Hansel and Gretel Program

Hansel Gandretel

OCTOBER 5 & 7, 2023

TOBIN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS

Dear Patrons, Supporters, and Opera Lovers,

Thank you for joining us tonight as we kick off OPERA San Antonio’s 9th season with Engelbert Humperdinck’s Hansel and Gretel. This production marks a few “firsts” for OPERA San Antonio that I would like to share with you.

OPERA San Antonio has joined forces with New Orleans Opera to co-produce this presentation of Hansel and Gretel. This is our first collaboration with another company to design the sets and costumes for the show you will see tonight. Collaborations like this are one way we continue to operate in a financially responsible and sustainable manner.

This is also the first time OPERA San Antonio has staged an English language opera on the stage of the H-E-B Performance Hall. We continue to strive to provide beautiful works of art that are accessible to our audience, both young and old. Along with our production of The Pirates of Penzance in the spring, we hope to attract wide audiences to these familiar and family-friendly tales while maintaining our standard for world-class opera performances.

Most notably, this is the first time all five Tobin Center Resident Companies have collaborated for a performance. Along with OPERA San Antonio, the Classical Music Institute, Ballet San Antonio, Children’s Chorus of San Antonio, and the Youth Orchestras of San Antonio have all joined forces to bring this opera to life on the stage of the Tobin Center for the Performing Arts. Partnerships like this mean your support of the arts in San Antonio goes even further, allowing the Resident Companies to share resources and maximize every contribution to bring you these wonderful art forms.

Responsible. Sustainable. Accessible. These are the values that guided OPERA San Antonio through the pandemic, from staging virtual performances to becoming the first major arts organization in Texas to return to live productions. As we look to the future of the arts in our community, these values will continue to guide our work. Upon founding OPERA San Antonio over a decade ago, Mel Weingart and Blair Labatt made a commitment to this community of supporters that we would operate with fiscal responsibility. Nine seasons later I am proud to say that our budget remains balanced as we expand our efforts to reach more members of our city.

Your support, whether through membership, donations or attendance tonight, ensures that we can continue to deliver on our mission to provide world-class opera to our community. Thank you for your patronage.

Sincerely,

Matthew C. West Chairman, OPERA San Antonio

THANK YOU

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2023 GALA SPONSORS

Bank of Texas, Presenting Sponsor Labatt Foundation

H-E-B

C.H. Guenther & Son LLC

Comprehensive Home Health & Hospice

FASTSIGNS Northeast & Downtown

Holt CAT/ Lockton Companies

Lorenzo Martinez Garza/ Able City

Greg and Bekki Kowalski

Annie Labatt

Luther King Capital Management

James and Katherine McAllen/ Amy E. Stieren

Dr. Sara McCamish/ Sarah Hudson Moore

The Meeker Family

Tim and Kathy Musgrave

John L. Nau, III

John Newman Family Charitable Fund

Pape-Dawson Engineers

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Chan Peterson and Rebecca McEuen / Wendell and Susan Hall

Quality Urgent Care

Texas Capital Bank

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Graham Weston and Valerie Collins

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Sterling Foods Team Group

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Garnett Bruce ArtisticAdvisor

Jenna Jernigan DirectorofEngagement

Francesco Milioto MusicDirector

Madeline Elizondo DirectorofEducation&Outreach

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Matt West, Eduardo Parra, Mark Johnson, Valerie Collins, William Wendell Hall

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Annie Labatt

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James McCutcheon

Blair Labatt, ChairEmeritus

Rubén Minutti-Zanatta

Olga Moucoulis

Eduardo Parra

Diana Peña

Chan Peterson

Linda Poetschke

Dr. Alan Siqueiros

Dale Tremblay

Mel Weingart, Founder

Supporting opera education in schools

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Hospitality for visiting OPERA San Antonio artists

Margaret King Stanley Vocal Scholarship competition Opera study programs for members

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HanselandGretel

ByEngelbertHumperdinck

Thursday, October 5, 2023 | 7:00 p.m.

Saturday, October 7, 2023 | 7:30 p.m.

