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Artistic Director’s MESSAGE ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) )

A

fter 56 years of loving opera, and fifty years conducting it, opera still amazes me. The best thing about being a musician is learning new

music and getting to know familiar music better. As Artistic Director planning a Sarasota Opera season every year means I can expand my knowledge of repertoire on different levels.

People often have opinions about what operas we should be performing. We hear everything from: “do only the most popular operas” to “why do you do so many popular operas?” We are asked to do more Bellini, more modern operas, more unknown operas, more French opera. But choosing repertoire takes a lot of work by many people, and our repertoire defines what we are as an opera company.

The six operas we program every fall and winter are narrowed down from a seemingly limitless number of works. An important consideration is how operas function along side each other: how varied is the season, what

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have we done recently, what have we neglected? Can the company perform an opera the way it was intended to

be heard by the composer and librettist? Some operas are possible for us to produce, but they require very specific other works around them to make the right use of our orchestra, chorus, and solo singers. I can’t just pick a name out of a hat or depend on my memory regarding a piece I saw, heard about, or even conducted years ago.

Once the season is decided, the operas we will be performing have to be studied in greater detail. I have to know enough to cast singers and hire conductors, directors, and designers. Much information is exchanged about sets, costumes and how much rehearsal time is needed. I have to know enough about each opera to oversee those conversations.

Every season I conduct three of our productions. To do that, I not only study the music and the text of the opera itself in much greater detail, but I also look into the history around the work: the life of the composer and the librettist, the time it was written, and even the theater for which it was composed. When I conduct an opera I have done before, I start from a new score and look at it without relying on my past notes. I am constantly being challenged by the works I conduct, so that the La bohème I do this year is not the same as the last time I did it. Works by great geniuses have a depth that is never totally accessible. Much of the time the composers themselves were not aware of all that is in their creation. With great works, performers can never find the depth of what they are performing. There remains that unattainable perfection that makes us want to perform and see those operas over and over.

Victor DeRenzi Artistic Director

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Executive Director’s MESSAGE ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) )

P

roducing opera in the 21st century is an extremely creative endeavor. It involves bringing together the most talented singers, instrumentalists, directors,

designers, and technicians that we can and creating the best environment for them to do their best work. Maestro DeRenzi provides the vision and the company provides the resources to mount the highest quality productions for our audience’s enjoyment.

By doing world-class work, we also build trust with our audience that we are producing operas that they want to see (which in the case of popular operas like Rigoletto or La bohème is not too difficult) or that they didn’t necessarily know they wanted to see (e.g., Tiefland or La Wally). By leveraging our collective knowledge and experience, along with additional research, and a dose of creativity, we program a season that we hope will entertain our audience and best use the resources that we have available.

At the same time, we have to exhibit a similar creativity in the way that we run the administrative side of the

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company. Opera has always required some level of subsidy over the price of admission. In the earliest days it was provided by the aristocracy and then later by governmental entities. Now, and for quite some time, at least in the U.S., that subsidy has been provided primarily by support from individuals. Many patrons understand that by investing in the arts through their contributions, they are enabling, not only their enjoyment, but the enjoyment of countless others, and the valuable education and outreach programs that our opera company provides.

We are, of course, extremely grateful to the many donors who provide their generous support. As an organization, however, we think it is important to do our best to diversify

Sarasota Opera will be able to contain costs for costumes to our own productions (saving approximately $100,000 annually) and generate revenue for us by renting costumes to opera companies and other performing arts organizations.

Immediately after the announcement of the purchase this past October, we began receiving inquiries from across North America for future rentals. By seizing this extraordinary opportunity and by making additional investments including a new warehouse, we believe that within a few years this will add significantly to our bottom line.

I’d like to thank all of our donors, and especially the

our sources of revenue, to ensure that the company

Steinwachs Family Foundation, who provided a generous

remains stable and can weather challenges that market

challenge grant, for investing in the future of Sarasota Opera.

conditions may bring. One strategy has been to increase

At Sarasota Opera our first commitment is to produce

our endowment and I’m extremely gratified that our donors

the highest quality, world class opera performances, as

have recognized how vital this will be by responding to the

well as providing industry leading education programming

Kretzmer Legacy Challenge and creating a pipeline of more

through our Sarasota Youth Opera. We also believe, that

than $10M in future gifts to our endowment.

by applying the same creativity that we bring to our

It was this kind of diversification that led Sarasota Opera to purchase over 30,000 opera costumes this

productions to the way that we operate financially, we are planning for a strong future for Sarasota Opera.

summer. By owning this historic costume collection,

Richard Russell Executive Director

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Opera STAFF ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) RICHARD RUSSELL Executive Director Assistant to the Executive Director Nancy J. Guyer

Administration Administrative Assistants Cheryl Parete, Irek Sipowicz-Hicks

Development Director of Development Stacy Ridenour Corporate and Special Events Officer Michael Ayres Individual Giving Officer Brenda Tamm Development Assistant Elizabeth Valkanas

Education Youth Opera Music Director Jesse Martins

ARTISTIC STAFF VICTOR DERENZI Artistic Director Director of Artistic Administration Greg Trupiano Company Manager Susan Reeves Orchestra Personnel Manager & Contractor Gregg Koyle Apprentice Artists Program Music Director/Chorus Master Music Administrator Jesse Martins Scheduler & Assistant to the Director of Artistic Administration Caitlin Bolden

Youth Opera & Education Coordinator Carolyn Hupalowsky Youth Opera & Music Administration Assistant George Hemcher

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ADMINISTRATIVE STAFF

Finance Director of Finance Kenneth Tarasi Accounts Payable Angela Dabbert

Patron Services

Theater Operations

Director of Patron Services Susan Ashcraft

Director of Theater Operations Jim Reid Hospitality Coordinator Kirsten K. Barat

Marketing

Assistant Manager of Patron Services Travis Rogers

Director of Marketing Carlos Vicente

Box Office Supervisor David Sorrells

Marketing Coordinator Anna Eger

Patron Services Representatives Kay Bush, Ashley Erickson, Kary Erickson, Terry Fazio, Mary Anne Frey, Maureen Martin, Anita Palladino

Assistant House Manager Drew Deininger, Melissa Eeftens

Dressers Gina Carden, Mimi Cirbusova, Naida Mederios, Jodie Urias, Cindy Wells, Fred Werling

Hair & Make-up Staff Phoebe Bock, Brittany Essen, Meredith Keister, Karly Kerins, Alejandra Padilla-Flores

Facilities Service Staff Megan Beadin, Scott Bowers, Mary Garth, Filip Pavlovic

Lighting

Carpentry

Resident Lighting Designer Ken Yunker

Master Carpenter Earl “Dixie” Schmidt

Costumes & Wardrobe

Assistant Lighting Designer Michael Pasquini

Flyman Alex Wallenda

Stage Management

Carpenters Armando Cristiani, Secundino Esqueda, Benni Fornasari, Llywelyn Jones, John Walther

Accounting and Development Assistant John Young

Communications Coordinator Lana Mullen

Operations Manager Glen Edwards House Engineer Eden Francois

Resident Costume Designer Howard Tsvi Kaplan Assistant to the Costume Designer B. G. FitzGerald Drapers Amy Avila, Elisabeth Roskos, Mary Jo Wimer

Production Stage Manager & Stage Manager—La bohème Francesca MacBeth Stage Manager—Roméo et Juliette Robert Klein Stage Manager—L’elisir d’amore Rachel Walrath

House Manager/Volunteer Coordinator Jo Ann Whitehead

Electrics Master Electrician Michael Pasquini

Studio Artists Program Music Director Steven Aguiló-Arbues

First Hands/Stitchers Kim Copeland, Brian Horton, Susan Lahmeyer, Abdiel Portalatín Perez, Marina Shavelzon, Kay Torralva, Barbara Wechsler

Arts Administration Intern Natalie Love

Costume Intern Laura Vitale

Assistant Stage Managers Katherine Belyea, Kendra Green, Lauren Wickett

TECHNICAL STAFF

Outside Tailoring Lisa K. Gibson

Stage Management Intern Chelsea Taylor

Director of Production Steve Grair

Head Wardrobe Ruth Clark

Hair & Make-up

Props Coordinator Alexandria Flynn

Technical Director Scott Keclik

Assistant Head Wardrobe Lili Cristiani

Hair & Make-up Designer Brittany V. A. Rappise

Props Master Garrett H. Wilson

Hair & Make-up Assistant Margaret Sackman

Props Crew Seth Berry, Danielle E. Wermedal

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Stage Manager—La Wally Traci Clapper

Assistant Master Electrician Matthew Stonum Electrician Alex Wood Head Audio Joseph Reynolds

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Repertoire 1960–2020 ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) Barab

Debussy

Massenet

Chanticleer 1962

L’Enfant prodigue 1962, 1963, 1969 Pelléas et Mélisande 1978

Manon 1997 Werther 1990, 2004

Delibes

Menotti

Lakme 2005*

Amahl and the Night Visitors 1972 The Medium 1962, 1973

Barber A Hand of Bridge 1976, 1981 Vanessa 2012 ¤

Bartók

Donizetti

Bluebeard’s Castle 1980

Don Pasquale 1963, 1965, 1969, 1973, 1977, 1982, 2016 L’elisir d’amore 1986, 2009, 2020 La Fille du régiment 1987 Lucia di Lammermoor 1985, 2002, 2012 Rita (Deux Hommes et une femme) 2019

Moniuszko

Flotow

Il combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda 1961 L’incoronazione di Poppea 1977

Beethoven Fidelio 1985, 1995, 2016

Bellini Norma 2018

Berlioz Les Nuits d’été 1980

Bernstein

Martha 1979, 1992

Floyd

Trouble in Tahiti 1962

Of Mice and Men 2013 ¤ Susannah 1971, 1973

Bizet

Gounod

Carmen 1987, 1992, 1999, 2012, 2018 La Jolie fille de Perth 1996* (American professional premiere) Les Pêcheurs de perles 2000, 2003, 2013

Faust 1969, 1991, 1998 Roméo et Juliette 1993, 2020

Bock She Loves Me 1982

Boieldieu Ma Tante Aurore 1982

Gluck Orfeo ed Euridice 1965, 1967, 1974, 1983

Hoiby The Scarf 1969

Holst

Halka 2007*

Montemezzi L’amore dei tre re 2003*, 2017+

Monteverdi

Mozart Così fan tutte 1960, 1966, 1970, 1974, 1976, 1981, 1990, 2002, 2008, 2016 Don Giovanni 1977, 1989, 2005, 2011 Die Entführung aus dem Serail 1964, 1971, 1979, 1985 Le nozze di Figaro 1961, 1962, 1972, 1988, 1994, 2006, 2015 Der Schauspieldirektor 1960 Die Zauberflöte 1984, 1991, 1996, 2004, 2010, 2019

Nielsen

The Wandering Scholar 1978

Maskarade 1995* (American premiere in Danish)

Les Illuminations 1966, 1980 The Rape of Lucretia 1964, 1979 The Turn of the Screw 1983, 1988

Humperdinck

Offenbach

Hänsel und Gretel 1986, 2001, 2010 Königskinder 1997*

Catalani

Janácek

Les Contes d’Hoffmann 1995, 2001 La Périchole 1984 Orphée aux Enfers 1982

La Wally 1989*, 2020+

Jenůfa 1998

Cilèa

Lehár

L’Arlesiana 1998* (American professional premiere)

Die lustige Witwe 1988

Pergolesi

d’Albert

Leoncavallo

Il maestro di musica 1978, 1980 La serva padrona 1967

Pagliacci 1967, 1978, 2005, 2010, 2014

Britten

Tiefland 2018*

DeBanfield Lord Byron’s Love Letter 1966

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Mascagni Cavalleria rusticana 1987, 2005, 2010 L’amico Fritz 2009*

Orff Die Kluge 1970

Poulenc Le Bal masqué 1975 Dialogues des Carmélites 2017 Nocturnes 1975 La Voix humaine 1975

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Repertoire 1960–2020

Puccini

Stravinsky

Wagner

La bohème 1960, 1965, 1969, 1971, 1976, 1982, 1990, 1997, 2006, 2011, 2015, 2020 La fanciulla del West 1993 Gianni Schicchi 1996 Madama Butterfly 1968, 1972, 1980, 1986, 1994, 2007, 2011, 2017 Manon Lescaut 2018+ La rondine 1999, 2008 Suor Angelica 1996 Il tabarro 1987, 1996 Tosca 1977, 1988, 2004, 2009, 2015 Turandot 2013, 2019

The Rake’s Progress 1968, 1985

Der fliegende Holländer 2000, 2014

Tchaikovsky

Ward

Eugene Onegin 1984 Iolanta 1993*

The Crucible 2011 ¤

Verdi

The Threepenny Opera 1972, 1980

Purcell Dido and Aeneas 1961

Rachmaninoff Francesca da Rimini 1993* (American professional premiere)

Ravel L’Heure espagnole 1960, 1963, 1972 Shéhérazade 1965

Rieti Don Perlimplin 1972

Rimsky-Korsakov The Golden Cockerel 2015* May Night 1999* (American premiere)

Rossini Il barbiere di Siviglia 1963, 1964, 1967, 1971, 1975, 1982, 1992, 2000, 2008, 2014, 2018 La Cenerentola 1961, 1969, 2010 L’Italiana in Algeri 2017 Il turco in Italia 1965

Smetana Hubička (The Kiss) 1991* (American professional premiere) Prodaná Nevěsta (The Bartered Bride) 1994

Sousa El Capitan 1981

J. Strauss, Jr. Die Fledermaus 1962, 1968, 1970, 1974, 1978, 1989, 2003, 2006, 2013

R. Strauss

Aida 2016 † Alzira 2000* † Aroldo 1990* † Attila 2007 † Un ballo in maschera 1991 † La battaglia di Legnano 2016 † Il corsaro 2004* † Don Carlos 2015 † (Original Paris version) Don Carlos 2009 † (Revised 4 Act version in French) I due Foscari 2008* † Ernani 1997 † Falstaff 1986, 2001 † La forza del destino 1996 † (Original version) La forza del destino 1996 † (Standard version) Un giorno di regno 2013 † Giovanna d’Arco 2010* † Jérusalem 2014 † I Lombardi alla prima crociata 2011 † Luisa Miller 1999 † Macbeth 2003 † (Original version) Macbeth 2003 † (Standard version) I masnadieri 2006* † Nabucco 1995 †, 2019 Oberto, conte di San Bonifacio 2001* † Otello 2012 † Rigoletto 1964, 1966, 1976, 1981, 1989 †, 2008 †, 2012 †, 2019 Simon Boccanegra 1992* † (American premiere of the original version) Simon Boccanegra 1992 † (Standard version) Stiffelio 2005 † La traviata 1963, 1966, 1970, 1973, 1979, 1984, 1998 †, 2009 †, 2017 Le Trouvère 2002* † Il trovatore 1993 †, 2014 † Les Vêpres siciliennes 1994* † (American premiere in French)

Weill Wolf-Ferrari Il segreto di Susanna 1973, 2019+

Performances at the Sarasota Opera House * † ¤ +

Part of the Masterworks Revival Series Part of the Verdi Cycle Part of the American Classics Series Part of the Beyond Verdi: Italian Masters Series

Ariadne auf Naxos 2002

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Welcome to Sarasota Opera’s

2020-21 Season Come along for an adventure around the world right from the edge of your seat.

Don Giovanni

Tosca

Travel to Spain for a tale of obsession, betrayal, crime, and retribution in Mozart’s opera— Don Giovanni. Leaving a path of broken hearts wherever he goes, the infamous womanizer Don Juan is about to add one more conquest to his list. As Donna Anna struggles to resist him, she witnesses her father’s murder. The seducer soon moves on to his next conquest. Will justice ever be served?

Travel to Rome, where a diva’s jealousy plays into the hands of the lecherous chief of police, Baron Scarpia. An escaped political prisoner seeks the help of his friend—the painter Mario Cavaradossi, the lover of the famous diva Floria Tosca.

In an attempt to recapture the fugitive, Scarpia plants a seed

Opera by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart with words by Lorenzo Da Ponte October 30, November 1, 4, 10, 12, 15, 2020

The Hobbit

Youth Opera by Dean Burry November 13 & 14, 2020 Travel to an ancient world of fantasy, in this prelude to Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings.

Follow Bilbo Baggins, a comfortloving hobbit, who is unwillingly dragged into a heroic quest. His

Opera by Giacomo Puccini with poetry by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa February 6, 9, 11, 14, 17, 23, 27 March 5, 10, 13, 18, 20, 2021

journey through treacherous lands inhabited by monsters and filled with looming dangers, will lead him to accidentally acquire the golden ring of power.

of suspicion in Tosca and sets a dreadful trap. A desperate Tosca will be forced to make a horrific choice to save her beloved.

The Daughter of the Regiment

Opera by Gaetano Donizetti with poetry by Jules-Henri Vernoy de Saint-Georges and Jean-François Bayard February 13, 16, 18, 21, 26 March 3, 7, 13, 2021 Travel to Tyrol during the Napoleonic Wars when love for Marie, a girl raised by a French regiment, will lead the young Tonio to unexpected lengths in this colorful comedy. Tonio and Marie are inseparable—until the Marquise of Birkenfeld claims the girl as her long-lost niece.

As poor Marie struggles to learn her new role in society, Tonio and the whole regiment work together to get her back.

The Pearl Fishers

Opera by Georges Bizet with words by Eugène Cormon and Michel Carré February 20, 24, 28, March 2, 4, 12, 20, 2021 Travel to legendary Ceylon as long-lost friends Nadir and Zurga are reunited. Their friendship had faltered when they shared the same forbidden

love for the priestess Leila—a love they swore to renounce.

When she reappears, their friendship will once again be tested. Consumed by jealousy and facing a terrible choice between duty and friendship, only Zurga can save Leila and Nadir from a horrible fate.

lover believing she is a traitor.

As Attila approaches what could be his greatest conquest, will Odabella’s plans succeed?

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Attila

Opera by Giuseppe Verdi with words by Temistocle Solera March 6, 9, 11, 14, 17, 19, 21, 2021 Travel to the Fifth Century Roman Empire. Attila the Hun has conquered most of Western Europe and is about to take Rome itself, but is brought to his knees by his love for a female warrior, Odabella. To avenge her lost father, she will carry out a plan that leaves even her

La Wally THEN AND NOW ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) L a Wally in 1989

L a Wally in 2020

Conductor Victor DeRenzi was in his 7th season as Sarasota Opera’s Artistic Director & Principal Conductor.

Conductor Victor DeRenzi is in his 38th season as Sarasota Opera’s Artistic Director & Principal Conductor. He is now a Knight of the Italian Republic and the only conductor in the world to have performed all of Verdi’s music.

Stephanie Sundine sang the title role of Wally.

Stephanie Sundine is the stage director of the production.

Richard Russell performed in the chorus as a member of the Apprentice Artists Program.

Richard Russell is Sarasota Opera’s Executive Director.

Now known as Greg Trupiano, he is currently the Director of Artistic Administration.

G. Michael Trupiano was the stage manager of the production.

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The production’s scenic designer is Steven C. Kemp.

The production’s scenic designer was Wilburn Bonnell III.

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Once again, the scenery was constructed by the Asolo Scene Shop.

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La Wally THEN AND NOW

L a Wally in 1989

L a Wally in 2020 In 2020, four women and nine men from the Studio Artists Program will join the 24 Apprentice Artists to form a chorus of 37 for La Wally.

1989 was the year that Sarasota Opera’s Studio Artists Program began. Its male singers joined the Apprentice Artists to form the chorus for the production.

The Sarasota Opera Orchestra plays for all productions during the Winter Season.

The Florida Orchestra played for the production.

The theater’s balcony was not yet renovated, and the entire audience sat on the orchestra level.

The theater’s balcony is fully renovated and the total capacity of the Opera House is 1,119.

Surtitles were projected from slides.

Surtitles are provided by a sophisticated digital system.

The other operas in the winter repertoire are La bohème, Roméo et Juliette, and L’elisir d’amore.

The other operas in the winter repertoire were Rigoletto, Die Fledermaus, and Don Giovanni.

The costumes for La Wally were designed by former Resident Costume Designer Helen E. Rodgers. Among other of her productions for Sarasota Opera were the American premiere of La Jolie fille de Perth, Maskarade and Hubička. Many of the costumes used came from Malabar Ltd., a costume rental house in Toronto.

The 2020 costumes for La Wally are owned by the Sarasota Opera, its collection recently enlarged by the purchase of Malabar Costumes in Toronto. Read more about the Malabar acquisition on page 108 of this program.

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MONDAY

TUESDAY

Performance CALENDAR 2020

WEDNESDAY

THURSDAY

FRIDAY

8 La bohème

FEBRUARY 2020 10

11 La bohème

12

13 La bohème

7:30 pm

SATURDAY

SUNDAY

9

Opening Night 7:00 pm

14

15 Romeo & Juliet

7:30 pm

16 La bohème 1:30 pm

7:30 pm

17 Opera House Tour

18 Romeo & Juliet

19 La bohème 7:30 pm

20 Romeo & Juliet

7:30 pm

21

22 The Elixir of Love*

7:30 pm

23 Romeo & Juliet

7:30 pm

1:30 pm

10:30 am

24 Opera House Tour

25 La bohème 7:30 pm

26 The Elixir of Love*

27

28 Romeo & Juliet

7:30 pm

29 La bohème 1:30 pm

7:30 pm

10:30 am

1

MARCH 2020

The Elixir of Love* 1:30 pm

2 Opera House Tour

3 La bohème 7:30 pm

4

5

6

7

Romeo & Juliet

The Elixir of Love*

Concert at Noon

7:30 pm

7:30 pm

12:00 pm

8 La Wally* 7:30 pm

Romeo & Juliet 1:30 pm

10:30 am

La bohème 7:30 pm

9

10 Opera House Tour

La Wally*

11 La bohème

7:30 pm

7:30 pm

12 La Wally* 7:30 pm

13 Concert at Noon

14 Romeo & Juliet

12:00 pm

1:30 pm

The Elixir of Love*

La bohème

10:30 am

15 La Wally* 1:30 pm

Artists Choice Concert

7:30 pm

7:30 pm

16 Opera House Tour

17 The Elixir of Love* 7:30 pm

18 La Wally* 7:30 pm

19 La bohème 7:30 pm

20 Concert at Noon

7:30 pm

21 The Elixir of Love*

12:00 pm

1:30 pm

Romeo & Juliet

La bohème

22 La Wally* 1:30 pm

10:30 am 7:30 pm

7:30 pm

The ultimate opera immersion experience— March 4–22, 2019—when you can see all four Sarasota Opera winter productions in as few as three days. * * Arrive early to enjoy a pre-performance introduction hosted by a member of the Sarasota Opera music staff 45 minutes before this opera. FREE with your opera ticket. Felding Hall (in the back of the Donna Wolf Steigerwaldt Courtyard).

