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Welcome to the New Year and another great opera, this time by the

master composer, Richard Wagner and his haunting love story, The Flying Dutchman.

Although Richard Wagner’s Brünnhilde is one of the first images that jumps to mind when you think of opera, Wagner himself had to struggle to make it as a professional composer. Even after The Flying Dutchman, when he’d enjoyed some commercial success, Wagner found himself in a bad financial state. It was the young King Ludwig II that came to Wagner’s rescue, becoming his full-time patron and funding his future opera compositions. Without this assistance, the beloved Wagner operas, Tristan und Isolde and those comprising The Ring Cycle may never have seen the stage.

Our new production of The Flying Dutchman would not have been possible without the stalwart support of our sponsors, donors, and funders. I want to specially thank BMO Financial Group as production sponsor for The Flying Dutchman. Our government funders also deserve a round of applause for the vital support that they

provide: The Alberta Foundation for the Arts, Calgary Arts Development, Canada Council for the Arts and Canadian Heritage. And we cannot overstate the importance of donations from individuals who share our belief in the power and magic of this wonderful art form.

Lastly, we thank you for coming and being a part of our opera community. At intermission, you may notice the display put on by Calgary’s own Heritage Weavers with pieces of woven art, paying homage to the ‘Spinning Chorus’ in The Flying Dutchman.

I would like to take a moment to re-introduce you to Evan Hazell, Past Chair of Calgary Opera, who will be stepping back in as Chair of the Board for the remainder of the 2013-14 season. Thank you, Evan, for doing this so I can focus my energies on helping Calgary Opera realize its long-term facility and sustainability needs.

Enjoy the performance tonight and I’ll see you all at Madame Butterfly in April.

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Last season we celebrated the musical genius of Giuseppe Verdi on his 200th anniversary.

Now, as part of our 2013-14 season, we celebrate the anniversary of another great composer of that time, a contemporary and long-time rival of Verdi, the great Richard Wagner. We do this by bringing back an opera that hasn’t been seen on our stage for over 20 years, his classic masterpiece, The Flying Dutchman.

Though Wagner had successes prior to this opera, The Flying Dutchman was what he truly believed was his first great work. Inspired by the infamous legend of a phantom ghost ship that was said to have appeared off the Cape of Good Hope, the sight of which caused certain doom for the unfortunate sailors, Wagner wove a powerful and sweeping score that is truly immersive. With each rising chord you can hear the wind and waves as the cursed Dutchman despairs his fate.

Our new production is designed by Calgary’s own Scott Reid, who has brought many beautiful sets to our stage, including last season’s Otello, Little Women in 2010, and Faust in 2008. Harry Frehner returns as lighting designer, with conductor Robert Dean and stage director Kelly Robinson also returning to bring together our fabulous cast and chorus.

Calgary Opera is happy to welcome back Richard Paul Fink in the role of the Dutchman, his first performance with Calgary Opera since his powerful portrayal of Rigoletto in 2008. Alongside him we also welcome back Joni Henson as Senta whom we last heard performing Desdemona in Otello (2012). Our cast is rounded out by David Pomeroy and Valerian Ruminski, as well as Emerging Artist alumnus Robert Clark, and Emilia Boteva who is making her debut with Calgary Opera.

We hope you will also join us for our final opera of the season, a new production of Madame Butterfly designed

by Bretta Gerecke, directed by Glynis Leyshon and conducted by Joseph Mechavich. Set in traditional Japan, Madame Butterfly will use iconic Japanese elements such as Torii gates, shoji panels and bonsai trees in a theatrical and unconventional manner to give a fresh and beautifully envisioned Japan. I am excited to share it with you.

Thank you for your continued love and support of Calgary Opera.

General Director and CEO, W.R. (Bob) McPhee, C.M.

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Calgary Opera’s Emerging Artists have just begun their first week of rehearsals for the Opera in Schools tour of Hansel and Gretel. Stage Director Aaron Coates has been charged with the task of moulding our young cast into the strange, silly and heart-warming roles of Engelbert Humperdinck’s classic opera.

“I’m looking forward to working with the Emerging Artists to create a production that is action-packed, funny, and spooky,” says Coates. “We’ll have to accomplish the spooky part without any lighting (the performance will tour to school gymnasiums) so it will be up to the performers to create the atmosphere. And it’s a chance for the artists to dive into some really outlandish roles.”

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apart and be transported in a van. It also can’t be overly complex as the set-up time must be under 45 minutes.

Hansel and Gretel will feature a new set designed by Scott Reid who is also the creative mind behind the set and projections for The Flying Dutchman. The challenge of creating a set for the Opera in Schools tour is designing the scenery so it can come

“Scott is endlessly inventive. You can say the words ‘I wish the set could . . .’ and he comes back with a solution that accomplishes that wish and adds some other piece of magic,” says Coates. “It’s fun to work with someone who brings great imagination and attention to detail to his work.”

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Richard Wagner (1813 – 1883)

Setting the Stage Calgary Opera celebrates the 200th anniversary of the great composer, Richard Wagner, with a new production of his classic masterpiece, The Flying Dutchman. Having just turned 28 years old, Wagner felt that this was his first great work – inspired by a stormy sea crossing he had undertaken four years prior.

Set designer Scott Reid has pulled that inspiration into his design, creating canvases within the structure of the set to project stormy skies, wind tossed waves and dark watery landscapes.

Richard Wagner was only 28 when he completed his fourth opera, Der fliegende Holländer in 1841. He was living in Paris with his first wife Minna, spending too much and earning too little, but at the same time meeting some of the major artistic figures then living in the French capital.

