Carmen

2016-17 UTAH OPERA SEASON

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CARMEN

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6 Welcome 8 Artistic Director’s Welcome 10 Board of Trustees 15 Tribute: Mardean Peterson 16 Director’s Cut 18 Elise Quagliata Q&A 19 Dominick Chenes Q&A 20 Staff Spotlight: Michael Spassov 22 Production Sponsors 24 Cast / Artistic Staff / Chorus / Supernumenaries 30 Composer & Librettist 32 Synopsis 34 Deadlier than the Male 38 Support USUO 39 Utah Symphony 40 Campaign for Perpetual Motion 42 Crescendo & Tanner Societies 43 Legacy Giving 44 Season Honorees 50 Corporate & Foundation Donors 51 Individual Donors 54 Tagged & Hashtagged!

59 Classical 89 Broadcasts 61 Administration 62 Education 64 Acknowledgments

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This introduction includes historical context, musical highlights, and a behind-the-scenes perspective.

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Welcome

On behalf of the board, musicians, and staff of Utah Symphony | Utah Opera, it is my great pleasure to welcome you to the opening of Utah Opera’s 39th season featuring Bizet’s timeless classic Carmen. Of all art forms, perhaps it is opera, with its theatrical blend of song and words, that has the most potential to express emotions in vivid, affecting colors. That’s certainly the case this season as we encounter the ‘femme fatale’ in Carmen; the chivalric escapades of Don Quixote in Man of La Mancha; the gothic madness of Lucia di Lammermoor; the womanizing and eventual damnation of the libertine Don Giovanni; and the contemporary story of an American soldier returning from Iraq as he copes with blastinduced traumatic brain injury in The Long Walk.

Since joining USUO on July 1 as President and CEO, I have quickly become inspired by the superb quality of the organization’s artistic offerings. I am excited to work with forward thinking artistic leaders in Christopher McBeth at Utah Opera and Thierry Fischer at Utah Symphony, and with our worldclass musicians, and trustees, staff, volunteers, and supporters. Our shared vision is to grow and excel in artistic achievement as we connect and serve our unique community through great live music.

Of course, none of this would be possible without your loyal support through attendance and vital contributions. Your confidence in us is the surest sign that we can sustain and grow Utah Opera long into the future.

Thank you, and I hope to see you back this season for more performances filled with drama and emotion!

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Artistic Director’s Welcome

Dear Opera Friends and Family, Welcome once again to the Capitol Theatre. It is time to return to one of the all-time great operas, Carmen!

There are probably more recognizable melodies in this opera than any other in the repertory. So many, in fact, the instrumental Carmen suite is also one of the most favorite pieces of all the symphonic pops works. If this is your first Carmen, you’ll soon understand what I mean and you will probably find yourself recognizing many of the musical themes. Most likely, however, this isn’t your first encounter with this French operatic masterpiece and you know exactly of what I speak.

However, is it just the familiar melodies that draw us back to this opera over and over again? No, I think that regardless of gender it is also the archetypal characters and their stories that also pull us into the theater time and time again. How is it possible NOT to be fascinated with a woman who has the power to have and dispose of whomever she wishes? We all want to be wanted – in one form or another – and Carmen can choose whomever she wishes. Of course, in this story her focus has to be the sole man who initially regards her with indifference. Don José really doesn’t resist that long but, in trying to do so, feels the full force of Carmen’s charms which eventually lead him down a dark path to a place where he loses all self-control. It is a fascinating tale told in the “realistic” style that was becoming in vogue in all theatrical art 8

forms. Not seeing people on stage that were metaphors but rather people that we recognize and, perhaps only in a small way, saw in ourselves making the drama that much more potent.

Singing the title role is a wonderful artist who has performed it many times to critical acclaim and is new to the Janet Quinney Lawson Capitol Theatre, Elise Quagliata. Her Don José is Dominick Chenes who returns to Utah Opera as a former Resident Artist. Mr. Chenes’ career has been on an upward trajectory for several years with this role being one of his most successful and we are thrilled to have him back.

Other notable debuts to our stage are Christian Bowers playing everyone’s favorite toreador, the dashing and cavalier Escamillo, and Sarah Tucker as the wholesome Micaëla. It is my pleasure to introduce these extraordinary artists to you who come from around the country. Returning to bring the piece to life is the wonderful stage director, Tara Faircloth, who has long history of successes with Utah Opera and one of the Utah Symphony’s favorite opera conductors, Maestro Robert Tweten.

I invite you to sit back, relax and enjoy everything that has made Carmen the number one French opera in the world.

