courage and love.

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–Courtesy of Seattle Opera

A Singular Masterpiece

by Fred Plotkin

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t is often asserted that Ludwig van Beethoven’s only opera, Fidelio, is the greatest first opera of all time. That certainly is true, but does not do justice to this masterpiece: Fidelio is one of the most affirming and exhilarating of all operas, one that progresses from darkness to light with a power to brighten even the most despondent souls.

Fidelio, it must be said, is a flawed, imperfect work that can be difficult to stage and raises questions among critics and audience members who contend that believability must come with a straightforward narrative and characters who behave in predictable ways. But who among us is not flawed and imperfect? Despite its structural weaknesses and challenges (traits it shares with other indisputable masterpieces such as Don Giovanni and Carmen), Fidelio triumphs because it is the most glorious depiction of how human courage and strength can be summoned in the most desperate moments to prevail over evil. It is the opera that speaks to the better angels of our nature.

The reason we have a received notion of Fidelio being a flawed work is that Beethoven famously struggled to bring it to life and left evidence—through letters and earlier drafts of the score—that he was dissatisfied with his work.

The first performances were not successful, primarily because Vienna was under French occupation at the opera’s 1805 premiere and the audience was comprised primarily of French military officers, rather than local people who admired the composer. What is ironic is that the story of Fidelio has profoundly French roots.

Florestan, a nobleman with progressive political beliefs, has been jailed in the depths of a prison where he sees no light and has almost nothing to eat. His wife, Leonore, has disguised herself as a young man named “Fidelio” (as in

“the faithful one”) to gain access to the prison in the hopes of freeing her husband. The jailer, Rocco, possesses an unexpected humanity and takes kindly to “Fidelio.” Rocco’s daughter Marzelline has fallen in love with “Fidelio” and does not understand why the youth does not respond in kind. At the same time, a young man named Jaquino loves Marzelline and cannot understand why she rejects him. Ultimately, Leonore liberates Florestan and, as her identity is revealed, her courage is praised by the families of other prisoners, while some characters (especially Marzelline) react with confusion or dismay. Overall, it is a happy ending and Beethoven’s musical conclusion is spectacular.

Elements of Fidelio were rooted in older styles of opera. Popular operas such as The Marriage of Figaro (with the Count/Countess Almaviva and Figaro/Susanna) and The Magic Flute (Tamino/Pamina and Papageno/Papagena) featured two couples of different classes, as does Fidelio with Florestan/Leonore and Jaquino/ Marzelline. Fidelio is a “rescue opera,” in which we closely follow the actions of one character who attempts to save another, usually a loved one. This is found most famously in the story of Orpheus and Eurydice. Then, there is the timeless comic device of mistaken identities that was supposed to provide humor to be juxtaposed against the drama.

Beethoven’s source material was a Frenchlanguage libretto by Jean-Nicolas Bouilly called Léonore, ou L’Amour Conjugal (“Leonore, or Conjugal Love”), which became an opera by Pierre Gaveaux that premiered in Paris in 1798.

The story was based on events in Tours during the Reign of Terror. Several theatrical works in France at that time concerned the liberation of persons unjustly imprisoned in the aftermath of the French Revolution.

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Gaveaux’s Léonore, ou L’Amour Conjugal was an opéra-comique, a style that did not necessarily contain comedy but which always included spoken dialogue as well as sung music. It was the Gallic equivalent of the German Singspiel which Mozart used in The Abduction from the Seraglio and The Magic Flute and Beethoven (with less emphasis on comedy) used in Fidelio. Until the advent of projected titles in the early 1980s, audiences outside the German-speaking world found the text challenging and complained that it slowed down the performance of Singspiel operas.

Following the indifferent reception Fidelio was accorded at its premiere, Beethoven made significant revisions. The libretto was strengthened by Stephan von Breuning in 1806 and Georg Friedrich Treitschke in 1814, although the subplot involving Marzelline/“Fidelio”/ Jaquino still means the opera gets off to an awkward start.

The first two acts were condensed into one. By 1814, Beethoven had written four overtures.

The fourth one, called the Fidelio overture, is used in the opera. The thrilling “Leonore Overture no. 3” is popular in symphonic concerts and has occasionally been inserted by conductors such as Gustav Mahler and Leonard Bernstein between the two scenes of the second act, although this happens less often nowadays as it was not part of Beethoven’s intention.

With its somewhat archaic dramatic elements and spoken dialogue, one would think that Fidelio would have limited appeal to audiences who do not speak German. And

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yet it is a miraculous experience to attend a performance, and the opera becomes even more affecting and powerful on repeated hearings.

This is because it is a story of an extraordinary woman whose love for her husband gives her the courage to take action. And, we learn that compassion can surface in unexpected places, as with Rocco the jailer.

Beethoven wrote highly theatrical music that is also gorgeous. We hear solos, duets, trios, a splendid quartet (Leonore, Marzelline, Jaquino, Rocco) and two amazing choruses—a sad one for prisoners and an exultant one that concludes the opera.

Fidelio has taken on additional significance as a moral force on important occasions.

Its 1814 performances were interpreted as a celebration of the defeat of Napoleon’s armies by allied forces. In 1933, Arturo Toscanini left the Nazi-occupied Wagner shrine of Bayreuth and conducted a protest performance of Fidelio in Salzburg. In 1941, a cast of singers who were refugees from Hitler’s war sang in Fidelio at the Metropolitan Opera under the baton of Bruno Walter. And, it was meant to provide a conciliatory tone when the Vienna State Opera house reopened in 1955.

For many years it was a tradition in the German-speaking world that newly engaged couples were sent to a performance of Fidelio to learn the lessons of unconditional love and human dignity. Our world would likely be a better place today if every citizen had a chance to see and hear Beethoven’s singular masterpiece.

Fred Plotkin, author of Opera 101: A Complete Guide to Learning and Loving Opera, writes for Operavore at wqxr.org and lectures for major opera companies worldwide.

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Tosca Music by Giacomo Puccini Libretto by Giuseppe Giacosa and Luigi Illica Sung in the original Italian Based on the 1887 play La Tosca by Victorien Sardou World premiere: January 14, 1900, at Teatro Costanzi in Rome, Italy Cincinnati Opera premiere: July 22, 1923, at Cincinnati Zoo Pavilion July 23, 27, and 29, 2016, at Procter & Gamble Hall, Aronoff Center for the Arts 65th, 66th, and 67th company performances of Tosca CONDUCTOR STAGE DIRECTOR SCENIC & COSTUME DESIGNER LIGHTING DESIGNER HAIR & MAKE-UP DESIGNER CHORUS MASTER FIGHT DIRECTOR PRODUCTION STAGE MANAGER

Christopher Allen Jose Maria Condemi Robert Perdziola* Thomas C. Hase James Geier Henri Venanzi Gina Cerimele-Mechley Liam Roche

Cast (in order of vocal appearance) CESARE ANGELOTTI, an escaped political prisoner THE SACRISTAN MARIO CAVARADOSSI, a painter FLORIA TOSCA, an opera singer BARON SCARPIA, chief of the Roman police SPOLETTA, a police agent SCIARRONE, Baron Scarpia’s assistant A SHEPHERD BOY JAILER

Evan Boyer* Thomas Hammons Marcello Giordani* Evelina Dobracˇeva* Gordon Hawkins Marco Cammarota* Samuel Smith Adria Caffaro+ Christian Pursell

* Cincinnati Opera debut + Cincinnati Opera Young Artist

A new production constructed by Cincinnati Opera.

A co-production with Michigan Opera Theatre.

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Synopsis The performance will last approximately 2 hours and 50 minutes.

There will be 2 intermissions.

ACT I The Church of Sant’Andrea della Valle in Rome, 1800, noon. Angelotti, a political prisoner, has escaped from Castel Sant’Angelo and takes cover in the church where his sister, the Marchesa Attavanti, has left him the key to the family chapel. He is discovered by the painter Mario Cavaradossi, a liberal sympathizer, who is painting an altarpiece. His portrait of Mary Magdalen is inspired by the Marchesa, whom he has observed in prayer. When the singer Floria Tosca, Cavaradossi’s lover, arrives, she recognizes the blue-eyed Magdalen as none other than the Marchesa herself. Tosca jealously insists that the figure be made to look more like her dark-eyed self, and leaves the church. Soon after, a cannon shot from the prison announces Angelotti’s escape and Cavaradossi hurries him away to hide in his country villa.

The Sacristan tells the choir of the reported defeat of Napoleon at Marengo, to be celebrated with a High Mass. Their jubilation is interrupted by Scarpia, the feared chief of police, who arrives with his men to search for Angelotti. Scarpia finds a fan with the Attavanti crest, part of a disguise left for Angelotti, as Tosca returns to tell Mario that she will sing for the Queen that night at the Palazzo Farnese. Scarpia uses her jealousy to sow seeds of doubt about her lover and the Marchesa; as Iago used a handkerchief to manipulate Othello, he will trap Tosca with the Marchesa’s fan.

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ACT II Scarpia’s apartments at the Farnese Palace, that evening. Scarpia desires Tosca, and hopes to use the arrest of her lover to force her to his will. As he dines in his room, he hears Tosca’s voice rising from the celebrations below. Spoletta arrives from Cavaradossi’s villa, having failed to find the escaped Angelotti. He has, however, arrested Cavaradossi, and brings him before Scarpia.

Tosca, having been to the villa as well, knows that Scarpia was lying about Mario’s infidelity. She also knows the hiding place of Angelotti, which she reveals when Mario screams under torture. Scarpia proposes a bargain to Tosca: If she will yield to him, he will spare Cavaradossi and give them both safe conduct out of Rome. But, for political reasons, he must first hold a mock execution. Tosca agrees, and as Scarpia prepares to collect his reward, she offers him a deadly surprise.

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ACT III The battlements of Castel Sant’Angelo, high above the Tiber River, near dawn. Cavaradossi, awaiting execution, recalls his first night with Tosca—when the stars shone just as they do now. Tosca arrives with the note of safe conduct, and describes how she obtained it. A carriage is waiting, and she has brought money and her jewels. She explains that Mario will have to feign death at the hands of a mock firing squad, and she coaches his performance.

The firing squad, however, is real; Scarpia has worked his evil from beyond the grave. Pursued by Scarpia’s minions, who have discovered her deed, Tosca calls on her tormentor to meet her before the Throne of God, and leaps to her death.

—Courtesy of Opera Theatre of Saint Louis

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Loving Tosca

by Suzanne Martinucci

O

ne of the many things we opera fans love about the art form is its infinite variety.

Excessive verbiage, however, was a problem with Sardou’s drama, which contained 23

Some operas, for example, offer soul-cleansing

characters and sprawled across five acts.

catharsis. Others evoke in us feelings of pity,

In crafting their libretto, Puccini and his

outrage, or empathy. Some seek to ennoble;

collaborators, Giuseppe Giacosa and Luigi

others to amuse, often invoking outright laughter.

Illica, cut two whole acts and much of Sardou’s

Then there is Giacomo Puccini’s Tosca. A

carefully thought-out background material.

melodramatic roller-coaster ride, Tosca is about as

In the opinion of the opera’s most severe critics,

sure-fire as they come, a fast-paced thriller that

a great deal of logic was lost as well, but

simultaneously ravishes our ears with beautiful,

what remains outlines a clear, swift-moving plot,

expansive melodies. It’s a great “starter” opera, as the plot is easily discernible regardless of the viewer’s language skills, the music is memorable, and no single act lasts longer than some 45 minutes. It has proven nearly irresistible to performers, too: Scores of sopranos, tenors, and baritones with the requisite vocal and acting chops eagerly seek out Floria Tosca, Mario Cavaradossi, and Baron Scarpia.

By the time Puccini got around to composing Tosca, his fifth opera, his standing among Italy’s “up and comers” was considerably on the rise.

He’d just composed two successful operas in a row (Manon Lescaut and La Bohème), and the cognoscenti on the Italian musical scene were watching. Always on the lookout for new subjects, Puccini attended a performance of La Tosca (1887), by the French playwright Victorien Sardou. The play starred the mesmerizing Sarah Bernhardt in the title role, and Puccini was especially struck by the extended wordless scene Bernhardt performed when, after the murder of the villainous Scarpia, Tosca places a crucifix on the dead man’s chest and candlesticks on either side of his body. Puccini wrote to his publisher, Giulio Ricordi, “I see in this Tosca the opera I need, with no overblown proportions, no elaborate spectacle; nor will it call for the usual excessive amount of music.”

Designer Robert Perdziola’s rendering of Tosca’s Act II gown. In a distressingly operatic turn of events, the folio containing all of the (beautiful!) original hand-drawn renderings was stolen from the train’s overhead luggage rack as Perdziola traveled to Rome in January 2016 to discuss his designs with the legendary costume atelier Farani Costumi.

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dramatic action ranging from the lurid to the lyrical, and three vividly delineated principal characters.

As extravagant as Sardou’s drama was, Puccini’s score is a masterpiece of musical economy, atmospheric orchestration, and deft theatrical pacing. Maurice Ravel was a particularly passionate admirer. Manuel Rosenthal, Ravel’s last student, once made the mistake of disparaging Puccini during a session. Ravel “flew into a towering rage,” Rosenthal related. “He then sat down at the piano and played me almost the whole of Tosca by memory,” stopping time and again to point out particularly original harmonic passages.

Ravel went on to extol Puccini’s orchestration, declaring that it bore “the mark of a great artist.”

In his quest for dramatic truth, Puccini went through great pains to incorporate authentic ambient sounds in his opera. He traveled to Rome in order to notate the exact pitches and timings of the bells at St. Peter’s Basilica and other nearby churches so that he could work them into his atmospheric opening to Act III. He consulted a priest friend in crafting the Latin prayers and procession order for the Te Deum in Act I, and made sure the shepherd’s song in Act III was in the correct Roman dialect.

On one hand, Tosca is opera on a grand scale—famously set in the Eternal City at three actual locations. However, its impressive “big” moments (Scarpia’s Act I entrance, the Te Deum finale of Act I, the interrogation/torture scenes of Act II) are cannily and effectively balanced against intimate, romantic moments between the lovers. Take the duet in Act I,

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perhaps Tosca and Cavaradossi’s happiest moment together. Listen to how Cavaradossi calms his beloved’s jealousy, wooing her in the long, caressing phrases of “Qual occhio al mondo può star di paro” (“What eyes in the world can compare”).

How can Tosca resist? Listening to passages like this, it’s understandable how writer Burton Fisher came up with the term pornophony to describe Puccini’s love music.

Another aria, Mario’s last-act “E lucevan le stelle,” is now a staple of the tenor repertoire, but Puccini had to fight to keep it in his opera. Illica had scripted a high-minded farewell to life and art for the doomed man to sing while awaiting execution—much as he had done in a similar situation for Umberto Giordano’s Andrea Chénier (1896). Puccini, however, knew that his man’s thoughts, in his final hours, would turn instead to the woman he loved. In this instance, as in so many others, Puccini was right.

The high-tension events of Tosca are perhaps unlikely to arouse the same sympathy as the sorrows of Mimì or Madame Butterfly do, but there’s no denying the rush that a good performance of Tosca can provide. As Puccini enthusiast Spike Hughes put it, “Tosca, with all of its faults and its lack of genuine human qualities to touch the heart, is first-rate theater; and as such, Puccini was perhaps the ideal composer to have set it to music.”

Suzanne Martinucci is a New York-based writer and lecturer on opera. She is a regular panelist on the Metropolitan Opera Quiz during the Toll Brothers Saturday afternoon radio broadcasts.

