Svadba – Wedding Playbill

EDMONTON OPERA PRESENTS 2012/13 ATB CANADIAN SERIES

SVADBA – WEDDING

MUSIC BY ANA SOKOLOVIĆ PRODUCED BY QUEEN OF PUDDINGS MUSIC THEATRE

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very culture has its own traditions when it comes to the ritual of weddings, and now, we invite you to join us as five friends keep their best friend, Milica, company the night before her wedding. In a way that transcends language barriers, composer Ana Sokolović has created a story that was inspired by her Serbian roots but otherwise could be taking place anywhere in the world.

Svadba – Wedding, the second part of the ATB Canadian Series, is an opportunity for Edmonton audiences to experience contemporary opera. With Shelter in November, we had discussions with both new opera-goers and longtime opera lovers about the history, science and fable woven into the opera.

With the support and leadership demonstrated by ATB Financial in order to present this series, this is the goal that continues with Svadba. Collaborating with opera companies across the country — Toronto’s Tapestry New Opera Works and Queen of Puddings Music Theatre — is one more way we can continue to contribute to and enrich Edmonton’s arts and cultural scene.

Our mandate is to give voice to opera in Edmonton and northern Alberta, and over the last 49 years we have been able to do so with the support of individuals, corporations, foundations and grantors.

This season especially highlights that it’s possible to fall in love with and appreciate the classics on the main stage, while experiencing opera as a living art form through a contemporary work.

Thank you for joining us for this exciting new series.

We hope to see you at our remaining mainstage productions this year, and we look forward to announcing another thought-provoking ATB Canadian Series next year!

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Edmonton Opera ATB Canadian Series Presents

SVADBA – WEDDING Produced by Queen of Puddings Music Theatre Jan. 12 • 13 • 16 • 18 • 19 Composed by Ana Sokolović Premiere: June 2011 Music & Artistic Directors: Dáirine Ní Mheadhra & John Hess Stage Director: Michael Cavanagh CAST Laura Albino – Lena Carla Huhtanen – Zora Andrea Ludwig – Nada Shannon Mercer – Danica Elizabeth Turnbull – Ljubica Jacqueline Woodley – Milica Set & Costume Designer: Michael Gianfrancesco Lighting Designer: Kimberly Purtell Artistic Producer: Nathalie Bonjour Production Manager: Shanna Miller Stage Manager: Joanna Barrotta Assistant Stage Manager: Gerry Egan Apprentice Stage Manager: Ariel Martin-Smith The performance is approximately 51 minutes long. *SURTITLES™ by Gunta Dreifelds *SURTITLES™ invented by the Canadian Opera Company in 1983 and introduced worldwide with their production of Elektra by Richard Strauss.

Edmonton Opera is a professional company operating within the jurisdiction of the Canadian Actors’ Equity Association.

Edmonton Opera is a member of the Professional Opera Companies of Canada and Opera America.

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SYNOPSIS Svadba – Wedding is an opera commissioned by Queen of Puddings Music Theatre from Canadian-Serbian composer Ana Sokolović. Written for six female singers, a cappella and sung in Serbian, the action takes place the night before Milica’s wedding. Her best friends keep her company all night long as they prepare her for the impending marriage. The scenes unfold, not in a linear narrative, but in a playful interconnection animated through drama, distilling magic and fantasy from ordinary moments.

SCENES ➊ Girlfriends sing

➎ Bath

➋ Colouring hair

➏ Dressing

➌ Love Suit / Dance

➐ Farewell

➍ Competition / Alphabet & Patty Cakes

Jacqueline Woodley, Carla Huhtanen, Laura Albino

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Photo: John Lauener Svadba world premiere staged production, June 2011

COMPOSER’S NOTE

Ana Sokolović

When Queen of Puddings Music Theatre approached me to write an opera for six female voices, I took this opportunity to explore the wedding theme, especially the night before the ceremony, where we are privy to private and ancient rituals between the bride and her girlfriends.

The text is taken from original Serbian poetry but given a new context for our contemporary culture. The music is derived from traditional Balkan folklore.

The compositional structure is informed by everyday images and objects — such as hair, cups and water. The scenes unfold, not in a linear narrative, but in a playful interconnection animated through drama, distilling magic and fantasy from ordinary moments.

A wedding is an important turning point in every woman’s life, usually steeped in tradition and always signifying change and juncture. Milica’s rite of passage is universal, an archetype of human experience. Svadba – Wedding offers a chance to delve deep into the quality and richness of a short but decisive moment in time.

