PROGRAM: Ainadamar Fountain of Tears April 2023

FOUNTAIN OF TEARS

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A Message from Yuval Sharon

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Sponsor Recognition

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Cast & Crew

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Detroit Opera Orchestra

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Introduction & Synopsis

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About Fountain of Tears (Ainadamar)

by Diana Burgwyn

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What to Listen For in Fountain of Tears (Ainadamar)

by Yayoi Uno Everett

TABLE OF CONTENT

5 A Message from Wayne Brown

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“Ballad of the Small Plaza”

by Federica García Lorca, English translation

by A.S. Kline

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“Poeme of the Solea: Ay!”

by Federico García Lorca, English translation

by Ralph Angel

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Artist Profiles

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Board of Directors

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Board of Trustees

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Thank You to Our Donors

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Administration & Staff

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A message from

Wayne Brown Welcome to the Detroit Opera House for this season’s closing opera production, Fountain of Tears (Ainadamar), composed by Osvaldo Golijov with a libretto

by David Henry Hwang. These performances are a Scottish Opera and Opera Ventures co-production with Detroit Opera, Welsh National Opera, and The Metropolitan Opera. For Detroiters, Fountain of Tears marks the first opera to be performed completely in Spanish on the Detroit Opera stage.

I am pleased to acknowledge our generous sponsors: Cadillac, our 2022–23 Spring Opera Sponsor, and the William Davidson Family Foundation, our 2022–23 Season Sponsor; with support from the Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan, DTE Energy Foundation, the Fred A. and Barbara M. Erb Family Foundation, Flagstar Bank, the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, The Mellon Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Burton A. and Sandra D. Zipser Foundation Detroit Opera is appreciative of the audiences and supporters who have joined us for the current season. Your support has enabled our organization to offer a vibrant season of opera productions and dance presentations led by our remarkable artistic team here at Detroit Opera: Yuval Sharon, Gary L. Wasserman Artistic Director; Christine Goerke, Associate Artistic Director; Roberto Kalb, Music Director; and Jon Teeuwissen, Artistic Advisor for Dance.

We invite you to join us on April 29 and 30 for our final 2022–23 dance presentation: the State Ballet of Georgia, featuring dance works by George Balanchine, accompanied by the Detroit Opera Orchestra. The performances promise to be a fitting finish to what has been an exceptional season for artists and audiences alike.

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Yuval Sharon The key to understanding the heart-pounding thrill of a bullfight or a flamenco performance is the concept of duende. As a powerful and almost inexplicable force that possesses the matador, the dancer, or the singer, duende is a demonic energy that casts an inexorable spell over anyone in its presence. Federico García Lorca was a high priest of duende, and one of his most important essays—entitled “Play and Theory of the Duende”—beautifully elucidates how this Spanish source of inspiration differs from the more benign creative forces of the muse or the angel: “Just as Germany has, with few exceptions, the muse, and Italy shall always have the angel, so in all ages Spain is moved by the duende, for it is a country of ancient music and dance where the duende squeezes the lemons of death— a country of death, open to death. Everywhere else, death is an end. Death comes, and they draw the curtains. Not in Spain. In Spain they open them.”

Right from the explosive first moments of Osvaldo Golijov’s Ainadamar, duende could be considered the opera’s primary character: the sounds Golijov pulled from Lorca’s writing initiates a sonic exorcism that never fails to grip me. Like the bullfighter—elegant and graceful in the face of death—this opera dances feverishly and with abandon on the edge of the grave. It seems almost appropriate, with his obsession with duende, that Lorca faced an untimely and brutal assassination at the hands of Spain’s fascist government in 1936. We view Lorca in mythic terms, as a martyr for artistic and personal freedom—and this is how the great actress Margarita Xirgu tells his story in the opera, as a stream of images and memories she relates to her young student Nuria. Lorca may have died tragically before his time, but the opera portrays his resurrection as each generation embodies his characters and his words.

Golijov wrote, “Ainadamar is about how a myth is actually being born, how Lorca that was a breathing, living, laughing, loving person became a symbol, a myth—and how we can bring him back to be that man.” Director Deborah Colker has taken this idea and infused it with her energetic and choreographic imagination, hand in hand with conductor Paolo Bortolameolli’s innate understanding of Golijov’s broad musical influences.

I hope the duende moves you as you witness this sensational opera!

Yuval Sharon The Gary L. Wasserman Artistic Director

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Detroit Opera premiere Performed in Spanish with English supertitles Performance runs 1 hour and 20 minutes with no intermission

Music

Osvaldo Golijov Libretto

David Henry Hwang, translated into Spanish

by Osvaldo Golijov World Premiere

Tanglewood Music Festival, Massachusetts, on August 10, 2003 Premiere of revised version—Santa Fe Opera, New Mexico, on July 30, 2005 Stage Director

Deborah Colker* Flamenco Choreographer

Antonio Najarro*

Set & Costume Designer

Jon Bausor*

Lighting Designer

Paul Keogan*

Projection Designer

Tal Rosner*

Sound Designer

Mark Grey

Wig & Makeup Designer

Joanne Middleton Weaver Associate Director

Roxana Haines* Stage Manager

Peter Nictakis* * Detroit Opera debut

Cast Conductor Paolo Bortolameolli* Margarita Xirgu Gabriella Reyes* Nuria Vanessa Vasquez* Federico García Lorca Daniela Mack Ruiz Alonso Alfredo Tejada* Voices of the Fountain Soprano Lucia Flowers +

Voices of the Fountain Mezzo-soprano Gabrielle Barkidjija* Maestro Ben Reisinger+ Torero Leo Williams+ José Tripaldi Kevin Starnes * Detroit Opera debut + Detroit Opera Resident Artist

Niñas—Detroit Opera Chorus Suzanne Mallare Acton, chorus master

On Stage Chorus Lily Belle Czartorski Tori Darnell Anna Dreslinski Rebecca Eaddy Kristy Glass Aubrey Meade

Off Stage Chorus Leslie Ann Naeve Pelagia Pamel Katya Powder Kristina Riegle Maitri White

Brandy Adams Alaina Brown Ann Marie Calvaneso Adellyn Geenen Anna Hart Aurora Haziri

Dancers Julia Ruiz Fernandez*—Dance Captain Olivia Brookes*, Áine Dorman, Jonathan Pacheco*, Elisabet Torras Aguilera*, Isaac Tovar*

On Stage Musicians Adam del Monte*, guitar Gonzalo Grau*, cájon

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PRODUCTION CREDITS A Co-Production between Detroit Opera, Opera Ventures, Scottish Opera, Welsh National Opera, and The Metropolitan Opera.

Répétiteur Michael Karloff Assistant Director Anne C. Demelo* Assistant Stage Managers

Nan Luchini, Hailli Ridsdale Assistant Lighting Designer Heather DeFauw Sound Engineer

Dan Solan

Lighting Programmer Harrison Hoffert* Video Engineer/Programmer/Operator John Costa Supertitle Operator Language Coach

Dee Dorsey

Ricardo Herrera

* Detroit Opera debut

Poems by Federico Garcia Lorca © The Estate of Federico García Lorca. Ainadamar by Osvaldo Golijov, is produced by special arrangement with Casanovas & Lynch Literary Agency on behalf of the Estate of Federico García Lorca.

By arrangement with Hendon Music, Inc., a Boosey & Hawkes company, publisher and copyright owner Special thanks to Flamenco Vivo Carlota Santana Detroit Opera choristers are represented by the American Guild of Musical Artists

DETROIT OPERA ORCHESTRA Detroit Federation of Musicians, Local #5, of the American Federation of Musicians

Violin

Percussion

Bass

Eliot Heaton*

John Dorsey*

Derek Weller*

CONCERTMASTER

PRINCIPAL

PRINCIPAL

Henrik Karapetyan*

Clark Suttle* Jean Posekany Robert Stiles

Keith Claeys

ACTING ASSISTANT CONCERTMASTER

Daniel Stachyra* ACTING PRINCIPAL SECOND

Anna Bittar-Weller Molly Hughes* Bryan Johnston* Velda Kelly* Yuri Popowycz* Mallory Tabb Jenny Wan* Andrew Wu*

Flamenco Percussion

Gonzalo Grau

Flute *

Viola

John Madison* PRINCIPAL

Joseph Deller* Jacqueline Hanson* Scott Stefanko Catherine Franklin Alycia Wilder

Cello

Andrea Yun* ACTING PRINCIPAL

Benjamin Maxwell* Ivana Biliskov Sabrina Lackey Lauren Mathews Allison Rich

Seo Hee Choi*

Flamenco Guitar

PRINCIPAL

Laura Larson* Dennis Carter II

Oboe

ACTING PRINCIPAL

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PRINCIPAL

J. William King* Gregory Quick

ACTING PRINCIPAL

Piano/Synthesizer

Brian Bowman

Bassoon

Harp

Maurice Draughn

Yuki Harding

Clarinet

Adam del Monte Kyle Canjar

Michael Karloff

Celeste

John Etsell

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ACTING PRINCIPAL

*Detroit Opera Core Orchestra Members of the violin sections occasionally rotate

Horn

Kristi Crago

ACTING PRINCIPAL

Carrie BanfieldTaplin*

Trumpet

David Ammer* PRINCIPAL

Gordon Simmons*

Trombone Christopher Houlihan

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Ainadamar is an Arabic word meaning “fountain of tears.” It is one of the names of a natural spring located in the hills above the Spanish city of Granada. This is the site where the poet and playwright Federico García Lorca was executed in 1936.

Margarita Xirgu, a veteran Spanish actress and Lorca’s muse, spent her career portraying Mariana Pineda in Lorca’s play of the same name.

Pineda was a 19th-century political martyr executed for sewing a revolutionary flag against the absolutist Spanish regime with the embroidered slogan “Equality, Freedom, and Law.” Mariana Pineda was Lorca’s first theatrical success and a love letter to a woman who pursued her convictions to their ultimate consequences, evoking the color and poetry of Andalusia and especially of Lorca’s own Granada.

Lorca asked Xirgu to play the title role at the premiere in June 1927, at the Teatre Goya in Barcelona with scenic design and costumes by Salvador Dalí.

Xirgu fled Spain at the beginning of the Civil War but Lorca refused to leave. His liberal beliefs and open homosexuality subsequently led to his death at the hands of the Falange, the fascist party founded by the son of former Spanish dictator General Primo de Rivera. Xirgu then gave her life to playing Mariana Pineda and to keeping Lorca’s words alive.

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INTRODUCTIO

What a sad day it was in Granada; the stones began to cry...

FIRST IMAGE MARIANA As the opera begins, Margarita Xirgu prepares once again to go on stage as Mariana Pineda as a group of young actresses sing the opening ballad.

She remembers the brilliance of Lorca to her young student Nuria, recalling her meeting with Lorca in a bar in Madrid where he describes his play to her for the first time.

Lorca idolized Pineda, whose statue could be seen from his window at the Lorca family home in Granada.

The flashback is interrupted by the Falangist Ramon Ruiz Alonso, broadcasting over the state radio that his party will stamp out the beginnings of the revolution.

SYNOPSI

The opera is told through Xirgu’s memories in a series of flashbacks as the past invades the present.

SECOND IMAGE FEDERICO The Spanish Civil War has begun.

Xirgu pleads with Lorca to join her and her theater company in Cuba, but he refuses and stays in Granada.

Xirgu blames herself for Lorca’s fate, since she could not convince the idealistic young man to abandon Spain. In Xirgu’s memories, she sings of her dream of finding freedom in Cuba, but Lorca insists that he must witness and write about his country’s suffering on the barricades.

THIRD IMAGE MARGARITA

Xirgu is dying. In the present, she insists on performing Pineda’s story one more time—she tells Nuria that an actor lives only for a moment, but the idea of freedom will never die.

A vision of Lorca interrupts her. He thanks her for immortalizing his spirit on stage, in the hearts of her students, and for the world.

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PROGRAM NOTE About Fountain of Tears (Ainadamar)

BY DIANA BURGWYN Osvaldo Golijov’s remarkable sound world in the opera Ainadamar is an amalgamation of his own Argentinian/Jewish heritage and numerous other cultures, including Muslim, Jewish, and Christian musical traditions.

Above all, the score is suffused with the music of Lorca’s Spain: lush, seductive, and with a strong undercurrent of sadness.

This dizzying array of folk music, meshed with western classical influences and jazz, has been transformed by the composer into a sophisticated musical language of his own. Even his orchestration is unusual, with guitars, marimbas, and various kinds of Spanish percussion instruments added to the symphonic ensemble. Despite this unlikely combination of musical materials, the opera evolves organically, with one mode of musical expression seamlessly flowing into another and the present morphing into the past through flashbacks.

The short prelude is a vivid example of another Golijov characteristic: the use of non-musical sounds. It opens with pre-recorded drops of water falling into Ainadamar, the Moorish word for “fountain of tears,” while distant trumpets express what the composer calls “wounded freedom”— freedom desperately sought and denied. This is followed by the hoofbeats of galloping horses, which morph into a flamenco heel dance.

The first music we hear is a ballad sung by a group of young girls who function rather like a Greek chorus, commenting on events and predicting the future. Recalling the death of the 19th-century political martyr Mariana Pineda, they tell of sadness so great that “the stones began to cry.”

That ballad acts as a frame to the opera, recurring over and over until the very end.

The leading character in Ainadamar is the renowned actress Margarita Xirgu, whose grief at Lorca’s death and guilt over not having been able to save him has taken over her life. Golijov has captured these emotions brilliantly in his searing vocal lines. Margarita’s outpourings, often in a high soprano register, are full of tears—tears wept openly and those lodged in her heart. Only at the end of the opera, as she dies, does she move from bitterness to grace and acceptance.

