2017-2018 Season Brochure

THE COLOR OF OPERA | 2017–2018 SEASON

Close your eyes and hear the colors. Feel your soul dip and swell, sinking to the darkest depths and reaching toward the clear bright sky. Allow yourself a good laugh. Or a good cry.

Or that indescribable emotion that swoops in your chest, clamoring to be released: a thousand songbirds, a heart unchained, emotion wild and free.

S O N D R A R A D VA N O V S K Y I S " O P E R A R O YA LT Y. " THE NEW YORK TIMES

" B I L L T. J O N E S I S A B O R N S T O RY T E L L E R . " LA TIMES

KEVIN PUTS IS "A BRILLIANT COMPOSER WITH A STRONG MUSICAL VOICE." THE NEW YORK TIMES

" B E N B L I S S H A S A C L E A N , CLEAR, UNAFFECTED D E L I V E R Y T H AT ' S I D E A L F O R M O Z A R T. " OPERA NEWS

DANIELA MACK “HAS A VOICE LIKE POLISHED ONYX: STRONG, DARK, DEEP AND GLEAMING.” OPERA NEWS

“ J A R R E T T O T T I S A S TA R . ” PA R T E R R E B O X

A N T H O N Y R O T H C O S TA N Z O “COMBINES A POWERFUL V O I C E W I T H A C H A R I S M AT I C PRESENCE.” THE NEW YORK TIMES

“ C O R R A D O R O VA R I S CONDUCTED A RESPONSIVE ORCHESTRA AND CHORUS WITH RELISH AND PROPULSION.” OPERA NEWS

CECELIA HALL SINGS “ W I T H S T R I K I N G B E A U T Y. ” T H E WA S H I N G T O N P O S T

J O H N H O L I D AY I S “AN IMPRESSIVE YOUNG COUNTERTENOR” WITH “ A B R I G H T, V I R I L E V O I C E . ” THE NEW YORK TIMES

“AMBITIOUS, ACCOMPLISHED, D R A M AT I C A L LY D I R E C T O P E R A . ” T H E N E W Y O R K T IME S

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“ OP E R A P HI L ADEL P HIA H A S INCR E AS I NG LY P U T A FO CU S O N INNOVAT I V E , M ODERN FA RE. ” A G E N C E F R A N CE - PRES S E

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War Stories photo by Stephanie Berger | Gotham Chamber Opera

2017-2018 SEASON O P E R A AT T H E A C A D E M Y

THE MAGIC FLUTE PA R T O F O 1 7

SEPTEMBER 15–24, 2017

WRITTEN ON SKIN FEBRUARY 9–18, 2018

CARMEN A P R I L 2 7 – M AY 6 , 2 0 1 8

O17

ELIZABETH CREE SEPTEMBER 14–23, 2017

WE SHALL NOT BE MOVED SEPTEMBER 16–24, 2017

WA R S T O R I E S SEPTEMBER 16–23, 2017

T H E WA K E W O R L D SEPTEMBER 18–25, 2017

S O N D R A R A D VA N O V S K Y F E S T I VA L A R T I S T SEPTEMBER 17 & 18, 2017 Page ahead to learn how to add O17 to your Academy of Music subscription.

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EX C LUSIV E

THE MAGIC FLUTE

SEPTEMBER 15, 17M, 20, 22, 24M, 2017 Academy of Music “Barrie Kosky has transformed The Magic Flute (Die

EA ST C O A ST A PPEA R A N C E

CAST & C R E AT I V E T E A M Tamino / Ben Bliss* Pamina / Rachel Sterrenberg Papageno / Jarrett Ott

Zauberflöte) into a stunning live-action cartoon. It is fun

Queen of the Night / Olga Pudova*

for the whole family.” So marveled the LA Times when

Sarastro, Speaker / Peixin Chen*

the celebrated Australian director’s new production of Mozart’s masterful comedy about love, truth and the pursuit of enlightenment made its North American premiere. The innovative, crowd-pleasing production from Komische Oper Berlin presents the opera in a style

Monostatos / Brenton Ryan* Conductor / David Charles Abell* Director / Barrie Kosky* Production / Suzanne Andrade and Barrie Kosky*

that evokes a meeting between 1920s silent movies and

Animation / Paul Barritt*

David Lynch, with the singers performing amidst fanciful

Concept / 1927 (Suzanne Andrade

animated projections. The result is “a deliciously absurd blend of silent film and animation” (Berliner Morgenpost ).