Among those was the German writer Heinrich Heine, and it was his satirical retelling of the legend of the ship’s captain who is condemned to wander the seas that gave Wagner the idea for the opera. In Heine’s The Memoirs of Mister von Schnabelewopski the tale showed the fickleness of faithful love and the delights of the quick flirt, but in Wagner’s hands it became something very different.

The basis of the story is disarmingly simple, and an old one. A father agrees to let an older man marry his daughter, in return for riches, to the discomfort of her ardent young admirer. To this are added two massive twists: that older man, the Dutchman, cursed for invoking Satan in a storm, can only be redeemed (like Bluebeard) if he finds a wife who is faithful – and the daughter, Senta, has already fallen in love with the idea of redeeming the Dutchman, thanks to a painting.

Wagner’s previous opera, Rienzi, completed in 1840, and his first unequivocal success at its 1842 Dresden premiere, was a gigantic work in the style of Meyerbeer, tapping into the new vogue of Grand Opera. No wonder, then, that those same audiences were bewildered by the premiere of the Dutchman in 1843, for this compact work was not only revolutionary in its music, but came from a completely different tradition.

That was the German Gothic, already seen in such operas as Weber’s Der Freischütz (1821), and especially Marchner’s Der Vampyr (1828), both of which Wagner knew well. If Grand Opera was about the heightened emotions of the main characters, set

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program notes against great events and odds-defying circumstances, this tradition was starting to explore the subconscious, those deeper and darker human motivations, drawing on folk tradition and the supernatural – and Dutchman abounds in both.

For Wagner, the Gothic was fused with a concept central to the rest of his work, that of redemption from the particular angst of an individual’s life – here through the faithfulness of a woman. In the first sketches of Wagner’s own libretto, Senta was originally called Minna, and the opera (following Heine) was set in Scotland. But the change of name and to a setting in Norway took the opera beyond the personal and into the mythic.

Musically, the opera is clearly influenced by those German Gothic operas, but also by Mendelssohn’s The Hebrides Overture, and above all by Berlioz, in the thrust of the orchestral lines and in the instrumental colour. But no-one had quite used the orchestra as Wagner does here, almost a protagonist in itself, creating the subconscious currents for the vocal waves of the sung word, especially in the surging,

restless invocation of the sea that underlines so much of the opera.

It started Wagner on the road to ‘music drama.’ It’s not quite there – the recurring themes are reminders, rather than the dynamic symphonic structures of ‘leitmotif,’ and, even if Wagner originally conceived Dutchman to be played without intermission, the obvious arias prevent it being quite ‘through-composed.’

That compactness makes Dutchman ideal as an introduction to Wagner, and for Wagnerites, that theme of redemption sets so much in motion for the rest of his output. But for the original Senta, Wilhelmine SchröderDevrient, a lady noted for the intensity and variety of her love affairs, it was a question of transference, rather than redemption. The squat, portly singer cast as the Dutchman failed completely to excite her artistic impulses, so Wagner hit on the idea of placing her current lover in the front row of the stalls. Her stage passion was re-ignited, and Wagner’s Dutchman was set on its course. © 2013 Mark Morris

Exciting News from Calgary Opera Calgary Opera is excited to be celebrating the appointment of General Director and CEO, W.R. (Bob) McPhee to the Order of Canada as announced by His Excellency the Right Honourable David Johnston, Governor General of Canada this past December.

The Order of Canada, one of our country’s highest civilian honours, was established in 1967, during Canada’s centennial year, to recognize outstanding achievement, dedication to the community and service to the nation. Over the last 45 years, more than 6,000 people from all sectors of society have been invested into the Order.

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CAST LISTED IN ORDER OF VOCAL APPEARANCE

Daland | Valerian Ruminski Steersman | Robert Clark The Dutchman | Richard Paul Fink Mary | Emilia Boteva Senta | Joni Henson Erik | David Pomeroy Cast subject to change

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Setting: Late 1800s on the Norwegian Coastline

ACT I After months of sailing the sea, a violent storm forces Captain Daland’s ship to take shelter in a bay seven miles short of its home port. Safe in the bay, the crew retires to sleep leaving the Steersman alone to guard the ship. As the Steersman dozes off a ghostly ship arrives in the bay. The Flying Dutchman, the captain of the ship, disembarks and laments his cruel fate. After vowing to sail around the Cape of Good Hope, even if it took forever, he was condemned by the Devil to sail the oceans for eternity. He is permitted to leave the ship once every seven years. However, he could be redeemed by a woman who will vow to be faithful to him even in death. Such a woman could be his only salvation.

The Dutchman greets Captain Daland and asks for a night’s lodging in exchange for a chest of jewels.

He also asks Daland if he has a daughter and offers Daland all the treasure on his ship in exchange for his daughter’s hand in marriage. Daland agrees and promises that Senta, his daughter, will be a faithful wife.

The Dutchman then follows Daland to his home port.

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synopsis ACT II At Daland’s home, the village women are busy spinning.

They tease Senta about her fascination with the legend of the Flying Dutchman and the portrait of the doomed captain that she is painting. They mock her for ignoring her devoted suitor, the hunter Erik. In response she tells the girls the Flying Dutchman’s story and is inspired to save the Dutchman from his wandering. Erik enters and announces that the Daland’s ship has arrived and the men have returned home. The women leave, and Erik pleads with Senta to talk to her father about his suit to be her husband. He has noticed her obsession with the portrait and tells her of his dream in which she embraced the Dutchman and sailed away with him. Senta, believing this to be a sign, exclaims that this is what she dreams will happen.