The role of the charismatic poet/playwright Lorca was not in the original score of the opera; Golijov added it during a revision. It was written for a mezzo-soprano rather than a male singer, reflecting Lorca’s androgynous voice and feminine sensibilities. (In real life, both Lorca and Xirgu were

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gay.) This role contains some of the composer’s most beautiful music, notably the dark and wistful “Aria of the Statue,” in which he reflects on his childhood love of the statue depicting the martyred Mariana Pineda—a statue that for him was not cold and grey but warm and loving.

One more key character (a fictional one) for soprano appears in Ainadamar; that is Nuria, Margarita’s gifted student who, over the course of the opera, grows both musically and dramatically, recognizing that it is she who must carry on Lorca’s and Margarita’s message to the world.

The three roles for female voice achieve their greatest beauty late in the opera when the dying Margarita, Lorca (who has died), and Nuria intertwine their voices in a sensuous trio that is often compared with the trio in Richard Strauss’s Der Rosenkavalier.

One of Golijov’s most effective theatrical touches is the insertion of chilling, even ugly sounds. The role of the man who arrested and murdered Lorca, Ramon Ruiz Alonso, a fascist functionary in Francesco Franco’s authoritarian regime, is cast for a male flamenco singer, whose wailing cries condemn Lorca and his fight for freedom. Similarly, warlike messages broadcast by Radio Falange (the Spanish fascist party) vow to “exterminate the seeds of the Revolution.”

On the night before Lorca is murdered, hypnotic voices of the dead and soon-to-be dead surround him, praying to the Virgin of Guadalupe. The bullet that kills him becomes a rhythmic fugue of gunshots, with one becoming thousands, reflecting the huge number of killings that took place during the Spanish Civil War. Over those staccato volleys is heard a heartbreaking lament.

There is no comic relief in this tragic opera, but there are lighter scenes, one a raucous conversation between Margarita and Lorca that takes place in a bar, another when Margarita and Lorca sing a duet in the form of a Cuban rumba as they dream of taking refuge in Havana.

Osvaldo Golijov knows how to fill our hearts with beauty, pain, and terror, and even occasionally to make us smile. He is a musical magician. From the first bars of Ainadamar to the last, he puts us under his spell and does not let go.

Diana Burgwyn is a Philadelphia-based writer and music critic. This article from the 2014 Opera Philadelphia program book is reprinted with permission.

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What to Listen For in Fountain of Tears (Ainadamar)

by Yayoi Uno Everett

A scene from Fountain of Tears (Ainadamar) Photo: James Glossop / Scottish Opera

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Ainadamar, literally meaning “Fountain of Tears” in Arabic, is the name of an ancient well near Granada, Spain where the poet Federico García Lorca is believed to have been killed by fascist Falangist forces in 1936.

By integrating flamenco with classical, mythical, and religious culture, Osvaldo Golijov’s opera Ainadamar explores Lorca’s quest for a utopian, mythic universality. Music and sound serve as an important marker of Andalusian history and culture. Electronic sounds of gunshots and trickling water signify Lorca’s execution at Ainadamar, where thousands of liberals were executed during the Spanish Civil War (1936–39).

Golijov’s music is replete with references to cante jondo (deep song) and duende—the existential anguish that lies at the essence of Andalusian flamenco music.

The story of Ainadamar is told through Margarita Xirgu’s remembrance of Lorca. To this end, the temporal setting of the tripartite structure of this opera shifts back and forth between the diegetic present (April 1969) in Uruguay and the past (1936) in Spain at the time of Lorca’s death. In the First Image, called “Mariana,” Xirgu performs her role as Mariana Pineda and recalls the time when she first meets Lorca as a young man in Madrid. The entire Second Image, called “Federico,” is situated in the summer of 1936 during the beginnings of the Spanish War. The Third and final Image, called “Margarita,” takes us back to April 1969, where Lorca’s spirit emerges from the Fountain of Tears and

appoints Nuria, Xirgu’s protégé, to be her successor. The final scene depicts the interior world of Xirgu as she prepares to die; in this moment, she is reunited with the ghost of Lorca and, along with Nuria, partakes in a quasi-Eucharistic ritual of consecration.

WHAT TO LISTEN FOR The plaintive ballad: The haunting quality of the ballad centers on the anthropomorphic image of stones “crying” for Mariana’s death against the tolling bells. It is sung by the female chorus at the beginning of each Image in varied form and expression. In the First Image, the chorus sings the main melody of the ballad (“What a sad day it was in

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spirit guide, which they believe Granada; the stones began to cry...”) as Xirgu interacts with the chorus and possess the cantaor with a the cantaor (solo singer) hovers high in performance that resonates with the depth of feeling and emotion. Golijov register over the chorus; the tempo is assigns the role of the flamenco fast, the mood, somewhat urgent.

When the ballad returns at the start of cantaor to both Lorca and the Falangist executioner, Ruiz Alonso— the Second Image, it turns the existential anguish that lies at into a crazed reprise as Xirgu loses the heart of duende binds them her mind; a distorted recording of a together in spite of their conflicting Falangist political speech interrupts political ideologies. Listen in the flow to a frenzied, faster tempo. particular for Alonso’s flamenco-style Lastly, at the beginning of the final vocal improvisation; for example, the Image, the ballad transforms itself “Interludio de Balazos y Lamento por into a dirge: as Xirgu collapses and la Muerte de Federico” (Gunshot gasps for air, Nuria sings with the Interlude and Lament for the Death of chorus in call and response. The changing mood of the ballad brilliantly Federico) that concludes the Second Image is especially powerful as captures the progression of the story Alonso sings his improvised lament from Xirgu’s recollection to her death over sampled gunshot sounds that are and reunion with Lorca. looped and turned into a flamenco Flamenco music and the anti-hero: ostinato pattern.

The cantaor, the singer of flamenco Rumba and other popular song cante jondo (deep song), is historically forms: Golijov masterfully the conveyor of suffering for the incorporates lighter song forms to marginalized race of Romani Gypsies. offset the sombre characteristics of In the Andalusian flamenco the framing ballad and flamenco tradition, duende refers not to an music. A rumba—a light-hearted institutionalized deity but rather the

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Cuban dance form—accompanies Xirgu’s nightly performance of Mariana Pineda. Lorca later sings a melancholy waltz entitled “Desde mi ventana” (From my window), which conveys his yearning and love for the revolutionary heroine, Mariana Pineda, whose statue he looked out onto as a child.

Prayer to the Virgin Mary and Gunshot Interlude: In addition to the electronic soundscape that conjures Spain at the time of the Civil War, Golijov intersperses a recording of the actual sounds of Mexican children praying to the Virgin Mary of Guadalupe in Chiapas at the moment when Lorca’s body is taken away following his execution (Second Image). Immediately following this is the Gunshot Interlude, in which Golijov took from a library of gunshot sounds from the 1930s to generate a tape loop as a symbolic homage to the death of thousands of individuals who were killed during the Franco regime.

Music of Ritual Consecration: Golijov’s musical setting of “Doy mi sangre” (Here is my blood) is rapturous. This music explicitly references the biblical Eucharistic rite in the consecratory text sung by Xirgu, Nuria, and Lorca.

Here is my blood, shed for thee, drink it and tell my story.

This is how I am going to die, submerged in the voices of those who have loved me and those not yet born.

Ainadamar begins and ends with the ballad as a reminder that history repeats itself—that there will be another retelling of the story of Mariana Pineda. The opera comes to a halt with the female chorus singing the refrain from the ballad over an electronic drone and trumpet motif.

The music segues to the distanced sounds of water, which slowly fade out.

Yayoi Uno Everett is a professor of music at the City University of New York. She is the author of Reconfiguring Myth and Narrative in Contemporary Opera: Osvaldo Golijov, Kaija Saariaho, John Adams, and Tan Dun (Indiana University Press, 2015).

This article has been edited for length.

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A scene from Fountain of Tears (Ainadamar) Photo: James Glossop / Scottish Opera

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Ballad of the Small Plaza (Balada de la placeta)

by Federico García Lorca English translation by A.S. Kline

THE CHILDREN

Drink the still water of the song of the ages.

Light of the stream, and calm of the fountain!

Why do you roam far from the small plaza?

MYSELF

Singing of children in the night silence: Light of the stream, and calm of the fountain!

THE CHILDREN

I go to find Mages and find princesses.

THE CHILDREN

Who showed you the road there, the road of the poets?

MYSELF

What does your heart hold, divine in its gladness?

The fount and the stream of the song of the ages.

MYSELF

THE CHILDREN

A peal from the belltower, lost in the dimness.

THE CHILDREN

You leave us singing in the small plaza.

Light of the stream, and calm of the fountain!

What do you hold in your hands of springtime?

MYSELF

A rose of blood, and a lily of whiteness.

THE CHILDREN

Dip them in water of the song of the ages.

Light of the stream, and calm of the fountain!

What does your tongue feel, scarlet and thirsting?

MYSELF

A taste of the bones of my giant forehead.

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Do you go far from the earth and the ocean?

MYSELF

It’s filled with light, is my heart of silk, and with bells that are lost, with bees and with lilies, and I will go far off, behind those hills there, close to the starlight, to ask of the Christ there Lord, to return me my child’s soul, ancient, ripened with legends, with a cap of feathers, and a sword of wood.

THE CHILDREN

You leave us singing in the small plaza.

Light of the stream, and calm of the fountain!

Enormous pupils of the parched palm fronds hurt by the wind, they weep their dead leaves.

A scene from Fountain of Tears (Ainadamar) Photo: James Glossop / Scottish Opera

Poeme of the Solea: Ay!

by Federico García Lorca English translation by Ralph Angel The whole world's broken.

Only silence remains.

(Leave me here, in this field, weeping.)

The darkened horizon's bitten by bonfires.

(I've told you already to leave me here, in this field, weeping.)

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Osvaldo Golijov COMPOSER

Osvaldo Golijov grew up in an Eastern European Jewish household in La Plata, Argentina. Born to a piano teacher mother and physician father, Golijov was raised surrounded by classical chamber music, Jewish liturgical, and klezmer music, and the new tango of Astor Piazzolla. His blending of genres and seamless integration of voices speak volumes about his approach and style, a musical language that can only be termed “Golijovian.”

Since the early 1990s, Golijov has enjoyed collaborations with some of the world’s leading chamber music ensembles such as the Kronos Quartet and the St. Lawrence String Quartet, in addition to relationships with artists such as Yo-Yo Ma, Dawn Upshaw, and Robert Spano. Golijov has also received acclaim for ground-breaking works such as La Pasión según San Marcos (St. Mark Passion), his opera Fountain of Tears (Ainadamar), the clarinet quintet The Dreams and Prayers of Isaac the Blind, as well as music he has written for the films of Francis Ford Coppola.

The 2022–23 season sees a brand-new opera production of Fountain of Tears (Ainadamar) by Olivier Award-winning choreographer and director Deborah Colker, co-produced by Detroit Opera, Scottish Opera and Opera Ventures, Welsh National Opera, and The Metropolitan Opera. The touring production debuted at Scottish Opera in October—marking the work’s Scottish premiere—and makes its Detroit Opera premiere in April. He has also composed a new work for violin and orchestra that will be premiered this season by Johnny Gandelsman and The Knights.

Golijov is Composer-in-Residence at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts, where he has taught since 1991. He also has been teaching for decades at Tanglewood, has led workshops at Carnegie Hall with Dawn Upshaw, and is a frequent advisor at the Sundance Composers Labs.

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Artist Profiles David Henry Hwang LIBRETTIST

David Henry Hwang’s work includes the plays M. Butterfly, Chinglish, Yellow Face, Golden Child, The Dance and the Railroad, and FOB, as well as the Broadway musicals Aida (revival upcoming, 2023), Flower Drum Song, and Disney’s Tarzan. M. Butterfly was revived on Broadway in 2017, directed by Julie Taymor. His newest musical, Soft Power, written with composer Jeanine Tesori, opened in 2019 at New York’s Public Theatre. It received four Outer Critics Honors and a 2021 GRAMMY nomination, and was a Finalist for the 2020 Pulitzer Prize in Drama.

Called America’s most-produced living opera librettist by Opera News, he has written 13 libretti, including five works with composer Philip Glass, most recently Circus Days and Nights for Malmö Opera. He is a 2007 GRAMMY Award winner for Fountain of Tears (Ainadamar), with music by Osvaldo Golijov. He has written three works with Huang Ruo and two with Bright Sheng, as well as operas with Unsuk Chin and Howard Shore.

Hwang’s screenplays include M. Butterfly. He is currently penning the live-action feature musical remake of Disney’s The Hunchback of Notre Dame as well as an Anna May Wong biopic to star Gemma Chan. In television, he was a Writer/Consulting Producer for the Golden Globe– winning television series The Affair from 2015 to 2019 and is now creating the TV series adaptation of the bestseller Billion Dollar Whale, slated to begin production in 2023. He also co-wrote the Gold Record “Solo” with the late pop music icon Prince.

Hwang is a Tony Award winner and three-time nominee, a GRAMMY Award winner and two-time nominee, a three-time OBIE Award winner, and a three-time Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Drama. He is also a professor of theatre at Columbia University School of the Arts. Hwang was inducted into the Theatre Hall of Fame in 2018 and his star was unveiled in 2022 on the Lucille Lortel Playwrights Sidewalk in New York City.

