LEADERSHIP SUPPORT & MAJOR GIF TS CHAIRMAN’S COUNCIL Our most passionate followers happen to be the ones leading us to greatness. Opera
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Philadelphia’s Chairman’s Council is a dedicated group of philanthropists committed to
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following supporters, whose collective generosity underwrote more than half of our artistic
Mr. Peter Benoliel and Ms. Willo Carey
Aurora Series for Chamber Opera at the Perelman Theater, the successful launch of Opera
Gray Charitable Trust
ensuring that the future of opera is right here in Philadelphia. We are sincerely grateful to the
expenses this season, including productions in the Academy of Music, the nationally lauded in the City, our historic first co-production with The Philadelphia Orchestra in Verizon Hall,
Nicholas and Kathleen Chimicles
award-winning education and community programs that collectively reached more than
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our annual Opera on the Mall broadcast at Independence National Historical Park, and our 19,000 people this season.
Ady L. Djerassi, M.D., and Robert Golub, M.D. Rita and Philip Harper Mr. and Mrs. Frederick P. Huff Jacob Burns Foundation, Inc. Gabriele Lee Mr. Thomas Mahoney The McLean Contributionship
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Annette and Chuck Pennoni
Estate of Mark H. Haller
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Mrs. Sandra K. Baldino
The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation
Barra Foundation, Inc.
Scott F. and Roberta C. Richard
Wyncote Foundation The William Penn Foundation $5 0 0,0 00 + The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage The Pew Charitable Trusts
Knight Foundation Marguerite and Gerry Lenfest Judy and Peter Leone Estate of Ellen Cole Miller Mrs. John P. Mulroney The Presser Foundation Alice and Walter Strine, Esqs. Ms. Barbara Augusta Teichert Mr. Richard B. Worley and Ms. Leslie Anne Miller
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The CHG Charitable Trust Independence Foundation Ms. Lisa D. Kabnick and Mr. John H. McFadden Dr. Heidi L. Kolberg and Dr. F. Joshua Barnett
Estate of Laurence T. Robbins Mr. and Mrs. James B. Straw Mr. Jonathan H. Sprogell and Ms. Kathryn Taylor Wells Fargo
Joel and Sharon Koppelman National Endowment for the Arts Pennsylvania Council on the Arts
TOP: Board Member Dr. Josh Barnett and his wife, Dr. Heidi Kolberg; Michael Gorman, husband of Frederica von Stade (center);
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Board Member Nick Chimicles
Charlotte and Bob Watts
Photo by Michael Branscom
and his wife, Kathleen Chimicles.