Warmly,

Christopher McBeth UTAH OPERA 2016–17 SEASON

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NATIONAL ADVISORY COUNCIL Joanne F. Shiebler Chair (Utah)

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Tribute This production of Carmen is lovingly dedicated to the memory of Mardean Peterson, widow of Utah Opera Founder and first General Director, Glade Peterson. Since its founding in 1978, Mardean worked tirelessly behind the scenes championing Utah Opera throughout the community. From organizing Utah Opera Guild fundraisers such as Equestrian Elegance, to welcoming artists of all backgrounds into the opera family, to hosting innumerable dinners and other special events, her influence was felt in countless ways. She cheered each opening night, rose to every challenge, and never wavered in her commitment to enriching lives through the arts. Today, nearly forty years later, Utah Opera is a more vibrant company thanks to her hard work performed with grace, humor, and dedication.

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Director’s Cut

By Tara Faircloth, director

TEN THINGS YOU MAY NOT KNOW ABOUT CARMEN Carmen is one of the most beloved and often-performed operas in the entire world, and even if you’ve never stepped foot in an opera house, you probably already know all the big tunes.

HOWEVER, here are ten things that you may not know about this opera: 1. French composer Georges Bizet wrote more than 30 operas and Carmen is the only one that is performed with any regularity.

2. After its premiere in 1875, Carmen was critically panned, and many believe the poor reception led to Bizet’s early death, at age 37. He died not knowing how beloved his opera would become.

3. The leading man in the story, Don José, had trained to be a priest. As a young man, he got into a fight after a game of paume (similar to tennis) and killed a man. He ran away from his hometown and joined the military to avoid arrest.

4. Micaëla, Don José’s hometown sweetheart, usually is portrayed with blond hair. She and José are from the Basque region of Navarre, in the northern part of Spain. The Navarrese were often fair, with blond hair and blue eyes.

5. When Don José attacks Escamillo in the mountains, he uses a Navaja

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knife. This large folding knife could lock open, and was favored for its easy concealment. Originally a weapon of the aristocracy, over time it became very popular among the criminal element.

6. The most famous song in the opera features a completely made up word: Toreador. The proper term is torero, but Bizet needed another syllable to fit the tune.

7. Matadors often came from a very poor background, and chose the sport as a way to get out of the ghetto.

In early days, the prize for killing a bull was an ear (or two for excellent performance!) Winning also meant the bullfighter could claim the meat of the bull, a welcome source of food for a poor family. Finding a wealthy patron was the quickest way out of poverty.

8. The use of cards for divination is called cartomancy. Either Tarot or traditional playing cards may be used.

They share a common origin, having been developed in China in the 9th century, and used for fortune telling in Europe as early as 1440.

9. A great quote from the beleaguered Bizet: “Ah, music! What a beautiful art!

But what a wretched profession!”

10. Georges Bizet never set foot in Spain.

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The dream isn’t impossible to him.

Some call Don Quixote a fool. Others call him a lunatic. But in Man of La Mancha, you might end up calling him an inspiration a s y o u f o l l o w t h e u n l i k e l y j o u r n e y o f a m a n w h o d re a m s t h e i m p o s s i b l e d re a m o f a b e t t e r w o r l d a l l a ro u n d h i m . B e l i e v e i n h i s d re a m w i t h t h i s ro u s i n g p e r f o r m a n c e b y U t a h O p e r a .

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Elise Quagliata Q&A Mezzo-soprano Elise Quagliata is a juggler. Off stage she plays mommy to an 18-month-old daughter, Lila, who travels with her as she performs in opera houses and concert halls across the country. She discusses finding the balance between motherhood and career, and the unexpected similarities in playing the roles of Sister Helen Prejean in Jake Heggie’s Dead Man Walking and the title role in Bizet’s Carmen.

On balancing motherhood and career: It’s always a fine balance between being a full time mom and a singer.

Utah Opera’s production of Carmen will be my daughter’s 31st gig. She’s been on the road with me since she was three months old. When she was born, I was preparing for my role in Dead Man Walking and we were living in a brownstone in Chicago with Sister Helen herself. My mother was our nanny. Lila slept only in 45-minute chunks back then.

She’s a good traveler now that she’s a year and a half. She gets what I do, she comes to the theater, she likes witnessing the transformation I undergo.

She is really fun to have around. When I go to the theatre, she said, “Lila is going to the theatre. Lila is singing opera.” It’s a funny thing to have and lighten my perspective before I go onstage.

As a working mother there’s nothing you can do but chill out and relax. She is my priority. She makes the art deeper and more meaningful. I have a level of empathy that I didn’t have previously.

I have an amazingly supportive husband who knows that our daughter will be on the road with me and that the contracts that I had in place while I was pregnant are still in place.

She’s turned into this super adaptable kid and is totally up for new things and new people.

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On playing strong female characters: It seems so strange to compare these two women because one is a real human being who is quite literally an angel among men and Carmen is this kind of iconic, sexy character.