and Paul Barritt) and Barrie Kosky* Stage & Costume Design / Esther Bialas* *Opera Philadelphia debut

A B L I S S F U L O P E R AT I C E X P E R I M E N T Taking center stage in the exclusive East Coast appearance of this playfully subversive, internationally renowned production are tenor Ben Bliss as “an ever-elegant and solid Tamino” (LA Times) with the “perfect diction and soft smiling tone” (The Philadelphia Inquirer) of soprano Rachel Sterrenberg as Pamina. Baritone Jarrett Ott, declared “a star” (Parterre Box) following his 2016 turn as Inman in Cold Mountain, returns to the Academy stage as the comical, lovelorn Papageno in a role debut. Olga Pudova is “immaculate and airy” (The Guardian) as the villainous Queen of the Night. “The inspiring conductor” (The Financial Times) David Charles Abell leads the Opera Philadelphia Orchestra and Chorus.

Music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozar t | Libretto by Emanuel Schikaneder Exclusive East Coast appearance | A production of Komische Oper Berlin Co-produced by LA Opera and Minnesota Opera OPERA AT THE ACADEMY | PERFORMED IN GERMAN WITH ENGLISH SUPERTITLES The Academy of Music is par t of the Kimmel Center for the Per forming Ar ts

PHILADELPHIA

WRITTEN ON SKIN

PREMIERE AND NEW PRODUCTION

FEBRUARY 9, 11M, 16, 18M, 2018 Academy of Music Since its 2012 premiere, composer George Benjamin’s first full-length opera, Written on Skin, has received wide critical acclaim. The New York Times called the score “a triumph for modernist musical languages” and Rupert Christiansen of The Telegraph said, “If Written on Skin doesn’t end up a modern classic, I’ll eat my hat.” Now this thrilling tale, with a haunting libretto by Martin Crimp, makes its Philadelphia debut.

A powerful landowner, the Protector, commissions

CAST & C R E AT I V E T E A M Agnès / Lauren Snouffer* Protector / Mark Stone First Angel & Boy / Anthony Roth Costanzo Conductor / Corrado Rovaris Director / Will Kerley Set & Costume Design / Tom Rogers Lighting Design / Howard Hudson* *Opera Philadelphia debut

a young artist to create an illuminated manuscript celebrating his life and family. When a relationship develops between the Boy and the Protector’s wife, Agnès, she compels him to reveal their clandestine love within his illustrations. Both passion and violence erupt in the household; all the while, a mysterious cluster of angels watches the story unfold.

A THRILLING PORTRAIT OF GODLINESS AND LUST Lauren Snouffer lends her “rich-toned soprano” (Boston Globe) to the role of Agnès, alongside the “matinee-idol good looks, vocal warmth, and personal charm” (Opera News) of baritone Mark Stone as the Protector. Countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo, with his “instrument of inexorable beauty” (Opera News), takes on the dual role of Boy and First Angel. Jack Mulroney Music Director Corrado Rovaris leads the Opera Philadelphia Orchestra in a new production by director Will Kerley.

Music by George Benjamin | Libretto by Mar tin Crimp Philadelphia Premiere and New Production OPERA AT THE ACADEMY | PERFORMED IN ENGLISH WITH ENGLISH SUPERTITLES The Academy of Music is par t of the Kimmel Center for the Per forming Ar ts

CARMEN

APRIL 27, 29M, M AY 2 , 4 , 6 M , 2 0 1 8 Academy of Music Everyone is drawn to Carmen, an irresistible Spanish gypsy—except Corporal Don José. But even he soon succumbs to her seduction, fleeing a life in the military to join the gypsy world, all in Carmen’s name. When the famous bullfighter Escamillo begins to win her affection, however, a dangerous love triangle grows.

Micaëla, Don José’s hometown sweetheart, attempts to wrest him from Carmen’s grasp, but to no avail—fate

NEW PRODUCTION

CAST & C R E AT I V E T E A M Carmen / Daniela Mack Don José / Evan LeRoy Johnson* Escamillo / Zachary Nelson* Micaëla / Kirsten MacKinnon Conductor / Yves Abel* Director / Paul Curran Set and Costume Design / Gary McCann Lighting Design / Paul Hackenmueller

has already dealt its hand. This unforgettable story of runaway passions and dire consequences meets its

*Opera Philadelphia debut

match in Bizet’s intoxicating score in this bold new production from the team behind 2015's La traviata.

