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6 From the General Director 8 From the Chairman 10 Board of Directors

11 Women’s Board/Guild Board/Chapters’ Executive Board/Young Professionals/Ryan Opera Center Board

12 Administration/Administrative Staff/Production and Technical Staff

14 Master Mentor: Julia Faulkner 20 Title Page 21 Synopsis 23 Cast 24 Artist Profiles 28 Join us for the Ring Cycle 30 Opera Notes 33 Director's Note 34 After the Curtain Falls 36 Musical Staff/Orchestra/Chorus 37 Backstage Life 38 Artistic Roster 40 Patron Salute 42 Production Sponsors

43 Aria Society 53 Supporting Our Future – Endowments at Lyric 54 Major Contributors – Special Events

and Project Support 55 Lyric Unlimited Contributors 56 Commemorative Gifts 57 Ryan Opera Center 58 Ryan Opera Center Alumni

Around the World 59 Ryan Opera Center Contributors 60 Planned Giving: The Overture Society 62 Corporate Partnerships 63 Matching Gifts, Special Thanks,

and Acknowledgements 64 Annual Individual and

Foundation Support 70 Facilities and Services/Theater Staff

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IN THIS ISSUE Siegfried – pp. 20-34

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There is nothing more ambitious for an opera company to undertake than a new Ring cycle. In terms of the vocal, orchestral, and visual requirements, Wagner’s tetralogy is the ultimate challenge. It calls on artists, musicians, and backstage personnel to contribute their last ounce of skill to do justice to the four operas, which stand among the greatest works of art ever produced.

When Sir Andrew Davis and I first spoke to director David Pountney about creating Lyric’s new Ring, we told him we wanted to reclaim this masterpiece for the theater. Over the years so much has been done to the Ring, to the point that we felt it had lost its true connection to its theatrical roots. David took that literally, and is setting each opera within the skeleton of an old theater. Within that structure, the worlds of each opera are quite different.

After getting off to a great start with the first two operas of the cycle, Das Rheingold and Die Walküre, we’ve arrived at Siegfried, unquestionably the liveliest portion of the tetralogy and frequently referred to as the Ring’s “scherzo.” David and his brilliant designers have created a fantastical, whimsical, imaginative world that will be extraordinarily potent in its telling of the story.

Sir Andrew’s conducting of the major Wagner operas at Lyric has been one of the company’s greatest joys for nearly two decades. It will be hugely exciting for us to witness his return to the stupendously exhilarating music of Siegfried, and to hear our orchestra revel in such highlights as the stirring “Forging Song” of Act One, the “Forest Murmurs” of Act Two, and the luminous music that accompanies Brünnhilde’s awakening in Act Three.

Singing the title role for the first time – truly a Mount Everest for tenors – is Burkhard Fritz, in a very eagerly awaited Lyric debut. He comes to us after scoring repeated successes internationally not only in the heldentenor roles of Wagner and Strauss, but also as the romantic heroes of Weber, Berlioz, and Offenbach. Another remarkable tenor, singing the pivotal role of Mime, is another debuting artist, Burkhard’s compatriot Matthias Klink, who will bring exceptional musicality to a role that does not always receive it.

Joining us to continue their traversal of two of Wagner’s most magnificent characterizations are our Brünnhilde, Christine Goerke, and our Wanderer (Wotan), Eric Owens. In Das Rheingold and Die Walküre, Eric exhibited a thrilling majesty in his portrayal, which he sang with all the beauty, power, and sensitivity for which he has become celebrated. After captivating our audiences as the heroic warrior-maiden in Die Walküre, Christine’s stupendous singing and passionate acting will show us all the warmth and womanliness of Brünnhilde as the character discovers love.

Korean bass-baritone Samuel Youn – so extraordinary as the Rheingold Alberich – will be back with us to reveal more of that fiendishly vindictive character, and the rich-voiced American mezzo-soprano Ronnita Miller will debut at Lyric as Erda, which has become her signature role. I’m delighted to welcome back to our stage two remarkably gifted alumni of the Ryan Opera Center, Diana Newman (Forest Bird) and Patrick Guetti (Fafner).

All of us at Lyric are excited that you’ve joined us as we continue our Ring journey with Siegfried. We hope it will prove as great an adventure for you as it is for us.

Anthony FreudGeneral Director, President & CEO The Women’s Board Endowed Chair

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Welcome to Lyric’s thrilling 2018/19 season! I know you’ll have a terrific time at this performance, and it’s my great pleasure to welcome you on behalf of the board of directors. One of my distinct pleasures as chairman is to work with an extraordinary board. It’s really a brain trust of experience and leadership that is fully engaged in helping us confront the challenges, as well as the opportunities, of operating a world-class opera company in the 21st century. Together we work with senior management to consider new ways of thinking about the business of opera. For the past year, our board meetings have been dominated by the very important work of examining our operations, streamlining our processes, and building a new business model. As technology, social, and entertainment options change all around us, Lyric must continue to evolve. We must work together to develop new strategies to stay relevant while maintaining our high standards of quality. This is all necessary, of course. It is part of our fiduciary duty as trustees. But it’s also important that we don’t miss the forest for the trees. Why are we here? Why do we do what we do? What is special about this art form and this company and why has it captured our minds, our hearts, our passion, our pocketbooks? We often talk about the “transformative power of opera.” How do you experience this? Personally? Is it when you witness exciting new rising stars from the Ryan Opera Center making their opera debuts? Or when school children and communities throughout Chicagoland encounter the powerful stories of opera through Lyric Unlimited? Is it in the Ardis Krainik Theatre, where families come together for the annual musical, and music lovers from all over the world come to experience the brilliance of our orchestra and chorus supporting the best opera singers in the world? When I was a teenager I used to think it was silly that grown women and men would cry at the opera...until it happened to me for the first time during Act Three of Madama Butterfly. When did you first feel a surge of emotion at the opera? And left with a poignant feeling of resonance or joy? A lasting memory of artistic excellence, of musical athleticism that took your breath away? Each one of us approaches art, and is impacted by art – whether the visual arts or the performing arts – in very personal ways. And yet there is something special, powerful, transformative even, about opera, with its unique combination of the visual, the musical, the storytelling, the ageless themes of myth and humanity. If you know what I’m talking about, I want you to join me as ambassadors for Lyric. To spread the word about this unique company, this crown jewel in Chicago’s cultural life, whose reputation extends beyond our city to every musical capital in the world. To invite your neighbors, your colleagues, your family members to come experience Lyric like you do. It’s only as we roll up our sleeves and work, in every way we can, not simply to produce performances at the top level, but to sell out every one of those performances, that we have a future of which we can be proud. A future that Lyric deserves. A future that Chicago needs. Onward and upward! I look forward to greeting many of you at performances throughout the season.

David T. OrmesherChairman

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B o a r d o f D i r e c t o r s

OFFICERSThe Honorable Bruce RaunerThe Honorable Rahm Emanuel

Honorary Chairmen of the BoardEdgar D. Jannotta Co-Chairman EmeritusAllan B. Muchin Co-Chairman EmeritusDavid T. Ormesher Chairman of the BoardLester Crown

Chairman of the Executive Committee

Anthony FreudGeneral Director, President & CEO

Sir Andrew Davis Vice ChairRenée Fleming Vice ChairJames L. Alexander Vice ChairShirley Welsh Ryan Vice ChairWilliam C. Vance

Vice ChairDonna Van Eekeren

SecretaryPaul J. Carbone

TreasurerElizabeth Hurley

Assistant SecretaryRoberta Lane

Assistant Treasurer

LIFE DIRECTORSEdgar Foster DanielsRichard J. FrankeEdgar D. JannottaGeorge E. JohnsonJames J. O’ConnorGordon SegalRobert E. Wood II

DIRECTORSKatherine A. AbelsonWhitney W. Addington, M.D.*James L. Alexander*John P. AmboianPaul F. AndersonLarry A. BardenJulie Baskes*James N. BayMelvin R. BerlinGilda R. BuchbinderAllan E. Bulley, IIIJohn E. ButlerMarion A. Cameron*Paul J. Carbone*+David W. CarpenterRichard W. Colburn+Michael P. ColeVinay CoutoLester Crown*Marsha CruzanSir Andrew Davis*Gerald Dorros, M.D.°Ann M. DrakeDan Draper+Allan Drebin+Charles DroegeChaz EbertStefan T. EdlisLois EisenMatthew A. FisherRenée Fleming*Sonia Florian*Anthony Freud*+

Mary Patricia GannonRuth Ann M. Gillis*Brent W. Gledhill*+Ethel C. GofenHoward L. Gottlieb*Melvin GrayMaria C. Green+Dietrich M. Gross*Dan GrossmanElliot E. HirschEric L. HirschfieldJ. Thomas Hurvis*Gregory K. JonesStephen A. Kaplan°Kip Kelley IILori Ann KomisarFred A. Krehbiel°Josef Lakonishok*Robert W. Lane°James W. Mabie*Craig C. Martin*Robert J. McCullenBlythe J. McGarvieAndrew J. McKennaFrank B. Modruson+Robert S. MorrisonAllan B. Muchin*Linda K. Myers*Jeffrey C. NealAmélie Négrier-OyarzabalSylvia Neil*John D. Nichols°Kenneth R. NorganGregory J. O’LearySharon F. OberlanderJohn W. Oleniczak*+Olufunmilayo I. Olopade, M.D.David T. Ormesher*+William A. Osborn*Matthew J. ParrJane DiRenzo Pigott*Richard PomeroyJose Luis Prado

Don M. RandelElke RehbockAnne N. Reyes*William C. Richardson, Ph.D. °Brenda RobinsonCollin E. RocheJoseph O. Rubinelli, Jr.*Shirley Welsh Ryan*E. Scott Santi*Claudia M. SaranRodd M. SchreiberJana R. Schreuder*Marsha SerlinBrenda M. Shapiro*Richard W. Shepro+Eric S. Smith*Pam F. SzokolFranco TedeschiMark A. ThiererCherryl T. ThomasOlivia TyrrellDonna Van Eekeren*William C. Vance*Roberta L. WashlowMiles D. White

William Mason

General Director Emeritus

* Executive Committee

+ Audit Committee

° National Member

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Women’s Board† Nancy S. Searle President† Mrs. James C. Pritchard Vice President – Board Activities† Caroline T. Huebner Vice President – Education† Mrs. Julian W. Harvey Vice President – Fundraising† Mrs. Anne M. Edwards Vice President – Special Events

Silvia Beltrametti Margot Stone Bowen Suzette Bulley Marie Campbell Mamie Biggs Case Mrs. Alger B. Chapman, Jr.† Elizabeth O’Connor Cole Mrs. Gary C. Comer Mrs. Nancy Carrington Crown* Mrs. Lester Crown* Mrs. W. James Farrell Mrs. Michael Ferro Mrs. Matthew A. Fisher§ Renée Fleming Regan Rohde Friedmann Mrs. Robert W. Galvin Ms. Lili Gaubin Mrs. Ronald J. Gidwitz Keith Kiley Goldstein Mrs. Annemarie H. Gramm Karen Z. Gray-Krehbiel Mrs. King Harris Mrs. Philip E. Kelley Rebecca Walker Knight Mrs. Frederick A. Krehbiel Mrs. Arthur C. Martinez* Mrs. Richard P. Mayer Florence D. McMillan Alison Wehman McNally Mrs. Susan H. Mesrobian*† Mimi Mitchell Mrs. Robert S. Morrison Suzanne W. Mulshine† Mrs. Eileen Murphy Mrs. Susan B. Noyes* Mrs. James J. O’Connor Mrs. William A. Osborn Mrs. Jerry K. Pearlman Mrs. Frederick H. Prince M.K. Pritzker* Mrs. J. Christopher Reyes Mrs. Ronald A. Rolighed Trisha Rooney Betsy Bergman Rosenfield* Mrs. Patrick G. Ryan† Erica L. Sandner Mrs. E. Scott Santi† Mrs. Alejandro Silva Mrs. John R. Siragusa Mrs. Lisbeth Stiffel Mrs. James P. Stirling Marilynn Thoma* Mrs. Theodore D. Tieken Mrs. Richard H. Wehman Mrs. Robert G. Weiss Hon. Corinne Wood Mrs. Patrick Wood-Prince

Life Members Paula Hannaway Crown* Mrs. Campbell de Frise* Mrs. Richard W. Durkes* Jane Duboise Gargiulo* Mrs. Paul W. Oliver, Jr. Mrs. Jay A. Pritzker Mrs. Gordon Segal

* Former President† Executive Committee§ Honorary Member

Guild Board of Directors† James A. Staples President† Minka Bosco Vice President – Benefit† Sarah Demet Vice President – Benefit† Michael Tirpak Vice President – Family Day† Fay M. Shong Vice President – Fundraising† Maggie Rock Vice President – Membership† Nathaniel W. Pusey Vice President – Membership Engagement† Dorothy Kuechl Secretary† David Marshall Treasurer† Marc Lacher Vice President at Large

Allison Alexander Leslie Bertholdt*† Patrick J. Bitterman Henry Clark Mrs. Suzy Cobin Eben Dorros† Timothy R. Farrell Robert Gienko, Jr. Olivier C. Junod Mark Kozloff, M.D. Daria M. Lewicky Daniel T. Manoogian Louis Margaglione Robert S. Marjan* Ms. Martina M. Mead Craig R. Milkint† Melissa Mounce Mithal Tim Pontarelli Ms. Christina M. Rashid Mary Lynne Shafer Ilene Simmons Ms. Joan M. Solbeck Claudine Tambuatco * Oscar Tatosian Cathy Wloch Ms. Anne Zenzer

Sustaining Members Mrs. John H. Andersen* Mrs. Gustavo A. Bermudez Mrs. Avrum H. Dannen* Robert F. Finke Mrs. Amanda C. Fox Mrs. William R. Jentes Chester T. Kamin John M. Kohlmeier Mrs. Robert E. Largay* Ms. Britt M. Miller* John H. Nelson Mrs. Lisbeth Stiffel R. Todd Vieregg

† Executive Committee* Former President

Chapters’ Executive Board† Richard Greenman President† Ms. Erika E. Erich Vice President – Fundraising† Mary Rafetto-Robins Vice President – Community Relations† Mrs. Linda Budzik Vice President – Membership† Mrs. Margie Franklin Vice President – Programs† Claudia Winkler Treasurer† Mrs. Mary Lunz Houston Secretary

Members Ms. Judith A. Akers Mrs. Geraldine Bellanca Mr. Michael J. Brahill Dr. Gerald Budzik Mrs. Robert C. Debolt Mrs. Ingrid Dubburke Mrs. Barbara M. Eckel* Mr. Jonathan Eklund Mrs. Gwen Faust Mr. Peter B. Faust Mrs. Nancy R. Fifield Ms. Sharon L. Gibson Mr. Denny C. Hayes Ms. Virginia A. Jach Mrs. Jackie Knight* Ms. Kate Letarte Mrs. Carole A. Luczak Mrs. Judith M. Marshall Vee Minarich Mrs. Harolyn Pappadis Karen W. Porter Mrs. Maria Rigolin Ms. Sherie Shapiro Ms. Laura Shimkus Mrs. Carla Thorpe

Sustaining Members* Ms. Julie Anne Benson Mrs. Ron Beata Ms. Marlene R. Boncosky Mrs. Jeanne Hamilton Mrs. Beatriz E. Iorgulescu* Dorothy Kuechl Mr. Lester Marriner* Ms. Jennie M. Righeimer Mrs. Karen H. Tiersky Mr. Myron Tiersky

Life Members* Mrs. J. William Cuncannan* Mrs. Donald Grauer* Mrs. Patrick R. Grogan* Mrs. Merwyn Kind* Mrs. Jonathan R. Laing* Mrs. Frank M. Lieber* Mrs. Howard S. Smith* Mrs. William C. Tippens* Mrs. Eugene E. White

Chapter Presidents Barrington Mary Rafetto-Robins Evanston Mrs. Barbara M. Eckel Far West Mrs. Judith M. Marshall Flossmoor Area Ms. Sharon L. Gibson Glencoe Anne Ruzicka Hinsdale Karen W. Porter Lake Geneva Mr. Peter D. Connolly Near North David E. Miller Northfield Mrs. Margareta Brown Riverside Mrs. Mary Kitzberger Wilmette Mrs. Nancy R. Fifield Winnetka Mrs. Julie McDowell

† Executive Committee* Former President

Lyric Young Professionals Lisa DeAngelis, President Martha Grant, Co-Vice President Shannon Shin, Co-Vice President Christopher Hanig, Secretary Tania Tawil, Events Chair Jonathon Thierer, Fundraising Chair

Members at Large Vindya Dayananda Phil DeBoer Lena Dickinson Katherine "Fritzi" Getz Marian Klaus Joe Michalak Natalie Pace Marne Smiley J.J. Williams Lauren Wood

The Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan Opera Center Board of Directors Patrick G. and Shirley Welsh Ryan Honorary Co-Chairs John Nitschke President*^ Julie Baskes Vice President – At Large Janet Burch Vice President – At Large^ Philip G. Lumpkin Vice President – Fundraising^ Sally Feder Vice President – Fundraising Co-Chair^ Jane DiRenzo Pigott Vice President – Nominating* Susan Kiphart Vice President – Nominating Co-Chair^ Joan Zajtchuk Vice President – Strategic Planning Juliana Chyu Vice President – Strategic Planning Co-Chair Debbie K. Wright Treasurer Roberta Lane Assistant Treasurer Chester T. Kamin Secretary Dan Novak Assistant Secretary

Nicole M. Arnold Marcus Boggs Heidi Heutel Bohn Tanja Chevalier Tamara Conway Lawrence O. Corry Nancy Dehmlow* Allan Drebin Erika E. Erich Jack Forsythe David S. Fox Anthony Freud Mira J. Frohnmayer Mary Patricia Gannon Melvin Gray Mrs. Thomas D. Heath Mary Ellen Hennessy Martha A. Hesse Loretta Julian Jeanne Randall Malkin Robert C. Marks Erma S. Medgyesy Helen Melchior Frank B. Modruson Phyllis Neiman Susan Noel Gregory J. O’Leary Michael A. Oberman^ Ted Reichardt Richard O. Ryan Richard W. Shepro Salme Harju Steinberg Nasrin Thierer Cynthia Vahlkamp Donna Van Eekeren Mrs. Richard H. Wehman Jack Weiss

Life Members* Katherine A. Abelson Mrs. James W. Cozad Bernard J. Dobroski Anne Gross* Keith A. Reed Orli Staley* William C. Vance* Mrs. J. W. Van Gorkom Howard A. Vaughan, Jr.