Erik leaves in despair. The next moment Daland appears with the Dutchman. Senta recognizes him as he tells her of his sad story. She vows to be faithful to him to death. Daland, Senta and the Dutchman rejoice in the hope that true love and salvation is at hand.

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Intermission (20 minutes) ACT III The villagers are celebrating the sailors’ return to the harbor. They invite the sailors from the mysterious ship to join their festivities. As rough waves surround the ship, the villagers realize that the sailors on board are the crew of the ghost ship, The Flying Dutchman. They flee in terror. Senta rushes in pursued by Erik, who knows of her intention to be faithful to the Dutchman, and wishes to save her. Erik reminds her of the love she had promised to him. On hearing this, the Dutchman believes that Senta will not keep her word to him.

He prepares to set sail, to save Senta from the fate of eternal damnation visited upon the unfaithful loves of the Dutchman.

Senta again vows her love to him. As the Dutchman boards his ship, he declares his true identity. Senta, held back by Erik and Daland, breaks free. She declares her eternal faithfulness to the Dutchman as she throws herself into the ocean. The Dutchman and his ship disappear. As the sun rises, the Dutchman and Senta are transfigured and rise into the heavens.

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biographies Robert dean

Scott Reid

Conductor

Set and projections designer

Robert Dean made his Canadian debut in 1993 with a new production of The Pearl Fishers (Edmonton)‚ followed by a highly acclaimed La Cenerentola (recorded by CBC), Die Fledermaus and Die Entführung aus dem Serail. Most recent appearances include La Fille du Régiment‚ Il Barbiere di Siviglia‚ La Bohème, Don Giovanni, Così fan tutte, Iolanthe, La Scala di Seta and Il Signor Bruschino (UK)‚ Il Trovatore (Ireland), The Magic Flute and Maria Stuarda (USA). Previously for Calgary Opera he conducted Tosca‚ La Cenerentola‚ The Magic Flute‚ Roméo et Juliette‚ The Pearl Fishers‚ Madame Butterfly‚ La Bohème‚ La Traviata‚ Lucia di Lammermoor, Don Giovanni and most recently Falstaff.

Kelly Robinson Stage Director

Kelly Robinson is a director and choreographer whose career spans opera, theatre, film and television.

Mr. Robinson’s work has been seen at Opéra de Montréal, Minnesota Opera, The Dallas Opera, Melia Theatre in Havana, Shaftesbury Theatre in London’s West End, The Stratford and Shaw Festivals, and Mirvish Productions in Toronto, among others. Past Director of the Opera as Theatre Program and Theatre Arts at The Banff Centre, Mr. Robinson has a long history with Calgary Opera, best known for directing new works and new productions including Filumena, Frobisher, and The Inventor. For Calgary Opera he last directed Otello (2012).

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Scott Reid is an award-winning Calgary-based designer. For Calgary Opera he designed The Inventor (projections), Otello, Little Women, Dead Man Walking, Dialogues of the Carmelites, and Turtle Wakes.

Selected design credits include: The Clockmaker, East of Berlin, Half Life and numerous playRites Festivals (ATP); Mom’s the Word – For Crying Out Loud!, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, A Raisin in the Sun (Theatre Calgary); The Cunning Little Vixen, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (The Banff Centre); and Fumbling Towards Ecstasy, Songs of a Wayfarer, Requiem (Alberta Ballet). Mr. Reid has also designed for numerous other companies in Calgary and across Canada.

Harry Frehner Lighting Designer

Harry Frehner has designed more than 40 productions for Calgary Opera dating back to 1992. In the past seven years, six of these productions have been nominated for Betty Mitchell Awards, of which two have won. He has lit productions for opera companies in Canada such as Edmonton Opera, Opera Lyra Ottawa, Vancouver Opera, Opera Ontario, Manitoba Opera and Pacific Opera Victoria.

In the US he has lit productions for San Diego Opera, Opera Colorado, Arizona Opera, Utah Opera. As well, his work has been seen across the country at such companies as The Banff Centre, Theatre Calgary, Alberta Theatre Projects, Decidedly Jazz Danceworks, Royal Winnipeg Ballet, Stratford and Shaw Festivals, Ballet BC and Neptune Theatre.

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ValErian Ruminski

Robert Clark Tenor

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Daland Valerian Ruminski is a graduate of The Academy of Vocal Arts and has been the Director of Nickel City Opera in Buffalo NY since 2009. He has performed with many opera companies in the US and abroad including The Metropolitan Opera, New York City Opera, Dallas Opera, Santa Fe Opera, Seattle Opera, Hawaii Opera Theatre, Vancouver Opera, Florida Grand Opera, Opera Ireland, Opéra de Montréal, Opera de Monte Carlo, Seattle Opera, and The New Israeli Opera in Tel Aviv. He can be heard on the Naxos label release of Night at the Opera and was last with Calgary Opera for Don Giovanni in 2010.

An alumnus of Calgary Opera’s Emerging Artist Program, Mr. Clark made his mainstage debut as Normanno in Lucia di Lammermoor (Calgary Opera). Other credits include Al in The Barber of Barrhead (Edmonton Opera, Calgary Opera), Sam Kaplan in Street Scene, and roles in L’enfant et les sortilèges, Le Nozze di Figaro, and Gianni Schicchi.