H-E-B Performance Hall | Tobin Center for the Performing Arts

Length of Performance: Two hours including one, twenty minute intermission

Libretto by Adelheid Wette

Premiere: Weimar, Germany, 1893

The set and scenery are a new, Co-Production with OPERA San Antonio and New Orleans Opera. Scenery constructed by New Orleans Opera.

English translation and surtitles provided by Cori Ellison

Conductor, Francesco Milioto

Original Production & Staging, E. Loren Meeker

Co-Stage Director & Choreographer, Felicity Stiverson

CAST

Hansel

Gretel

TheWitch

TheMother

TheFather

Sandman

DewFairy

Children’sChorus

Dancers Orchestra

EmilyFons

MeechotMarrero

KatharineGoeldner

DeborahNansteel

LeviHernandez

BronwynWhite*

MichelleRavitsky*

Children’sChorusofSanAntonio

BalletSanAntonio

ClassicalMusicInstituteand

YouthOrchestrasofSanAntonio

Conductor

OriginalProduction&Staging

Co-StageDirector&Choreographer

SetDesign

CostumeDesign

LightingDesign

Wig&MakeupDesign

Pianist

TechnicalDirector

CallingStageManager

WardrobeSupervisor

AssistantLightingDesign

AssistantStageManagers

PropMaster

WardrobeAssistant

Stitchers

WigandMakeupStaff

Photographer

AudioRecording

VideoRecording

Surtitlest

Pre-ShowLecturer

FrancescoMilioto

E.LorenMeeker

FelicityStiverson

StevenC.Kemp

ErikTeague

DriscollOtto

StephanieWilliams

TessaHartle

TimothyStettler

KaylinStory

StacieHealy

GrahamDarnell

HannahSchumacher

ÚnaRafferty

KarenArredondo

FloydWilliams

JasmineMarcilla

VictoriaFancki

CharlesDouglas

SamanthaFulmer

KarenAlmond

ChrisCline

BobBohanek

AlexanderMontalvo

KevinSalfen

TOBIN CENTER STAFF

President&ChiefExecutiveOfficer

TechnicalDirector

DirectorofResidentCompany&

CommunityEngagement

BoxOfficeManager

EngagementCoordinator

RoseArredondo

BalletSanAntonio

MikeFresher

HectorGutierrez

RickFrederick

PatriciaMoreno

MandieSullivan

SPECIAL THANKS

OperaGuildofSanAntonio

NathanRader

Children’sChorusofSanAntonio

ChrisBacon,Vinson&ElkinsLLP

ClassicalMusicInstitute

LyndaBailey

LabattFoodService

LabattFoodServiceMediaandITteams

GaryMabry

MaverickCarterHouse,CarriageHouse

MattMumme

JoanMiller

RadiusCenterGallery

ChristinaRutherford

ThomasSkrobanek

TheTobinCenterStaff

UniversidadNacionalAutonomade

Mexico-SanAntonio

LaurelWatts

HeidiWalker

YouthOrchestrasofSanAntonio

ACTI

The home of Hansel and Gretel: The children watch TV and goof around to avoid doing their chores. Hansel complains he is hungry. Gretel shows him some milk that a neighbor shared for the family’s supper. The children dance with joy. Their mother returns and wants to know why they haven’t been working. She accidentally spills the milk and chases the children out of the house and into the woods to pick strawberries.

Their father, a broom-maker, returns home drunk after a great day of sales. He surprises his wife with the food he has bought and then asks where the children have gone. His wife tells him that she has sent them into the woods. Instantly fearful, he tells his wife about the Witch who lives deep in the forest, and that the children are in danger. They go out into the woods to rescue the children.

ACTII

The woods: Hansel and Gretel explore the woods and eventually begin to pick flowers and strawberries. The children hear a cuckoo singing as they happily eat and play. In the sudden silence of the wood, Hansel admits to Gretel that he has lost their way. The children grow frightened. The Sandman arrives and helps them drift off to sleep. As they settle into each other, the children say their evening prayer. In a dream state they are visited by forest creatures and children who safely guide them home to their loving parents with a table full of food.

