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With this production, we will fulfill our dream of presenting a world premiere at Opera Colorado. Lori Laitman’s lyrical music, combined with a moving libretto by Colorado Poet Laureate Emeritus, David Mason and the inspired direction of Beth Greenberg will bring to life this extraordinary American novel. Our world premiere will be recorded live and commercially released on the Naxos label; Opera Colorado’s second release in partnership with Naxos (Nixon in China, 2009).

Our exciting season of performances planned for 2016-2017 will boast the addition of a third opera production. Two productions will take place at the Ellie Caulkins Opera House, including Opera Colorado’s own new production of Puccini’s

wild-west opera La Fanciulla del West and Donizetti’s tale of love, manipulation and insanity, Lucia di Lammermoor. The third opera will take place at the Performing Arts Complex at Pinnacle Charter School in Denver and will feature Laura Kaminsky’s As One, a 75 minute chamber opera depicting the experiences of its sole transgender protagonist, Hannah, as she endeavors to resolve the discord between herself and the outside world. As The Washington Post put it, “Laura Kaminsky’s As One proved to be a thoughtful and substantial piece as well as that rarest of operatic commodities — a story that lends itself to dramatization in music.”

We are excited to celebrate this world premiere with you today and experience together the joys of live opera performances for years to come. Thank you for your continuing patronage and support, and we look forward to many exciting nights (or afternoons) at the opera.

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THE SCARLET LETTER MAY 7 • 10 • 13 • 15, 2016 ELLIE CAULKINS OPERA HOUSE

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Opera in Two Acts by Lori Laitman Libretto by David Mason There will be one 25 minute intermission between Acts One and Two CAST I N OR D E R OF VOCAL APPEARANCE

A Sailor A Farmer Goodwife 1 John Wilson Governor Bellingham Arthur Dimmesdale The Leader Goodwife 2 Goodwife 3 Roger Chillingworth Hester Prynne Mistress Hibbons A Shipmaster

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SPONSORS TH E SCAR LET LET TE R S P ON SOR S The Scarlet Letter Platinum Sponsors are The Avenier Foundation, Ken and Donna Barrow, Noël and Thomas Congdon, Joy Dinsdale, Dave and Pam Duke, the National Endowment for the Arts, Opera America, Jeremy and Susan Shamos and the Sorel Organization.

For a complete list of The Scarlet Letter sponsors, please see page 20 of the program book.

This world premiere production of The Scarlet Letter received funding from OPERA America’s Opera Fund.

The commissioning of Lori Laitman for The Scarlet Letter received funding from OPERA America’s Opera Grants for Female Composers program, supported by the Virginia B. Toulmin Foundation.

This project is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts. To find out more about how National Endowment for the Arts grants impact individuals and communities, visit www.arts.gov.

M R . AN D M R S . K E N N ET H T. B A R R OW | 2015-2016 S E A S O N S P O N S O R Music Director Ari Pelto is sponsored by Mike and Julie Bock.

Opera Colorado Young Artist Emily Louise Robinson is sponsored by Shirley and Marlis Smith, and Joyce and Dirk DeRoos.

Opera Colorado Young Artist Danielle Lombardi is sponsored by Carol McMurry and Patrick Spieles.

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SYNOPSIS THE SCARLET LETTER CHARACTE R LI ST Hester Prynne, a young seamstress – soprano Roger Chillingworth, her long-missing husband – baritone Arthur Dimmesdale, a young minister – tenor Mistress Hibbons, a witch – mezzo soprano John Wilson, an elder minister – tenor Governor Bellingham – baritone Pearl, Hester’s daughter – non-speaking role

S ETTI NG: M I D 1600s BOSTON ACT ONE

ACT TWO

A crowd gathers to gawk at young Hester Prynne, charged with adultery. With the damning scarlet “A” on her breast, she appears on the platform with her babe in arm. In the crowd is the minister Arthur Dimmesdale, unacknowledged father of her child. Also present is Hester’s long-lost husband, unrecognized and now going by the name of Roger Chillingworth. Declaring that he will discover the name of her lover, he confronts Hester in her prison cell, but fails to learn what he is determined to know. In his absence, Hester sings a lullaby to her child, “the Pearl beyond all price.”

The chorus reflects on the passage of time. The leaders of Boston, including Governor Bellingham, debate whether Hester should be permitted to keep her child, who they fear is not being raised in an appropriately Christian manner. Chillingworth takes rooms with the young minister Arthur Dimmesdale. The minster is concealing from all the fact that he is the father of Hester’s child. Although taunted by Mistress Hibbons, a local witch, Dimmesdale will not confess, and Chillingworth begins to sense that the minister is concealing something. Dimmesdale is almost overwhelmed by his guilt and is in ever-failing health.

Several years have passed, and the infant Pearl is now a young girl. In the forest, Chillingworth accosts Hester once more, demanding to know her lover’s name, but again failing to force her to any revelation. After Chillingworth departs, Hester is approached by Dimmesdale. They muse on the idea of fleeing the community, and it becomes clear that Pearl is coming to recognize Dimmesdale as her father.

Plans are made for all three to take ship back to Europe and begin their lives anew, to “know joy again.” However, Dimmesdale, unable to set aside his guilt, chooses an election day rally to confess to the crowd, revealing a letter “A” branded on his own chest. Hester and Pearl join him on the platform, but Dimmesdale, his heart finally giving out, falls dead at their feet. Chillingworth is furious to have lost the target for his hatred. A choral epilogue resolves the story for mother and child.

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English subtitles written by Jeremy Sortore for Opera Colorado.

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LORI LAITMAN THE SCARLET LETTER

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t is one of the most familiar of all works of American literature, the title alone having made its way into the popular lexicon. That the story is also a love triangle and a moral allegory may have escaped some readers, but not composer Lori Laitman and librettist David Mason. Having worked together before on art songs, the colleagues now found themselves reveling in a far broader canvas with more theatrical space and orchestral resources to tell the story that much more vividly.

All operas require conflict to drive the story, and most operas require a pair of sweethearts. Hawthorne’s 1850 novel has both, as the leading lady finds herself caught between two men; one is her long-missing husband, the other the father of her child, and neither is admitting to the neighbors exactly who he is. Of the three, it is Hester who is most likely to win the audience’s affections. She may be, in the public eye, a “fallen woman,” but she is also courageous, with more backbone than her lover and none of her husband’s tendency toward vengeance. Those features are not merely plot lines, but also musical features, for Laitman’s music changes color as demands upon Hester vary throughout the piece. Hester is sweet with daughter Pearl, firm with husband Chillingworth, and supportive with lover Dimmesdale. Dimmesdale, too, presents different faces, depending upon those around him. Given such mutable personalities, Laitman lets musical coloring bring out their complexities.

with Dimmesdale. She does not express herself the same way to both men, nor should she, from any logical dramatic point of view. Her duet with Dimmesdale is especially revealing, beginning as it does with the two first alternating lines with one another, then beginning to overlap musically speaking, and finally blending together in harmony, as if expressive of their closeness with one another. It is a compositional approach that Mozart had used in his famed duet “La ci darem la mano” from Don Giovanni; that master composer would likely be impressed that Laitman thought to employ it here.