Recent and upcoming engagements include Narraboth in Salome (Edmonton Opera), Beppe in I Pagliacci (Edmonton Opera), Flask in Moby-Dick where he also covered the role of Ahab (Calgary Opera), Jaquino in Fidelio (Edmonton Opera), Tamino in Die Zauberflöte (Highlands Opera Studio), Macduff in Macbeth (Pacific Opera Victoria) and Roderigo in Otello (Calgary Opera).

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biographies Richard Paul Fink

Emilia Boteva

Baritone

Mezzo-Soprano

The Dutchman

Mary

Richard Paul Fink has been acclaimed as a leading dramatic baritone at the Met, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Berlin State Opera, Opera National de Paris, San Francisco Opera, Houston Grand Opera, Washington Opera, and many others. He’s been acclaimed as Alberich in Wagner’s Ring at the Met, as well as in Los Angeles, Seattle, Dallas, Venice and Toronto. Other roles include Klingsor in Parsifal, Telramund in Lohengrin, Pizarro in Fidelio, and the title roles in Nabucco, Rigoletto, and Wozzeck. Mr. Fink also starred as Teller in the world premiere of Dr. Atomic in San Francisco, Chicago, the Met, and in Amsterdam. He last performed with Calgary Opera in Rigoletto (2008).

Canadian Mezzo-Soprano Emilia Boteva has performed Alexander Nevsky with the Calgary Philharmonic and the Grant Park Festival in Chicago, as Mary in Der fliegende Holländer for Opéra de Montréal, Ulrica in Un ballo in maschera for Opera Tampa, Filipyevna in Eugene Onegin for Edmonton Opera, Verdi’s Requiem with the Vancouver Symphony, Mistress Quickly in Falstaff in Jerez, Spain and as Mama Lucia in Cavalleria Rusticana for Opera Lyra, Ottawa. An award winner at the Svetoslav Obretenov National Competition in Bulgaria and a finalist in the Toulouse International Vocal Competition, she made her professional debut at the State Opera House in Sofia.

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Joni Henson

David Pomeroy

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Senta

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Joni Henson is one of Canada’s most thrilling young performers.

Recent engagements include Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 for the Detroit Symphony and the National Arts Centre Orchestra, a return to Pacific Opera Victoria for the title role in Tosca, Senta in The Flying Dutchman (Pacific Opera Victoria) and Elisabetta in Don Carlos and Fiordiligi in Così fan tutte (Canadian Opera Company). In concert she has appeared with the Vancouver Symphony, Toronto Mendelssohn Choir, Calgary Philharmonic, Hamilton Philharmonic and presented a debut recital for Music Toronto. Highlights of the upcoming season include Elizabetta in Don Carlo (Vancouver Opera) and Alice in Falstaff (Pacific Opera Victoria). She last performed with Calgary Opera in Otello (2012).

Newfoundland native David Pomeroy made his Metropolitan Opera debut in the title role of Les Contes d’Hoffmann opposite Anna Netrebko under the baton of James Levine. He had previously sung the role of Faust at “MET in the Parks” performing the title again at the MET last season. Other credits include La Traviata in Vancouver and NYC Opera; Carmen in Ottawa, Ireland, Stuttgart, Victoria, Winnipeg, Vancouver, Philadelphia and Kansas City; Madama Butterfly in St. Louis, Kansas City, Fort Worth, Connecticut, Detroit and Quebec; Tosca in Vancouver, Ottawa and Montreal; and Rigoletto in Kansas City, Calgary, Winnipeg and Montreal.

Canadian Opera Company appearances include Pinkerton, Rodolfo, Faust, Hoffmann, Alfred. He was last at Calgary Opera in Lucia di Lammermoor (2010).

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biographies Donna Sharpe Stage Manager

Donna Sharpe enjoys working in both theatre and opera, and appreciates the opportunities this work brings to her life. In her 12th season with Calgary Opera, the highlight of her summer was stage managing The Pirates of Penzance in Calgary’s East Village with some of Canada’s finest performers. Other selected Calgary Opera credits include Aida, Moby-Dick, La Bohème, Gianni Schicchi, Pagliacci, as well as assistant stage managing Don Giovanni, Little Women, Barber of Seville, Ariadne auf Naxos, Faust, Tosca, Rigoletto, Frobisher, Dead Man Walking, and Sweeney Todd. Ms. Sharpe enjoys working with young artists and has stage-managed with Green Mountain Opera Festival (Vermont), Opera on the Avalon (Newfoundland), and the 2010 Winter Olympics (Whistler).

Nicole Bergen Assistant Stage Manager

Nicole Bergen works as a stage manager and assistant stage manager in Alberta and Saskatchewan. Past shows include Carmen, The Marriage of Figaro, and Don Pasquale (SM, Saskatoon Opera), La Traviata, La bohème, Moby-Dick, Aida, Lucia di Lammermoor, Manon, and The Barber of Seville (ASM, Calgary Opera), and Little Women, Turn of the Screw and A Midsummer Night’s Dream (ASM, The Banff Centre). This season’s shows include The Italian Girl in Algiers, The Flying Dutchman, and Madame Butterfly (ASM, Calgary Opera) and The Magic Flute (SM, Saskatoon Opera). She also reads a lot and widely, walks a lot, and loves to cook.