Although it might be unexpected to consider, I think these two ladies are not entirely different.

Sister Helen is a multi-dimensional human who has a multifaceted persona. She is this equally strong and fiery personality because she cultivated this singular mission to abolish the death penalty that she has spent the last 50 years working towards. She is passionate and impassioned in a complex, compelling way.

By contrast, having done Carmen so many times and seen it performed, it’s easy for her to seem like a one dimensional character. Carmen is basically the same human being from beginning to end. She is often played in a superficial, sexy way. But if you’re playing Carmen knowing that you’re going to die and that it’s your fate, to me she becomes a more interesting character. Then she’s not just a sexpot.

She is dynamic and magnetic. She knows who she is and what she wants, and how to get there.

In terms of strength as women, strength in character, strength in mission, they are surprisingly similar.

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Dominick Chenes Q&A

By Madeleine Tolk Tenor Dominick Chenes has been called a “breakout star” by Huffington Post but he is no stranger to the Utah Opera stage—he toured Utah as a Resident Artist in 2008. He sat down with Madeleine Tolk to discuss his passions and how he connects with the role of Don José.

Tell us what led you down the path to becoming an opera singer I didn’t always want to be a performer—I had wanted to be a pediatrician first. I always liked to sing and I auditioned for a talent show in high school. The choir director encouraged me to sing and encouraged me to do an audition at the local university, which eventually is where I went to get my undergraduate and graduate degrees.

It was kind of like the best accident that’s ever happened.

You are no stranger to Utah Opera, having performed eight years ago as one of our Resident Artists introducing school children to opera as an artform. How did that experience help you develop as a performer?

It really helped me to get on my own two feet as a performer and not have to rely on a school environment (I went to the apprentice program right out of school). I was able to understand what it meant to prepare myself in the complete sense of the word... to get up in the morning and be ready to perform for anybody, whether it was for kids or whether it was in a Utah Opera production.

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is very special to me because Don José came to me at a time in my career where I was very uncertain of where I was going and I hadn’t done any roles in a couple years and I was just studying, working, being a student and an emerging artist and trying to put one foot in front of the other as a singer. I decided to maybe go a different way and I went back to school for hospitality, thinking I could go into catering or something. But my university teacher at the time asked me if I wanted to sing Don José. It just took me back again and I was taken over by opera and the character and the whole production of it. I decided “No, this is what I have to do.” I was accepted into the Academy of Vocal Arts in Philadelphia that year and then I spent four years studying and preparing to be an artist.

It is the magic [of opera] that draws me to it. There is nothing else on earth like the experience of an opera singer being on stage and watching everything come together—what you’ve prepared, what your colleagues have prepared, and what the orchestra and conductor have prepared. You have these moments of perfection when maybe the audience doesn’t know what’s going on, but they just know that something makes them gasp and wonder “Wow, that was special.”

It convinces them that they’ve been transported somewhere else.

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Staff Spotlight: Michael Spassov Michael Spassov was appointed Utah Opera Chorus Master in May 2016. Carmen will be his first production with Utah Opera.

A native of Ottawa, Canada, Mr. Spassov has been playing the piano and composing music since he was very young. When he was about eight years old, he was introduced to opera when his father took him to a production of Mozart’s Don Giovanni at the National Arts Centre in Ottawa. He says of the experience, “I’m not sure that I understood all the subtleties of what was going on, but I was terrified by the final scene, where the statue comes to take Don Giovanni off to Hell.” Despite this frightening childhood memory, he became more interested in opera as he learned more about music and theater. As a young boy he participated in the Opera Lyra Boys’ Choir. He enjoyed singing in a chorus setting and particularly appreciated the excitement and anticipation of being backstage before a show.

Mr. Spassov’s favorite thing about opera is its ability to convey emotions and stories through the intersection of different art forms. “Opera is where drama and music come together, creating this overwhelming impression and burst of experience that you don’t really get with other art forms,” he says. “Everything shows the biggest emotions, but at the same time, it can be extremely intimate, so you get the extremes of human experience. The coming together of both the music and the drama creates something new and greater than what either of them could create by themselves.”

One of his favorite things about working with an opera chorus is the opportunity to explore many different roles. He says, “If you’re one of the principal singers, you get to play only one character. But when 20

you’re in the chorus, you get to play many different characters over the course of an opera. Carmen is an amazing example of this because the chorus will be playing soldiers, drug smugglers, gypsies, guys from the tavern waiting around for the cigarette girls, and cigarette girls.”

Mr. Spassov feels that working with an opera chorus is very fulfilling because of its unique environment. “It’s a place where you can come together and make great music. Nothing is competitive, and people are really committed and supportive of each other. It’s a really wonderful, satisfying way to make music with other people.”