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Season Artists CINCINNATI OPERA 2016

David Charles Abell, conductor (Jacksonville, North Carolina) 2016: Die Fledermaus Cincinnati: Silent Night (2014); Porgy and Bess (2012) Elsewhere: Gershwin Celebration (Boston Pops); Carmen (Lyric Opera of Kansas City); Brief Encounter (London Philharmonic Opera); Kiss Me, Kate (Théâtre du Châtelet, Paris; Opera North); Christmas Spectacular (Philly POPS); Fiddler on the Roof (Grange Park Opera; BBC Proms); Sweeney Todd (English National Opera) Upcoming: Silent Night (Michigan Opera Theatre); Kiss Me, Kate (Grand Théâtre de Luxembourg); A Very Merry Holiday POPS! (Atlanta Symphony Orchestra); Blockbuster Broadway (Philly POPS)

Hadleigh Adams, bass-baritone (Wellington, New Zealand) Cincinnati Opera Debut 2016: Dr. Falke, Die Fledermaus Elsewhere: Schaunard, La Bohème; Marquis D’Obigny, La Traviata (San Francisco Opera); Bajazet, Bajazet; Pollux, Castor et Pollux (Pinchgut Opera, Australia); Guglielmo, Così Fan Tutte (Pittsburgh Opera); Zoroastro, Orlando (WhiteBox, New York); Gendarme, Les Mamelles de Tirésias (Opera Parallèle, San Francisco) Upcoming: St. Matthew Passion (Colorado Symphony); Steward, Flight (Opera Parallèle, San Francisco); Sam, Trouble in Tahiti (Nagambie Lakes Opera Festival, Australia)

Chris Alexander, stage director (Worpswede, Germany) 2016: Fidelio Cincinnati: Der Rosenkavalier (2013); Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (2010) Elsewhere: Werther (Washington National Opera); Carmen (The Dallas Opera); Ariadne auf Naxos (Seattle Opera) Upcoming: Abduction from the Seraglio (Capitol City Opera); Peter Grimes (Indiana University Opera Ballet Theater); Magic Flute (Seattle Opera)

Christopher Allen, conductor (Los Angeles, California) 2016: John L. Magro Resident Conductor, Tosca Cincinnati: John L. Magro Resident Conductor, Morning Star (2015) Elsewhere: Barber of Seville (English National Opera); Elixir of Love (Lyric Opera of Kansas City); Don Giovanni (Intermountain Opera, Montana) Upcoming: Daughter of the Regiment (Washington National Opera); Grapes of Wrath (Opera Theatre of Saint Louis); Before Night Falls (Florida Grand Opera); Florencia en el Amazonas (A.J. Fletcher Opera Institute, UNCSA)

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Aaron Blake, tenor (Palos Verdes, California) 2016: Timothy Laughlin, Fellow Travelers Cincinnati: El Remendado, Carmen; Pan, La Calisto (2014); Don Ottavio, Don Giovanni (2013) Elsewhere: Ugo, Parisina d’Este (Opera Orchestra of New York); Tamino, Magic Flute (Komische Oper Berlin); Camille, The Merry Widow (Michigan Opera Theatre); Ferrando, Così Fan Tutte (Utah Opera); The Creation (Oratorio Society of New York, Carnegie Hall) Upcoming: Cassio, Otello (Phoenicia International Festival of the Voice); Nadir, Pearl Fishers (Tulsa Opera); Gastone, La Traviata (Metropolitan Opera); Tamino, Magic Flute (Teatro de la Maestranza, Spain); Don Ottavio, Don Giovanni (Utah Opera)

Thomas Blondelle, tenor (Bruges, Belgium) 2016: Jaquino, Fidelio Cincinnati: Nikolaus Sprink, Silent Night (2014) Elsewhere: Herodes, Salome (Deutsche Oper Berlin; Grand Théâtre de Luxembourg); Max, Der Freischütz (Oper Stuttgart); Claudio, Das Liebesverbot (Opéra National du Rhin) Upcoming: Erik, The Flying Dutchman (Oper Stuttgart; Deutsche Oper Berlin); Herodes, Salome; Witch, Hansel and Gretel (Deutsche Oper Berlin); Loge, Das Rheingold; Don José, Carmen; Lensky, Eugene Onegin (Hessisches Staatstheater Weisbaden, Germany)

Zach Borichevsky, tenor (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) Cincinnati Opera Debut 2016: Eisenstein, Die Fledermaus Elsewhere: Edmondo, Manon Lescaut (Metropolitan Opera); Rodolfo, La Bohème (English National Opera); Edgardo, Lucia di Lammermoor (Opera Carolina; Toledo Opera); Lensky, Eugene Onegin (Arizona Opera) Upcoming: Anatol, Vanessa (Santa Fe Opera); Edmondo, Manon Lescaut (Metropolitan Opera); Alfredo, La Traviata (Seattle Opera; Glyndebourne Festival)

Evan Boyer, bass (Louisville, Kentucky) Cincinnati Opera Debut 2016: Cesare Angelotti, Tosca Elsewhere: Masetto, Don Giovanni (Seattle Opera); Colline, La Bohème (Palm Beach Opera); Le Fauteuil/L’Arbre, L’Enfant et les Sortilèges (Seiji Ozawa Music Academy); Ramfis, Aida; The Bonze, Madame Butterfly (Wolf Trap Opera) Upcoming: Beethoven Symphony No. 9 (Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra)

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Nicole Cabell, soprano (Ventura, California) 2016: Rosalinde, Die Fledermaus Cincinnati: Donna Elvira, Don Giovanni (2013); Pamina, Magic Flute (2011); Countess, Marriage of Figaro (2009) Elsewhere: Juliet, Romeo and Juliet (Atlanta Opera); Violetta, La Traviata (Royal Opera House, UK); Alcina, Alcina (Grand Théâtre de Genève); Hanna, The Merry Widow (Lyric Opera of Chicago); Mimì, La Bohème (Michigan Opera Theatre); Adina, Elixir of Love (Minnesota Opera; Opéra National de Paris); Giulietta, I Capuleti e i Montecchi (Washington Concert Opera) Upcoming: Donna Elvira, Don Giovanni (Quincena Musical de San Sebastián); Bess, Porgy and Bess (Sydney Symphony Orchestra); Mimì, La Bohème (Minnesota Opera)

Adria Caffaro, mezzo-soprano (Omaha, Nebraska) 2016: Ida, Die Fledermaus; A Shepherd Boy, Tosca Cincinnati: Mary O’Fallin, Morning Star (2015); Madeleine Audebert, Silent Night; Kate Pinkerton, Madame Butterfly (2014) Elsewhere: Sara, Tobias and the Angel (NANOWorks Opera); Cherubino, Marriage of Figaro (Cincinnati Opera Outbound Touring Program); Dorabella, Così Fan Tutte; Hansel, Hansel and Gretel (UC College-Conservatory of Music)

Marco Cammarota, tenor (Schenectady, New York) Cincinnati Opera Debut 2016: Spoletta, Tosca Elsewhere: Luigi, Il Tabarro; Avito, L’Amore dei Tre Re (Academy of Vocal Arts, Philadelphia); Nemorino, Elixir of Love (Opera Santa Barbara); Macduff, Macbeth (Glimmerglass Opera) Upcoming: B.F. Pinkerton, Madame Butterfly (Arizona Opera)

Paul Carey, costume designer (Wooster, Ohio) Cincinnati Opera Debut 2016: Fellow Travelers Elsewhere: Doubt (Minnesota Opera); Bernstein Mass (Philadelphia Orchestra); Romeo and Juliet (Palm Beach Opera); Der Kaiser von Atlantis (Juilliard School; Central City Opera); Kansas City Choir Boy (Prototype Festival, New York; American Repertory Theater, Massachusetts; Center Theatre Group, Los Angeles); Julius Caesar; Il Viaggio a Reims (Wolf Trap Opera); Hansel and Gretel (Virginia Opera); El Niño (San Francisco Symphony); H.M.S. Pinafore (Caramoor Summer Music Festival, New York); Glory Denied; Orpheus and Euridice; Green Sneakers (Urban Arias, Washington, D.C.) Upcoming: The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs (Santa Fe Opera)

Gina Cerimele-Mechley, fight director (Cincinnati, Ohio) 2016: Fidelio; Tosca Cincinnati: Il Trovatore (2015); Silent Night (2014); Rigoletto (2011) Elsewhere: To Kill A Mockingbird; Mad River Rising (Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park); Julius Caesar; Cyrano de Bergerac (Cincinnati Shakespeare Company); Duel of the Fates; Camelot (Cincinnati Ballet) Upcoming: educational tours (Cincinnati Shakespeare Company); Camelot (Cincinnati Ballet)

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Jose Maria Condemi, stage director (Oakland, California) 2016: Tosca Cincinnati: Il Trovatore (2015); La Traviata; María de Buenos Aires (2012); Ainadamar (2009); Don Giovanni (2004) Elsewhere: Carmen (Lyric Opera of Kansas City); Dead Man Walking (Indiana University Opera Ballet Theater); Frida (Michigan Opera Theatre); Tosca (Seattle Opera); Masked Ball; Tosca (San Francisco Opera); A Streetcar Named Desire (Kentucky Opera); Aida (Houston Grand Opera); Elixir of Love (Opera Theatre of Saint Louis); Barber of Seville (Atlanta Opera)

Philip Cutlip, baritone (Bronx, New York) Cincinnati Opera Debut 2016: Estonian Frank/Interrogator/Senator Joseph McCarthy, Fellow Travelers Elsewhere: Sweeney Todd, Sweeney Todd (Tri-Cities Opera); Don Giovanni, Don Giovanni (Venture Opera, New York); Haydn Lord Nelson Mass (Oratorio Society of New York); Stanley, A Streetcar Named Desire (Opera Grand Rapids); Figaro, Marriage of Figaro (Sarasota Opera); Joseph/Solomon/Jeremiah, The Road of Promise (Collegiate Chorale) Upcoming: Don Alfonso, Così Fan Tutte (Opera Omaha); Messiah (Minnesota Orchestra); Dvorˇák Requiem (Berkshire Choral Festival)

Robert Dahlstrom, scenic designer (Billings, Montana) 2016: Fidelio Cincinnati: Rigoletto (2005, 2011); Tales of Hoffmann (2006) Elsewhere: Ariadne auf Naxos (Minnesota Opera; Seattle Opera); Bloomsday (ACT Theatre, Seattle) Upcoming: Magic Flute (Seattle Opera)

Evelina Dobracˇeva, soprano (Syzran, Russia) Cincinnati Opera Debut 2016: Tosca, Tosca Elsewhere: Three Fragments from Wozzeck (Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra, Japan); Tatyana, Eugene Onegin (Theater St. Gallen, Switzerland); Liza, Queen of Spades (Bolshoi Theater of Russia); The Ballade for the Boy Who Remained Unknown (Tchaikovsky Concert Hall, Moscow) Upcoming: Semyon Kotko (Concertgebouw, Amsterdam); Verdi Requiem (Royal Scottish National Orchestra); Beethoven Symphony No. 9 (Sinfonieorchester St. Gallen, Switzerland)

Candice Donnelly, costume designer (New York, New York) Cincinnati Opera Debut 2016: Die Fledermaus Elsewhere: Endgame (Brooklyn Academy of Music); Haroun and the Sea of Stories; La Finta Giardiniera (New York City Opera); Indian Ink (Roundabout Theater, New York; American Conservatory Theater, San Francisco); Hamlet; Of Mice and Men (The Acting Company, New York); Fences; Mastergate (Richard Rodgers Theatre, New York); Hughie (Circle in the Square, New York; Mark Taper Forum, Los Angeles); Dolley Madison; Alexander Hamilton; Ben Franklin (Middlemarch Films/PBS); I Love You, I Love You Not (Miramax/Avalanche)

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Thomas Dreeze, baritone 2016: Frank, Die Fledermaus Cincinnati: British Major, Silent Night (2014); A Notary, Der Rosenkavalier (2013); Maestro Spinelloccio, Gianni Schicchi (2012); Zaretsky, Eugene Onegin (2011) Elsewhere: recital tour (Kansas City; Bloomington; Indianapolis; Boston); Lady of the Camellias (Cincinnati Ballet); Messiah; Bach Missa Brevis in G; Mozart Missa Brevis in F (Knox Presbyterian Church, Cincinnati) Upcoming: Melchior, Amahl and the Night Visitors (Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra)

Nmon Ford, baritone (Los Angeles, California) 2016: Don Pizarro, Fidelio Cincinnati: Riolobo, Florencia en el Amazonas (2008) Elsewhere: Jochanaan, Salome (Opéra National de Bordeaux); Scarpia, Tosca (Hamburg State Opera); Macbeth, Macbeth (Chicago Opera Theater; Long Beach Opera); Don Giovanni, Don Giovanni (Teatro Comunale di Bologna); Attila, Attila (Sferisterio Opera Festival, Italy); Jones, The Emperor Jones (Teatro delle Muse di Ancona, Italy); Escamillo, Carmen (Palm Beach Opera); Riolobo, Florencia en el Amazonas (Utah Opera); Zurga, Pearl Fishers (Michigan Opera Theatre) Upcoming: Creation/ Creator (Atlanta Symphony Orchestra; Kennedy Center)

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James Develin Geier, hair & make-up designer (Cincinnati, Ohio) 2016: Resident Hair and Make-up Designer Cincinnati: 20042015 seasons Elsewhere: Cincinnati Shakespeare Company; Pittsburgh Opera; Cincinnati Ballet Upcoming: Cincinnati Shakespeare Company; Pittsburgh Opera; Cincinnati Ballet

Mark Gibson, conductor (Minneapolis, Minnesota) Cincinnati Opera Debut 2016: Fellow Travelers Elsewhere: Salome; Don Carlos; Mahler Marathon; Turandot; Cunning Little Vixen (UC College-Conservatory of Music); Tosca (Seoul Metropolitan Opera); West Side Story; holiday gala performances (China National Opera House, Beijing) Upcoming: Artistic Director, CCM Opera Bootcamp, La Traviata; Artistic Director, Polish Music Festival (UC College-Conservatory of Music)

Marcello Giordani, tenor (Augusta, Sicily) Cincinnati Opera Debut 2016: Mario Cavaradossi, Tosca Elsewhere: Manrico, Il Trovatore; Radamès, Aida; Cavaradossi, Tosca; Aeneas, Les Troyens; Calàf, Turandot (Metropolitan Opera); Des Grieux, Manon Lescaut; Radamès, Aida; Cavaradossi, Tosca (Vienna State Opera); Des Grieux, Manon Lescaut; Riccardo, Masked Ball; Faust, Faust (Hamburg State Opera); Don José, Carmen (Bavarian State Opera; Semperoper Dresden); Canio, Pagliacci (Teatro Regio di Parma; Teatro Lirico di Cagliari); Pollione, Norma (Théâtre des Champs-Élysées); Eléazar, La Juive (Semperoper Dresden); Don Alvaro, La Forza del Destino (Gran Teatre del Liceu, Barcelona)

Thomas Glenn, tenor (Calgary, Canada) 2016: Dr. Blind, Die Fledermaus Cincinnati: Jonathan Dale, Silent Night (2014); Beppe, Pagliacci; Gherardo, Gianni Schicchi (2012) Elsewhere: Count Almaviva, Barber of Seville (Festival Lyrique de Belle-Île en Mer, France); Ernesto, Don Pasquale (Intermountain Opera, Montana); Tamino, Magic Flute (Opera Idaho); Sandy, The Lighthouse (Opera Parallèle, San Francisco) Upcoming: Alfred, Die Fledermaus; McAlpine, Filumena (Calgary Opera); Werther, Werther (Opera Idaho)

Christine Goerke, soprano (Medford, New York) 2016: Leonore/”Fidelio,” Fidelio Cincinnati: Donna Elvira, Don Giovanni (1999) Elsewhere: Turandot, Turandot (Metropolitan Opera); Elektra, Elektra (Boston Symphony Orchestra); Brünnhilde, Siegfried (Canadian Opera Company; Houston Grand Opera) Upcoming: Cassandra, Les Troyens (Lyric Opera of Chicago); Brünnhilde, Götterdämmerung (Canadian Opera Company; Houston Grand Opera); Turandot, Turandot (Opera Philadelphia; Royal Opera House, UK)

Robin Guarino, stage director (Pleasantville, New York) Cincinnati Opera Debut 2016: Die Fledermaus Elsewhere: Powder Her Face (Skylight Music Theatre, Milwaukee); Marriage of Figaro (San Francisco Opera); Dialogues of the Carmelites (Opera Theatre of Saint Louis); War Stories (Gotham Chamber Opera at The Metropolitan Museum of Art); Così Fan Tutte (Metropolitan Opera) Upcoming: Marriage of Figaro (Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra); Some Light Emerges (HGOco); Cendrillon (UC College-Conservatory of Music); Madame Butterfly (Opera Theatre of Saint Louis); War Stories (Opera Philadelphia)

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Devon Guthrie, soprano (Claremont, California) Cincinnati Opera Debut 2016: Mary Johnson, Fellow Travelers Elsewhere: Susanna, Marriage of Figaro (English National Opera; Japan Tour with Seiji Ozawa); Marzelline, Fidelio (Santa Fe Opera); Pulcheria, Riccardo Primo (Opera Theatre of Saint Louis); Pamina, Magic Flute (English National Opera); Bubikopf, Der Kaiser von Atlantis (Central City Opera); Daisy Buchanan, The Great Gatsby (Tanglewood Music Festival) Upcoming: Konstanze, Abduction from the Seraglio (Kentucky Opera); Brahms Requiem (Madison Symphony Orchestra); Rosalinde, Die Fledermaus (Santa Fe Opera)

Sarah Hairston, choreographer (Columbia, South Carolina) 2016: Die Fledermaus Cincinnati: choreographer, Don Giovanni; Temple Dancer, Aida (2013) Elsewhere: principal dancer; Lead, Wild Sweet Love; Fairy Godmother, Cinderella; Sugar Plum/Snow Queen, ALICE (in wonderland); principal, Yuri Posokov’s Classical Symphony (Cincinnati Ballet) Upcoming: Act III Pas De Deux from Raymonda (Cincinnati Ballet); Director (Cincinnati Ballet Academy)

Thomas Hammons, bass-baritone (Loveland, Ohio) 2016: The Sacristan, Tosca Cincinnati: Simone, Gianni Schicchi (2012); Ortel, Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg; Benoit, La Bohème (2010); Antonio, Marriage of Figaro (2009); Kissinger, Nixon in China (2007) Elsewhere: Benoit/Alcindoro, La Bohème (Opera Theatre of Saint Louis; Michigan Opera Theatre; Palm Beach Opera); Abdullah Sher Norman, Shalimar the Clown (Opera Theatre of Saint Louis); Candy, Of Mice and Men (Austin Lyric Opera); Bartolo, Marriage of Figaro (New Orleans Opera); George, Dead Man Walking (Dayton Opera) Upcoming: Antonio, Marriage of Figaro (Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra); Benoit/Alcindoro, La Bohème (Opera Omaha)