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Melania RadelickI Assistant Stage Manager

Melania Radelicki works in opera, theatre, and musicals all across Canada, and is thrilled to be working with the team here at Calgary Opera. Favourite credits include: SM – The Barber of Barkerville, Naomi’s Road (Vancouver Opera in Schools), Extinction Song (Eastern Front Theatre), Dido & Aeneas (Opera Erratica), King Lear (Hart House Theatre), Twelfth Night (Classical Theatre Project); ASM – The Magic Flute, West Side Story (Vancouver Opera), Dating by the Book (Lighthouse), West Side Story, 7 Stories (Neptune Theatre); Apprentice ASM – Serious Money, One Touch of Venus (Shaw Festival), Sexy Laundry (Neptune).

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Know Your Repetiteur Christopher Mokrzewski - Calgary Opera Resident Repetiteur Christopher “Topher” Mokrzewski is no ordinary pianist. With early dreams of becoming a conductor like his hero Leonard Bernstein, Topher began playing the piano when he was four.

By the time he was five he was performing in youth competitions and at the young age of 14, Topher did something that not many boys his age was able to do – moved to France to learn piano from a great master.

By the age of 16, Topher won first place in the Eastman School of Music Young Artists International Piano Competition, securing a scholarship for himself at the noted American conservatory for six years. From there he worked with the Canadian Opera Company’s Ensemble Studio before landing himself the resident conductor/ repetiteur role here at Calgary Opera.

“I’d heard many wonderful things about Calgary Opera prior to arriving,” says Topher. “I knew that my predecessor, Gordon Gerrard, had enjoyed the program immensely and learned much from it, and it seemed exactly the type of job I’d been waiting for to take the next step in my career.”

Topher is a true champion of the art form, spreading his love for opera wherever he journeys and even heading up his own indie opera company, Against the Grain Theatre, in Toronto.

“Against the Grain Theatre is committed to presenting traditional and contemporary repertoire in innovative and unconventional ways,” says Topher. “We love doing opera in accessible places to entice new people, or encourage people who are involved in the arts to see these pieces in a different light.”

With projects like an updated The Marriage of Figaro with modern text, La Bohème in a bar, and most recently a Messiah in a rock/indie music club, it’s easy to see what he’s talking about.

Despite this, he says that there’s no place he’d rather be than at Calgary Opera.

“I love being in Calgary. Calgary Opera is a great company that gives me the opportunity to do good work,” says Topher. “My goal is to spread the love of opera in everything I do.”

Conductor in Residence program Supported by

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Adopt-an-Artist Andrea Brussa & David Lyons

Whether opera is a passion, or just a great way to spend an evening out, Calgary Opera invites you to experience A Taste of the Opera, an event that showcases the upcoming opera with a stimulating behind-thescenes perspective accompanied by delicious nibblies and a glass of wine.

A

Taste of the Opera

– MADAME BUTTERFLY

For A Taste of the Opera: Madame Butterfly, set designer Bretta Gerecke gives us a tour of her process in creating the set for Puccini’s masterpiece. Accompanied by stage director Glynis Leyshon and Soprano Sally Dibblee (Cio-cio-san), you will learn about the development of an opera from the experts.

A Taste of the Opera: Madame Butterfly Friday, March 28, 2014 7:00 pm Tickets: $20

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February 1, 5 & 7, 2014

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calgary philharmonic orchestra Music Director Roberto Minczuk FIRST VIOLINS

Diana Cohen - Concertmaster John Lowry - Associate Concertmaster Donovan Seidle - Assistant Concertmaster Janice Amsel Kathryn Stewart Corvino Hyewon Kim Olga Kotova Theresa Kraucunas Minnie Min Kyung Kwon Bonnie Louie Robert Penner Laura Reid

SECOND VIOLINS

Lorna Tsai * Stephanie Soltice-Johnson ** Judy Bessel Adriana Bishop Jeremy Gabbert Craig Hutchenreuther Theresa Lane Lenora Leggatt Steven J. Lubiarz Richard Van de Geer

VIOLaS

John Thompson * Marcin Swoboda ** Arthur Bachmann Peter Blake Carl Boychuk Michael Bursey Katerina Grigoriu Julie Westgate

CELLI

Philip Hansen * Rafael Hoekman Joan Kent Thomas Megee Tom Mirhady David Morrissey Karen Youngquist

BASSES

Charles Garrett * Sheila Garrett ** Patricia Bereti Reid Matthew Heller Graeme Mudd Patrick Staples

FLUTES

PICCOLO

Gwen Klassen

OBOES

TROMBONES

James Scott * Michael Thomson **

Jean Landa * David Sussman **

BASS TROMBONE

ENGLISH HORN

TUBA

CLARINETS

TIMPANI

David Sussman

Steve Amsel * Jocelyn Colquhoun **

BASSOONS

Christopher Sales * Michael Hope **

HORNS

Robert McCosh * Jennifer Frank-Umana *** William Hopson ** Laurie Matiation ** Heather Wootton **

David Reid *

Michael Eastep * Alex Cohen *

PERCUSSION Tim Rawlings *

HARP

Tisha Murvihill *

LIBRARIAN Rob Grewcock

PERSONNEL MANAGER Heather Haydu Tim Rawlings - Assistant

TRUMPETS

Adam Zinatelli * Howard Engstrom **†

Sara Hahn * Gwen Klassen ** Extra Musician: Kyle Eustace, Percussion

Supernumeraries Lawrence Eisler Bruce Fine Chris Gieck Russell Hull Scott Moore Pedro Guerra Zuniga

* Principal ** Assistant Principal *** Associate Principal † Principal Emeritus  Leave of Absence

children Supernumeraries Eric Bird Michayla Giesbrecht Jackson Partridge

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calgary opera chorus SOPRANOS