He looks forward to working with Utah Opera beginning this season. He aims to help the chorus be its best by allowing chorus members to feel comfortable experimenting artistically, creating a supportive environment, and providing musical guidance.

As he approaches the upcoming season, he is especially looking forward to Carmen because of the opportunities it provides the chorus to explore different forms of music. He says, “You can never get tired of [Carmen] because there is so much in it…. It’s exciting, but also an interesting challenge because there is every kind of singing in it. There’s really legato singing and there’s really articulate singing, so it shows off every kind of singing that a chorus can do.” He is also looking forward to working on Leigh’s Man of La Mancha, Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor and Mozart’s Don Giovanni—even that final terrifying scene from his childhood—later in Utah Opera’s 2016–17 season.

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CARMEN October 8, 10, 12, 14 | 7:30 pm October 16 | 2 pm Janet Quinney Lawson Capitol Theatre

by Georges Bizet Libretto by Henri Meilhac & Ludovic Halévy Opera sung in French with English supertitles Supertitle translation by Tara Faircloth Set in Seville, Spain 1830 World Premiere: Paris 1875 Previous Utah Opera Productions: 1979, 1985, 1996, 2001, 2010

CAST (in order of appearance) Moralès . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Tyler Oliphant Micaëla . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sarah Tucker Zuniga . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Kevin Nakatani Don José . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Dominick Chenes** Carmen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Elise Quagliata Frasquita . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Abigail Rethwisch* Mercédès . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sarah Coit* Escamillo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Christian Bowers Le Remendado . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Christian Sanders* Le Dancaïre . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Markel Reed*

ARTISTIC STAFF

*Current Utah Opera Resident Artist

Conductor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Robert Tweten Director . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Tara Faircloth Set Designer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Allen Charles Klein Costume Designer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Susan Memmott Allred Lighting Designer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Nicholas Cavallaro Wigs/Make-up Designer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yancey J. Quick Chorus Master . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Michael Spassov Fight Director . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Christopher DuVal Principal Coach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Carol Anderson Guest Coach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Kevin Miller Rehearsal Pianist/Supertitle Musician . . . . Timothy Accurso* Assistant Director . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Anthony Buck Assistant Fight Director . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ava Kostia Stage Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jayme Marrs Castle Assistant Stage Managers . . . . . . . . . . . Amber Lewandowski Amanda Craig

**Former Utah Opera Resident Artist

The performance will last approximately 3 hours with two intermissions.

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Tyler Oliphant (Utah) Moralès Most Recently at Utah Opera, Tosca Recently: La bohème, Lyrical Opera Productions La traviata, Opera Idaho La Cenerentola, Utah Lyric Opera Ensemble Upcoming: Elijah, Idaho State Civic Symphony Carmen, Lyrical Opera Productions Sarah Tucker (Texas) Micaëla Utah Opera Debut Recently: Jenůfa, San Francisco Opera; Carmen, Don Giovanni, Arizona Opera Upcoming: War Stories, Opera Philadelphia Kevin Nakatani (California) Zuniga Most Recently at Utah Opera, The Merry Widow Recently: Gianni Schicchi, Ragtime, Peter Pan, Utah Festival Opera & Musical Theatre

Dominick Chenes (Nevada) Don José Most Recently at Utah Opera, Madame Butterfly Recently: Carmen, Palm Beach Opera; Tosca, Minnesota Opera; Les Troyens, Grand Théâtre de Genève Upcoming: La bohème, Welsh National Opera; Madame Butterfly, Austin Lyric Opera

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cast Elise Quagliata (New Jersey) Carmen Utah Opera Debut Recently: Doubt, Union Avenue Opera; Hopper’s Wife, New York City Opera; Carmen, Opera on the James; Dead Man Walking, Des Moines Metro Opera Upcoming: Dead Man Walking, Pensacola Opera; Carmen, New York City Opera Asian Tour; Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria, Opera Louisiane Abigail Rethwisch (Iowa) Frasquita Utah Opera Debut Current Utah Opera Resident Artist Recently: La traviata, Chautauqua Opera; Sweeney Todd, Iolanta, Tri-Cities Opera Upcoming: Man of La Mancha, Lucia di Lammermoor, The Long Walk, Utah Opera Sarah Coit (Florida) Mercédès Most Recently at Utah Opera, The Merry Widow Current Utah Opera Resident Artist Recently: The Child and the Enchantments, Utah Symphony | Utah Opera; Don Giovanni, Roméo et Juliette, The Santa Fe Opera Upcoming: Man of La Mancha, Don Giovanni, Utah Opera Christian Bowers (New York) Escamillo Utah Opera Debut Recently: Il barbiere di Siviglia, Opera Project Columbus; HMS Pinafore, Carmen, Shreveport Opera; Carmen, Washington National Opera Upcoming: South Pacific, Annapolis Opera; Candide, Théâtre Capitole de Toulouse and Opéra National de Bordeaux; Duruflé Requiem, National Symphony Orchestra