Stephen Michael Hanna, baritone (Nacogdoches, Texas) Cincinnati Opera Debut 2016: Bellhop, Die Fledermaus Elsewhere: Baron Zeta, The Merry Widow; The Creation (UC College-Conservatory of Music); The Pilot cover, The Little Prince (Cincinnati Chamber Opera); John B. Hughes, Meet John Doe (Opera Fusion: New Works); Five Mystical Songs (Northern Kentucky Community Chorus); Canticle (Vocal Arts Ensemble, Cincinnati)

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Vernon Hartman, baritone (Dallas, Texas) 2016: Senator Charles Potter/General Airlie/Bartender, Fellow Travelers Cincinnati: Ping, Turandot (1995); Enrico, Lucia di Lammermoor (1990); Malatesta, Don Pasquale (1981); Young American Artists Program (1980) Elsewhere: Count Almaviva, Marriage of Figaro; Eisenstein, Die Fledermaus; Ping, Turandot; Figaro, Barber of Seville; Silvio, Pagliacci; Valentin, Faust; Mercutio, Romeo and Juliet; Lescaut, Manon Lescaut; Redburn, Billy Budd; Marcello, La Bohème (Metropolitan Opera); Iron Mullah, Shalimar the Clown (Opera Fusion: New Works); Nabucco, Nabucco (Da Corneto Opera, Chicago); Sullivan and stage direction, The Garden of Martyrs (Springfield Symphony Orchestra); adaptation and stage direction, The Servant of Two Masters (Smith College)

Thomas C. Hase, lighting designer (Madison, Wisconsin) 2016: Resident Lighting Designer and Lighting Director Cincinnati: 1997–2015 seasons Elsewhere: La Finta Giardiniera (Santa Fe Opera); The Rake’s Progress (Finnish National Opera); The Golden Cockerel (Deutsche Oper am Rhein) Upcoming: Ariadne auf Naxos (Nationale Reisopera, Netherlands); Billy Budd (Opera North); Dead Man Walking (Royal Opera House, Denmark)

Nicole Haslett, soprano (Mount Laurel, New Jersey) Cincinnati Opera Debut 2016: Adele, Die Fledermaus Elsewhere: Papagena, Magic Flute; Semele, Die Liebe der Danae; First Niece, Peter Grimes; Pepik/Grasshopper/Jaybird, Cunning Little Vixen (Deutsche Oper Berlin); Sophie, Emmeline (Opera Theatre of Saint Louis); Chloé, Daphnis et Chloé (Heartbeat Opera, New York) Upcoming: Lucia, Lucia di Lammermoor (Utah Opera)

Gordon Hawkins, baritone (Clinton, Maryland) 2016: Scarpia, Tosca Cincinnati: Amonasro, Aida (2007, 2013); Crown, Porgy and Bess (2012) Elsewhere: Alberich, Der Ring des Nibelungen (Washington National Opera); Alvaro, Florencia en el Amazonas (Los Angeles Opera); Nabucco, Nabucco (Seattle Opera; Opera Carolina); Rigoletto, Rigoletto (Vancouver Opera); Porgy, Porgy and Bess (Bergen International Festival, Norway; Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra; Toledo Opera); Amonasro, Aida (St. Louis Symphony); Scarpia, Tosca (Lyric Opera of Kansas City) Upcoming: Rigoletto, Rigoletto (Deutsche Oper am Rhein)

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Eric Shane Heatley, baritone (Tulsa, Oklahoma) Cincinnati Opera Debut 2016: Bellhop, Die Fledermaus Elsewhere: Gaudenzio, Il Signor Bruschino; Vicomte Cascada, The Merry Widow (UC College-Conservatory of Music); Paris, Romeo and Juliet (Castleton Music Festival, Virginia); Cowardly Giant, Shalimar the Clown (Opera Fusion: New Works) Upcoming: cover/chorus, Intimate Apparel (Opera Fusion: New Works)

John Humphrey, tenor (St. Paul, Minnesota) Cincinnati Opera Debut 2016: Bellhop, Die Fledermaus Elsewhere: Leicester, Maria Stuarda; Camille, The Merry Widow; Robert, Hin und Zurück (UC College-Conservatory of Music); Bert, Meet John Doe (Opera Fusion: New Works)

Joseph Lattanzi, baritone (Mableton, Georgia) 2016: Hawkins Fuller, Fellow Travelers Cincinnati: Moralès, Carmen; Gueusselin, Silent Night; Yamadori, Madame Butterfly (2014) Elsewhere: Don Giovanni, Don Giovanni; Riolobo, Florencia en el Amazonas; Moralès/Dancairo, Carmen (Arizona Opera); Carmina Burana (Reno Philharmonic); Creators in Concert: Jake Heggie (OPERA America); Count Almaviva, Marriage of Figaro (Merola Opera Program); War Requiem (Orchestra e Coro Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi); Yamadori, Madame Butterfly (Atlanta Opera); Guglielmo, Così Fan Tutte (UC College-Conservatory of Music) Upcoming: Kuligin, Kát’a Kabanová (Seattle Opera); Dandini, La Cenerentola; Yamadori, Madame Butterfly (Arizona Opera)

Talya Lieberman, soprano (Forest Hills, New York) Cincinnati Opera Debut 2016: Lucy, Fellow Travelers Elsewhere: The Vixen, Cunning Little Vixen (UC College-Conservatory of Music); Musetta, La Bohème (Opera Columbus); Susanna, Marriage of Figaro (Wolf Trap Opera) Upcoming: Papagena, Magic Flute; Berta, Barber of Seville; Le Feu/ La Princesse/Le Rossignol, L’Enfant et les Sortilèges; Michael Darling, Peter Pan; Frasquita, Carmen; Euridice, L’Orfeo; Drusilla, L’Incoronazione di Poppea; Charmian, Die Perlen der Cleopatra; Countess Landovska, Marinka (Komische Oper Berlin)

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Jun Märkl, conductor (Munich, Germany) Cincinnati Opera Debut 2016: Fidelio Elsewhere: Music Director (Orchestre National de Lyon); Principal Conductor (MDR Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra; Mannheim National Opera); Genoveva (Rotterdam Opera Festival); Götterdämmerung (Royal Opera House, UK); Il Trovatore; La Traviata (Metropolitan Opera); Der Ring des Nibelungen (Deutsche Oper Berlin; New National Theatre, Tokyo); Ariadne auf Naxos (San Francisco Opera); Der Rosenkavalier (Hungarian State Opera); guest conductor (Vienna State Opera; Bavarian State Opera; Berlin State Opera; Hamburg State Opera) Upcoming: Die Liebe der Danae; Lohengrin (Tokyo Nikikai Opera Theatre); The Flying Dutchman (Royal Danish Opera)

Allen Moyer, scenic designer (Schuylkill Haven, Pennsylvania) 2016: Die Fledermaus Cincinnati: Carmen (2004); Barber of Seville (1997) Elsewhere: set design, Emmeline (Opera Theatre of Saint Louis); Persée et Andromède; L’Enfant et les Sortilèges (Manhattan School of Music); Dot (Vineyard Theatre, New York); Red; Art (Westport Country Playhouse, Connecticut); Shalimar the Clown (Opera Theatre of Saint Louis); set and costume design, Daughter of the Regiment (Santa Fe Opera); The Flying Dutchman (Seattle Opera) Upcoming: set design, Vanessa (Santa Fe Opera)

Kevin Newbury, stage director (Auburn, Maine) 2016: Fellow Travelers Cincinnati: Nixon in China (2007) Elsewhere: Bel Canto; Anna Bolena (Lyric Opera of Chicago); Kansas City Choir Boy (Prototype Festival, New York; National Tour); Oscar (Santa Fe Opera; Opera Philadelphia); The Manchurian Candidate (Minnesota Opera); O Columbia (Houston Grand Opera); Euryanthe (Bard Summerscape); Paul’s Case (Urban Arias, Washington, D.C.; Prototype Festival, New York); Mary Stuart (Seattle Opera) Upcoming: The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs (Santa Fe Opera); The Perfect American (Long Beach Opera; Chicago Opera Theatre); Bhutto (Pittsburgh Opera); Norma (Lyric Opera of Chicago; Canadian Opera Company); Eugene Onegin (Portland Opera)

Kelley O’Connor, mezzo-soprano (Clovis, California) 2016: Prince Orlofsky, Die Fledermaus Cincinnati: Suzuki, Madame Butterfly (2014); Lorca, Ainadamar (2009) Elsewhere: Mary, The Gospel According to the Other Mary (Acht Brücken, Cologne); Romeo and Juliet (St. Louis Symphony); Neruda Songs (Minnesota Orchestra); Mahler Third Symphony (Cleveland Orchestra); Smeton, Anna Bolena (Lyric Opera of Chicago); Hippolyta, Midsummer Night’s Dream (Canadian Opera Company) Upcoming: Mahler Second Symphony (San Francisco Symphony); Berio Folk Songs (New World Symphony Orchestra); Das Lied von der Erde (Atlanta Symphony Orchestra); Mahler Third Symphony (Hong Kong Philharmonic)

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Robert Perdziola, scenic & costume designer (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) Cincinnati Opera Debut 2016: Tosca Elsewhere: Swan Lake (Boston Ballet); Capriccio (Curtis Institute of Music, Philadelphia); Living on Love (Asolo Repertory Theatre, Florida); Falstaff (Saito Kinen Festival, Japan); Così Fan Tutte (Hyogo Performing Arts Center, Japan) Upcoming: Alice in Wonderland (Finnish National Ballet); Marriage of Figaro (Garsington Opera, UK; Hyogo Performing Arts Center, Japan)

Greg Pierce, librettist (Shelburne, Vermont) Cincinnati Opera Debut 2016: Fellow Travelers Elsewhere: playwright, Slowgirl (Lincoln Center Theater/LCT3; Steppenwolf Theatre Company; Geffen Playhouse); Her Requiem (Lincoln Center Theater/LCT3); The Landing (Vineyard Theatre, New York); Kid Victory (Signature Theatre, New York); The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (Edinburgh International Festival; Singapore Arts Festival); The Quarry (Vermont Stage Company) Upcoming: Kid Victory (Vineyard Theatre, New York); screenwriter, Burial Rites (Lionsgate)

Christian Pursell, bass-baritone (Santa Cruz, California) Cincinnati Opera Debut 2016: Potter’s Assistant/Bookseller/ Party Guest/Technician/French Priest, Fellow Travelers; Jailer, Tosca Elsewhere: Harašta, Cunning Little Vixen (UC CollegeConservatory of Music); Beethoven Symphony No. 9 (San Jose Symphonic Choir); The Creation (Denison University); Abdullah, Shalimar the Clown (Opera Fusion: New Works); Belcore, Elixir of Love (San Francisco Conservatory of Music)

Alexandra Schoeny, soprano (Den Haag, Netherlands) 2016: Miss Lightfoot, Fellow Travelers Cincinnati: Frasquita, Carmen (2014); Zerlina, Don Giovanni; Noble Orphan, Der Rosenkavalier; Maria Celeste/Duchess Christina, Galileo Galilei; High Priestess, Aida (2013); Nella, Gianni Schicchi (2012) Elsewhere: Pamina, Magic Flute (De Nederlandse Opera, Netherlands); Mrs. Julian, Owen Wingrave (Städtische Bühnen Osnabrück, Germany); Adele, Die Fledermaus; Dircé, Médée; Mrs. Julian, Owen Wingrave (Netherlands Philharmonic at Bredeweg Festival); Messiah (Omaha Symphony); Mahler Symphony No. 4 (Eugene Symphony, Oregon); Carmina Burana (Temple University; Reno Philharmonic)

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Paul Scholten, baritone (Muskegon, Michigan) 2016: Tommy McIntyre, Fellow Travelers Cincinnati: Notary, Don Pasquale (2015) Elsewhere: Guglielmo, Così Fan Tutte (Fort Worth Opera; DuPage Opera Theatre); Sharpless, Madame Butterfly (DuPage Opera Theatre); Macduff, Macbeth (Chicago Opera Theater); Eugene Onegin, Eugene Onegin (Opera Company of Middlebury, Vermont); Dancairo, Carmen (Lyric Opera of Chicago)

Rebecca Senske, costume designer (Hutchinson, Kansas) 2016: Fidelio Cincinnati: La Calisto (2014); Galileo Galilei (2013); A Flowering Tree (2011); Ainadamar (2009); Così Fan Tutte (2007) Elsewhere: Carousel; Singin’ in the Rain (UC College-Conservatory of Music); Cinderella; Violet; Marvelous Wonderettes: Caps and Gowns (Ensemble Theatre Cincinnati)

Alek Shrader, tenor (Cleveland, Ohio) Cincinnati Opera Debut 2016: Alfred, Die Fledermaus Elsewhere: Tom Rakewell, The Rake’s Progress (Pittsburgh Opera); Count Almaviva, Barber of Seville (Lyric Opera Baltimore; Canadian Opera Company); David, Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (San Francisco Opera); Alfredo, La Traviata (Opera Philadelphia); Tonio, Daughter of the Regiment (Santa Fe Opera); Jupiter/Apollo, Semele (Seattle Opera); Camille, The Merry Widow (Metropolitan Opera); Emilio, Partenope (San Francisco Opera) Upcoming: Ferrando, Così Fan Tutte (Ópera de Oviedo, Spain); Endimione, Diana’s Garden (Minnesota Opera); Prince Ramiro, La Cenerentola (Arizona Opera)

Samuel Smith, bass (Cincinnati, Ohio) 2016: Sciarrone, Tosca Cincinnati: Old Gypsy, Il Trovatore (2015) Elsewhere: Don Pasquale, Don Pasquale (Anchorage Opera); Don Basilio, Barber of Seville (Lake George Opera, New York); Ramfis, Aida (Palm Beach Opera)

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Gregory Spears, composer (New York, New York) Cincinnati Opera Debut 2016: Fellow Travelers Elsewhere: O Columbia; The Bricklayer (Houston Grand Opera); Paul’s Case (Urban Arias, Washington, D.C.; Prototype Festival, New York; Pittsburgh Opera); Virginiana (New Vintage Baroque and Damask Ensemble); A New Sanctus, Benedictus, and Agnus Dei (Seraphic Fire); Wolf-in-Skins (Christopher Williams Dances); Buttonwood (The JACK Quartet); Requiem (New Amsterdam Records) Upcoming: Jason and the Argonauts (Lyric Opera of Chicago); Double Trumpet Concerto (BMI Foundation and Concert Artists Guild)

Nathan Stark, bass (Hughson, California) 2016: Rocco, Fidelio Cincinnati: Sylvan, La Calisto (2014); Commendatore, Don Giovanni; Barberini, Galileo Galilei (2013); Monterone, Rigoletto; (2011); Alcindoro, La Bohème (2010) Elsewhere: Bottom, Midsummer Night’s Dream (Hawaii Opera Theatre); Gravedigger/Montresor, Buried Alive/ Embedded (Fort Worth Opera); Colline, La Bohème (Tulsa Opera); Mustafà, L’Italiana in Algeri (Opera San Jose); Verdi Requiem (Atlanta Symphony Orchestra) Upcoming: Colline, La Bohème (Hawaii Opera Theatre); King Marke, Tristan and Isolde (Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra); Verdi Requiem (Defiant Requiem Foundation); Sarastro, Magic Flute (Madison Opera); Father Palmer, Silent Night (Opera San Jose)

Daniel Sutin, bass (West Palm Beach, Florida) Cincinnati Opera Debut 2016: Don Fernando, Fidelio Elsewhere: Wozzeck, Wozzeck (Metropolitan Opera); Jochanaan, Salome (Detroit Symphony Orchestra); Biterolf, Tannhäuser (Lyric Opera of Chicago); Sharpless, Madame Butterfly (Hawaii Opera Theatre); Germont, La Traviata (Savonlinna Festival); One-Eyed Man, Die Frau ohne Schatten (Metropolitan Opera) Upcoming: Iago, Otello (Phoenicia International Festival of the Voice); Alberich cover, Das Rheingold (Lyric Opera of Chicago); Scarpia, Tosca (Boston Lyric Opera)

Laura Tatulescu, soprano (Bridgeport, Connecticut) Cincinnati Opera Debut 2016: Marzelline, Fidelio Elsewhere: Susanna, Marriage of Figaro (Seattle Opera); Blanche de la Force, Dialogues of the Carmelites (Stadttheater Klagenfurt, Austria); Zerlina, Don Giovanni; Despina, Così Fan Tutte; First Lady, Magic Flute (Bavarian State Opera); Lauretta, Gianni Schicchi (Los Angeles Opera) Upcoming: Norina, Don Pasquale (Florida Grand Opera); Helena, Midsummer Night’s Dream (Stadttheater Klagenfurt, Austria)