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Paolo Bortolameolli CONDUCTOR

Paolo Bortolameolli is Music Director of the Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional Esperanza Azteca (México) and Principal Guest Conductor of Filarmónica de Santiago (Chile). Having conducted every significant orchestra in his Chilean homeland, Paolo has regular conducting relationships across Latin and North America, Europe, and Asia. His recent activity has included return engagements in Poland with the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, in Italy with Orchestra Haydn, in Venezuela with Orquesta Sinfónica Simón Bolivar, and in the United States with the San Francisco Symphony, Kansas City Symphony, Charlotte Symphony Orchestra, and the Los Angeles Philharmonic.

Paolo brings his insatiable artistic curiosity to his varied operatic work.

Upcoming projects include appearances at the Opera de Paris for performances of Tosca, at the Gran Teatre del Liceu for Die Zauberflöte, as well as in Chile for concerts with the Filarmónica de Santiago of Mahler’s Symphony No. 2. He makes his debut with Detroit Opera in these performances of Golijov’s Fountain of Tears (Ainadamar).

Paolo is passionately committed to new music and audiences. He is currently Artistic Director of the Esperanza Azteca National Symphony Orchestra as part of an educational residency run by the Fundación Azteca de Grupo Salinas in Mexico. In 2018, he was a guest lecturer for a TED Talk in New York and in 2020, he released his first book: RUBATO Procesos musicales y una playlist personal.

Paolo holds a Master of Music degree (Yale School of Music, 2013), a Graduate Performance Diploma (Peabody Institute, 2015), a Piano Performance Diploma (Universidad Católica de Chile, 2006), and a Conducting Diploma (Universidad de Chile, 2011).

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Artist Profiles Deborah Colker DIRECTOR

Deborah Colker studied classical piano and played volleyball before beginning dance in 1979, when she was a dancer in the Coringa group (of Uruguayan Graciela Figueroa, one of the precursors of contemporary dance in Brazil) for eight years. From 1984 to 1994, she was Movement Director of dozens of theatrical shows, working with the main directors in the country, in addition to working in cinema and advertising.

In 1994 she founded her company, which in its almost 30 years of existence has travelled to more than 50 countries in all corners of the world. The Companhia de Dança Deborah Colker has gathered public and critical acclaim, as well as several awards, along the way.

In 2001, Deborah won the Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in Dance. Besides the work with her company, Deborah was the first woman to create and direct a show for Cirque du Soleil entitled Ovo. She was, additionally, the Director of Movement for the opening of the Rio 2016 Olympics and has created performances for theaters in Europe. In 2018, she won the Prix Benois de la Danse for the show Cão Sem Plumas.

After so many challenges, Fountain of Tears (Ainadamar) presents itself as something unusual. It is her first adventure into the world of opera.

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Gabriella Reyes MARGARITA XIRGU

With a voice described as “lusciously-colored” by Opera News and chosen as one of WQXR’s “20 for 20” Artists to Watch, soprano Gabriella Reyes is a rising star on the operatic stage. A former member of the Lindemann Young Artist Development Program at the Metropolitan Opera, Gabriella returns to the Met in the 2023–24 season to perform as Rosalba in Florencia en los Amazonas. In the 2022–23 season, she appears with the San Francisco Symphony for a series of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 concerts before making debuts with the Detroit Opera as Margarita Xirgu in Fountain of Tears (Ainadamar), Dresden Semperoper as Musetta in La bohème, and Washington National Opera as Mimì in La bohème.

During the 2021–22 season, Gabriella was both Liu in Turandot and Musetta in La bohème at the Met. She also made her Paris Opera debut, appearing as Cio-Cio San in Seven Deaths of Maria Callas, before debuting with the Lyric Opera of Chicago as Rosalba in Florencia en los Amazonas, and with Glyndebourne in the summer for her role debut as Mimì in La bohème. In concert, she appeared with the Los Angeles Philharmonic as Marzelline in Fidelio and Musetta with the Jacksonville Symphony.

A 2019 Lincoln Center Emerging Artist (Metropolitan Opera), she was a recipient of a Sara Tucker Study Grant from the Richard Tucker Foundation in 2018 and was also a grand finalist in the 2017 Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions. She is a graduate of the Boston Conservatory.

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Artist Profiles Vanessa Vasquez NURIA

Colombian-American soprano Vanessa Vasquez, winner of the 2017 Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, recently completed a four-year residency at the prestigious Academy of Vocal Arts in Philadelphia. She made her professional opera debut in summer 2017 as Liù in Turandot with Des Moines Metro Opera and continues to sing leading soprano roles such as Countess Almaviva in Le nozze di Figaro (Santa Fe Opera, Oberlin in Italy), Micaëla in Carmen (Washington National Opera, Arizona Opera), Liù (Canadian Opera Company), Donna Anna in Don Giovanni (Washington National Opera), Violetta in La traviata (Arizona Opera), Gilda in Rigoletto (Academy of Vocal Arts), and Mimi in La bohème (Santa Fe Opera, Opera Philadelphia).

On the concert stage, Vanessa has performed as soloist with the Philadelphia Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, New York Choral Society, and Voices of Ascension. She was a featured soloist with the Philadelphia Orchestra under Yannick Nézet-Séguin for the Academy of Music’s 160th Anniversary Concert and Ball.

Vanessa is the recipient of numerous awards including a 2017 Sara Tucker Study Grant from the Richard Tucker Music Foundation, and First Prizes in the Gerda Lissner Foundation Competition, Licia Albanese Competition, Giulio Gari Competition, Loren L. Zachary Vocal Competition, and First Prize and Audience Award in the Phoenix Opera Southwest Vocal Competition, among others.

A native of Scottsdale, Arizona, Vanessa graduated from Catholic University of America with a Bachelor of Music degree, and went on to complete a Master of Music degree at UCLA.

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Daniela Mack

FEDERICO GARCÍA LORCA

Mezzo-soprano Daniela Mack leads the vanguard of a new generation of opera singers, infusing her artistry with a mix of intensity, adventurousness, and effortless charisma. In the 2022–23 season, she returns to Opera Philadelphia as Desdemona in Rossini’s Otello, San Francisco Opera as Frida Kahlo in El Último Sueño de Frida y Diego, Detroit Opera in Osvaldo Golijov’s Fountain of Tears (Ainadamar), and the Los Angeles Philharmonic in performances of John Adams’s Girls of the Golden West.

In recent seasons, Daniela has made several important debuts including at the Metropolitan Opera as the Kitchen Boy in Rusalka, Royal Opera House-Covent Garden as Rosina in Il barbiere di Siviglia, Teatro Real as Rosmira in Partenope, Teatro de la Maestranza in her role debut as Romeo in Bellini’s I Capuleti e i Montecchi, and with the BBC Philharmonic as Béatrice in Béatrice et Bénédict. She also made her Carnegie Hall debut in a performance of Serse with The English Concert.

An alumna of the Adler Fellowship Program at San Francisco Opera, Daniela has appeared as Rosina in Il barbiere di Siviglia, Idamante in Idomeneo, Siebel in Faust, and Lucienne in Die tote Stadt for her house debut.

She also performed the title role of La Cenerentola as a member of the company’s Merola Opera Program. Among her many recent engagements in North America and Europe, she created the roles in the world premieres of Kevin Puts and Mark Campbell’s Elizabeth Cree (title role) at Opera Philadelphia, and in David T. Little and Royce Vavrek’s JFK (Jacqueline Kennedy) at Fort Worth Opera with subsequent performances at Opéra de Montréal.

Born in Buenos Aires, Daniela studied at Louisiana State University and was a finalist in the 2013 BBC Cardiff Singer of the World competition.

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Artist Profiles Alfredo Tejada RUIZ ALONSO

Flamenco singer Alfredo Tejada was born in Malaga, Spain and raised in Granada. In demand as an accompanist for dancers, Alfredo appears regularly at peñas, festivals, theaters, flamenco tablaos, and since 2007 has sung as part of the Antonio Gades Foundation in the shows Carmen, Fuenteovejuna, Suite Flamenca, and Bodas de Sangre touring the world’s major theaters. He has released several critically acclaimed flamenco albums including En Directo and Sentidos del Alma.

Alfredo has collaborated extensively with contemporary composer Osvaldo Golijov, touring the world with performances of Fountain of Tears (Ainadamar). He is the 2020 winner of the Festival de Jerez award for Best Accompaniment Singer and the 2017 winner of the Lámpara Minera award at the Cante de las Minas for Best International Flamenco Singer.

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Lucia Flowers

VOICES OF THE FOUNTAIN SOPRANO

Lucia Flowers is a current Michigan local and recent graduate of the University of Michigan where she received her Master’s in Vocal Performance under Dr. Louise Toppin. She is also a proud graduate of SUNY Fredonia, where she studied under Julie Newell. Flowers has been seen on the Detroit Opera stage in their recent productions of Aida starring Angel Blue and Christine Goerke, Lileana Blain-Cruz’s Faust, and Ragnar Kjartansson’s creation, BLISS, re-staged by artistic director Yuval Sharon.

Additional recent credits include the Soprano Soloist in Messiah with the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, Cunegonde in Syracuse Opera’s production of Candide, Musetta in University of Michigan’s La bohème, Frasquita in Carmen with the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, Morgana in University of Michigan’s Alcina, Cunegonde in University of Michigan’s Candide, Amy in Mark Adamo’s Little Women with the Western New York Chamber Orchestra, Patience in Patience with the College Light Opera Company, Lady Larken in Once Upon a Mattress with the College Light Opera Company, and Marian Paroo in The Music Man with the Western New York Chamber Orchestra. During her time with the Brevard Janiec Opera Company, she sang the role of Clorinda in La Cenerentola, the Baroness in Candide, and was one of the soloists in the musical review Sondheim on Sondheim. She is currently performing the title role in Detroit Opera’s touring production of Little Red Riding Hood. Upcoming, she will be singing with the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra as the Queen of the Night in Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte.

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Artist Profiles Gabrielle Barkidjija

VOICES OF THE FOUNTAIN MEZZO-SOPRANO

The Boston Musical Intelligencer recently wrote that mezzo-soprano Gabrielle Barkidjija was “riveting on stage and sang with damnable commitment and satisfying vocal chops.” She is an avid performer of new music and rarely performed works, and has sung many world and regional premieres.

Gabrielle is currently a Resident Artist with Detroit Opera. This season, she covered the roles of Siebel (Faust), Arsamene (Xerxes), and Federico García Lorca (Ainadamar), and will perform as a Voice of the Fountain (Ainadamar). Previous notable roles performed include Zosia (Two Remain), Dorabella (Così fan tutte), Brittomara (If I were You), Ada Lovelace (The Infinite Energy of Ada Lovelace), Fanny Price (Mansfield Park), Captain (Dog Days), Beatrice (Béatrice et Bénédict), and Zerlina (Don Giovanni). She has been a young artist with the Merola Opera Program, Aspen Opera Theater, and Central City Opera, and will be a Tanglewood Music Center Vocal Arts Fellow this coming summer.

Gabrielle has earned awards from the Metropolitan Opera National Competition—Boston and Illinois Districts, the Premiere Opera Foundation, the Gerda Lissner Foundation, the Young Patronesses of the Opera Competition, and the Orpheus Vocal Competition. She received both her Bachelor of Music and her Master of Music from Northwestern University, and was a young artist with the Boston University Opera Institute. She was awarded a full merit scholarship from Northwestern University for the duration of her master’s degree, and was the recipient of the Phyllis Curtin Award upon completion of her two years at Boston University.

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Ben Reisinger MAESTRO

Ben Reisinger is a baritone from Rochester, New York, living in Lansing, Michigan. A first-year member of the Detroit Opera Resident Artist Program, Reisinger attended Michigan State University, studying with Professor Mark Rucker. He also works with Laurie Feldman, stage director, teacher, and coach. He made his Detroit Opera debut earlier this season as Wagner in Faust.

Ben Reisinger is a two-time District of Michigan winner in the Metropolitan National Council Auditions and a two-time Encouragement Award winner and recipient of the Dr. David DiChiera Award both in 2020 and 2021 in the Eastern Regional event. In 2017 he was the American Prize Award winner in Vocal Performance in the Collegiate Opera/Operetta division. He has performed many roles while studying at Michigan State University, notably, Ricky Ian Gordon’s Grapes of Wrath, coached by Ricky Ian Gordon. He was part of the Martina Arroyo Foundation’s “Prelude to Performance Program” in 2017. He has been a frequent performer in masterclasses with many great artists, including Renee Fleming, Jan Opalach, and Julia Bullock. Along with being passionate about opera, Ben was one of the Northeast Vocal Finalists for Michael Feinstein’s Great American Songbook Vocal Competition in New York City.

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Artist Profiles Leo Williams

TORERO

Leo Williams is a proud alumnus of Indiana University and recipient of the Georgina Joshi International Grant, the Jacobs Premier, and the Schmidt Foundation Scholarships. Stage credits at Indiana University include Don Giovanni, La fille du régiment, Peter Grimes, The Crucible, The Consul, Rigoletto, Les pêcheurs de perles, Samson et Dalila, It’s a Wonderful Life, and Lucia di Lammermoor. He has also had an active performing career overseas spanning five continents appearing in La bohème, L’elisir d’amore, Lucia di Lammermoor, and Don Giovanni. Leo was a 2020 Opera Maya Studio artist, Berlin Opera Academy Principal Artist, and an Opernfest Prague Fellow. Recent debuts include Cavaradossi in Tosca for the Sitzprobe with The Naples Philharmonic, Spoletta in Tosca for Gulfshore Opera (Naples, Florida), Macduff and Malcom in Verdi’s Macbeth (Australia), Don Ottavio in Don Giovanni and Tamino in Die Zauberflöte (Germany). He is a past participant in the UNISA International Voice Competition (South Africa), and a recent soloist with the Key Chorale and Sarasota Ballet singing works of Margaret Bonds. After winning a coveted spot in the Nationwide Detroit Opera Resident Artist Program final auditions, he joined the program for the 2022–23 season, where he has been the official cover for Faust in Gounod’s Faust, made his Detroit Opera debut singing the role of Messenger in Aida, and sings the role of Torero in these performances of Golijov’s Fountain of Tears (Ainadamar).