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Christian Sanders (Colorado) Le Remendado Most recently at Utah Opera, The Marriage of Figaro Current Utah Opera Resident Artist Recently: Manon, Des Moines Metro Opera; Aida, The Merry Widow, Utah Opera Upcoming: Man of La Mancha, Lucia di Lammermoor, Utah Opera Markel Reed (North Carolina) Le Dancaïre Most Recently at Utah Opera, The Merry Widow Current Utah Opera Resident Artist Recently: Il Barbiere di Siviglia, Soo Opera Theatre; Tosca, Utah Opera; Le Nozze di Figaro, Bronx Opera Upcoming: The Long Walk, Don Giovanni, Utah Opera ARTISTIC STAFF Robert Tweten (New Mexico) Conductor Most recently at Utah Opera, Tosca Recently: Die Zauberflöte, Calgary Opera; Madama Butterfly, Dayton Opera; Lucia di Lammermoor, Edmonton Opera Upcoming: The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs, The Santa Fe Opera; La Cenerentola, El Paso Opera

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Tara Faircloth (Texas) Director Most Recently at Utah Opera, The Marriage of Figaro Recently: Don Giovanni, Arizona Opera; La bohème, Tulsa Opera ; Madama Butterfly, Wolf Trap Opera Upcoming: La rondine, Opera Santa Barbara; Giulio Cesare, Rice University Susan Memmott Allred (Utah) Costume Designer Most Recently at Utah Opera, The Marriage of Figaro Recently: PBS Christmas Special with Mormon Tabernacle Choir 2015; Resident Designer, Utah Opera, 1979–2011; Mormon Miracle Pageant; Utah Shakespeare Festival; Southern Utah State College Yancey J. Quick (Utah) Wig and Make-up Designer Most Recently at Utah Opera, The Marriage of Figaro Recently: Resident Wig and Makeup Designer, Utah Opera; Wig Master, Ballet West; Wig and Makeup Designer, Utah Festival Opera & Musical Theatre Michael Spassov (Canada) Chorus Master Utah Opera debut Recently: Capriccio, La fanciulla del West, The Santa Fe Opera; Roméo et Juliette, Atlanta Opera Upcoming: Lucia di Lammermoor, Don Giovanni, Utah Opera

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Melanie Malinka (Germany) Children’s Choir Director Most Recently at Utah Opera, The Marriage of Figaro Recently: Noye’s Fludde, The Cathedral of the Madeleine; Tosca, Utah Opera (chorus master); The Child and the Enchantments, Utah Symphony | Utah Opera; (children’s chorus) Upcoming: Dixit Dominus, The Cathedral of the Madeleine; Pueri Cantores Children’s Choir Festival, Chicago UTAH OPERA CHORUS Keanu Aiono-Netzler Julie Barker Jessica Benson Matthew Castleton Andrea da Silva Natalie Easter Gregory Harrison Paul Hill Melissa James Alyssa Jenks Tom Klassen Hilary Koolhoven Phil Lammi

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Georges Bizet Composer

Henri Meilhac Librettist

Ludovic Halévy Librettist

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composer / librettist Georges Bizet (Paris, 25 October 1838—3 June 1875) was a French composer and pianist of the Romantic era.

His father, Adolphe Armand Bizet, (1810–86) was an amateur singer and composer, and his mother, Aimée Léopoldine Joséphine née Delsarte, was the sister of the famous singing teacher François Delsarte. He entered the Paris Conservatory of Music on October 9, 1848, a fortnight before his tenth birthday. His teachers there were Pierre Zimmermann, Antoine François Marmontel, François Benoist, and on Zimmermann’s death, Fromental Halévy, whose daughter Bizet later married. He is best known for the opera Carmen.

Henri Meilhac (Paris, 1831–1897) as a young man began writing fanciful articles for Parisian newspapers and vaudevilles, in a vivacious boulevardier spirit which brought him to the forefront. About 1860, he met Ludovic Halévy, and their collaboration for the stage lasted twenty years. Their most famous collaboration is the libretto for Georges Bizet’s Carmen. However, Meilhac’s work is most closely tied to the music of Jacques Offenbach, for whom he wrote over a dozen librettos, most of them together with Halévy. He died in his hometown of Paris.

