Don Quichotte, May 6-7

Yale Opera · Doris Yarick Cross, Artistic Director · presents

massenet’s

Don Quichotte

may 6 & 7, 2016

Yale Opera Doris Yarick Cross, Artistic Director presents

Don Quichotte May 6–7, 2016 Morse Recital Hall in Sprague Memorial Hall Friday & Saturday at 7:30 pm linda brovsky stage director timothy shaindlin musical director yana birÿkova projection designer doug harry lighting designer rebecca l. welles costume designer

Robert Blocker, Dean

don quichotte

Music by Jules Massenet (1842–1912) Libretto by Henri Caïn Performed in French with projected English translations English captions for Don Quichotte written by Jonathan Dean © Seattle Opera 2011 Timothy Shaindlin, piano

cast La Belle Dulcinée the beautiful Dulcinea

anne maguire, mezzo-soprano

Don Quichotte a knight errant

andy berry, bass fri paweł konik, bass-baritone sat

Sancho Panza his faithful servant

zhiguang hong, bass-baritone fri zachary johnson, baritone sat

Pedro

jessica pray, soprano

Garcias

jinxiang yu, soprano

Rodriguez

andrés moreno garcía, tenor

Juan

lucas van lierop, tenor

Ténébrun

dean murphy, baritone

Ensemble

meechot marrero, soprano evanna chiew, mezzo-soprano ting li, tenor samuel hinkle, baritone

Children

matthew boveraux william boveraux

Musicians

Páll Quinn Kalmansson, cello John Kossler, guitar

Synopsis

ACT I Dulcinée is courted by four suitors during a party in a crowded square. When Don Quichotte and his faithful servant Sancho Panza arrive, Juan mocks the Don’s eccentric nature, but another suitor, Rodriguez, defends Quichotte, reminding everyone of the knight’s noble ambitions. As the party breaks up, Don Quichotte serenades Dulcinée, only to be interrupted by Juan who challenges him to a duel. Dulcinée intervenes and sends Juan away, chastising Quichotte when he loses his temper. She tells him how Ténébrun, a bandit, has stolen her necklace, and asks Quichotte to retrieve it for her. Quichotte vows to find and return the necklace.

ACT II On their quest, Don Quichotte and Sancho Panza roam through the countryside. Sancho is resentful of being on this mission solely at Dulcinée’s whim, and launches into a tirade against women. Don Quichotte has mistaken some windmills on the horizon for giants, and charges to attack them. Alas, his attack fails as he gets caught on one of the windmill’s blades.

ACT III Quichotte and Sancho are taking a welldeserved rest when the bandits catch up to them. Don Quichotte wins the criminals over by explaining his purpose in life – his quest as a knight errant, to right all wrongs, to love the poor, and even to honor bandits like his present attackers. They are so moved by this explanation that they hand over the necklace. intermission

ACT IV At home, Dulcinée is once again surrounded by suitors, but ignores their compliments.

She dreams of a love of another kind. Sancho arrives and announces his master. Dulcinée greets them playfully and is delighted at the return of her necklace. She rewards the Don with a kiss, and he declares his love for her, asking for her hand in marriage. Dulcinée lets him down gently, despite the mockery of the crowd. Sancho lashes out at the others to protect his master.

ACT V Later, Don Quichotte and Sancho are alone and the Don is close to death. He thinks of all the ways he should have rewarded Sancho for his loyal service, and promises him an “island of dreams.” As he dies, he dreams of his Dulcinée.

Biographies

Linda Brovsky stage director

Timothy Shaindlin musical direction and accompaniment

Linda Brovsky’s innovative productions are found on operatic stages including the Seattle Opera, San Francisco Opera, Santa Fe Opera, Los Angeles Opera, San Diego Opera, Opera Theater of St. Louis, Cincinnati Opera, Glimmerglass Opera, Palm Beach Opera, Austin Lyric Opera, and Cincinnati Opera.

She recently made her debut with the Canadian Opera Company directing her critically-acclaimed Seattle production of Don Quichotte starring Ferruccio Furlanetto.