Along with the protagonists, there is also the issue of the community and how it judges Hester. In fact, it is the community that comes first to listeners’ attention, intoning “One law” in shades of moody gray. It is, after all, the law, as much as Chillingworth, that has damned Hester, and librettist Mason emphasizes that point from the very first words. It is a theme that will recur and one for which Laitman has crafted a stern motif, representative of the unforgiving Puritan culture in which the protagonists live.

Mason says that, in his libretto, he wished to bring out “the moral texture of the book, or human law vs. the law of nature and life.” Laitman’s music reinforces the point. Let the characters get out into the forest, and they express themselves in freer, less constrained music than they do in the village.

As for Mason, he was faced with a dual task: not only

ALL OPERAS REQUIRE CONFLICT TO DRIVE THE STORY, AND MOST OPERAS REQUIRE A PAIR OF SWEETHEARTS. HAWTHORNE’S 1850 NOVEL HAS BOTH, AS THE LEADING LADY FINDS HERSELF CAUGHT BETWEEN TWO MEN; ONE IS HER LONG-MISSING HUSBAND, THE OTHER THE FATHER OF HER CHILD, AND NEITHER IS ADMITTING TO THE NEIGHBORS EXACTLY WHO HE IS. Hester’s scenes with Chillingworth tend to be dramatically and musically filled with tension. When she is in the company of Dimmesdale, words and music become more flowing and patient in spirit. This contrast becomes particularly clear in the forest scene, when Hester is first confronted by Chillingworth, and then finds herself alone

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converting Hawthorne’s archaic language into readily singable phrases, but also abridging the work to make it manageable on stage. Admittedly, the original Scarlet Letter is far shorter than War and Peace or Moby Dick, both of which have been converted successfully into operatic form. However, Hawthorne lets fifty pages pass before

one actually meets any of his protagonists, and, in later chapters, spends much space describing settings. That which works on the page may not work on the stage. Of his task, Mason declares “Hawthorne’s prose is a bit of a thicket, and I had to hack through it.” He entirely eliminated the opening Custom House portion to begin instead with Hester Prynne appearing in public, the red letter A blazoned upon her breast. It seizes the listeners’ attention, launching the opera with determined energy.

Of her vocal music, Laitman says, “I try to compose music that is kind to both singer and audience… I work from the words out: the music is in the service of the text…

Approaching the composition from this angle allows the words and music to become completely entwined.” That debate between music and words has resounded for centuries. One can hope that those composers of the past who have wrestled with it would be impressed by the solution she has reached and the results she has achieved.

The Scarlet Letter was first composed in 2008 on a commission from the University of Central Arkansas. Two years later, the work came to the attention of Opera Colorado which expressed an interest in giving the work its professional world premiere, as part of the company’s thirtieth season in 2013. Logistical considerations of bringing an entirely new opera to the stage caused delays, putting the work’s premiere back to May 7, 2016. That longer timeframe allowed Laitman to revise her score, not for the sake of corrections, but rather to accommodate new ideas.

All truly creative artists grow in the process of their work, and sometimes, a fresh thought may be

even more powerful than the original one. So Laitman has allowed for longer transitional passages to facilitate scene changes, added more winds to the orchestra for the sake of “dramatic punch,” as she calls it, and evolved the vocal lines to take advantage of experienced performers. The result is a score that, combined with Mason’s text and the production as a whole, guarantees a powerful experience for listeners and performers alike.

Anyone who has been skeptical of the likeability of new opera will find almost certainly find The Scarlet Letter as proof that the opera world is still alive and well even in the 21st century.

Program notes and synopsis by Betsy Schwarm, author of the Classical Music Insights series.

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THE ARTISTS Lori Laitman Composer Described by Fanfare Magazine as “one of the most talented and intriguing of living composers,” Lori Laitman has composed multiple operas and choral works, and over 250 songs, setting texts by classical and contemporary poets (including those who perished in the Holocaust). Her music is widely performed, internationally and throughout the United States, and has generated substantial critical acclaim. The Journal of Singing wrote “It is difficult to think of anyone before the public today who equals her exceptional gifts for embracing a poetic text and giving it new and deeper life through music.” Collaborators since 2004, Laitman and David Mason are developing the opera Ludlow, based on Mason’s awardwinning verse novel about the 1914 Colorado mining town disaster. Laitman’s children’s opera with librettist Dana Gioia, The Three Feathers, was commissioned by the Center for The Arts at Virginia Tech and premiered October 2014 in a production directed by Beth Greenberg. Laitman and librettist Leah Lax are finalists for the 2018 Pellicciotti Opera Prize and are writing an an opera, Uncovered, based on Lax’s memoir Uncovered: How I Left Hasidic Life and Finally Came Home.

Laitman has received numerous prestigious commissions, including from Opera America, Opera Colorado, Washington Master Chorale, Music of Remembrance and Wolfgang Holzmair. Her latest, a 2015 commission from the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, is for an orchestral piece to celebrate the BSO’s 100th anniversary. The work, entitled Unsung, will premiere in September 2016. Laitman was graduated magna cum laude from Yale College and received her MM from Yale’s School of Music. For more information, please visit www.artsongs.com and www.scarletletteropera.com.

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David Mason Librettist Born and raised in Bellingham, Washington, David Mason’s awardwinning collections of poetry include The Buried Houses (1991), The Country I Remember (1996), Arrivals (2004), the verse novel Ludlow (2007), and Sea Salt: Poems of a Decade: 2004 – 2014. A children’s book, Davey McGravy, appeared in 2015. He has also published a memoir, two collections of essays, several anthologies and a poetry textbook, Western Wind. His work appears in Best American Poetry, The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, TLS, Poetry, The Hudson Review and many other publications.

As a librettist, Mason collaborated with Lori Laitman on her opera The Scarlet Letter and on an opera adaptation of Ludlow, for which Mason received the 2009 Thatcher Hoffman Smith Creativity in Motion Prize. He wrote the libretto for her oratorio, Vedem, and for Tom Cipullo’s opera, After Life. He has also been awarded a Fulbright Fellowship to Greece. Mason served as Colorado poet laureate from 2010 to 2014. He teaches at The Colorado College.

THE ARTISTS Dominic Armstrong* Arthur Dimmesdale Dominic Armstrong has quickly established himself as an artist of superb musicality and characterization.

This season includes his Opera Colorado debut as Dimmesdale in Lori Laitman’s The Scarlet Letter, as well as performances of Freddy in My Fair Lady with Ash Lawn Opera and performances of Britten’s War Requiem with the Russian National Orchestra.

Other recent engagements include Count Almaviva at Wexford Opera in Corigliano’s Ghost of Versailles, Nemorino in L’elisir d’amore with Musica Viva Hong Kong, and roles in Peter Grimes, Tannhäuser, and Idomeneo with Teatro Regio Torino.