* Former President^ Team Chair

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OFFICE OF THE GENERAL DIRECTORAnthony Freud

General Director, President & CEO The Women’s Board Endowed Chair

Linda Nguyen Irvin Manager, Office of the General Director

Kathleen Butera Assistant, Office of the General Director

OFFICE OF THE DEPUTY GENERAL DIRECTORDrew Landmesser

Deputy General Director and Chief Operating Officer ARTISTICAndreas Melinat

Vice President, Artistic PlanningCory Lippiello

Artistic AdministratorEvamaria Wieser

Casting Consultant

DEVELOPMENTElizabeth Hurley

Chief Development OfficerZachary Vanderburg

Executive Assistant to the Chief Development Officer

Marisa Lerman Development Assistant

Lawrence DelPilar Senior Director, Development

Jonathan P. Siner Senior Director of Gift Planning

Mike Biver Director of Gift Planning

Meaghan Stainback Associate Director of Individual Giving

Andrea Rubens Individual Giving and Lyric Young

Professionals Coordinator

Kate Later Senior Director of Special Events and Women’s Board

Deborah Hare Director of Special Events

Leah Bobbey Women’s Board Associate

Rachel Peterson Special Events AssociatePaul D. Sprecher Special Events AssociateTeresa Fleming

Women’s Board Assistant

Daniel Moss Senior Director of Institutional Partnerships

Adriane Fink Director of Institutional PartnershipsAngela DeStefano

Associate Director of Guild BoardSarah Sapperstein Associate Director of Institutional

PartnershipsPavitra Ramachandran Institutional Partnerships Associate

Amber Cullen Director of Major Gifts

Libby Rosenfeld Major Gifts Officer

Angela Larson Director of Annual GivingScott Podraza Associate Director of Annual GivingSarah Geocaris Chapters CoordinatorKaroline Reynolds Digital Fundraising CoordinatorAnna VanDeKerchove Donor Engagement and Stewardship

Coordinator

Amy Tinucci Director of Development Operations

Hanna Pristave Manager of Operations and Data Analytics

Stephanie Lillie Donor Records and Reporting Associate

Erin Johnson Donor Records CoordinatorAmanda Ramsey

Prospect and Research Coordinator

FINANCERoberta Lane

Chief Financial and Administrative Officer

Whitney Bercek Controller

Vincente F. Milianti Senior Director, Financial Planning

and AnalysisNicky Chaybasarskaya

Senior AccountantAna Joyce

Senior AccountantNancy Ko

Accounting Manager

Lee Stevens Payroll Director

Dan Seekman Senior Staff Accountant

Tom Pels Payroll Associate

Rosemary Ryan Accounts Payable AssociateMegan Walker Payroll Coordinator

HUMAN RESOURCESElizabeth Landon

Vice President, Human ResourcesStephanie Strong

Director of Compensation, Benefits, and HR Operations

Charity Franco Human Resources Associate

Sharai Bohannon Office Coordinator

Mosadi Goodman Human Resources Coordinator

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGYWill Raj

Vice President, Information TechnologyEric Hayes

Director of IT OperationsRita Parida

Director of Data ServicesTracy Sefcik

HRIS DirectorJessica Keener

Systems AnalystSean Lennon

Systems AdministratorBob Helmuth Technology Support Associate

LYRIC UNLIMITEDCayenne Harris

Vice President, Lyric Unlimited The Chapters' Endowed Chair for

EducationTodd Snead

Director of Learning ProgramsWill Biby

Manager of Audience ProgramsDrew Smith

Learning Programs ManagerCameron Murdock Backstage Tours CoordinatorLaRob Payton Lyric Unlimited Coordinator

MARKETING AND COMMUNICATIONSLisa Middleton

Vice President, Marketing and Communications

Shelby Homiston Marketing and Public Relations

Coordinator

Holly H. Gilson Senior Director, Communications

Magda Krance Director of Media Relations

Roger Pines Dramaturg

Andrew Cioffi Digital Content Producer

Amanda Reitenbach Social Media Associate

Tracy Galligher Young Senior Director, Marketing and Audience Development

Laura E. Burgos Director of Audience Analytics and Digital Initiatives

Jennifer Colgan Director of Sales and Advertising

Brittany Gonzalez Director of Group Sales

Valerie Bromann Manager of Digital Content and Analysis

Michael Musick E-Commerce Manager

Daniel Crespo Graphic Designer

Margaret Kellas Lyric Unlimited Marketing AssociateStefany Phillips

Creative Project AssociateLindsey Raker

Marketing Associate, Advertising and Promotions

Sarah Sabet Marketing Associate, Special Programs

LeiLynn Farmer Group Sales Coordinator

Anthony Freud, OBEGeneral Director, President & CEOThe Women’s Board Endowed Chair

Sir Andrew DavisMusic Director

The John D. and Alexandra C. Nichols Endowed Chair

Renée Fleming Creative Consultant

Drew LandmesserDeputy General Director and Chief Operating Officer

Elizabeth HurleyChief Development Officer

Roberta LaneChief Financial and Administrative Officer

Cayenne HarrisVice President, Lyric Unlimited

The Chapters’ Endowed Chair for Education

Elizabeth LandonVice President, Human Resources

Nicholas Ivor MartinVice President, Artistic Operations and Labor Strategy

Andreas MelinatVice President, Artistic Planning

Lisa MiddletonVice President, Marketing and Communications

Dan NovakVice President and Director, Ryan Opera CenterThe Ryan Opera Center Board Endowed Chair

Will RajVice President, Information Technology

Rich ReganVice President and General Manager,

Presentations and Events

Michael SmallwoodVice President and Technical Director

The Allan and Elaine Muchin Endowed Chair

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TICKET DEPARTMENT/ AUDIENCE SERVICESSusan Harrison Niemi

Director of Audience ServicesAlex Chatziapostolou-Demas

Sales ManagerJohn Renfroe

Tessitura Manager Laura Waters

Call Center ManagerKelly E. Cronin

VIP Ticketing AssociateDaniel Quinn VIP Ticketing CoordinatorSebastian ArmendarizMarnie BaylounyKelly BourgetAbigail BrownKatie BurnhamAlex CareyEmily Crisp Ashlyn ElliotLeigh FoltaClaire FrenchMichaela GleasonAndrew GrobleAmy GruttadauriaVirginia HeadBailey HowardKaren HuntZach HutchinsonKerri KilleenEve KruegerSteve LandsmanMadison LawrySarah MartinoIan MaryfieldJessica ReinhartBen RossErin SheetsKellie SpringfieldDestiny StrothersAdam StubitschCatlin WattsSamantha WestlakeRyan Wood

Ticket StaffKelly Bourget Katie BurnhamEmily CrispMichaela GleasonBen Ross Lyric Concierge RepresentativesOPERATIONSNicholas Ivor Martin

Vice President, Artistic Operations and Labor Strategy

Stephanie Karr Senior Director of Music Administration

Wendy Skoczen Chief Librarian

Tabitha Boorsma Operations Associate

Gretchen Meyerhoefer Music Administration AssociateClaire Potter

Music Administration CoordinatorPRESENTATIONS AND EVENTSRich Regan

Vice President and General Manager, Presentations and Events

Sharon Lomasney Director of Presentations and Events

Nora O’Malley Director of Facility Operations

Leslie MacLean Facilities Coordinator

Megan St. John Presentations and Events CoordinatorStephen Dunford

Chief EngineerGregg Brody

Box Office ManagerBernard McNeela

EngineerBriette Madrid

Stage Door SupervisorNathan Tuttle

Facilities Porter

PRODUCTIONCameron Arens

Senior Director, Production

Katrina BachusJordan Lee BraunDavid Carl ToulsonMo Zhou

Assistant Stage Directors

John W. ColemanRachel C. HenneberryRachel A. Tobias

Stage Managers

Kristen BarrettRachel C. HenneberryAnderson NunnelleyDaniel SokalskiPeggy StengerAmy C. ThompsonRachel A. TobiasBill WaltersSandra Zamora

Assistant Stage Managers

Ben Bell Bern Rehearsal Department Manager

Kevin Krasinski Artist Services ManagerMarina Vecci

Rehearsal AssociateMichael CalderoneChristine Wagner

Rehearsal Assistants

THE PATRICK G. AND SHIRLEY W. RYAN OPERA CENTERDan Novak

Vice President and Director, Ryan Opera Center The Ryan Opera Center Board Endowed Chair

Craig Terry Music Director The Jannotta Family Endowed Chair

Julia Faulkner Director of Vocal Studies The Elizabeth F. Cheney Foundation

Emma Scherer Associate

TECHNICALMichael Smallwood Vice President and Technical Director The Allan and Elaine Muchin Endowed ChairApril Busch Technical Operations Director Michael Schoenig Technical Finance DirectorMadeleine Borg Production Manager – Lyric Unlimited and Ryan Opera Center

Scott Wolfson Associate Technical DirectorStephen Snyder Technical Coordinator

Joe Dockweiler Master CarpenterMike Reilly Head Flyman/Automation

Jeffrey Streichhirsch Automation Assistant Chris BarkerMatt Reilly Rigging/Automation AssistantsMark Shanabrough Head Shop Carpenter

Brian Grenda Layout Carpenter

Drew Trusk Head Shop Welder

Bruce Woodruff Layout Welder

Richard “Doc” Wren Warehouse CoordinatorDan DiBennardi Assistant Warehouse Coordinator

Dan DonahueJustin HullRyan McGovern Assistant Carpenters

Anthony BernardyAdam GorskyBrian HobbsRobert Hull, Jr.Connor IngersollJohn IngersollDan LangJohnny RiversChase TorringaCarpenters

Chris Maravich Lighting Director The Mary-Louise and James S. Aagaard Endowed ChairSarah RiffleHeather Sparling Assistant Lighting Designers

Michael C. Reynolds Master ElectricianSoren Ersbak Board Operator

John Clarke, Jr.Anthony Coia Gary Grenda Robert Reynolds Assistant Electricians

Jason CombsThomas FernandezThomas HullDaniel KuhAsiel SimpsonJeremy ThomasJose Villalpando Electricians

Joe Schofield Head Audio TechnicianNick CharlanMatt Eble Kelvin Ingram Audio Technicians

Maria DeFabo Akin Props and Scenic Art Director

Charles Reilly Property MasterMichael McPartlin Properties Crew Head

Phil Marcotte Prop CarpenterBob Ladd ArmorerRachel Boultinghouse Upholsterer

Robert HartgeMichael O’Donnell, Jr.Richard Tyriver Assistant Properties

Michael BuergerJoseph Collins Gordon GrangerNick MalloyJoe MathesiusKevin McPartlin Properties

Brian Traynor Charge Artist

Tim MorrisonMichael Murtaugh

Scenic Artists

Scott Marr Wardrobe, Wigs, and Makeup Director

Maureen Reilly Costume Director The Richard P. and Susan Kiphart Endowed ChairLucy Lindquist Wardrobe Mistress

Meriem BahriLouie BarriosJenah HenselMolly HermanJames HerrityRobert HilliardKate KeefeCecylia KinderKrystina LoweTalia NewtonKathy RubelToni RubinoJoanna RzepkaMarguerite ScottRebecca ShouseEwa SzylakBarbara SzylloCarolina TuazonIsaac TurnerMaggie Zabierowski Wardrobe Staff

Samantha Holmes Wardrobe Crew Head

Kristine AndersonScott BarkerBreena CopeLauren CrottyTracy CurranDawn Marie HamiltonDavid HoughCharlie JunkeKim KosteraWendy McCayMoira O'NeilJohn SalyersDulce SantillanLynn SparberChris ValenteRoger WeirSamantha Yonan Dressers

Sarah Hatten Wigmaster and Makeup Designer The Marlys Beider Endowed ChairAllison Burkholder Department CoordinatorChantelle Marie JohnsonLynn KoroulisRobert KuperLana McKinnonClaire Moores StaffBridget Ryzmski Wig Crew HeadJohn Bivins IIIDeShawn BowmanMartha ContrerasBrittany CrinsonToywa CuringtonEric Daniels June GearonDavid GrantCarla HubbsAlicja KlosekBriette MadridPatrick MunozNelson PosadaSunni PowellMonique RhueJada RichardsonLela RosenbergRick SalazarRebecca ScottKacy TatusPat TomlinsonEmily Young Wig and Makeup Crew

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Faulkner as the Countess in Capriccio, her first Strauss role, Bavarian State Opera

Faulkner (seated) as the Countess in The Marriage of Figaro, Bavarian State Opera

Faulkner as Rosalinde in

Die Fledermaus, Netherlands Opera

Faulkner team-teaching with Ryan Opera Center music director Craig Terry

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MasterMentor

The Ryan Opera Center’s Julia Faulkner is helping today’s young artists fulfill their potential

By Roger Pines

Julia Faulkner adores beautiful, interpretively meaningful, technically accomplished singing. The American soprano was known for giving audiences exactly that on major stages during an outstandingly successful international career. Today a new generation of singers is benefiting from Faulkner’s knowledge and experience at Lyric’s renowned artist-development program, The Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan Opera Center, where she is director of vocal studies. Faulkner also teaches at Philadelphia’s Curtis Institute of Music and at other prestigious programs for young singers, including those of The Santa Fe Opera and the Aldeburgh Festival. She recently finished a residency in London with the artists of both the Jette Parker (Royal Opera House) and Harewood (English National Opera) Young Artist programs. In the past two years, her students have been finalists in several of the world’s most prestigious vocal competitions, and she works with many stars of the world’s major houses. The self-described “Wisconsin girl” grew up with parents who encouraged her involvement in the performing arts (Faulkner’s mother was a singer, her father a professor who founded the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point theater arts department). She started with children’s theater and, by age 12, she was in summer-stock productions learning stagecraft. Hearing something special in

First appearance on the Met stage: “Marietta’s Lied” from Die tote Stadt, Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, National Winners’ Concert, 1985.

her singing voice, her father brought her to a local teacher, for whom she auditioned with the ballad "Moon River." She eventually fell in love with classical repertoire, “and once I found that I sang it well, it just seemed natural to go to school and study it.” She did so at Indiana University. Her mentor there – as for so many other successful singers – was Wagner soprano Margaret Harshaw, at that time one of America's most formidable voice teachers. Early on, Faulkner discovered her own gift for teaching. After two semesters on the Northern Arizona University faculty, she got a tenure-track position at Iowa State, “but something in me said, ‘Sing for the Met Auditions and see what happens.’” She was a national winner in the 1985 competition. “When I came back to my dressing room, there were ten agents’ cards on my table. The next day I had signed with one!” Within barely a year she’d made her European debut, singing Mozart’s La finta giardiniera in Lyon. Choosing to build her career initially in supporting roles, the young soprano accepted an ensemble position at Munich’s Bavarian State Opera, “where I knew I’d be around the greatest singers on the planet.” She discovered her core repertoire when the house assigned her 16 (!) roles in challenging operas by Richard Strauss to learn in one year (“It was amazing and life-changing”). In both Munich and Vienna, Faulkner triumphed in Strauss’s Capriccio, Ariadne auf Naxos, Arabella, and Der Rosenkavalier, scoring great successes in Mozart as well. Her career path came full circle in 1994, when she returned to the Met to star as Arabella in her company debut. During nearly 15 years of singing in Europe, Faulkner continued to teach. After family circumstances brought her back to Wisconsin, a faculty position became available at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and she jumped at it. A decade later she was a tenured professor. Looking back, she firmly believes that “what happened was for the best and had a purpose.” During her UW-Madison years, Faulkner also took private students, including a soprano who, beginning at age 15, commuted from Milwaukee for lessons. Seven years later, Emily Pogorelc is now a first-year Ryan Opera Center member who, earlier this year, won the “Most Promising Talent” award at the inaugural Glyndebourne Opera Cup competition in England and debuted at Washington National Opera as Cunegonde in Bernstein's Candide. “I remember being in awe of Julia,” says Pogorelc. “She was a great teacher, and also so wonderful to be around – she had amazing energy. I loved singing, but didn’t know what to do with it. Julia saw someone who was willing

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(Clockwise from right) Faulkner's first publicity

shot; Met debut in the title role of Arabella, 1994; as Gutrune in Götterdämmerung,

Vienna; European debut: as Alice Ford in Falstaff

with Jean-Philippe Lafont in the title role, Opéra de Lyon, 1986.

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to learn. Her brilliance in seeing potential allowed me to develop everything I have now. I’ve found a soul mate in her. Rather than telling me what I want to hear, she tells me what I need to hear. She makes me the best person I can be. Who doesn’t want that?” Once Faulkner’s son left home, she looked to the future, realizing that “I wanted to be around an opera house in a big city, with singers of top quality.” She already had two UW-Madison students at the Ryan Opera Center, soprano Emily Birsan and tenor James Kryshak (both are now launched on splendid international careers). Their artistry prompted the program’s administrators – director Dan Novak and music director Craig Terry – to make Faulkner’s acquaintance. Ultimately, they invited her to teach at the Ryan Opera Center starting in 2013, and appointed her director of vocal studies in 2015. Collaborating with Terry and Novak, Faulkner helps make major decisions regarding the singers’ activities day to day. “That was important for me when asked what I wanted in the job. The physical presence of all three of us here, seeing the singers on a daily basis, is very important.” Faulkner is also part of the decision-making panel at the final auditions. Looking at the artists she’s guided from beginning to end of their time at Lyric, "we're investing a great deal in each and every one of our artists from the moment they arrive to their final day. Our goal is for them to leave with representation and a fairly full season of engagements." The program’s thoroughness is exceptional. There’s extensive musical coaching, language coaching, improvisation and acting work, and sessions regarding the non-musical side of singing professionally, from financial management to proper attire. And of course, there’s the mainstage season and its challenges: in 2018/19, everyone in the Ensemble is singing supporting roles onstage while “covering” (understudying) featured or leading ones. “It’s wonderful that they’re learning major roles while they’re here,” says Faulkner. “We do a ‘cover run’ for every show, attended by Lyric’s artistic management, so they’re in a relatively protected situation. Of course, we make absolutely sure that everyone who covers a role could step in for a performance, if needed.” Other important performance opportunities include Grant Park Music Festival concerts; the Harris Theater’s Beyond the Aria series, in which Ensemble members perform alongside with Lyric stars; and the WFMT broadcast recital series, the only such series in the world,

which gives singers an invaluable chance to develop the non-operatic side of their performing. Faulkner, Novak, and Terry hear singers in scheduled auditions in New York and Chicago, but many come to their attention via their own contacts. About three years ago, recalls Faulkner, “my student, Michael Fabiano [Rodolfo in Lyric’s La bohème this season], was singing in San Francisco when this kid came up to him in the opera house. Michael generously heard him sing and texted me that he was great. Then Renée Fleming told us how wonderful this young tenor was. That was good enough for us!” After participating in the final auditions, Mario Rojas was invited to join the program – he’s currently a second-year Ensemble member. In listening to auditions, the most important thing for Faulkner is that “the singer has something to say. If the voice is perfect but uninspiring, if the performance doesn’t engage me, I usually tune out.” Besides beautiful sound, “I’m listening for intelligence in their technique, and to be sure that vocal issues can be solved in a relatively short time.” Sometimes singers’ potential will be obvious, but major changes may be necessary for them to move forward vocally. For example, alumna Laura Wilde entered the Ryan Opera Center after having just moved from mezzo to soprano. “I was in vocal transition, getting the muscles to work differently,” Wilde recalls. “Julia understood so well where my voice was going, while inching me along and keeping me sane. She’s a miracle worker.” For Wilde, Faulkner’s expertise as a working singer with years of teaching have created “a deep, genuine caring about the young singers she’s guiding through this program. At the Ryan Opera Center, you have an administration for whom you are the priority. Julia, Craig, and Dan just want to help you succeed.” Wilde has indeed succeeded, with exciting engagements this season at Scottish Opera, Stuttgart Opera, and The Santa Fe Opera. The Ryan Opera Center singers benefit continually from working with someone who has achieved everything they want for their own careers. “Julia is able to give invaluable career advice because she had a great career,” says alumnus Anthony Clark Evans, a star of last season’s I puritani at Lyric. “And when it came to my voice getting bigger, she was able to help me corral it until it became feasible for the repertoire we were aiming for – the Verdi parts.” Evans moves into Verdi in a big way this season, singing his first Rigoletto at Kentucky Opera.

Faulkner with one of her most celebrated students,American tenor Michael Fabiano.

Faulkner with Ryan Opera Center alumni

Laura Wilde, Anthony Clark Evans, and

Richard Ollarsaba.