Svadba – Wedding is dedicated to my parents.

Shannon Mercer, Krisztina Szabó, Jacqueline Woodley, Carla Huhtanen, Laura Albino, Andrea Ludwig Photo: John Lauener Svadba world premiere staged production, June 2011

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ABOUT QUEEN of PUDDINGS MUSIC THEATRE

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ueen of Puddings Music Theatre was founded in 1995 by musicians Dáirine Ní Mheadhra and John Hess. The company is Toronto-based and is a recognized Canadian leader in the creation of original Canadian chamber opera/ music theatre. The company’s aesthetic is a physical, singing theatre where the performer is the central force and the instrumentalists are integrated into the dramatic action.

Spectacular company successes include the world premieres of Beatrice Chancy (1999) and The Midnight Court (2005). Written by composer James Rolfe and librettist George Elliott Clarke, Beatrice Chancy is the first and only opera about black slavery in Canada. This premiere was met with enormous critical and audience acclaim and launched the career of Canadian soprano Measha Brueggergosman. Touring engagements for the opera included Halifax (Eastern Front Theatre) and Edmonton (presented in a co-production between the Citadel Theatre and Edmonton Opera). The CBC TV film of the production was broadcast nationwide in 2001.

The Midnight Court opera premiered at Harbourfront Centre Theatre in June 2005.

Written by composer Ana Sokolović with libretto adaptation by Paul Bentley, the sold-out production was subsequently invited to the Linbury Theatre at the Royal Opera House in London for three performances in June 2006, the first invitation for a new Canadian opera and company at this venue. In the 2005 year-end critics’ picks, the production was chosen as one of the Top 10 shows of 2005 in all genres by The Globe and Mail, the Toronto Star and Eye Weekly.

Krisztina Szabó Photo: Guntar Kravis Ana Sokolović’s The Midnight Court, 2006

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Queen of Puddings continues to tour internationally. Love Songs (music Ana Sokolović, selected love poems), an opera for one female singer, premiered in March 2008 in Toronto and has since toured to Montreal, Vancouver, Ljubljana, Paris, the Holland Festival in Amsterdam and the International New Music Biennale in Zagreb where it was declared best production of the festival.

In 2009, the company presented Inês (music James Rolfe, libretto Paul Bentley), an opera inspired by the Portuguese music genre of fado,

and in 2010 Beauty Dissolves in a Brief Hour (music Pierre Klanac, Fuhong Shi, John Rea), a Chinese Mandarin, English and medieval French language triptych, premiered to audience and critical acclaim, and began touring in 2011.

In June 2011, the company premiered Svadba – Wedding by Ana Sokolović to critical acclaim. This dazzling opera scored for six female singers, a cappella and sung in Serbian, epitomized the company’s aesthetic of a physical singing theatre. Svadba – Wedding won the 2012 Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding New Opera.

In February 2012, in association with Canadian Stage, the company presented Beckett: Feck It!, a wildly provocative show juxtaposing Samuel Beckett’s shorter plays with contemporary classical music from outstanding Irish composers inspired by his appreciation for the absurd. The company recently returned from a spectacular tour of Europe with Ana Sokolović’s Svadba – Wedding and was met with packed houses and dazzling reviews in Paris, Belgrade, Orléans and Dublin. Svadba – Wedding tours again in January 2013 to Calgary, Edmonton and Vancouver. In April 2013, Queen of Puddings premieres a new work by composer Chris Paul Harman, written for the Canadian mezzo-soprano Krisztina Szabó and based on poetry of Federico Garcia Lorca.

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Laura Condlln, Shannon Mercer, Sofia Tomic Photo: John Lauener Beckett: Feck It!, 2012

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ARTISTS' PROFILES ANA SOKOLOVIĆ – COMPOSER Ana Sokolović’s repertoire consists of works from soloists to large orchestra, and concert music to incidental music. She has been a three-time winner in the Competition for Young Composers of SOCAN (1995, 1998), and represented Canada at UNESCO’s International Rostrum of Composers, in Paris (1996, 2000). In 1999, Géométrie sentimentale obtained a first-place prize in chamber music category and Grand Prix of 13th CBC Radio National Competition for Young Composers. She has won the Joseph S. Stauffer Prize from the Canada Council (2005), the Quebec Music Council’s Prix Opus Prize (composer of the year, 2007), and Jan Matejcek SOCAN’s Prize for concert music (2008). In 2005 she wrote her first opera, The Midnight Court, for Queen of Puddings Music Theatre, which was performed at the Royal Opera House in June 2006. Ana was unanimously chosen by the Société de Musique Contemporaine du Québec for its 2011/12 season Homage Series.