MAGNETISM ON EVERY LEVEL Daniela Mack becomes Carmen, an equally intoxicating heroine, bringing the “caramel timbre, flickering vibrato, and crisp articulation” (Opernwelt ) of her mezzo-soprano to the iconic role. Evan LeRoy Johnson adds his “fervent tenor” (Philadelphia Magazine ) to a cast of sparkling talent as Don José, alongside baritone Zachary Nelson, with his "strutting stage presence" (National Business Review ), as Escamillo and soprano Kirsten MacKinnon, with her “poise, expressive singing and excellent vocalism” (Opera UK), as Micaëla. Paul Curran (La traviata ) directs with Yves Abel leading the Opera Philadelphia Orchestra.

Music by Georges Bizet | Libretto by Ludovic Halévy & Henri Meilhac New Production OPERA AT THE ACADEMY | PERFORMED IN FRENCH WITH ENGLISH SUPERTITLES The Academy of Music is par t of the Kimmel Center for the Per forming Ar ts

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This civic experiment, comprised of twelve days of groundbreaking opera, transforms Philadelphia into an urban stage, where diverse audiences gather to share an experience and amplify human connectedness.

SEPTEMBER 14–25, 2017

Go beyond The Magic Flute and your Opera at the Academy series and experience four additional festival productions!

WORLD

ELIZABETH CREE

SEPTEMBER 14, 16M, 19, 21, 23M, 2017 Perelman Theater Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Kevin Puts and librettist Mark Campbell, the team behind the

PREMIERE

CAST & C R E AT I V E T E A M Elizabeth Cree / Daniela Mack* John Cree / Troy Cook Dan Leno / Joseph Gaines Inspector Kildare / Daniel Belcher

acclaimed Silent Night, return to Opera Philadelphia

Aveline Mortimer /

for the world premiere of a chamber opera based on

Deanna Breiwick*

Peter Ackroyd’s “downright exhilarating” (LA Times) novel, The Trial of Elizabeth Cree. Set in London in the 1880s, this highly suspenseful and theatrical opera interweaves several narratives: the trial of the titular heroine for the poisoning of her husband; a series of brutal murders committed by a Jack the Ripper-style killer; the spirited world of an English music hall; and “guest appearances” by luminaries from the Victorian Age.

Uncle / Matthew Boehler* Doris / Melissa Parks Little Victor Farrell / Jason Ferrante* Mr. Greatorex, George Gissing, Etcher / Johnathan McCullough Mr. Lister, Karl Marx, Voiceover / Thomas Shivone Jane Quig, Annie the Serving Girl / Maren Montalbano Priest, Librarian / Daniel Taylor Conductor / Corrado Rovaris Director / David Schweizer* Set and Costume Design /

A C A P T I VAT I N G O P E R AT I C WHODUNIT With “a voice like polished onyx: strong, dark, deep and gleaming” (Opera News), Daniela Mack takes

David Zinn* Lighting Design / Christopher Akerlind Projection Design / Darrel Maloney* *Opera Philadelphia debut

center stage as Elizabeth Cree, with the “beautiful, robust baritone” (The New Criterion) of Troy Cook as her husband John. Charismatic tenor Joseph Gaines returns to Opera Philadelphia as charming Music Hall star Dan Leno. David Schweizer directs the suspenseful production, with Jack Mulroney Music Director Corrado Rovaris conducting the Opera Philadelphia Orchestra.

Music by Kevin Puts | Libretto by Mark Campbell Based on the novel The Trial of Elizabeth Cree by Peter Ackroyd World Premiere | American Reper toire Program Co-commissioned and co-produced with Hackney Empire Major suppor t for Elizabeth Cree has been provided by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.

PERFORMED IN ENGLISH WITH ENGLISH SUPERTITLES The Perelman Theater is par t of the Kimmel Center for the Per forming Ar ts

WE SHALL NOT BE MOVED SEPTEMBER 16, 17, 18, 21, 23, 24, 2017 The Wilma Theater On the run after a series of tragic incidents, five North Philly teens find refuge in an abandoned, condemned house in West Philadelphia at the exact location that served as headquarters of the MOVE organization, where a 1985 standoff with police infamously ended with a neighborhood destroyed and 11 people dead, including five children.