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One of the program's most imposing voices recently has been that of bass Patrick Guetti. After their three years working together in Chicago, Faulkner finds most compelling “Patrick’s ability to scale down the voice’s magnificence when necessary and really show himself in his singing. In his time here, he became a consummate artist.” This season Guetti, who recently made his European debut at Glyndebourne, returns to Lyric in Siegfried and in 2019/20 will join the ensemble of the renowned Deutsche Oper Berlin. Guetti views Faulkner as “a very peaceful person – she gives you a sense of calm when you sing.” In her teaching, Faulkner is about making music, as opposed to just having well-produced tone. “She’ll say, ‘It’s technically right, but we’re here to tell a story and be part of the artistic process.’” What has always impressed Guetti is “how humble and unassuming Julia is. She comes to you with such an open heart, not this air of ‘I’ve sung at the Vienna Staatsoper.’ You walk into the room with her and you feel safe.” When a singer is preparing for a production, Faulkner observes how it’s going, especially towards the end. “I’ll try to go to the Sitzprobe [the singers’ first rehearsal with the orchestra] and dress rehearsal. I might say, ‘You turned too far offstage and I couldn’t hear you. You have to cheat at that point.’ I love to tell them when they’ve hit the ‘sweet spots’ onstage, where the sound kind of shoots out.” Assuming technical, musical, and textual matters are totally in hand, Faulkner can then talk to singers about character “and how their vocalization enhances – or distracts – from what they want to say dramatically.” It’s vital to Faulkner that singers have a complete idea of role preparation. For example, “you don’t just translate your part – you need to know exactly what everyone is saying all the time, even if you’re not onstage.” Faulkner encourages intellectual and artistic curiosity: “Chicago has so many offerings that can help in that regard. Theater, ballet, symphony, museums – this is the world you’re going to live in! It creates the artist within you and helps to make you a world citizen.”

The topics Faulkner and her colleagues discuss with the singers are limitless, from working with agents to conversing with donors. During Faulkner’s own student days, social media didn’t exist and “we didn’t think that much about how to market ourselves. Nowadays mass appeal is important, and there’s an incredible amount of information that you need to communicate.” Overriding everything else is simply “learning how to be a good colleague, which is so important.” Many Ryan Opera Center singers choose to continue working with Faulkner once they leave Lyric. “Before they leave, they know they can always consider me their mentor. I’m there for them, and am thrilled to have been part of sending them out into the professional world. In what I’m doing now, I can use every aspect of my life and pass on what I know. I hope these singers will do the same one day. I think it’s so important to have a purpose in this art form, and whatever it is, we all do our part.”

Roger Pines, dramaturg of Lyric Opera of Chicago, has appeared annually on the Metropolitan Opera broadcasts’ “Opera Quiz” for the past 12 years and also contributes regularly to opera-related publications and recording companies internationally. He taught a seminar, “The Glory of Great Singing,” last spring at Chicago’s renowned Newberry Library.

(Top) During the 2017 season of Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, three Ryan Opera Center alumni appeared in La clemenza di Tito – mezzo-soprano Cecelia Hall, soprano Laura Wilde, and tenor René Barbera. Pictured at OTSL after a Tito performance are (left to right) Ryan Opera Center music director Craig Terry, Hall, Julia Faulkner, Wilde, Barbera, and Ryan Opera Center director Dan Novak.

Julia Faulkner in voice lessons with soprano Emily Pogorelc (top) and tenor Eric Ferring (above). The pianist is Celeste Rue.

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Siegfried SynopsisPLACE AND TIME: Legendary

ACT ONEMime’s hutMime, one of the mythical race of Nibelung dwarves, works at his forge to create a sword for his foster child, Siegfried. He knows that the new weapon will not satisfy the youth, whose powerful arm will shatter the blade at the first blow. Mime is desperate to achieve his goal – possession of the Ring and the Tarnhelm. This could be accomplished if Siegfried slays Fafner, who has assumed the shape of a dragon and now guards the stolen Nibelung treasures. Mime could then dispose of Siegfried and have the Ring’s power to himself. Siegfried appears, terrorizing Mime with a wild bear. Mime hands him the new sword, which Siegfried immediately destroys. Siegfried instinctively distrusts Mime, despite his apparent kindness. Mime’s reproaches provoke a quarrel during which the youth extracts from him the name of his mother and the circumstances of his birth. Mime shows Siegfried the broken pieces of Nothung, his father’s sword. Siegfried orders Mime to reforge it, for he is eager to strike out on his own. He rushes back into the forest. Wotan, disguised as the Wanderer, enters the hut seeking rest. Mime tries to keep him out, but he wagers his head against a moment’s shelter that he can answer any riddle. Mime is unable to outwit him. It is Mime’s turn to solve his guest’s riddles, and he easily guesses the first two answers: The Volsungs are the race Wotan most loves and most oppresses; and Nothung is the sword Fafner’s slayer must wield. Mime fails to answer the third riddle: “Who shall forge together the fragments of Nothung?” The Wanderer supplies the solution: “One who has never known fear.” The Wanderer departs, declaring that he forfeits to the unknown hero his prize – Mime’s head. Mime realizes he has erred by never teaching Siegfried fear. He is confident that Fafner will teach the youth this emotion, and when Siegfried returns, he proposes that they go immediately to the dragon’s lair. Siegfried insists upon first having his father’s sword but, since Mime is unable to forge it, Siegfried sets to work himself. Mime is torn by a dilemma: Siegfried must have the sword to kill Fafner; yet if he forges the weapon, he may also fulfill the Wanderer’s prophecy and claim Mime’s life. Having decided to drug Siegfried after the encounter with Fafner and kill him when he is unconscious, Mime brews the potion that will destroy Siegfried. Seizing his reforged weapon, Siegfried splits the anvil in half.

ACT TWOThe edge of the forestNear Fafner’s cave, Alberich keeps a vigil, waiting for his curse on the Ring’s possessor to claim its new victim and thus enable him to recover the Ring and the Tarnhelm. When the Wanderer appears, Alberich sees through the disguise and recognizes Wotan, king of the gods. Wotan tells Alberich he is simply an observer, not a participant. He informs Alberich that Mime is coming with Siegfried to destroy Fafner; afterwards, Alberich must contend with his brother Mime for control of the treasures, for Wotan does not covet them. At Wotan’s suggestion, Alberich warns the dragon of the approaching danger and urges him to return the Ring to its rightful owner in order to preserve his life and the remainder of his hoard. Fafner refuses. Wotan withdraws, and Alberich swears that he will have vengeance on the gods.

As dawn breaks, Mime and Siegfried arrive. Mime warns Siegfried of the lethal venom that gushes from Fafner’s mouth, and of the power of the monster’s tail to encircle and crush all adversaries. Unperturbed, Siegfried merely verifies that his foe has a heart like any other beast. He drives Mime away, then stretches out beneath a tree. Thinking of what he has heard from Mime about his birth, Siegfried wonders what his parents were like. Fashioning a flute from a reed, he attempts to imitate a bird’s song. Failing, he sounds his hunting horn, arousing Fafner, whom he kills. As Siegfried withdraws his sword from Fafner’s body, blood spatters his fingers, which he impulsively draws to his lips. He can then understand the birds, and can also read Mime’s innermost thoughts. The forest bird urges him to enter Fafner’s cave to seize the Ring and the Tarnhelm. Siegfried disappears into the cave as Mime approaches to make certain that Fafner is dead. Alberich rushes forward barring his way, and the brothers quarrel over who shall possess the treasures. Both leave as Siegfried emerges from the cave. The forest bird warns him to beware of Mime. When Mime speaks to Siegfried, he is able to reply to Mime’s secret thoughts rather than his cajoling words. Realizing what Mime plans to do, Siegfried kills him. Alberich’s laughter rings out in the distance. Siegfried learns from the bird that Brünnhilde sleeps on a mountaintop, surrounded by a circle of fire penetrable only by one who has never known fear. He sets out to find her.

ACT THREEScene 1. A desolate landscapeWotan summons the earth-goddess Erda to consult her wisdom. When she cannot help him to forestall impending events, he resigns himself to whatever Siegfried and Brünnhilde bring to pass. Once Siegfried appears, the youth’s arrogant fearlessness first amuses, then antagonizes Wotan, who warns him against the sea of flames. When Siegfried disregards the warning, Wotan bars the path with his spear, but Siegfried’s sword shatters it. Sadly picking up the pieces, Wotan offers no further opposition.

Scene 2. The summit of the Valkyries’ rockSiegfried emerges from the flames and comes upon the sleeping Brünnhilde. He initially mistakes her for a warrior, but as he removes her armor he realizes that she is a woman. When he kisses her lips, she awakens and is ecstatic upon learning the hero’s name. At first she recoils from his wooing and, prompted by memories of her former godhood, she contemplates human love with shame. Finally Siegfried arouses in her a passion to equal his own.

Approximate Timings

ACT ONE 85 minutesIntermission 30 minutesACT TWO 75 minutesIntermission 30 minutes

ACT THREE 80 minutesTotal 5 hours

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• Specialty inflatable scenery and props provided by Signs & Shapes International, Inc.

• Scenery constructed by Adirondack Studios, Ravenswood Studio Inc, and Bay Productions, Cardiff, Wales, U.K.

• Costumes provided by: Will Skeet, Roxy Cressy, Angelina Pieroni, Robert Allsopp, Sally Payne, Karen Crichton and Trevor Collins. Dyeing by Nicola Killeen Textiles. Additional dyeing and distressing by Laura Whitlock.

• Erda's blanket specialty painting by Iris Color Studio, Minneapolis, Minnesota.

• Puppet Adviser: Brandon Kirkham.

• Lyric Opera of Chicago gratefully acknowledges the support of the Irma Parker German Opera Endowed Chair and the Wagner Endowed Chair - a gift from an Anonymous Donor.

• Lyric Opera of Chicago wishes to thank its Official Airline, American Airlines.

• Projected English titles © Lyric Opera of Chicago, 2018.

• This season’s projected English titles are funded in part by a generous grant from the Lloyd E. Rigler-Lawrence E. Deutsch Foundation.

Mime MATTHIAS KLINK* Siegfried BURKHARD FRITZ** The Wanderer (Wotan) ERIC OWENS Alberich SAMUEL YOUN Fafner PATRICK GUETTI°° Forest Bird DIANA NEWMAN°° Erda RONNITA MILLER* Brünnhilde CHRISTINE GOERKE

Conductor SIR ANDREW DAVIS Director DAVID POUNTNEY Original Scenery Designer JOHAN ENGELS Scenery Designer ROBERT INNES HOPKINS Costume Designer MARIE-JEANNE LECCA Lighting Designer FABRICE KEBOUR Choreographer DENNI SAYERS Wig and Makeup Designer SARAH HATTEN Associate Director ROB KEARLEY Assistant Scenery Designer MATT REES Assistant Director KATRINA BACHUS Stage Manager JOHN W. COLEMAN Costume Supervisor RACHEL DICKSON Stage Band Conductor ERIC WEIMER Musical Preparation JERAD MOSBEY MADELINE SLETTEDAHL°

Prompter SUSAN MILLER HULT Projected English Titles COLIN URE

* Lyric debut ** American operatic stage debut ° Current member, The Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan Opera Center °° Alumni, The Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan Opera Center

New Production

Richard Wagner

SIEGFRIEDMusic drama in three acts in German

Libretto by the composer

First performed at the Festspielhaus, Bayreuth, Germany on August 16, 1876

First performed by Lyric Opera on October 31, 1973

Characters in order of vocal appearance:

Actors: BRIAN J. BARBER, JON BEAL, NICHOLAS HARAZIN, CHRIS LAFFERTY, JOSHUA LEE, JOHN B. LEEN, DAVID LINTZENICH, RICHARD MANERA,

JOSHUA MOANEY, MICHAEL SAUBERT, JR., LAURENCE STEPNEY, KAI YOUNG; KATHERINE COYL, MICHELLE FORD,

KELLY MARYANSKI, MAGGIE CLENNON REBERG, SARAH SAPPERSTEIN

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BURKHARD FRITZ (Siegfried)American operatic stage debut

The German tenor is especially renowned for heroic Wagner roles. The past several seasons have included triumphs

as Tannhäuser (Oper Leipzig, Berlin State Opera, Vlaamse Opera); Lohengrin (Vienna State Opera, Royal Danish Opera, Deutsche Oper am Rhein); Parsifal (Bayreuth Festival, Beijing Music Festival); Siegmund/Die Walküre (Oper Leipzig); and Erik/The Flying Dutchman (Cologne Opera). After studying medicine at the University of Hamburg, Fritz joined first the Stadttheater Bremerhaven and subsequently Gelsenkirchen’s Musiktheater, before spending six years at one of Europe’s most prestigious theaters, the Berlin State Opera. Besides Wagner, stage successes encompass roles by Beethoven (Florestan/Fidelio, Tel Aviv, Florence, Amsterdam), Weber (Max/Der Freischütz, Hamburg, Berlin), and Strauss (Emperor/Die Frau ohne Schatten, Leipzig, Berlin, Frankfurt). Later this season Fritz stars in Parsifal (Munich), Die tote Stadt (Dresden), and Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (Berlin). He recently performed in concert with the Staatskapelle Berlin and at the Berlin State Opera’s Wagner Gala. The tenor is featured on DVD in Benvenuto Cellini, Les vêpres siciliennes, Gurrelieder, and The Mahler Project: Mahler No. 8 “Symphony of a Thousand.” He has recorded with the Bavarian State Orchestra, Netherlands Radio Orchestra, and Frankfurt Opera and Museum Orchestra.

CHRISTINE GOERKE (Brünnhilde)Previously at Lyric: Brünnhilde/Die Walküre (2017/18); Cassandre/Les Troyens (2016/17);title role/Elektra (2012/13).

The American soprano is internationally celebrated for many of opera’s most formidable roles, including Brünnhilde (Houston, Toronto, Edinburgh); Turandot (London, Philadelphia, New York); Elektra (London, Madrid, Houston, Boston, New York, San Francisco); the Dyer’s Wife/Die Frau ohne Schatten (New York); and Ariadne (Santiago, Houston). Goerke has won particular acclaim for Brünnhilde, which she reprises this season in Ring cycles at the Metropolitan Opera. Before returning to the Met, she will star as Elektra at the Canadian Opera Company. She has appeared on many other major opera stages worldwide, among them the Deutsche Oper Berlin, the Opéra National de Paris, and Madrid’s Teatro Real. Goerke has been featured on Grammy Award-winning recordings of Vaughan Williams’s A Sea Symphony conducted by Robert Spano (Best Classical Recording and

Best Choral Performance) and Britten’s War Requiem under her mentor, Robert Shaw (Best Choral Performance). The soprano initiated her ascent to prominence with Iphigénie en Tauride (Glimmerglass Opera Festival, New York City Opera, CD) and as Mozart’s Donna Elvira (Met, Seattle, Paris, Tokyo), Donna Anna (Covent Garden, Tokyo), and Elettra and Vitellia (both in Paris). Her many awards include the Richard Tucker Award, the Musical America Vocalist of the Year Award, and the Opera News Award.

ERIC OWENS (The Wanderer)Previously at Lyric: Six roles since 2007/08, most recently Wotan/Die Walküre (2017/18); Wotan/Das Rheingold (2016/17); Porgy/Porgy and Bess (2014/15).

The celebrated American bass-baritone’s successes in Wagner roles include the Dutchman (Washington) and Alberich (Metropolitan Opera, Deutsche Oper Berlin, DVD). This season he returns to the Met for another major Wagner role, Hagen/Götterdämmerung, and reprises Porgy (Amsterdam). In recent seasons Owens has triumphed at the Met in three other roles: Vodník/Rusalka (new production), Jaufré/Kaija Saariaho’s L’amour de loin (new production, company premiere), and Orest/Elektra (new production), all seen worldwide in HD. Recent highlights also include Méphistophélès/The Damnation of Faust with the New Zealand Symphony and Orest at the Verbier Festival; Philip II/Don Carlo (Opera Philadelphia); and bass soloist/Bach’s St. Matthew Passion (Berlin Philharmonic). Owens earned repeated successes premiering contemporary works, such as Goldenthal’s Grendel (Los Angeles), John Adams’s A Flowering Tree (Vienna’s New Crowned Hope Festival, CD) and Doctor Atomic (San Francisco, DVD, CD). Owens’s operatic versatility encompasses The Magic Flute (Paris); Norma (Covent Garden); Rigoletto and Il trovatore (Los Angeles); and Macbeth, Lost in the Stars, and The Rape of Lucretia (Glimmerglass Festival, where Owens has been artistic adviser since 2017). The Houston Grand Opera Studio alumnus serves Lyric as a Community Ambassador and the Curtis Institute as co-director of the Curtis Vocal Studies Department and Curtis Opera Theatre.

MATTHIAS KLINK (Mime)Lyric debut

The German tenor, Opernwelt magazine’s 2017 Singer of the Year, is a native of Stuttgart. He performs frequently there at the city’s State

Opera, with 14 major roles since 2013/14, among them Aschenbach/Death in Venice, Don José/Carmen, Herod/Salome, Max/

Der Freischütz, Eisenstein/Die Fledermaus, Policeman/Doctor/Archangel/Mark Andre’s Wunderzaichen (world premiere), Faust/The Damnation of Faust, and the Captain/Wozzeck. Other recent credits include Alwa/Lulu (Hamburg, Munich) and the Earl of Kent/Lear (Salzburg Festival). Klink debuted at the Metropolitan Opera in 2009 (Tamino/The Magic Flute) and has also performed in the major opera houses of Berlin, Vienna, Madrid, Milan, Amsterdam, and Barcelona. This spring he returns to Stuttgart to portray Mao Zedong/Nixon in China. He has appeared in concert at Paris’s Salle Pleyel, the Kölner Philharmonie, the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden, Salzburg Easter Festival, and Vienna’s Musikverein. On DVD the tenor has recorded Belmonte/The Abduction from the Seraglio (performances with both Stuttgart State Opera and Les Musiciens du Louvre), Don Polidoro/La finta semplice (Salzburg Festival), and Narraboth/Salome (La Scala). He can be heard on CD with the Munich Radio Orchestra, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, SWR Vokalensemble, Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra, and Southwest German Radio Symphony Orchestra.

RONNITA MILLER (Erda)Lyric debut The American mezzo-soprano reprises a role she has made her own in recent years, including at the world-renowned Deutsche Oper Berlin

where she is currently a member of the ensemble. She has sung 27 roles in Berlin since the 2013/14 season, ranging stylistically from Marcellina/The Marriage of Figaro and Marthe Schwertlein/Faust to Fenena/Nabucco, Ulrica/Un ballo in maschera, and Bianca/The Rape of Lucretia; she also won great acclaim for her performance as Fidès/Le prophète. Other recent highlights include Erda/Das Rheingold and Siegfried and First Norn/Götterdämmerung (San Francisco Opera), Amando/Ligeti’s Le grand macabre (Berlin Philharmonic), Fricka/Die Walküre (Odense Symphony Orchestra Denmark), and Mary/The Flying Dutchman (Ravinia Festival, LA Opera). Miller soon takes Erda/Das Rheingold to Madrid’s Teatro Real and returns to the Metropolitan Opera as First Norn (she debuted there in the role in 2011). Concert appearances include Verdi’s Requiem at Hannover’s Staatstheater. She appears on DVD in Aribert Reimann’s L’Invisible (world premiere, Deutsche Oper), and can be heard on CD in Dett’s oratorio The Ordering of Moses with the May Festival Chorus and the Cincinnati Symphony as well as in “Diex, Com Leur Avient” part of a complete set of Stravinsky’s works. The mezzo-soprano is well known on the Berlin jazz scene.