DÁIRINE NÍ MHEADHRA – ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Dáirine Ní Mheadhra began her professional career at the age of 17 as a cellist with the Irish National Symphony Orchestra. In 1990 she founded the new music ensemble Nua Nós, comprised of the principal chairs of the Irish National Symphony Orchestra. Nua Nós was awarded an AIB Better Ireland Arts Award and in 1994 their CD of chamber works by Irish composer Gerald Barry was nominated as best CD worldwide of music by a living composer. In the same year Dáirine immigrated to Canada to join her new Canadian husband John Hess, where they founded Queen of Puddings Music Theatre.

In May 2012, Dáirine was awarded Canada’s 2012 Molson Prize in the Arts, in recognition of her outstanding lifetime achievements and ongoing contributions to Canada’s cultural and intellectual life.

JOHN HESS – ARTISTIC DIRECTOR John Hess has been involved with the creation of many new productions for the Canadian Opera Company and has collaborated with virtually every contemporary opera company in Canada. At the Banff Centre for the Arts, he served as associate artistic director of the 20th Century Opera and Song program. John is equally in demand as a vocal coach and pianist, performing regularly with Ben Heppner in Canada. Other performances of note include recitals with Measha Brueggergosman, Jane Archibald and Joseph Calleja. As a member of the music faculty at the University of Western Ontario, John directs the first master’s program in collaborative piano in Canada. He holds a doctorate in musical arts from the University of Michigan where he was a fellowship student with pianist Martin Katz.

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MICHAEL CAVANAGH – STAGE DIRECTOR Michael Cavanagh has directed multiple mainstage productions for virtually every opera company in Canada, directs regularly in the United States (Philadelphia, Minnesota, Kentucky, Kansas City and Hawaii) and is the former artistic director of Edmonton Opera.

A highlight of the most recent season was his successful debut at the San Francisco Opera with his new production of Nixon in China.

He also made return visits to Kentucky Opera to direct The Merry Widow and remounted Nixon in China at the Lyric Opera of Kansas City. A very busy season in 2012/13 has him returning to l'Opéra de Montréal (La Traviata) as well as his company debut with Boston Lyric Opera (The Flying Dutchman). Other future projects include return engagements with Minnesota Opera (Manon Lescaut), Austin Lyric Opera (Tosca) and Vancouver (Don Carlo) as well as a new production of Susannah for San Francisco Opera in 2014.

LAURA ALBINO – LENA Soprano Laura Albino is a graduate of the Canadian Opera Company Ensemble Studio and the University of Toronto Opera School.

Over the past two seasons she appeared as Musetta in La Bohème (Calgary Opera), Micaëla in Carmen (Jeunesses Musicales Canada), Rosalinda in Die Fledermaus (Toronto Operetta Theatre), The Cook in Robert LePage’s production of Stravinsky’s The Nightingale and Other Short Fables (Brooklyn Academy of Music), Mimì in La Bohème (Against the Grain Theatre) and Lena in the world première of Ana Sokolović’s Svadba – Wedding (Queen of Puddings Music Theatre).

Appearances with the COC Ensemble Studio include Fiordiligi (Così fan tutte), Ilia (Idomeneo) and Kate Pinkerton (Madama Butterfly).

Other operatic credits include Donna Anna (Don Giovanni), Susanna (Le nozze di Figaro) and Lauretta (Gianni Schicchi).

CARLA HUHTANEN – ZORA From early to modern repertoire, Carla Huhtanen has performed with Gran Teatro La Fenice, BBC Concert Orchestra, the Barbican, Garsington Opera, Festival d’Aix and Théatre Royal de Versailles in roles such as Susanna and Blonde (Mozart), Angelica (Handel) and Cunegonde (Bernstein). A 2010 Dora Award nominee and one of Now! magazine’s Top Ten Theatre Artists, she performs regularly with Opera Atelier, Queen of Puddings and Soundstreams Canada.

Much in demand as an interpreter of contemporary music, the soprano sings the works of Salonen, Saariaho, Leroux, Adès and Crumb, and premieres many Canadian and American works.