An avid lover of world travel and speaker of five languages with years of classical dance training, Leo is well recognized in South Florida’s Dance and Theatrical Arts community. He served as Assistant Professor of the IU Soul Revue, acting as vocal coach, teacher, and choreographer. Currently teaching as a private voice instructor, he is also a freelance soloist at the First Church of Christian Science in Fort Lauderdale and Church by the Sea in Bal Harbor.

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Kevin Starnes JOSÉ TRIPALDI

Recognized for his rich tone and commanding voice, Kevin Starnes has performed a variety of styles in a career spanning over 20 years. Opera credits include the role of the Duke in Gounod’s Romeo et Juliette, Theseus in Britten’s A Midsummer Nights Dream, Max Kane in William Bolcom’s Dinner at Eight, and Bartolo in Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro.

Kevin graduated from the University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre, and Dance with a Master of Music in voice performance in 2018, and completed his Bachelor of Arts in Music at the Flint campus of the University of Michigan in 2002.

He currently resides in Warren, Michigan, with his lovely wife, Jennifer, and three amazing sons.

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Artist Profiles Antonio Najarro

FLAMENCO CHOREOGRAPHER

Born in Madrid, Antonio Najarro is a prominent ambassador of Spanish dance. An accomplished dancer and choreographer, he studied under many prestigious Spanish dance masters in various styles of dance.

He graduated with honors from the Royal Conservatory of Professional Dance in Madrid and performed leading roles under the direction of Rafael Aguilar, Antonio Gades, Alberto Lorca, Mariemma, José Antonio Ruiz, and José Granero, among others.

Antonio began his career at the age of 15. He was accepted into the Ballet Nacional de España (BNE) in 1997, and three years later, he ascended to the rank of Principal Dancer and choreographer. His exceptional artistic talent led him to choreography as a young dancer.

In 2002 Antonio formed his own company, Compañía Antonio Najarro, where he created, choreographed, and starred in six productions: Tango Flamenco (2002), Flamencoriental (2006), Jazzing Flamenco (2008), Suite Sevilla (2011), Alento (2020), and Querencia (2022). From 2011 to 2019, he was Director of the Ballet Nacional de España.

Antonio's choreographic talents have also grabbed the attention of the figure skating world as well as artistic swimming teams, winning gold medals at World and Olympic Ice Skating competitions. He has been awarded many prestigious national and international dance awards.

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Jon Bausor

SET AND COSTUME DESIGNER

Originally trained in music at Oxford University and the Royal Academy of Music, Jon retrained on the Motley Theatre Design Course graduating as a Linbury Prize finalist in 2000. Since then, he has designed extensively in dance, opera, and theater for companies worldwide. He designed the 2012 Paralympic Games opening ceremony and was recently nominated for an Emmy for production design for the Redbull parkour film Human Pinball.

Theater includes: Into the Woods (Theatre Royal, Bath); Bat Out of Hell (London / Germany / Toronto / New York / Las Vegas); WICKED (Stage Entertainment, Hamburg); True West (West End); Spirited Away (Toho, Japan); Oedipus (Tokyo); Tree (Young Vic / Manchester International Festival); The Take That Musical (West End / UK Tour); The Grinning Man (Bristol Old Vic / West End—Best Design UK Theatre awards); Force Majeur (Donmar); The James Plays (National Theatre / National Theatre Scotland / World tour) and James IV (Scottish tour); Ghost Stories (West End / Toronto / Moscow / Melbourne); Lord of the Flies (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre); MAMETZ (National Theatre of Wales—winner best design UK Theatre awards and Wales Theatre awards); You For Me For You (Royal Court—Best Design, Evening Standard Awards). As an associate artist of the Royal Shakespeare Company, he has designed numerous productions including Hamlet, King Lear, The Winter’s Tale, and the entire 2012 Shipwrecked season.

Dance includes: The Nutcracker (Norwegian National Ballet), several designs for Ballet Rambert, the Royal Opera House, and Netherlands Dans Theater, and works by Liam Scarlett for the Royal Ballet, Norwegian National Ballet, and English National Ballet.

Opera includes: Golden Dragon, Rigoletto, Viktoria & Her Husar (Halles Opera); Cendrillon (Glyndebourne); A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Rigoletto (Oper Halle); Die Walküre (Bordeaux National Opera); The Knot Garden (Theatre an der Wien); The Lighthouse (Montepulciano), and Agrippina (Grange Park Opera).

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Artist Profiles Paul Keogan

LIGHTING DESIGNER

Recent lighting designs include: The Steward of Christendom, Constellations, The Visiting Hour, Hamlet, The Snappers, The Red Shoes (Gate Theatre, Dublin); Translations (Abbey Threatre, Dublin & Lyric Theatre, Belfast); Tales from the Holywell, Portia Coughlan, Walls and Windows, Citysong, Las Orders At The Dockside, Katie Roche (Abbey Theatre, Dublin); Elektra (also set design), Fidelio, 20 Shots of Opera, Aida, The Marriage of Figaro (Irish National Opera); The Gondoliers/Utopia Ltd, Ainadamar (Scottish Opera); Scandaltown. Love Love Love, The Plough and the Stars (Lyric Hammersmith); Doubt (Chichester Festival Theatre); The Naked Hand, Shirley Valentine, Double Cross, Here Comes the Night (Lyric Theatre, Belfast); Happy Days, Blood in the Dirt, Postcards from the Ledge (Landmark Productions, Ireland); I Think We Are Alone (Frantic Assembly, UK Tour); Cyprus Avenue (Abbey Theatre, MAC Belfast, Public Theatre NY, Royal Court); The Caretaker (Bristol Old Vic); The Gaul, A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian (Hull Truck, UK); Guests of the Nation, Far Away (Corcadorca Theatre Company, Cork); The Treaty, Duck Duck Goose (also set design for Fishamble, Dublin); Semele, The Return of Ulysses (also set design for Opera Collective, Ireland); Dyad (Justine Doswell Dance, Dublin); Sama, Flight (Rambert, UK); Lost, Giselle (Ballet Ireland); Hansel and Gretel, Cassandra (Royal Ballet, UK); No Man’s Land (English National Ballet, Queensland Ballet, Australia).

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Tal Rosner

PROJECTION DESIGNER

Artist and creative director Tal Rosner works closely with musicians, theater makers, and fashion brands—combining multiple layers of sound and visuals to create video installations and live performances. The scope of his output covers a uniquely wide spectrum: from world leading orchestras such as the New York Philharmonic, via rock and pop legends Rolling Stones and the Commonwealth Games, to leading fashion houses Louis Vuitton and Marni. His musical eye has earned him a spotlight on the international stage for video design, as well as critical acclaim for his distinctive approach to rhythm and colour.

Most recently, Rosner designed the video for both Opening and Closing Ceremonies of the XXII Commonwealth Games in Birmingham (2022), and for Fountain of Tears (Ainadamar) (dir. Deborah Colker) for Scottish Opera, a new co-production with Opera Ventures, Detroit Opera, The Metropolitan Opera, and Welsh National Opera. He is currently working on the video element for Winterreise (dir. Barbara Lluch) for Barcelona‘s Liceu (2023).

Additional theatre and dance credits include: Everyman (dir. Rufus Norris) and Husbands and Sons (dir. Marianne Elliott) at the National Theatre; You For Me For You (dir. Richard Twyman) and X, The Glow (dir. Vicky Featherstone) at the Royal Court; The Most Incredible Thing (Pet Shop Boys, dir. Javier de Frutos) for Charlotte Ballet, North Carolina; and Les Enfants terribles (Philip Glass, dir. Javier de Frutos) at the Royal Ballet.

Rosner was born in Jerusalem and now lives and works in London.

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Artist Profiles Mark Grey SOUND DESIGNER Mark Grey is an Emmy Award-winning sound designer and composer who made history as the first sound designer for the New York Philharmonic (On the Transmigration of Souls, 2002, which also won the Pulitzer Prize in Music) and the Metropolitan Opera (Doctor Atomic, 2008; Nixon in China, 2011; The Death of Klinghoffer, 2014; The Merry Widow, 2015; Bluebeard’s Castle/ Iolanta, 2015; L’Amour de Loin, 2016). He also did the sound design for Blue at The Aretha Franklin Amphitheatre for Detroit Opera in September 2021.

The grand opera he composed, Frankenstein, premiered at La Monnaie in Brussels in 2019 as well as his mobile chamber opera, Birds in the Moon, with the New York Philharmonic in 2021. He also has had several commissions from the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and the Los Angeles Philharmonic. He has collaborated with composer John Adams and several others for nearly three decades. His sound designs have been heard throughout most major concert halls, HD simulcast theaters, and opera houses worldwide.

Joanne Middleton Weaver WIG & MAKEUP DESIGNER

Born in England, Joanne Middleton Weaver came to the United States in the late 1980s. She began apprenticing with Elsen Associates at what was then Washington Opera, now Washington National Opera.

Joanne has since designed at many opera companies throughout the US during her 30-year career: Glimmerglass Opera, Sarasota Opera, Palm Beach Opera, and Des Moines Metro Opera, to name a few. She has designed for Detroit Opera (previously Michigan Opera Theatre) since 1995. Her credits there include La bohème, The Passenger, Frida, Margaret Garner, Cyrano, Faust, Xerxes, and make-up design for X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X.

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Julia Ruiz Fernandez DANCE CAPTAIN Julia Ruiz Fernandez is a versatile professional dancer. She has been working worldwide as a dancer for the last eight years, performing at the Royal Opera House in London for seven years, and touring across the country with Strictly Come Dancing UK tours. Recently she was an ensemble member of the West End Gloria Estefan musical On Your Feet. She also toured as the main solo dancer in productions of the opera Carmen throughout the UK, Spain, and France. Furthermore, she was a dancer in the original cast of Fountain of Tears (Ainadamar) with Scottish Opera in 2022.

Julia’s passion for dance made her train in every dance style—ballet, contemporary, flamenco, ballroom and latin, jazz, commercial and musical theater. She garnered the title of European Champion in Latin Dance at the age of 16, and since then she has been following her dreams and pursuing her artistic career.

Olivia Brookes DANCER Olivia Brookes is a dancer, choreographer, and teacher born and raised in the Atlanta metropolitan area. Olivia began her training at Sugarloaf Ballet in Suwanee, Georgia. She went on to deepen her training at Point Park University and graduated summa cum laude in 2022 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Dance and a minor in Psychology. Olivia has performed works by various renowned choreographers, including Paul Taylor, Justin Peck, Jessica Lang, Martha Nichols, and Stephanie Pizzo. She also performed in Pittsburgh Musical Theater’s 2022 production of Jesus Christ Superstar. She is currently an apprentice with Eisenhower Dance Detroit under the direction of Stephanie Pizzo.

Olivia looks forward to taking the stage with Detroit Opera for her first opera and is honored to be performing with this talented cast.

Áine Dorman DANCER Áine Dorman was born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, where she began her professional dance training at the San Francisco Ballet School. She graduated from the University of California, Irvine in 2019 with a bachelor’s degree in both dance and public health sciences, and completed postgraduate studies at Hubbard Street Dance Chicago’s Professional Program under the direction of Alexandra Wells. Upon graduation, she joined Eisenhower Dance Detroit as an apprentice, where she is in her second season. She has performed works by Lar Lubovitch, Peter Chu, and Rena Butler, to name a few. Áine is a fashion/costume designer and the owner of her design brand Undercurve where she explores design as a means to connect movement back to the community. She has launched two successful clothing collections, and designed/crafted costumes for Eisenhower Dance Detroit and Post:ballet’s Spring 22 and upcoming Spring 23 season. She made her debut with the Detroit Opera in February 2022 as a dance soloist in Frida and is honored to return to the stage this year!

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Artist Profiles Jonathan Pacheco DANCER Jonathan Pacheco began his Spanish dance studies in 2013 while attending Northeastern Illinois University. Currently, he is a Company Dancer with the Ensemble Español Spanish Dance Theater.

Jonathan’s dance training has included working with Irma Suárez Ruiz, Wendy Clinard, Jose Barrios, Raquel Gomez, Angel Rojas, Carlos Rodriguez, Lola Greco, and founding members of the National Ballet of Spain Juan Mata and Ana Gonzalez. He has trained in ballet with Anna Czajun, Laura Wade, and Patti Eylar. In 2017, he was awarded a scholarship to continue his training at the Lou Conte Dance Studio of Hubbard Street Dance Chicago under the leadership of studio director Claire Bataille. Jonathan performs nationally and internationally with the Ensemble Español, including the company’s 2016 tour to Spain. He graduated summa cum laude from Northeastern Illinois University in 2017.

Elisabet Torras Aguilera DANCER Born and raised in Barcelona, Elisabet Torras Aguilera earned a BA in Spanish Dance / Flamenco at the Conservatory of Dance & Theater. She has performed internationally with Manolo Carrasco, Javier Latorre’s Somorrostro Dansa Flamenca, Rojas&Rodriguez and has appeared throughout the U.S. as a solo artist and with companies such as Noche Flamenca, Flamenco Vivo, Omayra Amaya, A Palo Seco Flamenco Company, and as a guest artist/choreographer with Dance Heginbotham Contemporary Dance Company and Ensemble Español Spanish Dance Theater. She appeared in the lead role of an award-winning short film by Sophia Conger and is the featured dancer at the Annual Gala of Zarzuelas at Carnegie Hall. Elisabet received the Award for Outstanding Artistic Career in 2019. She has presented her choreography in New York and at the American Spanish Dance & Music Festival 2022 in Chicago, Illinois. Elisabet resides in New York City where she performs, teaches, and lectures on Flamenco & Spanish Dance.