ACTIII

The gingerbread house: The Dew Fairy arrives and wakes up the children. They can hardly believe their eyes when they see a house covered in candies and sweets. They greedily grab treats from the house and fail to notice the Witch observing them. With a candy spell, the Witch captures the children and decides to fatten Hansel up. Gretel breaks the Witch’s spell and sets Hansel free. When the Witch asks her to look in the oven, she pretends she doesn’t know how to so the Witch must show her. When the Witch peers into the oven, the children shove her inside and shut the door. The oven explodes. Suddenly the children from their dreams appear before them and Hansel and Gretel break the Witch’s curse. The mother and father find the children, and all express gratitude for their salvation.

OSA’s EDUCATION PROGRAMS

OPERA San Antonio encourages and promotes arts education by sharing the beauty of opera and its tradition of rich, relevant storytelling through our educational projects. Our programs serve, represent, and educate our community in many ways. Our main program, “OPERA in Schools” provides 20-50 minute presentations free to any area K-12 school along with access to online videos and resources. In the 202223 Season, OSA visited a record breaking 50 schools. 32 of these schools were classified as Title I. “OPERA in Schools” was shared across all 10 San Antonio city districts and beyond. Online resources for teachers include the use of our award winning five-part video series “Explore Opera for Kids!” with accompanying Google worksheets. These videos have been used by over 50 schools and have received over 10,000 views. In total, we impacted 7,740 K-12 students last year by sharing 61 school performances.

As part of our educational programming, each school who participates in an OSA program is extended an invitation for students to experience opera live at the Tobin Center as part of our “Behind the Scenes” series. 63 schools participated last season for a combined total of 1,670 free admissions for students and teachers to OSA’s productions of Pagliacci and Romeo and Juliet at the Tobin Center. An additional 761 veterans were also invited to participate in this program which offers access to final dress performances, opportunities to attend Q&A sessions with the cast, and access to free tickets.

Thanks to the generosity of our sponsors, during the 2022-23 Season, OSA was able to offer a total of 914 free tickets to students, teachers, and veterans. Our partnership with

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How has OSA’s program made a ositive impact on your students?

“It has opened their worlds.”

William Daily, St. Mary Magdalen Dual Language Catholic School

y y giving a mother and daughter their first opera experience. It was absolutely beautiful and amazing and will forever be a lasting memory. Everything was outstanding and completely drew us in! Thank you!!!”

Kimberley, U.S. Army (Veteran)

OSA’s COMMUNITY IMPACT

Connection…Collaboration…Education

Throughout the 2022-23 Season, OSA participated in 31 free community events impacting over 3,639 people. Highlights include activities with the Teen Opera Club of Texas, the Holiday Pop-Up Series, “Explore Opera for Kids!” LIVE, concerts in public libraries, and the South Texas tour to Uvalde and Laredo.

Each event brought new opportunities to connect, collaborate, and extend the reach of our programs. Partnerships with businesses and other non-profit organizations included: Austin Opera, H-E-B, Bexar County, Classical Music Institute, Labatt Food Service, San Antonio Public Libraries, Opera Guild of San Antonio, Tobin Center for the Performing Arts, Musical Bridges Around the World, Hearts Need Art, McNay Art Museum, Main Plaza, Blue Skies of Texas Air Force Village, Boys and Girls Club of San Antonio, Boys and Girls Club of Laredo, and the San Agustin Cathedral of Laredo.

Photo by Zero Photography

San Agustin Cathedral concert Artists

Woodlawn Academy Outreach

Bradley Middle School at the opera

Explore Opera ! at Cortez Library

Photo by Zero Photography

Boys and Girls Club of Laredo

Explore opera! sing along breathing exercise

Students cheering for their schools inside the theater

Romeo & Juliet Student Q & A

Bradley Middle School Choir

Hobby middle School Choir arriving in style At Romeo & Juliet

GreAt Hearts Monte Vista

North At Pagliacci high school Night

North East School of the Arts

Students arriving at the Tobin

ARTIST BIOGRAPHIES

EMILY FONS

Hansel

OSA Debut. Recent Credits: Hansel, Hansel and Gretel, New Orleans Opera; Rosina, Il Barbiere di Siviglia, Cincinnati Opera; Mezzo-Soprano Soloist, Ghosts, San Diego Opera; Cherubino, Le Nozze di Figaro, Canadian Opera Company. Upcoming Credits: Donna Elvira, Don Giovanni, Inland Northwest Opera; Nicklausse, The Tales of Hoffmann, Palm Beach Opera.