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ANDREA LUDWIG – NADA Andrea Ludwig has appeared with the Canadian Opera Company in numerous roles including Nireno in Julius Caesar, the Second Niece in Peter Grimes, Flora in Turn of the Screw, Moira in The Handmaid’s Tale and Liesgen in Coffee Cantata. The mezzo-soprano’s solo performances have included Mozart's Requiem, Mozart's Mass In C Minor, Handel's Messiah, and Black Sun, a new piece by Peter Togni for the Halifax Jazz Festival this past July. The Halifax Chronicle Herald also dubbed Andrea's most recent performance of R. Murray Schafer’s Adieu Robert Schumann with Symphony Nova Scotia as “an intensely moving performance.” Upcoming performances include a tribute concert for composer Peter Lieberson in February 2013 with Symphony Nova Scotia and Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde with Kindred Spirits Orchestra.

SHANNON MERCER – DANICA Her voice has been described as luminous and her acting as feisty, Shannon Mercer is an artist of uncommon musical artistry.

The soprano enthusiastically embraces repertoire ranging from early to contemporary music in performances around the globe.

Her discography includes two new recordings of Bach’s St. John Passion, the JUNO-Award-winning Gloria: Vivaldi’s Angels, Vivaldi - The Return of the Angels, Salsa Baroque, O Viva Rosa, Bach and the Liturgical Year, Wales ~ The Land of Song and others. She also appears on DVD in Alexina Louie’s comic opera Burnt Toast and Not The Messiah with Monty Python’s Eric Idle.

ELIZABETH TURNBULL – LJUBICA Elizabeth Turnbull’s many credits include appearances with major orchestras and opera companies across North America.

The mezzo-soprano’s roles range from the Baroque (Juno in Semele), to the Romantic (Carmen), Modern (Augusta Tabor in the Canadian premiere of The Ballad of Baby Doe) and New (Maria Picariello in Filumena). Recent operatic performances have included Olga in Eugene Onegin (Opera Lyra Ottawa), Emilia in Otello (Dallas, Edmonton) and Zita in Gianni Schicchi (Calgary Opera). Concert performances have included Verdi’s Requiem, Das Lied von der Erde, Mozart's Requeim, Messiah and Bach's St. Matthew Passion, as well as other works by Handel, Mendelssohn, Saint Saens, Beethoven, Mahler, Brahms, Tchaikovsky, Mussorgsky and Rachmaninov.

Elizabeth is the voice area coordinator at the University of Alberta’s department of music, where she has been teaching voice for three years.

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JACQUELINE WOODLEY – MILICA Jacqueline Woodley is a recent alumnus of the Canadian Opera Company Studio Ensemble where she performed and covered several mainstage roles over the last two years. Possessing a strong affinity for concert work, the soprano is quickly becoming known for her stylistic versatility, especially known for her early and contemporary music interpretations. Last summer, she debuted the role of Milica for Queen of Puddings Music Theatre. She is a winner of the Ottawa Choral Society’s New Discovery Auditions 2012, the David and Ann Award at the COC and holds a master’s in opera from McGill University.

MICHAEL GIANFRANCESCO – SET & COSTUME DESIGNER Michael has collaborated on previous Queen of Puddings Music Theatre productions of Beauty Dissolves in a Brief Hour and The Midnight Court. Recent productions include The 39 Steps (Manitoba Theatre Centre), In Good King Charles’ Golden Days and One Touch of Venus (costumes, Shaw Festival), White Christmas (set, MTC), Rock ‘n’ Roll (Canadian Stage), The Drowsy Chaperone (set, Manitoba Theatre Centre/Theatre Calgary), In Colour (National Ballet of Canada), It’s A Wonderful Life and Little Shop of Horrors (sets, Canadian Stage), The Wizard of Oz (Lorraine Kimsa Theatre for Young People) and Kaleidoscope (set, Les Grands Ballets Canadiens de Montréal). Throughout seven seasons at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival, he designed sets and costumes for The Triumph of Love, Edward II, The Blonde, the Brunette and the Vengeful Redhead, and Much Ado About Nothing, and the sets for An Ideal Husband and The Comedy of Errors. Michael was the 2008 recipient of the Virginia and Myrtle Cooper Award in Costume Design from the Ontario Arts Foundation.