Isaac Tovar DANCER Isaac Tovar is an accomplished flamenco dancer and choreographer from Seville, Spain. He was a longtime soloist of the Ballet Nacional de España, Ballet Flamenco de Andalucia, Compañia Andaluza de Danza, Compañia Antonio “El Pipa”, and Compañia Aida Gómez, among many other premier Spanish and international companies.

Isaac recently choreographed and performed in a production of Bizet’s Carmen at Lincoln Center in New York City. He was then featured alongside Esperanza Fernandez and conductor Carlos Miguel Prieto in performances of Manuel de Falla’s stage works at the New World Symphony Orchestra in Miami. Isaac headlined Festival Flamenco at the Aga Khan Museum in Toronto in 2022. His first solo production, Añejo, debuted in Seville in 2018, and his second production, Generaciónes, premiered at the prestigious Royal Theater in Madrid in 2019. Tovar is the recipient of numerous important first prizes in dance, and has worked alongside flamenco legends in iconic theaters around the world.

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BOARD OF DIRECTORS JULY 1, 2022 – JUNE 30, 2023

Chair

Ethan D. Davidson

Vice Chair

Mary Kramer

Vice Chair

Peter Oleksiak

Vice Chair Don Manvel

Secretary

Gene P. Bowen

Treasurer

Enrico Digirolamo

Immediate Past Chair R. Jamison Williams

President/CEO

Wayne S. Brown

Naomi André Richard A. Brodie James Ciroli Kevin Dennis Lisa M. DiChiera Shauna Ryder Diggs Michael Einheuser Marianne Endicott Fern R. Espino Paul E. Ewing Bharat Gandhi John P. Hale Devon Hoover John W. Ingle III Danialle Karmanos 44

Barbara Kratchman Thomas M. Krikorian Denise Lewis Franck Louis-Victor Alphonse S. Lucarelli Dexter Mason Ali Moiin Donald Morelock Sara Pozzi Paul Ragheb Ruth Rattner Irvin D. Reid Pamela E. Rodgers Evan Ross Ankur Rungta Terry Shea Matthew Simoncini Richard Sonenklar Lorna Thomas Jesse Venegas Gary L. Wasserman Ellen Hill Zeringue

Directors Emeriti

Margaret Allesee Elizabeth Brooks Shelly Cooper Cameron B. Duncan Marjorie M. Fisher Barbara Frankel Herman Frankel Dean Friedman Jennifer Nasser Charlotte Podowski Audrey Rose William Sandy C. Thomas Toppin Richard Webb

BOARD OF TRUSTEES

Margo Cohen Feinberg and Robert Feinberg Oscar and Dede Feldman Carl and Mary Ann Fontana JULY 1, 2022 – JUNE 30, 2023 Elaine Fontana Kenn and Liz Allen Bharat and Lynn Gandhi Lourdes V. Andaya Barbara Garavaglia Naomi André Yousif and Mara Ghafari Harold Mitchell Arrington Carolyn Gordon Beverly Avadenka Toby Haberman Floy Barthel John and Kristan Hale Barbra Bloch Doreen Hermelin Gene P. Bowen Derek Hodgson Betty J. Bright Devon Hoover Richard Brodie John and Tara Ingle III Wayne S. Brown and Brenda Kee Alan and Eleanor Israel Charles D. Bullock Don Jensen and Leo Dovelle James and Elizabeth Ciroli Kent and Amy Jidov Lois Cohn Gary and Gwenn Johnson Thomas Cohn Jill Johnson Françoise Colpron Ellen Kahn Peter and Shelly Cooper Peter and Danialle Karmanos Helen Daoud Stephanie Germack Kerzic Maureen D’Avanzo Mary Kramer Ethan and Gretchen Davidson Michael and Barbara Kratchman Kevin Dennis and Jeremy Zeltzer Thomas and Deborah Krikorian Cristina DiChiera Linda Dresner and Ed Levy, Jr. Lisa M. DiChiera Denise J. Lewis Shauna Ryder Diggs Arthur and Nancy Liebler Enrico and Kathleen Digirolamo Stephan and Marian Loginsky Debbie Dingell Mary Alice Lomason Mary Jane Doerr Franck and Soo Louis-Victor Michael Einheuser Alphonse S. Lucarelli Kenneth and Frances Eisenberg Don Manvel Marianne Endicott Ronald and Zvjezdana Martella Alex Erdeljan Jack Martin and Fern R. Espino and Thomas Short Bettye Arrington-Martin Paul and Mary Sue Ewing

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Dexter Mason Benjamin Meeker and Meredith Korneffel Phillip D. Minch Ali Moiin and William Kupsky Donald and Antoinette Morelock E. Michael and Dolores Mutchler Allan and Joy Nachman Juliette Okotie-Eboh Peter Oleksiak Linda Orlans Richard and Debra Partrich Spencer and Myrna Partrich Daniel and Margaret Pehrson Sara Pozzi Waltraud Prechter Ted & Carrie Pryor Paul and Amy Ragheb John and Terry Rakolta Ruth F. Rattner Irvin D. Reid and Pamela Trotman Reid Pamela E. Rodgers David and Jacqueline Roessler Audrey Rose Evan and Kelsey Ross Anthony and Sabrina Rugiero Ankur Rungta and Mayssoun Bydon Hershel and Dorothy Sandberg Donald and Kim Schmidt Arlene Shaler Terry Shea Matthew and Mona Simoncini Sheila Sloan Phyllis F. Snow Richard A. Sonenklar and Gregory Haynes

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Mary Anne Stella Lorna Thomas James G. Vella Jesse and Yesenia Venegas Marilyn Victor Bradley Wakefield and Meghann Rutherford Gary L. Wasserman R. Jamison and Karen Williams Mary Lou Zieve Ellen Hill Zeringue

Trustees Emeriti

Agustin Arbulu Lawrence and Dodie David Dean and Aviva Friedman Preston and Mary Happel Robert and Wally Klein Charlotte and Charles Podowski William and Marjorie Sandy Roberta Starkweather C. Thomas and Bernie Toppin

Founding Members Lynn* and Ruth* Townsend Avern* and Joyce* Cohn John and Mardell De Carlo David* and Karen V.* DiChiera Aaron* and Bernice* Gershenson Donald* and Josephine* Graves Roman* and Katherine* Gribbs John* and Gwendolyn* Griffin Harry* and Jennie* Jones Wade* and Dores* McCree Harry J. Nederlander* E. Harwood Rydholm* Neil Snow Phyllis F. Snow

Richard* and Beatrice* Strichartz Robert* and Clara* “Tuttie” VanderKloot Sam* and Barbara* Williams Theodore* and Virginia* Yntema

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Make Your Debut at the Opera House!

SUMMER PROGR A MS 2023

Operetta Remix July 27–August 11, 2023; 10 am–4 pm AGES 13 TO 18

Operetta Remix is perfect for young people ages 13 to 18 who want to gain experience and receive direction in singing, acting, stage movement, healthy vocal technique, and audition practice.

Taught by experienced opera and theatre professionals, Operetta Remix will explore scenes and songs from your favorite operettas and musicals, and will culminate with a performance on the main stage of the Detroit Opera House at 7:00 pm on August 11, 2023.

Create & Perform July 10–21, 2023; 10 am–4 pm AGES 8 TO 12

Create & Perform is an innovative two-week program in which young people create their own stories, music compositions, and dances, culminating in a performance at the Detroit Opera House. Participants in the Create & Perform program get to take part in all aspects of mounting a new production, and will build their skills as performers, composers, designers, directors, and crew members while they write and perform an original opera. Final performance will take place Friday, July 21 at 6:00 pm.

For more information and to register, scan the QR code.

Scholarships available! E-mail Andrea Scobie, Director of Education, at ascobie@detroitopera.org

A scene from Fountain of Tears (Ainadamar) Photo: James Glossop / Scottish Opera

Detroit Opera Needs You! With your dedication and partnership, Detroit Opera continues to provide meaningful artistic experiences for our community and inspire audiences of the future.

You can make a difference with a gift to Detroit Opera.

Your financial support for Detroit Opera today generates a significant portion of our overall funding and represents an investment in the next generation of opera and dance.

Thank you for all the ways you support us!

Visit us at DetroitOpera.org / donate or give us a call at 313.237.3236

THANK YOU TO OUR DONORS Detroit Opera Honor Roll Detroit Opera gratefully acknowledges these generous donors for their cumulative lifetime giving. Their support has played a vital role in the history of Detroit Opera since being founded by Dr. David DiChiera as Michigan Opera Theatre in 1971 and the building of the Detroit Opera House in 1996.

Their leadership plays an integral part in the company’s viability, underwriting quality opera and dance performances, as well as awardwinning community and education programs. $10,000,000 and above Ford Motor Company Fund The State of Michigan William Davidson Foundation $7,500,000 and above General Motors $5,000,000 and above Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan Stellantis The Kresge Foundation $2,000,000 and above Mr.* and Mrs. Douglas Allison Floy & Lee Barthel Marvin, Betty & Joanne Danto Dance Endowment and Marvin and Betty Danto Family Foundation Linda Dresner & Ed Levy, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Herman Frankel John S. and James L. Knight Foundation Lear Corporation Masco Corporation McGregor Fund The Skillman Foundation R. Jamison and Karen Williams $1,000,000 and above Mr. Robert & Mrs. Margaret Allesee*

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Mr.* and Mrs. Eugene Applebaum AT&T Bank of America Mr.* and Mrs. John A. Boll Sr. Compuware Corporation Estate of Robert & RoseAnn Comstock DTE Energy Foundation Mrs. Margo Cohen Feinberg and Mr. Robert Feinberg Mrs. Barbara Frankel* and Mr. Ronald Michalak Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Frankel* The Fred A. & Barbara M. Erb Family Foundation Hudson-Webber Foundation JPMorgan Chase Mr. and Mrs. Peter Karmanos Paul Lavins Mandell L. and Madeleine H. Berman Foundation Matilda R. Wilson Fund Max M. & Marjorie S. Fisher Foundation National Endowment for the Arts Richard Sonenklar and Gregory Haynes Household Gary L. Wasserman & Charles A. Kashner Dr. and Mrs. Sam B. Williams* Every effort has been made to accurately reflect donor names and gift levels. Should you find an error or omission, please contact Zach Suchanek at zsuchanek@detroitopera.org or 313.237.3427

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Contributors to Detroit Opera Detroit Opera gratefully acknowledges these generous corporate, foundation, government, and individual donors whose contributions to Detroit Opera were made between November 1, 2021 and December 31, 2022. The generosity of our donors is vital to sustaining Detroit Opera’s position as a valued cultural resource.

Foundations, Corporate & Government Support $500,000+ William Davidson Foundation

$250,000-$499,999 The Fred A. & Barbara M. Erb Family Foundation

$100,000-$249,999 Ford Motor Company Fund General Motors Corporation Hudson-Webber Foundation John S. and James L. Knight Foundation Max M. & Marjorie S. Fisher Foundation The Mellon Foundation National Endowment for the Arts OPERA America Ralph C. Wilson Jr. Foundation

$50,000-$99,999 Alex and Lil Erdeljan Foundation Flagstar Bank Gilbert Family Foundation The Kresge Foundation Marvin & Betty Danto Family Foundation Milner Hotels Foundation The Skillman Foundation

$25,000-$49,999 DTE Energy Foundation Matilda R. Wilson Fund MGM Grand Detroit The State of Michigan The Williams Family Fund

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$10,000-$24,999 Audiovisions J. Addison Bartush and Marion M. Bartush Educational Fund Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan Crain Communications Inc. Geoinge Foundation Gerson Family Foundation, Inc. Herman and Sharon Frankel Foundation Huntington Bank Ida and Conrad H. Smith Endowment for MOT The Mary Thompson Foundation Masco Corporation McGregor Fund The Miami Foundation Oliver Dewey Marcks Foundation Ralph L. and Winifred E. Polk Foundation The Rattner and Katz Charitable Foundation SOLO World Partners LLC Williams, Williams, Rattner & Plunkett P.C. Worthington Family Foundation Burton A. Zipser and Sandra D. Zipser Foundation

$5,000-$9,999 A Comprehensive Dermatology Center Chemico LLC The Dolores And Paul Lavins Foundation Honigman LLP Ida & Conrad H. Smith Endowment Ideal Group, Inc. Independent Bank

The Karen & Drew Peslar Foundation Louis and Nellie Sieg Fund Ms. Maryanne Mott The Right Productions, Inc. Rugiero Promise Foundation The Samuel L. Westerman Foundation Seligman Family Foundation Strum Allesee Family Foundation

$1,000-$4,999 ABM Janitorial Services John A. & Marlene L. Boll Foundation Financial One Accounting The Gilmour-Jirgens Fund James & Lynelle Holden Fund Josephine Kleiner Foundation Joyce Cohn Young Artist Fund Marjorie & Maxwell Jospey Foundation Pellerito Manzella Certa & Cusmano Family Foundation Sandy Family Foundation Sigmund and Sophie Rohlik Foundation Somerset Collection Charitable Foundation

Individual Support $100,000+ Ethan and Gretchen Davidson Dr. Evelyn J. Fisher* Estate of Barbara Lucking Freedman Linda Dresner & Ed Levy, Jr. Matthew and Mona Simoncini Richard Sonenklar and Gregory Haynes Gary L. Wasserman & Charles A. Kashner