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Feb. 8, 11, 13, 16m, 19, 25, 29m

Mar. 3, 6, 11, 14, 19, 21 ) ) ) Rooftops under Snow, 1878 (oil on canvas)

La bohème LIBRETTO BY GIUSEPPE GIACOSA and LUIGI ILLICA Based on the book Scènes de la vie de bohème by Henry Murger

Giacomo Puccini Opera in Four Scenes

Sung in Italian 2006 production created by Sarasota Opera

Cast

CONDUCTOR

Victor DeRenzi

RODOLFO, a poet

William Davenport+

MARCELLO, a painter

Filippo Fontana

SCHAUNARD, a musician

Ricardo Rivera*

COLLINE, a philosopher

Young Bok Kim

BENOIT, the landlord

Adelmo Guidarelli

ALCINDORO, a state councilor

Joseph Beutel

MIMÌ

Anna Mandina++

MUSETTA

Jessica Sandidge

PARPIGNOL, a street vendor

Kevin Thomas Harvey**

A CUSTOMS SERGEANT

Jose Cuartas**

A CUSTOMS GUARD

William Huyler**

STAGE DIRECTOR

Mark Freiman SCENIC DESIGNER

David P. Gordon COSTUME COORDINATOR

Howard Tsvi Kaplan LIGHTING DESIGNER

Ken Yunker HAIR & MAKE-UP DESIGNER

Brittany V. A. Rappise CHORUS MASTER

Jesse Martins YOUTH OPERA CHORUS MASTER

George Hemcher ASSISTANT CONDUCTORS

* Studio Artist ** Apprentice Artist

Sarasota Opera Orchestra Chorus: Sarasota Opera Apprentice and Studio Artists Sarasota Youth Opera

Corrado Valvo Lindsay Woodward David Štech SURTITLE SUPPLIER

Words for Music SURTITLE TRANSLATOR

+ The David and Edith Chaifetz Endowed Artist ++ The Jan Schmidt Endowed Artist

Victor DeRenzi

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La bohème SYNOPSIS ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) Scene I In the garret Marcello, a painter, works on his canvas while Rodolfo, a poet, looks out the window. Rodolfo decides to burn the manuscript of his play to heat the room. The philosopher Colline arrives, soon followed by Schaunard, a musician and the fourth inhabitant of the garret. He has food, money, and wood, but he tells his friends to save the food for another time. Tonight is Christmas Eve and he insists they dine out.

The apartment erupts into turmoil when Benoit, the landlord, demands the rent. He is coaxed by Marcello into talking about his amorous adventures. With mock indignation, the bohemians condemn Benoit’s marital infidelity and usher the landlord away without paying him.

Rodolfo decides to finish writing an article before joining his friends. Unable to write, Rodolfo answers a knock at the door. A young woman asks to have her candle relit but faints once inside the garret. After Rodolfo revives her, they are forced to search in the dark for her lost key after both of their candles go out. The poet finds it but convinces the woman he has not and gently touches her hand in the dark. Rodolfo tells her that he is a poet and attracted to her. The woman in turn explains that her name is Mimì, and she makes her living by embroidering. Mimì and Rodolfo profess their love.

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Scene II In the Latin Quarter Outside the Café Momus, peddlers sell their merchandise to the revelers. The bohemians converge at the café, and Rodolfo introduces Mimì to his friends. She is readily accepted and tells them about the pink bonnet Rodolfo has bought her.

Marcello is surprised when Musetta, his former lover, arrives with her current paramour, the state councilor, Alcindoro. Musetta’s behavior embarrasses Alcindoro as she sings a song to rekindle Marcello’s love. Sensing her attempt is successful, Musetta pretends to have a pain in her foot to get rid of Alcindoro. Alcindoro runs off to have her shoe repaired while Marcello and Musetta fall into each other’s arms. The waiter presents a bill to the bohemians who cannot pay it.

Musetta solves the problem by having the amount added to Alcindoro’s bill.

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Scene III Barrière d’Enfer At the tollgate, guards admit workers and peasants into the city. Mimì, in ill health, finds Marcello at the tavern where Musetta and he are working and Rodolfo has recently arrived.

Mimì explains that although she and Rodolfo have been living together their relationship is not going well. Marcello urges her to leave when he sees that the poet is looking for him. Instead, Mimì hides so she can observe the two.

Rodolfo tells Marcello that he wants to separate from Mimì.

What frightens him is Mimì’s bad health: she is sure to die. Mimì overhears the conversation, and the men discover her as she coughs and weeps. Rodolfo tries to comfort her while Marcello jealously goes to find out why Musetta is laughing loudly.

Mimì tells Rodolfo that she will no longer live with him.

They begin to affectionately reminisce as Marcello and Musetta argue. Mimì and Rodolfo decide to remain together until spring as Musetta and Marcello break up.

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Scene IV In the garret Several months later, both Rodolfo and Marcello desperately miss their former loves. Schaunard and Colline arrive with a meager meal. As much clowning ensues, Musetta bursts through the door and announces that Mimì is at the top of the stairs, too weak to enter. Rodolfo brings Mimì in and makes her comfortable. When left alone, Rodolfo and Mimì relive moments from their first meeting. The others return and as they busy themselves, Schaunard notices that Mimì has died.

Rodolfo sees his friends’ reactions and, rushing to the bedside, discovers Mimì dead.

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La bohème BACKGROUND

L

a bohème, the fourth opera written by Italian composer

waltz offstage, helped ease some of the problems in creating

Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924), is one of the most performed

the current Act III. In the last act, Puccini was completely

and best-loved operas in the world today. Its place as a

stymied in writing the music for four Bohemians in which

masterpiece in the operatic canon is anchored by the work’s

they were to sing a toast to each other. Less than three months

many, almost contradictory, elements. These include realistic

before the first performance, the composer simply deleted the

characters displaying simple emotions, theatrical situations,

section from the opera.

narrative brevity, and poetic expansiveness. However, the

The world premiere of La bohème took place at Turin’s

path to creating this fresh and original opera was a tortuous

Teatro Regio on February 1, 1896. It was at this same theater

one for Puccini and his librettists. It was only after numerous

and on this date exactly three years before that Manon Lescaut

changes of structure and detail that the work which audiences

had opened. La bohème on the whole was greeted in a

recognize as Puccini’s La bohème came into existence.

friendly fashion by the audience but the majority of the critics

Following the huge critical and popular success in early

were hostile. Expecting to hear an opera in the romantically

1893 of his third opera, Manon Lescaut, Puccini divided his

tragic vein of Manon Lescaut, the critics instead were offered

attention by composing two new operas simultaneously. They

a mixture of lighthearted and sentimental scenes in often

were La lupa (The She Wolf), based on Giovanni Verga’s short

conversational style. They condemned the new opera as a

story of a peasant life in Sicily, and La bohème. Puccini first

step backward and especially castigated Puccini for some of

gave preference to La lupa but finally decided to abandon its

his harmonic touches. In spite of the critics’ objections, La

composition in July of 1894. The composer incorporated some

bohème was given 24 performances before sold-out houses

of the music he had already written for his Sicilian opera into

by the end of its first month.

his Parisian one.

After the first production of the opera, Puccini again

Even with all of Puccini’s attention focused on La bohème

demanded new alterations from his librettists. These included

its creation did not occur swiftly. The composer demanded

the addition of a section in Act II between Parpignol’s exit and

many changes from the opera’s two librettists: Luigi Illica,

Musetta’s entrance and changes in the end of the same act

who was responsible for the scenario, and Giuseppe Giacosa,

in order to conclude it more effectively. Puccini even made

whose job was to versify the prose text Illica brought into the

changes to the melody of Musetta’s waltz. Further performances

project. Because of Puccini’s unhappiness with Illica’s work,

followed in Rome, but the reception at first was lukewarm.

Illica complained to the publisher, Giulio Ricordi, that he

However, with a production in Palermo, Sicily in April 1897, the

had rewritten the complete libretto three times and certain

opera achieved an unparalleled success and its fame spread

sections four times in order to appease Puccini. Both librettists

throughout the Italian peninsula. Performances of La bohème

felt abused by the composer and each in turn wanted to resign

are today the backbone of operatic seasons around the globe.

from his assignment. Ricordi managed to keep Puccini, Illica,

Sarasota Opera has presented many productions of

and Giacosa (whom he referred to as the ‘Holy Trinity’) working

Puccini’s works at the Opera House. These include Madama

together.

Butterfly in 1986, 1994, 2007, 2011, and 2017; Il tabarro in 1987;

The librettists’ job adapting Henry Murger’s book Scénes

Tosca in 1988, 2004, 2009, and 2015; La fanciulla del West

de la vie de bohème was not easy. French author Murger

in 1993; La rondine in 1999 and 2008; Turandot in 2013 and

(1822-1861) wrote a work filled with many unrelated episodes

2019; and a production of the composer’s complete Il trittico

and populated with numerous characters based on authentic

(consisting of the three one-act operas Il tabarro, Suor Angelica,

Parisian figures. Illica and Giacosa had to create a coherent

and Gianni Schicchi) in 1996. Sarasota Opera last produced La

dramatic plot from the unconnected stories. Because of this

bohème in the fall of 2015.

challenge, the overall shape of the new libretto was much in flux. For example, the famous Act I meeting of Rodolfo and Mimì in the garret was not part of the opera’s early stages. Ricordi himself, by suggesting that Musetta should reprise part of her

Greg Trup iano is Sarasota Opera’s Director of Artistic Administration.

He is also the Artistic Director of the Brooklyn based The Walt Whitman Project, founded in 2000.

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Feb. 15, 18, 20, 23m, 28

Mar. 4, 8m, 14m, 20 ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) Romeo and Juliet, 1884 (oil on canvas)

Roméo et Juliette

LIBRETTO BY JULES BARBIER AND MICHEL CARRÉ Based on the play by William Shakespeare

Charles Gounod Opera in Five Acts

Sung in French

Cast

CONDUCTOR

Anthony Barrese

CAPULET

Adelmo Guidarelli

ROMÉO

Andrew Surrena

FRIAR LAURENT

Ricardo Lugo

TYBALT, Capulet’s nephew

Samuel Schlievert*

PÂRIS

Joseph Beutel

MERCUTIO, Roméo’s friend

Matthew Hanscom

BENVOLIO, Roméo’s friend

Ganson Salmon*

THE DUKE OF VERONA

Christopher Nazarian*

STÉPHANO, Roméo’s page

Yvonne Trobe*

GRÉGORIO, Capulet’s valet

Michael Gracco*

JULIETTE, Capulet’s daughter

Hanna Brammer

GERTRUDE, Juliette’s nurse

Lisa Chavez

STAGE DIRECTOR

Martha Collins SCENIC DESIGNER

Peter Dean Beck COSTUME COORDINATOR

Howard Tsvi Kaplan LIGHTING DESIGNER

Ken Yunker HAIR & MAKE-UP DESIGNER

Brittany V. A. Rappise CHORUS MASTER

Jesse Martins ASSISTANT CONDUCTORS

Jamin Kim Tessa Hartle Steven Aguiló-Arbues CHOREOGRAPHER

* Studio Artist

Sarasota Opera Orchestra Chorus: Sarasota Opera Apprentice and Studio Artists

Tania Vergara FIGHT CHOREOGRAPHER

India Marie Paul SURTITLE SUPPLIER

Words for Music SURTITLE TRANSLATOR

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Roméo et Juliette SYNOPSIS ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) THE SETTING IS VERONA, ITALY.

AC T I A masked ball in the Capulets’ palace A ball is under way for Capulet’s daughter, Juliette, whom he has promised in marriage to Count Pâris. Roméo, Mercutio and their companions, members of the rival Montague clan, have joined the party uninvited. Roméo, apprehensive, wants to leave; but Mercutio wittily mocks him. When Roméo observes Juliette from afar, he falls under her spell. Alone, Juliette tells her nurse that she has no interest in marriage. As they are leaving for dinner, Roméo addresses Juliette and both are immediately infatuated. Just as they learn each other’s identity, Tybalt, Juliette’s cousin, arrives and recognizes his enemy Roméo. Capulet quells impending violence by calling for the festivities to continue.

AC T III Scene II A street near Capulet’s palace Later that morning, Roméo’s page, Stéphano, searching for his missing master, sings a metaphorical song about a white turtledove’s flight from a nest of vultures. Angered by the impudent song, Grégorio challenges the page to a duel.

Mercutio arrives to defend Stéphano, but Tybalt challenges him to a duel. Roméo rushes in to stop them. Ignoring Tybalt’s insults, he tries to make peace, but the distraction allows Tybalt to kill Mercutio. Mad with rage, Roméo then kills Tybalt. The Duke of Verona arrives and castigates Montagues and Capulets alike. He banishes Roméo from the city.

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AC T I V

AC T II

Juliet’s room at dawn

The Capulets’ garden Shortly thereafter, Roméo stands beneath Juliette’s window and compares his beloved to the sun, entreating her to appear.

Their ensuing conversation is interrupted by a group of men in pursuit of Roméo’s page. Juliette obeys her nurse Gertrude’s call to go to bed but then reappears on the balcony. Roméo and Juliette swear their love for one another; and they reluctantly separate.

Defying his sentence, Roméo has spent the night with his new bride in her room. As they sing of their night of love, Roméo hears the song of the lark heralding the day; he must depart.

Capulet, accompanied by Gertrude and Friar Laurent, tells Juliette she is to marry Pâris that very day. After Capulet and Gertrude leave, the friar gives her a drug which will make her appear dead. He tells her that Roméo will be informed and that he, with her husband, will attend her awakening the next day in the burial vault. Left alone, Juliette drinks the potion and falls

AC T III

unconscious.

Scene I Friar Laurent’s cell

AC T V

At daybreak, Roméo visits Friar Laurent, soon joined by Juliette

An underground crypt

and Gertrude. The monk marries the lovers, hoping his act may reconcile the warring families.

Roméo, not informed of the friar’s plan, enters the Capulet vault to embrace his beloved. Believing her dead, he drinks poison. At this moment, Juliette awakens. They embrace and are preparing to flee, when Roméo falters. Juliette, finding no poison in Roméo’s flask, plunges a dagger into her heart. They await death in each other’s arms, asking God’s forgiveness.

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Roméo et Juliette BACKGROUND Gounod greatly reduced the public dimension of Shakespeare’s plot. In practical terms this means that Roméo et Juliette gives over a large amount of time to the lovers’ dialogues, no fewer than four extended duets, all of remarkably different character. This includes the final encounter in the tomb, where Gounod followed the famous custom introduced

by David Garrick in the eighteenth century of having the two address each other once Juliet revives from the philtre. (In Shakespeare she awakens to discover Romeo’s body.) Gounod fashioned this final encounter into something of a structural imperative by allowing the lovers to recall themes from earlier in order to relive their amorous past at the brink of death.

Charles Gounod

C

harles Gounod exhibited refined literary taste in his selection of operatic subjects: Molière for Le Médecin malgré lui (1858), Goethe for Faust (1859), Jean de La Fontaine for Philémon et Baucis (1861), Gérard de Nerval for La Reine de Saba (1862). And, of course, William Shakespeare for Roméo et Juliette. The story of the Veronese lovers had been brought to the opera stage often before the 1867 premiere of Gounod’s work, but with un-Shakespearean literary antecedents that ranged from recent Italian theatrical hits to Renaissance sources. Vincenzo Bellini’s I Capuleti e i Montecchi (1830), for example, was based on a nineteenth-century play by Luigi Scevola. It was perhaps the most popular of the operatic settings that preceded Roméo et Juliette, but by the 1860s it had been largely forgotten, not to mention that the trouserrole Romeos populating Italian stages at the beginning of the century had long fallen out of fashion. So Gounod could explore new operatic territory with this familiar material: Shakespeare as a source and Roméo as a tenor.

The consensus among critics has always been that the play was ideally suited to Gounod’s operatic temperament.

Shakespeare’s world is philosophically much less weighty than Goethe’s, thereby forestalling the oft-heard criticism about Faust that Gounod did not understand or project the depth of his literary models. The great French historian and statesman François Guizot described the love in Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet as “so young, so ardent, so unreflecting . . . without restraint, and yet without coarseness.” He viewed the lovers as noble, gallant, brave and even witty. Gounod’s style suited such interpretations of Romeo and Juliet well.

The final duet is the most diffuse and loosely organized musical number that Gounod ever wrote for the stage.

Comparisons across the entire opera are suggestive: the first duet for the lovers—their initial encounter at the Capulet ball in Act 1—is as formally restricted and cautious as the last duet is free. Gounod calls their meeting a “madrigal” in the score, a reflection of the literary artifice inherent in Shakespeare’s chain of metaphors at this moment. The meter and tempo are redolent of a minuet. The very difference in the formal properties between the first and last duet signifies the change in the condition of the lovers.

In between the two outer duets lie two duets where the passion of the lovers blossoms. Gounod frames the balcony scene in Act 2 with an orchestral passage whose sweet and veiled sonorities suggest the unreality of a dream, the selfcontained bubble inhabited by all lovers. The duet in the fourth act begins with an orchestral passage of tender divisi cellos, an understated description of their night of love. Here Roméo and Juliette attempt to deny the day with a melody deployed as a rising sequence at various points in the duet. “Ce n’est pas le jour! Ce n’est pas l’alouette!” sounds at a higher pitch level each time, rendering the falseness of the hope all the more poignant.

The duets in Roméo et Juliette rank among Gounod’s finest achievements, and the score is effectively balanced by contrasting numbers that set them in relief. The success of the opera following its Parisian premiere was immediate, indeed much more rapid than that of Faust a few years earlier.

Roméo has always held a strong place in the repertory since then and attracted many of the outstanding performers of the day. “They are in love, but not love-sick” wrote Anne Brownell about Shakespeare’s characters—Gounod’s Gallic sensibility draws the distinction well, and goes a long way to explain the opera’s continued longevity.

S t ev en Huebner is author of the book The Operas of Charles Gounod. He serves as a James McGill Professor of Music History/ Musicology at McGill University in Montreal, Canada.

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Mar. 1m, 5, 13, 17, 21m ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) Print depicting scene from opera L’elisir d’amore (The Elixir of Love), by Gaetano Donizetti (1797-1848), on occasion of premiere performed in Milan, Teatro della Cannobiana, May 12, 1832

L’elisir d a’ more POETRY BY FELICE ROMANI

Based on Eugène Scribe’s libretto for Daniel François Esprit Auber’s opera, Le philtre (The Potion) Sung in Italian

Gaetano Donizetti Melodramma Giocoso in Two Acts

2009 production created by Sarasota Opera

CONDUCTOR

Cast

John F. Spencer IV STAGE DIRECTOR

Marco Nisticò

ADINA, a rich and capricious tenant farmer

Adelaide Boedecker

SCENIC DESIGNER

Roger Hanna NEMORINO, a farmer, naïve youth in love with Adina

Geoffrey Agpalo

BELCORE, a sergeant of the garrison in the village

Alex DeSocio

DOCTOR DULCAMARA,

COSTUME DESIGNER

Howard Tsvi Kaplan LIGHTING DESIGNER

Ken Yunker HAIR & MAKE-UP DESIGNER

traveling physician

Stefano de Peppo

GIANNETTA, a peasant girl

Elizabeth Novella*

Brittany V. A. Rappise CHORUS MASTER

Jesse Martins ASSISTANT CONDUCTORS

* Studio Artist

Sarasota Opera Orchestra Chorus: Sarasota Opera Apprentice Artists

David Štech Tessa Hartle Jamin Kim CHOREOGRAPHER

Tania Vergara SURTITLE SUPPLIER

Words for Music SURTITLE TRANSLATOR

Victor DeRenzi

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AC T I Scene I The entrance to a farm The poor peasant Nemorino is in love with the landowner Adina. The gathered peasants listen as Adina reads them the story of the magic elixir that makes the legendary couple Tristan and Isolde fall in love. A regiment of soldiers enters and are welcomed by Adina. The boastful sergeant Belcore flirts with Adina as Nemorino looks on in despair. Left alone with her, Nemorino declares his love, but she encourages him to forget about her.

Scene II A square in the village Dr. Dulcamara tries to convince the crowd to buy his magic elixir, which he guarantees is a cure for any ailment. Nemorino

Gaetano Donizetti

has heard this and asks the doctor if he knows of the love potion of Tristian and Isolde. Dulcamara claims to have it, but in an aside reveals that it is only a bottle of Bordeaux. He sells

Adina has suddenly postponed the wedding ceremony.

it to Nemorino, with the warning that it will need a whole day

When Belcore discovers that Nemorino needs money, Belcore

to take effect.

convinces him to join the army which will immediately pay

Left alone, Nemorino drinks the liquid, which makes him tipsy. Adina enters and he claims that he is no longer in love with her. Belcore arrives and continues to pursue Adina. In

him. Nemorino runs off to find Dr. Dulcamara.

Scene II

order to test Nemorino, she agrees to marry the sergeant in six

A square in the village

days. Nemorino, thinking that by then the elixir will have taken

The peasant girls, having learned that Nemorino’s rich uncle

effect, remains unconcerned. When word arrives that Belcore’s

has just died, gather to discuss Nemorino’s recent inheritance.

regiment must leave the next day. Adina agrees to marry him

When he arrives, they begin to flirt with him, which he ascribes

immediately. This turns Nemorino’s feigned indifference to

to the elixir. When Adina sees how affectionately the women

despair as the gathered crowd looks forward to the impending

treat Nemorino, she is amazed. Dr. Dulcamara tells her about

wedding.

his elixir and offers to sell her some, but she has other ideas.

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Adina tells Nemorino about his inheritance and that she has repaid Belcore in order to release Nemorino from the army.

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Seeing no other sign of affection from her, Nemorino insists that he would rather die a soldier since he is not loved, whereupon

Scene I

she admits her love for him. Belcore discovers them and is

Inside the farm

astonished at the turn of events which Dr. Dulcamara claims is

Dr. Dulcamara joins Adina and Belcore’s wedding celebration.

the result of his magic elixir.

When everyone goes off with the notary for the ceremony, Nemorino enters and begs for Dr. Dulcamara’s help. The doctor offers to sell him more of the elixir to speed the effect, but Nemorino doesn’t have any more money.

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L’elisir d’amore BACKGROUND

M

odern audiences react with astonishment to the

Donizetti’s comic muse was less frenetic, more sentimental

extraordinary facility with which many nineteenth-

than that of his illustrious predecessor, Rossini. Nothing in

century Italian opera composers were blessed. In

Scribe’s libretto is comparable to Nemorino’s romanza. By

a compositional career of twenty-five years, Donizetti wrote

insisting that Romani insert this piece, Donizetti sought to raise

over seventy works for the theater. Some were incensed by his

Nemorino above the level of a “peasant simpleton,” endowing

productivity; a Parisian caricaturist depicted Donizetti at his

him with nobility of spirit through his deeply-felt love.

writing desk, a pen in each hand, working simultaneously on two different operas.