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SAMUEL YOUN (Alberich)Previously at Lyric: Alberich/Das Rheingold (2016/17).

In the Ring cycle, the South Korean bass-baritone has scored recent successes as both Alberich

(Edinburgh International Festival) and Wotan (Deutsche Oper Berlin). Youn, who achieved a significant international breakthrough in 2012 as Wagner's Dutchman at the Bayreuth Festival and later took on that role at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, has also sung other demanding German roles, including Jochanaan/Salome (Deutsche Oper Berlin), Kurwenal/Tristan und Isolde (Deutsche Oper Berlin), Kaspar/Freischütz (Cologne Opera), and Gunther/Götterdämmerung (Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden). He made a memorable debut at London's Royal Opera House as Scarpia/Tosca in 2016. Youn’s versatility also encompasses such diverse roles as Iago/Otello (Dresden), Leporello/Don Giovanni (Cologne), Tonio/Pagliacci (Berlin), and Orest/Elektra (Wiesbaden). Later this season, he reprises Alberich/Das Rheingold (Madrid’s Teatro Real) and returns to the Cologne Opera as Vodník/Rusalka and Scarpia. Concert appearances include Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 (Essen Philharmonic Orchestra) and Brahms’s German Requiem (Seoul Philharmonic). The bass-baritone has recorded three Wagner operas: Lohengrin (Royal Concertgebouw), Das Rheingold (Hallé Orchestra), and The Flying Dutchman (Bayreuth Festival). Youn began his career as first-place winner of several international competitions, including the Treviso Toti dal Monte, the Seoul Chung-Ang, the Genoa Franz Schubert Contest, and the Naples Francesco Albanese Contest. Samuel Youn is sponsored by Drs. Young, Byong Uk, and Mrs. Myung Soon Chung.

DIANA NEWMAN (Forest bird)Previously at Lyric: Seven roles since 2015/16, most recently Jazz Trio Member/Trouble in Tahiti, Page/Rigoletto (both 2017/18); Frasquita/Carmen; (2016/17).

The American soprano, a recent winner of the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions (Illinois District), returns to Lyric for the first time since her Ryan Opera Center tenure. Newman received both her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in music from the University of Southern California (title role/L’incoronazione di Poppea, Miranda/The Tempest, Pamina/The Magic Flute, Lauretta/Gianni Schicchi, Belisa/Conrad Susa’s The Love of Don Perlimplin). Her many concert credits include Bach’s “Coffee” Cantata (Whittier Bach Festival), Maria Schneider’s Winter Morning Walks (Lucerne Festival), Barber’s Knoxville: Summer of 1915 (Eastern Sierra Symphony Summer Festival), Francesco Cilluffo’s The Land

to Life Again (UCLA Camarades Ensemble, world premiere), Mahler’s Symphony No. 4 (American Youth Symphony Orchestra), and Curly’s Wife/Of Mice and Men (Grant Park Music Festival). In Chicago she has also appeared in the Harris Theater’s Beyond the Aria series. The soprano is an alumna of Ravinia’s Steans Music Institute, the Music Academy of the West in Santa Barbara, the Fall Island Vocal Arts Seminar, the Aspen Opera Theater Center, and the Oberlin in Italy program. She can be heard on the soundtracks of three feature films: The Sorcerer’s Apprentice (2010), Sex and the City 2 (2010), and The Spirit (2008).

PATRICK GUETTI (Fafner)Previously at Lyric: Six roles since 2015/16, most recently Mandarin/Turandot (2017/18); Dr. Grenvil/La traviata (“Celebrating Plácido!” concert), Zaretsky/Eugene Onegin (both 2016/17).

A New Jersey native and a Ryan Opera Center alumnus, the bass has recently undertaken company debuts as Sparafucile/Rigoletto (Wolf Trap), Sciarrone/Tosca (Los Anegeles Philharmonic), and Nightwatchman/Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (Glyndebourne). Guetti returns to Opera Philadelphia later this season as Snug/A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Next season he joins the prestigious Deutsche Oper Berlin ensemble. As a Santa Fe Opera apprentice, Guetti appeared in Carmen, Fidelio, Theodore Morrison’s Oscar (world premiere) and Huang Ruo’s Dr. Sun Yat-Sen (American premiere). He studied at Philadelphia’s Academy of Vocal Arts (title role/Don Quichotte, Prince Gremin/Zaretsky/Eugene Onegin, Don Basilio/The Barber of Seville, Tom/Un Ballo in Maschera, Crespel and Wilhelm/Les contes d’Hoffmann). He has been featured with soprano Nicole Cabell in the Harris Theater’s “Beyond the Aria” series, and can be heard on CD in Bernstein’s Songfest with the National Symphony Orchestra. The bass is a past recipient of the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions grand prize, the Richard Tucker Foundation’s Sarah Tucker Grant, first prize in the Gerda Lissner competition, Audience Favorite Award at the Giargiri Bel Canto Competition, and first prize in the Prémio “Verdi” Competition.

SIR ANDREW DAVIS (Conductor)Previously at Lyric: 58 operas since 1987,most recently Idomeneo (2018/19); Turandot, The Pearl Fishers (both 2017/18).

Lyric Opera of Chicago’s renowned music director began this season conducting the Last Night of the BBC Proms at London’s Royal Albert Hall and concerts with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra. In addition

to Lyric’s Idomeneo, Siegfried, and Cendrillon, 2018/19 highlights include a Mozart/Duruflé program with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic and Act One of Die Walküre with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra (where Sir Andrew is currently chief conductor). The complete Walküre was a triumph for Sir Andrew at the 2017 Edinburgh International Festival. He has also earned acclaim for recent appearances with the Philharmonia Orchestra and the Detroit and Frankfurt Radio symphony orchestras. Former music director of Glyndebourne Festival Opera, Davis is also conductor laureate of the BBC Symphony Orchestra and the Toronto Symphony Orchestra (for which he is currently interim artistic director). Operatic successes include productions at many major international companies, from the Metropolitan Opera, Covent Garden, and La Scala to the Bayreuth Festival and the leading houses of San Francisco, Munich, and Santa Fe. Davis has appeared with virtually every internationally prominent orchestra, including those of Chicago, New York, London, Berlin, Amsterdam, and Rotterdam. A vast discography documents his artistry, with recent releases including programs of Berlioz and Ives, as well as Handel’s Messiah in Sir Andrew’s new orchestration. Sir Andrew Davis is the John D. and Alexandra C. Nichols Endowed Chair.

DAVID POUNTNEY (Director)Previously at Lyric:Five productionssince 1987/88, mostrecently Die Walküre (2017/18); Das Rheingold(2016/17); The Passenger (2014/15).

Artistic director of Welsh National Opera since 2011, the internationally celebrated British director in recent seasons has created productions of such formidable and stylistically diverse works as Rossini’s Mosè in Egitto (Naples), Francesca da Rimini (La Scala), Lulu (Bolzano), Guillaume Tell and The Haunted Manor (both in Warsaw), and the world premieres of Rolf Wallin’s Elysium (Oslo), Elena Langer’s Figaro Gets a Divorce and Iain Bell’s In Parenthesis (both in Cardiff). Among his new productions this season are War and Peace (WNO), Manon Lescaut (La Scala), and I vespri siciliani (Bonn). Pountney’s historic production of Mieczysław Weinberg’s The Passenger was first seen at the Bregenz Festival (world stage premiere), where Pountney was Intendant from 2003 to 2014. It has been remounted at Lyric, London’s English National Opera, New York’s Lincoln Center Festival, and the major companies of Warsaw, Houston (U.S. premiere), Miami, and Detroit. Former director of production at English National Opera and Scottish Opera, Pountney holds the Janáček Medal, the Martinů Medal, and two Olivier Awards. He is both a CBE and a Chevalier des Arts et Lettres, has the Cavalier’s Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland, and was awarded the Ehrenkreuz des Bundes Österreich in 2014. (See Director’s Note, page 33.)

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JOHAN ENGELS (Original Set Designer)Previously at Lyric: Four productions since 2013/14, most recently Die Walküre (2017/18); Das Rheingold (2016/17); The Passenger (2014/15).

The South African designer (1952-2014) was renowned internationally for his work in opera, theater, and ballet. His designs for The Passenger have been integral to the success of Mieczysław Weinberg’s opera – first in its world stage premiere at the 2010 Bregenz Festival and subsequently in London, Warsaw, Houston (American premiere), New York, Chicago, Detroit, and Miami. In addition to his Bregenz productions, highlights of Engels’s operatic career included productions for London’s Royal Opera House, Covent Garden (Arne’s Artaxerxes), the Zurich Opera House (such rarities as Johann Strauss II’s Simplicius, Montemezzi’s L’amore dei tre re, and Chabrier’s L’étoile), the Opéra de Marseille (Ring cycle), LA Opera (L’elisir d’amore, also seen in Madrid, Geneva, and Graz), the Salzburg Festival (Turandot), Welsh National Opera (Khovanshchina, Lulu, Don Carlos, the latter coproduced with Houston Grand Opera), the Deutsche Oper Berlin, the Opéra National de Paris, Opera North, and Finnish National Opera, among many other companies. In British theater the designer was associated with the Donmar Warehouse (including David Leveaux’s production of Sophocles’s Electra, which transferred to Broadway), Royal Shakespeare Company, Almeida Theatre, and Chichester Festival.

ROBERT INNES HOPKINS (Set Designer)Previously at Lyric: Die Walküre (2017/18); Das Rheingold (2016/17);Rigoletto (2012/13, 2005/06).

The renowned British designer has earned equal

acclaim in opera and theater. Highlighting the 2018/19 season are The Lady in the Van (Theatre Royal, Bath), Julius Caesar (Royal Shakespeare Company), and a new production of War and Peace (Welsh National Opera), the latter a collaboration with his frequent colleague, director David Pountney. Among Hopkins’s many previous productions with Pountney have been Prince Igor (Zurich Opera House), Carmen (Bolshoi Theatre), and most recently Iain Bell’s In Parenthesis (Welsh National Opera, world premiere). Among the designer’s most important operatic achievements are works of Verdi (Rigoletto, Welsh National Opera), Wagner (The Flying

Dutchman, WNO; Lohengrin, San Francisco Opera; Tristan und Isolde, Venice), Janáček (The Cunning Little Vixen, San Francisco Opera), Britten (Peter Grimes, Billy Budd, both at The Santa Fe Opera), Puccini (Madama Butterfly, Den Jyske Opera in Aarhus, Denmark), and Bernd Alois Zimmermann (Die Soldaten for the Ruhr Triennale, which won Germany’s highly prestigious Opernwelt Award). The designer’s theater credits include productions at the Chichester Festival (King Lear, also seen at the Brooklyn Academy of Music), in London for the Royal Shakespeare Company and the Old Vic, Nottingham Playhouse, and Bristol Old Vic, among other companies.

MARIE-JEANNE LECCA (Costume Designer)Previously at Lyric: Die Walküre (2017/18); Das Rheingold (2016/17); The Passenger (2014/15).

The Romanian-born, London-based designer’s

operatic work has been seen internationally in more than 40 productions directed by David Pountney, most recently War and Peace (Cardiff premiere, subsequent tour to five British theaters), La forza del destino (Cardiff), and a Weill/Schoenberg triple bill (Opéra National du Rhin). Lecca later this season will design for Pountney’s new productions of Un ballo in maschera (WNO), Manon Lescaut (La Scala), and I vespri siciliani (Bonn Opernhaus). She has collaborated extensively with other prominent directors, among them Keith Warner and Francesca Zambello. Her costumes for The Passenger have been seen in Bregenz (world stage premiere), Warsaw, London, Houston (U.S. premiere), Chicago, New York, Miami, and Detroit. Lecca’s diverse repertoire also encompasses Mozart (The Magic Flute, Bregenz); Wagner (Rienzi, Vienna; Tristan und Isolde, Cologne; Ring cycle, Covent Garden); Puccini (Il trittico, Lyon; Turandot, Salzburg); French works (Carmen, Moscow, Houston, Seattle; Salammbo, Paris; La juive, Zurich; Pelléas et Mélisande, Cardiff); 20th-century German repertoire (Die Frau ohne Schatten, Zurich; Moses und Aron, Munich; Wozzeck, Covent Garden; Die Soldaten, Ruhrtriennale, New York; Lulu, WNO); Slavic works (Prince Igor, Zurich; King Roger, Bregenz); and musical theater (Pacific Overtures, London; West Side Story, Bregenz). Lecca received the Martinů Medal for Julietta (Opera North) and The Greek Passion (Covent Garden).

FABRICE KEBOUR (Lighting Designer)Previously at Lyric: Die Walküre (2017/18);Das Rheingold (2016/17); The Passenger (2014/15).

In addition to Lyric’s Siegfried, the French lighting designer’s work will be seen

in five other new productions this season, among them Michael Jarrell’s Bérénice (world premiere, Opéra National de Paris), Un ballo in maschera (Welsh National Opera), and Manon Lescaut (La Scala). Revivals of other productions will be seen in nine other major European opera houses, among them the Vienna Volksoper and Staatsoper, the Polish National Opera, the Opéra de Lausanne, and the Israeli Opera. Kebour’s most recent work also includes Simon Boccanegra (Flanders Opera), La forza del destino (Vienna State Opera), Faust (Opéra National de Paris), The Magic Flute (Bregenz Festival), and productions for Paris’s Châtelet, and the Mariinsky Theater, among many other houses. Kebour’s non-theatrical work includes designing the 2006 opening and closing ceremonies of the 15th Asian Games in Doha and the Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space exhibit “Light Speaks”, a retrospective of world-renowned lighting designers. Kebour has received three Molière Award nominations and one Welsh Theatre Award nomination for best lighting design.

DENNI SAYERS (Choreographer)Previously at Lyric: Eight productions since 2000-01, among them Die Walküre (2017/18); The Magic Flute (2016/17); Porgy and Bess (2014/15, 2008/09).

The British choreographer and director began the current season collaborating with David Pountney as assistant director and choreographer of War and Peace at Welsh National Opera. Later in the season she will choreograph Pountney’s new Manon Lescaut at La Scala. Sayers, who has worked on eight productions at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, since 1999, collaborates regularly with many other major directors, including Neil Armfield (Hamlet, Glyndebourne), Adrian Noble (Hansel und Gretel, Vienna), and Jonathan Kent (Manon Lescaut, Covent Garden). She has also enjoyed close associations with Francesca Zambello (including Washington National Opera’s Ring cycle, remounted last season at San Francisco Opera) and the late Nikolaus Lehnhoff (six productions, among them Turandot at La Scala‚ Elektra at the Salzburg Festival, and Parsifal at English National Opera). Sayers’s

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directing credits include new productions of Tosca (Toronto), West Side Story (Tel Aviv), and The Pearl Fishers (Tulsa); Rachel Portman’s The Water Diviner’s Tale and two Doctor Who concerts (all for the BBC Proms). Upcoming next year she will revival-direct Zambello’s Carmen in San Francisco and direct a new production of Don Giovanni (Tulsa Opera). Her work has also been seen at the Bregenz Festival and the leading opera houses of Sydney, Amsterdam, Berlin, and San Francisco.

SARAH HATTEN (Wigmaster and Makeup Designer)Wigmaster and makeup designer since 2011/12.

Lyric’s wigmaster and makeup designer has worked in a wide repertoire at Des Moines Metro

Opera and Michigan Opera Theatre, as well as Columbus Opera, Toledo Opera, the Cabrillo Music Festival, and the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music. She has also

worked at the Glimmerglass Festival and the major opera companies of Los Angeles, Omaha, Cleveland, Sarasota, and Central City, as well as Wisconsin’s American Players Theatre and, in Los Angeles, the Pantages Theatre and the Geffen Playhouse. Sarah Hatten is the Marlys Beider Wigmaster and Makeup Designer Endowed Chair.

ROB KEARLEY (Associate Director)Previously at Lyric: Five productionssince 2014/15, most recently Turandot,Die Walküre (both 2017/18); Das Rheingold (2016/17).

The British director returned to the U. S. two seasons ago for his San Francisco Opera debut (Rigoletto). He has worked with companies across Europe and North America including English National Opera, Canadian Opera Company, Opera North, Opéra de Lyon, Prague State Opera, Prague National

Theatre, Teatro Comunale Bolzano, and the Bregenz Festival. Kearley has collaborated with numerous renowned directors, among them David Pountney, Christopher Alden, Tim Albery, Robert Carsen, Chen Shi-Zheng, and Yoshi Oida, among others. Recent engagements include Portraits de Manon at the Wexford Festival; revivals of The Passenger for Florida Grand Opera, Michigan Opera Theatre, and Houston Grand Opera; directing at the Europa Cantat Festival in Turin; Judith Weir’s Miss Fortune at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden; working with the Opéra Comique in Paris; Faust (new production) and Death in Venice for Opera North; The Magic Flute for the Bregenz Festival; and Peter Grimes for the Opéra de Lyon.

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starting to fall under the spell of Tristan und Isolde. By 1859 the new opera was complete, although Tristan would not enjoy its debut performance until six years later in Munich.And there was more on Wagner’s plate: in 1861 he revised his earlier opera Tannhäuser for a new production in Paris, described by one opera historian as “one of the greatest operatic flops of all time.” When Wagner had the audacity to place the Venusberg ballet right after the overture, the French were outraged, including the august Jockey Club swells who booed vociferously throughout the entire opera. Tannhäuser closed after only three performances, and Wagner never returned to Paris. Finally, there was that minor piece of business at decade’s end called Die

Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Wagner’s only comedy of his mature operas. An amnesty from King Ludwig II served as a pardon for Wagner’s role in the 1849 Dresden Uprising, making the composer no longer persona non grata in Germany. Wagner set up shop in Munich, this time with a new wife, Cosima von Búlow, the daughter of Liszt and former wife of conductor Hans von Bülow (Wagner’s first wife, Minna, had died in 1866). Wagner’s affair with Cosima had been one of the worst-kept secrets in Europe, yet von Bülow still agreed to conduct the world premieres of Tristan in 1865 and Meistersinger in 1868. When Wagner finally returned to Siegfried, he was simply a different composer. The groundbreaking harmonic and rhythmic structures of Tristan – one of the most influential compositions in the history of music – had carved a permanent place in Wagner’s creative imagination. Act Three of Siegfried is new, certainly in a musical sense. “When listening to Siegfried Act Three we sometimes wonder

if we are listening to Tristan instead,” wrote the late British musicologist Derrick Puffett:

It is almost as if we have been listening to two different operas, two different Siegfrieds composed before and after Tristan. After the pastoral fun and games of Acts One and Two, we are plunged back into the world of myth…the world of Rheingold and Walküre; and the musical expression of that world is the familiar stock of leitmotifs, incomparably intensified through their contact with Wagner’s new harmonic language.