In concert he has appeared with the New York Philharmonic, Boston Symphony, and the Philadelphia Orchestra, and was nominated for the inaugural Warner Prize for his debut at Carnegie Hall. Upcoming performances include Alfredo in La traviata with Chautauqua Opera, the Second Jew in Salome with the Detroit Symphony, and Don José in Carmen with Dayton Opera.

Daniel Belcher Governor Bellingham Grammy® Award-winning baritone Daniel Belcher has performed in many of the world’s music capitals and returns to Opera Colorado after appearing here as Papageno in 2015 in The Magic Flute, Mercutio in Romeo and Juliet and Dandini in La Cenerentola. With a 60-role repertoire, Belcher has championed roles from the Baroque to those composed expressly for him. He came to international attention in 2004 creating the role of Prior Walter in Peter Eötvös’ Angels in America for the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris. He received the Grammy for Saariaho’s opera, L’Amour de Loin in 2010. Future premieres include Kevin Puts’ Elizabeth Cree and Ricky Ian Gordon’s The House without a Christmas Tree. Upcoming performances include Ping in Turandot with Opera Philadelphia and Atlanta Opera, Owen Hart in Dead Man Walking with Lyric Opera of Kansas City, The Mikado at Chautauqua Opera and Silent Night at Michigan Opera Theatre.

John Baril | Chorus Master John Baril recently made his debut with Virginia Opera in Romeo et Juliette and returns there next fall for Il barbiere di Siviglia. Earlier this spring he conducted The Turn of the Screw at UMKC Opera Theater, where he led Cosi fan tutte last season. As long-time Music Director of Central City Opera he has conducted Die Sieben Todsuenden, Les Mamelles de Tiresias, Gianni Schicchi, Three Decembers, Lucia di Lammermoor, West Side Story, Cendrillon, Il barbiere di Siviglia, Madama Butterfly, Dead Man Walking and La Traviata among many others, and looks forward to leading both Tosca and Musto’s Later the Same Evening this summer.

Topher Blair* Projection Design Topher Blair is a designer, animator and filmmaker. A lifelong Coloradan, Topher received a BFA in film studies from the University of Colorado at Boulder, where he studied under experimental filmmakers Phil Solomon and Alex Cox. Since 2012 Topher has been a resident multimedia specialist at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts. He has contributed to the DCPA Theatre Company productions of All the Way, As You Like It, Lord of the Flies, Appoggiatura and black odyssey.

He designed projections for Off-Center’s Perception and Drag Machine. This is Topher’s first time designing for Opera Colorado.

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THE ARTISTS Becky Bradley | Goodwife 2 Becky is a fourth generation Colorado native. She graduated from Denver University, Lamont School of Music with a double major in music and elementary education.

She also holds a master’s degree in Education. Becky has performed throughout Denver since the 1980s. She has sung with The Singing Bees (opera style telegrams), Bonfils, Arvada Center, and Evergreen Players. Ms. Bradley joined Opera Colorado in its second season. She has been performing in the chorus for 32 years, singing in over 60 operas. Becky also performed with The Opera Colorado Madrigal Singers for 13 years, primarily as the Lady of the Manor. Becky spent 30 years teaching Elementary Music in Jefferson County and currently has a private vocal studio. She continues to sing at church and for weddings and funerals. She loves playing cards, golfing, and “hanging out” with her adult children, four grandbabies and wonderful husband.

William Bryan* The Leader and A Shipmaster A native of Saint Paul, Minnesota, William finished his Master of Music degree in Vocal Performance at Florida State University, where he performed the title role in Don Giovanni, Apollo in Handel’s Apollo e Dafne, and Rappaccini in Daniel Catán’s La Hija de Rappaccini. In 2012, he graduated from the University of Minnesota with a Bachelor’s degree in Vocal Performance, where he played the title role in Elmer Gantry, Ford in Falstaff, and Demetrius in A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Additional credits include Utah Festival Opera & Musical Theater, Quad City Symphony, Mill City Summer Opera, and Skylark Opera. As a Young Artist with Opera Colorado, he also appears in touring productions as Escamillo in Carmen and Sandman in Hansel and Gretel. Upcoming engagements include Guglielmo in Cosi fan tutte with Opera Wilmington for the summer of 2016, and joining Minnesota Opera as a Resident Artist for the 2016-17 Season.

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Amith Chandrashaker* Lighting Design Amith Chandrashaker’s theater credits include HerRequiem LCT, Fidelis The Public, Ping Pong The Public, The Convent of Pleasure Cherry Lane Ike at Night UTR/ The Public, Take Care The Flea, Platonov The Kitchen/Jay Scheib, The Hatmaker’sWife Playwrights Realm, Book of Disquiet Peak Performances, Ghosts Theatreworks, Stoop Stories Weston Playhouse, Carnival Kids Lesser America, The Woodsman Oberon Ensemble, The DrawerBoy Soho Playhouse and Baal Hoi Polloi. His opera credits include La Boheme AtlantaOpera, Cato in Utica Opera Lafayette, L’ Elisir D’Amour The Curtis Institute. His dance credits include Premieres with, Sidra Bell, Alexander Ekman, Aszure Barton, Kate Weare, Benoit Swan- Pouffer, Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet, Rennie Harris Pure Movement, The National Dance Co. of Wales and Aalto Ballet Theatre Essen Germany.

Laura Claycomb* | Hester Prynne Laura Claycomb is a musician who took her grounded Texan roots, a carefully-wrought and solid vocal technique, a fun and refined sense of style, a deep interest in languages and a love of the theater and spun them all into a unique presence in the very first rank of the world’s classical performers, a musical personality loved and known by professional and amateur alike all over the world. She has appeared repeatedly with the Paris Opera, San Francisco Opera, Houston Grand Opera, Los Angeles Opera, Grand Théâtre de Genève, Théâtre de la Monnaie, the London Symphony Orchestra, the San Francisco Symphony, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Le Concert d’Astrée, and the Cleveland Orchestra. Recent roles included Amina in La sonnambula at the Bolshoi Theater, Lucia di Lammermoor with New Orleans Opera, and Cunegonde in Candide with the Maggio Musicale in Florence, as well as Ophélie in Hamlet with the Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra among others.

THE ARTISTS Charles Eaton* | A Sailor Baritone Charles Eaton received his Master’s degree from the University of Minnesota in 2015. In 2013, Charles received his Bachelor of Music degree at the University of Connecticut, where he sang Papageno Die Zauberflöte, Thomas Putnam The Crucible and more. In the summer of 2013, he performed the role of John Brooke Little Women with Hartford Opera Theater. Credits with the University of Minnesota Opera Theatre included Conte Almaviva Le nozze di Figaro, the Forrester The Cunning Little Vixen and Masetto Don Giovanni. In the past two summers, Charles performed Belcore L’elisir d’amore and Taddeo L’Italiana in Algeri with La Musica Lirica in Novafeltria, Italy. As a 2015-2016 Young Artist, he sings the Father in Hansel and Gretel and Zuniga in Carmen (touring productions). He sang in the chorus of Aida, and sings the role of Governor Bellingham for the Student Matinee performance of the world premiere of The Scarlet Letter.