This characterization of Nemorino is present even in his ensembles with comic characters. Indeed, one of the strengths

He needed his facility to fulfill the commission for

of L’elisir d’amore is how Donizetti set the vocal types against

L’elisir d’amore. Only a handful of letters and the memoirs of

one another. We think of Verdi as the master of this style, with

Emilia Branca, the wife of Donizetti’s librettist, Felice Romani,

the Quartet from Rigoletto being its quintessential example. After

documents the history leading to the premiere at the Teatro

the Duke sings “Bella figlia dell’amore,” Verdi pits two different

alla Canobbiana of Milan on May 12, 1832. According to Branca,

visions of love against one another, the coquettish Maddalena

Donizetti and Romani accepted the challenge to accomplish

and the suffering Gilda. Consciously or not, Verdi modeled his

their work in two weeks:

Quarter on L’elisir, the duet between Nemorino and Belcore,

. . . They thought, laughed, discussed . . . After leafing

who, like Gilda and Maddalena, represent opposing visions of

through books and libretti to find a subject, the two artists

love. Nemorino is deciding whether to enlist as a soldier to

decided to imitate the Philtre (Elixir) of Eugène Scribe

obtain twenty coins for another shot of “elixir,” while Belcore

(the famous French Librettist), and the imitation was so

tempts him with all the women available to a soldier. Not only

successful that it left the original far, far behind . . .

are the melodic lines similar to Verdi’s, but even the unusual key

The libretto is a close adaptation of Scribe’s comic opera, first performed with music by Auber at the Paris Opèra in June 1831, but the tone of Romani’s text is quite different.

One of Branca’s anecdotes reveals how little she understood Donizetti’s achievement: . . . everything proceeded quickly, with complete accord between Poet and Composer, until the eighth scene of Act II; here Donizetti wished to introduce a romanza for the tenor, in order to utilize a song . . . that he carried around in his portfolio . . . Romani at first refused, saying: “Believe me, a romanza at that point would cool down the action!

What’s the point of a peasant simpleton breaking forth in pathetic sniveling, when everything should be festive and gay?” Nevertheless, Donizetti continued to insist until he had the poetry: Una furtiva lagrima Negli occhi suoi spuntò . . .

(D flat major) is identical.

What we treasure about Donizetti’s L’elisir d’amore is the way he fuses the comedy inherent in this Tristan and Isolde tale in a country village, with its standard buffo types, and a depth of feeling captured through elegiac melody and offering opportunities for the most insinuating bel canto. Why, Adina asks, can Nemorino not abandon hope? The youth responds by comparing his love to a brook that flows to the sea where it loses itself in the immensity of the waters – he is drawn by a power he cannot explain or understand. Bel canto melody has that power: we can analyze it, discuss its construction, point out how the harmony builds from one climax to another. Ultimately, after analysis is done, we abandon ourselves to the beauty of the melody and of the voices which give it life and energy. We do so with full knowledge that the famous charlatan, Gaetano Donizetti, “known,” like his Doctor Dulcamara, “throughout the universe and . . . in other places,” is again working his magic.

He realized later, however, from the tacit judgement of the public, that despite the beauty of the music, the Poet was again correct. The second act of the opera was not applauded as much as was the first, because it seemed less brilliant . . .

Branca is, of course, talking about Nemorino’s romanza, accompanied by bassoon, the most beloved composition in L’elisir.

Philip G o s s et t The late Philip Gossett taught at The University of Chicago and the University of Rome “La Sapienza.” Author of Divas and Scholars: Performing Italian Opera (Chicago, 2006), he was the general editor of The Works of Giuseppe Verdi (The University of Chicago Press and Ricordi Universal Music, Milan) and Works of Gioachino Rossini (Baerenreiter-Verlag, Kassel).

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Mar. 7, 10, 12, 15m, 18, 22m ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) The Church and Village, Val d’Isère, France (oil on board)

La Wally LIBRETTO BY LUIGI ILLICA Based on the novel Die Geierwally (The Vulture Wally)

by Wilhelmine von Hillern Sung in Italian

Alfredo Catalani A Dramatic Reduction in Four Acts

New production created by Sarasota Opera

Cast

CONDUCTOR

Victor DeRenzi STAGE DIRECTOR

WALLY

Teresa Romano

Stephanie Sundine

STROMMINGER, her father

Young Bok Kim

SCENIC DESIGNER

Steven C. Kemp AFRA

Lisa Chavez

WALTER, lyre player

Jessica Sandidge

COSTUME DESIGNER

Howard Tsvi Kaplan LIGHTING DESIGNER

GIUSEPPE HAGENBACH from Sรถlden

Ken Yunker Rafael Davila

HAIR & MAKE-UP DESIGNER

Brittany V. A. Rappise

VINCENZO GELLNER from Hochstoff THE FOOT SOLDIER from Schnals

Sean Anderson

CHORUS MASTER

Jesse Martins Ricardo Lugo

ASSISTANT CONDUCTORS

Corrado Valvo Lindsay Woodward Tessa Hartle Sarasota Opera Orchestra Chorus: Sarasota Opera Apprentice and Studio Artists

CHOREOGRAPHER

Tania Vergara SURTITLE SUPPLIER

Words for Music SURTITLE TRANSLATOR

Victor DeRenzi

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La Wally SYNOPSIS ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) THE SETTING IS THE TYROL IN THE EARLY 19TH CENTURY.

AC T I The village of Hochstoff The landowner Stromminger is celebrating his 70th birthday.

Gellner successfully fires a shot at the nearby target in his honor. Stromminger congratulates him on his skill.

A boy, Walter, comes in and asks where he can find Stromminger’s daughter, Wally. Encouraged by the villagers, he sings them the “Song of the Edelweiss” about a girl who climbed the mountain and perished beneath an avalanche to be reborn as a flower.

Hunting horns announce the men of Sölden. Stromminger welcomes them but is put out to recognize young Giuseppe Hagenbach. A bloodstained bearskin is carried in and Hagenbach describes his encounter with the bear. Stromminger states that he knows of a huntsman just as brave as Hagenbach – himself. Goaded by Hagenbach’s contempt, he hints that Hagenbach’s father was a coward. The young man calls him a liar and hurls him to the ground.

Wally arrives and separates the combatants. The men of Sölden drag away Hagenbach, who curses the old man for having provoked him to such an act of cowardice. But Wally reproaches him with a note of tenderness; as a young man, he should be the first to forgive. After the celebration breaks up, Gellner tells Stromminger that Wally is deeply in love with Hagenbach. Stromminger then realizes that Gellner is in love with her himself. He summons Wally, tells her that she is to marry Gellner within a month and leaves them together. Wally lets Gellner know that she does not love him and will never marry him. Her refusal prompts Stromminger to banish her from her home, and Wally decides to leave for the mountains.

Wally alone with Gellner, who renews his entreaties. Again, Wally refuses to listen to him, and he tells her that Hagenbach is to be married to Afra. Jealous, Wally summons the hostess and flings her drink to the ground. The hostess bursts into tears and Wally throws money at her.

Hagenbach picks up the money and gives it to the musicians, asking them to play a ländler. He promises to avenge Afra and bets his companions that he will take a kiss from Wally. He asks Wally to dance with him. She is dubious but finally consents.

Wally confesses her love to Hagenbach, and he is very drawn to her. Hagenbach kisses Wally whereupon a cheer goes up. Afra has been avenged. Wally, humiliated, draws Gellner to her and indicates Hagenbach with the words: “I want him dead.”

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AC T III The village of Hochstoff Wally returns home. Walter offers to stay with her but she gently dismisses him. She is full of remorse, but reflects that Hagenbach most likely will remain at Sölden that night, so there is no need to countermand her instructions to Gellner until the morning. Gellner emerges from the shadows and ascertains from the Foot Soldier that Hagenbach is coming to Hochstoff.

Hagenbach arrives to ask Wally’s forgiveness. Suddenly Gellner grabs him and hurls him into the ravine.

Hagenbach’s cry brings Wally out of the house. She thinks all is lost until another cry reassures her that Hagenbach is alive. She orders the villagers to bring ropes and torches. Wally goes into the ravine, and brings Hagenbach to safety. As Wally bids farewell, she turns over all her wealth to Afra and asks her to tell the unconscious Hagenbach that the kiss he stole from her has now been restored.

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AC T II

AC T I V

The square of Sölden A year has passed, and the feast of Corpus Christi is being celebrated. A Foot Soldier is in the center of a group of men.

Walter enters dressed in clothes that are a gift from Wally who, since her father’s death, has become the richest landowner in the area. Hagenbach states that he would not mind dancing with her but both Afra and the Soldier warn him against trifling with love.

Wally arrives and some young men ask her for a dance.

She responds that she will choose her partner in good time, and it will be no easy matter to steal a kiss from her; the man who succeeds will be hers forever. The square empties leaving

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On the Murzoll Mountain Walter begs Wally to return home with him. It will soon be Christmas and the paths are being destroyed by avalanches. But Wally tells him to return without her. When she hears her name being called, she imagines it is the spirits of the mountain, but it is Hagenbach who confesses his love for her. They dream of a new life together, oblivious to the sounds of a raging storm.

Becoming aware of the danger, Hagenbach looks for the way down. The roar of an avalanche is heard. Wally calls his name, but there is no answer. Wally plunges after him to her death.

TEATRO ALLA SCALA, MILAN, JANUARY 20, 1892

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La Wally BACKGROUND

in delicate poetry and pictorial suggestion. His Elda (1880) and Dejanice (1883) are weighed down by grandiosity. It seemed as if the hopes raised by La Falce were not destined to be fulfilled.

However, if Catalani was not making a powerful impression on the public, he had already acquired a number of devoted supporters: Giovannina Lucca, Ricordi’s chief rival in the publishing world; Giovanni Depanis, director of the Teatro Regio, Turin, and his son, Giuseppe, witty chronicler of the city’s musical events who became the composer’s life-long friend.

Alfredo Catalani

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orn in Lucca in 1854 into a family plagued by consumption and destined himself to die of that disease before he was forty, Alfredo Catalani came to maturity at a time when Italy was a musical melting pot. By the 1870’s the last remnants of the post-Rossinian tradition had been swept away. Foreign composers were flooding the operatic market. Liszt held court for part of every year at the Villa d’Este near Rome; German conductor and composer Hans von Bülow was active as a teacher in Florence and was even mentioned at one point as director of the Milan Conservatory.

Wagner’s early works were rapidly gaining a foothold in Italian opera houses beginning with a much-acclaimed production of Lohengrin in Bologna in 1871.

All these new trends were eagerly followed by Catalani.

His chief love was Wagner, of whom, however, he was never a mere imitator. Before entering the Milan Conservatory, he had spent six months of study in Paris, where he became acquainted with the music of Massenet, an important influence in the formation of his own style, as in that of his fellow Luccan, Puccini. His graduation piece for the Milan Conservatory, the one-act eclogue La Falce to a poem by Boito begins with an orchestral tone-poem describing a battle. First performed in 1875, it immediately alerted the musical world to the presence of a new, individual talent.

Thereafter, Catalani’s fortunes did not proceed so smoothly.

At that time the fashion not only in Italy but throughout Europe was for grand opera: four or five acts with a central ballet, massive choruses and elaborate spectacle. Catalani’s talent lay in a different direction; he excelled in the intimate touch,

Finally, there was the young Arturo Toscanini, who promoted a number of performances of Catalani’s operas around the turn of the century. Indeed, to Toscanini, Catalani was the finest Italian composer of his generation. He was present at Catalani’s deathbed, and he named two of his own children after characters in Catalani’s operas. He had made his official debut as a conductor in Italy with a revival of Catalani’s fourth opera Edmea (1886), a work in which the tide of routine grandeur has already begun to ebb, and the composer’s personality took on a sharper edge.

Catalani had already been attracted to Wilhelmine von Hillern’s novel Die Geierwally (Wally, the vulture girl) when it appeared in Italian as a serial in the Milan periodical La Perseveranza in 1887. The following year, while waiting for Giulio Ricordi to glance at his complete Loreley (a heavily revised Elda), he decided to commission a libretto at his own expense from Luigi Illica, then at the start of his career as a theatrical poet.

Towards the end of 1888, Catalani wrote to Giuseppe Depanis, “If you like, you can put in the Gazzetta Piemontese that Illica and I are working on a splendid subject taken from a German novel called La Wally. You’ll see that I’m not mistaken when I tell you that this time I’ve found an excellent libretto – a drama that’s lively, palpitating, new.” And three months later, “This opera should be ready in a couple of years; I’m writing it on my own, without tying myself to any publisher. After that, anyone who wants to, can buy it.”

Possibly it was the news that his new rival, Edoardo Sonzogno, was disposed to make a bid for Catalani’s latest opera that decided Giulio Ricordi to take an interest in Loreley, which finally reached the stage in February 1890 and scored a minor triumph. It remained to follow this success with La Wally. The premiere on January 20, 1892 at La Scala was an outstanding success and ran for eighteen further performances. Catalani had at length arrived – even if he had only a year and a half more to live.

Julian Bud den was an opera scholar, radio producer, and broadcaster.

He is particularly known for his three volumes on the operas of Giuseppe Verdi and a single-volume work on Giacomo Puccini and his operas.

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GEOFFREY AGPALO tenor Chicago, Illinois Nemorino L’elisir d’amore Sarasota Opera debut

OTHER ENGAGEMENTS Don Ottavio Don Giovanni (Michigan Opera Theatre) Alfredo La traviata (Opera Theatre of St. Louis) Tamino Die Zauberflöte (Opera Maine) Jim Casy Gordon The Grapes of Earth (Michigan Opera Theatre, Opera Theatre of St. Louis)

STEVEN AGUILÓ-ARBUES

music staff Los Angeles, California Program & Music Director of the Studio Artists 2019 Fall Assistant Conductor Rigoletto, Brundibár 2019, 2018 Winter Program & Music Director of the Studio Artists 2017 Winter Assistant Conductor L’Italiana in Algeri, Dialogues des Carmélites OTHER ENGAGEMENTS Assistant Conductor L’Enfant et les sortilèges, Gianni Schicchi (Miami Music Festival) Coach/Pianist Rigoletto, Carmen (Opera Colorado) Coach/Pianist Tosca (Atlanta Opera) Coach/Pianist The Ballad of Baby Doe (Central City Opera tour) Conductor Il barbiere di Siviglia (Boulder Opera Company)

SEAN ANDERSON

baritone New York, New York Vincenzo Gellner La Wally 2019 Winter Soloist Operetta Recital 2016 Winter Don Pizarro Fidelio 2013 Winter George Milton Of Mice and Men 2012 Winter Iago Otello 2011 Winter John Proctor The Crucible 2006 Eisenstein Die Fledermaus (debut) (partial list)

OTHER ENGAGEMENTS Telramund Lohengrin (Opera Southwest/New Mexico) Marcello La bohème (Baz Luhrman Broadway production, Indianapolis Opera) Nixon Nixon in China (Princeton Festival/New Jersey) Sharpless Madama Butterfly (Knoxville Opera)

ANTHONY BARRESE conductor Chicago, Illinois

Roméo et Juliette 2017 Winter L’Italiana in Algeri 2010 Winter Hänsel und Gretel 2006 Le nozze di Figaro 2002-03 Associate Conductor (debut) (partial list)

OTHER ENGAGEMENTS Conductor Bottesini Ali Baba, Tancredi, Guillaume Tell, Lohengrin Artistic Director, Principal Conductor (Opera Southwest/New Mexico) Conductor Faccio Amleto (OperaDelaware) Conductor Norma (Florida Grand Opera) Conductor Turandot (Teatro Ventidio Basso/Italy)

JOSEPH BEUTEL

MICHELLE BLAUMAN

ADELAIDE BOEDECKER soprano Sarasota, Florida

bass Needham, Massachusetts

Alcindoro La bohème, Pâris Roméo et Juliette Sarasota Opera debut

Studio Artist 2019 Fall Studio Artist Giovanna Rigoletto Joel D. and Ellen S. Fedder Endowed Artist

Adina L’elisir d’amore 2019 Winter Studio Artist Pamina Die Zauberflöte 1997-2007 Sarasota Youth Opera 2006 Barbarina Le nozze di Figaro

Studio Artist 2019 Fall Apprentice Artist

OTHER ENGAGEMENTS La Principessa Suor Angelica, Czipra Der Zigeunerbaron, Mrs. McClean Susannah, Cantadora La Verbena de la Paloma, Dame Quickly Falstaff (Manhattan School of Music) Voice of Antonia’s Mother Les Contes d’Hoffmann, Nancy Martha (Music Theater of Bavaria/Germany) Dido Dido and Aeneas, Olga Olsen Street Scene (Pacific Lutheran University/ Washington)

OTHER ENGAGEMENTS Susannna Le nozze di Figaro (Music Academy of the West/ California) Pamina Die Zauberflöte, Clorinda La Cenerentola (Opera Las Vegas) Micaela La Tragédie de Carmen (Opera Birmingham) Marie La Fille du régiment, Anna Nabucco (Pittsburgh Opera) Despina Così fan tutte (San Francisco Opera Merola Program)

baritone Fort Wayne, Indiana

OTHER ENGAGEMENTS Sir Marshall Mila (Angel Orensanz Center/New York) Troy Bell Stonewall (New York City Opera) Figaro Le nozze di Figaro (Intermountain Opera Bozeman/ Montana) Goffredo Il pirata (Bel Canto at Caramoor/New York) Secret Police Agent The Consul (Baltimore Concert Opera)

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mezzo-soprano Wenatchee, Washington

ANDREW BOISVERT

OTHER ENGAGEMENTS Olin Blitch Susannah (Janiec Opera Company/North Carolina) Frank Murrant Street Scene, Don Bartolo Le nozze di Figaro, Doctor Dialogues des Carmélites, Jason McCormick Popov Town Hall (Maryland Opera Studio)

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HANNA BRAMMER

soprano Traverse City, Michigan Juliette Roméo et Juliette 2019 Winter & Fall Pamina Die Zauberflöte, Gilda Rigoletto 2018 Winter & Fall Micaela Carmen, Nuri Tiefland Soloist Operetta Recital 2017 Winter & Fall Studio Artist 2016 Fall Apprentice Artist The Mr. and Mrs. Robert Arthur Sponsored Artist OTHER ENGAGEMENTS Micaela Carmen (Wichita Grand Opera) Fiordiligi Così fan tutte (Festival Amadeus/Montana) Woglinde Das Rheingold, Helmwige Die Walküre (Pittsburgh Festival Opera) Musetta La bohème (Salt Marsh Opera/Connecticut)

WILLIAM DAVENPORT tenor Rockville, Maryland

Rodolfo La bohème 2019 Winter & Fall The Duke of Mantua Rigoletto Pepé Rita, Sante Il segreto di Susanna The David and Edith Chaifetz Endowed Artist OTHER ENGAGEMENTS Roberto Devereux Roberto Devereux, Alfredo La traviata (Teatro Carlo Felice di Genova/Italy) Nemorino L’elisir d’amore (Palau de les Arts Reina Sofia/ Spain, OperaDelaware, Orlando Philharmonic) Gennaro Lucrezia Borgia (Palau de les Arts Reina Sofia/Spain) Rodolfo La bohème (Teatro Stabile di Potenza/Italy)

LISA CHAVEZ

mezzo-soprano Oakland, California

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MARTHA COLLINS

stage director Ottawa, Canada Roméo et Juliette, Stage Director for the Apprentice Artists 2019 Winter & Fall Nabucco, Brundibár 2018 Winter & Fall Carmen, The Little Sweep 2017 Winter & Fall Dialogues des Carmélites, Rootabaga Country 2005-2019 Sarasota Youth Opera stage director 2004-2020 Apprentice Artists Program stage director

CAITLIN CRABILL soprano Kettering, Ohio

Gertrude Roméo et Juliette, Afra La Wally 2019 Winter Fenena Nabucco 2018 Winter & Fall Carmen Carmen, Rosina Il barbiere di Siviglia 2017 Winter Madame de Croissy Dialogues des Carmélites OTHER ENGAGEMENTS Maggie Bell Stonewall, Dolores Claiborne Picker Dolores Claiborne, Paula Catán Florencia en el Amazonas (New York City Opera) Isabella L’Italiana in Algeri, Carmen Carmen, Maddalena Rigoletto, Hänsel Hänsel und Gretel (Opera San José) Suzuki Madama Butterfly (Shreveport Opera, Opera San José, Knoxville Opera)

OTHER ENGAGEMENTS Faust, Cavalleria rusticana, Pagliacci (Tri-Cities Opera/New York) Ariadne auf Naxos, Les Mamelles de Tirésias (Land of Enchantment Opera/New Mexico) Die Zauberflöte, Orphée aux enfers (New York University)

OTHER ENGAGEMENTS Cio-Cio-San Madama Butterfly (Central City Opera/Colorado) Mimì La bohème (Bay View Music Festival/Michigan) La Gioconda La Gioconda, First Lady Die Zauberflöte, Suor Angelica Suor Angelica (Oklahoma City University)

RAFAEL DAVILA

STEFANO DE PEPPO

VICTOR DERENZI

Giuseppe Hagenbach La Wally 2015 Winter & 2009 Winter Mario Cavaradossi Tosca 2012 Winter Otello Otello 2011 Fall B. F. Pinkerton Madama Butterfly 2005 Turiddu Cavalleria rusticana, Canio Pagliacci 2003 Tenor Soloist Puccini Concert (debut)

Doctor Dulcamara L’elisir d’amore 2018 Fall Bartolo Il barbiere di Siviglia 2016 Winter Don Alfonso Così fan tutte 2014 Winter The Baron of Kelbar Un giorno di regno 2010 Fall Don Magnifico La Cenerentola 2008 Fall Bartolo Il barbiere di Siviglia (debut)

La bohème, La Wally Sarasota Opera Artistic Director and Principal Conductor since 1982 2019 Winter & Fall Turandot, Nabucco, Rigoletto 2018 Winter & Fall Manon Lescaut, Norma, Il barbiere di Siviglia 1982 The Turn of the Screw, Orphée aux enfers (debut)

OTHER ENGAGEMENTS Don José Carmen, Ismaele Nabucco (Metropolitan Opera/New York) Des Grieux Manon Lescaut (San Francisco Opera, Gran Teatre del Liceu/Spain) General Alfredo Lopez Bel Canto (Lyric Opera of Chicago) Don Alvaro La forza del destino (Washington National Opera) Calaf Turandot (Ópera de Puerto Rico)

OTHER ENGAGEMENTS Leporello Don Giovanni (Finnish National Opera, Teatro dell’Opera/Rome) Don Pasquale Don Pasquale (Memphis Opera, Bellas Artes/Mexico) Marco Gianni Schicchi (Washington National Opera, LA Opera) Sulpice La Fille du régiment (Arizona Opera, Atlanta Opera) Gianni Schicchi Gianni Schicchi (Opera Santa Barbara)