MEECHOT MARRERO

Gretel

OSA Debut. Recent Credits: Gretel, Hansel and Gretel, New Orleans Opera; The Vixen/Bystrouška, The Cunning Little Vixen, Deutsche Oper Berlin; Soprano Soloist, Carmina Burana, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Upcoming Credits: Soprano Soloist, Carmina Burana, Nashville Symphony; Gretel, Hansel and Gretel, Deutsche Oper Berlin.

KATHARINE GOELDNER

TheWitch

OSA Debut. Recent Credits: Annina, Der Rosenkavalier, The Metropolitan Opera; Madam Larina, Eugene Onegin, The Santa Fe Opera; Iris Lev, Awakenings, Opera Theatre of Saint Louis. Upcoming Credits: Dalila, Samson & Dalila, Opera Colorado; Aunt Hannah, Emmeline, Hudson Valley International Festival of the Voice.

DEBORAH NANSTEEL

TheMother

OSA Debut. Recent Credits: Annina, La traviata, The Metropolitan Opera; Amneris, Aida, Opera Grand Rapids; Mere Gerald, Dialogues of the Carmélites, San Francisco Opera. Upcoming Credits: Aunt Lou, Highway 1, USA, Los Angeles Opera; Roßweiße, Die Walküre, The Atlanta Opera; Azucena, Il trovatore, Opera Santa Barbara.

ARTIST BIOGRAPHIES

LEVI HERNANDEZ

TheFather

OSA Debut. Recent Credits: Sharpless, Madama Butterfly, Houston Grand Opera; Tomski, Pique Dame, Komische Oper Berlin; Dandini, La Cenerentola, Lyric Opera of Chicago.

Upcoming Credits: Dandini, La Cenerentola, Boston Lyric Opera; Tonio, Pagliacci, Hawaii Opera Theater; Diego Rivera, El último sueño de Frida y Diego, Opera Omaha.

BRONWYN WHITE

Sandman

OSA Debut: Chorus, Faust, 2019. Recent Credits: Soprano Soloist, The Branch Will Not Break, Ensemble New SRQ; Soprano Soloist, Vespers for a New Dark Age, Verdigris Ensemble; Solo Recital, SongScapes, San Antonio Museum of Art. Upcoming Credits: Solo Recital, Emily Dickinson, The Ecumenical Center and Soul’s Journey; Solo Recital, Old Wolrd Christmas, First Presbyterian Church of San Antonio.

Former OSA Summer Apprentice Artist

MICHELLE RAVITSKY

DewFairy

OSA Debut. Recent Credits: Morgana, Alcina, Northwestern Opera Theater; Musetta, La bohème, Northwestern Opera theater; Monica, The Medium, Northwestern Opera Theater. Former OSA Summer Apprentice Artist

ARTIST BIOGRAPHIES

FRANCESCO MILIOTO MusicDirector&Conductor

OSA Debut: Conductor, La traviata, 2018. Recent Credits: Conductor, Così fan tutte, Detroit Opera; Music Director, The Barber of Seville, the Florentine Opera; Music Director, Romeo and Juliet, OPERA San Antonio. Upcoming Credits: Conductor, The Nutcracker, Ballet San Antonio; Music Director, Amahl and the Night Visitors, OPERA San Antonio; Guest Conductor, Aida, Lyric Opera of Chicago.

E. LOREN MEEKER General&ArtisticDirector,ProductionDirector

OSA Debut: The Barber of Seville, 2017. Recent Credits: Stage Director, La bohème, The Glimmerglass Festival; Stage Director, Romeo and Juliet, OPERA San Antonio; Stage Director, Hansel and Gretel, New Orleans Opera; Stage Director, Rigoletto, OPERA San Antonio; Stage Director, The Marriage of Figaro, Austin Opera.