Kyle Erdos-Knapp* | John Wilson An enthusiastic proponent of new works, Chicago-based tenor Kyle Erdos-Knapp is thrilled to make his Opera Colorado debut in the world premiere of The Scarlet Letter. This summer, Kyle will also create the title role in Gregory Spears’ Jason and the Argonauts at Chicago Lyric Opera. Recent appearances include a Carnegie Hall debut as the tenor soloist in Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde, Tebaldo in I Capuleti e i Montecchi at Crested Butte Music Festival, Ramiro in La Cenerentola with Lakes Area Music Festival and Opera at the Florham, Peter Quint/ Prologue in The Turn of the Screw and Pylade in Iphigénie en Tauride with Palm Beach Opera, Flute/Thisbe in A Midsummer Night’s Dream with Hawaii Opera Theatre, and Tobias in Sweeney Todd with Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, Hawaii Opera Theatre and Pensacola Opera.

Margaret Gawrysiak* Mistress Hibbons Margaret Gawrysiak’s recent engagements include Marcellina in Nozze di Figaro with Seattle Opera, Mrs. Lovett in Sweeney Todd with Fresno Grand Opera, The Marquise in Daughter of the Regiment with Arizona Opera, Mrs. De Rocher in Dead Man Walking with Dayton Opera, Jezibaba in Rusalka with North Carolina Opera, Frugola in Il Tabarro with Opera Theatre of St. Louis, Mother/Witch in Hansel and Gretel with Virginia Opera, and Dame Quickly in Falstaff with Wolf Trap Opera Center. She has performed multiple roles including Zita in Gianni Schicchi with Maestro Lorin Maazel at the Castleton Festival. In concert she has been heard with the Buffalo Philharmonic, Seattle Symphony, Rochester Philharmonic, Syracuse Symphony, American Symphony Orchestra at Carnegie Hall, and the Boston Symphony Orchestra at Tanglewood.

Beth Greenberg* | Director Beth Greenberg is renowned for her work with the New York City Opera.

For the Lincoln Center company she has directed original mainstage productions of Turandot and Tales of Hoffmann as well as many revivals of classics. Beth Greenberg has earned a solid reputation for her collaborations with living composers. Recent worldpremieres include The Three Feathers (Laitman & Gioia) and The Red Silk Thread (Sung & Hilbert). Current operas-indevelopment include The Rat Land (Beeferman & Jackson), Harriet Tubman (Okoye) and Steal a Pencil for Me (Cohen & Brevoort). She has staged works for Crested Butte Music Festival, Phoenicia International Voice Fest, Utah Festival Opera, Pittsburgh Opera Center, Opera Delaware and the Asheville Lyric. A Fulbright award brought her to Germany where she apprenticed with Gotz Friedrich at Berlin’s Deutsche Oper. Ms. Greenberg is currently the Director of Opera Theater at the University of Arizona in Tucson.

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THE ARTISTS Danielle Lombardi* | Goodwife 3 Danielle received her Bachelor’s degree from Oberlin Conservatory and recently graduated from Rice University’s The Shepherd School of Music. Her operatic roles include Annio in La Clemenza di Tito, 1st Trio Member in Trouble in Tahiti, Dorabella in Così fan tutte, Mrs. Herring in Albert Herring, Ericlea in Monteverdi’s Il Ritorno d’Ulisse in Patria, and Sandman in Hänsel und Gretel. In addition, during the summer of 2012 Danielle was a Gerdine Young Artist with the Opera Theater of St. Louis. While there, she covered the role of Dorabella in Così fan tutte and sang in the chorus of Carmen, Così fan tutte and Alice in Wonderland. As an Opera Colorado Young Artist, Danielle is singing Carmen and Hansel in the touring production of Hansel and Gretel and Carmen respectively. She sang in the chorus of Aida and for the Student Matinee production of The Scarlet Letter, she sings Mistress Hibbons.

Malcolm MacKenzie* Roger Chillingworth Having a “rich vocal range full of inviting nuance,” Malcolm MacKenzie is quickly capturing attention in the dramatic baritone repertoire. Opera News recently praised him as a “confident, commanding Count di Luna… of robust tone, ardent address, arching phrases and genuine baritonal squillo.”

Recent engagements include Germont in La traviata with Virginia Opera; a return to the Metropolitan Opera as Dancaïre in Carmen; the title role in Simon Boccanegra with Kentucky Opera; Belcore in L’Elisir d’amore and Sharpless in Madama Butterfly with San Diego Opera; Iago in Otello and Jack Rance in La fanciulla del West with Nashville Opera; Count di Luna in Il trovatore and Alfio/Tonio in Cavalleria rusticana/Pagliacci with Arizona Opera. Other performances have included Count Almaviva in Le nozze di Figaro with Sacramento Opera; the baritone soloist for Horatio Parker’s Hora Novissima with the Pacific Master Chorale; and Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony with the Reno Philharmonic.

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Ari Pelto | Conductor With past performances that have been called poetic, earthy, vigorous and highly individual, Ari Pelto was recently appointed Music Director at Opera Colorado following an acclaimed debut conducting Don Giovanni. This season’s productions with Opera Colorado included Aida and this world premiere of Lori Laitman’s The Scarlet Letter.

Additionally this season, he conducts Aida at Utah Opera, La voix Humaine and Gianni Schicchi at Chicago Opera Theatre, returns to Atlanta Ballet, Opera Memphis, Omaha Symphony and the NYU Symphony. Recent highlights include La Rondine in Cortona (Italy), A Streetcar named Desire and Salome at Virginia Opera, The Rake’s Progress at Portland Opera, Rigoletto, Don Pasquale and Il Barbiere di Siviglia at Opera Memphis (Principal Guest Conductor); La Boheme at Opera Theatre of St. Louis, Cunning Little Vixen at Chautauqua, Rusalka at Boston Lyric Opera, The Magic Flute at Portland Opera and Hansel und Gretel at Utah Opera among others.

Emily Louise Robinson Goodwife 1 Emily completed her undergraduate work at the University of Chicago and received her Master’s Degree from New England Conservatory.

Emily completed a Performer’s Certificate at the Moores School of Music at the University of Houston, where she was most recently seen in the title role of Thomas Pasatieri’s Frau Margot and Beatriz in Daniel Catán’s Rapaccinni’s Daughter. Other past roles include; Love Simpson Cold Sassy Tree, Magda The Consul, Mimi La Boheme and Silverpeal The Impresario. While at New England Conservatory she debuted the role of June Jenkins in Dan Shore’s NOA prize winning opera An Embarrassing Position. This season as a Young Artist at Opera Colorado she sings Gretel and Micaëla in the touring productions of Hansel and Gretel and Carmen respectively. On the mainstage she sang the role of the High Priestess in Aida and she will sing Hester Prynne in the Student Matinee of The Scarlett Letter.