Ludovic Halévy’s father, Leon, was a civil servant as well as a clever and versatile writer. In 1865, Ludovic Halévy’s own increasing popularity as an author enabled him to retire from the public service. Ten years earlier, he had become acquainted with the musician Offenbach, who was about to start a small theatre of his own in the Champs-Élysées, and he wrote a sort of prologue for the opening night. Other little productions followed, and in the spring of 1860 Halévy was commissioned to write a play for the manager of the Variétés in conjunction with another vaudevillist, Lambert Thiboust. The latter having abruptly retired from the collaboration, Halévy was at a loss how to carry out the contract, when on the steps of the theatre he met Henri Meilhac, then comparatively a stranger to him. He proposed to Meilhac the task rejected by Lambert Thiboust, and the proposal was immediately accepted. Thus began a collaboration which was to last over twenty years, and which proved most fruitful both for the reputation of the two authors and the prosperity of the minor Paris theatres. During this period, they wrote the libretto to Carmen, but it was a sideline to their other work. Halévy died in Paris on 8 May 1908.

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Carmen by Bizet Act I

Act II

Seville, Spain

A tavern

Soldiers loiter near a cigarette factory in Seville observing the townspeople.

A peasant girl, Micaëla, approaches Moralès and inquires about a recent recruit, Don José. With the changing of the guard, led by Lt. Zuniga, the newly minted soldier enters.

Carmen learns from Zuniga that José, who has been in prison, has just been released. She and her friends Frasquita and Mercédès have been partying in a tavern owned by Lillas Pastia when the renowned bullfighter Escamillo swaggers in, full of braggadocio and amorous innuendos directed at Carmen; she denies him, asserting her love for Don José. When he leaves, the smugglers discuss a future raid they have planned; Carmen’s friends are ready to help but she will not participate because she is in love.

On a break from their jobs, women, including the saucy gypsy Carmen, emerge from the cigarette factory.

Carmen claims she is free to live and love as she pleases. All the soldiers are beguiled by her with the exception of Don José, who pointedly ignores her.

Carmen flirts with him and then tosses him a rose which he picks up and hides.

Micaëla brings a letter from Don José’s mother, which pleads with him to return to the countryside and the virtuous life it offers. Embarrassed by the implication that José should marry, Micaëla flees.

The factory women have returned to work, when a fight breaks out between Carmen and another girl. Zuniga sends Don José to quell the disturbance, but haughty Carmen refuses to answer questions and is sentenced to prison, to be escorted there by José. Seduced by her beauty and her promise for an amorous liaison, he allows her to escape while he is apprehended.

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When Don José arrives, Carmen dances for him until a bugle call summons him to return to the troops.

To prove his love, he shows her the flower he has treasured while serving her prison term. Then Carmen taunts him, urging him to desert the army and join the vagabonds in the mountains.

Meanwhile Zuniga returns to pursue Carmen and a struggle ensues with Don José who is wildly jealous. Now discredited as a soldier, his only option is to join the smugglers.

Act III In the mountains

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suggests that he return to his mother.

He is ordered to be on guard while Carmen and her girlfriends read each other’s fortunes. The cards say Frasquita and Mercédès will lead lives of luck and prosperity, but Carmen has drawn the Ace of Spades, signifying death.

Micaëla enters in search of José, bearing the news that his mother is dying. Upon hearing a shot, she hides. José has fired at an intruder, Escamillo. Their fight is halted by the smugglers, and the toreador invites all to the bullring. Anxious to be rid of José, Carmen encourages him to accompany Micaëla to his mother’s side. Still hopelessly in love, José swears to Carmen that he will return.

Act IV Seville, Outside a bullring

In Seville, the crowd cheers for the bullfighters as they approach the arena. Carmen appears with Escamillo and is warned that Don José is in the area. When he appears, she tells him that their romance is finished and insults him by throwing his ring in the dust. Unable to live without her, José stabs her. She dies in his arms.

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Deadlier than the Male

By Michael Clive

Ignore the statistics. Though Carmen’s frequency of performance lags slightly behind a couple of others, such as Puccini’s La bohème, there is something about this opera that puts it ahead of all others in familiarity and fascination; it’s the opera we’ve all grown up with, the one whose melodies we’re most likely to hear in the schoolyard or as elevator music.

Most of all, there is Carmen herself.

In 1875, when Bizet was composing Carmen, the phrase “Gypsy girl” alone was sufficient to conjure a whole world of wanton sensuality and danger, and this world was the focus of the Bizet’s source for his music drama: Prosper Mérimée’s novella Carmen, a firstperson narrative set in Spain among the culture we now know as Romani and an early example of fatal attraction.

We hear this in the opera’s explosive opening bars. Almost immediately after those smashing, cymbal-accented chords, we hear a second melody that takes Bizet’s drama beyond its source: Carmen’s “fate theme,” which evokes the fatal destiny that looms ever closer for her.