Act Three of Siegfried, which Wagner completed in 1871 (the premiere took place as part of the first complete Ring cycle

Of the myriad musical marvels that flow from Richard Wagner’s

Ring des Nibelungen cycle, one of the most significant takes place shortly after the midpoint of Siegfried, the third opera in the tetralogy. It’s not a musical moment. Indeed, it’s anything but a moment. Between finishing work on Act Two of Siegfried in the summer of 1857 and starting Act Three, Wagner took a bit of a break – a 12-year break. How long is 12 years? Consider these diverse historical examples: approximately the length of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s three-plus terms as president, or as long as Voyager 2’s Grand Tour of the outer planets between 1977 and 1989. It’s more than one-third of poor Mozart’s short life and the number of full seasons Michael Jordan was a member of the Chicago Bulls. Wagner nearly stopped composing the opera shortly after Siegfried skewers the treacherous Mime and sits exhausted in the noonday sun under a linden tree. In a letter to Franz Liszt, Wagner wrote, “[Siegfried] will be better off there than anywhere else.” The composer eventually finished Act Two on August 9, 1857, and then departed the world of the Ring until 1869. Why did Wagner stop work on a project that had dominated his creative life since 1848, the year he wrote the libretto for Siegfried’s Death (which later became Götterdämmerung)? Certainly crushing financial troubles played a role, stemming from Wagner’s inability to stage the two previous Ring operas. Das Rheingold was not given its world premiere until 1869, Die Walküre not until 1870 (both were composed in the 1850s). And the composer, who often had his next operatic project well in view, was

Siegfried’s SabbaticalBy Richard Rothschild

Mime cowers as Siegfried brandishes the sword Nothung,

imagined by the celebrated English illustrator Arthur Rackham

(1867-1939).

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at Bayreuth in 1876), is not superior to the first two acts, just different. In their magnificently comprehensive text A History of Opera, Carolyn Abbate and Roger Parker wrote that “Wagner’s taste in harmonies and sonorities grew stranger and more complex in the 1860s and 1870s.” Indeed, from Tristan on, much of Wagner’s music begins to display a plaintive and at times even a haunting quality, one that began with the five Wesendonck Lieder composed during late 1857 and early 1858. And listen to the moment when Brünnhilde recognizes her horse Grane in Act Three: for a few measures, with the horns playing so tenderly, the music seems to foreshadow Richard Strauss, as if Brünnhilde were channeling her inner Marschallin. As for the plot, there are no new significant twists to the opera after Act Two, and the character of Siegfried doesn’t really change. Just as the teenage hero’s deeds drive the action of the first two acts with the forging of the sword Nothung and the slaying of the dragon Fafner, he will dominate the narrative in Act Three, culminating with the awakening and wooing of the onetime warrior-maiden Brünnhilde. Wotan, one of the two or three most important characters in the entire Ring cycle, remains a supporting player. In the guise of the Wanderer, he is more of a commentator on the opera’s ebbs and flows rather than a controlling force – the former star athlete who now sits in the TV booth. Once Siegfried splinters his spear early in Act Three, Wotan’s presence in the Ring is over. The “pre-Tristan” portion of Siegfried contains numerous treasures. The forging scene that closes Act One is music communicating an energy and verve that seldom appear in the Ring’s earlier operas. Lord of the Rings fans will note the similarity o f Siegfried reconstructing his father’s broken weapon to what happened when the

shards of Narsil were remade for Aragorn as the mighty sword Anduril, Flame of the West. J.R.R. Tolkien, author of the literary trilogy, borrowed liberally from Wagner. Act Two of Siegfried is one of Wagner’s most creative enterprises, a darkness to light musical odyssey. It begins with sounds of menace and foreboding from the drums and tubas, what the composer called “Fafner’s Repose.” The deep forest is not a place for beginners. Midway through the act, however, the mood shifts as the beautiful “Forest Murmurs” section – seemingly Wagner’s response to Beethoven’s Pastoral Symphony – is quietly introduced by the higher strings and woodwinds. Once Siegfried slays the slow-moving Fafner (who resembles an aging heavyweight fighter who hasn’t faced a legitimate challenge in years), the forest sounds as liberated as Berlin did the night the Wall fell. The Woodbird sings with great joy that Siegfried “will own the Nibelung hoard…and if he desires to find the Ring, it will make him ruler of the whole world.” And the Woodbird’s advice for Siegfried to beware of Mime sets up perhaps the most inventive musical sequence of the act: Mime’s words, which have been accompanied by a scherzo-like

tempo reminiscent of Schubert’s “Death and the Maiden” string quartet, turn much slower, as if allowing Siegfried to ascertain their true meaning. Mime is toast. The act concludes as the once-quiet “Forest Murmurs” burst with noontime energy. Instead of soft woodwinds, a triumphal trumpet and the full orchestra escort Siegfried out of the woodland and toward the “wondrous woman who sleeps on a high rock.” After 12 years Wagner did not return to the Ring with subtlety or restraint. The start of Act Three finds the composer throwing open the doors and windows to Haus Ring (so to speak) and clearing out the dust and cobwebs with a new sense of mission. Erda’s music, so slow and mysterious in Das Rheingold, is urgently dramatic as Wotan seeks advice one final time from the “eternal woman.” Few acts in all Wagner begin with so much pace and power. The late Wagner biographer Robert Gutman viewed the Wotan-Erda scene as a turning point, calling it the composer’s “emotional and sad farewell to the complete artwork; music drama now gives way to grand opera, the genre in which Götterdämmerung was originally conceived.” And following the dramatic

confrontation between Siegfried and Wotan and Siegfried’s monologue after he has conquered the magic fire, grand opera is what transpires with the Siegfried-Brünnhilde duet that closes the work. For the first time

in the Ring, two characters actually sing to one another simultaneously. In the rapturous duet that closes Act One of Die Walküre, Siegmund and Sieglinde, Siegfried’s parents, had taken turns pledging their love but their voices never joined. Tristan und Isolde, with perhaps the most

famous of all love duets, provided Wagner the foundation for combining voices. As with the brother-sister romance of Walküre, the power and beauty of Wagner’s music overshadows the fact that Brünnhilde – as Anna Russell famously reminded us – is Siegfried’s

aunt. It’s a romantic connection

Sketch by costume designer Marie-Jeanne Lecca

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Game of Thrones aficionados might recall from the passionate scene between Jon Snow and Daenerys Targaryen that ended the most recent season of the blockbuster cable series. Of course, Brünnhilde knows she is Siegfried’s aunt and doesn’t care. (Daenerys, the Mother of Dragons, doesn’t realize this inconvenient truth – at least not yet). Perhaps the best-known music of Act Three is the lulling passage sung by Brünnhilde that forms the central theme of Wagner’s “Siegfried Idyll.” As the

onetime Valkyrie contemplates her new life as a mortal woman, the music turns more introspective and intimate, a welcome change of pace from the scene’s romantic tension. For all his boyish charm and courage, Siegfried never really sees the big picture. He tells Brünnhilde, “My mind fails to grasp far-off things.” Siegfried can come across as limited or even, dare we say, ignorant. Götterdämmerung, the Ring’s final opera, will show this heroic lad is not the master of all situations (John Culshaw, who produced the first complete recording of the Ring cycle in 1958-65, said of him, “Wisdom is not, and never will be among his attributes”). Whatever his faults, the confident and joyously happy Siegfried closes his eponymous opera wearing a beautiful, shining new musical mantle. Wagner’s 12 years away from the Ring truly paid major dividends.

Richard Rothschild of Oak Park has written about opera for more than 30 years, including during a 21-year stint at the Chicago Tribune.

Siegfried at Lyric, 2004/05

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Modern Match - Siegfried Despite the centuries that separate the two, Wagner turned to ancient folktales as source material for his Ring cycle. Today, if the contemporary success of writer Neil Gaiman is any indication, we’re still gripped by mythology. Gaiman borrows from folktales, recontextualizing characters, symbols, and tropes in his fiction – Stardust, American Gods – and in Norse Mythology. In the introduction to this last work, Gaiman explains his lifelong love of myths, saying, “It was the fact that the world and the story ends, and the way that it ends and is reborn, that made the gods and the frost giants and the rest of them tragic heroes, tragic villains. Ragnarok made the Norse world linger for me, seem strangely present and current.” That sentiment surely would have been meaningful for Richard Wagner, who, despite using ancient source material, viewed his Ring cycle as revolutionary. His retelling of the myths was a way to reflect his understanding of his own place in culture. His conceptualization of Wotan, for example, differs from the classical character from which he is derived, and differs from Gaiman’s interpretation, Mr. Wednesday. While all these characters assume the form of a wanderer, and all are missing one eye, Siegfried’s Wotan (a.k.a. The Wanderer) expresses frustration with Valhalla, hoping to cede power to a new race of men. Gaiman’s Wednesday, however, is quite the opposite; seeking to reinstate the gods’ power, he’s wary of the perceived human worship of media and technology. One could speculate that these different iterations of the same character reflect contemporary fears and consciousness.

But there is another important question we must ask. Why, when we have Gaiman’s and Marvel’s and so many other retellings of these myths, do we still care so much about the Ring cycle? Though we’ve left behind so many of Wagner’s political and social ideas, his artistic work still looms large in the canon. Gaiman also has an answer for this in Norse Mythology: “That’s the joy of myths. The fun comes in telling them yourself – something I warmly encourage you to do, you person reading this.” Each time the Ring is presented, the potential is there for audiences to discover new lessons and ancient truths that resonate as much today as they did centuries ago. Lyric is attempting, then, to reclaim traditional theatricality from high-tech modern-world productions and allow audiences to experience the beauty of the music alongside all the richness of a new Lyric production. As Siegfried grows from naive boy to culture hero, audiences can recall their own path to maturity and perhaps (we hope) the progression of society as well. In this way, Lyric does more than merely polish an old work. Through reimagining, the company repossesses the Ring cycle, creating a mythology that belongs to everyone. In the end, I believe we tell and retell these myths out of a deep-rooted need to understand our own culture through storytelling. That is what keeps Siegfried returning to stages, keeps Gaiman retelling his stories, and keeps our collective mythologies alive.

- Meg HuskinThe writer, an intern in Lyric’s marketing and communications department last spring, is currently the relationship marketing associate at the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.

(Right) Eric Owens as Wagner's Wotan; (left) Ian McShane as

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Siegfried is often referred to as the “Scherzo” of the Ring – and it is true that it fulfills the definition of a comedy in that it has a happy ending: the boy does indeed get the girl. Brünnhilde has waited long enough for the fulfilment of her fiery dreams, and at the end Siegfried is in that blissful state of not yet knowing just what he has found! It’s not so funny from Wotan’s point of view. He has been the victim of a very blatant Freudian encounter with his rampant grandson who, unaware of this relationship, shatters his spear in order to get the old fool out of the way. As it is the story of a child, it is also appropriate that Siegfried is a fairy tale. Its prelude delights in the rumblings and roarings of the dragon, the type of creature that children love to be scared by. And it glories in the apparatus of fairy tale – magic swords, dragons, talking birds, and a naïve child forging its way into the world. Innocence, then, is the primary subject and characteristic of Siegfried. This gives it its naïve coloring – and you will find color aplenty in this production which is, I think, a relief between the more somber worlds of Die Walküre and Götterdämerung. Innocence is, by contrast, surrounded on all sides by its opposite – the guilty residues of old complexities and corruptions. Protagonists from past intrigues lurk in the forest, awaiting developments and powerless to intervene, as the future lies in the hands of an innocent youth, far too preoccupied with the egotistical crises of adolescence to notice the dangers, and contemptuous of them when he does stumble over them. As the story progresses, the corpses of these players from the past litter the stage: Mime and Fafner the dragon fall victim to a child’s simplistic view of a universe explained to him in the workings of nature: “You’re bad, so I have to kill you!” And though he does not kill Wotan, the shattering of his spear leaves Wotan with nothing more to look forward to except death and the destruction of the gods. Of course, within this child’s coloring-book world we are still within the framework of our “visible theater” with all the tricks – and there are quite a few of these, as is proper for a fairy tale – created out in the open for you to see. But this time the visual language very much reflects the child’s viewpoint. We see the world very much as Siegfried himself

might imagine it. And in so far as period matters at all – it doesn’t really – we seem to have crept forward into that postwar era that to many of us seems to define innocence. Riddles are a fundamental part of fairy tales – a good way of incorporating wisdom into a game – but in Siegfried this game is played out by two representatives of the corrupt old order: Mime and Wotan. Mime famously omits to ask Wotan the question to which he desperately needs the answer: “Who can re-forge the magic sword, Nothung?” But the answer, when he finally gets it, having forfeited his own head, is so gnomic that it probably would not have helped: “Only he who has not learnt fear can forge the sword.” Needless to say, Mime’s desperate attempts to teach Siegfried fear are doomed to failure, but when Siegfried meets Brünnhilde his awesome first encounter with the opposite sex teaches him fear in no uncertain terms. Fear and love, it seems, are closely linked and the great charm and perceptive insight of the final scene is that these two mighty heroes, Brünnhilde and Siegfried, are as nervous and shy as old-fashioned pre-sexting teenagers. Their crisis of adolescent discovery is of course deepened by their bizarre parenting,

offering no role models for romantic bliss. Brünnhilde was brought up in a sort of girl’s military boarding school, by an ultra alpha male, Wotan, against whom she rebelled and who, as punishment, threatened her with abandonment to any passing male predator. This was a threat of astonishing coldness, immediately followed by a parting of great emotional as well as literal fire. Plunged from a position of extreme privilege to one of extreme submission to fate, it is no wonder that she finds the prospect of a normal relationship very difficult. Siegfried of course likewise has been grotesquely parented by Mime, who tries to pass himself off as a mother and father rolled into one. The touching quality of this mammoth children’s opera’s final scene is of two wounded, vulnerable, and lonely personalities reaching towards each other with a combination of ecstasy and terror. It completes this “Scherzo” in a blaze of happiness, coloured by great psychological insight into the developmental lives of Wagner’s favorite children.

- David Pountney

Director's Note

During a technical rehearsal, David Pountney (right, foreground) tries out the prop forge equipment used by Siegfried. Pountney is grabbing the red-hot sword Nothung that is being forged. Lighting

designer Fabrice Kebour (left) holds the other end of Nothung, since they are also testing how the forged sword lights up.

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Your opera experience doesn’t have to end here!When the performance is over, you can continue your exploration of Siegfried in conversation with your companions.

Here are some topics to consider:

• What did you find most striking about the opera?

• Siegfried only ever acts out of anger and resentment. What vital emotions does he lack (aside from fear), and why?

• Wagner’s style of composition is especially challenging for singers.

What effect does the music have on the mood of the opera?

• The Wanderer claims he believes in fate. Why, then, does he try to stop Siegfried from reaching Brünnhilde?

• In your opinion, should Siegfried be considered a hero?

• What lesson, if any, do you think audiences should take away from the story?

To continue exploring Siegfried, Lyric dramaturg and program editor Roger Pines suggests the following performances:

CD

Wolfgang Windgassen, Birgit Nilsson, Hans Hotter, Gerhard Stolze, Gustav Neidlinger, Dame Joan Sutherland; Vienna Philharmonic, cond. Sir Georg Solti (Decca)

René Kollo, Jeannine Altmeyer, Theo Adam, Siegmund Nimsgern, Norma Sharp; Staatskapelle Dresden, cond. Marek Janowski (Sony Classical)

Simon O’Neill, Heidi Melton, Matthias Goerne, David Cangelosi, Valentina Farcas; Hong Kong Philharmonic, cond. Jaap van Zweden (Naxos)

Stephen Gould, Linda Watson, Albert Dohmen, Gerhard Siegel, Andrew Shore, Robin Johannsen; Bayreuth Festival Orchestra, cond. Christian Thielemann (Opus Arte)

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Manfred Jung, Dame Gwyneth Jones, Sir Donald McIntyre, Heinz Zednik, Hermann Becht, Norma Sharp; Bayreuth Festival Orchestra, cond. Pierre Boulez, dir. Patrice Chéreau (DG)

Lance Ryan, Susan Bullock, Terje Stensvold, Jochen Schmeckenbecher, Kateryna Kasper; Frankfurt Opera and Museum Orchestra, cond. Sebastian Weigle, dir. Vera Nemirova (Oehms Classics)

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Music StaffWilliam C. BillinghamJennifer CondonAram DemirjianSusan Miller HultKeun-A LeeNoah LindquistGrant LoehnigFrancesco MiliotoJerad MosbeyMatthew PiattStefano SarzaniMadeline SlettedahlEric WeimerMaureen Zoltek

OrchestraViolin IRobert Hanford,

Concertmaster The Mrs. R. Robert

Funderburg Endowed ChairSharon Polifrone,

Assistant ConcertmasterAlexander BelavskyKathleen BrauerPauli EwingDavid HildnerLaura MillerLiba ShachtHeather WittelsBing Jing Yu

Violin IIYin Shen, PrincipalJohn Macfarlane,

Assistant PrincipalInjoo Choi*Bonita Di Bello

Diane Duraffourg-RobinsonTeresa Kay FreamRenée-Paule Gauthier*Peter LabellaAnn PalenIrene RadetzkyJohn D. RobinsonDavid VolfeAlbert Wang

ViolaCarol Cook, PrincipalTerri Van Valkinburgh,

Assistant PrincipalFrank W. BabbittPatrick BrennanKarl DaviesAmy HessMelissa Trier KirkAurélien Fort Pederzoli*

CelloCalum Cook, PrincipalPaul Dwyer, Assistant PrincipalMark BrandfonbrenerWilliam H. CernotaLaura DemingSonia Mantell*Walter Preucil

BassIan Hallas,

Acting PrincipalAndrew L. W. AndersonJeremy Attanaseo*Andrew J. Keller*Gregory SarchetCollins R. Trier

FluteMarie Tachouet, PrincipalDionne Jackson,

Assistant PrincipalAlyce Johnson

PiccoloAlyce Johnson

OboeJudith Kulb, PrincipalJudith Zunamon Lewis

Acting Assistant PrincipalAnne Bach*

English HornJudith Zunamon Lewis

ClarinetCharlene Zimmerman,

PrincipalLinda A. Baker,

Co-Assistant PrincipalSusan Warner,

Co-Assistant Principal

Bass ClarinetLinda A. Baker

BassoonPreman Tilson,

PrincipalLewis Kirk,

Assistant PrincipalHanna Sterba*

ContrabassoonLewis Kirk

HornJonathan Boen, PrincipalFritz Foss, Assistant Principal/

Utility HornRobert E. Johnson, Third HornSamuel HamzemNeil Kimel

TrumpetWilliam Denton, PrincipalMatthew Comerford,

Co-Assistant PrincipalChanning Philbrick,

Co-Assistant Principal

TromboneJeremy Moeller, PrincipalMark Fisher, Assistant PrincipalMark Fry*Graeme Mutchler**

Bass TromboneMark Fry*Graeme Mutchler**

TubaAndrew Smith, Principal

HarpMarguerite Lynn Williams,

Principal

TimpaniEdward Harrison, Principal

PercussionMichael Green, PrincipalDouglas Waddell,

Assistant PrincipalEric Millstein

Extra Musicians:Michael Shelton, violinRika Seko, violinKaryn Macfarlane, violinBenton Wedge, violaMichael Lieberman, violaAndrew Hesse, celloTim Shaffer, bassRachel Blumenthal, fluteAmy Barwan, oboeSergey Gutorov, clarinetGabby Webster, horn/Wagner

tubaMatthew Oliphant, horn/

Wagner tubaBen Wulfman, horn/Wagner tubaDana Sherman, hornDouglas Rosenthal, bass trumpetDavid Becker, contrabass tromboneAlison Attar, harpEllie Kirk, harpLauren Hayes, harp Stageband MusiciansJennet Ingle, English hornJohn Zirbel, horn

LibrarianJohn Rosenkrans, Principal

Personnel Manager and Stageband ContractorChristine Janicki

*Season substitute**Sabbatical

Chorus MasterMichael Black Chorus Master

The Howard A. Stotler Endowed Chair

Regular ChorusSopranoElisa Billey BeckerJillian BonczekSharon Garvey CohenPatricia A. Cook-NicholsonCathleen DunnJanet Marie FarrDesirée HasslerRachael HolzhausenLaureen Janeczek-WysockiKimberly McCordHeidi SpoorStephani SpringerElizabeth Anne TaylorSherry Watkins

MezzoClaudia A. Kerski-NienowMarianna KulikovaColleen LovinelloYvette SmithMarie SokolovaMaia SuraceLaurie Seely VassalliCorinne Wallace-CranePamela WilliamsMichelle K. Wrighte

TenorGeoffrey AgpaloTimothy BradleyHoss BrockWilliam M. CombsJohn J. ConcepcionKenneth DonovanJoseph A. FosselmanTyler Samuel LeeLawrence MontgomeryMark NienowJames OdomThomas L. PotterWalton Westlake

BassMatthew CarrollDavid DuBoisRobert MorrisseyKenneth NicholsSteven PierceRobert J. PrindleThomas SillittiCraig SpringerJeffrey W. TaylorRonald WatkinsNikolas Wenzel

Core Supplementary ChorusSopranoCarla JanzenSuzanne M. KszastowskiKelsea Webb

MezzoKatie Ruth BieberSarah PonderStephanie Schoenhofer

TenorJared V. EsguerraCameo T. HumesJoe Shadday

BassClaude CassionNicolai Janitzky Vince Wallace

Supplementary ChorusTenorHumberto Borboa BeltranMatthew DanielKlaus GeorgLuther Lewis

BassMichael CavalieriKirk GreinerDorian McCallJohn E. OrduñaDouglas PetersWilliam RobertsScott TomlinsonTodd von Felker

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What is your role here at Lyric, and how long have you held the position?I am the wardrobe, wigs and makeup director, and this is my 29th season. In my role, I manage the budgets, vendors, and wardrobe/wig department staffing for each of our productions. I oversee the wigs, makeup, and costumes for our shows, which means ensuring the overall look for each of the performers matches the vision of the production’s design team. Because I have a background in art and design, I’ve also designed the sets and costumes for Lyric’s Ernani, The Pearl Fishers, The Girl of the Golden West, The Magic Victrola, and El Pasado Nunca Se Termina.. In addition to that, I am a co-curator of the Mary B. Galvin Opera Club Gallery, located in the lower level of the Lyric Opera House.