THE ARTISTS Erhard Rom | Set Designer Erhard Rom was a finalist in the Designer of the Year category for the 2015 International Opera Awards in London. He has designed settings for more than 200 productions across the globe, and his design work has been displayed in the Prague Quadrennial and at the National Opera Center in NY. His credits include San Francisco Opera, Wexford Festival Opera, Seattle Opera, Bard Summerscape, Glimmerglass Festival, Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, Vancouver Opera, Wolf Trap Opera, Boston Lyric Opera, Florida Grand Opera, Opera Colorado, Opéra de Montréal, Atlanta Opera, Lyric Opera of Kansas City, Syracuse Stage, Geva Theatre Center, Indiana Repertory Theatre and the Folger Shakespeare Theatre. He designed the European premiere of Silent Night and the production was awarded best opera production of 2015 by the Irish Times Theatre Awards. Future engagements include Nixon in China for the Royal Swedish Opera. Mr. Rom teaches design at Montclair State University.

Terese Wadden* | Costume Design Terese Wadden is a Brooklyn-based costume designer. She has recently designed 1776 Encores! NY City Center, Arthur Miller’s The Price Mark Taper Forum, and Kat’a Kabanova Spoleto Festival USA. Other theatre and opera designs include Philip Glass’s In The Penal Colony Boston Lyric Opera, the Handel operas Orlando and Alcina WhiteBox Art Center, Pyramus and Thisbe Canadian Opera Company, Who Left This Fork Here? Barishnikov Art Center, and Oklahoma Bard Summerscape. She has designed Lizzie Borden Boston Lyric Opera and Tanglewood, New Work for the Desert NYLA, Dialogues of the Carmelites Curtis Institute/ Opera Philadelphia, and Lucia di Lammermoor Lyric Opera of Chicago. Additionally designs include Eternal Incubator Arts Project and touring, House For Sale Transport Group, As You Like It The Acting Company, A Florentine Tragedy & Gianni Schicchi Canadian Opera Company, Cosi Fan Tutte New York City Opera and Don Giovanni New York City Opera and Portland Opera among others.

Benjamin Werley | A Farmer Benjamin completed his Master’s in Vocal Performance at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music where he had previously completed a BM in Vocal Performance. Ben sang the role of Don Ottavio in Don Giovanni with the Merola Opera Program and worked with Virginia Opera as an Emerging Artist where he sang Giuseppe in La Traviata. In 2015, as an Apprentice Artist at the Santa Fe Opera and will return there this summer.

Ben’s other roles include Rodolfo La Bohème, Der Wird Der Rosenkavalier and Monostatos Die Zauberflöte. As an Opera Colorado Young Artist, he sang The Messenger in Aida. Ben is covering the role of Arthur Dimmesdale in this performance of The Scarlet Letter, which he will perform for the Student Matinee. In the touring productions, he is singing the roles of The Witch in Hansel and Gretel and Don José in Carmen.

Robert Wierzel | Lighting Design As a lighting designer, Mr. Wierzel has worked with artists from diverse disciplines and backgrounds in theatre, dance, contemporary music, museums and opera on stages throughout the country and abroad.

Productions with the opera companies of Paris-Garner, Tokyo Opera, Toronto, Bergen, Folk Opera in Sweden, New York City Opera, Glimmerglass, Seattle, Boston Lyric, San Francisco, Houston, Washington, Chicago Lyric, Opera Theatre of Chicago, Montreal, Vancouver, Colorado and San Diego among others. His theatre work has been seen on and off Broadway, including recently Lady Day At Emerson’s Bar & Grill. Other productions include the musical Fela! (Tony Award nomination) and David Copperfield’s Broadway debut Dreams and Nightmares.

Additional credits include productions at the New York Shakespeare Festival/Public Theatre, The Signature Theatre, The Roundabout, Playwrights Horizons, BAM, The Acting Company and Lincoln Center Festival/American Songbook Series among others. Robert’s Dance work includes 31 years with the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company.

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THE SCARLET LETTER ORCHESTRA

VIOLIN Margaret Soper Gutierrez, concertmaster René Knetsch, principal second Angela Dombrowski Lynne Glaeske Debbie Holland Robyn Julyan Chris Jusell Annamaria Karacson Cyndi Mancinelli Susie Peek Ingrid Peoria Gyongyi Petheo Leslie Sawyer Robyn Sosa VIOLA Matthew Dane, principal Michael Brook Brian Cook Mary Harrison Sarah Richardson Lora Stevens

PRODUCTION STAFF MUSIC STAFF John Baril, Chorus Master Keun-A Lee, Coach/Accompanist Kim Peoria, Orchestra Personnel Manager Ingrid Peoria, Orchestra Librarian PRODUCTION STAFF Katie Preissner, Production Manager Barbara Donner, Stage Manager Jordan Braun, Assistant Director Vanessa Chumbley, Assistant Stage Manager Amelia Nordin Assistant Stage Manager Jeremy Sortore, Title Coordinator Beth Nielsen, Title Operator Park Wm. Showalter, Chorus Liaison Brian Greffe, MD, Company Physician Buzz Reifman, NPPA, Company Otolaryngologist TECHNICAL STAFF Alan Bogar, Head Carpenter John Gordon, Shop/Production Carpenter

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CELLO Cedra Kuehn, principal Charles Lee Eleanor Wells Carole Whitney BASS David Crowe, principal Jeremy Nicholas FLUTE AND PICCOLO Susan Townsend, principal Elizabeth Sadilek OBOE AND ENGLISH HORN Sarah Bierhaus, principal Elizabeth Telling CLARINET AND BASS CLARINET Michelle Orman, principal Heidi Mendenhall BASSOON Kim Peoria, principal Kaori Uno-Jack

Michael Boswell, Assistant Carpenter Christopher Cory, Head Flyman Chris Green, Head Electrician Tanya Rist, Light Board Operator Patrick Howard, Assistant Lighting Designer Pamela Chavez, Head Props Terry Gulley, Assistant Props Lon Levine, Head Projections/Video Charles Polich, Head Sound Marlena Schwartz, Purchasing Agent Mary Lou Faherty, A2 ELLIE CAULKINS OPERA HOUSE CREW Randy Mitchell, House Carpenter John Kendrick, House Sound Al Price, House Prop Dave Wilson, House Electrician COSTUMES Ann Piano, Costume Director Alison Milan, Shop Manager and Wardrobe Head

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HORN Devon Park, principal Lauren Varley TRUMPET Colin Oldberg, principal TROMBONE Bron Wright, principal TIMPANI Peter Cooper, principal PERCUSSION Mark Foster, principal Carl Dixon HARP Janet Harriman, principal

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MEZZO-SOPRANO Susan Clark Heather Mills Susan Rahmsdorff Katie Snyder Hallie Spoor TENOR Matt Cantwell Park Wm. Showalter Norman Spivy Steve Walz Keith Williamson BASS/BARITONE Shane Delavan Jeff Dixon Patrick Maschka Doug Wilson

SOPRANO Becky Bradley Claire Brooker Michelle Daniels Andrea Kehmeier Amy Kopatich