OTHER ENGAGEMENTS Gala Concert: A Verdi Celebration (Opéra de Montréal) La fanciulla del West (Théâtre de l’Opéra de Nice) Un ballo in maschera, La bohème (Canary Islands/Spain) Maestro DeRenzi is a Knight of the Italian Republic and the only conductor to have performed all of Verdi’s music.

tenor Vega Alta, Puerto Rico

(partial listing)

(partial listing)

bass-baritone Milan, Italy

Studio Artist 2019 Winter & Fall Studio Artist Turandot Turandot, The Countess Rigoletto 2018 Winter & Fall Apprentice Artist 2017 Winter & Fall Apprentice Artist A Young Woman L’amore dei tre re The Lynn and Steve Blackledge Endowed Artist

conductor New York, New York

(partial listing)

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ALEX DESOCIO

JOSHUA DEVANE

KATHRYN DOMYAN

JAMES EDER

Belcore L’elisir d’amore Sarasota Opera debut

Studio Artist 2019 Fall Studio Artist Marullo Rigoletto

Studio Artist 2019 Fall Studio Artist Page to the Duchess Rigoletto 2019 Winter Apprentice Artist

Studio Artist 2019 Winter Studio Artist First Priest/Second Man in Armor Die Zauberflöte, High Priest of Baal Nabucco 2018 Winter & Fall Studio Artist

baritone Wichita, Kansas

OTHER ENGAGEMENTS Don Giovanni Don Giovanni (Wichita Grand Opera) Figaro Il barbiere di Siviglia (Anchorage Opera, Opera Roanoke, Livermore Valley Opera/California, Mobile Opera) Mercutio Roméo et Juliette (Opera Fort Collins, Pensacola Opera, Opera Birmingham) Montano Otello, Second Priest Die Zauberflöte (Pittsburgh Opera) Lescaut Manon Lescaut (Opera Santa Barbara)

baritone Waycross, Georgia

OTHER ENGAGEMENTS Alfio Cavalleria rusticana, Guglielmo Così fan tutte, Signor Deluso Signor Deluso (Boulder Opera) Gianni Schicchi Gianni Schicchi, Don Pasquale Don Pasquale (Martina Arroyo Prelude to Performance/New York) Giorgio Germont La traviata (Boulder Symphony) Danilo The Merry Widow (Loveland Opera Theatre/Colorado)

soprano Allentown, Pennsylvania

OTHER ENGAGEMENTS Blanche Dialogues des Carmélites, Rose Murrant Street Scene (Loyola University/New Orleans) Suor Angelica Suor Angelica (Susquehanna University) Gretel Hänsel und Gretel Mother, Grandmother Little Red Riding Hood (Metro Pelican Opera/Louisiana)

bass Cleveland, Ohio

OTHER ENGAGEMENTS Truffaldino, Lackey Ariadne auf Naxos, Doctor Grenvil La traviata, The Judge Bilodeau Another Brick in the Wall (Cincinnati Opera) Colline La bohème (Cleveland Opera Theater) Alcindoro, Benoit La bohème (Knoxville Opera) The Bonze Madama Butterfly (Chattanooga Symphony & Opera)

FILIPPO FONTANA

MARK FREIMAN

DAVID P. GORDON

MICHAEL GRACCO

Marcello La bohème 2019 Winter Ping Turandot 2018 Winter & Fall Lescaut Manon Lescaut, Figaro Il barbiere di Siviglia

La bohème 2019 Winter Die Zauberflöte 2018 Winter Norma 2017 Winter L’Italiana in Algeri, 2006 Benoit La bohème, Moser I masnadieri

La bohème 2019 Fall Rigoletto 2018 Winter Manon Lescaut 2017 Winter L’amore dei tre re 2016 Winter Aida 2015 Winter The Golden Cockerel, Don Carlos 2014 Winter Der fliegende Holländer 1995 Maskarade (debut)

Studio Artist Grégorio Roméo et Juliette Sarasota Opera debut Mr. and Mrs. Robert Arthur Sponsored Artist

baritone Udine, Italy

OTHER ENGAGEMENTS Taddeo L’Italiana in Algeri, Procolo Donizetti Le convenienze ed inconvenienze teatrali (Teatro alla Scala/Milan) Dandini La Cenerentola (Teatro dell’Opera/Rome) Don Parmenione Rossini L’occasione fa il ladro (Tiroler Festpiele Erl/Austria) Figaro Il barbiere di Siviglia (Teatro La Fenice/Venice, Teatro Campoamor Oviedo/Spain, Scala Tourné Kaliningrad/Russia)

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stage director New York, New York

OTHER ENGAGEMENTS Les Pêcheurs de perles, La bohème, Tosca, Die Fledermaus, Otello, Il trovatore (Winter Opera St. Louis) Così fan tutte (Mobile Opera) La bohème, Nabucco (Union Avenue Opera/Missouri) Le nozze di Figaro (Nickel City Opera/New York)

scenic designer Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

(partial listing)

OTHER ENGAGEMENTS The Consul (Seattle Opera) Indecent (Arden Theatre Company) Faculty Member (Mason Gross School of the Arts/ Rutgers University)

baritone Guilford, Connecticut

OTHER ENGAGEMENTS Masetto Don Giovanni, Business Portman The Little Prince, A Mandarin Turandot, Wagner Faust (Tulsa Opera) Belcore L’elisir d’amore (City Lyric Opera/New York) Count Homonay Der Zigeunerbaron, Sid Albert Herring (Manhattan School of Music)

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ADELMO GUIDARELLI

SAMUEL HALL

LEVI HAMLIN

Benoit La bohème, Capulet Roméo et Juliette Sarasota Opera debut

Studio Artist 2018 Winter Studio Artist 2016 Winter Apprentice Artist

Studio Artist 2019 Winter & Fall Apprentice Artist 2018 Fall Apprentice Artist

OTHER ENGAGEMENTS Frank Die Fledermaus (Amarillo Opera) Bartolo Le nozze di Figaro, Don Magnifico La Cenerentola (Opera Tampa) Sharpless Madama Butterfly, Ramfis Aida (Pensacola Opera) Dulcamara L’elisir d’amore (Opera Las Vegas) Morales, Zuniga Carmen (Helena Symphony/Montana)

OTHER ENGAGEMENTS Nadir Les Pêcheurs de perles, Malcolm Macbeth (Opera Tampa) Pinkerton Madama Butterfly, Faust Faust (St. Petersburg Opera/Florida) Soloist Verdi Requiem (The Community Church of Vero Beach/Florida) Benvolio Roméo et Juliette (Opera Grand Rapids) Giovanni Catán La hija de Rappaccini (Opera Naples/Florida)

OTHER ENGAGEMENTS Macduff Macbeth (Opera North/New Hampshire) Don Ottavio Don Giovanni, The Chevalier Dialogues des Carmélites (Northwestern University) Soloist Beethoven Mass in C (Alice Millar Chapel /Illinois)

TESSA HARTLE

GEORGE HEMCHER

BRENT HETHERINGTON

HOWARD TSVI KAPLAN

Assistant Conductor Roméo et Juliette, L’elisir d’amore, La Wally 2014 Winter Assistant Conductor 2013 Fall Assistant Conductor 2012-13 Winter Associate Conductor 2011 Winter Apprentice to the Music Staff

Children’s Chorus Master La bohème, Sarasota Youth Opera Education & Music Administration Assistant 2019 Fall Assistant Conductor Brundibár 2019 Winter Children’s Chorus Master Turandot 2018 Fall Assistant Conductor The Little Sweep 2017 Fall Assistant Conductor Rootabaga Country (debut)

Studio Artist 2019 Fall Apprentice Artist A Court Usher Rigoletto 2018 Fall Studio Artist

Resident Costume Designer Debut 1998

baritone Greenwich, Connecticut

music staff Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

OTHER ENGAGEMENTS Rehearsal Pianist Gordon The Grapes of Wrath, Gordon 27, Adamo Little Women, Candide, Amahl and the Night Visitors (Michigan Opera Theatre) Rehearsal Pianist Catán Il Postino, Orpheus in the Underworld (Virginia Opera) Rehearsal Pianist, Coach (Opera Theatre of St. Louis)

tenor Columbus, Ohio

music staff Frazer, Pennsylvania

OTHER ENGAGEMENTS Assistant Conductor The Beggar’s Opera, La Vie parisienne (Hofstra University/New York) Coach Otello, Die Fledermaus, Carmen (Delaware Valley Opera/New York) Coach Il barbiere di Siviglia, Pagliacci, Le nozze di Figaro, La bohème (Regina Opera/New York)

tenor Battle Creek, Michigan

bass-baritone Tyler, Texas

OTHER ENGAGEMENTS Hermann, Schlémil Les Contes d’Hoffmann, Reverend Salvation The Cradle Will Rock (Nashville Opera) The King Aida, Older Thompson Cipullo Glory Denied, El Payador Piazzolla María de Buenos Aires (Pensacola Opera) The Bonze Madama Butterfly (Nashville Opera, Central City Opera) Owen Fein City of Ashes (Marble City Opera/Tennessee) Dulcamara L’elisir d’amore (ARE Opera/New York)

MATTHEW HANSCOM baritone Plymouth, Minnesota

Mercutio Roméo et Juliette 2019 Winter Papageno Die Zauberflöte 2014 Winter The Count of Toulouse Jérusalem 2013 Winter & Fall Ping Turandot, Slim Of Mice And Men, Falke Die Fledermaus 2011-12 Winter & Fall Studio Artist Schaunard La bohème 2010 Winter Studio Artist 2009 Winter & Fall Studio Artist OTHER ENGAGEMENTS Bill “Sleepy” Burns Puckett The Fix (Minnesota Opera New Works Initiative) Brétigny Manon (Opera Santa Barbara) Scarpia Tosca, Rigoletto Rigoletto, Figaro Il barbiere di Siviglia, Marcello La bohème (Opera San José/California)

costume designer Oceanside, New York

OTHER ENGAGEMENTS Resident Costume Designer (Alley Theatre/Texas, Asolo Center/ Florida, Westport Playhouse/ Connecticut, Ringling Brother’s Clown College) Guest Designer for over 100 productions (OperaDelaware, Virginia Opera, Baltimore Opera, Kentucky Opera, Opera Boston, Florida Grand Opera, Malabar Limited/Canada, Des Moines Metro Opera, Barter Theater/ Virginia, Virginia Stage, Capital Repertory Theatre/New York, Pittsburgh Public Theater, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, ABC, PBS) 61ST FESTIVAL SEASON

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STEVEN C. KEMP scenic designer Houston, Texas

La Wally 2018 Winter Tiefland OTHER ENGAGEMENTS Scenic Designer (Opera San José, Lyric Opera of Kansas City, Des Moines Metro Opera, Arizona Opera, Central City Opera, Hawaii Opera Theatre, New Orleans Opera, Opera Santa Barbara, Opera Omaha, Madison Opera, Kentucky Opera, Tulsa Opera, Opera Grand Rapids, Fresno Grand Opera, Urban Arias/Washington DC, San Francisco Opera Merola Program,Indiana University Jacobs School of Music) Over 100 designs for Off-Broadway and regional theatre including Asolo Repertory Theatre

JAMIN KIM

music staff Seoul, South Korea Assistant Conductor Roméo et Juliette, L’elisir d’amore, La Wally 2019 Winter & Fall Assistant Conductor Rigoletto, Brundibár, Apprentice to the Music Staff/Pianist

YOUNG BOK KIM bass Seoul, South Korea

Colline La bohème, Stromminger La Wally 2019 Winter & Fall Timur Turandot Sparafucile Rigoletto 2018 Winter & Fall Oroveso Norma, Basilio Il barbiere di Siviglia 2004 Sarastro Die Zauberflöte (debut)

RICARDO LUGO bass Ponce, Puerto Rico

Friar Laurent Roméo et Juliette, The Foot Soldier La Wally 2015 Winter Sacristan Tosca, Bartolo Le nozze di Figaro OTHER ENGAGEMENTS Schwarz Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Prison Guard Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, Countess’ Footman Shostakovich The Nose (Metropolitan Opera/New York) Timur Turandot, Alfieri Bolcom A View from the Bridge, Don Fernando Fidelio, Commendatore Don Giovanni, French General Puts Silent Night (Michigan Opera Theatre) Bartolo Le nozze di Figaro (Vancouver Opera)

OTHER ENGAGEMENTS Assistant Conductor The Pirates of Penzance (Opera North/New Hampshire) Rehearsal Pianist Don Giovanni, Amahl and the Night Visitors, Gianni Schicchi, Suor Angelica (SUNY Purchase) Voice Coach, Staff Pianist (Manhattan School of Music) Staff Pianist (Barnard College at Columbia University, Montclair State University/ New Jersey)

OTHER ENGAGEMENTS Seneca L’incoronazione di Poppea (OperaDelaware) Colline La bohème, Zuniga Carmen (New York City Opera) Basilio Il barbiere di Siviglia (Dallas Opera) Méphistophélès Faust (Opera New Jersey)

ANNA MANDINA

JESSE MARTINS

CHRISTOPHER NAZARIAN

MARCO NISTICÒ

Mimì La bohème 2019 Winter Liù Turandot 2018 Winter & Fall Studio Artist Berta Il barbiere di Siviglia 2017 Winter & Fall Apprentice Artist Annina La traviata, A Handmaiden L’amore dei tre re The Jan Schmidt Endowed Artist

Program & Music Director of the Apprentice Artists/Chorus Master, Sarasota Youth Opera Music Director Music Administrator 2019 Winter & Fall Conductor Die Zauberflöte, Brundibár 2018 Winter & Fall Conductor The Little Sweep Assistant Conductor Carmen, Tiefland 2017 Winter & Fall Conductor Rootabaga Country Assistant Conductor L’Italiana in Algeri 2016 Fall Conductor The Secret World of Og Debut 2011

Studio Artist The Duke Roméo et Juliette 2019 Winter & Fall Studio Artist Zaccaria Nabucco, Count Ceprano Rigoletto

L’elisir d’amore 2019 Winter & Fall Gasparo Rita, Count Gil Il segreto di Susanna, Rigoletto Rigoletto 2017 Winter & Fall Manfredo L’amore dei tre re, Giorgio Germont La traviata 2008 Winter Francesco Foscari I due Foscari (debut)

soprano Kansas City, Missouri

OTHER ENGAGEMENTS Mimì La bohème, Micaela Carmen (Missouri Symphony) Eva Crowley Perla An American Dream (Opera Maine) Second Lady Die Zauberflöte (Opera Company of Middlebury/ Vermont, Opera Maine) Violetta Valery La traviata (Boston Conservatory Opera)

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music staff Sapiranga, Brazil

OTHER ENGAGEMENTS Assistant Music Director (Opera Factory/New Zealand)

(partial listing)

bass Sydney, Australia

OTHER ENGAGEMENTS Leporello Don Giovanni (St. Petersburg Opera/Florida) Doctor Grenvil La traviata, Colline La bohème (New Rochelle Opera/New York) Pistola Falstaff (Martina Arroyo Prelude to Performance/New York) Truffaldino, Lackey Ariadne Auf Naxos, Sarastro, The Speaker Die Zauberflöte (Berlin Opera Academy/Germany)

stage director Naples, Italy

(partial list)

OTHER ENGAGEMENTS General Director (Opera on the James/Virginia) Stage Director Tosca (Opera Southwest/New Mexico) Ford Falstaff (Opera Colorado) Le Dancaïre Carmen, The Doctor Muhly Two Boys (Metropolitan Opera/New York)

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INDIA MARIE PAUL

SCOTT PURCELL

BRITTANY V.A. RAPPISE

Roméo et Juliette Sarasota Opera debut

Studio Artist Sarasota Opera debut

Resident Hair & Make-up Designer Debut 2017 Fall

OTHER ENGAGEMENTS Antonia Les Contes d’Hoffmann, Maia Theofanidis The Cows of Apollo (Aspen Music Festival) Gertrud Hänsel und Gretel (Manhattan School of Music) Pamina Die Zauberflöte, Suor Genovieffa Suor Angelica (Amalfi Coast Music Festival/Italy) Madame Herz Der Schauspieldirektor (New York Lyric Opera) Maja Granados Goyescas (Bare Opera/New York)

OTHER ENGAGEMENTS Stage Director, Choreographer Little Women (New York University) Stage Director Modern Works Festival (Urbanite Theatre/Sarasota) Stage Director, Playwright Within This Tower (FSU Asolo Conservatory/Sarasota) Stage Director Robelen An Unbroken Line (American Opera Projects/New York) Stage Director The Battle, Not The War (Feinstein’s 54 Below/New York)

OTHER ENGAGEMENTS Figaro Le nozze di Figaro (Opera Ithaca) Figaro Il barbiere di Siviglia (Annapolis Opera, Tri Cities Opera/ New York) Figaro The Ghosts of Versailles (Chautauqua Opera/New York) Marcello La bohème, Peter Hänsel und Gretel, Ramiro L’Heure espagnole Older Thompson Cipullo Glory Denied Escamillo La Tragédie de Carmen (Tri Cities Opera/New York)

OTHER ENGAGEMENTS Wig & Make-up Designer Bell Stonewall (New York City Opera) Wig & Makeup Designer Dead Man Walking, Wang Scalia/Ginsburg, Il trittico, Falstaff (OperaDelaware) Hair & Make-up Designer Roméo et Juliette, Die Fledermaus, Susannah, Madama Butterfly, Così fan tutte, Rigoletto, Sweeney Todd, Don Pasquale, Don Giovanni (Janiec Opera Company/North Carolina) Wig & Make-up Designer Nixon in China (Princeton Festival/New Jersey)

RICARDO RIVERA

TERESA ROMANO

GANSON SALMON tenor Indianapolis, Indiana

soprano Los Angeles, California

Studio Artist Schaunard La bohème Sarasota Opera debut

Wally La Wally Sarasota Opera debut

Studio Artist Benvolio Roméo et Juliette 2019 Winter & Fall Studio Artist Pong Turandot, Second Priest/First Man in Armor Die Zauberflöte

Musetta La bohème, Walter La Wally Sarasota Opera debut

soprano New York, New York

Studio Artist Giannetta L’elisir d’amore Sarasota Opera debut

baritone Ronkonkoma, New York

OTHER ENGAGEMENTS Hérode Hérodiade (Washington Concert Opera) Acalán Martínez El pasado nunca se termina (Lyric Opera of Chicago, Houston Grand Opera) Escamillo Carmen (Musica Viva Hong Kong, Heartbeat Opera/New York) El Payador Piazzolla María de Buenos Aires (Pensacola Opera) (Des Moines Metro Opera) Enrico Lucia di Lammermoor (Opera San José)

fight choreographer Union City, Indiana

soprano Torino, Italy

OTHER ENGAGEMENTS Turandot Turandot (Venice La Fenice/Italy, Palau de les Arts Reina Sofia/Spain, Teatro Regio di Torino/Italy, Teatro Lirico di Cagliari/Italy) Maddalena di Coigny Andrea Chénier (Teatro Regio di Parma/Italy) Santuzza Cavalleria rusticana (Teatro Grande di Brescia/Italy, Teatro Fraschini di Pavia/Italy, Teatro Ponchielli di Cremona/Italy) Amneris Aida (Tiroler Festpiele Erl/Austria) Vitellia La clemenza di Tito (Marseille Théâtre Municipal France)

baritone Westville, New Jersey

OTHER ENGAGEMENTS Rinuccio Gianni Schicchi (Tel Aviv Summer Opera) Rodolfo La bohème (Algonquin Arts Theatre/New Jersey, Pittsburgh Festival Opera, Ball State Opera Theatre/Indiana) Tom Rakewell The Rake’s Progress, Anatol Vanessa, Roderick Usher Glass The Fall of the House of Usher (Mannes Opera/New York) Mr. Rushworth Dove Mansfield Park (Indianapolis Opera)

hair & make-up designer Paterson, New Jersey

JESSICA SANDIDGE

OTHER ENGAGEMENTS Hannah Glawari The Merry Widow (Musica Viva Hong Kong) Mimì La bohème (Pittsburgh Festival Opera) Violetta La traviata (St. Petersburg Opera/Florida) Galatea Donizetti Pigmalione (New York City Opera) Norma Norma (New Jersey Association of Verismo Opera)

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SAMUEL SCHLIEVERT

PATRICK SCULLY

CURTIS SERAFIN

JOHN F. SPENCER IV

Studio Artist Tybalt Roméo et Juliette 2019 Winter & Fall Studio Artist Matteo Borsa Rigoletto, Pang Turandot, Abdallo Nabucco 2018 Winter & Fall Apprentice Artist Clem The Little Sweep 2017 Fall Apprentice Artist The Ron and Barbara Archbold Endowed Artist

Studio Artist Sarasota Opera debut

Apprentice to the Music Staff Sarasota Opera debut Position sponsored by the Sarasota Opera Guild

L’elisir d’amore 2018 Winter Carmen 2012-2017 Winter & Fall Assistant Conductor

OTHER ENGAGEMENTS Staff Pianist, Vocal Coach (Manhattan School of Music) Vocal Piano Fellow (Tanglewood Music Center/ Massachusetts) Principal Pianist Alcina (Hawaii Performing Arts Festival) Rehearsal Pianist Adamo Little Women (Vanderbilt University/Tennessee)

OTHER ENGAGEMENTS Associate Conductor Die tote Stadt, Die Frau ohne Schatten, Aida (Opera Kiel/Germany) Conductor J. Kim From My Mother’s Mother (Flushing Town Hall/New York) Conductor Stars of Tomorrow Concert, Associate Conductor Billy Budd, Dove Flight (Des Moines Metro Opera) Conductor La traviata, Le nozze di Figaro, La clemenza di Tito, Salieri Falstaff (dell’Arte Opera Ensemble/New York)

STEPHANIE SUNDINE

ANDREW SURRENA

YVONNE TROBE

La Wally, Stage Director for the Apprentice Artists 2019 Winter & Fall Turandot, Rigoletto 2018 Winter & Fall Manon Lescaut, Il barbiere di Siviglia 1993 Minnie La fanciulla del West 1989 Wally La Wally 1984 Tatiana Eugene Onegin (debut)

Roméo Roméo et Juliette 2019 Winter Tamino Die Zauberflöte 2018 Winter Studio Artist Nando Tiefland 2017 Fall Principal Artist Alfredo La traviata 2016 Winter Apprentice Artist A Messenger Aida, First Prisoner Fidelio 2014-2015 Winter & Fall Apprentice Artist

Studio Artist Stéphano Roméo et Juliette 2019 Winter Studio Artist Anna Nabucco 2018 Winter Apprentice Artist The Gabriel and Valerie Schmergel Endowed Artist

tenor Genoa, Ohio

OTHER ENGAGEMENTS Alfredo La traviata (Painted Sky Opera/Oklahoma) Rodolfo La bohème Doctor Caius Falstaff (Bay View Music Festival/Michigan) Enzo La Gioconda, Ruggero La rondine (Oklahoma City University)