KIMBERLY PURTELL – LIGHTING DESIGNER Kimberly is a Toronto-based lighting designer for theatre, opera and dance. Previously for Queen of Puddings she designed Beckett: Feck It!, Beauty Dissolves in a Brief Hour and Inês. Across Canada she has designed for companies including Mirvish Productions, Stratford Festival, Canadian Stage, Citadel Theatre, Manitoba Theatre Centre, Vancouver Playhouse, Theatre Calgary, Soulpepper, National Arts Centre, Vancouver East Cultural Centre, Luminato Festival, Necessary Angel, Tapestry New Opera, Opera Hamilton, Royal Conservatory of Music & the Glenn Gould School, Nightwood Theatre and The Banff Centre. Her work has also been seen across the United States, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Prague, China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Russia, Mongolia and at both the Beijing and Vancouver Cultural Olympiads. Kimberly has been nominated for 17 Dora Awards, winning three times and is a recipient of the Pauline McGibbon Award.

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NATHALIE BONJOUR – ARTISTIC PRODUCER Nathalie is an independent producer and performing arts consultant.

She joined Queen of Puddings as the artistic producer in December 2005 and has since developed, premiered and toured a number of new Canadian operas. Previously, she was the artistic director of the Saidye Bronfman Centre Theatre (1991-98), associate producer for the Just For Laughs Festival and Centaur Theatre’s Wild Side Festival (1998), and artistic associate at the National Arts Centre English Theatre. She has also worked for MAI — Montreal, arts interculturels — as the executive and artistic director (1998-2000).

From 2001 to 2005 she was artistic producer at Nightwood Theatre where she produced and toured several new Canadian plays.

SHANNA MILLER – PRODUCTION MANAGER Shanna is happy to be working on Svadba – Wedding.

Currently she is also the touring technical director for Ronnie Burkett Theatre of Marionettes. Past projects include touring with Evalyn Parry's Spin, Chartier Dance’s Stria and Agokwe Collective's Agokwe. She has also been the production manager for the Toronto Fringe Festival.

JOANNA BARROTTA – STAGE MANAGER This is Joanna’s fifth show with Queen of Puddings, and she is delighted to be on the road with the Queens! A stage manager in both theatre and opera, she has worked with Canadian Stage, Cahoots Theatre Company, Queen of Puddings, Factory Theatre and three seasons at the Blyth Festival. Favourite opera credits include Semele, Ariadne auf Naxos, Idomeneo, A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Götterdämmerung (Canadian Opera Company), La Bohème and Turandot (Opera Lyra), Acis and Galatea (Opera Atelier), Svadba – Wedding (Toronto premiere), Beauty Dissolves in a Brief Hour and Inês (Queen of Puddings), Bluebeard’s Castle/ Erwartung (Opéra de Québec), Actéon/Dido and Aeneas (Opera Atelier – Korea Tour). Upcoming: carried away on the crest of a wave (Tarragon Theatre). Joanna was the general manager for the SummerWorks Theatre Festival in 2011. Much love to the Queens, and her family and friends for keeping her feet on the ground.

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GERRY EGAN - ASSISTANT STAGE MANAGER Gerry Egan is excited to be working on his first Queen of Puddings production as well as returning to Edmonton, having previously worked for Opera Nuova on school tours of Amahl and the Night Visitors and Hansel and Gretel. He has stage managed for Opera Lyra Ottawa and Tapestry New Opera Works, in addition to working as an assistant stage manager for Canadian Opera Company, Opera Lyra Ottawa, Opera Hamilton, Tapestry New Opera Works and U of T Opera School. Gerry’s theatre credits include working as a stage manager with The Grand Theatre, Port Stanley Festival Theatre, Resurgence Theatre and Theatre Direct Canada, and he has been the assistant stage manager for productions with The Grand Theatre and Theatre Athena. Upcoming projects include Turn of the Screw (U of T Opera School) and Dialogues des carmélites (Canadian Opera Company).

ARIEL MARTIN-SMITH – APPRENTICE STAGE MANAGER Recently, Ariel served as stage manager for Toronto Masque Theatre’s Fairest Isle: A Purcell Celebration and for Against the Grain Theatre’s La Bohème. Apprentice stage management credits include Der Freischütz (Opera Atelier), La Calisto (Glenn Gould Opera School / RCM), and Barber of Seville (Opera Hamilton). As a production assistant at the Canadian Opera Company she assisted on Semele, The Tales of Hoffmann, Love From Afar, Iphigenie en Tauride, Orfeo ed Euridice, La Cenerentola, Nixon in China, and Death in Venice.

GUNTA DREIFELDS - SURTITLES™ PRODUCER Gunta Dreifelds is indebted to Lotfi Mansouri and John Leberg for inventing SURTITLES™ at the Canadian Opera Company in 1983 with their production of Richard Strauss’ Elektra. She has translated more than 100 operas for the COC. She first worked for Queen of Puddings in 2009 on Inês and since then has worked on Galgenlieder, Svadba – Wedding and Beauty Dissolves in a Brief Hour. Elle est fière d’être responsable des spectacles surtitrés au Théâtre français de Toronto. She has also worked with Luminato, the Glenn Gould School of Music, University of Toronto, WorldStage at Harbourfront, Tapestry, Tafelmusik and the Toronto Symphony Orchestra.