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Russell Thomas, tenor (Miami, Florida) 2016: Florestan, Fidelio Cincinnati: Manrico, Il Trovatore (2015); Prince, A Flowering Tree (2011); Cassio, Otello (2010) Elsewhere: Don José, Carmen (Canadian Opera Company); Stiffelio, Stiffelio (Oper Frankfurt); Pollione, Norma (Los Angeles Opera; San Francisco Opera; Palau de la Música de Valencia, Spain); Turiddu, Cavalleria Rusticana (Deutsche Oper Berlin); Ismaele, Nabucco (Seattle Opera); Faust, Faust (Michigan Opera Theatre); Lazarus, The Gospel According to the Other Mary (English National Opera) Upcoming: Pollione, Norma (Canadian Opera Company; Lyric Opera of Chicago); Ismaele, Nabucco (Metropolitan Opera); Cavaradossi, Tosca (Los Angeles Opera)

John Tibbetts, baritone (Atlanta, Georgia) Cincinnati Opera Debut 2016: Bellhop, Die Fledermaus; Second Prisoner, Fidelio Elsewhere: Bruschino, Il Signor Bruschino; Pritschitsch, The Merry Widow (UC College-Conservatory of Music); Abner Watkins, Emmeline (Opera Theatre of Saint Louis); Inmate #5, Dead Man Walking (Central City Opera); The Creation (Bellingham Festival of Music); John Proctor, The Crucible; Schaunard, La Bohème (Georgia State University); Yamadori, Madame Butterfly (Peach State Opera, Georgia)

Victoria (Vita) Tzykun, scenic designer (Odessa, Ukraine) Cincinnati Opera Debut 2016: Fellow Travelers Elsewhere: costume design, Semele (Seattle Opera); Silent Night (Wexford Opera Festival); Dog Days (Los Angeles Opera; Fort Worth Opera); production design, Winterreise (Atlanta Opera; Des Moines Metro Opera); Soldier Songs (Atlanta Opera); set design, Kansas City Choir Boy (Kirk Douglas Theater, Los Angeles; American Repertory Theater; Prototype Festival, New York); art direction, A Very Gaga Thanksgiving (ABC) Upcoming: set design, The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs (Santa Fe Opera); costume design, The Passenger (Yekaterinburg State Opera House, Russia); Dinner at Eight (Minnesota Opera)

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Cincinnati Opera 2016 CINCINNATI SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Violins I Timothy Lees Kathryn Woolley Rebecca Culnan Eric Bates Anna Reider Minyoung Baik Mauricio Aguiar James Braid Janet Carpenter Michelle Edgar Dugan Rebecca Kruger Fryxell Gerald Itzkoff Lois Reid Johnson Sylvia Mitchell Luo-Jia Wu Violins II Gabriel Pegis Yang Liu Scott Mozlin Kun Dong Cheryl Benedict Drake Crittenden Ash Rachel Charbel Chiun-Teng Cheng Stefani Collins Chika Kinderman Paige Kossuth Hye-Sun Park Paul Patterson Stacey Woolley

Violas Christian Colberg Paul Frankenfeld Julian Wilkison Marna Street Rebecca Barnes Belinda Burge Stephen Fryxell Denisse RodriguezRivera Steven Rosen Joanne Wojtowicz

Basses Owen Lee James Lambert Matthew Zory, Jr. Wayne Anderson Boris Astafiev Ronald Bozicevich Rick Vizachero Harp Gillian Benet Sella Flutes Randolph Bowman Amy Taylor Henrik Heide

Cellos Ilya Finkelshteyn Daniel Culnan Norman Johns Matthew Lad Susan MarshallPetersen Hiro Matsuo Theodore Nelson Alan Rafferty Charles Snavely

Piccolo Joan Voorhees Oboes Dwight Parry Richard Johnson Lon Bussell English Horn Christopher Philpotts Clarinets Jonathan Gunn Ixi Chen Benjamin Freimuth

Bass Clarinet Ronald Aufmann

Bass Trombone Peter Norton

Bassoons William Winstead Hugh Michie Martin Garcia

Timpani Patrick Schleker Richard Jensen

Contrabassoon Jennifer Monroe French Horns Elizabeth Freimuth Thomas Sherwood Elizabeth Porter Lisa Conway Duane Dugger Charles Bell Trumpets Matthew Ernst Douglas Lindsay Steven Pride Christopher Kiradjieff

Percussion David Fishlock Michael Culligan Richard Jensen Marc Wolfley Keyboards Michael Chertock Orchestra Personnel Walter Zeschin Andrew Williams Librarians Mary Judge Christina Eaton Matthew Gray

Trombones Cristian Ganicenco Joseph Rodriguez

CINCINNATI OPERA CHORUS La’Shelle Q. Allen Pedro André Arroyo Anthony Beck Joy Burdette Tony Burdette Adria Caffaro Eleni Antonia Franck Ellen Graham Stephen Michael Hanna

Alexander Harper Eric Shane Heatley James P. Held Andria Helm John Humphrey Ernest C. Jackson, Jr. Chandler Johnson Alexandra Kassouf Erin Keesy Jacob Kincaide Jaclyn Kleier

Katherine Krueger Blake Lampton Wesley Lawrence Chelsea Melamed Julia Mendelsohn Christopher Brandon Morales Tara Morrow Reilly Nelson Nicholas Nesbitt Grace Newberry

John Overholt Christian Pursell Will Reed James Rootring Stacey Sands Megan Ann Slack Samuel Smith Lani Stait John Tibbetts Kevin Truax

Will Tvrdik Sarah Vautour Paulina Villarreal Autumn West Abigail Rose Whittle Melanie Woodruff Michael Young

CINCINNATI BALLET Taylor Carrasco Camilla Ferrera

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Courtney Connor Jones Samantha Nagy-Chow

Daniel Powers Maizyalet Velázquez

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Brandon Hickey Sean Hutson James Marshall

Danny McDowell Zach Ramsey Stephen Stricker

Jacob Turner Alexander Zagorianos

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Kaaren Meyers Vincent Migyanko Alex Montello Riley Montello Azamat Patterson Patrick Patterson Virginia Patterson Micah Price Maraia Reinhart Tom Riser Vincent Savich LaDonna Scott

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Major Season Support Cincinnati Opera gratefully acknowledges the following individuals, corporations, and foundations for their generous support of Cincinnati Opera’s mainstage productions and community events.

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SEASON PRESENTING SPONSOR

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SUPERTITLES SPONSOR

The Carol Ann and Ralph V. Haile, Jr./ U.S. Bank Foundation

Western & Southern Financial Group

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The Corbett Foundation

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The Marge & Charles J. Schott Foundation

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

U.S. Bank

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Elizabeth M. Stites and Kevin C. Randall

OPENING WEEK SPONSOR

The Alpaugh Foundation, Vicki and Peter Alpaugh

Ohio National Financial Services SUPPORT FOR MAESTRO

THE APPEARANCE OF

DAVID CHARLES ABELL

NICOLE HASLETT

THE APPEARANCE OF HADLEIGH ADAMS

Mrs. Beryl Merritt, in loving memory of Beryl Merritt

Sheila and Christopher Cole

Elizabeth Kathman Grubow and Jerry Kathman

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ZACH BORICHEVSKY

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Boris Auerbach and Kathy Patchel

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John and Mary Ann Boorn

Robert and Carol Olson

Mr. and Mrs. Gary “Doc” Huffman THE APPEARANCE OF

The Hasl Family

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Richard and Susan Lauf F ELLO W T R AV E L E R S PRODUCTION UNDERWRITERS

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The Carol Ann and Ralph V. Haile, Jr./ U.S. Bank Foundation

Cincinnati Opera Guild

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Peter G. Courlas, in honor of Nicholas Tsimaras

The CCM Harmony Fund

David C. Herriman

Barbara Gould

The Estate of Dr. Stanley M. Kaplan

Ryan L. Messer and James A. Musuraca-Messer

The National Endowment for the Arts

Edward and Nancy Rosenthal

OPERA America

Edward B. Silberstein, M.D., and Jacqueline M. Mack

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THE APPEARANCE OF DEVON GUTHRIE

THE APPEARANCE OF VERNON HARTMAN

In loving memory of Dr. Robert J. Hasl

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William A. Starr Young Artist Fund THE APPEARANCE OF TALYA LIEBERMAN

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Donna Hoffman Young Artist Scholarship Fund SUPPORT FOR KEVIN NEWBURY, STAGE DIRECTOR

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Cincinnati Opera Board of Trustees

Ann and Harry Santen

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THE APPEARANCE OF NMON FORD

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Dr. Alvin H. and Alva Jean Crawford

Kathy and Jon McCann

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Cathy and Tom Crain, in memory of Jean B. Tolles

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ARTSWAVE PARTNERS Cincinnati Opera acknowledges the following Partner Companies, Foundations, and their employees who generously participate in the Annual ArtsWave Community Campaign at the $100,000+ level. Your support helps make our community vibrant and connects people all across our region through the arts. Thank you!

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T

he New Century Campaign, which we launched last summer, continues to successfully build capacity for Cincinnati Opera and fund significant projects in four key areas: The Great Works, continuing our commitment to the masterworks of the operatic cannon; The New Works, expanding the canon by creating and presenting contemporary American opera; The Convener in the Community, broadening our reach within the community; The Beyond, exploring innovative ways of connecting audiences with opera.

The creation of Cincinnati Opera’s new production of Tosca was funded by several significant gifts to one of the New Century Campaign key areas, The Great Works. This new production of Tosca is a substantial investment for Cincinnati Opera, but the benefits of creating it are many, ranging from ownership of a new production that produces sustainable rental revenue, to publicity surrounding its creation which cultivates new and younger audiences.

Your gift to the New Century Campaign will help us grow an already world-class company, taking it places it has never been, and bringing the power of opera to everyone. To make a gift to the New Century Campaign, please contact Sneja H. Tomassian at (513) 768-5527. Thank you for your support.

Set design of our brand-new production of Tosca. Design by Robert Perdziola.

New Century Campaign Donors Frank and Janet Andress

Gary “Doc”* and Milly Huffman

Ann and Harry Santen

Boris Auerbach* and Kathy Patchel

Marjorie and Lawrence* H. Kyte, Jr.

The John A. Schroth Family Charitable Trust, PNC Bank, Trustee

Patricia K. and James D. Beggs

LPK

A.K. and Gibby Carey*

Macy’s, Inc.

Chris and Vivienne Carlson

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

The Corbett Foundation

Estate of Mary and William Meyer

Dr. Peter G. Courlas

The Louise Dieterle Nippert Trust

Cathy* and Tom Crain

Robert* and Carol Olson

The Thomas J. Emery Memorial

Joseph and Susan Pichler

Harry* and Linda Fath

PNC Bank

The Estate of Eleanor Hazelton

Edward and Nancy Rosenthal

David C. Herriman

The Saenger Family Foundation

Donald E. Hoffman*

Dr. G. James and Ruthann Sammarco

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The Selnick Charitable Trust The Louise Taft Semple Foundation Murray* and Robin Sinclaire Mrs. Cynthia Starr Susan and John M. Tew, Jr., M.D. Nydia C. Tranter The Harry T. Wilks Family Foundation Anne and Allen Zaring III *Denotes a member of Cincinnati Opera’s Presidents’ Council

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Individual and Foundation Contributions Cincinnati Opera acknowledges with deep appreciation the leadership and generosity of the many individuals and family foundations who have supported the Opera with contributions to the 2016 Annual Fund.

DIRECTOR’S CIRCLE ($25,000 and above)

Vicki and Peter Alpaugh, The Alpaugh Foundation Michael L. Cioffi and Rachael A. Rowe The Patricia A. Corbett Trust The Corbett Foundation Dr. Peter G. Courlas Cathy and Tom Crain The Thomas J. Emery Memorial Harry and Linda Fath

Elizabeth Kathman Grubow and Jerry Kathman David C. Herriman Mr. and Mrs. Gary “Doc” Huffman Elma M. Lapp Foundation The Estate of Mary and William Meyer The Louise Dieterle Nippert Trust Robert and Carol Olson and Dinsmore & Shohl LLP The Estate of James T. Peeler Joseph A. and Susan Pichler Fund*

Ann and Harry Santen The John A. Schroth Family Charitable Trust, PNC Bank, Trustee The Louise Taft Semple Foundation Murray and Robin Sinclaire Miss Genevieve H. Smith Dr. and Mrs. John M. Tew, Jr. Larry and Beth Uhlenbrock The Harry T. Wilks Family Foundation

INNER CIRCLE

($12,000 to $24,999) Patricia K. and James D. Beggs Dorothy Anne Blatt John and Mary Ann Boorn Mr. and Mrs. Joseph E. Brinkmeyer Thomas Busse Charitable Trust Geraldine V. Chavez Ms. Melanie M. Chavez and Mr. Jeremy S. Campbell The Gale Family Foundation Matt and Jill Garretson Ann and Gordon Getty Foundation Madeleine H. Gordon

Edward and Nancy Rosenthal Edward B. Silberstein, M.D., and Jacqueline M. Mack William D. Stenger Elizabeth M. Stites and Kevin C. Randall Nydia C. Tranter Ginger and David Warner The Stephen H. Wilder Foundation Edward Jay Wohlgemuth Mr. and Mrs. John Wyant

Barbara Gould Dr. and Mrs. Jack A. Hahn Mrs. Robert J. Hasl Dr. and Mrs. Richard Kerstine The Manuel D. and Rhoda Mayerson Foundation Ryan L. Messer and James A. Musuraca-Messer Mr. and Mrs. David W. Motch Margaret Ohanian Trust The Daniel and Susan Pfau Foundation

CORBETT CIRCLE ($6,000 to $11,999)

Anonymous Frank and Janet Andress Family Fund Boris Auerbach and Kathy Patchel Christopher and Annie Baucom Mary M. Bergstein Drs. David and Elaine Billmire Drs. Thomas and Barbara Boat Mr. and Mrs. Mark J. Busher Chris and Vivienne Carlson Arthur B. Casper Sheila and Christopher Cole Dr. Alvin H. and Alva Jean Crawford Eric and Jennifer Dauer

Contributions from May 16, 2015 to May 15, 2016

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Mr. and Mrs. John Earls Ann Ellison Dr. James D. Faulkner Mr. and Mrs. James T. Fitzgerald The Fullgraf Foundation Dr. Cynthia J. Goodman Ms. Lisa M. Hillenbrand Don Hoffman Mr. and Mrs. Kevin Jones The Estate of Dr. Stanley M. Kaplan Dr. Sid Khosla and Mrs. Heather Vogt-Khosla Mr. and Mrs. Timothy Kimmel Dr. and Mrs. Charles Kuntz Mr. Roger H. LaGreca

Richard and Susan Lauf Dr. Margaret M. LeMasters Adele and Thomas Lippert Fund* Drs. Lina and George Mandybur Ms. Peggy A. Markstein Mr. Michael A. Marrero and Dr. Candyse Jeffries, D.M.D. Mayberry Foundation Kathy and Jon McCann Ms. Julia B. Meister Mrs. Beryl Merritt Evans Mirageas and Thomas Dreeze Morgan Horse Farm, Lebanon, Ohio

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Anonymous Mrs. Martha G. Anness Mr. Ronald T. Bates Mr. and Mrs. Edward C. Bavaria Mr. Allen Bernard Chris and Karen Bowman Mrs. Abraham S. Braude Charlin and Peter Briggs Mr. and Mrs. Frederick E. Bryan III The Otto M. Budig Family Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Christopher J. Canarie A.K. and Gibby Carey Mrs. Jackson L. Clagett III Miss Norma L. Clark John Cobey and Jan Frankel Mr. and Mrs. Evan Corbett

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($750 to $1,499) Anonymous Ms. Tracy Agyemang Gay Bain Aine Baldwin Mr. and Mrs. Dale Bardes Adam and Jennifer Bellin Kathryn Bender and Russell Menkes Mr. and Mrs. Robert W. Boden Lois and Joseph Brenner Mr. and Mrs. Edward F. Castleberry Mr. Terrence M. Crawford Mr. Louis M. Dauner Mr. and Mrs. Harry B. Davidow Ms. Kristy Davis Mr. and Mrs. Michael Dean Ms. Michelle Devine and Mr. Brian Mahany Mr. and Mrs. Andrew DeWitt Mr. Stephen Eadicicco and Mr. Bradley Higginbotham Scott Atkinson and Christopher D. Edwards Mr. Kingston Fletcher Mr. and Mrs. Ashley L. Ford Dr. and Mrs. Harry F. Fry Mrs. Philip O. Geier Dr. Thomas Geracioti and Amanda Eisenlohr Shannon M. Glass Megan Hammann Mr. and Mrs. John Henderson Ms. Karlee L. Hilliard Mr. David Huberfield Mrs. Thomas Huheey Dr. Kay A. Johnson, M.D. The Honorable Nathaniel Jones Dr. Magdalena and William Kerschner