DAVID ŠTECH music staff Oroville, California

Assistant Conductor La bohème, L’elisir d’amore 2019 Winter Assistant Conductor Die Zauberflöte, Rita, Il segreto di Susanna 2018 Fall Assistant Conductor Il barbiere di Siviglia, The Little Sweep OTHER ENGAGEMENTS Assistant Conductor Bottesini Ali Baba (Opera Southwest/New Mexico) Chorus Master, Assistant Conductor Pagliacci, Faust, Les Contes d’Hoffmann, Il trovatore, Il barbiere di Siviglia, Die Zauberflöte (St. Petersburg Opera/Florida) Conductor The Cunning Little Vixen, La rondine, Anna Bolena, Leoncavallo La bohème (dell’Arte Opera Ensemble/New York)

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bass New York, New York

OTHER ENGAGEMENTS Jailer Tosca, A Court Usher Rigoletto, Frid A Little Night Music, Second Man in Armor Die Zauberflöte (Piedmont Opera/North Carolina) Fisherman Peter Grimes (Princeton Festival/New Jersey) King Balthazar Amahl and the Night Visitors (Edward C. Smith Civic Center Lexington/North Carolina)

stage director Moline, Illinois

(partial list)

OTHER ENGAGEMENTS Turandot (Des Moines Metro Opera) La fanciulla del West, Aida, Tosca (Utah Opera) Les Pêcheurs de perles (Madison Opera, Atlanta Opera, Opera Carolina) Lucia di Lammermoor (Opera Carolina) Il trovatore (Opera New Jersey)

music staff New Windsor, Maryland

tenor Pleasanton, California

OTHER ENGAGEMENTS Tonio La Fille du régiment (Opera North/New Hampshire) Tenor Roles Peterson Voir Dire (Ft. Worth Opera) Ferrando Così fan tutte (Opera in the Heights/Houston) Don José La Tragédie de Carmen (Tri Cities Opera/New York)

conductor Honeoye, New York

soprano Rochester, New York

OTHER ENGAGEMENTS The Governess The Turn of the Screw, Helen Hindemith Hin und Zurück (Eastman Opera Theatre/New York) Rosalinda Die Fledermaus (Crane Opera Ensemble/New York) Soloist A Sea Symphony (Eastman Rochester Chorus/New York) Thibault Don Carlos (The Verdi Project/New York) Inez Il trovatore (RAICES Benefit Concert/New York)

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CORRADO VALVO

TANIA VERGARA

LINDSAY WOODWARD

KEN YUNKER

Assistant Conductor, Italian Coach La bohème, La Wally Sarasota Opera debut

Roméo et Juliette, L’elisir d’amore, La Wally 2019 Fall Rigoletto 2018 Winter Carmen, Tiefland 2017 Fall La traviata

Assistant Conductor La bohème, La Wally 2019 Fall Program & Music Director of the Apprentice Artists/Chorus Master 2019 Winter Assistant Conductor Die Zauberflöte, Rita, Il segreto di Susanna

Resident Lighting Designer Debut 2007

music staff Siracusa, Italy

OTHER ENGAGEMENTS Founder, Artistic & Musical Director (Figaro Opera Society/Italy) Conductor Don Pasquale (Chuvash State Opera & Ballet Company/Russia) Conductor La traviata (Kyrgyz National Opera & Ballet Theatre/Kyrgyzstan) Conductor Eugene Onegin (Prague Smetana Hall/Prague/Czech Republic) Chorus Master Bellini Adelson e Savini (Urania Records) Pianist (Italy, Germany, China, Japan, England, Greece)

choreographer Camagüey, Cuba

music staff Salt Lake City, Utah

OTHER ENGAGEMENTS 2008 Recipient (Ibero-American Choreography Award) Choreographer, Master Teacher (The Sarasota Cuban Ballet School) Teacher (National Ballet School/Cuba) Founder, Director, Choreographer (Contemporary Ballet Endedans/Cuba) Guest Choreographer (National Ballet of Cuba, Ballet of Camagüey/Cuba, Milwaukee Ballet II, Kentucky Ballet, Dimensions Dance Theatre of Miami, National Ballet of Costa Rica)

OTHER ENGAGEMENTS Coach La bohème, Rigoletto, Thaïs, Bolcom Dinner at Eight, Don Pasquale (Minnesota Opera) Chorus Master/Coach Madama Butterfly, La Cenerentola, Roméo et Juliette (Janiec Opera Company/North Carolina) Coach Così fan tutte, The Rake’s Progress, Les Pêcheurs de perles (Utah Opera)

lighting designer Seattle, Washington

OTHER ENGAGEMENTS 2004-2017 Principal Lighting Designer (Alliance Theatre Company/Georgia) 1993-2015 Resident Lighting Designer (Atlanta Opera) Lighting Designer (FIO Americas Brazil, Florida Grand Opera, Bermuda Arts Festival, Utah Opera, New Orleans Opera, Tulsa Opera, Opera Santa Barbara, Opera New Jersey, Toledo Opera, San Antonio Opera)

Heath Huberg (1982-2019)

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enor Heath Huberg first joined Sarasota Opera as a Studio Artist in 2010, singing Peppe in Pagliacci and Delil in Giovanna D’Arco. He returned nearly every season until 2016, first as a Studio Artist and then for three seasons as principal artist. Among the roles he sang with us were Nadir in The Pearl Fishers (2013), Gaston in Jérusalem (2014), and Ferrando in Così fan tutte (2016). His last performance on our stage was in the gala concert that closed the Verdi Cycle on March 20, 2016.

Heath was an extremely talented singer and a warm and beloved colleague. His wife Rebecca also worked in our box office for several seasons. Their daughter Julia was born shortly after Heath was diagnosed with the brain tumor that ultimately took his life.

He lost his battle with cancer on October 13, 2019.

Heath will be much missed by all of us at Sarasota Opera.

Clockwise: Heath (left) as Nadir, with Lee Poulis as Zurga in The Pearl Fishers 2013; Heath as Gaston with Danielle Walker as Hélène in Jérusalem 2014; Heath (right) as Ferrando with Stefano de Peppo (left) in Così fan tutte 2016. Photo Credits - Rod Millington

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Sarasota Opera ORCHESTRA 2020 ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) )

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ach season, some of the most accomplished instrumentalists in classical music come together to form the Sarasota Opera Orchestra. Professional musicians from as far away as California and New York, as well as from here in Florida, join together to

perform in one of the finest opera orchestras in the country. Many of our players have been with us for over five years, with several performing more than ten seasons. Having a resident orchestra gives Sarasota Opera the opportunity to thoroughly rehearse the season’s operas over the course of several weeks. The Sarasota Opera Orchestra is committed to presenting quality opera season after season.

VIOLIN

CELLO

ENGLISH HORN

L.P. How – Santa Fe, NM (14)

Nadine Trudel – Sarasota, FL (16)

Jennifer Case

Concertmaster The Murray Bring and Kay Delaney Endowed Chair

Principal

Jina Lee – Los Angeles, CA (5) Associate Concertmaster Susan Faux – Jamaica Plain, MA (18) Principal Second Violin Julia Birnbaum – Brooklyn, NY (4) Mark Chien – Brooklyn, NY (1)

Joanne Choi – New York, NY (5) Julia Henderson – New York, NY (2) Trace Johnson – Boca Raton, FL (1) Andrea Mills – Trumbull, CT (17) The Eleanor Wilson Williams Endowed Chair

CLARINET Eric Anderson – Naples, FL (3) Principal The Ed and Jane Bavaria Endowed Chair Benjamin Chen – Bratenahl, OH (1)

Paul Swensen – West Babylon, NY (3)

BASS CLARINET BASS

Laura Stephenson Petty*

Gil S. Katz – Sarasota, FL (18) Principal

Stacey McColley*

Deborah Katz – Arlington, VA (4)

Ryan Bassett – Pittsburgh, PA (1)

BASSOON

Ivelina Kofler – Laguna Hills, CA (3)

Jesica Sharp – Pittsburgh, PA (2)

Marat Rakhmatullaev –

Yuri Kye – Oakland, CA (4)

Riley Zimmermann – Pittsburgh, PA (1)

Lu Friedman – Hartford, CT (12) Thomas Hofmann – Boston, MA (4) Juan Jaramillo – Pittsburgh, PA (14)

Anna Leunis – New Haven, CT (1) Natalia Vasilieva Maiden – Sarasota, FL (12) Shelley Mathews – Wheaton, MD (5) Milene Moreira – Sarasota, FL (13) Luke Santonastaso – Calabasas, CA (3) Matthew Woodard – New Haven, CT (1) Mayumi Wyrick – New York, NY (3)

VIOLA Jonas Benson – St. Petersburg, FL (1) Principal Laurel Borden – St. Petersburg, FL (3) Charlotte Malin – Harmony, RI (1) Isabella Mensz – Astoria, NY (1) Alexandra VandeGeijn – Baltimore, MD (5) Katherine Zahradnik – Baltimore, MD (12)

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Oklahoma City, OK (2) Principal

FLUTE

Galina Kiep – San Diego, CA (5)

Amanda Galick – Houston, TX (2) Principal

HORN

Alyssa Breid – Washington, DC (1) Claudia White* Francesca Arnone*

Eric Bell – Issaquah, WA (25)

PICCOLO Alyssa Breid Jane Hoffman* Amanda Lyon*

Principal Katherine Jordan – New York, NY (3) Erika Miras – El Cerrito, CA (2) Sandra Swanson – Evanston, IL (21)

TRUMPET Paul Neebe – Chapel Hill, NC (3)

OBOE

Principal

Rick Basehore – Silver Spring, MD (11)

Larry Herman – Cleveland, OH (22) Alan Evans* Aaron Romm* Cindy Scaruffi–Klispie* David Clark*

Principal Jennifer Case – Huntsville, AL (5) Alyssa McKeithen* Shane Wedel*

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TROMBONE

PERCUSSION

Sean Keenan – Chicago, IL (2)

William Manley – Jamaica Plain, MA (15) Principal

Principal Charles Dieterle – Evanston, IL (3) Darren Castellanos – Wheeling, IL (2)

BASS TROMBONE

Andre Sonner – Newton, MA (3) Isaac Fernández Hernández – Ft. Myers, FL (1) Kelsey Bannon*

The Mr. and Mrs. William E. Chapman, II Endowed Chair

Giuseppina Ciarla – Bari, Italy (17) Principal Jennifer Robertson-Tessi*

TIMPANI

Aaron Romm

ORCHESTRA PERSONNEL MANAGER & CONTRACTOR Gregg Koyle

Jonathan Schubert – Harleysville, PA (12)

HARP

L’ELISIR D’AMORE STAGE TRUMPET

ORCHESTRA LIBRARIAN LA BOHÈME STAGE BANDA Jane Hoffman, piccolo Amanda Lyon, piccolo Larry Herman, trumpet Cindy Scaruffi-Klispie, trumpet William Manley, drum Andre Sonner, drum

Susan Faux William Manley * Associate Musician

Photo credit: Rod Millington

Gregg Koyle – Santa Fe, NM (19) Principal

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Second Row

Third Row

ARIEL ANDREW, mezzo-soprano Tampa, Florida Sarasota Opera debut Sponsored by Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Mallof

ALYSSA DESSOYE, soprano Lithia, Florida Sarasota Opera debut Sponsored by Pat Starke in memory of John Starke

KEVIN THOMAS HARVEY, tenor Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 2019 Winter & Fall Apprentice Sponsored by Joan Mathews

EVAN K. BROWN, tenor Fort Worth, Texas Sarasota Opera debut Sponsored by Dean Scarborough and Janice Bini JOSE CUARTAS, baritone Queens, New York 2019 Fall Apprentice Sponsored by Victoria L. Rich in memory of Alexander Rich BENJAMIN DACOSTA-KAUFMAN, tenor Richmond, Virginia Sarasota Opera debut Sponsored by Eleanor Faber in memory of Barry Faber

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TORI PATRICIA FRANKLIN, soprano Greeneville, Tennessee Sarasota Opera debut Sponsored by Mr. and Mrs. Mark Appel ROBERT GEROLD, tenor Queens, New York 2019 Fall Apprentice Sponsored by Mr. and Mrs. William Lloyd BRITTANY GRAHAM, soprano Cape Girardeau, Missouri Sarasota Opera debut Sponsored by Gilbert and Ann Roth

PAUL LELAND HILL, bass Ogden, Utah Sarasota Opera debut The Joey Frye Endowed Artist WILLIAM HUYLER, baritone Florham Park, New Jersey 2019 Fall Apprentice Sponsored by Hank and Melinda Foster SYDNEY KUCINE, soprano Portland, Maine 2019 Winter Apprentice Sponsored by Katherine Benoit and John Brooks

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First Row

Second Row

Third Row

TRAVIS LUCAS, baritone Tampa, Florida 2019 Winter Apprentice Sponsored by Peter and Louise Shimkin

JOANNA POPE, mezzo-soprano Jackson, Mississippi Sarasota Opera debut Sponsored by John Suhre and Carla Koeffler

PATRICK DEAN SHELTON, tenor East Northport, New York Sarasota Opera debut Sponsored by Mrs. Margaret Renner in memory of Ernst Renner

JAMES ANTHONY MANCUSO, baritone West Islip, New York Sarasota Opera debut Sponsored by Mary McGrath in memory of Bob McGrath

JULIET POWAR, soprano Palo Alto, California Sarasota Opera debut Sponsored by Anonymous

MADISON MONTAMBAULT, mezzo-soprano Ann Arbor, Michigan Sarasota Opera debut Sponsored by Alain and Helene Lebleu

ABIGAIL RAIFORD, soprano Queens, New York Sarasota Opera debut Sponsored by Sally H. Foote and Forrest S. Crawford

KARA MORGAN, mezzo-soprano Andover, Minnesota Sarasota Opera debut Sponsored by Anonymous

JOYLĂ?N D. RUSHING, soprano Conneaut, Ohio Sarasota Opera debut Sponsored by Paul and Sharon Steinwachs

DAVID SMOLOKOFF, tenor West Long Branch, New Jersey Sarasota Opera debut Sponsored by Mr. Alan Kesten and Ms. Melba Jimenez TZYTLE STEINMAN, mezzo-soprano San Diego, California Sarasota Opera debut Sponsored by Helen Panoyan RENO WILSON, baritone San Diego, California Sarasota Opera debut Sponsored by A. Scott Bushey

Junior Apprentice Artist LANE HUBBARD, baritone Sarasota, Florida 2013-2019 Sarasota Youth Opera

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Special AWARDS ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) Scholar ships and Sp ecial Award s 2019 –2020 Each season the Sarasota Opera Guild, Manatee Opera Guild, and individual donors and foundations award outstanding members of the company for their work.

Names marked with an asterisk (*) are appearing with Sarasota Opera in the 2019–2020 season.

Daniel R. Mandelker & Marlene N. Harris Fund of the Community Foundation of Sarasota County for an Outstanding Returning Studio Artist Award 2019 Recipients

Caitlin Crabill* Yvonne Trobe* Previous Winners: Andrew Surrena*, Stephen Martin, Dane Suarez, Hans Tashjian, Tara Curtis, Costas Tsourakis, Jennifer Townshend, Tyler Putnam, Daryl Freedman, Jon Jurgens, Marvin Kehler, William Roberts, Dimitrie Lazich, Jeffrey Beruan, Nicole Mitchell, Carelle Flores, Abla Lynn Hamza, Matthew Hanscom*, Evan Brummell, Brandon McReynolds, Blythe Gaissert, Brian B. Carter, Reyna Carguill, Michael Redding, Daniel Holmes, Kellie Van Horn, Dara Rahming, Andrew Drost

The Stuart and Patricia Silver Scholarship for a Returning Apprentice Artist, in Loving Memory from their Family 2019 Recipient

Levi Hamlin* Previous Winners: Samuel Schlievert*, Rachelle Moss, Alexander Charles Boyd*, Mackenzie Gotcher, Jessie Malgieri, William Dwyer, Tania Maria Rodriguez, Lindsay Barche, Alissa Anderson, Nicole Mitchell, Joshua Marr, Emily Ezzie

The Joan Herrold and David Wood Award for Outstanding Service by a Staff Member 2020 Recipients

Scott Keclik John Young Previous Winners: Jo Ann Whitehead*, George Hemcher*, Steve Grair*, Brenda Tamm*, Susan Ashcraft*, Samuel Lowry, Cheryl Parete*, Susan Reeves*, Joel Cheatham, Claire Ryan, Jennifer Simms, Ken Tarasi*, Jesse Martins*, Benjamin D. Plocher, Samuel Lowry, Greg Trupiano*, James Reid*, Jeanne Smith, Richard Russell*, Gloria Slyferth, Irek Sipowicz-Hicks*, Christopher G. Burtless

The Manatee Opera Guild Helen Jepson Dellera Fellowship Award for a Deserving Studio Artist 2019 Recipient

Ganson Salmon* Recent Winners: Sean Christensen, Alexander Charles Boyd*, Matthew Vickers, Daryl Freedman, Tyler Putnam, Lindsay Barche, Matthew Hanscom*, Sarah Asmar, Angela Mortellaro, Benjamin Gelfand, Maria D’Amato, David Crawford, Michael Redding, Mark T. Panuccio 56

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Gunther and Ilse Kern Grant for Opera Artists 2019 Recipients

Annie Chester* Jamin Kim* Nicole Woodward Recent Winners: Nicolò Sbuelz, Giuseppina Ciarla*, Justin Pambianchi, Rachel Lucas, Elizabeth Tredent, Jon Jurgens, Malori Eileen Cade, James Kenon Mitchell, Greg Trupiano*, Jonathan Burton, John F. Spencer IV*, Kevin Wetzel, Stephen Fish, Tessa Hartle*, Young-Bok Kim*, Heath Huberg, Gary Casity, Jonathan Kimple, Vanessa Carridi, Scott Guinn, Michael Spassov, Daniel Holmes, Kendall C. Gladen, Julie Makerov, Jonathan Carle, Lisa Hasson, Christina Bouras, Michael Rice, Julia Turner, Ann Lavin, Anthony Barrese*, Christina Arethas, Frank Martinelli, Roy Cornelius Smith, Simeon Esper, Roxanne Rowedder, Melissa A. Manseau

The Sarasota Opera Guild Anne J. O’Donnell Award for an Outstanding Apprentice Artist 2019 Recipient

Elissa Pfaender Previous Winners: Caitlin Crabill*, Beibei Guan, Andrew Surrena*, Emily Holsclaw, Robyn Marie Lamp, Rebecca Witty, Rhea Olivacce, Leah Dexter, Bernard D. Holcomb, Candra Savage, Adam Patrick Cromer, Christopher Harrison, Julia Benzinger, John Green, Anthony Zeller

The Sarasota Opera Guild Leo M. Rogers Award for an Outstanding Apprentice Artist 2019 Recipient

Kevin Thomas Harvey* Previous Winners: Paul G. L. Grosvenor, Anna Mandina*, Sean Christensen, Mary Evelyn Hangley, Andrew Surrena*, Keith Brown, Lenora Green, Jennifer Townshend, Joseph A. Valone, John Paul Huckle, Alexandra Rafalo, Benjamin Gelfand, Veronica Mitina

The Sarasota Opera Guild Mary Cook Memorial Award for an Outstanding Apprentice Artist 2019 Recipients

Melvin D. Bozeman Jr. Travis Lucas* Previous Winners: John Kun Park, Hanna Brammer*, Rachelle Moss

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Youth Opera & Supernumeraries 2020

Youth Opera Chorus La bohème Elizabeth Bogard Charlotte Buckley Caelyn Curry Mia Freeman Grace Grogan Amanda Koren Julia Koren Ursula Kushner Katherine Laub Amy Lee Isabela Mendez Cristina Peterson Sofia Scheck Eden Stahlmann Leela Sundaram Nikolina Šupe Sophia Thurman Aria Tillman

Supernumeraries – Winter 2020 (as of 1/06/20)

Andrew Abshier Terry Blumenstein Michael Budin Rob Chelseth Warren Collmer Sharon Dickman Steve Dickman Bob Francescone Igor Gruendel Michael Hilborn Gabriel Jiva Ken Marsh Ava Pickens* Vald Svekis Griffyn Stahlmann Andrew Starostecki Alyssa Wagner* Sienna Wagner* * Sarasota Youth Opera member

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P ro duc tion Ack nowle dgement s Winter 2020 La bohème Scenery built and painted by R.A. Reed Productions, Inc., Portland, OR Backdrops painted by Michael Hagen, Inc., Glens Falls, NY Costumes provided by Sarasota Opera Costume Studio

Roméo et Juliette Scenery provided courtesy of Virginia Opera, Scenic Designer: Peter Dean Beck Costumes provided by Sarasota Opera Costume Studio

L’elisir d’amore Scenery built by Center Line Studio, Cornwall, NY Backdrops painted by Michael Hagen, Inc., Glens Falls, NY Costumes provided by Sarasota Opera Costume Studio

La Wally Scenery built and painted by Asolo Scenic Studio, Sarasota, FL Costumes provided by Sarasota Opera Costume Studio Custom millinery work for La Wally: Irina Deynega Jump staging for the production of La Wally provided by: Michelangelo Nock and his company The Nerveless Nocks Productions Inc.

Special Thanks Dr. Francesco Izzo Scholar in Residence

Asolo Repertory Theatre

Marco Nisticò Italian Consultant

To our colleagues Vic Meyrich, David Ferguson, Shane Streight, Frank J. Paul, and the rest of the staff for their continued support and generosity.

Our Language Coaches German: Bobby Garibaldi-Sanders Italian: Gina Vutera Russian: Boris Silversteyn Sarasota Opera thanks Arlene Randazzo for the donation of costumes in memory of Maria Randazzo.

Our Company Drivers for welcoming and transporting our artists.

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Intercoastal Medical Group doctors and staff for providing quality care in a timely fashion for our company.

Ear Research Foundation and Silverstein Institute’s Dr. Herbert Silverstein, Dr. Seth Rosenberg, Dr. Jack Wazen, and Dr. John Moufid Abdo for their time, generosity, and efforts to keep our artists healthy and singing.

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lisa and Ernest Kretzmer first met on New Year’s Day in 1982, and were married exactly one year later. Alisa was born in Jerusalem and lived

there for the first 24 years of her life. Ernie lived in the lower Rhine region in Germany until he escaped from the evil regime at the age of 14. As it turns out, they lived for many years only nine miles apart in Monmouth County, New Jersey. When they met, both had been widowed and found they shared similar passions including a love of classical music and opera. For well over 20 years they were dedicated patrons and supporters of Sarasota Opera and Ernie is continuing the tradition in Alisa’s memory.

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We are proud to celebrate sixty-one seasons of presenting opera for Sarasota audiences in our award-winning Sarasota Opera House.

Co-Producers are recognized for the number of years they have supported Sarasota Opera at the Co-Producer level. Co-Producer gifts underwrite a substantial portion of production costs. We gratefully acknowledge Sarasota Opera’s Co-Producers as of December 1, 2019.