SHOP ASSISTANTS Sara Lynn Hildebrand Barbara Piano Elizabeth C. Porter Annabel Reader DRAPER Kevin Brainerd Christine Samar VOLUNTEER STITCHER Julie Parker DRESSERS Lisa Borgmann Kevin Brainerd Sara Lynn Hildebrand Alie Holden Teresia Larsen Elizabeth C. Porter Annabel Reader Christine Samar VOLUNTEER DRESSERS Valerie Kreck Amburn Leslie Cady Kathy Heider Jan Heimer Pat Smith WIGS AND MAKEUP Sarah Opstad, Associate Wigs and Makeup Coordinator Angela Norris, Wigs and Make-Up Assistant

ARTIST HOSTS Host Chairmen: Merrill Shields Jeff Brown Katy Burley Greg Carpenter Wendy, Dillon and Lillian Cogdal Brian Crane Nancy Hawkins Robert Kahn Heather MacKinnon Robert Montgomery Kevin O’Connor Astrid Stocks Maradith and Rusty Wilkins SUPERNUMERARIES Maiah Elyse Howie (Pearl) Hazel Kachline (Student Matinee Pearl) Elliot Maschka (Cover Boy) Ezzah E. Rauf (Cover Pearl/Twins) Emma Sipe (Bellingham Twin) Mercer Stauch (Boy) Ella Tolbert (Bellingham Twin) A supernumerary is a person who appears as an extra in a non-speaking, non-singing role.

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ANNUAL CONTRIBUTORS The Board of Directors of Opera Colorado and the staff express their deepest appreciation to the individuals, corporations and foundations who have contributed to the Annual Fund.

The following list acknowledges individual donors, corporations and foundations who made gifts to Opera Colorado’s Annual Fund from March 1, 2015 – March 1, 2016.

INDIVIDUALS

PRESIDENT CIRCLE $20,000+ Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth T. Barrow Mike and Julie Bock Ellie Caulkins Dave and Pam Duke Hugh A. Grant and Merle C. Chambers Mr. and Mrs.Harold R. Logan Jr. Jeff Baldwin and Debra J. Perry Marcia and Dick Robinson Jeremy and Susan Shamos Patrick Spieles and Carol McMurry DIRECTOR $10,000+ Mr. and Mrs. Bruce G. Allen Al and Rebecca Bates Peyton and Suzanne D. Bucy Noel and Thomas Congdon Mary and Tom Conroy Mr. Robert Damrauer Mr. Ray J. Groves Cy and Lyndia Harvey Harley and Lorraine Higbie Mr. and Mrs. Jeremy F. Kinney The Honorable and Mrs. Kenneth Laff Tracy McCarthy Ms. Muffy Moore and Mr. Al Minier Mr. and Mrs. Leonard M. Perlmutter Kevin O’Connor and Janet Ellen Raasch Ann and Gerald Saul Merrill Shields and M. Ray Thomasson Marlis and Shirley Smith Mrs. Beatrice B. Taplin

Mr. and Mrs. Charles I. Thompson Martha and Will Tracey Byron Watson Mr. and Mrs. Richard Weil Herbert Wittow MAESTRO $5,000+ Anonymous Linda Bjelland Ms. Allene O. Cash Dr. and Mrs. Laurence K. Chan Mrs. Margaret N. Dillon Karen Fukutaki Robert S. Graham Celeste and Jack Grynberg Mark Heider Diana and Mike Kinsey Ms. Carole Leight Frank and Virginia Leitz Dr. and Mrs. William Maniatis Veronica A. McCaffrey and Barbara A. Frank Tom and Mary Meade Mrs. Rhea J. Miller Robert R. Montgomery and Nancy Hawkins Craig and Maria Ponzio Robert and Myra Rich Mr. and Mrs. George G. Shaw Dick and Pat Tucker Mrs. Carol C. Whitley Larry and Brigitte Zimmer DIVA $2,500+ Anonymous Janice Baucum Ms. Janice Barrow Mrs. Pamela D. Beardsley Mr. James L. Berggren Sheila Bisenius Robin E. Black Jane Halle Schultz-Burnett Mr. and Mrs. George P. Caulkins III Marcus & Wendy Divita Mr. and Mrs. Chris Hunt Craig N. Johnson and Alicia McCommons Ms. Judy Johnston Dr. Jan Kennaugh and Mr. Chip Horne Mrs. Patricia A. Livingston Christine and Harry Phillips Nijole and Walter Rasmussen Vicki and Harry Sterling Jerry and Debi Tepper

COMPRIMARIO $1,000+ Anonymous Mr. and Mrs. William D. Armstrong John and Rosemary Ashby Mr. Hartman Axley Chris & Heather Bennett Mr. Charles E. Berry and Mrs. Maria Garcia Berry Brian Bross M.D. and Bonnie Daniels Dr. Bill and Betty Buchanan Leslie Cady Mr. and Mrs. Ken Calkins Mr. and Mrs. Maxwell Caulkins Mrs. Sue M. Cannon Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence G. Carpenter Charles Case and Phillip St. Cloud Mr. David J. Chavolla Ms. Kathryn Codo Dr. and Mrs. Aubrey Copeland Steve and Pat Corder Ze and Dick Deane Dr. Stephen L. Dilts Ms. Marian O. Dines Mr. James C. Donaldson and Ms. Ellen Anderman Lois N. Eckhoff Carl and Nan Eklund George and Sissy Gibson Mark Groshek MD and Carl Clark MD Dr. and Mrs. Burton Golub Mr. Frank Guerra and Ms. Jo Ellen Graybill Mr. J. Lawrence Hamil Deborah Hayes and James L. Martin III Mr. Richard Hilty Drs. Kathryn Hobbs and Marc Cohen Mr. William T. Hoffman Christine Hollander and Michael McGee Ruth Hopfenbeck and George Hopfenbeck Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Robert J. Jennett Gary and Judith Judd John N. Kabalin, MD. Dr. and Mrs. Charles B. Kafadar Joe and Francine Kelso Dr. Lawrence Kim and Nhung Van Richard Koseff Mrs. Dagmar Kress Kay Lawrence

Dr. and Mrs. Jeremy Lazarus Deanna Rose Leino Cheryl McGinnis and Edward Woolman V.W. McKnab and Margaret Jurado Dave and Miza McReynolds Dr. Monica I. Minkoff and Mr. Harry M. Siegfried Mr. William R. Moninger Lynnette Morrison Mr. and Mrs. Chris J. Murphy Dr. and Mrs. Calvern E. Narcisi Drs. Harold and Sarah Nelson Robert Nelson Mr. and Mrs. Robert C. Newman Nancy and Paul Oberman Mr. Steven Okuley Dorothy Pearson Bonnie Perkins Bruce Polkowsky and Bill Powell Rick Poppe and Jana Edwards Mr. Thomas J. Powers Jr. Alexander and Cynthia Read Steven and Joan Ringel Ayliffe and Fred Ris Juan and Alicia Rodriguez Ms Susan J. Rutt Helen Scott Santilli Ms. Ruth E. Schoening Mr. John Shott Dr. and Mrs. Edwin R. Smith Ms. Jennifer Sobanet Drs. Morris and Ellen Susman Diana Terry Ms. Kathleen R. Tower Mr. John B. Trueblood Richard Tubbs and Marilyn Smith Mary and Ken Willis RED DOT PATRON $500+ Anonymous Marilyn and Jules Amer Dr. and Mrs. Sol Bassow Peter Batty and Paula Kechichian Dr. and Mrs. Henry J. Beckwitt Mr. and Mrs. Mitchell Benedict III Brian Bennett and Bev Daniels Brewster and Helen Boyd Dr. Lucinda and Mr. Edward Bryant Sandy and Rogene Buchholz Mr. and Mrs. David Budd Gordon and Ron Butz Mr. and Mrs. Douglas M. Cain Marjorie and Doug Carriger Mark and Margaret Carson $500 donors continue on page 26