WORLD PREMIERE

CAST & C R E AT I V E T E A M Un/Sung / Lauren Whitehead* Glenda / Kirstin Chávez John Blue / John Holiday* John Mack / Adam Richardson* John Henry / Aubrey Allicock* Conductor / Viswa Subbaraman* Director, Choreographer & Dramaturge / Bill T. Jones* Set Design / Matt Saunders* Lighting Design / Robert Wierzel* Projection Design / Jorge Cousineau Sound Design / Robert Kaplowitz* *Opera Philadelphia debut

A P R O F O U N D S T AT E M E N T O N THE LEGACY OF RACE This world premiere chamber opera by Daniel Bernard Roumain, an acclaimed composer and performer whose work defies genre, and librettist Marc Bamuthi Joseph, an arts activist known for spoken word performance, is “ambitiously interdisciplinary,” according to Bill T. Jones the celebrated director, choreographer, dramaturge, and dancer. Combining spoken word, contemporary movement, video projection, classical, R&B, and jazz singing, and a brooding, often joyful score filled with place, purpose, and possibility, We Shall Not Be Moved is a timely exploration of past and present struggles that suggests an alternate future through the eyes of its young protagonists.

Spoken word artist Lauren Whitehead makes her company debut as Un/Sung, the self-appointed leader of the Family Stand, with John Holiday, described as an “impressive young countertenor”

by The New York Times, as John Blue. Kirstin Chávez brings her “glorious voice” (Opera News) to the role of Glenda, a Philadelphia police officer whose encounter with the family leads to a standoff that threatens to repeat history.

Music by Daniel Bernard Roumain | Libretto by Marc Bamuthi Joseph World Premiere | American Reper toire Program Co-commissioned and co-produced with The Apollo Theater and Hackney Empire Developed in par tnership with Ar t Sanctuar y Major suppor t for We Shall Not Be Moved has been provided by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. Additional suppor t is provided by William Penn Foundation and The Wallace Foundation.

PERFORMED IN ENGLISH WITH ENGLISH SUPERTITLES

PHILADELPHIA

WA R S T O R I E S

PREMIERE

Il combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda Music by Claudio Monteverdi I Have No Stories to Tell You (Philadelphia Premiere) Music by Lembit Beecher | Libretto by Hannah Moscovitch

SEPTEMBER 16, 17, 19, 21, 23, 2017 Philadelphia Museum of Art This “ingenious” (Wall Street Journal) site-specific double bill begins with Monteverdi’s timely tale of two warriors—one Christian, one Muslim—clashing

CAST & C R E AT I V E T E A M Clorinda & Sorrel / Cecelia Hall Tancredi & Daniel / Craig Verm Testo & Noah / Samuel Levine* Memory 1 / Sarah Tucker* Memory 2 / Rachel Calloway* Testo & Memory 3 / Abigail Levis*

in battle, staged in the Philadelphia Museum of Art’s

Conductor / Gary Thor Wedow*

dramatic, medieval stone cloister, with its carved

Director / Robin Guarino*

limestone cornices and 12 th century fountain. It is

Design Consultant /

followed by composer Lembit Beecher and librettist Hannah Moscovitch’s response to Monteverdi’s masterwork, performed in the museum’s soaring Great Stair Hall, one of the city’s most iconic civic spaces.

Andromache Chalfant* Costume Design / Kaye Voyce Lighting Design / Mary Eleanor Stebbins* Sound Design / Dan Perelstein *Opera Philadelphia debut

A C E N T U R I E S - O L D S A G A O F WA R - T O R N L O V E Monteverdi’s Il combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda, published in 1638, tells the story of the Christian soldier Tancredi (baritone Craig Verm) who battles with a Muslim soldier, unknown to Tancredi as his lover Clorinda (mezzo-soprano Cecelia Hall) because she is disguised in armor. When Clorinda is mortally wounded, Tancredi discovers her identity.

Beecher and Moscovitch's I Have No Stories to Tell You, a “cleverly devised, alluring oneact opera” (The New York Times), turns from the battlefield to domestic life to tell the story of Sorrel (Hall), a soldier who has returned home after extended assignment in the Middle East. Haunted by her experiences and reluctant to discuss them with a husband (Verm) who no longer seems to understand her, she struggles to readjust to home.

Co-presented by Opera Philadelphia and the Philadelphia Museum of Ar t Suppor t for War Stories has been provided by William Penn Foundation, the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, and The Presser Foundation.