For additional information about becoming a Co-Producer, please contact Stacy Ridenour at (941) 366-8450 ext. 246.

Ed Bavaria, in loving memory of Jane

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or both Ed and Jane, their love of opera began in their youth. Jane was raised in Greenville, Mississippi, and she and her family went to opera and operetta performances in Memphis, Tennessee - the nearest large city. As for Ed, “The first music I heard was most probably 1920’s vintage recordings of opera arias sung by the famous voices of that era – Caruso, Gluck, Galli-Curci, among others, as well as listening to my Italianborn mother singing portions of the more well-known arias.” Ed then participated in a musical group known as the Roseto Italian Boys Band as a clarinetist. The only music the group played was marches, opera arias, and opera overtures!

The Bavarias spent most of their adult lives living abroad or in Cincinnati, Ohio. Their enthusiasm for opera became a passion when living in London in the early 1980’s, then in Cincinnati where Ed was a member of the Cincinnati Opera and Symphony boards. They also were involved with Opera Pacific while living in California in the mid-90’s.

Ed joined Sarasota Opera’s board in 1998. “I’ve been joyfully immersed in our opera company ever since.”

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urray and Kay have been avid opera lovers most of their adult lives.

Murray became “hooked” as a law student in New York City when he purchased a standing room ticket at the Metropolitan Opera for a performance of La bohème with Renata Tebaldi and Mario del Monaco.

After Law School, he moved to Washington, DC, where he worked for Chief Justice Earl Warren, and subsequently for the Justice and State Departments in the Kennedy Administration. He then became a partner at the law firm of Arnold and Porter, where he practiced for over 20 years.

In 1987, he moved to New York City to become General Counsel, and subsequently Vice-Chairman, of the Phillip Morris Companies. Shortly after moving there, he met and married Kay, a native New Yorker who was then a senior executive of CNN. While in New York, they both were active in various art and cultural organizations. Murray was a member of the Boards of the New York City Opera, the Whitney Museum of Art, the NYU School of Law, and the Guild Hall Museum and Theatre in East Hampton.

Kay was a member of the Boards of the Bay Street Theatre in Sag Harbor and Marymount College, and was active in the Lincoln Center Theatre and the Cormaria Retreat House.

Upon moving to Sarasota a few years ago, they were delighted to discover Sarasota Opera, and immediately became active in and supportive of “this magnificent institution.” Murray joined Sarasota Opera’s Board in 2011 and was Chairman of the Board of Trustees from 2017–2018.

They have also become involved in other aspects of Sarasota’s rich cultural environment. Kay served on the Board of the Sarasota Ballet for several years, and until recently, Murray was a member of the Board of the new Sarasota Museum of Art. They also support and enjoy attending performances of the Orchestra, the Asolo, the Florida Studio Theatre, and the Westcoast Black Theatre Troupe.

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Les and Carol Brualdi

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arol was raised in Brooklyn, New York. She attended Brooklyn College and transferred to the University of Connecticut where she received a B.A. in Education and served as President of Alpha Delta Phi. She taught English for a number of years in Greenville, South Carolina. Carol has devoted much of her life to their wonderful family, raising three beautiful daughters and proudly talks about their seven grandchildren. She has also given a great deal of time to organizations like the Thursday Morning Club of Madison, New Jersey, for which she served as President. This civic organization focuses on improving the lives of citizens with a strong emphasis on children and families.

Les was raised in Connecticut and grew up in scouting, achieving Eagle Scout and is a USAF Veteran. He received a B.S. in Engineering from the University of Connecticut, where he met Carol, an MBA from Baruch School-CCNY and an AMP from Harvard Business School. He retired as CEO of ADT Security Services after 23 years. Les joined the Sarasota Opera Board in 2004, became Vice Chairman in 2006, and served as Chairman from 2008-2011. Carol and Les are especially supportive of the Youth Opera, as well as assisting numerous teenagers in achieving their educational goals.

“We are pleased to be part of the Sarasota Opera team. The enthusiasm, support, and commitment to outstanding opera make engaging and working with the entire Opera community a wonderful pleasure.”

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fter several years as snowbirds, David and Edith became full-time residents of Sarasota during the summer of 2016. They came to love opera relatively late, about 13 years ago, when they both retired from their careers and moved to Sarasota. Prior to retirement in December 2004, David was Vice President and General Counsel of Praxair, Inc. a global producer of industrial gases. Edith was founder and owner of Brooklawn Travel, Inc. in Bridgeport, CT. David joined the Board of Sarasota Opera in 2006, became Vice Chairman in 2011 and served as Chairman of the Board of Trustees from 2014-2017.

Over the years, both in Connecticut and Sarasota, David and Edith have held leadership positions and have financially supported many organizations whose missions are important to them. David currently is on the boards of the American Jewish Committee and Jewish Federation of Sarasota-Manatee. Edith is currently on the boards of All Faiths Food Bank, Perlman Music Program Sun Coast and the Fairfield County Jewish Home for the Elderly Foundation. They jointly co-chair the Sarasota chapter of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC).

David and Edith are both grateful for the success they have had in their careers, and believe that it is important that they give back to their community in order to enhance the community’s quality of life.

David and Edith have three children and eight grandchildren.

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Ms. Candace A. Crawshaw

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hen Candace arrived in New York City in 1969 to begin her 31-year career with Citibank she began listening to opera from the Met on the radio. Then she attended her first opera, Lucia di Lammermoor and she was hooked on this beautiful art form by this new experience.

Born in Massachusetts, her father’s career took the family abroad in 1949 to Puerto Rico, Mexico City, Havana and back to San Juan upon the Cuban Revolution. Fluent in Spanish, Candace majored in Latin American Studies in college and graduate school. Her career in International Banking provided opportunities to live and work in Belgium, Cote d’Ivoire, Kenya, Hong Kong and Singapore. Fortunately, her travels overseas offered the occasional chance to see an opera.

After retiring in Singapore, a lifelong friend living in Sarasota suggested that she relocate here—the arts community proved to be an undeniable draw. Late in 2004 she moved into the Orange Blossom Tower on Main Street and met Bill and Rebecca Tompkins who enthusiastically introduced her to the Sarasota Opera.

“We are so blessed to have a superb opera company where we can enjoy traditional opera as well as lesser known and rarely performed operas. I am ever grateful to be part of this outstanding opera family.”

Candace serves on the Board of Trustees for her alma mater Brewster Academy in Wolfeboro, New Hampshire. Reconnected to her New England roots, she now owns a home in Wolfeboro and travels there throughout the year. “In season” however, Candace is home in Sarasota with her beautiful cats Henry, Verdi, and Puccini and attends every performance she can, often introducing friends to the opera.

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arol and Larry live on Longboat Key and spend summers in Simsbury, Connecticut. They both grew up in New Jersey and met while Larry was attending Rutgers University. Their love of opera began in 1981. While attending a convention in Philadelphia, they had an opportunity to hear Luciano Pavarotti sing Rodolfo in La bohème at the Academy of Music.

They were smitten and soon had season tickets for the Connecticut Opera. Carol became an active fundraiser for the Connecticut Opera Guild and served as its President. She was later nominated to the Board and in 1994 served as its Chairman.

The Englishes have been coming to Longboat Key since 1983. When they began spending more time in the Sarasota area, it was only natural that they became involved with the opera.

Carol is a member of Sarasota Opera’s Board of Trustees and is an active supporter of the Sarasota Animal Rescue Coalition and SPARCC. Larry is retired. He is an avid cyclist, a member of the Sarasota Manatee Cycle Club and The Eastern Block Cycle club in Connecticut.

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ob and Anne Essner visited Sarasota for the first time soon after Bob retired from a career in the pharmaceutical industry. They bought

a house in Lido Shores four days later and Sarasota has now become their home. One of the factors that attracted them to Sarasota was the reputation of its opera company. The Essners have been active at Lincoln Center in New York City for many years and still frequently attend the Metropolitan Opera. Bob and Anne have three children and two beautiful granddaughters.

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ank and Melinda Foster are proud to support the Sarasota Opera.

“We love bringing family and friends to the performances. Guests

are always thrilled and impressed with the level of artistic accomplishment presented by Maestro DeRenzi, the Sarasota Opera Orchestra and our world-class singers. The hope is that everyone reading this program and enjoying the performance will be inspired to bring at least one person to Sarasota Opera for a first time. We introduced Melinda’s mother to her very first opera and she loved it! You are never too old, or too young, to have your first opera experience.”

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e love and support the Sarasota Opera because we find the opera music and stories very relaxing with the bonus of the beauty of the

singers’ notes that can move one to tears.

Mr. Waldron Kraemer and Ms. Joan Lovell

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fter many winters on their sailboat in the Bahama Out Islands, Wally and his wife Joan were ready to relocate to an area with boating and

culture. A short visit to Sarasota and the Opera in 2011 sealed the deal.

They left the boating life, made the move, and have been happy to call Sarasota their home ever since.

After graduating from Colgate University and Harvard Law School, Wally returned to New Jersey to practice law with his firm, Kraemer Burns. Joan, a graduate of Wellesley College and Rutgers Law School, joined the firm ten years later. He currently serves as Vice Chair on the Sarasota Opera Board of Trustees.

A long time opera buff, Wally was a MET subscriber for over 30 years and for many years has received his summer dose of opera at Glimmerglass. Wally has a strong interest in expanding opera’s audience to include younger people, particularly college students.

Joan continues to practice law and is active in their neighborhood and condominium associations and enjoys ballet and poetry. Wally continues his law practice on a limited basis and plays golf poorly but with great enthusiasm. He spends much time reading and enjoying opera.

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Harry Leopold and Audrey Robbins

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edicated operagoer and loyal supporter Harry Leopold has been a prominent member of the Sarasota Opera family for more than a

decade. Harry and Audrey are passionate about encouraging the growth of young artists and are particularly supportive of the Youth Opera programs. They worked with the Community Foundation of Sarasota to create the new Arts Integration Initiative with the USF Graduate School of Education which brings more arts programs into Sarasota schools. Their permanent endowment at the Community Foundation of Sarasota, in partnership with the Patterson Foundation, provides that all Sarasota high school students will be able to attend at least one live performance each year at either Sarasota Opera, Sarasota Orchestra, Sarasota Ballet, Asolo Theatre or Florida Studio Theatre.

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t is with utmost enthusiasm Claudia wishes to express her gratitude to Victor DeRenzi, Richard Russell and the entire staff of Sarasota Opera! To

Claudia, Sarasota Opera is the “Crown Jewel” of the opera world. Many of the people affiliated with Sarasota Opera are the most fun to be around and have become her closest friends.

Claudia’s ever-present companion, Beau, is a Golden Doodle Service Dog trained by PET PEEVES in St. Petersburg. He enjoys opera, ballet, symphonic music, bird-watching, paddle boarding and a host of sporting events. His favorite opera, so far, has been The Magic Flute whereby the challenge for him was to resist from barking at Papageno!

As a volunteer Therapy Dog, Beau has enjoyed work at Plymouth Harbor, Sarasota, the Florida Cancer Institute, St. Petersburg, the Rehabilitation Center at Morton Plant, Clearwater, and the VA Hospital at Bay Pines, St. Petersburg. Beau is currently enrolled in Agility Training at the Dog Training Club in St. Petersburg.

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Bud and Betty Shapiro

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iving and volunteering have long been Newman family traditions.

“To support the arts is, in a way, selfish as one gets so much back.”

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ongratulations and thank you to Sarasota Opera for 61 years of stunning performances! We have had the good fortune to have

enjoyed 26 years of these wonderful moments and look forward to many more years of pure enjoyment!”

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oby and Noel Siegel have been spending time in Sarasota for many years.

“Upon leaving New York, we were delighted to make our

permanent home in Sarasota where we could enjoy and help support the wonderful quality and diversity of the arts and social services. We especially appreciate our outstanding opera company. Toby is proud to serve on the Board of Trustees of this exceptional organization.“

Ronda Montminy In loving memory of Arnold Simonsen

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rnold was involved with several arts organizations in Sarasota, but the Opera held a special place for him. As a long-time subscriber at Chicago Lyric Opera, his love for opera grew. Upon coming to Sarasota, he was amazed by the extraordinary artistic level and aesthetic of our productions. He especially appreciated that we made everything so easy for our patrons with easy access to the theater, to park, to connect with artists and to engage.

A former CEO of Simonsen’s Inc., as well as the President of Lydia Healthcare Center located in Robbins, IL, Mr. Simonsen retired from the Chicago area in 2012 and moved to Longboat Key. He quickly became a supporter of the local arts community as well as helping many other charitable organizations including the Salvation Army.

Arnold Simonsen and Ronda Montminy have enjoyed coming to Sarasota Opera together for the many years. Their extraordinary support is recognized with the naming of the Sarasota Opera House 2nd floor lounge as the Simonsen & Montminy Opera Club.

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Paul and Sharon Steinwachs

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haron and Paul Steinwachs have called Longboat Key home since they moved from Buffalo, New York, in 2000. They were drawn to the

Sarasota area to be near family and for the plethora of cultural amenities available.

Mr. Steinwachs is a retired executive, having owned a mail order industrial sign company that dealt both domestically and internationally. They have one son and three grandchildren, who also live in the Sarasota area.

Mr. and Mrs. Steinwachs are ardent supporters of the local arts scene and firmly believe it is vital for patrons to support the arts in this challenging fundraising environment to ensure the future of the arts in Sarasota. They were drawn to Sarasota Opera by the intimacy of the productions, the professionalism, and commitment to creating great art. They hold a soft spot in their hearts for the music, acting, and visual designs of Sarasota Opera. They are proud to have helped the Sarasota Opera build new residences for artists in the Rosemary District.

Bill and Rebecca Tompkins

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ill and Rebecca Tompkins were born and raised in Alabama. Moving to Florida in 1985, they resided alternately or concurrently in Tampa, Boca Grande and Sarasota.

Because of its wealth in performing arts, especially Sarasota Opera, Rebecca and Bill made Sarasota their primary residence in 2002. At that time, they began their involvements in several of the local performing arts organizations as well as Marie Selby Gardens and Sarasota Memorial Healthcare Foundation.

Bill has been an avid opera fan for over 65 years. One of his longstanding hobbies is studying the great opera composers and their respective masterworks. Bill and Rebecca have attended numerous operas in NYC and in Europe and were Metropolitan Opera Patrons through 2008. They attended their first Sarasota Opera performance during its 2003 Winter Season. Bill has not missed attending any opera presented by Sarasota Opera since then.

When Bill read this company’s motto of “offering opera productions that are true to the visions of their composers,” he said to Rebecca and others: “that is exactly how I have always believed that operas should be performed.”

Bill is on Sarasota Opera’s Board of Trustees and is a member of its Development Committee.

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on and Rachael Worthington divide their time between homes in Florida and Vermont. Rachael was introduced to Sarasota Opera while a student at New College and together they have been opera enthusiasts for many years.

Don was born in Tampa and was able to trace his Florida ancestry to an 1817 Spanish Land Grant. He received a degree in mechanical engineering from Auburn University, became a Registered Professional Engineer, and founded several businesses in the field of industrial air conditioning. His interests include cooking, writing, genealogy, and woodworking.

Rachael was born in Atlanta and her family lived in numerous places around the world as she grew up. She received a Master of Music degree, and after a seven-year teaching career entered law school. She is an attorney in Vermont and Florida and has a particular interest in mediation.

Rachael currently serves on the board of the Florida Holocaust Museum in St. Petersburg as Vice Chair for Development.

Don and Rachael both enjoy traveling, reading, and spending time with friends and family.

We gratefully appreciate our two anonymous Season Producers.

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Harriet Bernbaum 16 Rigoletto, La bohème, Roméo et Juliette, La Wally

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Mr. and Mrs. Robert Arthur 6 Rigoletto, Roméo et Juliette, La Wally

Ron and Barb Archbold 7

Sumner and Irene Bagby 12 S

Rigoletto, Roméo et Juliette, L’elisir d’amore

Roméo et Juliette, L’elisir d’amore, La Wally

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Dr. and Mrs. Herbert Kaufman 8 Roméo et Juliette, L’elisir d’amore, La Wally

Mrs. Margaret Renner In memory of Ernst Renner 4 S

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Patrick and Kim Nettles 8 Rigoletto, L’elisir d’amore, La Wally

Rose Marie Proietti 4 S

Judy Rudges and Stan Katz 4

Gabriel and Valerie Schmergel 15 Rigoletto, Roméo et Juliette, La Wally

Rigoletto, L’elisir d’amore, La Wally

Roméo et Juliette, L’elisir d’amore, La Wally

Arthur Siciliano and B. Aline Blanchard 11

Elissa Soyka In loving memory of Bud Borax 12

Rigoletto, Roméo et Juliette, La Wally

La bohème, Roméo et Juliette, L’elisir d’amore

Rigoletto, La bohème, Roméo et Juliette

Eleanor Wilson Williams 11 S Rigoletto, L’elisir d’amore, La Wally

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Mrs. Edie Winston In loving memory of Herb Winston 12 S Rigoletto, La bohème, Roméo et Juliette

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5 Rigoletto, La bohème

Lynn and Steve Blackledge 12 Rigoletto, La Wally

A. Scott Bushey 21 Rigoletto, Roméo et Juliette

Bonnie and William Chapman 8 Rigoletto, La bohème

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Jerry Cohn 1

Syble Di Girolamo 12 M

Eleanor Faber

Rigoletto, Roméo et Juliette

Rigoletto, La Wally

In loving memory of Barry Faber 8 S Rigoletto, La Wally

Frances D. Fergusson and John Bradbury 7 Rigoletto, La Wally

Dorothy and Charles Jenkins 13 Rigoletto, L’elisir d’amore

Judith and Benjamin Handelman 24

Renee Aberson Hymson 9

Mrs. Elayne Kalberman 25 M S

Rigoletto, La Wally

Rigoletto, L’elisir d’amore

Rigoletto, La bohème

Mr. and Mrs. Arnold Kaplan 6

Roger and Kristin Kaufman 6

La bohème, Roméo et Juliette

La bohème, L’elisir d’amore

Elaine Keating and Sidney Katz, M.D 7 Rigoletto, La Wally

Ruth B. Kreindler 15 In loving memory of Lee S. Kreindler La bohème, L’elisir d’amore

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Mary McGrath 4 La bohème, Roméo et Juliette

Mr. and Mrs. William Lloyd 9

Martha Murphy 15 Rigoletto, L’elisir d’amore

Roméo et Juliette, L’elisir d’amore

Harold Ronson 17 La bohème, L’elisir d’amore

Helen Panoyan 4 S La bohème, L’elisir d’amore

Gilbert and Ann Roth 6 Rigoletto, L’elisir d’amore

Dean Scarborough and Janice Bini 3

Jan Schmidt 12 L’elisir d’amore, La Wally

Rigoletto, L’elisir d’amore

Peter and Louise Shimkin 4 Roméo et Juliette, La Wally

Charles R. Smith 15 In loving memory of Mary George Smith Rigoletto, La bohème

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Pat Starke 4 In memory of John Starke Rigoletto, La bohème

Joe and Nora Stephan 14 Rigoletto, L’elisir d’amore

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John Suhre and Carla Koeffler 6

Janis and Hobart Swan 4 La bohème, L’elisir d’amore

Rigoletto, La bohème

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John G. & Anna Maria Troiano Foundation Inc. 19

Michal and Jim Wadsworth 5

La bohème, L’elisir d’amore

Rigoletto, La Wally

Anonymous* S Elton and Gordie White 11 Rigoletto, La bohème

In loving memory of my mother Mercy Eileen Mennell Rigoletto, La Wally

Sylvia Waller 3 In loving memory of Sid Rigoletto, La bohème

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Ms. Peggy C. Allen and Mr. Steven C. Dixon 4 L’elisir d’amore

Stan and Alma Abshier 18 S La bohème

Dr. Louise T. Adler 9 La Wally

Edward Alley 16 S In loving memory of June LeBell La Wally

Rob and Cindy Bernardin 1 In memory of Jane Bavaria La bohème

Ruth A. Barker 2 S La bohème

Thomas Brannin and Mariano J. Vera 2 L’elisir d’amore

Dr. and Ms. Octavio Choy 3 Roméo et Juliette

Ms. Katherine Benoit and Mr. John Brooks 5 Roméo et Juliette

Philip and Suzanne Conover 3 L’elisir d’amore

Andre and Isabelle Christen 7 S L’elisir d’amore

Lou and Marianne Cohen 2 L’elisir d’amore

Mr. and Mrs. Mark Appel 7 La Wally

Neil and Sandra DeFeo 1 La bohème

Jonathan Strickland Coleman and Rick Kerby 15 La Wally

William C. and Joyce K. Fletcher 1 La bohème

Alan and Celeste Denton 1 In memory of Jane Bavaria Roméo et Juliette

Jim Ericson 14 In loving memory of Pati Ericson La bohème

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Betty G. Ewing 2 La bohème

Mark Famiglio 15 L’elisir d’amore

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Dr. Robert L. Fowler and Ms. Susan E. Gilbert 1 L’elisir d’amore

Sally H. Foote and Forrest S. Crawford 9 La Wally

Diane Taylor Foxman 2 La bohème

Barbara and Tony Franke 4 Roméo et Juliette

Herman and Sharon Frankel 10 Roméo et Juliette

Dr. Clarence and Kimberly Griffin 11 Roméo et Juliette

Flora Garsten 1 In loving memory of her husband Irwin Garsten La bohème

Dr. Paul Frederick and Mrs. M. Rosengarden Frederick 5 S La bohème

Joey Frye 20 M La Wally

Daniel Gridley 5 S Roméo et Juliette

Felicia and Andrew Hall 1 L’elisir d’amore

Fr. Jeffrey Hamblin MD 1 La bohème

Donna Lynn Hecker 8 La bohème

Barry and Casiana Hilton 14 S L’elisir d’amore

Doug and Carolyn Ann Holder 8 Roméo et Juliette

Richard Johnson 10 In loving memory of Marsha Johnson La bohème

Patricia Jones 11 In loving memory of Tom Jones La bohème

Mr. Alan Kesten and Melba Jimenez 2 La bohème

Alden and Ginny Keyser 2 Roméo et Juliette

Richard Kiegler and Ruthann Sturtevant-Kiegler 2 L’elisir d’amore

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Dorothy Lawrence 6 S L’elisir d’amore

Beverly L. Koski 12 La bohème

Dr. and Mrs. Joseph Kreit 2 S L’elisir d’amore

Peter E. Kretzmer 1 La bohème

Diana Lager 21 Roméo et Juliette

Mr. and Mrs. Alain Lebleu 2 Roméo et Juliette

Christopher and Margo Light 2 L’elisir d’amore

Sandra and Per-Erik Lindqvist 22 La bohème

Phyllis and Saul Lowitt 18 Roméo et Juliette

Richard A. Macken 4 La Wally

Martin Martel and Bonny F. Heet 12 La bohème

Drs. Louis and Rosanne Martorella 5 S L’elisir d’amore

Joan Mathews 8 La Wally

Lydia and Patrick McKenzie 13 S Roméo et Juliette

Mary J. Mitchell 5 La bohème

David and Jacqueline Morton 17 La Wally

Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Mallof 5 La bohème

James and Ann Magee 4 La bohème

Rosemary Albano Mazzanti, M.D. and Walter D. Mazzanti, M.D. 19 La bohème

Mr. and Mrs. Leonard A. McCue, III 2 La bohème

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Mr. and Mrs. Robert Pressner 1 La bohème

Fred Murrell 8 La Wally

Mr. John Nigh 9 L’elisir d’amore

Terry and Valerie Osborne 5 La Wally

Charlotte and Charles Perret 9 La Wally

Mary S. Riebold 11 La Wally

Piero and Rachele Rivolta-Barberi 21 La bohème

Victoria L. Rich 4 In memory of Alexander Rich La bohème

Mr. Steve Raymund and Lana Zub 1 La bohème

Esther Rose 4 In loving memory of Rabbi Herbert Rose Roméo et Juliette

Barbara M. Schwartz 3 La bohème

Rona and Arthur Rosenbaum 9 La Wally

Gail and Skip Sack 11 Roméo et Juliette

Colonel Ralph Scheffert and Mrs. Jinny Scheffert 3 L’elisir d’amore

In memory of William E. Schmidt 12 L’elisir d’amore

Skip Stearns 5 Roméo et Juliette

David and Barbara Smith 5 La Wally

Janet Stern Solomon and Lewis D. Solomon 1 Roméo et Juliette

Thomas and Maureen Steiner 5 Roméo et Juliette

Ms. Susan K. Straus 8 L’elisir d’amore

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Karen and Bill Watt 6 L’elisir d’amore

Dr. Harry and Diane Van Trees 2 La bohème

Mrs. John J. Ventola 19 Roméo et Juliette

Louis and Elizabeth Wery 14 La bohème

Charles O. Wood III and Miriam M. Wood 14 Roméo et Juliette

Eve & Michael Williams-Jones 3 La bohème

Mr. and Mrs. J. Russell Wiltshire 17 L’elisir d’amore

Dr. Richard Wires 15 Roméo et Juliette

Four Anonymous Donors

Mary A. Zabin 6 M Roméo et Juliette

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We thank the following Co-Producers of the 2019 Fall Season: Dr. and Mrs. G. Richard Baise 5 Rigoletto

Georgia Court 7 Brundibar

Victor Dina 12 S M Rigoletto

We thank the following Co-Producers whose legacy provision of a recurring gift continues their Co-Producer support.