Bizet composed Carmen in 1875, when he was 37 and had a decent reputation as a composer, but was not classed as one of the most important in France; in fact, considering the high expectations of him in musical circles, his career so far had been something of a disappointment. He was one of the youngest pupils ever admitted to the famously rigorous Paris Conservatoire, and won its highest award for 34

composition at age 19. Though his early operas did not hint at the boldness of inspiration in Carmen, they did reveal the freshness of his melodic inspiration.

Just three years before Carmen, when Bizet composed the incidental music for the play L’Arlésienne, playwright Alphonse Daudet supposedly described his own play as “a glittering flop with the loveliest music in the world.” Tragically, Carmen would prove to be Bizet’s final masterpiece.

In Mérimée’s novella Carmen we learn more about Carmen’s doomed lover Don José than we see in the opera. He is depicted as an ordinary man who undergoes an extraordinary disintegration. This kind of story, representing female sexuality as a corrupting influence and southern peoples as dangerous, was common in pulp novels of Mérimée’s day; he wrote at a time when Gypsies were seen by most Europeans as filthy and dangerous. But it’s possible that his view of this subject was more complex, since he had visited Spain and had a relationship with a Gypsy girl who may well have been the model for his Carmen. Another source contemporaneous with Bizet was George Henry Borrow, a British writer and translator who explored Madrid, Granada, Seville and Cordoba.

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Eugénie had left a mark on Bizet’s France by imposing her rigid, SpanishCatholic code on it. If such shocking material was to be introduced in opera, the Opéra-Comique was perhaps the last place where it might have been expected; this venue, after all, was where respectable bourgeoisie could expect reliably inoffensive entertainment. But change was in the air, and with it came Realism. Opera had already taken important steps toward Realism in the 1850s with Verdi’s La traviata, with its shockingly frank depiction of the elegant courtesan Violetta Valéry. But Bizet’s opera took such candor to a level for which the public was not yet prepared.

Controversy erupted over Carmen even before the first rehearsals began. By the time of its premiere at the OpéraComique in Paris on March 3, 1875, arguments over the scandalous plot were raging in cafés and in the theater itself. Bizet was also criticized for producing it at the Opéra-Comique, “A place where a man can take his wife and daughters.” The first performance of the opera brought condemnation in the press, but there were also dissenters — including the writer Blaze de Bury, who praised Bizet and said he had “no doubt about the composer’s future.”

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Comique during its first run (though often to a half-empty house), and successfully revived during the next season. A real fiasco would have closed after just one performance or, in the worst possible scenario, the audience would have forced the curtain down in the middle of the show and made the impresario refund the ticket money, as sometimes happened in Paris.

When Bizet died, three months after the premiere of his wildly revolutionary opera, he knew it would survive. But could he have dreamed that it would become one of the most popular and influential works in the history of the theater, setting the parameters for a new structure and style in opera? Public and critical enthusiasm for Carmen only grows with time. Perhaps the first “daughter” of Carmen was Jules Massenet’s Manon (1884), with its amoral heroine; from there, the raw brutality of Italian verismo was already within reach. Today, Carmen’s irresistibly passionate music and stark drama have transcended style and geography, and are embraced throughout the world.

Michael Clive’s writing on music and the arts has appeared in publications throughout the U.S. and in the U.K., as well as on the Internet (for Classical TV.com and Classical Review) and television (for the PBS series Live From Lincoln Center). He is program annotator for the Utah Symphony, the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra and the Pacific Symphony, and is editor-in-chief of The Santa Fe Opera.

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November 19 | 9:30 AM

BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No. 1, Mvt. 1 Hannah Jean Baker, Piano Rei Hotoda, Conductor (recorded 9/22/15)

GRIEG Piano Concerto Lang Lang, piano Thierry Fischer, Conductor (recorded 10/1/15)

October 15 | 9:30 AM

RACHMANINOFF Piano Concerto No. 2, Mvt. 3 Trenton Chang, Piano Rei Hotoda, Conductor (recorded 9/22/15)

October 22 | 9:30 AM

VIVALDI Violin Concerto Op 7/11 RV 208, Mvt. 1 Soonyoung Kwon, Violin Rei Hotoda, Conductor (recorded 9/22/15)

October 29 | 9:30 AM

BEETHOVEN Egmont: Overture Thierry Fischer, Conductor (recorded 10/1/15)

November 5 | 9:30 AM

MOZART Piano Concerto No. 24, K 491 Lang Lang, Piano Thierry Fischer, Conductor (recorded 10/1/15)

November 12 | 9:30 AM

November 26 | 9:30 AM

DEBUSSY Suite bergamasque: Clair de lune Jun Märkl, Conductor (recorded 10/24/15)

December 3 | 9:30 AM

RAVEL La valse Thierry Fischer, Conductor (recorded 11/14/15)

December 10 | 9:30 AM

RAVEL Miroirs: No. 3, Une Barque sur l’océan Thierry Fischer, Conductor (recorded 11/14/15)