Anna Casurella Carolyn Dahl Rees Melissa Jackson Amanda Kendrick Mercy Lamola Jordan Macdonald Rachel Ross Karen Shippey-Heilman Chandra Stromberg Barb Thorson Joni Unger

MEZZO-sopranos Lurene Bates Jennifer Hutchinson Lorraine Johns Jonquil Koddo Karen Letch Heather Macnab Eswina Ngai Cathy Robinson Donna Romano Tania Sablatash* Julie Thompson

TENORS

Réjean Campbell Michael Hardcastle Ned Leavitt Troy Lewis Thomas McDonald Stuart Miller Josh Paynter Antonio Rino Francisco Sandoval JT Steenkamp Eli Yon

BARITONEs/BASSes Zenon Berg Doug Cheke Ryan Ehrenholz Mark Hahle Richard Taylor-Kerr Kal Macdonald Daniel MacRae Jason Melnychuk David Ng Tim Vollhoffer Greg Wagland Tristan Zaba

*Appearing with permission from Canadian Actors’ Equity

spiritus chamber choir Timothy Shantz, Artistic Director Cheryl Emery, Accompanist Tenor

Dean Allatt Boyd Hansen Stuart Lloyd Oliver Munar Rod Olson Timothy Shantz Dallas Southcott Dennis Voth Zachary Wadsworth

Bass

Aaron Bartholomew Jamie Bertram Graham Fast Bryan Hryciw David Latos Colin Redekop David Schey Bob Serrano Tom Van Hardeveld Jim Weisert

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emerging artists Calgary Opera’s Emerging Artist ensemble returned from their first

semester break rested, rejuvenated and ready to tackle the new challenges ahead of them. They will be working with vocal coaches Kinza Tyrell, Principal Repetiteur of Vancouver Opera and Gordon Gerrard, Assistant Conductor of Vancouver Symphony, as well as integrating very specific training on the singing of oratorio with Nancy Argenta. From Victoria Conservatory, Nancy Argenta boasts a major international career as an oratorio singer and concert performer. Oratorio training is often lacking in young artist programs, and because our young artists often go out into the community to perform with organizations such as Calgary Bach Festival Society, The Festival Chorus, Calgary Civic Symphony and Bow Valley Chorus this training is vitally important. Oratorio and concert performance makes up a significant portion of a singing career of a classical singer and fills in the gaps between major opera productions. The majority of opera singers have established careers across Canada with symphony orchestras and choral societies.

Adopt an Artist patrons Terence & Judith Dalgleish Monica Sloan & John Evison Diane Hobson Marian Williams

We acknowledge the generous support of the Dr. R.G. (Bud) Williams Emerging Artist Scholarship Fund

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“There is a particular poise and demeanor required when performing oratorio or sacred choral works,” says Mel Kirby.

“This generally requires a more controlled vocal delivery.

To be able to give our young artists access to a singer of Nancy Argenta’s international stature and expertise in the field of oratorio is invaluable to their future careers.”

Taking up the majority of their time in the upcoming weeks are rehearsals for the Opera in Schools touring production of Hansel and Gretel. Stage director Aaron Coates arrived on January 27th to work with Calgary Opera’s Emerging Artist ensemble along with musical director Mel Kirby, to bring the show to life.

“Calgary Opera’s Hansel and Gretel is a brand new production adapted and arranged from the Engelbert Humperdinck original opera by myself and director Aaron Coates. It was a challenge to reduce the original 2.5 hour opera to 45 minutes, but we’ve managed to keep all of our favourite musical highlights, including the famous Evening Prayer and the exuberant witch’s broomstick ride,” says Kirby.

Supported by Emerging Artist Development Program Sponsored by

2013-2014 Emerging Artist Development Program Instructional Staff RESIDENT INSTRUCTORS Mel Kirby Coordinator and Vocal Coach Christopher Mokrzewski Resident Conductor and Principal Coach Hansel and Gretel has a public performance on Saturday, February 8th, launching the tour that takes our Emerging Artists to communities and schools throughout Calgary and across Alberta. These include schools in the communities of Bassano, Rosemary, Innisfail, Penhold, Canmore, Exshaw, Gem and the Esplanade Heritage and Arts Centre in Medicine Hat, supported generously by Cenovus Energy.

The Opera in Schools tour finishes up on March 8th with one final public performance at the Bert Church High School Theatre in Airdrie. Tickets can be purchased through The Bert Church Theatre by calling 1-888-655-9090 or by visiting Airdrie.ca.

Once our Emerging Artists finish Hansel and Gretel, they plunge back into intensive coaching sessions with resident voice teacher Dawn Johnson, resident conductor/repetiteur Christopher Mokrzewski, guest voice teacher Tracy Dahl, and guest vocal coach Peter Tiefenbach from Toronto’s Glenn Gould School.