What led you to work at Lyric?I’ve always had an interest in art and architecture. I majored in scenic design, which allowed me to combine all of my interests into an area of study. Before I finished school, I met former Lyric general director Ardis Kranik and then-technical director Drew Landmesser when I presented one of my set designs at a convention, and was ultimately granted an internship with the company in 1990. I was immediately struck by the scale and artistry of Lyric’s productions – it was breathtaking. I knew very little about opera but the sublime sound of the music, the mix of all the arts into one, was really evocative to me. The opportunity to work for such an established company was the chance of a lifetime.

What’s a typical day like for you?I typically begin each day around 7am reading and responding to emails. Once I’m in the office, I touch base with my teams to see what the plan is for the day and what tasks need to be accomplished. Broadly speaking, the rest of my day consists of problem-solving, scheduling, discussing budgets, and dealing with staff needs. I also spend time answering questions from designers and vendors.

What’s the most challenging aspect of your job?Completely understanding the intricacies and logistical work necessary to put costumes and wigs on the stage within the allotted time and resources. I am always challenged with learning to attack problems from different angles while thinking of creative solutions. In my role, it is important to be a great collaborator, team member, and leader. My goal is to always be open to change and letting things evolve as they need to, within the reality of budgetary parameters.

What keeps you committed to the work you do?Remembering that working at Lyric, working in the arts in general, is a privilege. Every morning when I enter both the wig and wardrobe departments and see all of the amazing craftsmanship and skill involved, it is very inspiring. Seeing a production’s creative team present a design for the first time, and realizing the imagination of what might be possible, is also intriguing. I feel fortunate to have the opportunity to work with

legendary, trailblazing, gifted visual artists whose work graces the Lyric stage. The first time I hear the orchestra for every production we do, hearing the chorus sing full out, witnessing world-renowned opera stars caress every note they sing, seeing a beautiful scenic and lighting transition executed by our amazing crews. These moments foster my yearning obsession for the artform.

What’s something about your job that people might not know?I am constantly using my calculator. When a design is presented, one of the first items of business is pricing it out. I take the sketches and estimate what materials and labor will cost. I then gather bids from vendors for actual construction costs. It is important for me to ensure we are on track within the budget we have. The same goes for labor costs. I meet with the costume director and wigmaster to determine the house labor and time needed to mount each production.

Favorite Lyric moment?The first opera I ever saw was Phillip Glass’s Satyagraha at Lyric in 1987, and that left me mesmerized and speechless. Twenty-one years later, I was asked to design both the sets and costumes for a new production of Ernani, and that was beyond any dream or opportunity I could have imagined. Another highlight was last season’s Jesus Christ Superstar. That production showed Lyric’s stamina, evolution, capabilities, and the expansive resources and talent the company has to offer.

Beyond opera, what are your other passions?My husband, Andy, reminds me daily of the joy and beauty of life. I like spending time with our dog, Gunner, who reminds me to laugh and love. I am a DIY’er and avid gardener. Fitness keeps my inner fire burning. At the end of the day, I am in bliss when I am painting in my studio. I originally came into my career as an artist, and while I love collaborating with others, creating something of my own is a soulfully personal experience.

- Kamaria Morris

BACKSTAGE LIFE: Scott Marr

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SopranosMaria AgrestaEmily BirsanJanai BruggerTracy CoxAdrienne DanrichDanielle de NieseRenée FlemingSusan FosterChristine GoerkeAlexandra LoBiancoAngela ManninoAnya MatanovicWhitney MorrisonMarie-Eve MungerAnna NetrebkoDiana NewmanEmily PogorelcBrenda RaeAlbina ShagimuratovaSiobhan StaggNina StemmeHeidi StoberAnn ToomeyElza van den HeeverErin WallTamara Wilson

Mezzo-SopranosJamie BartonElizabeth BishopAngela BrowerAriana ChrisAlice CooteKayleigh DeckerMichaela MartensJulie MillerRonnita MillerDeborah NansteelMary PhillipsZoie ReamsAnnie RosenKrysty Swann

ContraltoLauren Decker

CountertenorsAryeh Nussbaum CohenIestyn Davies

TenorsNoah BaetgeGiorgio BerrugiRobert BrubakerJonathan BurtonMichael Fabiano Eric FerringBurkhard FritzAllan GlassmanClay Hilley

Jonathan JohnsonMatthias KlinkJosh LovellMatthew PolenzaniDavid PortilloMario RojasRussell Thomas

BaritonesWeston HurtChristopher KenneyZeljko LučićAndrew ManeaZachary NelsonRicardo José RiveraArtur RucińskiReginald Smith, Jr.Daniel Sutin

Bass-BaritonesKyle AlbertsonJake GardnerAlan HiggsPhilip HorstKyle KetelsenEric OwensIain PatersonDavid WeigelDerek WeltonSamuel Youn

BassesPatrick GuettiAdrian SâmpetreanRoberto Tagliavini

ConductorsMarco ArmiliatoHarry Bicket Michael ChristieSir Andrew DavisDomingo HindoyanFrancesco MiliotoDonald Runnicles

DancersDjango AllegrettiJaime BorkanKristian BrooksJourdan EpsteinAndrew HarperJoseph A. HernandezDemetrius McClendonAntonio MontalvoJimi Loc NguyenEla OlarteAndrea PuglieseMichelle ReidJacqueline StewartLuis VazquezBenjamin Holliday Wardell

DirectorsArin ArbusBenjamin DavisRichard JonesDavid KneussSir David McVicarLaurent PellyJean-Pierre PonnelleDavid Pountney Roy RalloNick Sandys

Associate DirectorsBenoît de LeersnyderSimon IorioRob Kearley

Set and Costume DesignersBarbara de LimburgCharles EdwardsJohan EngelsRiccardo HernandezRobert Innes HopkinsStewart LaingMarie-Jeanne LeccaJohn MacfarlaneCait O’ConnorJean-Pierre PonnelleBrigitte ReiffenstuelULTZ

Lighting DesignersMarcus DoshiFabrice KebourChris MaravichDuane SchulerMimi Jordan SherinJennifer Tipton

Projection DesignerChristopher Ash

Puppetry DirectorFinn Caldwell

Puppet DesignersNick BarnesFinn Caldwell

Chorus MasterMichael Black

Children’s Chorus MasterJosephine Lee

Choreographers and Movement DirectorsLucy BurgeSarah FahieKarine GirardAustin McCormickDenni SayersLaura ScozziDanielle Urbas

Ballet MistressAugust Tye

Wigmaster and Makeup DesignerSarah Hatten

Fight ChoreographersChuck CoylNick Sandys

Translators for Projected English TitlesKenneth ChalmersRoger PinesColin Ure

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Birgit Nilsson (1918-2005), whose 100th birthday was commemorated worldwide this year, is pictured in the Lyric

premiere of Siegfried as Brünnhilde, one of the Swedish soprano’s signature roles.

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Were it not for the Guild Board of Directors at Lyric Opera of Chicago, Jim Staples may have never discovered his passion for opera. Growing up in Chicago with his grandparents, opera and classical music were present in his childhood home, but he didn’t develop his interest in music until much later in life.

Upon graduating from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Jim’s finance and business development career propelled him around the world to Bogotá, Miami, New York City, Tokyo, and back to Chicago. The stars seemed to align when Jim reconnected with his acquaintance and then-Guild Board member Joe Starshak. “I met with Joe and he said ‘you’re joining the Guild Board of Directors at Lyric, what do you know about opera?’ And I responded ‘not a lot.’”

Though Jim had seen Tosca at the Met in New York and Madama Butterfly in Tokyo, he had not been to Lyric until after he was recruited to the Guild Board. “I think the grandeur of the Lyric Opera House is what first struck me. Just being here; it’s beautiful. Then my knowledge of the art form grew. I was introduced to Maria Callas by my friends. Her voice was so unique, I thought she was so great. I loved listening to Luciano Pavarotti. To this day, I can honestly say I don’t know of another male opera star that I like better. My emotions at performances continue to surprise me.”

When Jim first interviewed with Guild Board leaders Sherry Kelley and Jan Jentes back in 1992, he recalls, “I was very intimidated. We were sitting in front of this giant fireplace in Jan’s home, one interviewer on my right and the other on my left, and I’m this little neophyte sitting there talking about my life and my interest in the board. I realized it wasn’t just about money, but who you were.”

Shortly after Jim joined the ranks, he started volunteering for the Guild Board’s Premium Backstage tours each spring. “I was the bartender. It was a great way to meet people and I knew how to make drinks.” In time, Jim was summoned to lead tours himself. “I never went back to the bar. I

loved the tours.” Jim fondly recalls memories from the Guild Board’s Fantasy of the Opera days, and proudly notes that he did not miss a single gala. “I worked with Jan Largay and her husband Bob on decorations when I was chair of Fantasy. The theme was Carnival. We worked late into the night cutting, putting glitter on things, drinking.” He laughs, “I can’t say the decorations were that professional but with lots of glitter and low lights, it worked out. That is a great memory.”

Fantasy of the Opera was retired in 2014 and the Guild Board now collaborates with the Women’s Board to produce the Spring Musical Celebration. Jim embraces the evolution and new partnership. “Not everything should be tradition; we need more outside-the-box thinking.” Last May’s Jesus Christ Superstar Celebration provided the opportunity for just that. Following the epic performance, guests were transported off-site to The Murphy for the After Party hosted by the Guild Board. The late night dance party delivered, with members of the cast attending, dancing, and even posing for selfies. “We didn’t have a big budget. But we

thought, how about creating a huge neon cross for the party? It was the centerpiece of the space and ended up being 14 feet tall. It turned out great.” Lyric exceeded the event’s fundraising goal and guests experienced an electrifying evening indeed.

Now in his third year as President, strategic thinking on Guild Board growth is top of mind. “I’ve already thought about my succession, the strengths of every officer and what they can bring to bear in their role.” The Guild Board’s directive for the future is clear. “Our goal is to initiate 10 new Guild Board members this year. There’s a multiplier effect and there are always possibilities.” The addition of new Guild Board members will bring more people from their networks to Lyric whether they are opera regulars or not. “They might not know a lot about opera and they might not have a lot of experience, but the more you go, the more you get an addiction to it.”

Increasing membership goes hand-in-hand with Jim’s ultimate goal: to see this group of opera aficionados develop into a fundraising powerhouse for Lyric.

“We can’t think in the old way anymore, we have to evolve. We are working on diversity, from cultural backgrounds to different industries. We don’t have enough diversity yet. My vision is that the Guild Board grow, and grow, and grow so that we don’t blink an eye at fundraising $2 million dollars a year. I’m thinking out 5 years, from a strategic business development point of view.”

In addition to Jim’s dedicated service on the Guild Board, he is a season subscriber and generous donor to Lyric’s annual campaign. Jim has also made arrangements for a gift through his estate to support The Guild Board of Directors Verdi Endowed Chair. When asked what inspired him to make a planned gift, Jim said, “it was the natural thing to do. The beauty of opera is that you are combining so many arts together. It’s really difficult to pull it off. But when you do, it’s amazing. It brings an incredible energy to the audience. That’s showbiz.”

— Angela DeStefano

Jim Staples: “That’s Showbiz”

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ABBOTT FUNDAbbott and the Abbott Fund are leading corporate contributors to Lyric Opera of Chicago, with a longstanding tradition of dedicated support. Over the last three decades, Abbott has generously cosponsored 24 Lyric productions, including this season’s new coproduction of La bohème. Abbott has championed Lyric’s achievements by making a leadership commitment to the

Breaking New Ground Campaign. “Lyric is one of the treasures that make Chicago the world-class city that it is. We’re proud to be associated with it.” says Miles D. White, Abbott’s Chairman and Chief Executive Officer and a valued member of Lyric’s Board of Directors.

ADA and WHITNEY ADDINGTONAda and Whitney Addington are dedicated Lyric subscribers and donors. They have contributed generously to the Annual Campaign and the Breaking New Ground Campaign, and have made a leadership gift in support of Lyric’s new Ring cycle, including this season’s Siegfried. The Addingtons have also invested in the company’s

future through their planned gift to Lyric. Lyric is fortunate to have Dr. Whitney Addington as a member of its Board of Directors and Executive Committee

Franco Tedeschi

AMERICAN AIRLINESThis season we celebrate 37 years of vital corporate partnership with American Airlines, the Official Airline of Lyric Opera of Chicago. In recognition of the company’s significant contribution to the Building on Greatness Capital Campaign, the mezzanine level of the Lyric Opera House is named the American Airlines Mezzanine. American Airlines

provides important in-kind support for Lyric’s programs and special events. Franco Tedeschi, Vice President of American Airlines, proudly serves on Lyric’s Board of Directors and Lyric Unlimited Committee.

PAUL M. ANGELL FAMILY FOUNDATIONThe Paul M. Angell Family Foundation strives to advance society through the performing arts, conservation of the world’s oceans, and alleviation of poverty. The Foundation’s namesake, Paul M. Angell, founder of Newly Weds Foods, dedicated the early part of his life to serving his country and performing as a member of John Philip Sousa’s U.S. Navy Band during World War I. He believed in hard work, self reliance, and optimism, and the Foundation is intended to honor him and his ideals. At Lyric, the Paul M. Angell Family Foundation has been a loyal supporter of Lyric’s Annual Campaign and Lyric Unlimited programming and has generously committed to a high level of multi-year support.

ANONYMOUS CONTRIBUTORSLyric Opera is extremely grateful for Aria Society support received from ten anonymous contributors during the 2018/19 season.

AVRAMOVICH CHARITABLE TRUSTMichael and Susan Avramovich were ardent supporters of theater, opera, and classical music in Chicago. Longtime subscribers, the Lyric was a special favorite. Michael had deep roots in Italy, and his mother, Margherita, was from Rome. In a salute to that heritage and to many years of Lyric, the Trust is pleased to cosponsor La bohème and La traviata this season.

JULIE and ROGER BASKESLyric treasures the exemplary leadership and dedication of Julie and Roger Baskes. Subscribers for more than four decades, they have generously supported Lyric’s Ryan Opera Center activities as previous cosponsors of Rising Stars in Concert, and currently underwrite the Ryan Opera Center Recital Series on 98.7WFMT. They

have cosponsored numerous productions including, most recently, last season’s Rigoletto and this season's Elektra. They also made a leadership commitment to the Breaking New Ground Campaign to help safeguard the future of Lyric Opera. Lyric is honored to have Julie Baskes serve on its Board of Directors and Executive Committee. Julie is also Chairman of the Production Sponsorship Committee, and is a past President of the Ryan Opera Center Board.

MARLYS A. BEIDERAs an aficionada of Lyric for more than 30 years, Marlys has con-tributed to the Annual Campaign and is a Bel Canto Benefactor of the planned giving Overture Society. Her planned gift com-mitment created the Marlys Beider Wigmaster and Makeup Designer Endowed Chair in memory of her late husband, Harold Beider. Marlys Beider cosponsored several productions including Elektra (2012/13), Parsifal (2013/14), and Tosca (2014/15), and

has committed generous leadership gifts to cosponsor two of Lyric’s new Ring cycle productions including Das Rheingold (2016/17) and next season's Götterdämmerung.

RANDY L. and MELVIN R. BERLINDevoted fans of opera education and the arts, Melvin and Randy Berlin are vital members of the Lyric Opera family. “It’s part of Chicago for us. It enriches the city and the community, and we like to be part of that,” says Melvin. The Berlins have contributed significantly to the Annual Campaign and made a leadership gift to

the Breaking New Ground Campaign. Melvin and Randy have cosponsored several productions including last season's Cosi fan tutte and this season's West Side Story. Lyric is honored to have Melvin Berlin serve on its Board of Directors.

Richard Pomeroy

BMO HARRIS BANKBMO Harris Bank is a proud supporter of Lyric Opera. BMO, which is celebrating its bicentennial this year, has demonstrated its strong commitment to supporting the communities it serves for the past 200 years. BMO has generously supported special projects through Lyric’s Annual Campaign and is proud to join the production sponsorship family supporting this season's La traviata. Lyric is honored to have Richard “Rick” Pomeroy, Senior Managing Director, CTC | my CFO, BMO Harris Bank, serve on

its Board of Directors and Investment Committee. “Opera is truly an inspiration. It affects how we see and interpret the world around us, and it’s our hope that the support we provide Lyric will help increase exposure to such a beauti-ful form of artistic expression.”

HENRY M. and GILDA R. BUCHBINDERDedicated lovers of the arts, Henry and Gilda Buchbinder are longstanding members of the Lyric Opera family. Committed to sustaining the exceptional quality of Lyric’s artistic product, the Buchbinders made a leadership gift to Lyric’s Breaking New Ground Campaign to name the Henry and Gilda Buchbinder Family Foundation Rehearsal Room. They have also been longtime generous

donors to the Annual Campaign, and are cosponsors of this season’s production of Il trovatore. “I really do believe that Lyric is the best opera company in the world,” is Gilda’s heartfelt assessment, to which Hank adds, “the productions are done so well, and stage sets are marvelous.” Lyric is honored to have Gilda Buchbinder serve on its Board of Directors and the Production Sponsorship Committee.

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CAROLYN S. BUCKSBAUMLyric Opera sincerely appreciates the extraordinary leadership and generosity of Kay Bucksbaum. An avid subscriber and longtime patron of Lyric with her late husband Matthew, the Bucksbaum Family’s very generous challenge grant re-established Lyric’s regional and national/international radio broadcasts in 2006. Kay’s incredible continued matching support made possible

The Lyric Opera Broadcasts from 2006-18. “Lyric is a great national institution,” Matthew once said, “and it gives our family great pleasure to know these broadcasts bring Lyric’s wonderful performances to so many in Chicago and around the globe.”