Season: Max Eisenbarth Trust

Quadruple: Ellen V. Piers Fund of Community Foundation of Sarasota County

Double: Even T. and Malama Collinsworth Fund of the Community Foundation of Sarasota County

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Travel with Sarasota Opera Two tr ips, t wo wonder f ul op eratic ex p er iences: Sarasota Opera visits Santa Fe August 3 – 8, 2020

Photo courtesy of The Sante Fe Opera Crosby Theatre © Minesh Bacrania 2015

Executive Director Richard Russell will lead this popular tour.

Stay at the luxurious Rosewood Inn of the Anasazi right off the square in downtown Santa Fe. Performances will include Rossini’s The Barber of Seville, the world premiere of Huang Ruo and David Henry Hwang’s opera M. Butterfly, Wagner’s Tristan and Isolde (starring Tamara Wilson, Simon O’Neill, Jamie Barton, and Eric Owens, conducted by James Gaffigan), Dvorak’s beautiful Rusalka (with Ailyn Pérez, conducted by Harry Bicket). Optional add-on of The Magic Flute.

Breakfast at the hotel and one additional meal daily are included as well as customized tours of some of the treasures of Santa Fe. $5,500 per person ($1,500 single supplement) – airfare and airport transfers not included. Includes a $500 tax deductible contribution to Sarasota.

For more information about our Santa Fe Trip please contact Nancy Guyer at (941) 366-8450 ext. 538 or nguyer@sarasotaopera.org.

Verdi’s American Home visits Verdi’s Italian Home September 19 – 28, 2020 Led by Maestro Victor DeRenzi, join us in a visit to the Verdi Festival in Parma, as well as Verdi’s home and other related sites. Our tour starts in Florence with performances TBD and visits to some of Florence’s greatest attractions. We’ll take a day to visit Lucca and Torre del Lago, home of Giacomo Puccini. The trip then moves to Parma and the Verdi Festival which takes place at four different venues in and around the city. The operas will include I Lombardi (Teatro Regio, Parma), Rigoletto (Teatro Verdi in Busseto), Macbeth (Church of San Francesco del Prato, Parma), and Ernani (concert performance at the Teatro Regio).

Breakfast and one additional meal are provided daily and unique visits to Verdi and Puccini sites including a special tour of the Villa Verdi. The trip also celebrates the new “Pact of Friendship” between the cities of Sarasota and Busseto. $10,495 per person ($1,800 single supplement) – airfare not included but all in-country transportation and airport transfers, are.

For more information about our Verdi Trip contact Aria Tours at 1-866-686-1288 or info@ariatours.com

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Gifts received after December 5, 2019 will be acknowledged in the 2020 Fall Program Book.

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Ambassadors $2,000 - $2,999 Ms. Roberta Adams* Dr. and Mrs. Gregg A. Baran Karen and Tom Bernstein* Mr. David Chivas and Mr. Ronald Rice* S Dr. Gabriel R. and Mrs. Amy Cipau Dr. and Mrs. Alan S. Cohen Mr. and Mrs. William Farber

Ms. Donna Fisher Peter Goldbecker* Fred and Charleen Gorbet* Mrs. Maia Hopper* Mrs. John A. Howard* Dr. and Mrs. Mark S. Kauffman* Mr. and Mrs. Patrick W. Kenny*

*Encore Club: STAR contributors for the past five years or more S = Member of Sarasota Opera Guild M = Member of Manatee Opera Guild

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Dr. John Mahoney*

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Janice and Tom Burne*

Herbert Fox and Janet Zinner* S

Carol Von Allmen*

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Josephine Franz and Russ Gill*

Dr. Thomas McGuire and David Ellwanger*

Saul B. and Naomi R. Cohen

Dan Garde*

Mr. James Orphanos*

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Lynda and Marvin Geller

Drs. John and Jillian Woodilla*

Mr. Joseph Cyr*

Dr. Kofi Glover*

In loving memory of our mother Beatrice A. Newman*

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Associates $600 - $1,249 Mr. and Mrs. Michael Hassan

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Curtis R. and Melliss K. Swenson*

Ms. Susan Hinko and Mr. Carl Batlin

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Mr. David Porter*

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Robert and Elaine Appel Family Fund Toni Armstrong* S Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Ashman

George and Pat Edmonds* Mr. Howard Elder* In memory of Marcia K. Elder

Angela Helfter Korsmo M Mr. and Mrs. Robert Krambeck*

M. Elvira Quilter* Mary Jo Reston* Jane Riggin* S

Joseph and Sylvia Bloom Fund*

Robert M. and Victoria Kupec

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Bruce Kurtz*

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Jean E. Langdon

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Eleanor Graves*

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Baker and Debby Smith Susan D. Sprague

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Ms. Corinne Strand

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Lois Stulberg*

Mr. and Mrs. J. Wesley Gray, Jr.* Mr. and Mrs. Hanford Gross Mr. and Mrs. Jay P. Hartig*

*Encore Club: STAR contributors for the past five years or more S = Member of Sarasota Opera Guild M = Member of Manatee Opera Guild

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Ms. Gretchen L. Rimmer* Marjorie and William Sandy* Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Schimmel

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Mr. and Mrs. Alan Israel Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Israel* Vlatka Ivanisevic* S Drs. Edward J. and Judith A. Kamnikar Ms. Mindy Kauffman Rev. Fr. Frank Kirlangitis and Maria Kirlangitis Dennis and Valerie Kirshy* Mr. and Mrs. William Korp

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Sustainers $250 - $349 Anonymous (3) Cecile Alexander* In loving memory of Stu Alexander

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In loving memory of Dr. Jack G. Hutton, Jr.

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Marvin Kowalewski, Ph.D* S Tony and Dorid Lamb Mr. and Mrs. Evan M. Lebson Arthur and Marcella Levin

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Kretzmer Legacy SOCIETY) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) The Ernie and Alisa Kretzmer Legacy Society (formerly the Excel Society) members listed below are opera patrons who have committed a future planned gift to the Sarasota Opera. We are grateful to have the opportunity to recognize and thank these generous individuals for their philanthropy and love of Sarasota Opera.

Ernie and Alisa Kretzmer had the wisdom and interest to ensure that the Sarasota Opera, an organization that played an important role in their own lives, is supported now and for future generations. They encourage all of our opera patrons to reflect on what the Sarasota Opera means to them and to the Sarasota community.

Planned gifts are a wonderful way to ensure a legacy of great opera for future generations. We hope you will consider joining in support of the future vision of the Sarasota Opera. If you are interested in exploring a legacy gift opportunity, please contact Claire Ryan, Associate Director of Development at (941) 366-8450 ext. 416.

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Anonymous In memory of John and Mary Ann Mosca

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Mr. and Mrs. Leslie D. Aberson Stan and Alma Abshier Ms. Peggy C. Allen and Mr. Steven C. Dixon Edward Alley In honor and loving memory of June LeBell*

Ms. Carol Anderson G. Leonard Apfelbach, MD Ron and Barb Archbold Mr. and Mrs. Robert Arthur Sumner and Irene Bagby Edward and Jane* Bavaria Ms. Katherine Benoit and Mr. John Brooks Harriet Bernbaum Joseph and Sheila Berner Harmony and Matthew Bertrand Lynn and Steve Blackledge Mr. David E. Braun Anne Terry Brennan Davis Murray Bring and Kay Delaney Les and Carol Brualdi A. Scott Bushey David and Edith Chaifetz Bonnie and William Chapman Ms. Joyce Wells and Ms. Virginia A. Clark

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Mr. and Mrs. Thomas F. Donohue Antoinette and William Dowling Patricia Hope Edmonds In memory of Edwin I. Hope

Melva M. Eidelberg Douglas W. Endicott Larry and Carol English Jim and Pati* Ericson Frances Daly Fergusson Donna L. Fisher Henry and Suzanne* Foster Joey Frye Jorgen* and Gudrun Graugaard Mr. and Mrs. Mike Groninger Donna Lynn Hecker Mr. and Mrs. Jules P. Herbert II Casiana Hilton W. Paul Hoenle and Mrs. Ursula Heitmann Doug and Carolyn Ann Holder Mrs. John A. Howard Mr. Philip Hubbell Janet Whitney Huelster Mr.* and Mrs. James Ibberson Frieda and Raymond Johnson Mr. and Mrs. Arnold Kaplan Roger and Kristin Kaufman Marlene Kitchell

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Mr. Waldron Kraemer and Ms. Joan Lovell Ernie Kretzmer In loving memory of Alisa Kretzmer*

Bruce and Elizabeth Lane Mrs. Alice Lazarus Harry Leopold Richard A. Macken Dr. John Mahoney Virginia and Joseph Mallof Mr. Olaf Maly and Ms. Marita Stepe Manatee Opera Guild John Markham Reg Irvine and Alan Marlor Drs. Louis and Rosanne Martorella Joan Mathews Louise Mazius Rosemary Albano Mazzanti, M.D. and Walter D. Mazzanti, M.D. Claudia McCorkle Gabe and Linda Moretti Ms. Lana V. Mullen Ms. Karin Murphy Patrick and Kim Nettles Paul and Mary Neuhauser Mr. John Nigh Gene and Helene* Noble Terry and Valerie Osborne Helen Panoyan Peter and Suzy Phillipes Rose Marie Proietti Mrs. Margaret Renner In memory of Ernst Renner

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he Sarasota Opera recognizes and thanks the generous individuals who have made an endowment gift to Sarasota Opera. We also honor those who made a legacy provision for Sarasota Opera that has been realized. Endowment and planned gifts are a wonderful way to ensure a legacy of great opera. If you are interested in exploring a gift to the endowment or a legacy gift directed to the endowment, please contact Stacy Ridenour, Director of Development at (941) 366-8450 ext. 246.

Carl Patton Anderson Toni Armstrong Frank Asher Betsy Bagby Mr. Robert T. Benjamin Joseph and Sylvia Bloom Bradenton Opera Guild Les and Carol Brualdi Raymond L. and Marlynn Buczynski Inge Burg and George Maltenfort Richard Cameron Glenn R. and Jean Carley David and Edith Chaifetz Bonnie and William Chapman Sylvia Cohodas Even T. Collinsworth Bert and Mary Ellen Criste Mrs. Kathryn A. Cunningham Syble Di Girolamo Danuta Dorozynski Kathryn Dunlap Max Eisenbarth Joel and Ellen Fedder Lois Flagg for Bradenton Opera Guild Jean Lucille Frank Joey Frye

Joseph and Martha Glass Herbert and Rita Gold Mr. and Mrs. Mike Groninger Foster and Martha Harmon Perry and Rose Harten Barry and Casiana Hilton Mr. W. Paul Hoenle and Ms. Ursula Heitmann Marie Hoffberg Charles and Lillian Huisking Fund of the CFSC Arlene and Henry Jacobs In honor of Jonas Kamlet Dr. Morris E. Katz Charles Kelsea Gunther and Ilse Kern Richard Kiegler and Ruthann Sturtevant-Kiegler Marvin Kowalewski, Ph.D Alisa and Ernest Kretzmer Alice Lazarus Catherine Wingate Levine Reg Irvine and Alan Marlor Joan Mathews Mrs. Catherine McNeary F. Warren O’Reilly Gordon C. and Harriet D. Paske Ellen V. Piers Roland B. Potter

Ila S. Preti Rich and Stacy Ridenour Camille A. Salls Sarasota Opera Guild Dr. Henry S. Sauls Beatrice S. Schafer William E. and Casiana Schmidt Jan Schmidt Ulla Searing Roselyn Sedlezky Mr. and Mrs. Stuart R. Silver Arnold Simonsen and Ronda Montminy Don and Jan Smally David and Barbara Smith Elissa Soyka and Bud Borax Joe and Nora Stephan Theodore and Ann C. Tellstrom Bill and Rebecca Tompkins Alma Trainor Anna and Mildred Vlcek Mildred Weissman In memory of George Weissman

Mrs. Edie Winston In loving memory of Herb Winston

Joan H. Wood Sandra and Gary Yakes

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In Memor iam Martin Albaum

Nathalie W. McCulloch

Mr. Stuart D. Alexander

Bob McGrath

Mr. Steve Baron

William P. McGrath

Mr. Stephen Baseman

Mr. Kevin J. McIntyre

Mrs. Maria Berta

Marvin Mills

Dr. Daniel J. Blacklow

Barbara Negus

Mr. Norman Blum

Mrs. Mariana Olanow

Robert Cahn

Ms. Renee Pastor

John W. Carrier

Mr. Richard B. Pell

Rita Chamberlain

Dr. Scott Permesly

Ms. Carolyn Cooley

Patricia Picchi

Mr. John F. Cuneo

Alice Rau

Mrs. Edith H. Dorsey

Mr. James Rudolph

Jewell Emswiller

Marta Russell

Ms. Winifred Erickson

Mrs. Priscilla S. Rutherford

John E. Feavearyear

Mrs. Shirley Sargent

William D. Ferguson

Ms. Olive S. Scancarella

Jane Flaherty

Mrs. Lois Schulman

Eleanor Giachero

Dr. Jan P. Skalny

Anthony Girese

Ms. Virginia Spalsbury

Leonard Glaser

W. Grant Starks

John Goodman

Mr. Harrison Steans

Jorgen Graugaard

John Stedman

Mrs. Ruth Gutmann

Ms. Verna Stevenson

Mr. John E. Hillman

Joyce Stith

Peter and Patricia Hood

Ila Sue Stone

Mr. Donald A. Jenkins

Mrs. Joyce J. Tate

Dr. Murray J. Klauber

Mr. Robert L. Thinnes

Mr. David Landay

G. Thomas Tranter

Jean E. Langdon

Robert Van Langen

Carol Ann Luten

Mr. Bill Voigtlander

Olga Markunas

Dr. Bernard Waxman

Mr. William B. Maxwell

G. Greg Weingardt

Mrs. Gail Maynard *Through December 1, 2019 The information presented here is correct to the best of our knowledge.

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Making a DIFFERENCE ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) Meet Janet Stern Solomon and Lewis D. Solomon Legacy Society Members

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anet credits her father for her love of classical music.

Every morning as a child she listened to his favorite radio station, WQXR, New York City’s classical music station. At dinnertime, the conversation was mostly about economics, finance and politics . . . with Beethoven, Schubert or another (usually German) composer’s music in the background. Lew also grew up with classical music, listening to his mother, a professional pianist who tried — unsuccessfully — to teach him piano at age 4. His mother favored Chopin and Debussy. Neither the violin nor the piano tempted the young boy, but he learned to listen carefully and appreciate classical music.

Lew’s mother remarried shortly before Janet and Lew were wed, and as a gift, Lew’s new stepfather gave them his subscription to the Metropolitan Opera. That is when their love of opera really began.

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To discuss your planned gift, please contact Stacy Ridenour at (941) 366-8450 ext. 246 or sridenour@sarasotaopera.org.

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The couple moved from New York to Kansas City — Lew for a professional change and Janet for an MBA. From there they moved to Washington, DC. Once in Washington, they started building their respective professorial careers — Lew in law, Janet in business and earning her Ph.D. The couple attended arts events at the Kennedy Center as often as they could manage with a young son at home.

The babysitter named them “culture vultures” because every time she was called, they had tickets to something, usually musical.

After their son left for college, Janet and Lew began to visit Sarasota, fell in love with Sarasota Opera, and quickly became subscribers. After 13 years as snowbirds, they made Sarasota their full-time home in 2017. Since 2018, Janet has become very involved as a volunteer in the development department. Lew and Janet recently became co-producers. Non-opera goers who lunch with Janet always seem to be getting a pitch to come and “try it, you’ll like it!” She brings an opera newcomer to a performance as often as she can, to explain and introduce the art form.

Janet and Lew love the historic Sarasota Opera House, with its good acoustics and intimate setting for grand and authentic productions. The operas keep them coming back for more, season after season. Through their Legacy Society gift, Janet and Lew hope to perpetuate the ability of Sarasota Opera to inspire and engage the community for generations to come.

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Sarasota Opera COSTUME STUDIO ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) T he Sara sota O p era Cost ume St udio Sarasota Opera announces the acquisition of a historic collection of opera costumes from Torontobased Malabar Ltd.

F The collection is comprised of over 30,000 costumes for 135 separate productions, many worn by such opera legends as Luciano Pavarotti, Beverly Sills, and Marilyn Horne.

F The acquisition will significantly cut costs for Sarasota Opera productions, ensure the high quality of the company’s costumes for years to come, and will generate income from rentals to opera and performing arts companies throughout North America.

F In addition to the costume purchase, the company is planning the construction of a

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F Costume Studio donors will be recognized in our program book, invited on a tour of the newly built warehouse and recognized with a custom designed scarf or tie.

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about levels and benefits, please contact the development department at (941) 366-8450 x 416 or visit our website at www.sarasotaopera.org.

Your help is needed! To cover the acquisition, shipping and startup costs, please consider a special gift to the new Sarasota Opera Costume Studio.

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Investing in the EXTRAORDINARY) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) A c ampaig n for Sara sota O p era

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s the Verdi Cycle era was winding down in 2014, everyone asked: “What next?” This led to the Investing in the Extraordinary campaign, with the goal of creating and supporting the next chapter for the Sarasota Opera. The Four Pillars of the campaign have been:

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To continue presenting audience favorites and operas new to Sarasota in world-class productions

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To expand our educational programming

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To enhance our physical facilities

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To strengthen our financial position

Baritone Marco Nisticò as Figaro in Rossini’s Il barbiere di Siviglia.

Photo by Rod Millington

A $40 million comprehensive campaign was launched to increase annual support for artistic and educational initiatives, to raise capital support for artist housing and renovations to our buildings, and to build our endowment through outright gifts and legacy commitments.

Since 2014, the campaign has enabled: • New productions of L’Italiana in Algeri, L’amore dei tre re, Manon Lescaut, Norma, Tiefland, Susanna’s Secret, and Nabucco. Our Tiefland production will soon be released on DVD by Naxos.

• The addition of a student performance of our Youth Opera production and the popular adult education program, Understanding Opera.

• The Steinwachs Artist Residences, built in the Rosemary District which now house up to 70 artists each season.

Outside the opera season the apartments are used by other non-profit arts organizations. In 2017, the capital fund enabled us to put a new roof on our Artist Wing building.

• Our endowment has grown from $4.5 million in 2013 to $9 million today. Additionally, we have over $10 million in legacy commitments to help us grow our endowment to over $20 million. Over 100 new legacy society donors have joined the Kretzmer Legacy Society.

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As of January 2020, we have raised nearly $38.5 million of the $40 million goal. We are grateful to the many donors who have made extraordinary gifts. Our final capstone project is the Sarasota Costume Studio project for which we are seeking funds to purchase over 30,000 costumes and to build a warehouse. (See page 108 for additional information.) We invite you to participate in whatever ways you wish!

Your support with a spring annual fund gift, an endowment/legacy gift or special costume studio project gift will enable Sarasota Opera to thrive. We thank you for being a part of the journey of our extraordinary opera company.

For information on how you can participate in the Investing in the Extraordinary campaign, contact Stacy Ridenour, Director of Development, at (941) 366-8450 ext. 246 or sridenour@sarasotaopera.org.