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SVADBA – WEDDING PRODUCTION STAFF TITLE CUERS

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BENEFACTORS $1,750–$2,999 Tricia Abbott Darlene Acton James Archibald & Heidi Christoph Sam & Sonia Azer Rhonda Baker Douglas Bingham & Sheila Janki-Bingham Cheryl Lee Bosgoed Branko & Jasna Calic David & Carol Cass David & Patricia Cassie Mary Chisholm Bill & Carol Clark Marian Clarke Elaine Coachman John & Ann Dea Patrick & Joan Dea Anne Marie Decore Christine Dirksen Heinz & Donna Feldberg Dr. Joseph & Mrs. Pat Fernando Laura Fitzgerald Peter & Astrid Griep Linda Hamilton Brian & Jeanne Hetherington Karen & Pamela Hofmann John & Susan Hokanson William Johnston & Mary Ritchie Harold Kingston & Marie Desrochers

Juri & Helle Kraav Brian Kucey & Elena Hernandez-Kucey Christine Kyriakides Mary LeMessurier Joan Lopatka & Bill Rutledge Hillard & Nancy Macbeth Laurel McKay Carman & Averie McNary Hugh McPhail & Yolanda Van Wachem Michael & Mariette Meier Arliss Miller Ken & Gerda Miller Neil & Susan Miller Reza Mostashari John Oberg Eleanor Olszewski Linda & Gene Pilarski Aline Pratch Leonard Ratzlaff Kelly & Renee Redinger James E. & Vivian Redmond Alan Rose & Judy Schroder Robert & Hilary Rose Douglas & Kathleen Sabo Margaret Slate Katie Soles David Steer & Larissa Whiting Stella Varvis & Paul Grossman Robert A Wilson Paola Zanuttini Gerhard & Inge Zmatlo

IN MEMORY Donation made in memory of Dr. Robert J. Buck Isabelle A. Donald Donations made in memory of Ernie LeMessurier Sandra Gajic Louis & Mary Hyndman Dianne & Irving Kipnes Stephen & Lynn Mandel Hilary Rose

Donations made in memory of Kimberly Heard Monique & Curtis Bandura James & Kelly Barnie Reta Berte Gail Dennis-Moisey Nicole Duhamel Christine Jones Maureen Yates-Millions & Keith Millions Motion Industries (Canada) Ltd. Derek & Glenda Pickering Salisbury Composite High School Laura Svajlenko Dennis & Sharon Turner

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FRIENDS of EDMONTON OPERA SUSTAINERS ($1,000–$1,749) Peter & Barbara Allen Joyce Buchwald Doug Cannam Marian Clarke Sheila Davidson Robert & Doreen Fessenden Phyllis Fleck Marie Foster Douglas Goss A.R. Grynoch John & Susan Hokanson Dwayne Hunka IBM Ron Johnson Patricia Kiel Joseph Kim Alan Kuysters Libuse Kuzel Judy & Stuart Mackay Bertrand Malo Bob & Bev McNally Risha Milo Alan Mather & Helgard Proft-Mather Rod & Heleen McLeod Kyle & Colleen Murray Kevin Neveu Larry Pals Protostatix Engineering Consultants Maria Schneider Martin Thorne Dr. Dennis Todoruk & Dr. Susan Stauffer Catherine Von Hohenbalken

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SUPPORTERS ($500–$999) John Adria Joan Bensted Bruce & Carol Bentley Robert Bessette Bob Bowhay Katherine Braun John Burlet Sheila Davidson Glen & Kristie Demke Ivan & Ksenia Fedyna Robert Gilles Bill Grace Gabor Gyenes & Erika Mullner Stewart & Julie Hamilton James & Hasmik Houlder Andy Hladyshevsky Rob Jolley Bernadette Kollman Peter & Jean Langford-Jones