$50,000-$99,999 Richard and Mona Alonzo Joanne Danto and Arnold Weingarden Mrs. Barbara Frankel* and Mr. Ronald Michalak Alphonse S. Lucarelli Don Manvel The Hon. Jack & Dr. Bettye Arrington Martin The Nancy A. Norling Trust Mrs. Ruth F. Rattner Jesse and Yesenia Venegas R. Jamison and Karen Williams

$20,000-$49,999 Wayne Brown and Brenda Kee Edward and Judith Christian Mr. Adam Crysler & Dr. Oxana Crysler Kevin Dennis and Jeremy Zeltzer Alex & Lil Erdeljan Foundation Fern Espino and Tom Short Mrs. Elaine Fontana Mr. and Mrs. Herman Frankel Ann Katz Ms. Mary Kramer Michael and Barbara Kratchman Paul Lavins Denise J. Lewis Nancy and Bud Liebler Susanne McMillan Ali Moiin and William Kupsky Donald and Antoinette Morelock James and Ann Nicholson Peter Oleksiak Ankur Rungta and Mayssoun Bydon Lorna Thomas, MD

$10,000-$19,999 Dr. Lourdes V. Andaya Mr. Joseph A. Bartush James and Elizabeth Ciroli Ms. Julia Donovan Darlow & Hon. John C. O’Meara Shauna Ryder Diggs, MD Enrico and Kathleen Digirolamo Carl and Mary Ann Fontana Ralph and Erica Gerson Christine Goerke

John and Kristan Hale Dr. Devon Hoover Ms. Mary C. Mazure Benjamin Meeker & Meredith Korneffel, MD Mr. Stuart Meiklejohn Mr. Cyril Moscow Dr. Paulette Moulton Allan & Joy Nachman Philanthropic Fund William and Wendy Powers Dr. & Mrs. Samir Ragheb Ms. Patricia H. Rodzik Joe Skoney and Luisa Di Lorenzo Mr. & Mrs. C. Thomas Toppin Ricard Ventura* Ellen Hill Zeringue Anonymous

$5,000-$9,999 Mr. & Mrs. Robert & Margaret Allesee* Dr. Harold M. Arrington Richard and Susan Bingham Gene P. Bowen Ilse Calcagno Mr. Thomas Cohn John and Doreen Cole Ms. Violet Dalla Vecchia Mark Davidoff and Marjorie Dunn Ms. Laurie R. Frankel Gil Glassberg and Sandra Seligman James and Nancy Grosfeld Addison and Deborah Igleheart Kent and Amy Jidov Mrs. Stephanie Germack Kerzic Stephan and Marian Loginsky Robert and Terri Lutz Phillip and Dawn* Minch Mrs. L. William Moll Ms. Maryanne Mott Ms. Shirley Moulton Evan and Kelsey Ross Anthony and Sabrina Rugiero Barbara Van Dusen Dr. John Weber & Dr. Dana Zakalik Ned and Joan Winkelman Anonymous

$3,000-$4,999 Paul & Lee Blizman G. Peter and Martha Blom* Bob and Rosemary Brasie Beverly Hall Burns Robert C. and RoseAnn B. Comstock* Carolyn Demps and Guy Simons Cristina DiChiera and Neal Walsh Dr. Elizabeth Goodenough Mr. Robert Hage Barbara Heller Mr. William Hulsker Carole Ilitch John and Arlene Lewis Sharon Madison Ms. Mary McGough Ms. Evelyn Micheletti George and Nancy Nicholson Mr. George & Mrs. Jo Elyn Nyman Brock and Katherine L. Plumb Mrs. Rosalind B. Sell Lois and Mark Shaevsky Mr. Michael Simmons Frank and Susan Sonye Dr. Gregory E. Stephens, D.O. Margaret Winters and Geoffrey Nathan Lucia Zamorano

$2,500-$2,999 Thomas and Gretchen Anderson D.L. Anthony, Ph.D. Marcia Applebaum Gregory and Mary Barkley Ms. Nicole A. Boelstler Mr.* and Mrs. John A. Boll Sr. Mr. Charles D. Bullock Dr. & Mrs. Ronald T. Burkman Ms. Karen Curatolo Walter and Lillian Dean Dr. Raina Ernstoff & Mr. Sanford Hansell Sally and Michael Feder Robert and Amy Folberg Yvonne Friday and Stephen Black Clifford and Zoe Furgison Glendon M. Gardner and Leslie Landau Allan Gilmour and Eric Jirgens Samuel* and Toby Haberman

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Max Lepler and Rex Dotson Mary B. Letts Eugene and Lois Miller Van Momon and Pamela L. Berry Dr. & Mrs. Peter Nickles Terry Packer Sara A. Pozzi, Ph.D. Irvin and Pamela Reid Janice Ross Susan Sills-Levey and Michael Levey Susan A Smith Ms. Mary Anne Stella Joel Tauber Buzz Thomas & Daniel Vander Ley Dorothy Tomei Jeff and Amy Voigt Stanley Waldon Prof. Michael Wellman Bret and Susanna Williams

$1,000-$2,499 Nina and Howard Abrams Mr. James Anderson Robert and Elaine Appel Mr. Michael Asher Mr. Steve Bellock Mr. Stanislaw Bialoglowski Ms. Constance Bodurow Donald and Marilyn Bowerman Albert and Janette Cassar Howard & Judith Christie Fitzroy and April Clarke Devon Shea Cook James and Christine Cortez Patricia Cosgrove Lisa DiChiera Mr. Cameron B. Duncan Marjory Winkelman Epstein Paul and Mary Sue Ewing Burke & Carol Fossee Bharat and Lynn Gandhi Michael and Virginia Geheb Thomas M. Gervasi Jillian Gibbs Mr. Lawrence Glowczewski Philip and Martha Gray Nadia Clealure Greenidge Ms. Carole Hardy Ms. Nancy B. Henk Derek and Karen* Hodgson Eleanor & Alan Israel

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Richard and Involut Jessup Ellen Kahn Roberto Kalb & Mane Galoyan Marc Keshishian and Susanna Szelestey Mr. & Mrs. Gerd H Keuffel Julie Kim Edward and Barbara Klarman Gregory Knas Mary Jane & Jeff Kupsky Meria Larson Mr. John Lovegren & Mr. Daniel Isenschmid Ms. Denise Lutz Mr. Loreto A. Manzo Ms. Florine Mark Ms. Janet Groening Marsh Ronald and Zvjezdana Martella Patrick and Patricia McKeever Brian and Lisa Meer Xavier and Maeva Mosquet Harold Munson and Libby Berger Brian Murphy and Toni Sanchez-Murphy Richard & Kathleen Nauer Joshua and Rachel Opperer Ms. Linda Orlans Gilbert Padula Mr. Michael Parisi Coleen Pellerito Mark and Kyle Peterson Mr. Shane Pliska Michael and Charlene Prysak Dr. Monique Reeves Peter Remington and Peggy Daitch George and Aphrodite Roumell William and Marjorie Sandy Mary Schlaff and Sanford Koltonow William and Mary Schwark James and Laura Sherman Thomas and Sharon Shumaker Mr. Zon Shumway Frank and Rose Marie Sosnowski Ms. Theresa Spear & Mr. Jeff Douma Gabriel and Martha Stahl

Mrs. Susanne Radom Stroh Paul Tomboulian Jeffrey Tranchida and Noel Baril Joseph and Rosalie Vicari John and Susan Zaretti

$750-$999 Ms. Geraldine Atkinson Ms. Kanta Bhambhani Barbra Bloch Mr. Alan S Brown Frank and Jenny Brzenk Tonino and Sarah Corsetti Brandt and Vanessa Crutcher Jerry* and Maureen D’Avanzo Sharon and Vito Gioia Katharine Nipper Mrs. Beverly A. Thomas Ms. Kathryn Wilson

$500-$749 Dr. Antonia Abbey Dr. Goncalo Abecasis Michael and Katherine Alioto Dr. Naomi André Robert and Catherine Anthony Nancy Azizi Ms. Allison Bach Beth Baerman Dr. & Mrs. Jeffrey Band Mr. Sean A Bannon Leland Bassett Mr. Al Beachum Cecilia Benner Eugene and Roselyn Blanchard Ms. Barbara Bowman Gerald and Marceline Bright Marsha Bruhn Ms. Susan Cameron Beverly & Reginald* Ciokajlo Jonathan Cohn and Daniela Wittmann John and Cynthia Cross Charitable Fund Ms. Joyce E. Delamarter Eugene* and Elaine Driker Daniel and Susan Drucker Madel Ernemann Daniel H. Ferrier Barbara Fisher and William Gould Sue Force Daniel and Katharine Frohardt-Lane

Carol Gagliardi and David Flesher Mrs. Louise Giddings John Gierak and Dona Tracey Joseph and Lois Gilmore Thea Glicksman Mr. Robert Theodore Goldman Mr. Nathaniel Good Ms. Glynes Graham Mrs. Stefania Gualdi Giacinta Gualtieri Mr. Tom Hamon Ms. Albertine Harmon Michael Hathaway Paul and Nancy Hillegonds Beth Hoger & Lisa Swem Ms. Theresa Munger Howard William and Sarah Hufford Elanah Nachman Hunger Robert Jesurum and Christine Petrucci David and Theresa Joswick Geraldine and Jacqueline Keller Kathy Kercorian Judith and Stephen Kesler Ms. Lee Khachaturian Justin and Joanne Klimko Mr. Alex Koprivica Ms. Cynthia Kratchman William and Jean Kroger Mr. Eric Krukonis Andy Levin & Mary Freeman John and Kimi Lowe Joseph and Sandra Lupo Dr. William Lusk Mrs. Marsha Lynn Ms. Margaret MacTavish Ms. Vera C. Magee Steven and Jennifer Marlette Matthew Mason and Renate Klass Mr. John McElroy Ms. Lynne M. Metty Dr. Anne Missavage & Mr. Robert Borcherding Carol Treat Morton Richard and Kathleen Nauer Ms. Lois Norman Mr. D. Sean Panikkar Anne Parsons and Donald Dietz

Ms. Haryani Permana Elaine and Bertram Pitt Garry Post and Robert Hill Mrs. Janet Pounds Mr. Dennis C. Regan & Miss Ellen M. Strand Concetta Ross Leroy and Maria Runk Donald Runyon Mr. Rodney Michael Rusk Dr. Christina Shanti Walter Shapero and Kathleen Straus Ms. Brenda Shufelt Allan Skoropa Melissa Smiley Andrew J. Sturgess Patricia Terry-Ross Michele and Scott Toenniges John M. Toth Barbara and Stuart Trager Maria Urquidi

Mat Vanderkloot Dennis and Jennifer Varian Ms. Janet Beth Weir Meredith Weston-Band and Jeffery Band David and Barbara Whittaker Mr. W. Gary & Mrs. Cathy Wood Mr. David D. Woodard Every effort has been made to accurately reflect donor names and gift levels. Should you find an error or omission, please contact Zach Suchanek at zsuchanek@detroitopera.org or 313.237.3427

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Gifts in Tribute We extend a heartfelt thank you to the families, friends, colleagues, businesses and groups who generously made gifts to Detroit Opera in honor of or in memory of the special peoples in their lives, whose names are listed bold below.

IN HONOR OF Wayne Brown Hugh Smith and Marsha Kindall-Smith Ryan Taylor Ethan & Gretchen Davidson Joshua and Rachel Opperer R. Jamison and Karen Williams Peter Remington and Peggy Daitch Christine Goerke M. Calien Lewis Beth Kirton PEO Chapter X Chelsea Kotula Bernard and Eleanor A. Robertson Mary Kramer David and Carol Domina

Alphonse Lucarelli Mr. Adam Crysler & Dr. Oxana Crysler Dr. William J. Kupsky & Dr. Ali Moiin Elliott Broom Daniele & Stefania Castiglioni, & family Ms. Wendy L Ecker Carole Ilitch Mary Jane & Jeff Kupsky William and Elizabeth S. Kupsky Household Ms. Elizabeth Kupsky Ms. Linda Orlans Ms. Jane M Pappalardo Mrs. Ruth F. Rattner Susan J. Smith Sanjay Soni Ruth Rattner Ann Katz

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IN MEMORY OF Tikiya Allen Ms. Bonnie E Whittaker Sylvester, Bedel Mr. Brandon James Frey Enola Dawkins Bell Ms. Naomi Edwards Martha Blom Dorothy & Seth Hemming John Boll R. Jamison and Karen Williams Mark Braciszewski Jennifer & Megan Czar Mary Munger Brown Ms. Theresa Munger Howard Reginald Ciokatlo Beverly Ciokajlo Gloria Clark Joanne Danto and Arnold Weingarden Steven and Jennifer Marlette Harry T. Cook II Ms. Susan Chevalier Karen DiChiera J. Addison Bartush and Marion M. Bartush Educational Fund Mr. Richard D. Cavaler Hon. Avern Cohn* & Ms. Lois Pincus Cohn Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan Joanne Danto and Arnold Weingarden Nancy Kimball Knudsen Family Fund at the Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan Ms. Maryanne Mott Ms. Maryanne Mott Sarah Mumford Patrick Murray William & Martha Walsh Kevin and Andrea Webber Donald R. Epstein Marjory Winkelman Epstein Barbara Frankel Janice and Larry Cohen Melissa Cohen Couzens, Lanksy, Fealk, Ellis, Roeder & Lazar P.C. Gretchen & Ethan Davidson Enrico and Kathleen Digirolamo James and Margo Farber Mr. and Mrs. Herman Frankel Carolyn Gordon David and Rose Handleman Patti Kommel Mark and Debbie Landau Sarah Larges