Bo-Kyung and Kevin Kirby Mr. Peter E. Koenig and Ms. Lucy Hodgson Patrick M. Korb Mr. and Mrs. John T. LaMacchia Dean Peter Landgren and Mrs. Judith Schonbach Landgren Evelyn and Fred Lang John T. Lawrence IV Mr. Richard Lesueur Mr. and Mrs. Peter F. Levin Ms. Janice Liebenberg and Mr. Andy Holzhauser Terry and Elizabeth Lilly Dr. and Dr. Lynn Lin Mr. and Mrs. David C. Lundgren Ms. Katherine Lutes Ashley Burnside Maguire Mandare Foundation Drs. Arti and Scott Masturzo Dr. Janet P. McDaniel Jim and Linda Miller Chris and Molly Milligan William L. Montague and Kelly L. Wittich Mrs. Malcolm Myers Ms. Mary Newman Mrs. Beverly Oyler Dr. and Mrs. Myles Pensak John and Francie Pepper Ms. Nicole Portal Mr. William C. Portman Mr. Phillip Potter Mr. James W. Rauth Mr. Henry M. Reed III Mr. Robert Reid Denise and Thomas Revely III

Mr. and Mrs. Mercer Reynolds Melody Sawyer Richardson Mrs. Barbara L. Robb Solveiga Rush Mr. David Sanders, Jr. Mr. Bernhard Schiefer Mr. George P. Schober Mr. Shawn Scott and Mr. Neil Hoover Ms. Megan Selnick Mr. Dale L. Shafer Mr. and Mrs. Steven Shifman Ms. Louise Shouse Dr. and Mrs. George T. Shybut Mr. and Mrs. Irwin B. Simon Mr. Richard I. Sininger Roger and Margaret Smith Mr. and Mrs. Ethan B. Stanley II Dr. and Mrs. Howard Starnbach Mr. and Mrs. William Steenken Mr. Frank Stenger Amy Stier and Jef Brown Ms. Tricia Suit and Mr. Eric Appleby Sullivan Memorial Fund Ms. Mary Reis Sullivan Miss Janis A. Sutton Dr. John Tan Dr. Alan and Shelley Tarshis Mr. and Mrs. G. Adrian Thompson Mr. Tony Tiemeyer and Mr. Kevin Bertke Dick and Jane Tuten Mr. Andrew Vansickle Stephan Weigle and Carol Turni Mr. and Mrs. Curt Wilhelm Ms. Candice Young

DEVELOPER ($300 to $749)

Anonymous Mrs. Robert B. Adams Mr. and Mrs. Henry G. Alexander, Jr. Paul and Margie Anderson Mr. and Mrs. Louis A. Andrews, Jr. Dr. Richard S. Sarason and Anne S. Arenstein Dr. Diane Babcock Mr. and Mrs. Thomas W. Bankston Mr. and Mrs. Peter S. Barrett Mr. and Mrs. William D. Baskett III

Ms. Judy A. Bean Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Bedree Julie and Matt Bergantino Mrs. Oliver W. Birckhead Mr. Gary Booth Mr. and Mrs. James J. Brady Mr. David Brashear Mr. Charles G. Bretz, Jr. Ms. Betsi Brockmeier Mrs. Rebecca S. Brown Donald L. and Kathleen F. Burns

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Mr. and Mrs. William R. Butler Mr. and Mrs. Lee A. Carter Mr. and Mrs. David O. Cawdrey Mrs. Carole Charleville Ms. Stefanie Chavez Mr. Edmund Choi Mr. Randy Cook Mr. Nicholas D’Angelo Mrs. Thomas E. Davidson Mr. Stephen DeHoff Ms. Joanna Doerner

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Mr. and Mrs. Bob Driehaus Olga G. Duarte, M.D. Ms. Joyce Elkus Mr. David C. Fannin James and Mary Day Fewlass Ms. Janice Flanagan and Mr. Robert E. Amott, Jr. Dr. Todd Florin and Mrs. Kemper Florin Mr. and Mrs. Edward Foss Mrs. Carol S. Friel Dr. Sheila C. Gelman and Dr. David Greenblatt Dr. and Mrs. Richard W. Goetz Ms. Jeanne Golliher and Mr. Greg Badger Teddy Gumbleton Ms. Joselyn Hall Mr. and Mrs. Howard E. Hamilton Mr. and Mrs. Carl Harcourt Mr. Jeff Harris Mr. Thomas C. Hase Dr. and Mrs. Martin W. Haskell Mr. and Mrs. Brian Heekin

Mr. Roger D. Hickman Ms. Emily M. Hodges Mr. and Mrs. Henry N. Horne Mr. and Mrs. Matthew W. Hughes Ms. Spencer Ingerson Mr. and Mrs. Thadeus Jaroszewicz Ms. Marlene Johnson Mr. Mace C. Justice Mr. and Mrs. Lorrence T. Kellar Mrs. Zizi Khodadad Rachel Kirley and Joseph Jaquette Ms. Carol L. Kruse Marcus M. Küchle and Annalisa Pappano Mr. Bruce A. Lafferre Mr. and Mrs. Paul R. Lechleiter Ms. Kristan Lenning Paul and Elizabeth Listerman Rev. and Mrs. Damon Lynch, Jr. Mr. Rick Maddux Mr. and Mrs. Edward G. Marks Ms. Vicky Mary Raymond and Madelynn Matlock Mrs. Jack W. McKee

Mrs. James Monroe Mr. John Mor Ms. Annette Navarro Mr. and Mrs. James Neumeister Dr. and Mrs. Hiroshi Nishiyama Marilyn J. and Jack D. Osborn Fund* Dr. Richard and Diane Park Dr. and Mrs. John A. Parlin III Mr. and Mrs. David Peck Mr. and Mrs. Poul D. Pedersen Ms. Marilyn W. Peters Mr. and Mrs. Charles Pettengill Mr. and Mrs. Daniel A. Pfau Dr. Beatriz Porras and Dr. Alberto Reyes Mr. and Mrs. Michael Porte Mr. and Mrs. Stuart Pray Minister Scott Provancher and Ms. Teresa Hoelle Mr. Nicholas W. Puncer Mr. and Mrs. Daniel P. Randolph Johnna Reeder and Kurt Kleymeyer Dr. and Mrs. Robert C. Rhoad Ms. Gale Z. Roberts

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DEVELOPER CONT’D ($300 to $749)

Lauri and Scott Robertson, RCF Group Mr. and Mrs. Jim Robinson Mr. John and Beau Rootring Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Rosenberg Mr. Marshall Ruchman and Mrs. Judith Aronoff Mr. and Mrs. Clarence P. Sampson Mr. Phillip Saunders Ms. Janet Schultz Mrs. Dorothy J. Sciarra Jeffrey Seaman

Mrs. William R. Seaman Dr. Ted Shlechter and Rae Shlechter Mr. and Mrs. Matt Singleton Mr. and Mrs. Richard Snyder Mr. and Mrs. Phillip M. Sparkes Sandra and Henry Spitz Mr. and Mrs. Richard R. Sprigg Dr. and Mrs. Theodore W. Striker Mr. and Mrs. William Strubbe Mr. and Mrs. Jeff Syroney Dr. Sally Taylor Mr. and Mrs. Scott Telford

Mr. and Mrs. Carlos R. Teran Mr. and Mrs. Thomas E. Torre Mr. Edward Trach Mrs. Marcella G. Trice Mr. and Mrs. Richard C. Ursillo Kimberly Valz Mr. and Mrs. Julian van Winkle Mr. Wayne Villanueva Robert J. Watkins and Helen P. Watkins Mrs. Susan Windgassen John M. Yacher

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Cincinnati Opera extends a special thank-you to donors who made first-time gifts this season.

Anonymous (2) Ms. Vicky Aronoff Ms. Patricia L. Bell Amar Bhati Mr. Gordon Bogdan Ms. Kelly Bollinger Dr. David W. Brounley, M.D. Kaiser Permanente, BDM Mr. John Castaldi Mr. Nicholas D’Angelo Dr. and Mrs. Rank O. Dawson Ms. Jennifer DiBenedetto Albert C. Dierckes DHL Entertainment, Inc. dba 333Seat.com Ms. Mary Donaldson Ms. Sharon Downing Mr. William Eckerle Ms. Marylynn Eggleston Mr. David C. Fannin Mr. and Mrs. Edward Foss Mr. Conrad Foster Mr. Michael Freeman Mr. and Mrs. William R. Fridley, Jr. Ms. Beverly M. Ghesquiere Mr. Gary Gibson Ms. Elizabeth Goldstein Mr. Joseph Granim Mrs. Gerrard Gumbleton Awatef Hamed Dr. and Mrs. Martin W. Haskell Charlene Hatton

Mr. and Mrs. Paul M. Hendrick Miss Seanna Howard Ms. Janet Ignatius Mr. Jeffrey S. Ignatius Mr. and Mrs. Tim G. James Ms. Carol Kabel Ms. Barbara Kanter Ms. Ruth Kanter Susie and Gary Kanter Drs. Marcia Kaplan and Michael Privitera Shirley Knasel Ms. Melissa Krasovec David and Christy Knueven Mr. and Mrs. Mark A. Larosa Mr. and Mrs. Charles Lecount Ms. Nancy Lecount Ms. Heidi Leugers Mr. and Mrs. David S. Levine Ms. Lauren Lichenstein Jeffrey Lunden Mrs. Liane W. Lunden Ms. Alycen H. Mansell Mrs. Maralynn Martin Mr. Rod McFaull Ms. Lisa McGee Mr. Fabrizio Meli Mr. John Mor Ms. Martha M. Morrison Todd Muncy Ms. Elizabeth Na Ms. Sandra Nadolsky

THANK YOU!

Every donor is important to our future.

Because of you, over 120,000 people experience an opera performance each year. Thank you for your Contributions from May 16, 2015 to May 15, 2016 partnership and financial support.

Ms. Annette Navarro Ms. Rebecca Nielander Ms. Patricia Nott Ms. Katherine Pace Mr. and Mrs. Don Paulsen Jo Anne and Poul Pedersen Mr. and Mrs. Charles Pettengill Tracey Puthoff Dr. Mark A. Raider and Ms. Miriam Raider-Roth Johnna Reeder and Kurt Kleymeyer Ms. Janie Reynolds Mr. David A. Robertson Mr. John and Beau Rootring Mr. Thomas V. Rosenberger, APR Mr. and Mrs. Robert Ruyf Mr. James Sander Mr. Phillip Saunders Ms. Talitha Schulte Ms. Tasha Schaffner Mr. Frank Stenger Ms. Kristen Swank Ms. Catharin R. Taylor Mr. Tony Tiemeyer and Mr. Kevin Bertke Ms. Gayle Trump Kimberly Valz Mr. Wayne Villanueva Mr. Albert Vontz III Alicia Watson Ms. Joan Weisberg Ms. Gwendolyn Williams

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Long-Term Subscribers Cincinnati Opera is thrilled to recognize the following individuals who have been subscribers with us for many years.

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50 OR MORE YEARS Mr. and Mrs. James R. Adams Barbara and Dick Allen Mary M. Bergstein Glenda and Malcolm Bernstein The Brigham Family Mr. and Mrs. John T. Clark, Jr. Mr. Herbert Colker The Corbett Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Ashley L. Ford

Dr. Roger G. Giesel Mr. and Mrs. Cornelius W. Hauck Mel and John Kuempel Mr. and Mrs. Robert Laufman Mr. J. Michael Meretta Ms. Herta L. Moore Mr. and Mrs. David W. Motch Mr. and Mrs. Michael Porte Mr. and Mrs. Daniel P. Randolph

Sandra L. Riegler, M.D. Mrs. Lois P. Rust Mrs. Dorothy J. Sciarra Mrs. William R. Seaman Mrs. James A. Sexton Mr. and Mrs. William Sontag Maria K. Tuskan, M.D. Mr. and Mrs. Dieter van der Bent

45 TO 49 YEARS Mrs. Abraham S. Braude Ms. Evelyn Brod Donald L. and Kathleen F. Burns Mr. and Mrs. Albert C. Dierckes, Jr. Mrs. Vivian A. Dobur Mr. and Mrs. David Donnett

Mr. and Mrs. James T. Fitzgerald Mr. William Hackman Mr. Douglas Kennedy Drs. Lawrence and Joan Linder Mr. Carl G. Marquette, Jr. The Meister Family

Ms. Mary Ellen O’Connor Edward B. Silberstein, M.D., and Jacqueline M. Mack Dr. and Mrs. John M. Tew, Jr. Mrs. Joanne W. Veith

40 TO 44 YEARS Mrs. Martha G. Anness Ms. Mary Lou Aufmann Ms. Henrietta Barlag Mr. Michael A. Battersby Dorothy Anne Blatt Mr. David Brashear Clark, Schaefer, Hackett & Co. Mr. and Mrs. John Cornwell Dr. Peter G. Courlas Mr. and Mrs. J. Edgar Cox Mrs. Sue B. Doan Mr. and Mrs. Edwin L. Drill Mrs. Robert C. Duncan Dr. and Mrs. Philip Edlin Ann Ellison Ms. Gael T. Fischer Mrs. Charles Fleischmann III Mr. Louis F. Gastright, Jr. Mr. William R. Geiler, Jr., and Mrs. Nancy Geiler Ms. Lois Ann Gribler

Mrs. Robert J. Hasl Dr. Henry J. Heimlich Mr. William A. Herring Mr. and Mrs. Marshall C. Hunt, Jr. Dr. Murray S. Jaffe Ms. Marlene Johnson Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence H. Kyte, Jr. Mr. Barry Lapidus Mr. and Mrs. David C. Lundgren Mr. William S. Magnus Mr. Kenneth E. Mayer Mr. and Mrs. Issam Minkarah Mr. and Mrs. Thomas L. Neyer, Sr. Marilyn Z. Ott Mr. Charles Perin Mr. Robert W. Peterson and Mr. William S. Filbrun Mrs. George Rieveschl, Jr. Erich and Rita Ringel Dr. G. James and Ruthann Sammarco

Ann and Harry Santen Mrs. Charles Schulenberg Mrs. Zell J. Schulman Ms. Janet Schultz Jeffrey Seaman Mr. Richard I. Sininger Mrs. Elaine Spagnolo Mr. Robert J. Spitznagel Mrs. Lois Staubitz Mr. and Mrs. Phillip A. Stephenson Mr. and Mrs. Richard F. Stradling, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Stuart Susskind Mr. Robert Patton Swaim Mrs. Carol S. Thaman Mrs. N. Beverley Tucker Dick and Jane Tuten Mr. Wayne E. Vincent Mr. Michael L. Walton Mr. and Mrs. Frank Ward Mrs. Andrea K. Wiot Dr. and Mrs. Foster Wygant

35 TO 39 YEARS Paule S. Asch, Ph.D. Ms. Mary Auer

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Mr. Michael R. Bachmann and Ms. Mary Combs

35 TO 39 YEARS CONT’D Dr. and Mrs. James P. Baden Mr. Donald Beck and Lawrence E. Eynon, M.D. Drs. David and Elaine Billmire Mr. Vincent Bolling, Jr. Mr. Neil Bortz Mr. and Mrs. James J. Brady Jim Bridgeland Mrs. Albert Brinn A.K. and Gibby Carey Arthur B. Casper Mr. and Mrs. Gerald J. Cavanaugh Mr. and Mrs. Louis D. Chabut Mr. and Mrs. William Chang Ms. Diane Danemayer Mr. and Mrs. Richard Dyson Dr. and Mrs. Paul Esposito Dr. and Mrs. William J. Faulkner Ms. Dorothy Ann Feldis Dr. and Mrs. Harry F. Fry Mr. and Mrs. Robert F. Fudge Dr. and Mrs. Ralph A. Giannella Dr. George I. Colombel and Mr. William J. Hahn

Mr. and Mrs. Howard E. Hamilton The Honorable and Mrs. Dennis S. Helmick Mr. William Kredentser Mr. and Mrs. Gary P. Kreider Mr. and Mrs. Edward C. Larkin Mr. and Mrs. Richard Laskey Mrs. John Lawrence, Jr. Ms. Dolly Levine Mrs. Marion F. Levy Ms. Catherine A. McGraw Mr. and Mrs. John J. McLaughlin Ms. Marianne Meyers Dr. and Mrs. Joseph J. Moravec Ms. Suzanne Morrissey Mr. and Mrs. Richard H. Neergaard Dr. and Mrs. Hiroshi Nishiyama Ms. Rosemary Novelli Dr. and Mrs. John A. Parlin III Ms. Janet W. Prewitt Dr. Joan F. Reckseit Mr. and Mrs. David Reichert Mr. Robert Reid

Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Rice, Jr. Edward and Nancy Rosenthal Ms. Jeanette Rost James Rubenstein and Bernadette Unger Mr. Richard M. Sacksteder and Mr. Victor J. Canfield Mr. and Mrs. Eugene L. Saenger, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Segal Mrs. Kurt Seybold Dr. and Mrs. John C. Sherman Mr. and Mrs. William Strubbe Dr. Sally Taylor Mr. and Mrs. Charles L. Thomas, Jr. Miss Arlene A. Thorwarth Nydia C. Tranter Nancy F. Walker Ms. Karen Webb Dr. Scottie Weiss Mr. Charles L. Wilhelm Jim and Esther Wright Mr. and Mrs. John M. Zoller

30 TO 34 YEARS Mr. and Mrs. Edward C. Bavaria Patricia K. and James D. Beggs Lois and Joseph Brenner Mrs. Carole Charleville Mr. and Mrs. Jack Chartock Cincinnati Financial Corp.