Brenda MacDonald Rachel Mandel Devon J. Mark & Allen Vander Well Les Moss Wesley Pedruski George & Teresa Pemberton Fay Plomp Clarence & Elizabeth Preitz Robert Prybysh Dwayne & Salwa Samycia George Schluessel Devin Sears & Hayley Wan Kelly Sheard Michael & Nance Smith Geri & Lloyd Strain Patricia Taverner Joan Welch CONTRIBUTORS ($250–$499) Stella & Walter Baydala Jennifer Brown Janet Carle Phyllis Clark Craig Corbett Donald Cranston Brenda Dale Sharon & Milton Davies Ken & Judith Duffin Kevin & Rachel Foster Jim & Shirley Funk Stacey Gibson Brad Gilewich Richard Groom Sheila Gynane Dave & Janet Hancock Lois Hawkins Lois Hingley Michael Hobart Douglas & Dorothy Hollands Elizabeth Hurley Roger & Rose Hutlet Ruben Jeffery Pavel & Sylva Jelen Robert & Dr. Erika Juthner-Krtschan Kent Kanfield Richard Kirby Loretta Klarenbach David & Sandra Kraatz Don & Lorna Kramer Igor & Galia Kwetny Neil & Jean Lund Kelly MacFarlane Sue Marxheimer Beth MacIntosh Peter Mantyniuk

Paul Manuel Peggy & John Marko Denis & Ruth McGettigan Elisea Mori Kevin Mott Aaron & Jean Oshry Edward & Geri Papp Raj Pisani David Rees Orla Ryan J. Douglas & Devika Short Barbara & Gerry Sinn Kierstin Smyth Lillian Strangway C.T.S. & Rosalind Sydie Frank Van Veen G. Vermeulen Jim Ward Ezekiel Weis Lorraine Wilgosh Tim Yakimec MEMBERS ($100–$249) Sonia Allore Laurie Anderson Bradley Armstrong Diana Bacon Steve Baker Henry Banman Vicki Barrow Jim & Barbara Beck Lavina Belik Alan & Alice Bell Brian Bengert Tim Berrett Gino Bit Dennis Blumenthal Jelena Bojic Grace Bokenfohr Vivien Bosley Ailsa & Tom Bray Diane Briner Annabel Brophy Ryan Brown Robert & Helen Buck Aubrey Burrowes John Cameron Orietta Caterina Tony Caterina Frank Cavaliere Chris Chandler Donald Chisholm Chris Chodan Bruce Clark Janet M Clark Roger & Carol Cohen Sharon Cohen Joseph & Marta Collier Karin Conradi Heather Coon Diane Cox Gwen Davies James & Gail Defelice

Kathy Demuth Julie Denep Dan & Lorna Dennis R.J. & Janet Dmytruk Betty Lou Docherty Peter Doig Wendy Doughty & Jim Klingle Maggie Dower Arthur & Heather Belle Dowling Harvey & Elizabeth Duff Dwayne Dufva Frank & Muriel Dunnigan Tim Eckert Casey Edmunds Marion Elder E. Ruthanna Elson Kevin Erker Rick & Noella Fagnan Alred & Coleen Falk Werner Fenske Lois Field Ferdinand Filiplic David Finlay Karin Fodor Joan Forge Derrick Forsythe Randy Garvey Allan Gatenby Shirley Gifford F.S & Margaret Golberg George & Judy Goldsand Robert Gomez Karen Good Jon Goor Carol Graham Deanna Gupta Mary Ellen Haggerty Hans Hahn Donald Harbridge T. Hayashi Kenneth Heavenor R. Henderson Judith Hibberd Georgette Holyk Fred Horne Gwen Horvath Barbara Howarth Arlene Howell Marianne Howell Sheila Hughes Barr Humphreys W.H. Hurlburt Louis & Mary Hyndman Erik & Franziska Jacobsen Christian Jager Janet Jansen Yvonne-Marie Johnson Ryan Jones Valerie Keates Richard Kennedy Hugh & Shirley Kent Adam Kilbrun Ha Neul Kim Valerie Kneteman

Betty Kolodziej Lorraine Kucey Michelle Kuysters John Kuzyk Thierry Lacaze-Masmonteil Nancy Lang Walter & Kay Lachman Tara-Lee LaRose Jack & Diane Latham Vincent Lee Ursula Leipziger Leo Levasseur Rena Liciniuk Richard Loken Doug & Joan Longley Ronald Lucas Tom Lumsden Richard Lyne Lowell & Donna Lyseng Marion MacIntyre David Malka Berniece Malone Greg & Patrece Maluzynsky Antoinette Marchand Graeme Marr Joan H. Marshall John & Cathleen Matthews Robert Mauro Linda Medland-Davis Jacqueline Meffen Ronald & Carole Middleton Janet Millar Shauna Miller Dallas & Laura Miles Renn Moodley Marion Morgan Chris Morrison Marney Mustard Ruth New Larry Newton Danny & Erin Nianchuk Chris Nicholas Brent Nimalovitch Michael O’Dell Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Arthur O’Leary Hanne Ostergaard Fred Otto Tim Paetkan Frank Palko C.H Parks Fred Parton Anixa Patel Mary Pemberton Homsanith Phetlathy Bruce Picton Sam Prochazka & Andrea Neilson Natalie Prytuluk Eugene & Jeanne Ratsoy Yvonne Rekken Lindsay Reynolds Nancy Reynolds Mary Richardson