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Stanley Lecznar Jan Rosen Bernard and Donna Rubin William and Marjorie Sandy Brian Slickis Dean Allan Maya Rose Slickis Charles and Virginia Slickis Mr. Charles Slickis Debra Wichterman Dorothy Gerson Mrs. Ruth F. Rattner William & Janet Goudie Edward Goudie Eugene Hillelfinger Ms. Betty J. Atkins Wallace Ayotte Elizabeth Bacon-Pituch and Keenan Pituch Samson Crowl and Carolyn Crowl Ruth Daley Mark and Susan Mutter Mario Iacobelli Brent & Wendy Bowman Beverly M Campbell Jim Eagle Mr. Howard Emorey Jillian Gibbs Dean, Amy, Jason, & Alyse Gilbert Howard & Janice Goldman Mr. & Mrs. Donald Hosmer Jorge & Sonia Just Ms. Martha F Leviant Karol and Patrick Mikula Mrs. Karol Mikula Joy & Allan Nachman Earl and Sandra Rusnak Lori Soifer Stephen & Michelle Vurdelja Erica Ward Gerson Mr. George Waxler Patrick & Dawn Werner George D Westermen Ronald Kohls Dennis and Judith Voketz Ms. Robin Renae Walker Mr. & Mrs. Darwin Larson Nancy Larson Ratajczak Susan Lessien Brenda Sanford Mado Lie Brenda Sanford Blackbaud Giving Fund Ms. Barbara Homan Bonnie J. Jobe & Lawrence Walsh Marc Lie Adam Lynch Kate Netto Annie Antar Eugene and Roselyn Blanchard

William and Margaret Harber Andrew Spector and Onyi Iwela Tatiana C. Padula Gilbert Padula Elita Lily Salustro Alison Hirschel Ms. Sharon A Jourdan Anne Neale and Richard Scott Barbara Redstone Carol Roble Anita Salustro Ms. Evelia Steinke Ms. Janet Stenger Ariel Sharon Mali Sharon James Slowick Ms. Claire Galed Ms. Susan Hill & Mr. Bill Holmes Ms. Margaret Peters Dr. Charles B. Smith Dr. Peggie Smith Robert Green Sweeten Mary Margaret Sweeten Brigadier General Norman Thorpe Stacey Boyle Peter Schwartz Ms. Diane Wanagat Alice Tomboulian Paul Tomboulian Richard Ventura David Kwasny Martha & Barry Taylor Daryl and Lucie Witte Tamara Lehew Whitty Jason and Randi Albright Sarah Bentley Mr. Dan Convery Mark Freeman Ron & Marilyn Hudale Daniel & Sharon Ihlenfeld John and Arlene Lewis Robert and Jennifer Moll Mr. Michael Novak Mr. & Mrs. John Shipman Osler, Jr Drs. Adam and Rebecca Rubin Anthony and Theresa Selvaggio Avis Stewart Jennifer Woodman Every effort has been made to accurately reflect donor and honoree/memorial names for gifts received between November 1, 2021 and December 31, 2022. Should you find an error or omission, please contact Zach Suchanek at zsuchanek@detroitopera.org or 313.237.3427

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THE DAVID DiCHIERA ARTISTIC FUND In remembrance of our founder and long-term general director, The David DiChiera Artistic Fund has been established to support and honor his artistic vision.

This fund enables Detroit Opera to produce compelling opera, present innovative dance, and engage with thousands of students and members of our community through our educational and outreach programs.

Most importantly, it allows Detroit Opera to preserve David’s legacy and his dedication to the young people of Southeast Michigan and young emerging artists from all over the country.

Detroit Opera gratefully acknowledges the generous corporate, foundation, and individual donors whose gifts to The David DiChiera Artistic Fund were made before December 31, 2022.

INDIVIDUAL Joe Alcorn (in honor of Joan Hill) Richard and Mona Alonzo Carl Angott and Tom Ball Pamela Applebaum Hon. Dennis W. Archer and Hon. Trudy Duncombe Archer Gordon and Pauline Arndt Timothy and Linda Arr Mr. Jeffrey Atto Kenan Bakirci Landis Beard Virginia Berberian (in memory of Joan Hill) Jere and Carole Berkey Henri and Anaruth Bernard Mr. Robert Hunt Berry Ms. Christine Jessica Berryman Martha and Peter Blom* (in memory of Joan Hill) Douglas and Rhonda Bonett Ms. Priscilla Bowen Wayne Brown & Brenda Kee Frank and Jenny Brzenk Ms. Patricia Byrne Jeff Cancelosi James and Susan Catlette Mr. Richard D. Cavaler Carol Chadwick Edward and Judith Christian Howard and Judith Christie Hon. Avern Cohn* and Ms. Lois Pincus Paula Lisa Cole Mr. Martin Collica Deborah L Connelly (in honor of Nadine DeLeury)

Holly Conroy (in honor of Nadine DeLeury) Helen Constan Telmer and Carmen Constan James and Diana Cornell Pat Cosgrove Mr. John Craib-Cox Geoffrey Craig (in memory of Joan Hill) Mr. Stephen J. Cybulski Gail Danto and Arthur Roffey Dodie and Larry David Walter and Lillian Dean (in honor of Nadine DeLeury) Kevin Dennis and Jeremy Zeltzer Cristina DiChiera and Neal Walsh Lisa DiChiera Nicholas Dorochoff and Joe Beason Linda Dresner and Ed Levy, Jr. Cameron B. Duncan Mr. Keith Otis Edwards Ms. Elaine K. Ellison Marianne Endicott Daniel Enright Sundra Michelle Epps Beth Erman (in honor of Ruth Rattner) Paul and Mary Sue Ewing Sandra Fabris Mr. Andrew D Fisher Barbara Fisher and William Gould Carl and Mary Ann Fontana Mrs. Barbara Frankel* and Mr. Ronald Michalak Mr. and Mrs. Herman Frankel Peter and Nancy Gaess Lawrence and Ann Garberding

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Wika Gomez Sylvia and Gary Graham William Greene and Peter McGreevy Kristina K. Gregg John and Kristan Hale Stephen Hartle Erik Hill Ms. Rhea Hill Ms. Rita Hoffmeister Anne and Bob Horner William and Sarah Hufford Patricia Jeflyn Dirk A Kabcenell (in memory of Joan Hill) Mr. Martin Kagan Ann Frank Katz and Family (in honor of Ruth Rattner) Ms. Francine C Kearns-King Mr. and Mrs. Gerd H Keuffel (in memory of Joan Virginia Hill) Colin Knapp Frank Kong Michael and Barbara Kratchman Mr. Jacob Krause (in memory of Manya Korkigian) Arthur and Nancy Ann Krolikowski James and Ellen Labes Chak and Lizabeth Lai Max Lepler & Rex L. Dotson Mado Lie* Bryan R. Lind William and Jacqueline Lockwood Stephan and Marian Loginsky James LoPrete Stephen Lord Ms. Renee Lounsberry Alphonse S. Lucarelli Evan R. Luskin Mary Lynch Paddy Lynch Marford Charitable Gift Fund Ms. Jennifer Marling Diana Marro Salazar Ms. Alex May Ms. Mary C. Mazure (in honor of Nadine DeLeury and Gregory Near) Nadine McKay Dr. Lisa Meils Ms. Lynne M. Metty Ali Moiin and William Kupsky Mary Rose and Bill Mueller (in memory of Joan Virginia Hill) Sarah Mumford Katharine Nipper Ms. Julia O’Brien Jason O’Malley Mr. and Mrs. Ralph A. Orlandi Mrs. Sally Orley Bonnie Padilla (in memory of Joan Hill) Charles and Mary Parkhill Nicole Patrick

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Christopher Patten Mr. Michael Poris Mr. Wade Rakes, II Rip and Gail Rapson Ms. Deborah Remer Ms. Marija D Rich Pamela Rowland Ankur Rungta and Mayssoun Bydon Ms. Loretta W. Ryder Barry and Deane Safir Dmitriy and Svetlana Sakharov William and Marjorie Sandy Professor Alvin and Mrs. Harriet Saperstein Dr. Mary J. Schlaff and Dr. Sanford Koltonow Mr. David Schon Yuval Sharon Terry Shea and Seigo Nakao Dorienne Sherrod Peter and Mary Siciliano (in honor of Nadine DeLeury) Ted and Mary Ann Simon Matthew and Mona Simoncini Joe Skoney and Luisa Di Lorenzo Hugh Smith and Marsha Kindall-Smith Kendall Smith Lee and Bettye Smith Richard Sonenklar and Gregory Haynes Ms. Janet Stevens Dr. Austin Stewart and Mr. Charlie Dill Ronald Switzer and Jim McClure Angela Theis Mrs. Beverly A Thomas Buzz Thomas and Daniel Vander Ley Ms. Patricia A Thull Mr. Jason P. Tranchida Jeffrey Tranchida and Noel Baril Elliott and Patti Trumbull Mathew and Barbara Vanderkloot Berwyn Lee Walker William and Martha Walsh Gary L. Wasserman and Charles Kashner Kevin and Andrea Webber Bradford J and Carol White R. Jamison and Karen Williams Peter Wilson (in honor of Nadine DeLeury) Blaire R Windom Mary Lou Zieve

CORPORATIONS & FOUNDATIONS Aom, LLC The Eugene & Marcia Applebaum Family Foundation J. Addison Bartush & Marion M. Bartush Family Foundation Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan DeRoy Testamentary Foundation Kresge Foundation MOT Orchestra Fund (in honor of Nadine DeLeury) Northern Trust Bank Pal Properties, LLC

CAPITAL CAMPAIGN FOR THE DETROIT OPERA HOUSE The Detroit Opera Board of Directors began the first phase of fundraising for Detroit Opera House capital improvements in January 2020. This multi-phase capital campaign grew from recommendations identified in the facilities master plan completed by Albert Kahn Associates, Inc. Scheduled facility improvements and upgrades will shape the patron experience at the Opera House for years to come.

We look forward to sharing full details about the capital campaign in the coming months. Until then, we extend heartfelt thanks to the following donors who made contributions that enabled capital improvements to begin.

Leadership Gifts* Ethan and Gretchen Davidson William Davidson Foundation National Endowment for the Humanities Matthew and Mona Simoncini

Campaign Contributors* Naomi André Michael Azar Nancy Azizi Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Michigan Gene P. Bowen Elizabeth Brooks Elliott Broom Wayne Brown & Brenda Kee Edward & Judith Christian James and Elizabeth Ciroli John and Doreen Cole Hon. Avern Cohn* & Ms. Lois Pincus Mr. Adam Crysler & Dr. Oxana Crysler Joanne Danto and Arnold Weingarden Marvin & Betty Danto Family Foundation Ms. Julia Donovan Darlow & Hon. John C. O’Meara

Kevin Dennis & Jeremy Zeltzer Shauna Ryder Diggs Enrico & Kathleen Digirolamo Mrs. Carol E. Domina Mr. Cameron B. Duncan Wendy L. Ecker Mr. Michael Einheuser Marianne T. Endicott Alex and Lil Erdeljan Foundation Fern Espino and Tom Short Carl & Mary Ann Fontana Mrs. Barbara Frankel* & Mr. Ronald Michalak Mr. & Mrs. Herman Frankel Toby Haberman John & Kristan Hale Dr. Devon Hoover Eleanor & Alan Israel Robert Jesurum and Christine Petrucci The Karen & Drew Peslar Foundation Velda Kelly Ms. Mary Kramer Michael & Barbara Kratchman Denise J. Lewis Alphonse S. Lucarelli Don Manvel

McGregor Fund Benjamin Meeker & Meredith Korneffel, MD Ali Moiin & Bill Kupsky Donald & Antoinette Morelock James and Ann Nicholson Peter Oleksiak Ms. Linda Orlans Penske Corporation Mr. Shane Pliska Prof. Sara A. Pozzi Ph. D Waltraud Prechter Paul & Amy Ragheb Mrs. Ruth F. Rattner Ankur Rungta & Mayssoun Bydon Terry Shea & Seigo Nakao The Skillman Foundation Mr. Richard Slama SOLO World Partners LLC Richard Sonenklar & Gregory Haynes The State of Michigan Lorna Thomas, MD Mr. & Mrs. C. Thomas Toppin Jesse & Yesenia Venegas R. Jamison & Karen Williams Ellen Hill Zeringue * Listing reflects gifts and pledges as of December 31, 2022 in alphabetical order.

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AVANTI SOCIETY MEMBERS ENSURING THE FUTURE Imagine a gift that outlives you, allowing future generations to experience and enjoy the world of opera and dance. That’s the goal of the Avanti Society, Detroit Opera’s planned gift recognition program.

The Italian word avanti means “ahead,” or “forward.” Detroit Opera’s Avanti Society represents a designated group of friends who have made plans to include Detroit Opera in their estates—whether by will, trust, insurance, or life income arrangement. We are grateful for the generosity and foresight of those listed below, who have chosen to declare their intentions and join the Avanti Society. Thank You Avanti Society Members!