PERFORMED IN ENGLISH WITH ENGLISH SUPERTITLES

WORLD

T H E WA K E W O R L D

SEPTEMBER 18, 19, 23, 24, 25, 2017 The Barnes Foundation Opera Philadelphia Composer in Residence David

PREMIERE

CAST & C R E AT I V E T E A M The Fairy Prince / Rihab Chaieb* Palace of Names / Opera Philadelphia Chorus

Hertzberg and director R.B. Schlather take visitors on a fantastical journey through the treasured galleries of The Barnes Foundation. In this world premiere, two of the early 20 century’s most prolific and polarizing th

artistic visionaries collide: physician, collector, and writer Dr. Albert C. Barnes (1872–1951) and Aleister Crowley (1875–1947), the British poet, magician, and occultist once dubbed the “wickedest man in the world.”

Conductor / Elizabeth Braden Director / R.B. Schlather* Dramaturg / Julia Bumke* Costume Design / Terese Wadden* Lighting Design / JAX Messenger *Opera Philadelphia debut

A MIND-BENDING DISSECTION OF ART In a one-act opera inspired by Crowley’s ecstatic fairy tale The Wake World, visitors will experience Dr. Barnes’s collection like never before as they follow a wide-eyed seeker and her guardian angel on a dreamlike voyage. Works of art jump off the gallery walls and into the action as the museum is transformed, with the voices of the Opera Philadelphia Chorus drawing the audience through a mystical world of hallucinatory vividness. As a fully immersive performance, The Wake World challenges understandings of art, opera, and the self—in a way audiences are unlikely to forget.

Hailed as “opulently gifted” (Opera News) and “utterly original” (The New York Times), David Hertzberg’s “riveting work, demonstrates that a gifted young composer can be inspired by masters and still speak with a vibrantly personal style” (The New York Times).

His music teams with the “intriguing, inventive directorial vision” (The New York Times) of R.B. Schlather, a celebrated young director with an “ability to demolish the barriers of propriety and politeness that seem to plague much of traditional operatic experience” (Opera News).

Music and libretto by David Her tzberg Based on the stor y The Wake World by Aleister Crowley World Premiere | American Reper toire Program Co-presented by Opera Philadelphia and The Barnes Foundation Support for The Wake World has been provided by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.

PERFORMED IN ENGLISH WITH ENGLISH SUPERTITLES

F E S T I VA L ARTIST

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Perelman Theater Part of the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts

Soprano Sondra Radvanovsky is a globally celebrated artist, praised by The New York Times for her “alluringly dark-hued voice, with its distinctive timbre, expressive vibrato, and gleaming top notes.” The sincerity and intensity that she brings to the stage as one of the most prominent sopranos of her generation have won her accolades from critics and loyalty from passionate fans.

When The Washington Post praised her

She was recently heralded for her remarkable

singing as “outright gorgeous, poignant

take on Donizetti’s “Tudor Queens” trilogy,

and silvery,” it confirmed what Radvanovsky

starring in Anna Bolena, Maria Stuarda, and

followers had known for years. The exquisite

Roberto Devereux during The Metropolitan

depth and color of her voice are matched

Opera’s 2015–2016 season.

by her artistry and versatility across a remarkable range of repertoire, from the title roles in Rusalka and Lucrezia Borgia to the enormously challenging Norma.

Her signature role is Leonora in Il trovatore, and she is widely regarded as one of the premiere Verdi sopranos alive today.

Opera Philadelphia is thrilled to welcome Ms. Radvanovsky as its inaugural Festival Artist during O17. The superstar soprano will perform a recital at the intimate Perelman Theater and conduct a Master Class with Opera Philadelphia Emerging Artists.

F E S T I VA L E X T R A S Connect with your fellow opera lovers and enrich your O17 experience with these free Opera Philadelphia offerings.

OPERA OVERTURES

EXPLORE PHILADELPHIA

Hear engaging and informative

Museum exhibitions, film screenings,

pre-curtain talks one hour prior

lectures, tours, and other special events

to select performances.

will be on tap via festival partners.

P O S T- P E R F O R M A N C E

scene, our historic neighborhoods, and

TA L K B A C K S

so much more.

Plus, explore Philly’s thriving restaurant

Ask questions of singers, composers, librettists, and directors after select performances.

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A scene from LA Opera's 2013 production of The Magic Flute. (Photo by Robert Millard / LA Opera)

GA L A S AV E T H E D A T E SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

OPERA PHIL ADELPHIA’S INAUGURAL FESTIVAL O. Kick off O17 in style with elegant cocktails, dinner, and one-of-akind entertainment that celebrates the launch of this groundbreaking opening night turned opening festival. More details to follow, but mark your calendars now to add this special event to your O17 experience.

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SEPTEMBER 13 TO CELEBRATE

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