Though each of these sessions is important to their development as singers, they also help prepare them for the Emerging Artist Showcase performance of Benjamin Britten’s The Rape of Lucretia in May. Photos (left to right) Kinza Tyrrell coaches Emerging Artists Courtney V. Murias and Aaron Dimoff

Dawn Johnson Principal Voice Teacher Krysten Blair Yoga and Movement Tim Christison Professional Development Grant Reddick Acting and Text J-P Fournier Fight and Combat GUEST INSTRUCTORS Tracy Dahl (U. of Manitoba) Principal Guest Voice Teacher Rob Herriot and Glynis Leyson Acting and Scene Instructors Vocal Repertoire Coaches Rachel Andrist (Canadian Opera Company) Nancy Argenta (Victoria Conservatory) Gordon Gerrard (Vancouver Symphony) Michael McMahon (McGill University) Peter Tiefenbach (Glenn Gould School, Toronto) Kinza Tyrrell (Vancouver Opera)

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corporate and community support Community Supporters

Alberta Community Development Alberta Foundation for the Arts Alberta Lottery Fund Calgary Arts Development Canada Council for the Arts Canadian Heritage Southern Alberta Opera Development Foundation

Education Sponsor Talisman Energy

Community Outreach Sponsors Cenovus Energy

Season Sponsor Husky Energy

Emerging Artist Development Program Sponsor Enbridge

Mainstage Media Sponsor The Calgary Herald

Performance & Program Supporters

BMO Financial Group KPMG McLeod Law LLP Nexen PCL Construction Management Inc. RBC Financial Group through RBC Foundation Sun Life Financial

Corporate Donors

Canadian Natural Resources FirstEnergy

Opera in the Village Presenting sponsor

Opera in the Village supporters The Remarkable Experience Accelerator Program - Calgary Hotel Association and Calgary Arts Development Authority The City of Calgary’s Event Stimulus Program Tourism Calgary Province of Alberta Alberta Tourism CMLC

Festival Founders FRAM + Slokker Embassy BOSA Cenovus Big Rock Brewery

Media Sponsors

Global Calgary Jack FM Lite 96 660 News Up! 97.7 Pattison Outdoor Playhouse Publications Swerve

Consulting Professionals Dr. Phillip Van der Merwe – Company Physician Dr. Joseph Warshawski – Company Otolaryngologist

Official Wine Supplier Kensington Wine Market

Official Florist Peaseblossoms

Official Piano Technicians of the Arrata Opera Centre Robert Moffatt & Sons

Imperial Oil Foundation

Individual Donors Naming Benefactor Arrata Opera Centre Said Arrata

Major Gift Donors

The late F. Richard Matthews The Pyke Family

Voce Eterna Future Fund

We acknowledge the generous support of Dr. R.G. (Bud) Williams, Emerging Artist Scholarship Fund Brian Grasmuck

Impresario Circle Platinum

Andrea Brussa * Judith & Terence Dalgleish * Stewart & Eileen Ford David & Beverley Foy Brian Grasmuck Diane Hobson * Monica Sloan & John Evison * Don Swystun Sheila Wappel-McLean & Brent McLean Marian Williams * * Denotes Adopt-an-Artist Donor

Gold

Tunde Agbi Lilien Dobish Don & Joanne Edie Evan Hazell Christel & Ben Johansson Dawn & Verne Johnson Mary Rozsa de Coquet Kathy & Richard Sendall C.A. Siebens James M. Stanford

Silver

Anonymous (1) Sharon Bartley Jo Anne Britton

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Lori Caltagirone Carolyn Dahl Rees Maureen & Graham Davies M.A. Duggan Jane & Michael Evans Dan & Susan Ezinga Cos & Eleanor Gabriele Dick & Lois Haskayne David & Joyce Keith Kevin Konynenbelt Leo Le Nobel Russell & Vickie McKinnon Peter & Pat Menzies Geri & Alan Moon Patricia & J. Sherrold Moore Heather Peters James & Susan Reader Tamra Stretch Helen M. Wells Deborah Yedlin & Martin Molyneaux

Bronze

Anonymous (1) Dr. Ken Blair Alan D. Castle The Alan D. Castle Endowment for the Arts Helen & Mark Cluett Thomas J. Fishbourne Margaret & Robert Fraleigh Eldon & Carlie-Jean Godfrey Michael & Carmen Hardcastle Rebecca Hotchkiss Susan Johnston Juri & Helle Kraav John & Susan McWilliams Dr. Elena O’Connell Heinz & Cathey Schmitz Cynthia Sim Janice Woodward

Core

Anonymous (3) ADEM Engineering Consultants Inc. Dr. Caroline Bain Irene M. Bakker Micheline Barbeau Susanne & Michael Brown BKDI Architects

Gwen & Ian Burgess Ioan Dobre and Claudia Cattaneo Judge & Mrs. Mary Jane Cioni Marilyn Conley Kirsten Cook-Zaba & Dwayne Zaba Brent Cooper Patricia Courtright Andy Crichton & Michele Kalny David Daly Bill & Anne-Marie Duma David & Roxanne Dunlop Paul English & Marion Woodman Michael Fawcett Tibor & Livia Fekete Angie Gelinas Patricia Glenn & John Holgate Niki & Craig Golinowski Joyce Gray Mattias Grum & Amy Martin David R. Haigh Stella Hall Judith Hepner Dr. Mark & Nancy Heule Henry & Johanna Heuver Richard D. & Phoebe Heyman Homes by Avi Carrol Jaques & Bob Loov Glenn Johanson & Margaret Gibson Ryan Kalt Kimberley & Paul Lloyd Jeanne Lougheed Brian P. Mahoney Sian Matthews & Gerry Leudy Dennis & Maureen McConaghy Lachlin & Julianne McKinnon Denise McMullen W.R. (Bob) McPhee Helen Moore-Parkhouse Osten Victor Fund Bruce & Branca Pachkowski Jocelyn Daw & Bob Page Sir Francis Price Lorne & Beth Price Gail & Gerard Protti Ruth & Garry Ramsden-Wood Greta Raymond Agnes & Edward Rewucki Iris Richards