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Barbara and Roger Chamberlain David and Joan Clark Everett B. Clark Catherine Cole Alan and In Hye Como Donna and Ted Connolly Dr. & Mrs. Robert Contiguglia Mr. John Coubrough, Jr. Mr. Jim Craig Ms. Kathy Crapo Nancy Crow and Mark Skrotzki Ms. Cheryl M. Cruickshank Carolyn E. Daniels George and Yonnie Dikeou Timothy James Donahue Max and Joyce Douglas Walter W. and Maryruth Y. Duncan Ms. Donna Evans Dr. and Mrs. Larry S. Fisher L. Richard and Sigrid Halvorson Freese Deborah Friedman Ms. Jennifer Garrett Alan and Sally Gass Ms. Linda Goldstein Mrs. Carol and Dr. Fred Grover Gina Guy Ms. Phillis A. Harris-Brooks Beverlee B. Henry and The Honorable Robert P. Fullerton Lee and Margaret Henry Mr. and Mrs. Graham Hollis Marcia C. Holt and John S. Holt Dr. Sarah Hopfenbeck Michael E. Huotari and Jill R. Stewart Steven and Chryse Hutchins Kendor and Paulette Jones Mishele Kieffer M. Barton Landry Bernard V. Leason and Frieda Sanidas Leason Mr. and Mrs. Richard K. Lee Ann and James Leh Patty Lorie Kupetz Marvin Madorsky, CPA Pam and Mo Mathews Mr. William Mathews Sandy Mazarakis and Neil Burris Myron McClellan and Lawrence Phillips Bob and Mereth Meade Frend John Miner and Jeffrey L. Lawhead Jerri Lynn Modrall and Eric E. Doering Sue and Bill Mohrman

Jack Finlaw and Gregory Movesian Dr. and Mrs. John Moyer Mary Kenny Moynihan and Michael Moynihan Ms. Heidi Munzinger John and Mary Muth Maureen and Benjamin Nystuen Kelli O’Brien and Michael Kolotylo Ronald Y. Otsuka Dr. and Mrs. David S. Pearlman Andrew R. Pleszkun Robert and Mary Quillin Charles and Reta Ralph Mr. Kent A. Rice and Ms. Ann M. Corrigan Karyn K. Rieb Joe Ronnenberg Mr. Joseph C. Rook Mr. Doug Rooney Jane Russell and Bill Russell Karen and Mark Sather Fern B. Seltzer and Andrew Heymsfield Ms. Jo B. Shannon Mr. and Mrs. Stephen P. Sparks Larry D. Stephens Bill and Shirley Stout Mrs. Marcia D. Strickland Jim and Sue Swanson Mr. Robert Swift Lloyd and Barbara Timblin, Jr. John and Sharon Trefny Mr. and Mrs. Stephen True Dr. Donald Vawter Normie and Paul Voilleque Ms. Marilyn L. Wheeler Scott and Karen Yarberry Dr. and Mrs. Raymond Yost Dr. Jack. and Mrs. Barbara Zable Ken and Charlotte Ziebarth Mr. and Mrs. Michael Zoellner CHORISTER $250+ Anonymous Tucker and Dan Adams Frank J. Adler Catherine H. Anderson Ms. Jane Anderson Ms. Judith Babcock Ms. Marilyn Baldwin Mr. John E. Baril and Mr. Brian Cook Ms. Jennifer Barrow Nancy Battan Barbara Benedict Charles Berberich and Marilyn Munsterman Drs. Tomas and Diane Berl Dr. and Mrs. Dell Bernstein

Ms. Earline A. Bohling Libby Bortz Mr. Gerald Boutwell Ms. Sandra Bracken Ms. Jay Breen Col. Daniel Brimm Edwin T Callahan George M. and Carol G. Canon Mr. and Mrs. Chuck Chagas Prof. Gerald Chapman Robert and Gloria Lilly-Cohen Mr. David A. Connell Eric Coomer and Amber Hess Sara and Jim Culhane Ronald L. Deal Peter and Deedee Decker Ms. Felicia L. Diamond and Dr. Gene Bloom Greg Diamond Peter and Marian Downs Laurie and Ben Duke III Ms. Joyce Dulin Mr. Robert Duncan Amy Feaster Cathey and Richard Finlon Kristin and Heiko Freitag Dr. and Mrs. Arthur Garfein Rev. and Mrs. B. J. George Mr. James M. Gracey and Mrs. Anthea Blanas Gracey Dr. Brian Greffe and Dr. Mark Donovan Mr. Harry Gutman Mr. Richard H. Hart Richard and Sandra Hilt Ms. Laura M. Hoffman Mr. and Mrs. Garrison L. Horle Mr. and Mrs. Kevin Hughes Ms. Jane A. Hultin Mr. Daniel Isaman Dr. Jacob G. Jacobson Gretchen Vanderwerf and Gordon Jones Mr. Howard B. Jordan Thomas and Gabriella Kelley Mr. Sandford Kern Roberta and Mel Klein Sally and Jim Kneser Dr. and Mrs. Alex Kotch Rex Kramer and Cindy Crater Mr. John W. Kure and Ms. Cheryl Solich Mr. Richard S. Leaman Jim and Patience Linfield Mrs. R. T. Lyford Jr. Mr. Robert Mahoney Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert Y. Marchand Mrs. Martha Anne Marquis Ms. Tanya R. Mathews Dr. and Mrs. James McElhinney