Sarah Allison Dr. Lourdes V. Andaya§ Mr. and Mrs. Agustin Arbulu§ Mr.* & Mrs. Chester Arnold§ Dr. Leora Bar-Levav Mr. and Mrs. Lee Barthel Mr. and Mrs. Brett Batterson§ Mr. W. Victor Benjamin Mr.* and Mrs. Art Blair§ Mr. and Mrs. Richard Bowlby Mrs. Doreen Bull Mr.* and Mrs. Roy E. Calcagno§ The Gladys L. Caldroney Trust Dr. and Mrs. Thomas E. Carson Dr.* and Mrs. Victor J. Cervenak Father Paul F. Chateau Mary Christner Mr. Gary L. Ciampa Ms. Virginia M. Clementi Hon. Avern Cohn* & Ms. Lois Pincus Prof. Kenneth Collinson Douglas and Minka Cornelsen Dr. Robert A. Cornette§# Mr.* and Mrs. Tarik Daoud§# Mr. Randal Darby Mr. Thomas J. Delaney Walter and Adel Dissett Ms. Mary J. Doerr# Mrs. Helen Ophelia Dove-Jones

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Mrs. Charles M. Endicott§# Mr. Wayne C. Everly David and Jennifer Fischer Mr. and Mrs. Herb Fisher§ Mrs. Barbara Frankel* and Mr. Ronald Michalak§# Mr. and Mrs. Herman Frankel§# Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Freeman* The Edward P. Frohlich Trust Mrs. Jane Shoemaker French Dr. and Mrs. Byron P. Georgeson§ Albert and Barbara Glover Robert Green Mr. Ernest Gutierrez Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Hagopian Mr. Lawrence W. Hall§ Mr. and Mrs. Jerome Halperin§ Ms. Heather Hamilton Charlene Handleman Preston and Mary Happel Mr. Kenneth E. Hart§ Mr. & Mrs. Eugene L. Hartwig§ Dr. & Mrs. Gerhardt A. Hein Ms. Nancy B. Henk Mrs. Fay Herman Derek and Karen* Hodgson Andrew and Carol Howell Dr. Cindy Hung§ Eleanor and Alan Israel

Ms. Kristin Jaramillo§ Mr. Donald Jensen§ Mr. John Jesser Mr. John Jickling Maxwell and Marjorie Jospey Mr. Patrick J.* & Mrs. Stephanie Germack Kerzic Josephine Kessler Edward and Barbara Klarman Mr. & Mrs. Robert Klein# Mr. & Mrs. Erwin H. Klopfer§# Misses Phyllis & Selma Korn§ * Myron and Joyce LaBan Mr. Max Lepler & Mr. Rex Dotson Linda Dresner & Ed Levy, Jr. Mr. Hannan Lis Florence LoPatin Mr. Stephen H. Lord Ms. Denise Lutz Laura and Mitchell Malicki Ms. Jane McKee§ Bruce Miller Drs. Orlando & Dorothy Miller§ Ms. Monica Moffat & Mr. Pat McGuire Drs. Stephen & Barbara Munk Miss Surayyah Muwwakkil Mr. Jonathan F. Orser Ms. Julie A. Owens Mr. Dale J. Pangonis§ Mr. & Mrs. Charles A. Parkhill Mr. Richard M. Raisin§ Mrs. Ruth F. Rattner§# Ms. Deborah Remer Dr. Joshua Rest

Mr. & Mrs. James Rigby§ Mr. Bryan L. Rives Ms. Patricia Rodzik§ David and Beverly Rorabacher Dulcie Rosenfeld Concetta Ross Professor Alvin and Mrs. Harriet Saperstein Ms. Susan Schooner§ Mark and Sally Schwartz Drs. Heinz & Alice Platt Schwarz§ Mrs. Frank C. Shaler§ Ms. Ellen Sharp Ms. Edna J Pak Shin Mr. & Mrs. Harold Siebert Mrs. Loretta Skewes Ms. Anne Sullivan Smith Ms. Phyllis Funk Snow§ Mr.* & Mrs. Richard Starkweather§#+ Ms. Mary Anne Stella Mr. Stanford C. Stoddard Dr. Jonathan Swift* & Mr. Thomas A. St. Charles§ Mr. Ronald F. Switzer§ Lillie Tabor Mary Ellen Tappan Charitable Remainder Trust Peter and Ellen Thurber Alice* & Paul Tomboulian Mr. Edward D. Tusset§ Jonathan and Salome E. Walton Susan Weidinger Mrs. Amelia H. Wilhelm§# Mrs. Ruth Wilkins Mr. Andrew Wise Mr. & Mrs. Larry Zangerle

We express profound thanks to these Avanti Society members whose planned gifts to Detroit Opera have been received.

Robert G. Abgarian Trust Mr.* and Mrs.* Robert Allesee# Serena Ailes Stevens Mr. and Mrs. J. Addison Bartush§#* Mr. and Mrs. Mandell Berman Margaret and Douglas Borden Charles M. Broh Milena T. Brown Charlotte Bush Failing Trust Mary C. Caggegi Allen B. Christman Miss Halla F. Claffey Robert C. and RoseAnn B. Comstock Mary Rita Cuddohy Marjorie E. DeVlieg Nancy Dewar James P. Diamond Dr. David DiChiera Mrs. Karen V. DiChiera Dr. and Mrs. Charles H. Duncan§ Mrs. Anne E. Ford Ms. Pamela R. Francis§ Mrs. Rema Frankel Barbara Lucking Freedman The Priscilla A.B. Goodell Trust Freda K. Goodman Trust Priscilla R. Greenberg, Ph.D.§# Maliha Hamady Patricia Hobar Mary Adelaide Hester Trust Gordon V. Hoialmen Trust Carl J. Huss H. Barbara Johnston Mrs. Josephine Kleiner Mr. & Mrs. Arthur Krolikowski*§ Mr. Philip Leon Dores and Wade McCree* Lucie B. Meininger Helen M. Miller Ella M. Montroy Ronald K. Morrison

Ruth Mott Elizabeth M. Pecsenye Clarice Odgers Percox Trust Thomas G. Porter Mitchell Romanowski Ms. Joanne B. Rooney Mr. & Mrs. Giles L. & Beverly Ross Ms. Merle H. Scheibner Ms. Laura Sias Mrs. Marge Slezak Edward L. Stahl Dr. Mildred Ponder Stennis Margaret D. Thurber Mr. & Mrs. George & Inge Vincent§#+ Herman W. Weinreich J. Ernest Wilde Trust Helen B. Wittenberg Mr. & Mrs. Walter & Elizabeth Work§ Joseph J. Zafarana Mr. & Mrs. George M. Zeltzer§ KEY Founding Members Touch the Future donors * Deceased members §

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Membership in the Avanti Society is open to all who wish to declare their intention for a planned gift to Detroit Opera.

Call Angela Nelson-Heesch to learn more, 313-237-3416.

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DETROIT OPERA ADMINISTRATION & STAFF Wayne S. Brown PR ESIDEN T A ND CEO

Yuval Sharon GA RY L . WA SSER M A N A RTISTIC DIR ECTOR

Christine Goerke A SSOCI ATE A RTISTIC DIR ECTOR

Roberto Kalb

Bryce Rudder, Digital Asset Manager & Senior Librarian, Detroit Opera Archive and Resource Library

COMMUNITY PROGRAMS Branden Hood, Program Coordinator Mark Vondrak, Associate Director/ Tour Manager

M USIC DIR ECTOR

HOUSE OPERATIONS

DEPARTMENT DIRECTORS

Juan Benavides, Building Engineer

Lane DeCamp, Chief Marketing & Development Officer

Kathie Booth, Volunteer Coordinator

Julie Kim, Chief Artistic Production Officer

Jennifer George-Consiglio, Manager of Venue Operations

Alexis Means, Director of Operations and Patron Experience

Dennis Wells, Facilities Manager

Holly Clement, Events Manager

Emily White, Events Assistant

Rock Monroe, Director of Safety and Security, DOH and DOHPC

FINANCE

Angela Nelson-Heesch, Director of Development

Rita Winters, Accountant

Matthew Principe, Director of Innovation Andrea Scobie, Director of Education Ataul Usman, Director of Human Resources Patricia Walker, Chief Administrative Officer Arthur White, Director of External Affairs

ADMINISTRATION William Austin, Executive Assistant Christy Gray, Office Administrator Laura Nealssohn, Board Liaison Timothy Lentz, Archivist & Director, Detroit Opera Archive and Resource Library Catherine Staples, Associate Archivist, Detroit Opera Archive and Resource Library

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Kimberley Burgess, Accountant

HUMAN RESOURCES Josh Kosakowski, Human Resources Coordinator

PATRON SERVICES Development Chelsea Kotula, Director of Institutional Giving Valentino Peacock, Development Operations Coordinator Samantha Scott, Manager of Annual Giving Gwendolyn Sims, Database Operations Manager Zach Suchanek, Stewardship Coordinator Carmen Szurpicki, Major Gifts Officer

Marketing/Public Relations Michael Hauser, Marketing Manager Jennifer Melick, Communications and Media Relations Manager Jon Rosemond, Marketing Operations Coordinator

Box Office

Patricia Sova, First Hand

Amy Brown, Senior Manager of Ticketing and Box Office Operations

Mary Ellen Shuffett, Fitting Assistant

Evan Carr, Box Office Lead Jeffery Sanders, Group Sales Associate Ellen Smith, Box Office Associate Stephanie Stoiko, Box Office Associate

ARTISTIC DEPARTMENT Nathalie Doucet, Head of Music Dagny Hill, Artistic Assistant

DANCE Jon Teeuwissen, Artistic Advisor for Dance Kim Smith, Dance Coordinator

INNOVATION Austin Richey, Digital Media Manager and Storyteller

Laura Brinker, Tailor Maureen Abele, Dylan McBride, Paul Moran, Rachel Parrott, Lupe Vazquez, Stitchers

Wigs & Makeup Elizabeth Geck, Crew Coordinator Guilia Bernardini, Morgan Bogdanski, Erika Broderdorf, Kaitlyn Denzler, Denise Llombart, Mallory Maxton, Theodore Place, Denitra Townsend, Wig & Makeup Crew Cedasha Randolf, Swing

Stage Crew John Kinsora, Head Carpenter Frederick Graham, Head Electrician Gary Gilmore, Production Electrician

PRODUCTION

Pat McGee, Head Propertyman

Administration

Chris Baker, Head of Sound

Elizabeth Anderson, Production Coordinator and Artistic Administrator

Pat Tobin, Head Flyman

Kathleen Bennett, Production Administrator Shannon Schroer, Production Assistant

Mary Ellen Shuffett, Head of Wardrobe IATSE Local #38 Stage Crew IATSE Local #786 Wardrobe

DETROIT OPERA YOUTH CHORUS Suzanne Mallare Acton, Director

Technical & Design Staff

Dianna Hochella, Assistant Director

Daniel T. Brinker, Technical Director Moníka Essen, Property Master

Twannette Nash, Chorus Administrator

Heather DeFauw, Assistant Lighting Designer/Assistant Technical Director

Joseph Jackson, Accompanist Jane Panikkar, Preparatory Chorus Conductor

Billy Osos, Assistant Technical Director Kaila Madison, Technical Assistant

Music Suzanne Mallare Acton, Assistant Music Director and Chorus Master Molly Hughes, Orchestra Personnel Manager Jean Posekany, Orchestra Librarian

Costumes Suzanne Hanna, Costume Director Amelia Glenn, Wardrobe Supervisor

Maria Cimarelli, Preparatory Chorus Accompanist

SAFETY & SECURITY Lt. Lorraine Monroe Sgt. Demetrius Newbold Officer Gary Cabean Officer Dasaian Dupree Officer A.M. Hightower Officer Sullivan Horton

Detroit Opera is a proud member of DETROIT OPERA 61

General Information

IN CASE OF EMERGENCY

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Please observe the lighted exit signs located throughout the theater. In the event of an emergency, remain calm and walk, do not run, to the nearest exit.

Ushers and security personnel are trained to assist. An emergency medical technician (EMT) is onsite during most events. Contact an usher or staff member if you need medical assistance.

GUEST SERVICES – Vincent Lobby

There are a variety of amenities located in guest services for your comfort and use. Wheelchairs, booster seats*, earplugs, assisted listening devices, feminine hygiene products, basic first aid items, and more are complimentary and available for your convenience. Coat check is also available. This area is located on the Madison Street side of the building. *Limited quantity

PHOTOGRAPHY, RECORDING, AND CELL PHONE USE

Photography and/or recording during any performance is strictly prohibited.

Photographs taken in the lobby areas, before or after a performance, and during intermission are welcome. As a courtesy to all guests, please turn off all electronic devices and refrain from use during the performance.

RESTROOMS

Women’s restrooms are located off the Ford Lobby (Broadway Street entrance) and down the stairs, and on third floor (Madison Street entrance). Men’s restrooms are located under the Grand Staircase and on the third floor (Broadway Street side). There are two sets of elevators or stairs available to access all third-floor restrooms. All third-floor restrooms are wheelchair accessible (women’s restroom, press 3R in the elevator). There are single-use unisex wheelchair accessible restrooms on the first floor of the Broadway Street side of the building and the Madison Street side of the building. There is also a wheelchair accessible women’s restroom on the Broadway Street side of the building.

NO SMOKING

The Detroit Opera House is a non-smoking facility. This includes e-cigarettes, vapes, and other “smokeless” products.

USHERS

Ushers are stationed throughout the building to assist patrons as needed.

Please direct questions, concerns, and feedback to them during your visit.

Enjoy volunteering? Please go to guest services or the Detroit Opera website, www.detroitopera.org/volunteers, for information on becoming a volunteer.

LOST AND FOUND

During the performance, lost and found is located in guest services.

Unclaimed items are logged and taken to the Safety and Security office after each performance. To inquire about a misplaced or lost item, please call 313-961-3500. Items left over 30 days will be discarded or donated.

RECORDING IN PROGRESS

Entry and presence on the event premises constitute your consent to be photographed, filmed, and/or otherwise recorded, and to the release, publication, exhibition, or reproduction of any and all recorded media for any purpose whatsoever in perpetuity in connection with Detroit Opera and its initiatives. By entering the event premises, you waive and release any claims you may have related to the use of recorded media of you at the event.

JUNE 10-24, 2023

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