Other recent credits include a new production of The Barber of Seville for the Pittsburgh Opera, a remount of her Fascist Italy Rigoletto for the Seattle Opera, La bohème for the Lyric Opera of Kansas City, Le nozze di Figaro for IVAI in Tel Aviv, Israel and The Wizard of Oz for the Skylight Music Theatre. Ms. Brovsky has nurtured several world premieres, including David Carlson’s The Midnight Angel (Opera Theatre of St. Louis/Glimmerglass Opera), Scott Eyerly’s The House of the Seven Gables (Manhattan School of Music), and Claude White’s children’s opera Love, Death and High Notes.

U.S. Premieres include Lowell Liebermann’s The Picture of Dorian Gray (Florentine Opera), Siegfried Matthus’s The Loves and Death of Cornet Christoph Rilke (Manhattan School of Music) and the revised edition of Conrad Susa’s Black River (Opera Theatre of St. Louis). She has also served as jurist for the Douglas Moore Foundation for New Composers. In demand as an arts writer and guest lecturer, she has been a contributor to Biography Magazine as well as a guest speaker for the National Arts Club—PEN International, the Guggenheim Museum’s “Works in Progress” series, and the American Opera Project’s “New Works” series.

A native of Ne0w York City, Timothy Shaindlin has served on the music staff of the Metropolitan Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, New York City Opera, Washington National Opera, Pittsburgh Opera, San Diego Opera and Sarasota Opera. He has also been a foreign language coach for Glimmerglass Opera, Santa Fe Opera, Bard SummerScape, the St. Louis Symphony and the Chicago Symphony. His European credits include work for Barcelona’s Gran Teatre del Liceu, and playing five summers of masterclasses for Tito Gobbi. He has also played classes and coachings for such artists as Nilsson, Sutherland, Sills, Horne, Steber, Fleming, Dessay, Crespin, von Stade, Resnik, Milanov, Dimitrova, Pavarotti, Milnes, Bergonzi, Hampson and Ramey.

On the podium, Mr. Shaindlin has conducted The Mikado, A Little Night Music and Madama Butterfly for Hawaii Opera Theatre, Madama Butterfly, Hansel and Gretel, The Threepenny Opera, La Traviata and Die Fledermaus for Pittsburgh Opera (where he co-founded the Resident Artist Program and chorus-mastered 42 productions), Bon Appétit! for Chicago Opera Theater, and The Merry Widow for Eugene Opera. He has also led numerous Broadway summer stock performances and has played keyboards for National Company tours of Guys and Dolls, The Will Rogers Follies, Les Miserables, Miss Saigon, Grease, and Camelot.

Since joining Yale Opera in 2008, he has been music director for Dido and Aeneas, Le Rossignol, La Navarraise, Iolanta, and Riders to the Sea.

Biographies

He has had a coaching residency with Hawaii Opera Theatre’s Mae Z. Orvis Young Artists Studio since 2005, performing concerts throughout Honolulu. This summer, he will lead a masterclass and join the panel of the JTVA Competition in Oakland, California.

Rebecca L. Welles costume designer Rebecca L. Welles received her M.F.A. in theatre design from Yale School of Drama in 2012. Her recent design credits include Le Nozze de Figaro, La Cenerentola, and Iolanta for Yale Opera, and Awake and Sing! and Murder Mystery for the Educational Center for the Arts in New Haven, CT. Recent New York credits include Irreversible with the Red Fern Theatre Company; The Taming of the Shrew, Baruch Performing Arts Center; Blank Canvas, Downtown Urban Theatre Festival; Two Gentlemen of Verona, Shrunken Shakespeare; and Marie Christine, Columbia University. Upcoming work includes Fools and The Education Project for the Educational Center for the Arts.

Doug Harry lighting designer Doug hails from the U.K. and trained at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama way back in the crazy eighties. He has travelled the world as a lighting designer for theatre, opera, and corporate events.

Currently, he splits his time between production management and design and is currently the production manager for the International Festival of Arts & Ideas.

He is very happy to be designing for the Yale Opera program.