Maggie Rigaux Gordon Ritchie Marion Rogers Gordon W. Ross & Richard Cote Gordon Sombrowski & Kevin Allen Arlene Strom & Colin Jackson Cheryl Swan Kenneth Turnbull & Faye Larson Henriette & Kees van Ittersum Dan & Molly Wares Andy & Krystyna Williamson Maurice & Anne Petrie Yacowar

Individual Donors $500 - $1,249

Anonymous (5) David & Beverley Butler Dr. Miriam Carey Edna M. Charchuk Ted & Yanka Cochrane Martha Cohen Lucinda Crist Sheldon Tony & Gillean Daffern Gizella Davis Drs. Lisa DiFrancesco & Doug Demetrick A.N. Edgington John & Audrey Fry Global Training Centre James Hughes Gail Kennedy Evelyn C. Kings Derek & Nancy Lee JoAnn McCaig Janis & Bruce Morrison Dr. Brian Norford Roger & Pam Prior Cam & Helga Schneider Richard & Shannon Tanner Rodney Touche Paul Vanderberg Robert & Kathryn Worthingham

$250 - $499

Anonymous (3) Karyn Leidal & John Armstrong David Blois A.J. Brown & R.B. Beaty

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corporate and community support Peter Callaghan G. Carson Patricia & Paul Godard Tom Goulding Robert & Linda Heidemann Ms Mary Lou Higgins Sandra Hunt McDonald P. Kornacki Robert & Linda Lesoway John Martland Outi McEachern Brian Mills & Susan Tyrrell James G. & Jean Ann Murray Paddon Hughes Development Co. Barry & Gail Pollock Elinor Rae Donna Riback Kelly Robinson Dr. Douglas & Laurie Strother Greg Szuch Melanie Stapleton & Dale Voight Val & Gerry Ward Robert E. Woodrow Jerilyn Wright

$100 - $249

Anonymous (16) Accu-Tax Consulting Corp.

Beth & Peter Adams Tina Antony Carol & Chris Archer Jennifer Arko Larry Bailey Marion Beer Helen Bereta Rudy & Jeanette Berger Pieter Bessem & Heather Fraser George Bezaire Katri Bruen Marion R. Burrus Dr. & Mrs. David Butts S & M Cameron Anita Carey Frances V. Cormack Greg Coupal Craighead Family Anne-Marie Crawford Isabella Crossfield

Paul Derksen John & Mari Jo deWaal H & J Doornberg C. Morag Dornian Denis & Pat Duke Edi J. Dygert Frank Everts Stephen & Miriam Field Barbara & Larry Fish Jean L. Fisher Gillian Forster Ingrid Geppert L. & M. Gregoret Ileen Hagen Dorothy Hawkes David & Anne Hills David Hobill John Humphrey Helen Isaac Jellicoe Family Camille Jim JoAnn Jones Sheila Kirkland & Frank Breisch Martin & Jennifer King Carolyn & Don Larsen Michael Lee Hing Sandra Lucas Kelly MacFarlane & Christopher S Mackay Philip & Eleanor May Terry McColl Karen McCullough J.R. & Donna McDonald Thelma McDonald Sean McInnes Karen D. McKay K. Millard Dr. Darlene Montgomery Colin Moreland Gail Niinimaa John & Jean Partridge Joanne Taylor A. M. Patterson L. Percifield Justice Carolyn S. Phillips Erika Pochailo Maureen Poscente Fred Rayer Marlene & Norm Raymond

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Chere Reilly Vera A. Ross Samuel Schorr Laura Scott Robert & Tamara Seiler Doris & Gerard Sheilan Barbara Shellian Betty Sherwood Pamela Smith Penny Smith Vanessa Smith Doug Soeder Joanne Stalinski Kathie and Bill Stell Andrew Cook & Shannon Stevenson Ralph Strother Carolyn & David Tavender Peg Taylor Hans Tieman Sharon Todd Nancy Tousley Cameron Leah Truch Caroline Weisgerber Tatiana Willumsen Shortgrass Property Services/ Patrick Windle Mike & Dawn Wood (Mrs) Herrat Zahner Bonnie Zwack

Memorials

In Memory of Alan, Debra, Donald & Mark Blayney - Jean Blayney In Memory of Hilda Doherty In Loving Memory of Ilse Grasmuck In Loving Memory of Wilma Kitchingham Marjorie, in Memory of Edward McCarthy In Memory of Tom & Karen Jones

Special thanks to

Alberta Theatre Projects Heritage Weavers Gary Hinton at Element Integrated Workplace Solutions Ltd. The Banff Centre Vancouver Opera Association

The actors at the jube aren’t pixels – they’re real and they’re right in front of you. Here are just a few tips on how to make your night stand out.

1 Skip the lines at intermission! Pre-order your refreshments at any of our concessions.

2 Pump up the volume and zoom into the action! Ask about infrared listening devices and binoculars at Patron Services.

3 Get a room! Organizing a group outing? Talk to our staff

about renting out a luxury suite. It comes stocked with food, drinks and its own bartender. Not to mention its very own washroom!

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The Jube is proud to have Calgary Opera as one of its Resident Companies. With over four decades of stellar performances, Calgary Opera is committed to producing opera of the highest possible calibre and making their productions as accessible as possible in the community.

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The new Madame Butterfly

is nearing completion. An artist’s palette of shifting spaces divided by Japanese shoji screens will frame the scenes, bringing the esthetics of that time to the stage.

Join us April 5, 9 & 11, 2014

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