Allan E. Bulley, III

BULLEY & ANDREWSFounded in 1891, Bulley & Andrews is one of the Midwest’s most trusted and accomplished construction companies. The fourth generation, family-owned firm offers clients a full range of construction services including general contracting, construction management, design/build, and masonry and concrete restoration. Bulley & Andrews has, for many seasons, supported Lyric Unlimited’s Performances for Students programs, and is a cosponsor of Lyric’s Ring cycle, including this

season’s Siegfried. Lyric is pleased to have Allan E. Bulley, III as a member of its Board of Directors.

John and Alice Butler

THE BUTLER FAMILY FOUNDATIONLongtime subscribers from Dubuque, Iowa, John and Alice Butler recently made a leadership gift to Lyric’s Breaking New Ground Campaign’s stage improvement project. John says, “When Alice and I heard that Lyric was unable to share productions with other houses due to our outdated and unreliable stage technology, we

understood that to be a serious problem that needed to be addressed. We believe in Lyric’s mission to be the best opera company in North America, and in order to be the best, we must have access the best productions.” Lyric Opera is honored to have John Butler serve on its Board of Directors and Investment Committee.

DAVID and ORIT CARPENTERDavid and Orit Carpenter have been staunch supporters of Lyric for many years and made a generous planned gift to the Breaking New Ground Campaign to help ensure that Lyric will be available for many future generations to enjoy. In addition to their longtime personal support of Lyric’s Annual Campaign, David has helped secure eight

production cosponsorships, including this season's company premiere of Ariodante, through Sidley Austin LLP, where he was a Partner for more than 30 years. Orit is a valuable resource for the Ryan Opera Center, working with the artists on performance psychology. Lyric is honored to have David serve on its Board of Directors and Production Sponsorship Committee.

Elizabeth F. Cheney

ELIZABETH F. CHENEY FOUNDATIONLyric remains deeply grateful for the long-term generosity of the Elizabeth F. Cheney Foundation, one of Chicago’s nonprofit leaders in arts support. The Cheney Foundation has made a multi-year commitment to the Ryan Opera Center/Lyric Opera. During the 2018/19 season, the Cheney Foundation is supporting the Director of Vocal Studies faculty position; the singer sponsorship of tenor Mario Rojas, and Guest Master Teacher and Artist residencies. Lyric is honored to have foundation director Allan

Drebin serve on its Board of Directors, and the Ryan Opera Center Board.

MRS. JOHN V. CROWEPeggy and the late Jack Crowe are generous and passionate members of the Lyric family, evidenced by their major support of the Breaking New Ground Campaign and the Renée Fleming Initiative. Jack and Peggy Crowe's significant contribution to Lyric was recognized in naming the Isabelle Cavagnaro Crowe Foyer on the fifth floor in

memory of Jack Crowe's mother. Lyric was very fortunate to have Jack Crowe serve as an esteemed member of the Executive Committee of Lyric's Board of Directors.

Lester and Renée Crown

THE CROWN FAMILYTwo of Chicago’s leading philanthropists, Renée and Lester Crown, are devoted patrons of Lyric Opera. The Crown Family is a sponsor of the Renée Fleming Initiative and made generous gifts to Lyric’s Annual Campaign and Breaking New Ground Campaign. Mrs. Crown is a past President of the Women’s Board and is this season's Renée Fleming 25th Anniversary Gala Chair. Mr. Crown

joined Lyric’s Board of Directors in 1977 and has served as Chairman of the Executive Committee ever since. In 2004, Renée and Lester Crown were recipients of the Carol Fox Award, presented in recognition of their outstanding leadership and commitment to Lyric. Lyric is also honored to have Mrs. Nancy Carrington Crown serve on its esteemed Women’s Board. Lyric is forever indebted to The Crown Family for their many years of dedicated service to Lyric Opera of Chicago.

THE DAVEE FOUNDATIONLyric Opera is extremely grateful to The Davee Foundation and the late Ruth Dunbar and Ken M. Davee for their tremendous generosity over the years. The Foundation’s exemplary support of Chicago-area charities reflects the Davees’ wide-ranging interests, including their great love of music and the arts. Lyric is fortunate to be among the organizations benefiting from The Davee Foundation’s enduring philanthropy, which helps secure Lyric’s future for generations to come. The Davee Foundation provided critical preliminary support to enhance amplification and sound systems used in the Musical Theater Initiative, and has generously cosponsored each production in the initiative, including this season’s West Side Story.

STEFAN T. EDLIS and GAEL NEESONPassionate patrons of the arts, Stefan Edlis and Gael Neeson are actively involved with organizations in Chicago, New York, and Aspen. Mr. Edlis and Ms. Neeson have supported and subscribed to Lyric Opera for more than 30 years. They have cosponsored six mainstage operas, including last season’s Faust and this season’s

Siegfried. Stefan and Gael also made a leadership gift to the Breaking New Ground Campaign. Lyric is honored to have Stefan Edlis serve on its Board of Directors and Production Sponsorship Committee.

EXELONThe philanthropic initiatives of Exelon Corporation help generate and sustain Chicago’s cultural stature and economic vitality. For several decades, Exelon has generously supported the Annual Campaign, Fantasy of the Opera, Wine Auction, and the Great Opera Fund as well as Lyric’s education and community engagement programs. Exelon’s many cosponsorships have included Rusalka (2013/14), Lyric’s second mariachi opera, El Pasado Nunca Se Termina (2014/15), and The Marriage of Figaro (2015/16). This season, Exelon is generously cosponsoring Lyric’s production of Elektra. Lyric is fortunate to have Exelon as an outstanding corporate partner.

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Julius Frankel

JULIUS FRANKEL FOUNDATIONA founding patron of Lyric Theatre (now Lyric Opera of Chicago) and a Lyric Board member at the time of his death in 1982, Julius Frankel devoted his philanthropic giving to making Chicago a great place to live and enjoy life. The Julius Frankel Foundation has sustained this noble legacy under the guidance and longtime dedication of former trustees Nelson Cornelius and John Georgas and current trustee BMO Harris Bank N.A. Lyric’s audiences have benefited greatly from the Foundation’s major grants for general

operating support and production sponsorships. “Mr. Frankel was particularly interested in making Chicago one of the greatest places in the world to live and enjoy life,” Nelson Cornelius once said. “The foundation’s giving supports things that enhance the reputation of Chicago; which, of course, Lyric does.” Lyric has named Mezzanine Box 25 in honor of Julius Frankel in grateful recognition of the Foundation’s significant gift to the Breaking New Ground Campaign. This season, the Julius Frankel Foundation is a generous cosponsor of Lyric's new coproduction of La bohème.

Elizabeth Morse Genius

ELIZABETH MORSE GENIUS CHARITABLE TRUSTOne of two trusts established in memory of Elizabeth Morse Genius, daughter of 19th-century industrialist Charles Hosmer Morse, the Elizabeth Morse Genius Charitable Trust is a major, and deeply appreciated, leader among Lyric’s contributors. Through the Trust’s support of classical fine arts, Co-Trustees Bank of America, N.A. and James L. Alexander seek to enrich the quality of life in Chicago. In recognition of the Trust’s Building on Greatness Capital Campaign support, Lyric named the distinctive

Opera House chimes and music library in honor of Elizabeth Morse Genius. Along with its sister trust, The Elizabeth Morse Charitable Trust, the Genius Trust has sponsored many mainstage productions. In addition to production sponsorship, the Trust has helped underwrite Lyric’s ongoing efforts to diversify its various boards and preserve Lyric’s history through support of its Archives project. Most recently, Lyric named one of its key meeting rooms in its executive offices as the Elizabeth Morse Genius Conference Room in order to show its grateful appreciation for the Trust’s significant gift to the Breaking New Ground Campaign, as well as to recognize the Trust’s commitment over many years to helping build the company’s core capacities and institutional infrastructure.

BRENT and KATIE GLEDHILLBrent and Katie are proud supporters of numerous causes in Chicago, and they have made a leadership gift to Lyric’s Breaking New Ground Campaign. Last season, Brent and Katie were sponsors of Lyric Unlimited's youth opera, The Scorpion's Sting, and Lyric's 30th Anniversary Wine Auction. Brent Gledhill is the Global

Head of Investment Banking at William Blair & Company, and a member of the firm’s Executive Committee. Lyric is honored to have Brent serve on its Board of Directors, Executive Committee, and Audit Committee.

WILLIAM and ETHEL GOFENWilliam and Ethel Gofen have been attending Lyric Opera productions for more than 50 years. They are generous donors to Lyric’s Annual Campaign, and are members of Lyric's Production Sponsorship family, most recently cosponsoring Lyric’s new production of Faust last season. They have also made a leadership gift to the

Breaking New Ground Campaign. Lyric is thrilled to have Ethel Gofen as a member of the Board of Directors and Lyric Unlimited Committee.

HOWARD L. GOTTLIEB and BARBARA G. GREISAmong Lyric’s most devoted subscribers and patrons, Howard Gottlieb and Barbara Greis have generously supported Lyric Opera through major contributions to the Annual Campaign and the Breaking New Ground Campaign. They have cosponsored many productions, including this season’s production of La bohème.

Mr. Gottlieb is the retired chairman of the Glenwood Investment Corporation and an accomplished violinist. In 2018, Mr. Gottlieb was given Lyric's highest honor, the Carol Fox Award, for his many years of generous service. Lyric is honored to have him serve as an active member of Lyric’s Board of Directors and Executive Committee.

GRAMMA FISHER FOUNDATIONWith an unparalleled record as sponsor of more than 28 new Lyric productions since the 1960s, the Gramma Fisher Foundation of Marshalltown, Iowa is a cornerstone of Lyric’s legacy of world-class achievement in the arts. The Gramma Fisher Foundation has made a leadership commitment to cosponsor each of the four operas that make up Wagner’s Ring cycle, continuing with Siegfried this season. Lyric is sincerely grateful for the enduring friendship and leadership of Christine Hunter and other members of the Fisher family. Lyric is fortunate to have Matthew Fisher serve on its Board of Directors and Stephanie Fisher as an esteemed member of the Women’s Board.

KAREN Z. GRAY-KREHBIEL and JOHN H. KREHBIEL, JR.Lyric is deeply grateful for the friendship and support of Karen Z. Gray-Krehbiel and John Krehbiel. A devoted member of the Women’s Board, Karen has served on several committees, most recently as the 2016 Board of Directors’ Annual Meeting Chair. In addition, she

contributed a very generous gift to the Breaking New Ground Campaign in support of stage renovations. The Krehbiel family plays a prominent role in the continued success of the company. Karen and John joined the production sponsor family with their generous support of Carmen and last season made a leadership gift to Wine Auction 2018.

MR. & MRS. DIETRICH M. GROSSLyric deeply appreciates the enduring friendship and tremendous generosity of Dietrich and Erika Gross. Together, they have sponsored/cosponsored a total of 24 Lyric productions since 1987/88, including last season’s Die Walküre and this season's Siegfried. Lyric is honored to name Mezzanine Box 20 in grateful recognition for

their leadership gift to the Breaking New Ground Campaign. Dietrich Gross is an esteemed member of Lyric’s Board of Directors and Executive Committee. In 2009, Lyric recognized the dedicated leadership and vital involvement of Dietrich Gross by granting him the Carol Fox Award, Lyric’s most prestigious honor.

John R. Halligan

JOHN R. HALLIGAN CHARITABLE FUNDJohn R. Halligan was a devoted subscriber and patron of Lyric for many years until his death in 2001. With support from his Charitable Fund under the direction of the Fund’s President, Norman J. Gantz, Mr. Halligan’s philanthropic legacy continues through very generous annual contributions to Lyric. The Halligan Fund is proud to support numerous artistic, cultural, and civic organizations which enhance our lifestyles, preserve our sense of history and heritage, instill knowledge, and advance our

appreciation of nature. The fund focuses its attention on organizations based in the Chicago and Honolulu metropolitan areas, being the communities in which Mr. Halligan resided during his lifetime.

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Joe and Pam Szokol and King and Caryn Harris

THE HARRIS FAMILY FOUNDATIONThe Harris Family Foundation, represented by Pam and Joe Szokol and King and Caryn Harris, is a valued member of Lyric’s production sponsorship family, most recently cosponsoring last season’s Faust and this season’s Siegfried. The Harris Family Foundation also supports the Annual

Campaign, and made a generous commitment to the Breaking New Ground Campaign to help secure Lyric’s future. Lyric is thrilled to have Vice President of the Foundation Pam Szokol as a member of its Board of Directors and serving on its Production Sponsorship Committee. Lyric is also grateful for the dedicated involvement of Caryn Harris. Caryn is an active member of the Women’s Board and has held many leadership positions, most recently as Co-Chair of Opening Night/Opera Ball in 2015.

J. THOMAS HURVISTom Hurvis is an avid opera fan and longtime Lyric subscriber. As part of the Breaking New Ground Campaign, Tom and his beloved late wife Julie made a generous leadership commitment in support of Lyric Unlimited, comprising the company’s education and community engagement activities. Tom Hurvis sponsors the Renée Fleming Initiative, and made a generous leadership gift

in support of Lyric’s Chicago Voices initiative during the 2016/17 season. Lyric gratefully acknowledges the Hurvis family’s more than 20 years of contributions to the Annual Campaign, including several production sponsorships, as well as their support of The Lyric Opera Broadcasts. Most recently, Tom has given a generous gift to the Ryan Opera Center, endowing a singer in perpetuity in memory of dear friend Dick Kiphart. “Opera enriches lives. That is why it is so important to introduce young people to opera, and for them to experience productions done by the best in their fields. How fortunate we are to have all this right here in Chicago.” Lyric is honored to have Tom Hurvis serve on its Board of Directors, Executive, Lyric Labs, and Lyric Unlimited Committees.

Dan Draper

INVESCO QQQInvesco QQQ, represented by Dan Draper, Managing Director and Head of Global Exchange Traded Funds, is proud to sponsor the arts as a corporate partner of Lyric Opera. They previously cosponsored the productions of Cinderella and Romeo and Juliet (2015/16), The Magic Flute (2016/17), and Turandot (2017/18). This season Invesco QQQ is a generous cosponsor of Lyric’s premiere of Cendrillon. Invesco QQQ global network recognizes

the value in helping investors around the world, but with headquarters in Downers Grove, "We are proud supporters both of Lyric's innovative programming and community engagement, and we laud their efforts to foster a rich artist culture locally."

Scott Santi

ITWLyric Opera deeply appreciates the long tradition of sustaining support from Illinois Tool Works Inc. (ITW). The company has made vital contributions to the Annual Campaign and the Breaking New Ground Campaign, and since 2002, has cosponsored the Opera Ball, one of Lyric’s most important traditions. ITW has cosponsored many productions, last season’s new production of Faust and this season's production of La traviata. Lyric is proud to have Chairman and CEO Scott Santi on its Board of Directors

and Executive Committee, along with past ITW Chairmen and CEOs W. James Farrell, John Nichols, and the late David Speer.

EDGAR D. JANNOTTALyric is extremely grateful for the longstanding support of Ned Jannotta and his beloved late wife Debby. A lifelong opera lover, Ned has been an integral part of the Lyric Opera family, joining the Board of Directors in 1987, serving as President and CEO of Lyric Opera from 1996 to 2000, and is currently serving as Co-Chairman Emeritus. Lyric is honored to have received a

leadership gift from the Jannottas for the Breaking New Ground Campaign to create the Ryan Opera Center Music Director Endowed Chair, in addition to their generous gifts to the Annual Campaign.

Craig C. Martin

JENNER & BLOCKFounded in 1914, Jenner & Block is a leading law firm with global impact and substantial experience in a broad range of legal issues. The firm has long played a prominent role in Chicago’s legal and business communities, and is consistently ranked as one of the top firms in the country. Jenner & Block has provided significant pro bono legal expertise to Lyric, along with generous contributions to the Breaking New Ground Campaign and the Annual Campaign, Lyric is fortunate to have Craig C. Martin, Partner and Chair

of Jenner & Block’s Litigation Department, as a valued member of its Board of Directors, Nominating/Governance, and Executive Committees.

PATRICIA A. KENNEY and GREGORY J. O'LEARYPat Kenney and Greg O'Leary are longtime subscribers and generous donors to Lyric, with a particular passion for supporting the emerging artists of The Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan Opera Center. Greg serves on the Ryan Opera Center Board on its Fundraising Committee, and Greg and Pat have cosponsored the season-culminating Rising Stars in Concert for six consecutive years. Greg was recently

elected to the Lyric Board of Directors. Pat and Greg joined the Aria Society last season with their generous Mainstage Singer Sponsorship of celebrated Ryan Opera Center alumnus Matthew Polenzani in his appearances in The Pearl Fishers. Lyric is grateful for their longstanding friendship. "We are thrilled to help Lyric Opera and the Ryan Opera Center with their mission of providing world class opera and training for singers, respectively. Every time we think they hit the high plateau, they ascend to another."

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THE RICHARD P. and SUSAN KIPHART FAMILYSusie Kiphart is an esteemed member of the Lyric Opera family. She is immediate past President of the Ryan Opera Center Board, Chair of the Ryan Opera Center Nominating Committee, and serves on the Lyric Unlimited Committee. Along with her beloved late husband Dick Kiphart, Susie is a passionate philanthropist. They have made leadership contributions to the Campaign for Excellence, of which

Dick served as chairman, and the Breaking New Ground Campaign.They have given major support for Lyric's radio programming as members of the broadcast consortium, sponsorship of Ryan Opera Center Ensemble members, and have been generous sponsors of the Renee Fleming Initiative. Lyric will forever be grateful for the visionary leadership of the late Dick Kiphart. He was a past President and CEO as well as Chairman of Lyric’s Board of Directors, Chairman of the Nominating/Governance Committee, and a member of the Executive, Finance and Production Sponsorship Committees. The Kipharts’ enthusiasm for opera and heartfelt commitment to Lyric are tremendous assets to the company, and in recognition of their passion and immense dedication they received the Carol Fox Award, Lyric’s highest honor, in 2013.

Linda K. Myers

KIRKLAND & ELLIS LLPKirkland & Ellis LLP has a more than 100-year history of providing exceptional service to clients in Chicago and around the world in complex litigation, corporate and tax, intellectual property, restructuring, and counseling matters. The firm is committed to enhancing quality of life through educational opportunities, cultural awareness, youth programs, and community outreach. Kirkland & Ellis LLP has cosponsored several operas, most recently The Merry Widow (2015/16), and was Lead Corporate

Sponsor of the Chicago Voices Gala Benefit (2016/17). Lyric Opera is fortunate to have Linda K. Myers, a Partner at Kirkland & Ellis LLP, as a member of its Board of Directors, Executive, and Production Sponsorship Committees.

NANCY W. KNOWLESOpera always played an important role in the life of the late Nancy W. Knowles. Her love for the art form was nurtured by her family’s musical traditions. “My father had hundreds and hundreds of records to play,” she fondly recalled, “so classical music was always in my home.” Nancy Knowles generously invested her time, talents, and leadership abilities to advance Lyric as a member of the Board

of Directors and Executive Committee, and formerly as a Guild Board member. In recognition of her extraordinary gift to the Campaign for Excellence, Lyric named the Nancy W. Knowles Lobby in 2007. Ms. Knowles once again made a significant gift in support of the Breaking New Ground Campaign to support the Nancy W. Knowles Student and Family Performances fund. Ms. Knowles generously underwrote several mainstage operas. In recognition of her outstanding generosity and enthusiasm, she received the Carol Fox Award, Lyric’s highest honor, in 2014. Lyric will forever be grateful for Nancy's extraordinary generosity.