FELICITY STIVERSON Co-DirectorandChoreographer

OSA Debut: Choreographer and Assistant Director, The Barber of Seville, 2017. Recent Credits: Co-Director and Choreographer, Hansel and Gretel, New Orleans Opera; Choreographer, Susannah, Wolf Trap Opera; Choreographer, Turandot, New Orleans Opera. Upcoming Credits: Stage Director, The Fairy Queen, Manhattan School of Music; Choreographer, A Very Philly Christmas, Philadelphia Orchestra at the Kimmel Center.

STEVEN C. KEMP

SetDesign

OSA Debut. Recent Credits: Set Designer, Cavalleria Rusicana and Pagliacci, Lyric Opera of Kansas City; Set Designer, Così fan tutte, Opera Theatre of St. Louis; Set Designer, Ernani, Sarasota Opera. Upcoming Credits: Set Designer, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Atlanta Opera; Set Designer, American Apollo, Des Moines Metro Opera; Set Designer, The Flying Dutchman, Pittsburgh Opera.

ARTIST BIOGRAPHIES

ERIK TEAGUE

CostumeDesign

OSA Debut: Costume Designer, La bohème, 2018. Recent Credits: Costume Designer, The Cunning Little Vixen, The Glimmerglass Festival; Costume Designer, The Threepenny Opera, The Atlanta Opera; Costume Designer, The Lion, The Unicorn, & Me, Washington National Opera. Upcoming Credits: Costume Designer, Ragtime, Signature Theatre D.C.; Costume Designer, The Nose, Chicago Opera Theatre; Costume Designer, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Atlanta Opera.

DRISCOLL OTTO

LightingDesign

OSA Debut: Projection Designer, Pagliacci, 2022. Recent Credits: Projection Designer, Turandot, Bari Italy; Lighting Designer, The Life, New York City Center Encores!; Projection Designer, La Donna Del Lago, The Metropolitan Opera. Upcoming Credits: Lighting Designer, The Nutcracker, Indiana University; Lighting Designer, Siegfried, Virginia Opera; Lighting Designer, Anonymous Lover, Boston Lyric Opera/Philadelphia Opera.

STEPHANIE WILLIAMS

Wig&MakeupDesign

OSA Debut: Wig & Makeup Designer, The Fantastic Mr. Fox, 2014. Recent Credits: Wig Associate Designer, West Side Story, The Muny; Wig & Makeup Designer, Romeo and Juliet, OPERA San Antonio; Wig & Makeup Designer, Maria de Buenos Aires, OPERA San Antonio. Upcoming Credits: Wig & Makeup Design Consultant, Ride the Cyclone, University of Texas; Wig & Makeup Design Consultant, Romeo y Juliet (Bilingual Adaptation), University of Texas.

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2023-2024 SEASON DONORS

The Board of Directors, artists, and staff of OPERA San Antonio gratefully acknowledge the generous support of our donors.

(Donations from September 1, 2022 - September 22, 2023)

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H-E-BHelpingHere

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This performance is made possible in part by a generous grant from the Russell Hill Rogers Fund for the Arts

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AntonioAreaFoundation

Ms. Valerie Collins

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Bank of Texas

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Comprehensive Home Health & Hospice

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Downtown

Frost Bank Charitable Foundation

C.H. Guenther & Son LLC

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Juris Medicus

Greg & Bekki Kowalski

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In memoriam B. Letitia Rogers

Becky McEuen & Chan Peterson

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The Ann and John Newman Family Fund

In honor of Barbara and Blair Labatt

Opera Guild of San Antonio

Quality Urgent Care

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Music by: Arthur Sullivan

Libretto by: W.S. Gilbert

Running Time: 2 hours and 25 minutes with one intermission

All hands on deck for The Pirates of Penzance, a swashbuckling tale of Frederic, a young man who’s reached the end of his pirate apprenticeship. When he falls in love with Mabel, his former shipmates throw a wrench into his plans, setting off a series of hilarious events pitting Frederic against his pirate clan. Filled with witty banter, catchy tunes, and a royal visit, Gilbert & Sullivan’s The Pirates of Penzance is a toe-tapping delight for audiences of all ages.

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Look for our survey email after the performances of Hansel and Gretel and tell us about your experience. Complete the survey and you will be automatically entered to win complimentary tickets to our fall production of The Pirates of Penzance in April 2024.