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Investing in the Extraordinary Comprehensive Campaign Donors Transformational Circle: $1,000,000 - $2,499,999 Sumner and Irene Bagby Les and Carol Brualdi David and Edith Chaifetz Hank and Suzanne Foster Ernie Kretzmer, in loving memory of Alisa Kretzmer The Steinwachs Family Foundation Don and Rachael Worthington

Leadership Circle: $500,000 - $999,999 Anonymous Doug and Carolyn Ann Holder Gunther and Ilse Kern Patrick and Kim Nettles Terry and Valerie Osborne Rose Marie Proietti Harold Ronson Gabriel and Valerie Schmergel Jan Schmidt Arnold Simonsen and Ronda Montminy

Diamond Circle: $100,000 - $249,999 Anonymous (2) Edward Alley, in loving memory of June LeBell Ed and Jane Bavaria Katherine Benoit and John Brooks Harriet Bernbaum Bonnie & Bill Chapman Larry and Carol English Joel and Ellen Fedder Joey Frye Sally H. Foote and Forrest S. Crawford Donna Lynn Hecker Philip H. Hubbell Janet Whitney Huelster Mr. and Mrs. Arnold Kaplan Waldron Kraemer and Joan Lovell Harry Leopold and Audrey Robbins Claudia McCorkle Jane Newman Bud and Betty Shapiro Arthur Siciliano and B. Aline Blanchard Toby and Noel Siegel Elissa Soyka and Bud Borax Anna Maria Troiano William G. Selby and Marie Selby Foundation Eleanor Wilson Williams

Platinum Circle: $250,000 - $499,999 Ron and Barb Archbold Lynn and Steve Blackledge Murray Bring and Kay Delaney Mr. and Mrs. Robert Essner Bill and Rebecca Tompkins Michal and Jim Wadsworth

Gold Circle: $50,000 - $99,999 Anonymous Stan and Alma Abshier Syble Di Girolamo Barry and Casiana Hilton Renee Aberson Hymson Drs. Louis and Rosanne Martorella Joan Mathews Sandra and Gary Yakes

Silver Circle: $25,000 - $49,999 Mr. and Mrs. Leslie D. Aberson Dr. Leonard Apfelbach Jonathan Strickland Coleman and Rick Kerby Ms. Beverly B. Fisher Roger and Kristin Kaufman James and Ann Magee Martin Martel and Bonny F. Heet Suzy and Peter Phillipes Joe and Nora Stephan Mildred Weissman Mr. and Mrs. J. Russell Wiltshire

Bronze Circle: $10,000 - $24,999 Anonymous Ms. Candace A. Crawshaw Victor DeRenzi and Stephanie Sundine Dr. and Mrs. Herbert Kaufman Piero and Rachele Rivolta-Barberi Judy Rudges Richard Russell and Cynthia Bydlinski

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Foundation & Grants SUPPORT ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) Sarasota Opera gratefully acknowledges support from the following Foundations, Agencies and Media outlets:

$150,000+:

The Virginia B. Toulmin Foundation

$50,000+:

Sarasota County Tourist Development Tax Revenues

$20,000+:

Proudly granting $433,000 to Sarasota Opera since 1974.

State of Florida, Department of State, Division of Cultural Affairs, and the Florida Council on Arts and Culture

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Harry Sudakoff Foundation

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Foundation & Grants SUPPORT

$10,000+:

Teri A. Hansen, President/CEO

Mary Whitaker Leary Fund of the Community Foundation of Tampa Bay

Gilbert Waters Charitable Fund 1 of the Community Foundation of Sarasota County

Park Foundation

Roberta Leventhal Sudakoff Foundation

$5,00 0+: Charles and Lillian Huisking Fund of the Community Foundation of Sarasota

Daniel R. Mandelker and Marlene N. Harris Fund of the Community Foundation of Sarasota County

$1 ,000+: Dr. Joseph and Esther Landin Memorial Fund of the Community Foundation of Sarasota County

Lakewood Ranch Community Fund of the Manatee Community Foundation

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Corporate Partners & Media SUPPORT ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) Sarasota Opera gratefully acknowledges support from the following corporations:

$10,000+:

$5,000+:

The Caragiulo Family

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GE Foundation

Arthur J. Gallagher & Co.

IBM Corporation

Boeing Company Gift Matching Program

Johnson & Johnson Family of Companies

The Caterpillar Foundation

Mattel Children’s Foundation

The Coca-Cola Foundation Matching Gifts Program

Northern Trust Matching Gift Program

Duke Energy Foundation

Pfizer Foundation Matching Gifts Program

The Elizabeth Elser Dolittle Foundation

Prudential Foundation Matching Gifts Program

ExxonMobil Foundation

Texas Instruments Foundation Matching Gift Program

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Special EVENTS ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) Sarasota Opera offers a variety of Special Events designed for everyone and an opportunity to meet new friends and fellow opera lovers.

2020 Salute the Star s Award s Luncheon Thursday, March 19, 2020 – 11:30am Sarasota Yacht Club Resort Casual Attire Tickets: $125 each Patron Sponsor (with recognition) or $75 each Individual

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The luncheon includes a live performance by the artists.

For tickets, please call the box office at (941) 328-1300 or visit www.sarasotaopera.org

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NEWS JAZZ NPR CLASSICAL WUSF.ORG

A Service of the University of South Florida

GUILDS ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) We invite you to join our Opera Guilds — two groups of dedicated opera lovers who are committed to seeing opera thrive in our community. Both Guilds offer members and guests the opportunity to learn about the operas being performed during the season.

They also hold fundraisers and friendraisers in support of Sarasota Opera and the Youth Opera. For more information about the activities of the Sarasota Opera Guild and the Manatee Opera Guild, please visit our website at www.sarasotaopera.org/support.

President First Vice President Second Vice President Recording & Corresponding Secretary Treasurer Assistant Treasurer

Jeanne Yeagle Rich DeGennaro Terry Davis Angela Korsmo Maryann Hazen Terry Davis

The Manatee Opera Guild promotes knowledge and appreciation of opera to our community and raises funds for the opera through a variety of events, including: • Concerts On-Stage at the Opera House • Stars of Tomorrow concert featuring Apprentice Artists of the Sarasota Opera

SOG Poinsettia Luncheon Costume Show

President 1st Vice President VP-Special Events VP-Marketing VP-Membership Administrative Secretary Recording Secretary Asst. Rec. Secretary Corresponding Secretary Treasurer Assistant Treasurer Parliamentarian Past President

Ann Waller Pat Dodge Alma Abshier Karin Murphy Julianne Schworm Sherry Wheeler Carol Von Allmen Joel Reznick Antonette Cunningham Cecile Adams Richard Schworm Louis Martorella Antoinette Dowling

Sarasota Opera Guild supports the opera through a variety of events, including their: • Annual Poinsettia Luncheon, Sarasota’s premier December holiday event

• Talks and lectures about opera-related topics that are informative and entertaining

Above: MOG Stars of Tomorrow Concert; left: MOG Hyman Concert

• Summer Salons, which highlight local musical talent • Talks and lectures about opera-related topics that are informative and entertaining Each year the Sarasota Opera Guild presents four cash scholarships to deserving Apprentice Artists.

Meetings are monthly held on Tuesday mornings in the Peterson Great Room located in the Pavilion next to the Opera House, Church of the Redeemer or the Venice Yacht Club. A short social period and business meeting are followed by a performance featuring singers from Sarasota Opera.

Membership is open to everyone. To join or visit a SOG meeting, please call David Chivas at (941) 408-0613.

Each year the Manatee Opera Guild presents cash scholarships for deserving Sarasota Opera singers: • Deane Allyn Award goes to an outstanding singer in the Youth Opera • Helen Jepson Dellera Award is awarded to an outstanding Studio Artist Monthly meetings are held on Wednesday mornings at the IMG Country Club overlooking the beautiful Sarasota Bay. A short social period and business meeting are followed by a performance featuring singers from Sarasota Opera.

All are welcome! To join or visit a MOG meeting, please contact Jeanne Yeagle at (941) 755-7426.

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Education and COMMUNITY PROGRAMS ) ) ) ) ) ) Youth O p era Alumni Adelaide Boedecker

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arasota Opera’s 2020 production of Donizetti’s L’elisir d’amore will feature soprano Adelaide Boedecker in the leading role of Adina. Over the past few years, Ms. Boedecker has been making a name for herself at Pittsburgh Opera, Opera Birmingham, Opera Las Vegas and other regional opera companies. She has participated in the Santa Fe Opera Apprentice Program and in San Francisco Opera’s Merola Program. She attended the University of Florida and the Eastman School of Music.

But she got her start here in Sarasota, as a member of the Sarasota Youth Opera.

She was part of the program for 10 years and in the Winter 2006 she was tapped to make her main stage operatic debut in the role of Barbarina in our production of Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro. She returned as a Studio Artist in 2019, singing one performance as Pamina in The Magic Flute and will be a principal artist in 2020.

This is how Ms. Boedecker describes her time with the Youth Opera:

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The Sarasota Youth Opera program has had an immense impact on my life. I was in the second grade Adelaide Boedecker as Barbarina in Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro 2006. when I attended my first youth opera production. I was immediately drawn to being on stage, and I knew that I wanted to become a part of this amazing group. I auditioned, and started my ten years as a member of the Sarasota Youth Opera.

I can’t accurately put into words just how much this organization prepared me for my career as an opera singer. At its core, the program instilled a passion for music, a love of opera, and a knowledge of the discipline it takes to be a musician.

The basic tenets of being a singer were impressed upon each of us: to have our music prepared, to be early for all our rehearsals, and to treat our colleagues with respect. Building on that, we learned stagecraft, languages, movement, and how to sing with an orchestra. Equally as important, it introduced us to how an opera company rehearses and puts on a performance. Everyone with whom we worked expected the utmost professionalism from each and every participant in the program, no matter how old.

Along with this unparalleled education, we were given the opportunity to experience what it is to be a professional in opera. We learned, through first-hand knowledge, both rehearsal and performance practices.

I would have never been exposed to this at such a young age, had it not been for the Sarasota Youth Opera. I know that being an active member of such a unique organization, in the most formative years in my life, paved the way for me to pursue my dream of being a professional soprano.

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Sarasota Opera makes an extraordinary commitment to involving young people in opera. We are proud of Ms. Boedecker’s achievements and that she is the first Sarasota Youth Opera alumnus to be a principal artist with Sarasota Opera.

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or 35 years Sarasota Youth Opera has given thousands of young people the opportunity to experience opera firsthand through participation in after-school choruses, Sarasota Opera mainstage productions, summer workshops, and fully staged Youth Opera productions. As the only program in the United States committed to presenting annual full-scale opera productions for young voices, accepting all who wish to participate regardless of skill level or ability to pay, Sarasota Youth Opera is a national model for opera education.

Part of Sarasota Opera’s commitment to young people includes the commissioning of new operatic works written for children and young adults. Six new works have been presented as part of this mission: Deadline (1989), Polly Pen’s Her Lightness (1993), Tom Suta’s Eye of Ra (1998), John Kennedy’s The Language of Birds (2004), Daron Hagen’s Little Nemo in Slumberland (2012), and Rachel J. Peters’ Rootabaga Country (2017).

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ntroducing students and educators to the world of opera and helping create an audience for future generations, these initiatives offer interactive access to opera.

Invitation to Opera Each season, through orchestra dress rehearsals, over 1,000 students and educators experience live opera and interact with performers during intermissions.

Exploration in Opera In partnership with The Community Foundation of Sarasota County and Sarasota County Schools, over 400 students and eleven educators from five Sarasota County middle schools delve into a mainstage production each winter through workshops, education resource guides, and post dress rehearsal activities at the Sarasota Opera House.

Youth Opera In addition to their School Matinee own productions, Youth In Partnership with Opera members have Embracing Our the opportunity to Differences and The participate in Sarasota Community Foundation Opera performances as of Sarasota County, over members of children’s 1,000 local students choruses. Since 1986 attend Sarasota Youth they have appeared Opera’s annual fullin 32 productions as scale production and receive in-depth arts singers and many more integrated resource as supernumeraries. materials at no cost.

When appropriate, Youth Opera members have Opera Artists in Schools also been cast as soloists Members of Sarasota on the mainstage, Opera’s Apprentice and beginning with the The Magic Flute - Andrew Surrena as Tamino, Youth Opera members as The Animals Studio Artists programs 2019.

Photo Credit Rod Millington role of Flora in 1988’s engage students and The Turn of the Screw, educators in school visits each fall, reaching 2,000 young people continuing with the role of Barbarina in Le nozze di Figaro in annually and providing direct access to opera and the people that 2006 and 2015, and including the Three Spirits in this season’s make it happen.

The Magic Flute.

Since 1992, Sarasota Youth Opera has also offered a summer camp for young people. With an original enrollment of 24, the number of campers has grown to over 70. Under the direction of Sarasota Opera’s professional staff, campers experience the magic on the stage and behind the scenes as they study the many facets of opera, from music and acting to opera appreciation and production.

Opera House & Careers Tours

In-depth tours highlighting the history of the Sarasota Opera House and careers in the arts introduce students and teachers to the history of the arts in Sarasota and careers onstage and behind the scenes.

USF Educational Leadership Program Sarasota Opera is proud to partner with the University of South Florida Sarasota-Manatee’s Educational Leadership Program on workshops and resources to help future school leaders use opera as a tool in the classroom.

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Youth Opera CONTRIBUTORS ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) )

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arasota Opera has one of the most comprehensive youth opera programs in the country, giving local young people the opportunity to study all aspects of opera. Members perform in choruses, Sarasota Opera productions, and unique to Sarasota Youth Opera, an annual fully staged production on the Sarasota Opera main stage. Apart from performance opportunities, participants are exposed to foreign languages, history, and culture, all while participating in a program that builds self-confidence. Contributions to the Youth Opera provide scholarships for those in need and general program support.

If you would like more information on giving a gift to Sarasota Youth Opera, contact Brenda Tamm at (941) 366-8450 ext.

250 or btamm@sarasotaopera.org. Thank you for considering Sarasota Youth Opera in your charitable giving.

Premier Patrons $5,000 and above Les and Carol Brualdi Les and Carol Brualdi Summer Camp Scholarship Fund

National Endowment for the Arts

The Community Foundation of Sarasota County

Sarasota Opera Guild

Georgia Court The Exchange, Inc. Manatee Opera Guild

Park Foundation Roberta Leventhal Sudakoff Foundation William E. Schmidt Foundation

Gifts received after December 15, 2019 will be acknowledged in the 2020 Fall Program Book.

Sponsors

Co-Sponsors

Program Donors

$1,000-4,999

$500-$999

$50-$249

Stan and Alma Abshier Ruth A. Barker Lynn and Steve Blackledge Murray Bring and Kay Delaney Andre and Isabelle Christen Ms. Candace A. Crawshaw Syble Di Girolamo Frances D. Fergusson Joey Frye Gulf Coast Italian Culture Society Ernie Kretzmer

In Memory of Louise T. Adler Ms. Peggy C. Allen and Mr. Steven C. Dixon Sumner and Irene Bagby Douglas W. Endicott Nancy Gold Doug and Carolyn Ann Holder Mr. and Mrs. David Plocher Paul and Cheryl Runge Elida Silver Robin Silver, M.D. St. Boniface Church Fredricka Taubitz and Dennis Mtn. Griffin Robert and Camille Thinnes Dr. Harry and Diane Van Trees

Virginia L. Albanese Mr. and Mrs. Tim Almeter Mr. Michael Ayres Mr. and Mrs. Mike Baker Barbara Belsito Mr. and Mrs. Sebastien Brion Ms. Judith Bronstein Beverly and Ray Broth Dr. and Mrs. Stanley Brown Nancy Bushnell and Vic Reiling Ms. Elizabeth Cecchetti Clay Conway Mrs. Antonette M. Cunningham Sharon and Steve Dickman Victor Dina Richard and Patricia Donegan Lee Roy Eure II The Leda Freedman Fund of The Community Foundation of Sarasota County Dan Garde Bobby Garibaldi-Sanders Mr. Donald M. Gilmore and Mrs. Jeannine Gosselin Mrs. Otto J. Glasser Len Gomberg Ann T. Gray Barbara Grossman Dr. Donald D. Guastaferro Phoebe Harper Ruth Herrman Mr. D. Anthony Jones Roger and Kristin Kaufman Richard Kiegler and Ruthann Sturtevant-Kiegler Paul & Rosalyn Kline Marvin Kowalewski, Ph.D Peter E. Kretzmer

In loving memory of Alisa Kretzmer

Lakewood Ranch Community Fund of the Manatee Community Foundation Dr. Joseph and Esther Landin Memorial Fund Preti Family Fund of The Community Foundation of Sarasota County Audrey Robbins and Harry Leopold Arthur Siciliano and B. Aline Blanchard Paul and Sharon Steinwachs Joan Suddarth Bill and Rebecca Tompkins Mrs. John J. Ventola Mr. and Mrs. J. Russell Wiltshire Charles O. Wood III and Miriam M. Wood Don and Rachael Worthington

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Scholarship Donors $250-$499 Anonymous Mr. and Mrs. Terry Blumenstein Ms. Diana Clagett Lisi Crane Mr. and Mrs. James M. Day Gerald Fickenscher and Wendy Babb John and Diane Gittinger Felicia and Andrew Hall Vlatka Ivanisevic Mr. and Mrs. William R. Johnston Mrs. Gloria B. Moss Mary B. Nesbit John H. and Terry M. Rixse Margaret Romanes Dr. George J. Straschnov Curtis R. and Melliss K. Swenson Mr. and Mrs. James L. Turner Dr. Richard Wires

Mr. James Kushner and Dr. Nova Myhill Joan S. Langbord Mr. and Mrs. Don Lewis Mary Lou Loughlin and Bob Ploussard Mr. Bryan Lumpkins Louise Mazius Joy McIntyre Barby McKown Todd Mechtensimer and Brenda Tamm Nautical Gin Marie T. Nemazie Paul and Mary Neuhauser Mr. Edward Neumeyer Judy and Jim O’Donnell Mr. and Mrs. Eric Onstad Louis F. Parker Ms. Mary Ann Parker The Patterson Foundation Donor Advised Fund Ms. Colette Penn Mrs. Bertha Person Ms. Ana E. Peterson Suzy and Peter Phillipes Ms. Lorena Posligua Ms. Lyn L. Purmort Sandra and Richard Romley Jerold and Lee Dougherty Ross Ms. Giulia Salustri Mr. Thomas Schmidlin Jan and Elliot Silverman Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey V. Steckel Mr. Jere Supe and Natalie Nanjara Supe Al Usack and Ed Kobee Mr. Anthony J. Vlahides Dr. Robert Wenger

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arasota Opera is proud of its robust tradition of Volunteers. Each season more than 300 opera lovers volunteer their time and skills to Sarasota Opera, helping bring this great art form to our community. Their hard work and generosity keeps the beauty and passion of opera in Sarasota alive. We applaud each of our Volunteers from drivers to stitchers, ushers to administrative helpers, productions assistants to supernumeraries—and thank each one for their unique contribution to this organization.

2018–2019 Special Recognition: Years of Service Penelop e Sob er ing D onn a Stewar t K aren Respress

2018 – 2019 Sarasota Opera Volunteers Donna Abrams Lilyan Agee Cecile Alexander Rose Amato Vince Amato Chris Anderson Kelley Anderson Chuck Angulo Elaine Appel Robert Appel Amy Barkin Marie Beck Pat Bernardo Judy Bloom Susie Bluestein Elio Boccitto Joanne Bogers Ingrid Bookbinder Dennis Bowman Paulette Braga Julie Buckley Mary Jane Canalia Annie Carter Yara Carvalho Jim Charney Suzanne Christner Martin Coliguante Judy Collins Alice Cotman Judy Cottone Greg Courter Lisi Crane Laurie Criden Chalene Curry Ruth Danielle Joe Danna Jennifer Daughtry Kathleen Day Stella Deal Ginny Dellutri Abre Dennis

Irina Deynega Beatriz Diamond John Dickie Sharon Dickman Steve Dickman Cate Diletto Mary Jo Drantell Deborah Dunham Ruth Dweck Yvonne Eisenberg Jeani Elisha Janet Erdstein Helen Feiner Christine Felton Martha Ferrera Kathy Feudo Dawn Finnerty Kathleen Fisher Donna Fitzpatrick-Conard Josephine Fontana Bob Francescone Nancy Friedland Ralph Friedland Roseann Gaglio Lisa Gambino Bobby Garibaldi-Sanders John Gartner Rosvita Gewehr Suzanne Gladfelter Susan Goch Jane Goodman Pam Gordon Peg Green Mary Grimalskaia Carol Grogan Carol Hagglund Mary Hailey Betty Ann Hamilton Mike Hancock

2018 – 2019 Outstanding Volunteers Driver – Samson Levine Usher – Ellen Sakamoto Opera Club – Barbara Totaro Development – Janet Solomon Costume Shop – Daniella Landellius Youth Opera – Chalene Curry

(as of December 1, 2019)

Merle Heiden Jennifer Herman Susan Hetzler Delores Higgins Katalin Holzmann Jan Housinger Mimi Housinger Carol Jacobus Anita James Veronika Jamieson Eniko Jarmer Maribeth Jergens Angela Jean Johnson Jennifer Johnson Bernice Jones Candace Kammerer Emma Kelly Richard Kirsch Ruth Kirsch Elina Klingsmith James Klingsmith Etta Kolombatovich Jeanne Koren Philomena Kougemitros Susana Kowtko Bea Krajcsik Sandy Kravitz Clarissa Kramer Larry Kramer Brian Krizmanich Arlene Krum Mary Kukainis Brigitte L’Heureux Daniella Landellius Meryl Langbort Jean Lange Martha Leguizamon Bill Leland Terry Leland Ed Leopold

Pauline Leopold Samson Levine Telma Levinson Kerry Lewis Pat Lotz Olaf Maly Gloria Markiewicz Karen Marks Maris Margulies Leslie Mass Cheryl Matheson Ken Marsh Maureen Matthews Gary Maue Mary May Linda Mayberry Louise Mazius Linda Mc Donald Tom Mc Donald Mary Lou McFate Adriana Mendez Marina Mitusova Bert Morris Betty Morris Michael Morris Jeannetta Mouncey Pat Mullane Natalie Nanjara Šupe Carolyn Nathan Eileen Olive John Olivo Karen Olson Lilli Overkamp Richard Parlato Michele Pariseau Laura Pascarelli Donna Pearlman Dierdre Peeler Lucille Pererva Ysabel Perez Ana Peterson

Adrianne Petillo Sherie Philpott Amy Pickens Lorena Posligua David Preves Patti Preves Ursula Pries Ron Primeau Rita Proux Lyn Purmort Diane Quincy Howard Rand Dan Rankin Ulrica Regnander Margaret Renner Karen Respress Ronnie Riceberg Susan Richardson Inés Rivero Simone Rizzini Margaret Romanes Steve Rosenberg Ron Rosenthal Roz Rosenthal Laurie Roshfeld Joyce Rubenstein Ellen Sakamoto Jo Ann Sanford Rosemarie Sanson Wendy Scheck Julie Schechter Ceci Schneider Peter Schneider Alex Scott Anne Scott Jo Ann Seidman Paul Sellers Phyllis Sellers Barbara Sharell Elaine Shields Cathy Slaughter

Elena Smirnova Penelope Sobering Janet Solomon Stan Solomons Mary Sowinski Donna Stewart Richard Stollman Melliss Swenson Jutta Terry Caroline Thurman Charlene Tillman Barbara Totaro Joan Verhulst Barbara Waisburd David Waisburd Marvin Waldman Cynthia Walker Rikki Walker Lenore Washburn Diana Ways Carolyn Wedekind Karen Weiner Bob Wennberg Judy Weppler Gretchen Whitefield Alicia Wickiffe Sandra Wolf Janet Wood Jack Woodilla Greg Wright Lynda Wright Terry Yarian Joseph Zahra Vincent Zappacosta Jack Zimmerman Lana Zub

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