Yana Birÿkova projection designer Yana Birÿkova is a multimedia artist and currently a second-year M.F.A. candidate at Yale School of Drama, where her credits include Women Beware Women and Don Juan. Her other designs include Mad Forest (UNC Wilmington); The Secretaries (Yale Cabaret); We Are All Here (Yale Cabaret); The Life and Death of Dr. Faustus (Yale Summer Cabaret); 1/13/14 (Studio Tisch); Transport (Irish Repertory Theatre); and Chang in a Void Moon (Incubator Arts Project). Her assistant credits include Indecent (Yale Repertory Theatre); Elevada (Yale Repertory Theatre); Deepest Man (3LD Art&Technology Center). Originally from Moscow, Russia, Yana holds a B.A. in film studies from UNC Wilmington.

special thanks Yale School of Drama Long Wharf Theatre Southern Connecticut State University Hartford Stage Lorie Boveraux Miguel Campinho Richard Cross Douglas Dickson Richard Harding Wendall K. Harrington Robert Heltzel John Carver Sullivan Kyle Swann Marc Verzatt

Student Profiles

Andy Berry • bass B.S. Yale University; Young Artist Programs: dell’Arte Opera Ensemble, Opera on the Avalon, Central City Opera, Pittsburgh Opera*

Anne Maguire • mezzo-soprano B.M. Boston Conservatory; Young Artist Programs: Napa Music Festival, Opera Academy of California, Glimmerglass Opera*

Evanna Chiew • mezzo-soprano B.M. University of British Columbia, M.M. Yale School of Music; Young Artist Programs: Opera NUOVA, Toronto Summer Music Academy, David Shifrin’s Chamber Music North West Program, Santa Fe Opera*

Meechot Marrero • soprano B.M. Conservatorio de Música de Puerto Rico; Young Artist Programs: International Vocal Arts Institute, VOICExperience, Savannah Voice Festival*, Deutsche Opera Berlin*

Samuel Hinkle • baritone B.M. Mannes College of Music; Young Artist Programs: Siena Music Festival, Central City Opera* Zhiguang Hong • bass-baritone B.M. China Conservatory of Music, M.M. Mannes College of Music; Young Artist Programs: International Vocal Arts Institute, Dicapo Opera Theater, Seagle Music Colony, Opera Theater of Connecticut* Zachary Johnson • baritone B.M. New England Conservatory Paweł Konik • bass-baritone B.A. Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music; M.A. Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music – Katowice/Poland‬ Opera Academy; Young Artist Programs: Teatr Wielki Polish National Opera (Warsaw, Poland) Ting Li • tenor B.M. Shanghai Conservatory of Music; Young Artist Programs: Aspen Music Festival

Andrés Moreno García • tenor B.M. The Hartt School of Music; Young Artist Programs: Festival Musica e Musica; San Pedro Arte Festival, Summer Opera Tel Aviv* Dean Murphy • baritone B.M. The Hartt School of Music; Young Artist Programs: Opera North, Prelude to Performance, Atlantic Music Festival*, Opera Theater of Connecticut* Jessica Pray • soprano B.M. & B.A. University of Iowa; Young Artist Programs: Cedar Rapids Opera Theatre Lucas van Lierop • tenor B.M. & M.M. McGill University; Young Artist Program: Britten-Pears Young Artist Programme (Aldeburgh, England) Jin-Xiang “JX” Yu • soprano B.M. CUNY Queens College, Performance Certificate American Musical and Dramatic Academy; Young Artist Programs: Central City Opera * upcoming

Yale Opera Production Staff

linda brovsky Stage Director

erika niemi heltzel Manager

chris murrah Fight Choreographer

nikki blue Production Stage Manager

doug harry Lighting Designer

alyssa meyers Assistant Stage Manager

rebecca l. welles Costume Designer

jeromy hunt Properties Master & Production Coordinator

yana birÿkova Projection Designer

wlad woyno Projection Operator paweŁ konik Student Assistant

jose santiago Lighting Assistant denise block Wardrobe Assistant jill brunelle Surtitle Operator

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