December 17 | 9:30 AM

RESPIGHI Three Botticelli Pictures Rei Hotoda, Conductor (recorded 1/14/16)

December 31 | 9:30 AM

MAHLER Symphony No. 6, Tragic: Mvt. 1 Thierry Fischer, Conductor (recorded 11/21/15)

WAGNER Die Meistersinger: Act 1 Prelude Thierry Fischer, Conductor (recorded 10/1/15)

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SYMPHONY ARTISTIC Thierry Fischer Symphony Music Director Anthony Tolokan Vice President of Symphony Artistic Planning Rei Hotoda Associate Conductor Barlow Bradford Symphony Chorus Director Llew Humphreys Director of Orchestra Personnel Nathan Lutz Orchestra Personnel Manager Lance Jensen Executive Assistant to the Music Director and Symphony Chorus Manager SYMPHONY OPERATIONS Jeff Counts Vice President of Operations & General Manager Cassandra Dozet Director of Operations Chip Dance Production & Stage Manager Mark Barraclough Assistant Stage & Properties Manager Melissa Robison Program Publication & Front of House Manager Erin Lunsford Artist Logistics Coordinator DEVELOPMENT Leslie Peterson Vice President of Development Hillary Hahn Senior Director of Institutional Gifts Natalie Cope Director of Special Events & DVMF Community Relations Alina Osika Manager of Corporate Partnerships Lisa Poppleton Grants Manager Kate Throneburg Manager of Individual Giving Conor Bentley Development Manager Heather Weinstock Manager of Special Events MARKETING & COMMUNICATIONS Jon Miles Vice President of Marketing & Public Relations RenĂŠe Huang Director of Public Relations Chad Call Marketing Manager Mike Call Website Manager Ginamarie Marsala Marketing Communications Manager Aaron Sain Graphic Design & Branding Manager

PATRON SERVICES Nina Richards Director of Ticket Sales & Patron Services Faith Myers Sales Manager Andrew J. Wilson Patron Services & Group Sales Assistant Robb Trujillo Group Sales Associate Ellesse Hargreaves Patron Services Coordinator Sarah Pehrson Jackie Seethaler Nicholas Siler Powell Smith Sales Associates Nick Barker Jordan Duberow Brittney Feller Hilary Hancock Ellesse Hargreaves Garrett Hatfield Nava Payandeh Ticket Agents ACCOUNTING & INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY Steve Hogan Vice President of Finance & CFO Mike Lund Director of Information Technologies SaraLyn Greenwood Controller Alison Mockli Payroll & Benefits Manager Jared Mollenkopf Patron Information Systems Manager Julie Cameron Accounts Payable Clerk EDUCATION Paula Fowler Director of Education & Community Outreach Beverly Hawkins Symphony Education Manager Tracy Hansford Education Coordinator Kyleene Johnson Education Fellow Timothy Accurso Sarah Coit Markel Reed Abigail Rethwisch Christian Sanders Utah Opera Resident Artists

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Join us in welcoming the 2016–17 Utah Opera

Resident Artists

TIMOTHY ACCURSO Pianist

SARAH COIT Mezzo-Soprano

MARKEL REED Baritone

ABIGAIL RETHWISCH Soprano

soprano abigail rethwisch prevailed in national auditions last fall and was invited to become a member of Utah Opera’s Resident Artist program for the 2016–17 season. She joins returning Mezzo-soprano Sarah Coit, Tenor Christian Sanders, Baritone Markel Reed, and Pianist Tim Accurso. nearly every day of the school year, Utah Opera’s Resident Artists perform age-appropriate programs designed to introduce students to the art form of opera. They perform in scores of schools in the metropolitan area, and this year will tour Piute, Wayne, Kane, Garfield, Grand, San Juan, and Washington school districts. our resident artists receive vocal coaching and dramatic training to continue their professional development. They have been cast in comprimario roles in our main-stage operas. Look for them in upcoming productions in Capitol Theatre!

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ARTS IN SERVICE TO THE MILITARY

Our 2016–17 cultural festival shines a spotlight on veterans and current military, focusing on ways our arts community can appreciate and support them. As part of this festival, many local arts organizations will present events on military themes and will also provide access for active and separated military personnel to a variety of arts performances. We will also draw attention to veterans’ active art-making as a means of self-expression.

FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS INCLUDE:

The Western US Premiere of The Long Walk by Utah Opera Guest writer events with Brian Castner, author of the memoir The Long Walk Performances and events based on military experiences, produced by Salt Lake Acting Company, Art Access, Ballet West, U of U Creative Writing, and more Annual Veterans Creative Arts Festival at the VA SLC Medical Center Free/discounted tickets to performances and other events for veterans and current military FOR MORE INFORMATION, VISIT

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