Nancy R. Clagett Mr. and Mrs. John P. Cover Mr. Kingston Fletcher Mr. and Mrs. Marshall Garrison Mr. and Mrs. Park W. Gast Mr. and Mrs. Michael Gerson Mrs. Kenneth M. Gettelman Dr. Donald W. Good Ms. Deborah R. Grayson Irmgard and Horst Hehmann

Mr. Robert Roesbery and Ms. Nancy Helwig Mr. and Mrs. Robert F. Holzwarth John and Mary Ellyn Hutton Mr. Isaiah Hyman, Jr. Mrs. Patricia L. Jones Dr. and Mrs. Charles Kuntz Mr. and Mrs. David Lemmon Mr. and Mrs. Donald Lichtenberger Ms. Vicky Mary Dr. and Mrs. James J. Nordlund Mrs. Lilián Estévez de Pagani Ms. Mary L. Reardon Mr. and Mrs. Donald H. Rolf Ms. Susan S. Schmidt Mr. and Mrs. James E. Schwab

Mr. and Mrs. William T. Sena, Sr. Mr. and Mrs. Stanley A. Shulman Mr. Michael Slupski and Dr. Barbara Grajewski Mr. Andrew D. Smith Mr. and Mrs. Ethan B. Stanley II Mr. Norman J. Thomas Mrs. J.S. Thornton Dr. Raymond J. Timmerman Mrs. Marcella G. Trice Ellen and Ray van der Horst Mrs. John R. VanWye Mr. Arnold Wasserman Mr. and Mrs. Donald C. Wellington Mr. Edward Jay Wohlgemuth Ms. Susan Wulsin

25 TO 29 YEARS Barbara Aberlin Emmit F. Ackdoe, M.D. Ms. Sandy Adams Mr. John F. Baer Mr. and Mrs. St. John Bain Dr. and Mrs. Jeffrey T. Baker Dr. Alfred J. Berger Charlin and Peter Briggs Mrs. Cherylann D. Brinkman Mrs. Rebecca S. Brown Mr. J. Robert Chambers Geraldine V. Chavez

Mr. Nicholas P. Ciafardini Sheila and Christopher Cole Dr. Alvin H. and Alva Jean Crawford Mr. and Mrs. George Croog Mr. and Mrs. Joseph E. Dolfini Mr. and Mrs. Robert J. Dudero Mr. and Mrs. Jack Edelman Ms. Phyllis Tattershall England Dr. David and Mrs. Jill Fankhauser Dr. James D. Faulkner

Ms. Alice Fegelman and Dr. Leo H. Munick Ms. Donna Foust Mr. Ewin Gaby Mr. and Mrs. Michael F. Gehrig Dr. Sheila C. Gelman and Dr. David Greenblatt Dr. Fredrick Gensler Mr. and Mrs. Frederick R. Good Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Goodman Judge Robert H. Gorman

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25 TO 29 YEARS CONT’D Mr. Gerald S. Greenberg and Ms. Pamela Meyers Dr. and Mrs. Jack A. Hahn Mrs. Frederick Haffner Ms. Betty Harris Dr. and Mrs. Morton L. Harshman Mrs. Robert F. Hartkemeier Mr. Roger D. Hickman Don Hoffman Mr. and Mrs. Henry N. Horne Mrs. James Hsu Mr. and Mrs. W.M. James Dr. and Mrs. Timothy E. Johnson Mr. and Mrs. Charles A. Johnston Ms. Brenda Jones Mr. and Mrs. Alex Keller Mr. and Mrs. William G. Kief Mr. Daryl E. Koebcke Mr. Patrick M. Korb Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth P. Kreider Mr. and Mrs. Arthur T. Kupferle Evelyn and Fred Lang Richard and Susan Lauf Dr. and Mrs. Howard Leftwich

Mrs. Linda Linker Adele and Thomas Lippert Eric D. Louden Mr. Brent Manley Mrs. Jane Master Mr. and Mrs. Don Maxwell Mr. and Mrs. James E. McCue Mr. George E. Menges Jim and Linda Miller Mr. and Mrs. R. William Mischler Mr. and Mrs. William P. Moore Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Morton Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Mouch Mr. and Mrs. Christopher Mystkowski Robert and Carol Olson Dr. and Mrs. Alter G. Peerless Mr. and Mrs. Joseph A. Pichler Mr. and Mrs. Philip Remmel Mr. William Renwick Reverend David Robisch Dr. Elaine Y. Rosin Mr. Joseph Schoettmer Mr. and Mrs. Henry L. Schulhoff Mr. and Mrs. Michael C. Schwartz

Mrs. David Schwieterman Dr. and Mrs. George T. Shybut Mr. and Mrs. Murray Sinclaire, Jr. Gerald and Sarah Skidmore Dr. and Mrs. Henry B. Spitz Dr. and Mrs. Howard Starnbach Dr. Judith K. Stein and Mr. Steven N. Stein Brett Stover Mr. and Mrs. John Striker Dr. and Mrs. Theodore W. Striker Ms. Bernadette Tallarico Beverly Tonkens-VanGrov and Sherman VanGrov Ginger and David Warner Robert J. Watkins and Helen P. Watkins Dr. and Mrs. Stephen P. Whitlatch Fr. Barry Windholtz Mrs. Henry R. Winkler Judge and Mrs. William H. Wolff, Jr. John M. Yacher Mrs. Karen Zollett

20 TO 24 YEARS Dr. and Mrs. Khosrow Alamin Mr. and Mrs. Louis A. Andrews, Jr. Gary J. Anglin William and Eve Appleton Reverend Christopher R. Armstrong Mr. and Mrs. Thomas W. Bankston Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Baumann Drs. Thomas and Barbara Boat Mr. and Mrs. Robert W. Boden Mr. and Mrs. David Brewer Dr. Walter Bruyninckx and Dr. Anne-Marie B. Blancquaert Mr. James D. Carr and Ms. Jane Wakerman Miss Norma L. Clark Cathy and Tom Crain Mrs. Jodelle S. Crosset Ms. Patricia Culley Mr. Daniel B. and Dr. Margaret G. Cunningham Mr. Stephen Dana Dr. and Mrs. Stewart B. Dunsker Leslie R. Dye, M.D. Harry and Linda Fath Mr. Carl R. Fiora Mr. Richard Freudenberger Mr. Richard D. Gegner Janelle and Michael Gelfand Mr. R. McDonald Gray Dr. Ralph A. Gruppo Ms. Kathleen M. Hammons Mr. and Mrs. Carl Harcourt

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Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin D. Heard Mr. and Mrs. David C. Horn The Honorable Nathaniel Jones Ms. Marlene Kessler Mrs. Mary Anne Kingery Mr. Peter E. Koenig and Ms. Lucy Hodgson Mr. and Mrs. Jesse P. Lang Mrs. Gail Lennig Dr. Jennifer M.H. Loggie Al and Mary J. López Joanie and Bill Lotts Luke and Neta Lovell Ms. Kathryn Maier Mr. and Mrs. Edward G. Marks Dr. William J. Martin III and Mrs. Joyce Martin, J.D. Raymond and Madelynn Matlock Dr. and Mrs. Frank McWilliams Mr. and Mrs. Lon Mendelsohn Mrs. Ivan S. Misrach Ms. Valerie Newell and Mr. Timothy Smith Northlich Mr. and Mrs. Fred Norton Mr. and Mrs. Neil O’Connor Mr. and Mrs. John T. Osterman Mr. Charles Parsons Mr. John T. Price Ms. Maria Ransdell Mr. Joseph Raterman Mr. and Mrs. Paul S. Reid Mrs. Melody Sawyer Richardson

Dr. and Mrs. Donald K. Riker Mr. and Mrs. Jim Robinson Ms. Sandra Sayers Ms. Lauren Scharf Ann and Jerry Schoen Kenneth C. Schonberg and Deborah Schultz Mr. John T. Schreiber and Ms. Claire E. Fessler Dr. and Mrs. Carl M. Sedacca Mr. and Mrs. Larry A. Sheakley Ms. Sarah Shell Mr. Arthur Shone Dr. and Mrs. Stuart Silverman Dr. Roger and Margaret Smith Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth C. Sommerfield Ms. Lois C. Spahn James Stapleton and Dr. Elizabeth Shaughnessy Mr. and Mrs. William Steenken Mrs. Paul A. Succop Mrs. Robert D. Swanson Mr. and Mrs. Peter Szucs Mr. Garry Terrell and Ms. Rebecca Terrell Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence J. Uhlenbrock Mr. and Mrs. Irwin Weinberg Anne M. Werner Dr. and Mrs. James B. Willis Shelby O. Wood Dr. Richard Young

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Ravel: Piano Concerto in G Major (CCO Premiere)

Piazzolla, arr. Desyatnikov: The Four Seasons of Buenos Aires

Ravel: Mother Goose Suite

SAXOPHONE FUSION August 27 | 8pm Saturday Milhaud: La Création du Monde, Op. 81a James Carter saxophone

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Beethoven: Symphony No. 7 in A Major, Op. 92 (CCO Premiere)

SONIC ODYSSEY September 1 | 8pm Thursday Copland: Appalachian Spring Suite Saint-Saëns: Cello Concerto No. 1 Joshua Roman in A Minor, Op. 33 cello Mozart: Symphony No. 31 in D Major, K. 297/300a (“Paris”)

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Corbett Opera Fusion Opera Fusion: New Works Photo by JILL STEINBERG

The Development of New Works

Cincinnati Opera commissioned the world premiere of Fellow Travelers after the opera was workshopped through Opera Fusion: New Works in 2013. In March 2016, Cincinnati Opera presented excerpts from Fellow Travelers at National Sawdust in Brooklyn. Above, the cast and creative team take a bow at National Sawdust.

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incinnati Opera is extremely grateful to The Corbett Foundation and The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for helping us fund Corbett Opera Fusion and Opera Fusion: New Works. These collaborative programs between Cincinnati Opera and the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music have become nationally recognized for creating new American operatic repertoire and developing the next generation of talented artists.

Since 2011, Opera Fusion: New Works has developed seven new American operas: Doubt, Champion, Morning Star, Fellow Travelers, Great Scott, Meet John Doe, and Shalimar the Clown. Four of these operas have already premiered at major

U.S. companies, including Cincinnati; two of the remaining three operas will premiere in the summer of 2016: Fellow Travelers in Cincinnati and Shalimar the Clown in St. Louis. Opera Fusion: New Works continues in 2017 with a new partner: The Metropolitan Opera in New York City, with their new commission Intimate Apparel.

Over the years, Opera Fusion: New Works has attracted national press coverage. Since the presentation of excerpts from the highly anticipated Fellow Travelers at the Brooklyn venue National Sawdust in March 2016, the story of this new opera has made it around the world, beginning with The Daily Mail (UK).

2015–2016 Corbett Opera Fusion and Opera Fusion: New Works Participants Tyler Alessi Pedro Arroyo Brianna Bragg Claire Jagla Skye Cone Kayleigh Decker Eleni Franck

Levi Hammer Alexander Harper Eric Shane Heatley John Humphrey Chandler Johnson Jacob Kincaide Blake Lampton

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From the Guild President A warm Cincinnati Opera Guild welcome for the 2016 Season! Guild members have enthusiastically provided volunteer support and served as community ambassadors for Cincinnati Opera for more than 55 years.

During the year, our members enjoy monthly meetings featuring speakers and programs about the upcoming season and the arts in Cincinnati. At the beginning of the season, we welcome each new production’s artists and crew with our famous “Meet and Greet” brunches. The Guild provides volunteer support at Opera Raps Sarajane King and Outbound community programs. In fact, at almost any of Cincinnati Opera’s events you will find Guild members volunteering in some way. We also gather socially for happy hours, fundraising events, and more. The Guild provides the opportunity to meet others who share your passion for grand opera!

We invite you to find out more about the Guild and perhaps join us as part of the Cincinnati Opera family.

Guild information is available on the Cincinnati Opera website, or call Kemper Florin at (513) 768-5513 to learn more.

Enjoy the season!

Sarajane King President, Cincinnati Opera Guild

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Cincinnati Opera Guild Board The Cincinnati Opera Guild is an organization of committed volunteers who are dedicated to supporting the Opera. For over half a century, their activities have promoted awareness, generated public interest in the company, and deepened understanding of the art form. They bring many forms of expertise to advance the organization, especially education and outreach. Their support is essential to a vast array of ongoing activities and events, and they are among the Opera’s most enthusiastic ambassadors in Greater Cincinnati.

Officers President Sarajane King+ Chairman Eleanor C. Minkarah (H)* President-Elect Virginia K. Cover+ Secretary Karlee Hilliard Katja Lundgren

Social and Fundraising Co-Chairs Hengameh Nassef Beverly Oyler

Meetings Co-Chairs Lois Brenner+ Virginia K. Cover+ Meet and Greet Co-Chairs Adele Lippert Eleanor C. Minkarah (H)*

Outbound Chair Marilyn Z. Ott+ Membership Co-Chairs Julie Alamin+ Marlene Johnson+

On the Road Al López

Karlee Hilliard Emily M. Hodges Edita Hoffman Marlene Johnson+ Magdalena Kerschner Mel Hofmann Keumpel (H)*+ Zizi Khodadad Jennifer Kinnen (H) Sarajane King+ Bo-Kyung Kirby Betty Klinedinst Patrick Korb (H)*+° Renu Kotwal Elizabeth Kuresman (H)*+ Bruce Lafferre Lorrie Laskey (H)* Richard Lauf (H)* Adele Lippert Erin Lombardi Al López Joanie Lotts (H)+ Sally Lund Katja Lundgren Vicky Mary Taylor McCallum Kelly McConnell Janet McDaniel Louise McDermott

Ruth McDevitt (H)*+ Mary Alice° and Sherwood W. McIntire° Eleanor C. Minkarah* Patty Misrach Sue A. Mouch (H) Lawrence Mouch (H) Hengameh Nassef Christine Neyer+ Tom Osterman (H)+* Marilyn Ott+ Marchelle° and O’Dell M. Owens° Beverly Oyler Lilian Pagani° Isabelle Paul° Daniel C. Rebhun (H)*+ Aileen B. Reinstatler (H)* Ed Requardt Gale Roberts Carol A. Rogers (H) Solveiga Rush+ Lois P. Rust Ellen Saenger Ruthann (H)*+° and G. James Sammarco° Mr. and Mrs. Robert F. Schmidt°

Honorary Chair Suzanne Hasl (H)*+° Member at Large Ellen Saenger Newsletter Editor Betsi Brockmeier

Members Christine Adams Julie Alamin+ Jennifer M. Allen* Anne Arenstein Paule Asch Scott Atkinson (H)+ Barbara Bardes Helene Sullivan Bentley Mr. Alfred Berger, Jr.° Mary M. Bergstein (H) Lois Brenner+ Charles Bretz Cherylann Brinkman* Betsi Brockmeier Nicholas P. Ciafardini (H)+° Nancy Clagett Virginia K. Cover+ Sonia Daoud James de Blasis° Claire E. Dierckes (H)* Joanna Doerner Jocelyn C. Dunphy (H)*+ Christopher D. Edwards (H)+ Marlesa A. Gray (H)* Barbara S. Hahn (H)+ Barbara Harshman+ Suzanne Hasl (H)*+° Julie Grady Heard (H)*+

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Norma Schoenberger° Charles R. Schuler° Martha S. Seaman (H)* Trudie Seybold (H) Dale Shafer+ Joseph B. Shirley° Richard Sininger Margaret Smith+ Eric Söderlund Nancy° and Jeffrey Stambough° Barbara° and Joseph Stegmaier° Kim Strubbe Janet° and Paul A. Stuhlreyer III° Judy Thompson Janet Todd° Beverly Tonkens-VanGrov (H)+ Nydia Tranter+ Carol Turni Nancy Virgulak Jeannine Winkelmann (H)* Elizabeth Wohlgemuth° Andrea Wiot Catherine Wolters (H)+ Shelby Wood+

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Celebrations and Honorariums During the last year, many individuals have made contributions to Cincinnati Opera in honor or celebration of friends and family members. Cincinnati Opera is grateful for these thoughtful gifts.