Pamela Merrill Mrs. Susan Mostow Ralph and Trish Nagel Mr. and Mrs. W. Peterson Nelson Kent and Ruth Obee Mr. Michael Ogborn Mr. Mark Onderdonk Mr. Robert Padgett Carl Patterson Mr. and Mrs. Perry Peine Sara Peyton and Richard Bottjer Linda Plaut Rich and Kim Plumridge Mrs. Kathryn L. Pride Ann and John Prosser Paul Rubner and Vicki Jensen Mr. Paul Ruotolo Mr. and Mrs. Paul Scheele Ms. Joy Sherlock Ms. Phyllis Shushan and Mr. Carl Shushan Ms. Nancy Siegel Dr. Andrew Sirotnak Camille Spaccavento Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Straub Mrs. Mary Symonton Mrs. Carson Custer Taylor Dr. and Ms. James Kennedy Todd Robert C. Tripp Ed and Patty Wahtera Ms. Shirley C. Ward Hedy and Michael Weinberg Ms. Cia A. Wenzel Mr. Harold C. White and Ms. Lonnetta Wade Ms. Janice White FRIEND $100+ Mr. and Mrs. Norman O. Aarestad James and Lorraine Adams Ms. Lora Adams Ms. Jeanne Adkins Dr. Richard J. Agee Paul and Susan Ahlquist Danica Anderson Ms. Shannon H. Armstrong Mr. Donald K Bain Ms. Betty Barton Ms. Jennifer N. Bater Ms. Mariette H. Bell Kate Bermingham Mr. and Mrs. John R. Binder Janet Bishop Mr. and Mrs. Howard Blaney Mr. Howard L. Boigon Ms. Catherine Boller Ms. Sandra Bonetti Mr. Kent H. Borges and Ms. Stephanie B. Dicenzo $100 donors continue on page 28

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TRIBUTES

In Honor of Darrel and Linda Curtice Dr. and Mrs. Charles B. Kafadar In Honor of Ellie CaulkIns Aspen Business Center Foundation Caulkins Family Foundation Mr. David J. Chavolla John and Rosemary Ashby Cathey and Richard Finlon Dr. Charles Hamlin Mr. and Mrs. Garrison L. Horle Mr. Joe Michaud Mr. and Mrs. Johann D. Nottebohm Mrs. Marcia D. Strickland Mrs. Beatrice B. Taplin In Honor of Jack FInlaw and Greg Movesian Ellie Caulkins In Honor of Kenneth and Barbara Laff Diana Terry In Honor of Mary and Tom Conroy Jenene and James Stookesberry In Honor of Sharon Randall Ms. Jeanne Adkins In Honor of Susan Shamos’ Birthday Ellie Caulkins Marcia and Dick Robinson In Memory of Celeste FlemIng Sherrye S. Berger Steve and Anne Burkholder Deanna Rose Leino Ms. Adrienne Leonard Jim and Barbara Noakes In Memory of GeraldIne Reiley Ms. Janice White In Memory of Hugh J and Peggy McGee Dr. Sarah Hopfenbeck In Memory of JacquelIne Frischknecht Mr. Chuck Lawhead and Mr. Ronald Broome

In Memory of Marjorie Howe Ms. Mariette H. Bell In Memory of Nathaniel Merrill Pamela Merrill In Memory of Victor Fabrizio Mr. and Mrs. Dirk de Roos In Memory of Willis Dutra-Silveirs Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth J. Erjavec

2015-2016 VOLUNTEERS Eric Bard Laurel Barsa Devanie Blake Barbara Bower Jeff Brown Katy Burley Lisa Cobb Brad Davis Joyce deRoos Ketje deRoos Steve Dilts Sigrid Freese Nancy Fredricks Robert Kahn Stormy Knight Paull Kupler Sally Lammers Susi Landers Melinda Leach Heather MacKinnon David Mejia Maggie Mejia Joanna Moldow Marilyn Olen Frank Parce Eva Phibbs Donna Ries Ellie Roberts Therese Schoen Ruth Schoening Astrid Stocks Christel Woody Ed Woolman Randy Wren Frank Zoske Every effort has been made to ensure the accuracy of our donor list. However, if your name is incorrectly listed, please accept our sincere apologies and contact Kathleen Dammen at 303.468.2060.

Although space limitations only allow us to list donors whose gifts were $100 and above, we are deeply grateful for the support of all our dedicated contributors.

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INSIDE OC 2016-2017 SEASON Inside OC is Opera Colorado’s Young Professional Club that features networking opportunities and a chance to learn more about opera. Members gather to share their enthusiasm for music, the performing arts and opera, and to experience one of Colorado’s premier performing arts companies in a unique way.

Enjoy food and drinks while networking from 5:307PM, then attend the opera with your friends at the Ellie Caulkins Opera House.

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LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR More information at operacolorado.org/insideoc, or follow us on facebook.com/insideoc.

BOARD OFFICERS

Michael Bock Chairman Marcia Robinson President Michael Hughes Chair Emeritus Kevin O’Connor Vice President Martha Tracey Treasurer Carol Crossin Whitley Secretary and Vice President DIRECTORS

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Bruce Allen Kenneth Barrow Suzanne Dost Bucy Ellie Caulkins Lifetime Honorary Chair Dr. Larry Chan Mary Conroy Dirk deRoos The Honorable Kenneth M. Laff William Maniatis Tracy McCarthy Muffy French Moore Kent Rice Ex-Officio Gerald Saul Merrill Shields Shirley Smith Byron Watson Larry Zimmer HONORARY DIRECTORS

Sheila Bisenius Nellie Mae Duman Hugh Grant Michael Hughes Dr. Charles Kafadar Jeremy Kinney Loring W. Knoblauch Lifetime Honorary Director Pamela Merrill Jeremy Shamos Susan Shamos Harry Sterling

STAFF

Greg Carpenter General Director ARTISTIC

Ari Pelto Music Director, designate ADMINISTRATION

Mike Hurdle Director of Finance & Administration DEVELOPMENT AND MARKETING

Camille Spaccavento Kathleen Dammen Joyce de Roos Molly Epstein Rachel Perez Leah Podzimek Resnicow + Associates

Director of External Affairs & Marketing Annual Fund Manager Volunteer Coordinator Group Sales Associate Marketing Manager Corporate and Foundations Manager Public Relations EDUCATION AND COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT

Cherity Koepke Director of Education & Community Engagement Betsy Schwarm Pre-Performance Lecturer Nicole Vasconi Education & Community Engagement Assistant PATRON SERVICES

Tom Kirkpatrick Indea Jaramillo Genevieve LeBlanc Don Oppliger Vanessa Pacheco

Patron Services Manager Patron Services Assistant Patron Services Assistant Patron Services Assistant Patron Services Assistant PRODUCTION

Katie Preissner Production Manager Ann Piano Costume Director YOUNG ARTISTS PROGRAM

Cherity Koepke Alaina DeBellevue Emily Louise Robinson Danielle Lombardi Benjamin Werley Charles Eaton William Lee Bryan

Director Resident Coach Accompanist soprano mezzo-soprano tenor baritone baritone

DIRECTORY

PATRON SERVICES/TICKETS TICKET OFFICE LOCATION ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICES

ELLIE CAULKINS OPERA HOUSE

operacolorado.org 303.468.2030 695 S. Colorado Blvd, Suite 20 Denver, CO 80246 303.778.1500 695 S. Colorado Blvd, Suite 20 Denver, CO 80246 1101 13th Street (Entrance at 14th and Curtis St)

The Ellie Caulkins Opera House is part of the Denver Performing Arts Complex, owned and operated by the City and County of Denver, Division of Arts & Venues LOST AND FOUND DINING AT DPAC

ONLINE RESERVATIONS

720.865.4220 Kevin Taylor’s at the Opera House 303.640.1012 Limelight Supper Club 720.227.9984 Restaurantkevintaylor.com

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