Gunter & Ingeborg Richter Dean Rokosh Analee Roman Alex & Mary Lou Rose Carolynne E Ross E.J Rudnisky Ena Rudovics Kathleen Ryks Kathleen L. Savey Jelena Savic Tom & Bev Sawyer Don Schultz Werner Schulze M. & A. Schwabenbauer Tony Scozzafava Philip Sembaliyk Sheelagh & Andrew Semper Alison Seymour Charles Shelley Paul Shelley R & W Sherbaniuk Anurag Shourie Chris Sieben David Sparrow Michael Spassov Mike Staines Joseph Stang John & Sparkle Steeves Sheila Steinhauer-Mozejko Anne Strack Ronald Streeter Jean Sult Martin & Heike Stribrny Louis Te Michael & Elizabeth Thain Janette & Tom Thorvaldson Michael & Heime Thwaites William Tonn Karen Trace Darrell E. Ungstad Dennis Vance Maureen Vandenberg Harold Vanderschoe Terry & Michele Veeman Trudy Velichka Joe Viana Duane Vienweau A.C Visman Jackson Von Der Ohe Tom Wakeling Todd Wandio Sherri Wawrow Donna & Marv Weisler Shawna Wenchulak Kim Wheaton Jolanta Wiens Tim Winton Morley & Patricia Workun Doug & Mary Wright Frank & Melinda Wuest H.C Yip Daniel Zalmanowitz Mark Zutz Christine Zwozdesky

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SPECIAL THANKS

Queen of Puddings Music Theatre & Edmonton Opera acknowledges the support of the Canada Council for the Arts, which last year invested $154 million to bring the arts to Canadians throughout the country.

QUEEN OF PUDDINGS MUSIC THEATRE SPONSOR

EDMONTON OPERA SEASON SPONSORS

Dianne & Irving Kipnes

ATB CANADIAN SERIES SPONSOR

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Rob Hood Fund

ATB CANADIAN SERIES MEDIA PARTNERS

EDMONTON OPERA SURTITLE SPONSORS

EMERGING ARTIST SPONSOR

EDUCATION SPONSOR

EDMONTON OPERA SPONSORS

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UPCOMING EVENTS 2013/14 Season Launch || City Centre Mall Pedway Wednesday, Jan. 23 • Noon Hoffmann Opera 101 || Art Gallery of Alberta, Ledcor Theatre Wednesday, Jan. 23 • 7:00 pm Complimentary Les Contes d'Hoffmann panel discussion

Les Contes d’Hoffmann || Jubilee Auditorium Friday, Feb. 1 • 8:00 pm Sunday, Feb. 3 • 2:00 pm { New Matinée! } Tuesday, Feb. 5 • 7:30 pm Thursday, Feb. 7 • 7:30 pm Join us for free Opera Talks 45 minutes before curtain in the Kaasa Lobby

Valentine’s Gala || Shaw Conference Centre, Hall D Thursday, Feb. 14 • 5:30 pm Opera Tours: New York March 7–14 Productions of Parsifal, Francesca da Rimini, Otello and Don Carlo, plus a performance by the London Philharmonic Orchestra are all part of the New York edition of Opera Tours.

Doctor Zhivago || Metro Cinema’s Garneau Theatre Wednesday, March 27 • 7:00 pm Part of the Edmonton Opera’s Film Series to compliment Eugene Onegin

Eugene Onegin Opera 101 || Art Gallery of Alberta, Ledcor Theatre Wednesday, April 10 • 7:00 pm Complimentary Eugene Onegin panel discussion

Eugene Onegin || Jubilee Auditorium Friday, April 19 • 8:00 pm Sunday, April 21 • 2:00 pm { New Matinée! } Tuesday, April 23 • 7:30 pm Thursday, April 25 • 7:30 pm Join us for free Opera Talks 45 minutes before curtain in the Kaasa Lobby

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