In honor of Patty Beggs Anonymous Mr. and Mrs. John P. Cover Mr. and Mrs. Edward G. Marks Chris and Molly Milligan

In honor of Julia Meister Tracey Puthoff

In honor of Patty Beggs’s 30th Anniversary at Cincinnati Opera Dr. G. James and Ruthann Sammarco

In honor of Ohio National’s Board Members and CEO Group Gary “Doc” and Milly Huffman

In honor of Patty Beggs’s birthday Darlene Zoz In honor of Patty Beggs’s Woman of the Year Award Mr. and Mrs. Peter A. Alpaugh Dr. and Mrs. Jack A. Hahn Zell Schulman Dr. and Mrs. James B. Willis In honor of Dabby Blatt’s 80th birthday Dr. and Mrs. Jack A. Hahn In honor of Cathy Crain Anonymous In honor of the Cincinnati Opera Staff Anonymous Mr. and Mrs. John P. Cover In honor of Olga Duarte Anonymous The Heidt Family Foundation In honor of Don Hoffman The Osha Family In honor of Doug Ignatius and Bruce Preston’s wedding Mr. John Castaldi Ms. Janet Ignatius Mr. Jeffrey S. Ignatius Mr. Jim Obergefell Ms. Catharin R. Taylor In honor of Sherie Marek and her family Dr. and Mrs. Jack A. Hahn Dr. and Mrs. James B. Willis

Contributions from May 16, 2015 to May 15, 2016

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In honor of Evans Mirageas Mr. Richard Lesueur

In honor of the Opera Express Truck Team Anonymous In honor of Bernhard Schiefer Mr. and Mrs. Charles Pettengill In honor of Murray Sinclaire, Jr. Artworks Staff and Trustees Kathy Patchel and Boris Auerbach Patricia K. and James D. Beggs Drs. David and Elaine Billmire Dorothy Anne Blatt Marlene and Robert Boden Neil Bortz, Towne Properties Charlin and Peter Briggs Mary and Joseph Brinkmeyer The Otto M. Budig Family Foundation Sue and Bill Butler Cassady Schiller and Associates, Inc. Melanie M. Chavez and Jeremy S. Campbell Cincinnati Opera Staff Sheila and Christopher Cole Peter G. Courlas Cathy and Tom Crain Leslie and James T. Fitzgerald Jeanne Golliher and Greg Badger Madeleine H. Gordon Liz Grubow and Jerry Kathman Dr. and Mrs. Jack A. Hahn Mrs. Robert Hasl Helen and Brian Heekin Donald E. Hoffman Michelle and Kevin Jones Karl and Kris Kalnow Beverly and Jim Kennedy Mona and Richard Kerstine, M.D.

Pamela and Timothy Kimmel Lucy Hodgson and Peter Koenig Patrick M. Korb Susan and Richard Lauf, Ph.D. Fred A. Macke, Jr. Candyse L. Jeffries, D.M.D., and Michael A. Marrero Kathy and Jon McCann Kerry McManus, Invisible Fence Evans Mirageas and Thomas Dreeze Carol and Robert Olson Jan and David Peck Jan and Wym Portman Teresa Hoelle and Scott Provancher Maribeth and Martin Rahe Harry M. Reed II Johnna Reeder and Kurt Kleymeyer Lauri and Scott Robertson, RCF Group Pamela Spangler Reis and Richard Reis Margaret and Roger Smith Litsa and Van Spanos, Art Design Consultants Susan and John M. Tew, Jr., M.D. Thompson Hine, LLP Catharina Toltzis, Ph.D., and Robert Toltzis, M.D. Sneja H. Tomassian Ellen and Ray van der Horst Patti and Mike Veroni Richard Weiland Tom Williams, North American Properties Dr. and Mrs. James B. Willis In honor of Mary Sullivan Mr. and Mrs. Daniel A. Pfau In honor of Sneja Tomassian Mr. and Mrs. Edward G. Marks In honor of the Music Hall Ushers at the handicapped door Albert C. Dierckes

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In Memoriam During the last year, many individuals have made contributions to Cincinnati Opera in memory of friends and family members. Cincinnati Opera is grateful for these thoughtful gifts.

In memory of Abdolvahab Banani Olga G. Duarte, M.D. In memory of Dorothea Barnes Mr. and Mrs. Albert C. Dierckes, Jr. In memory of John Battistone Patricia K. and James D. Beggs In memory of Denise Colbert Gayle Trump In memory of Betty Colker Anonymous Patricia K. and James D. Beggs Kaiser Permanente, BDM Ms. Barbara Kanter Ms. Ruth Kanter Susie and Gary Kanter Ms. Joan Weisberg In memory of Dr. Robert Hasl Dr. and Mrs. Khosrow Alamin Mr. and Mrs. Peter A. Alpaugh David and Christy Knueven Dr. Richard S. Sarason and Anne S. Arenstein Lauren Bailey Mr. and Mrs. Thomas W. Bankston Patricia K. and James D. Beggs Julie and Matt Bergantino Drs. David and Elaine Billmire Dorothy Anne Blatt Lois and Joseph Brenner Mary and Joe Brinkmeyer Mr. and Mrs. Frederick E. Bryan III Arthur B. Casper Cincinnati Opera Guild Mrs. Jackson L. Clagett III Mr. and Mrs. John P. Cover Cathy and Tom Crain Mr. and Mrs. John S. Curtiss Dr. and Mrs. Rank O. Dawson Michelle Devine and Brian Mahany Mr. and Mrs. Bob Driehaus Olga G. Duarte, M.D. Mr. William Eckerle Mr. John Eddins Ms. Marylynn Eggleston Ms. Marjorie Fox

Contributions from May 16, 2015 to May 15, 2016

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Mrs. Carol S. Friel Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Ganote Janelle Gelfand Dr. and Mrs. Richard W. Goetz Valeria and Frederick R. Good Teddy Gumbleton Dr. and Mrs. Jack A. Hahn Dr. and Mrs. Morton L. Harshman Charlene Hatton Julie Grady Heard and Benjamin Heard Mr. and Mrs. Paul M. Hendrick Ms. Karlee L. Hilliard Mr. and Mrs. Tim G. James Johnson Investment Counsel Sarajane and Richard King Bo-Kyung and Kevin Kirby Patrick M. Korb Mel and John Kuempel Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence H. Kyte, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Mark A. Larosa Mr. and Mrs. Charles Lecount Ms. Nancy Lecount Adele and Thomas Lippert The McCarty Family Ms. Julia B. Meister Mr. and Mrs. John Meyer Chris and Molly Milligan Mr. Evans J. Mirageas and Mr. Thomas M. Dreeze Dr. and Mrs. Joseph J. Moravec Richard H. Morris, M.D., and Carol Morris Ms. Sandra Nadolsky Mr. John Fox and Ms. Kathryn Neus Robert and Carol Olson Marilyn Z. Ott Dr. Dillon and Bev Rhodenbaugh Edward and Nancy Rosenthal Ross, Sinclaire & Associates, LLC Mr. Jack and Dr. Morleen Rouse Mr. and Mrs. Robert Ruyf Dr. G. James and Ruthann Sammarco Zell Schulman Mr. and Mrs. James Scott Edward B. Silberstein, M.D., and Jacqueline M. Mack

Murray and Robin Sinclaire Society of Bacchus Cincinnati Chapter Mr. and Mrs. Paul Staubitz Mr. and Mrs. Mark Stedtefeld Sneja and Raffi Tomassian Ashley Tongret Ellen and Ray van der Horst Mike and Patti Veroni Mr. Albert Vontz III Anne and Allen Zaring III In memory of Vernita Henderson Patricia K. and James D. Beggs Ashley Tongret Tracy L. Wilson In memory of Donna Hoffman, in support of the Artist Scholarship Fund Patricia K. and James D. Beggs Sneja and Raffi Tomassian In memory of Dr. Charles Kuntz IV, in support of the Artist Scholarship Fund Anonymous Patricia K. and James D. Beggs Dr. and Mrs. Charles Kuntz Cindy Starr UC Department of Neurosurgery In Memory of Carol McIntosh Patricia K. and James D. Beggs In memory of Jack McKee Anonymous Patricia K. and James D. Beggs Lois and Joseph Brenner Cincinnati Opera Guild Mr. and Mrs. John P. Cover Mrs. Robert J. Hasl Sarajane and Richard King Adele and Thomas Lippert Marilyn Z. Ott Ashley Tongret In memory of Les McVey Jeffrey Lunden Mrs. Liane W. Lunden

In memory of Daniel J. Robb Mrs. Barbara L. Robb

Helen Grob Dr. and Mrs. Jack A. Hahn Shirley Knasel Mr. and Mrs. David S. Levine Dr. Mark A. Raider and Ms. Miriam Raider-Roth Mr. Thomas V. Rosenberger, APR Cindy Starr Sneja and Raffi Tomassian Ashley Tongret UC Department of Neurosurgery UC Health Mike and Patti Veroni

In memory of John Sawyer Dr. and Mrs. Khosrow Alamin

In memory of Mary Lou Sutton Janis A. Sutton

In memory of Beryl Merritt Ms. Vicky Aronoff Mr. Gordon Bogdan Mrs. Beryl Merritt In memory of William D. Meyer The Estate of Mary Meyer In memory of Glenn LaRue Plott Patricia K. and James D. Beggs

In memory of William Starr, in support of the Artist Scholarship Fund Patricia K. and James D. Beggs Ms. Patricia L. Bell Ms. Kelly Bollinger Mr. and Mrs. John P. Cover Cathy and Tom Crain Mr. Conrad Foster Dr. and Mrs. Rodney P. Geier Ms. Beverly M. Ghesquiere Ren and Denise Gregg

In memory of Ladonna Venanzi 2014 Season Cincinnati Opera Chorus 2014 Season Stage Management Staff

In memory of Phyllis Weston Anonymous Patricia K. and James D. Beggs Dorothy Anne Blatt Mr. and Mrs. Lee A. Carter Mr. and Mrs. A. Burton Closson, Jr. The Cobey Family Cathy and Tom Crain Ms. Elizabeth Goldstein Dr. and Mrs. Jack A. Hahn Mr. Daniel J. Hoffheimer Ms. Carol Kabel Chris and Molly Milligan Mr. Evans J. Mirageas and Mr. Thomas M. Dreeze Elizabeth Na Edward B. Silberstein, M.D., and Jacqueline M. Mack Murray and Robin Sinclaire Ellen and Ray van der Horst Mr. and Mrs. Richard Westheimer MJ Weston

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Remembrances As we pause to reflect on the loss of several important members of the Opera family, we invite you to join us in celebrating the many contributions of these extraordinary individuals.

DR. SIMON V. ANDERSON Beloved professor at the University of Cincinnati CollegeConservatory of Music, who taught music and opera appreciation to multiple generations • An accomplished jazz musician and newspaper publisher • Hosted Opera Insights prior to performances in the late 1990s

SANDRA BERNHARD

VERNITA HENDERSON Artist, jewelry-maker, Opera fan, and generous friend • Held court in Music Hall’s lobby during Opera performances, offering her elegant, one-of-a-kind jewelry creations • Advisory Committee member for the Opera’s commissions of Margaret Garner and Rise for Freedom: The John P. Parker Story

Stage director of La Bohème (1999), A Masked Ball (2006), and Don Carlo (2009) • Former J. Ralph Corbett Distinguished Chair of Opera at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music

CHARLES M. JUDD

BETTY COLKER

Member of Opera Guild 2011–2016 • Guild ambassador extraordinaire, tireless volunteer, committed to artist hospitality, and passionate opera fan • Member of the May Festival Chorus

Longtime subscriber, donor, and member of the Society of Angels • Met her husband, Herb, at a Zoo Opera performance 70 years ago • Coordinated countless bus tours from West Virginia to Cincinnati Opera performances

ANNE ELKINS DIDRICHSEN Actress, longtime opera subscriber and donor, and a fixture at performances • Performed in Cincinnati Opera’s production of Roberta in 1986

KENNETH J. FURRIER Educator, Cincinnati arts supporter, longtime Opera subscriber, and Society of Angels member

MARIE F. GALLAGHER Opera subscriber, donor, and longtime volunteer head of the Music Hall tour guides

ROBERT “DR. BOB” HASL, M.D. Member of Opera Association Board 1992–2016 • Chair of Development, Artistic Planning, and Education Committees • Served on Executive and Governance Committees • Member of two Artistic Director search committees • Honored in 2010, along with his wife, Suzanne, for their service to the Opera • Subscriber, donor, Society of Angels member The Opera’s Opening Week Performances are Dedicated to the Memory of Robert J. Hasl, M.D.

“Dr. Bob” Hasl, with his beloved wife Suzanne, occupied the front row at the Opera and the front row of life. He touched thousands through his healing, humor, infinite capacity for kindness, generosity of spirit, boundless energy, thirst for knowledge, and warm embrace of family, friends, and the world.

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Opera lover and a longtime subscriber dating back to the early Zoo Opera days

JACK MCKEE

BERYL MERRITT Longtime subscriber and major donor

WILLIAM A. “BILL” STARR Husband of Opera Board Member Cynthia Starr, who has set up a fund at Cincinnati Opera in his memory • Elegant, kind and learned • His diverse passions included the Reds, Xavier basketball, tennis, good food, his family, and Cincinnati Opera

PHYLLIS J. WESTON Member of Opera Association Board 2005-2015; for six decades, an indefatigable evangelist for Cincinnati Opera • Honored by the Opera in 2013 • One of the founders of Enjoy the Arts • Ran the Closson’s Art Gallery for many years; opened the Phyllis Weston Gallery at age 85 • Unparalleled arts supporter and champion of her adopted home, Cincinnati

The Opera’s Performances of Fidelio are Dedicated to the Memory of Phyllis J. Weston

Phyllis Weston, who has been called the heart and soul of the arts in Cincinnati, left an indelible mark on her adopted city and the world of visual and performing art. She gathered us in her amazing circle of elegance, beauty, and warmth, and inspired us to be the best that we can be.

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Society of Angels THANK YOU Cincinnati Opera acknowledges with deep gratitude the generosity of the following donors who have notified the company of their planned gifts. These legacy gifts ensure Cincinnati Opera’s future excellence and are a lasting tribute to the foresight of the distinguished members of Cincinnati Opera’s Society of Angels.

New Members

Dr. Diane Babcock Estate of Kenneth J. Furrier Barbara Gould Estate of Mary and William Meyer Evans Mirageas and Thomas Dreeze Estate of James T. Peeler Joseph and Susan Pichler Dr. G. James and Ruthann Sammarco Cynthia and William* Starr Estate of Phyllis Weston Anne and Allen Zaring III Members

Anonymous (4) Frank and Janet Andress Scott Atkinson and Christopher D. Edwards Mr. Boris Auerbach Dr. and Mrs. Jeffrey T. Baker Ms. Henrietta Barlag Mr. Albert M. Bary Christopher Baucom Mr. and Mrs. Edward C. Bavaria Patricia K. and James D. Beggs Dorothy Anne Blatt Marlene and Robert Boden Lois and Joseph Brenner Charlin and Peter Briggs Mary and Joe Brinkmeyer A.K. and Gibby Carey Arthur B. Casper Mrs. Jackson L. Clagett III Norma L. Clark Herbert and Betty* Colker Jane Copper-Short and John Short Virginia K. Cover Cathy and Tom Crain Dr. Alvin H. and Alva Jean Crawford Mr. Daniel B. and Dr. Margaret G. Cunningham Mr. Harrison R.T. Davis Harry and Linda Fath Mr. Kingston Fletcher Dr. Donald W. Good Madeleine H. Gordon Marlesa A. Gray Barbara and Jack Hahn, D.D.S.

Dr. and Mrs. Morton L. Harshman Suzanne and Robert* Hasl, M.D. Janet and Cornelius Hauck Hon. and Mrs. Dennis S. Helmick Don and Donna* Hoffman Julia M.F.B. Jackson Dr. and Mrs. Richard Kerstine Sarajane and Richard King Patrick M. Korb Roberta and Jeffrey P. Kuhn Elizabeth and Ken Kuresman Marjorie and Lawrence H. Kyte, Jr. Richard and Susan Lauf Anne and John* Lawrence, Jr. Gail Lennig and Gene Santoro* Adele and Thomas Lippert Joanie D. and William H. Lotts Mr. and Mrs. William F. Lyon Susan Sterrit Meyer Eleanor and Sam Minkarah Gloria and Arnold Morelli Norbert and Linnea Nadel Robert and Carol Olson Marge and Tom Osterman Marilyn Z. Ott Dr. and Mrs. John A. Parlin III Mr. Charles Parsons Nicholas Payne and Cynthia Heinrich Ms. Marilyn W. Peters Doug Ignatius and Bruce Preston Mr. Thomas F. Rehme Ellen and George* Rieveschl Edward and Nancy Rosenthal Solveiga Rush Emalee Schavel Kenneth C. Schonberg and Deborah Schultz Zell Schulman Trudie and Kurt* Seybold Edward B. Silberstein, M.D., and Jacqueline M. Mack Thomas S. Smith Frank Stewart Brett Stover Mr. and Mrs. Paul A. Stuhlreyer III Nydia C. Tranter Dick and Jane Tuten Barbara and Irwin Weinberg Anne M. Werner Jeannine Winkelmann and John Winkelmann, M.D.

Harris W. Wright Dr. Atsuko Yatani Estates

Estate of Mary Elizabeth Andrews Trust Estate of Thomas F. Buck Estate of Ellen K. Burroughs Estate of Thomas W. Busse Estate of Wm. Rowell Chase Estate of Mrs. Marno Christensen Estate of Patricia A. Corbett Estate of Wilma B. Cowley Estate of Miss Emilie T. Curry Estate of Virginia Curry Estate of Mary E. Day Estate of Luba Matiuk Dorman Estate of Ed P. Dundon Estate of Helen T. Ehlers Estate of Miss Natalie Feld Estate of Katherine H. Groll Estate of Mrs. Eleanor Hazelton Estate of Mrs. Jean L. Hermann Estate of Anita Mae Imholt Estate of Dr. Stanley Kaplan Estate of Tailitha P. Kluver Estate of Ruth Koehl Estate of Linda and Samuel Kramer, M.D. Estate of Elizabeth W. Kyte Estate of Elma Lapp Estate of Rosemary R. Longano Estate of Mrs. Richardson McKinney Estate of Bill Nimmo The Louise Dieterle Nippert Trust Estate of Margaret Ohanian Estate of Maurice E. Oshry The Pearlman Charitable Remainder Unitrust Estate of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Roder Estate of Marilyn A. Russley Estate of Joanne T. Santangelo Estate of Anna Jo and William Selnick Estate of Miss Charlotte L. Shockley Estate of Charlotte E. Smith Estate of Carolyn and Fred Strebel Estate of Mrs. Italo Tajo Estate of Dr. and Mrs. Kenneth Wilson Estate of Lura Carnes Wine *Deceased

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Building Family & Community Through Cincinnati Opera

Jim and Ruthann Sammarco

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im and Ruthann Sammarco have been loyal friends of Cincinnati Opera for more than four decades. Over the years, they have volunteered their time and talent, held leadership roles with the Opera Board and Guild, and encouraged the next generation of opera lovers.

“Through the Opera we have connected to the Cincinnati community and met many friends that we call family. The Opera is an organization that exudes warmth. Patty Beggs has created an environment that makes people feel appreciated as members of the ‘Opera Family.’ That inspires participation and support.”

Jim’s involvement in opera began when he was a boy soprano and traveled extensively, performing in concerts and operas. He was

chosen by Gian Carlo Menotti to debut in Amahl and the Night Visitors with the New York City Opera, first as an understudy, then as a star. Despite this early artistic success, Jim chose another career path. As an orthopedic surgeon he has been on call for years with Cincinnati Opera to help treat visiting cast members who develop injuries.

Ruthann attended her first opera in the summer of 1981 and since then has been impressed with the beauty of it all—music, singing, costumes, staging, and the excitement of opening nights! As Past President of the Opera Guild, Ruthann has shaped the growth of this great body of volunteers.

Being part of Cincinnati Opera has always been a family affair for the Sammarcos. After years of attending performances with their parents, all five of the Sammarco children enjoy opera today.

When talking about what the Opera means to them, Jim and Ruthann discussed their high regard for the artistic direction and management leadership that Cincinnati Opera has enjoyed over the years, from Jim de Blasis and Nic Muni, to Evans Mirageas and Patty Beggs.

“This organization has impacted and enriched our lives immensely. For this reason, and many more, we chose to contribute to Cincinnati Opera’s New Century Campaign by making a planned gift and becoming members of the Society of Angels.”

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Acknowledgments Cincinnati Opera wishes to thank those who donated services and assistance to make our 2016 season a success.

Artist Housing: Bridgestreet Worldwide Corporate Housing (Ron Haley); Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park (AJ Ford); Grandin Properties; Cincinnati Ballet (Dena D’Andrea); Oakwood Worldwide (Darrin Kirby); V-Suites (Louise Jaffe); Evans Mirageas and Thomas Dreeze; Brett Stover; Matthew Swanson; Barbara Gould; Barbara and Jack Hahn; Aveling Hansen; Vickie J. Thornton; Daniel Tonozzi, Ph.D.; Naomi Lewin; Rosemary Jarvis Artist Services & Donations: Victoria Travel (Carolann Mary, Vicky Mary, and staff ); Transportation Connection (Karen Salmon); Airport Executive Shuttle; Drivr Transportation Service; Mike Albert Leasing (Rick Sheidler) Banking Services: PNC Bank; Huntington Bank Gifts-In-Kind: Boca Restaurant Group; A Catered Affair; Davis Catering; Vivian A. Dobur; eat well, LLC; Fountain Specialist, Inc.; Goodwin Lighting Services; Hilton Cincinnati Netherland Plaza; Kaze; The Kroger Company; LPK; Ryan L. Messer & James A. Musuraca-Messer; Metro Scooter; Monteverdi Tuscany; Kathy Nardiello; Nicholson’s Tavern & Pub; Nini Jewels; The Presidents Room at The Phoenix; Prime 47 Cincinnati; Joe Rigotti/ Accent on Cincinnati; Saks Fifth Avenue; Brett Stover; Vonderhaar’s Catering; Zula Green Room Hospitality: Nick Ciafardini Investment Managers: PNC Institutional Investments; Johnson Investment Counsel; Fort Washington Capital Partners Group; 1919 Investment Counsel; U.S. Bank Institutional Trust & Custody Legal Assistance: Boris Auerbach; Charles E. Baverman III, Lawrence H. Kyte, Jr., Robert W. Olson, Dinsmore & Shohl LLP; Julia B. Meister, Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP; Ann Schoen, Frost Brown Todd LLP Matching Gift Companies: AK Steel Foundation; American Express Foundation; GE Aviation; Johnson & Johnson Family of Companies; Macy’s; PNC Bank; U.S. Bank Media Partners: CET; WGUC-FM; WVXU-FM

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Official Piano Technician: Russell McNamara, Piano Perfect Opera Goes to Church/Temple Partners: Courtis Fuller, host Rockdale Temple: Rabbi Meredith Kahan; La’Shelle Allen, contralto; Talya Lieberman, soprano; Joseph Lattanzi, baritone; Shir Shalom Choir, Mary Southworth Shaffer, director; Rock Shabbat Band, Rabbi Meredith Kahan, director New Jerusalem Baptist Church: Rev. Damon Lynch, Jr.; La’Shelle Allen, contralto; Nmon Ford, baritone; The Rhythmic Sounds of New “J,” A. Michael Cunningham, Minister of Music, director; Marcellene Winfrey, piano Lincoln Heights Missionary Baptist Church: Dr. Elliott Cuff, Senior Pastor; Jacqueline Echols, soprano; Lincoln Heights Missionary Baptist Church Choir; The Muzic Company of Cincinnati; Marcellene Winfrey, piano Knox Presbyterian Church: Laura Tatulescu, soprano; Christina Hahn, piano; Dr. Earl Rivers, Director of Music Opera Outbound Partners: Aronoff Center for the Arts; Campbell County Public Library; Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center (Jennifer Smith and Meghan Stahlhut); Cincinnati Club; Cincinnati Opera Guild; Cottingham Retirement Community; David K. Johnson (University of South Florida); Deupree House; Mallard Cove Senior Living; MariElders; The Kenwood; The Mercantile Library; UC Health Performance and Professional Voice Center (Dr. Sid Khosla and Angie Keith); Whole Foods Presidents’ Garret Gallery in Corbett Opera Center: Art Design Consultants (Litsa Spanos, Curator) Production Partners & In-Kind: AJG Risk Management; Arnold’s Bar & Grill; Cincinnati Arts Association; Cincinnati Ballet; Cincinnati Music Hall; Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park; Cincinnati Shakespeare Company; Cincinnati Stage Employees—IATSE 5; Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra; Cincinnati Theatrical Wardrobe Union—IATSE 864; Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden; Garfield Suites; Goodwin Lighting Services; Hands-On Rigging; Hase & Associates, Ltd.; Pebble Creek Group; School for Creative and Performing Arts Staff & Faculty;

Seko Worldwide CVG; University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music Production Departments Program Book: Produced by Cincinnati Magazine: Publisher Ivy Bayer; Director of Editorial Operations Amanda Boyd Walters; Art Director Danielle Johnson.

Opera Editorial Assistance by Matthew Jent.

Special Event Hosts: Adele and Tom Lippert; Brett Stover; LPK Special thanks to our in-kind donors: All those who generously donated items for the 2015 Online Auction.

Strategic Partners: Catacoustic Consort; concert:nova; ROKCincy

Cincinnati Opera is a proud member of: ArtsWave; Cincinnati USA Convention & Visitors Bureau; Cincinnati USA Regional Chamber; Downtown Cincinnati, Inc.; Greater Cincinnati Alliance for Arts Education; Greater Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky African American Chamber of Commerce; Hispanic Chamber Cincinnati USA; Ohio Citizens for the Arts; OPERA America; Opera Volunteers International; Over-the-Rhine Chamber of Commerce; Society for the Preservation of Music Hall Cincinnati Opera would like to acknowledge the welcoming spirit of the leadership team of the Cincinnati Arts Association, including Steve Loftin, Todd Duesing, and Brenda Carter. They, their staff, and crew heads have been invaluable in our transition from Music Hall to our new temporary home at the Aronoff Center for the Arts.

Underwriters of the School for Creative and Performing Arts Professional Trainee Program:

Proud Supporter of the Cincinnati Opera After 21 years and more than 7500 events, we have decided to unplug, slow down and start a new phase in life It has been an honor partnering with the Cincinnati Opera and we wish them continued success in the coming years Glen & Vicki

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Cincinnati Opera Staff Patricia K. Beggs The Harry Fath General Director & CEO Administration & Finance Christopher Milligan Managing Director & CMO Michael J. Veroni Chief Financial Officer Amy Stier Director of Human Resources & Administration Kelly Holterhoff Executive Assistant Matt Singleton Information Technology Manager Darlene Zoz Controller Andrea Ponte Administrative Intern Jinyoung Lee Alisa Mondragon Finance Interns Development Sneja H. Tomassian Director of Development

Scott Youger Ticketing System Administrator Karen Krumpak Marketing Assistant Claire Jagla Opera Outbound Intern Madeleine Lovett Marketing & Public Relations Intern Jemannie Luong Kerry Kathleen Smith Community Relations Interns Philip J. Groshong Company Photographer Artistic Evans Mirageas The Harry T. Wilks Artistic Director Marcus Küchle Director of Artistic Operations Amanda Carmen Bower Artistic Services Manager Henri Venanzi Chorus Master Michael Ciavaglia Assistant Chorus Master

David A. Centers Scenic Art & Property Coordinator

Kevin Eviston David Hall Carpenter Second Hands

Rebecca Senske Costume Coordinator

Todd Dignan-Cummins Flyman

Chad Phillips Assistant Costume Coordinator

Paul Stafford Master Electrician

James Geier Hair & Make-up Designer

E.J. Mechley Production Electrician

Brett Pavlovich Technical Assistant

Allan Bird Board Operator

Megan Bennett Constance Dubinski Grubbs Liam Roche Production Stage Managers

Kevin Barth Master of Properties

Hannah Holthaus Hayley Hunt Nikki Hyde Jennifer Picone Brooke Redler Sydney R. Smith Assistant Stage Managers

Cedric Collier Head Sound Technician

Jennifer Rhodus Scenic Charge Artist Melanie Guinto Cayla Raymaker Scenic Artists Shannon Yoho Hair & Make-up Artist

Michelle Devine Manager, Individual Giving

Levi Hammer Elena Kholodova Rhett Lei Valerie Pool Carol Walker Pianists

Teddy Gumbleton Development Associate, Research & Data Management

Andrew Nienaber Frances Rabalais Assistant Directors

Adam Ditzel Jessica Drayton Lighting Interns

Melanie Schmid Events Manager

Marcus Shields Hallie Stebbins Directing Interns

Mercedes Meyers Scenic Artist Intern

Lissa Urriquia Gapultos Senior Manager, Institutional Giving

Joe Carlo Development Associate, Shared Services Sarah Andrews Victoria Smith Development Interns Marketing & Public Relations Ashley Tongret Director of Public Relations Tracy L. Wilson Director of Community Relations Kemper Florin Opera Outbound Manager Amy Hildebrand Marketing Manager Aimee Sposito Martini Senior Graphic Designer & Illustrator Lori L. Hiltenbeitel Ticketing Operations Manager

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Laura Sabo Super Captain Valerie Pool Supertitles Coordinator Charles Calhoun Claire Jagla Artistic Interns Production Glenn Plott Director of Production Kate Brockmeier Production Operations Manager

Skye Cone Michael Medina Sarah Stewart Stage Management Interns

Sondra Kusse Hair & Make-up Intern Autumn Abernathy Rehearsal Department Intern Ja’meila Cloud-Reed Kailyn Durrett Gabe Horan Samuel Kerns Aliea Ray Christian “Freddy” Straub Monica Walker Jayden Ward SCPA Professional Trainees

Sarah Clark Production Administrator

Technical Gary Kidney Technical Director

Thomas C. Hase Lighting Director

Robert Lay Master Carpenter

Krista Billings Associate Lighting Designer

Jon Chevalier Construction Carpenter

Tim Fowler Property Second Hand

Bryan Bridewell Leah Busse Shop Hands Chris Walters Title Operator Cherl Beyersdoerfer Costumer Carol Poe Assistant Costumer Jackie Andrews Starr Fish Virginia Fryman Wardrobe Technicians Robert Haas Aronoff Center Technical Director Thomas Lane Aronoff Center Head Electrician Tom Dignan, Jr. Aronoff Center Head Audio Engineer Terry Sheridan Aronoff Center Head Carpenter Steve Schofield Aronoff Center Production Technician House Staff Stephanie Akau Missy Lyons Danielle Osbun Zach Quortrup Matthew Ramler Krista Weiss Customer Service Representatives Mark DeWitt Mike Snyder Linda Vaccariello Audio Description Candace LoFrumento Aronoff Events Manager Stratin Seremetis Aronoff House Manager

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General Information Please Note...

• Latecomers will be admitted to the auditorium at the discretion of management.

• Please do not place coats or other objects on the balcony railings.

• Please turn off all mobile devices and signal watches during performances.

• Please refrain from talking, texting, and tweeting during performances.

• Aronoff Center for the Arts is a smoke-free building.

• Eating and drinking are strictly forbidden inside the auditorium with the exception of bottled water.

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Due to the adult subject matter and in consideration for all patrons we require that children be at least 7 years of age to be admitted to mainstage productions.

Opera Insights An overview of each opera is presented one hour prior to curtain. Locations are in the Jarson-Kaplan Theater for Procter & Gamble Hall performances and in the Procter & Gamble Orchestra Lobby for Jarson-Kaplan Theater performances. Free to all ticket holders.

Meet the Artists Patrons may meet performers outside the stage door on 7th Street.

Assistive Listening System An infra-red wireless receiver for the hearing impaired is available upon request at the Guest Services Desk in the Procter & Gamble Hall lobby and the coat room of the Jarson-Kaplan Theater.

Audio Description Live descriptions of stage action for the visually impaired are presented by trained describers at all Procter & Gamble Hall performances. Please inquire with event personnel.

Accessible Seating Wheelchair access and assistance with other mobility issues are available.

Please request locations or assistance when ordering tickets, and please reserve early. A courtesy wheelchair is available upon request on a first-come, first-served basis for patrons needing assistance from the curb or lobby to their seats. Patrons can ask any usher for assistance.

Elevators All theaters and meeting spaces within

the Aronoff Center are accessible to patrons with physical disabilities. Once inside the building, all levels are accessible by elevator. For the Procter & Gamble Hall, two elevators are available for patron use, one in the Weston Art Gallery and one near the Aronoff Center Box Office. The Jarson-Kaplan Theater elevator is to the left of the theater entrance.

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Accessible Doors For the Procter & Gamble Hall, automatic accessible doors are located at the Weston Art Gallery entrance on the plaza near Seventh and Walnut Streets. For the Jarson-Kaplan Theater, automatic accessible doors are located on the south end of the building near Sixth and Walnut Streets.

Restrooms All restrooms in the Aronoff Center

are accessible to people with disabilities. Restrooms for the Procter & Gamble Hall are located in the side corridors on both sides of the lobby, except on the Balcony level, where restrooms are located on the north side of the lobby only. Restrooms for the Jarson-Kaplan Theater are one level below the theater and are accessible by elevator.

ATM An ATM is located across the hallway from

the Box Office.

Taxi Service Taxi service may be requested by

speaking with Aronoff Center event personnel.

Broadcasts Cincinnati Opera’s 2016 season will be aired on WGUC 90.9 FM. Contributions Gifts of all sizes are welcome and important to the Opera. To make a donation or to inquire about donor benefits, honor or memorial gifts, or acknowledgments, please contact Michelle Devine, Individual Giving Manager, at (513) 768-5565 or mdevine@cincinnatiopera.org.

Merchandise To purchase merchandise, contact Kelly Holterhoff at (513) 768-5511 or kholterhoff@ cincinnatiopera.org.

Program Advertising Cincinnati Opera does

not necessarily endorse the views, products, or services presented by program advertisers.

For information about advertising in the program book, contact Ashley Tongret at (513) 768-5526 or atongret@cincinnatiopera.org.

Box Office Hours Monday through Friday 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., and Saturdays and Sundays on which there are performances from 12 noon through the first intermission.

Contact Information Email: feedback@cincinnatiopera.org Website: www.cincinnatiopera.org Main Phone: (513) 768-5500 Box Office: (513) 241-2742 Comment Line: (513) 768-5576 U.S. Mail: Cincinnati Opera

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