NANCY and SANFRED KOLTUN Close members of the Lyric family as longtime subscribers

and generous supporters, Nancy and Sanfred were Ryan Opera Center Singer Cosponsors for many years and cosponsored the Lyric Unlimited family opera The Magic Victrola. Last season they joined the production sponsorship family with their generous support of Così fan tutte, and

enjoyed the experience so much they are cosponsors of this season’s La traviata. "In the fall of 1954, I attended Carmen, staged by the precursor of the Lyric. That night I fell in love with Carmen, opera, and my date. We were married shortly thereafter. Nancy and I have loved Lyric Opera and have always supported one of the most cherished cultural institutions of Chicago. It is our hope that our children, grandchildren and those beyond will be able to attend the Lyric and appreciate what a gem is in their midst."

MR. and MRS. FRED A. KREHBIELKay and Fred Krehbiel are longstanding dedicated members of the Lyric Opera family. Lyric gratefully acknowledges their generous contributions to Wine Auction, the Annual Campaign, and the Breaking New Ground Campaign. Kay Krehbiel is a leading and cherished member of Lyric’s Women’s Board, and Fred

Krehbiel is a National Director of Lyric’s Board of Directors.

JOSEF and MARGOT LAKONISHOKDevoted members of the Lyric family, Josef and Margot Lakonishok have subscribed to Lyric for many seasons. They have contributed to the Annual Campaign, and made a significant gift to the Breaking New Ground Campaign. They have also cosponsored several mainstage productions, including last season’s Orphée et Eurydice and this season's new coproduction of Ariodante. The CEO of

LSV Asset Management, Josef Lakonishok is a dedicated member of Lyric’s Board of Directors, serving on the Executive, Finance, and Investment Committees.

NIX LAURIDSEN and VIRGINIA CROSKERY LAURIDSEN Nix Lauridsen and Virginia Croskery Lauridsen of Des Moines, Iowa, join the Aria Society this year with special gifts to The Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan Opera Center, including cosponsorship of Rising Stars in Concert and Lead Sponsorship of the 2018 Ryan Opera Center Final

Auditions. As an alumna of the Ryan Opera Center, Virginia is thrilled that she and her husband Nix are able to support these incredible emerging artists. Nix is the chairman of LGI (Lauridsen Group Inc.) and a recent inductee into the Iowa Business Hall of Fame. He is a relative newcomer to the opera world but loves the excitement of the genre. The Lauridsens are pleased to be part of the Lyric family and look forward to an exciting new season.

JOHN D. and CATHERINE T. MacARTHUR FOUNDATIONThe John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation supports creative people, effective institutions, and influential networks building a more just, verdant, and peaceful world. MacArthur is placing a few big bets that truly significant progress is possible on some of the world’s most pressing social challenges, including over-incarceration, global climate change, nuclear risk, and significantly increasing financial capital for the social sector. In addition to the MacArthur Fellows Program, the Foundation supports creativity in Chicago through its arts and culture grantmaking. The Foundation’s support helps create powerful performances and exhibitions, educate young people, and engage communities, while providing arts and culture organizations the flexibility to innovate and experiment. Lyric is very grateful for the ongoing support of the MacArthur Foundation.

Robert H. Malott

MALOTT FAMILY FOUNDATIONRobert H. Malott, Retired Chairman and CEO of FMC Corporation, was a fervent fan of opera and music, and Lyric was delighted to call him a longtime friend, staunch leader, and generous supporter. The Malott Room was named in his family’s honor in recognition of their gift to the Building on Greatness Capital Campaign, and in recognition of the Malott Family’s commitment to the Breaking New Ground Campaign, Box 18 is

named in perpetuity in honor of Robert H. Malott for his extraordinary generosity and steadfast dedication to Lyric Opera. He also played a leadership role as a Life Director of Lyric’s Board of Directors.

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Joseph O. Rubinelli, Jr., Mary Jane Rubinelli, Nicholas J. Lavezzorio, and Joan Lavezzorio Schniedwind

MAZZA FOUNDATIONLyric deeply appreciates the abiding friendship and generosity of the Mazza Foundation. Under the guidance of its directors, Mary Jane Rubinelli, Nicholas J. Lavezzorio, Joseph O. Rubinelli, Jr., and Joan Lavezzorio Schniedwind, the Mazza Foundation provided major support for the Student Matinees for many years, helping Lyric introduce the majesty and grandeur of opera to

thousands of young people each season. Since 2005, the Mazza Foundation has been part of the production sponsorship family, most recently cosponsoring last season’s new production of Die Walküre and this season’s production of Elektra.

Fred and Nancy McDougal

LAUTER McDOUGAL CHARITABLE FUNDNancy and her late husband Alfred have provided longstanding, vital support to the Annual Campaign as well as The Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan Opera Center, including Rising Stars in Concert. Last season, Nancy generously gave additional support as a cosponsor of the Ryan Opera Center fundraising event Ladies’ Choice, Piotr Beczała in Recital, Lyric Unlimited’s Chicago premiere of Fellow Travelers and the new

Chicago Urban League arts immersion partnership EmpowerYouth!

THE ANDREW W. MELLON FOUNDATIONLyric is deeply grateful for The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation’s long and tremendous history of support. Through a multi-year commitment to Lyric’s American Horizons initiative in 2000, the Mellon Foundation encouraged presentation of American operas and expansion of the operatic repertory by providing major support for Lyric premieres. During the 2012/13 season, the Mellon Foundation provided leadership funding to launch Lyric’s visionary new Lyric Unlimited programming, which included the Chicago premiere of Cruzar la Cara de la Luna, the world’s first Mariachi opera. The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation continued its generous partnership with Lyric Unlimited by providing outstanding support for Lyric’s world premiere mariachi opera El Pasado Nunca Se Termina, and continued its unparalleled legacy by cosponsoring Lyric’s world premiere of mainstage production Bel Canto. Most recently, the Mellon Foundation has provided generous leadership funding for Lyric’s Chicago Voices initiative, specifically focused on the Community Created Performances component, which plays a vital role in bringing together Chicago’s diverse communities and vocal traditions in celebration of the human voice.

THE MONUMENT TRUST (UK)Lyric is grateful for the generosity of The Monument Trust and its Chairman of trustees Stewart Grimshaw, who initiated their support for the cosponsorship of Rusalka (2013/14) and cosponsored Anna Bolena (2014/15), Wozzeck (2015/16), The Magic Flute (2016/17), and Orphée et Eurydice (2017/18). The Monument Trust is a passionate supporter of the arts in the U.K. and U.S. and cosponsors Lyric’s new coproduction of Ariodante this season.

MR. and MRS. ROBERT S. MORRISONSusan and Bob Morrison are devoted members of the Lyric Opera family. Both are loyal subscribers and patrons who take an active role in nurturing Lyric’s success. Susan Morrison is a leading member of the Women’s Board. Lyric is fortunate to have Bob Morrison serve as a member of its Board of Directors. The Morrisons have generously supported the Opera Ball and Wine Auction as well as the Annual Campaign for many years. They provided a substantial gift to the

Breaking New Ground Campaign and were cosponsors of Lyric's production of Turandot last season. Proud supporters of Lyric’s Musical Theatre Initiative, Susan and Bob have cosponsored many of Lyric's musicals including this season's West Side Story. “Lyric reaches patrons at every level. People are here because they love it. They’re welcomed, embraced, and made to feel part of a family.”

Elizabeth Morse Genius

THE ELIZABETH MORSE CHARITABLE TRUSTLyric sincerely appreciates the tremendous ongoing support of The Elizabeth Morse Charitable Trust, as well as the invaluable leadership of the Trust’s Co-Trustees JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. and James L. Alexander. One of two trusts established in memory of Elizabeth Morse Genius, daughter of 19th-century industrialist Charles Hosmer Morse, The Elizabeth Morse Charitable Trust supports non-profit organizations that reflect the values of thrift,

humility, industry, self-sufficiency, and self-sacrifice, such as Lyric. The Elizabeth Morse Charitable Trust, along with its sister trust, the Elizabeth Morse Genius Charitable Trust, has cosponsored many mainstage productions. To show its grateful appreciation for The Trust’s generous gift to the Breaking New Ground Campaign, as well as to recognize The Trust’s commitment for more than fifteen years to helping build the company’s core capacities and institutional infrastructure, Lyric named one of its key meeting rooms in its executive offices the Elizabeth Morse Conference Room.

ALLAN and ELAINE MUCHINAllan and Elaine Muchin are longtime, valued members of the Lyric Opera family. Allan served as President and CEO of the company from 2001 to 2006, and is currently Co-Chairman Emeritus of the Board of Directors and serves on the Executive Committee. The Muchins have staunchly supported the Annual Campaign, Operathon,

and the Stars of Lyric Opera at Millennium Park concert, and have committed leadership gifts to the Building on Greatness Capital Campaign, the Campaign for Excellence, and the Breaking New Ground Campaign. Lyric is extremely grateful for Allan and Elaine Muchin’s munificent friendship.

NATIONAL ENDOWMENT for the ARTSOur support from the National Endowment for the Arts: Grants awarded by the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) have played a leading role in the advancement of Lyric’s programming and expansion of the operatic repertoire, serving the public good by fostering creativity and artistic excellence in America. Through production and program funding as well as a major challenge grant, awards from the NEA have nurtured Lyric’s world-class artistic achievements. The Endowment has funded important artistic initiatives at Lyric such as American Horizons, Great American Voices, and Toward the 21st Century. The NEA has provided vital support for numerous Lyric Opera premieres, new productions, and revivals, most recently last season’s I Puritani, and this season’s Siegfried.

THE NEGAUNEE FOUNDATIONThe founder of The Negaunee Foundation has great affection for music, the performing arts, and Mozart. These interests, combined with a strong admiration of Lyric Opera, have been instrumental in bringing operas to Lyric’s mainstage. The Negaunee Foundation has cosponsored many productions, most recently last season’s productions of Così fan tutte and Jesus Christ Superstar. This season the foundation is the lead sponsor of both Idomeneo and West Side Story. The Negaunee Foundation has also made a generous gift to the Breaking New Ground Campaign. Lyric is very fortunate to be among the Chicago cultural institutions benefiting from The Negaunee Foundation’s leadership and financial commitment. Lyric is honored to have The Negaunee Foundation’s president serve as a member of its Board of Directors and Audit Committee.

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SYLVIA NEIL and DANIEL FISCHELSylvia and Dan have been loyal Lyric Opera subscribers and donors for many years, and have cosponsored several mainstage opera productions, including last season’s The Pearl Fishers and this season’s Elektra. They made a generous gift to the Breaking New Ground Campaign to help secure Lyric’s future. “It has been very enjoyable to become part of the Lyric family and to give back to a

place that has given us so much pleasure. There have been many moments for both Dan and me when we have said, tonight is incredible, it is one of the memorable performances of our lifetime. Lyric Opera of Chicago is an international star and it is evidenced by the people who choose to be involved here.” Lyric is honored to have Sylvia Neil serve on its Board of Directors, Executive, Production Sponsorship, and Lyric Unlimited Committees.

Jerry and Elaine Nerenberg

THE NERENBERG FOUNDATIONDuring their lifetimes, Jerry and Elaine Nerenberg were passionate supporters of Lyric Opera and subscribed for more than 30 years. They were especially supportive of The Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan Opera Center and loved to watch these young artists perform and grow at Lyric Opera. Jerry Nerenberg and his wife Elaine passed away

in 2005 and 2007, respectively. In their wills, they established The Jerome and Elaine Nerenberg Foundation, which was funded to make generous annual grants to Lyric Opera for many years to come. Lyric is very appreciative of the Nerenbergs’ thoughtfulness and generosity in creating this planned gift.

Sonia Florian

NIB FOUNDATIONFounding owners/managers of former radio station WNIB, Sonia and the late William Florian established the NIB Foundation to extend their support to many worthwhile arts and environmental causes. Sonia is a devoted member of the Lyric family, having subscribed to Lyric for more than four decades. The NIB Foundation continues to cosponsor many mainstage productions including this season’s production of Cendrillon and Anna Netrebko in recital, and made a major commitment to the

Breaking New Ground Campaign. In addition to their magnanimous financial support, Mr. and Mrs. Florian and the NIB Foundation gave their valuable collection of operatic and other vocal recordings to Lyric, making Lyric’s Educational Library Collection one of the most extensive collections of its kind in the country. Sonia Florian very generously provided a naming gift for the Florian Opera Bistro located on the third floor of the Lyric Opera House. Sonia is a vital member of Lyric’s Board of Directors, Executive Committee, and Production Sponsorship Committee, and was awarded the Carol Fox Award, Lyric’s most prestigious honor, in 2015 for her outstanding commitment to the company.

JOHN D. and ALEXANDRA C. NICHOLSLongtime enthusiasts of arts and culture in Chicago, John D. and Alexandra C. Nichols have steadfastly supported the Annual Campaign, and are generous sponsors of the Renée Fleming Initiative. Lyric Opera is extremely grateful for John and Alexandra Nichols’ significant leadership contributions to both the Campaign for

Excellence and the Breaking New Ground Campaign, establishing the John D. and Alexandra C. Nichols Grand Staircase. They have also provided a generous gift endowing Lyric's Music Director position, the John D. and Alexandra C. Nichols Endowed Chair, currently held by Sir Andrew Davis. Retired Chairman and CEO of Illinois Tool Works and Retired Vice Chairman and CEO of The Marmon Group, Inc., John Nichols is also a dedicated National Director of Lyric’s Board of Directors. “Our involvement with the opera company is a deeply rewarding experience for both of us”, John said. Lyric is immensely grateful for the unwavering generosity of John and Alexandra Nichols.

Jana R. Schreuder

NORTHERN TRUSTLyric is honored to have Jana R. Schreuder, retired chief operating officer of Northern Trust, serve as a member of Lyric’s Board of Directors, Executive, and Finance Committees, and William A. Osborn, Northern Trust’s retired chairman and CEO, serve as a member of Lyric’s Board of Directors and Executive Committee. A leading global financial services provider, Northern Trust has enjoyed a longstanding and significant relationship with Lyric.

Based in Chicago, the firm has played a major role supporting the Annual Campaign and Lyric Unlimited. Northern Trust also provides vital leadership contributions to Lyric as presenting sponsor of the triennial Wine Auction since 2000, and as cosponsor of the Opera Ball (annually since 1998). In addition, Northern Trust has cosponsored several mainstage productions including this season’s West Side Story. "Being a good corporate citizen is very important," William Osborn once said. "It allows us to do our part to help keep the City of Chicago strong and viable and, in the end, this is beneficial to everyone."

OGILVYOgilvy is one doorway to a creative network, re-founded to make brands matter in a complex, noisy, hyper-connected world. Lyric is grateful for the significant in-kind contribution in 2018 to launch a new marketing campaign “Are You Opera Enough?”. The Ogilvy Chicago team was tasked with changing the perception of Lyric to make it more appealing and accessible to millennials. They needed to highlight the “all too human” core of opera in a different, more compelling, and contemporary way. The resulting series of print, poster, and billboard adverts illustrated the interesting cultural and historical aspects of opera. Ogilvy Chicago’s informative and humorous execution of the campaign provided prospective opera goers with a large set of tools to not be intimidated by their first experience, and to better understand any aspect of the opera art form.

MR. and MRS. DAVID T. ORMESHERLyric is sincerely grateful for the devotion of David and Sheila Ormesher. David is founder and CEO of closerlook, inc., a Chicago-based digital marketing agency serving the pharmaceutical industry since 1987. closerlook has given generously to Lyric Opera for many

years, sponsoring Fantasy of the Opera from 2009 to 2014 and the Stars of Lyric Opera at Millennium Park concert for seven consecutive years. Most recently, David and Sheila generously provided an Operathon Challenge Grant, supported the Opera Ball, and made a leadership gift towards the Breaking New Ground Campaign. Lyric is proud to have David T. Ormesher serving as its Chairman of the Board of Directors, on the Executive Committee, and on all sub-committees of the Board.

MR. and MRS. WILLIAM A. OSBORNBill and Cathy Osborn are devoted members of the Lyric Opera family. They have subscribed to Lyric for over two decades and enjoy participating in special events such as Opening Night/Opera Ball and Wine Auction. The Osborns have generously contributed to the Annual Campaign and the Breaking New Ground Campaign.

Cathy Osborn, a valued member of Lyric’s Women’s Board, was Co-Chairman of Lyric’s highly successful Wine Auction 2009, and Chairman of Opera Ball 2013. William A. Osborn, Northern Trust’s Retired Chairman and CEO, is a leading member of Lyric’s Board of Directors and Executive Committee.

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Mr. and Mrs. Jay A. Pritzker

PRITZKER FOUNDATIONThe Pritzker Foundation is a leading supporter of arts and education philanthropies in Chicago. Lyric Opera of Chicago is truly grateful for the Pritzker Foundation’s generous support of the Breaking New Ground Campaign to underwrite the Pritzker Family Concert Shell, designed by renowned Chicago architect Jeanne Gang and Studio Gang architects. Lyric is honored to have Life Member Mrs. Jay A. Pritzker and M. K. Pritzker serve on its esteemed Women’s Board.

J. CHRISTOPHER and ANNE N. REYESAnne and Chris Reyes are prominent members of the Lyric family. A past President of Lyric’s Women’s Board, Anne was recently elected to serve on Lyric’s Board of Directors, Executive and Lyric Unlimited Committees; Chris is an esteemed past member of the Board of Directors. Together they have made important

contributions to Lyric as cosponsors of several mainstage productions, including last season’s Jesus Christ Superstar. They have staunchly supported the Wine Auction and are major supporters of the Annual Campaign, Breaking New Ground Campaign, and Lyric Unlimited.

CANDY AND GARY RIDGWAYCandy and Gary Ridgway are devoted members of the Lyric family. They have provided continued support of the Annual Campaign for many years and made a significant gift to the Breaking New Ground Campaign. Candy and Gary recently joined Lyric's Production Sponsorship family with their sponsorship of Verdi's Rigoletto last season. Candy's love for opera came from

her mother, Mary Sue. They shared a mutual love for their favorite art form here at Lyric. In talking about Candy and Gary's sponsorship of Rigoletto, Candy stated, "this one's for mom."

PATRICK G. RYAN and SHIRLEY WELSH RYANLyric cherishes the enduring friendship and dedication of Patrick G. and Shirley Welsh Ryan. Since 1966 when they first subscribed to Lyric as newlyweds, they have shared their leadership, talents, vision, and resources to advance Lyric’s mission. Over the past four decades, the Ryans have contributed generously to the Annual

Campaign, Wine Auctions (which Mrs. Ryan initiated in 1988 and was the Honoree in 2018), and the Breaking New Ground Campaign in support of the Innovation Initiative. In recognition of his leadership role in the Building on Greatness Capital Campaign, Pat Ryan was a recipient of the 1994 Carol Fox Award. For many seasons, they have sponsored Lyric Opera Commentaries, underwriting this special project to honor the memory of their parents. The Ryans are sponsors of the Renée Fleming Initiative and Lyric’s premier artist development program was renamed The Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan Opera Center in recognition of their extraordinary gift to the Campaign for Excellence. Pat and Shirley serve as Honorary Co-Chairs of the Ryan Opera Center Board. A Vice President and a member of the Executive, Nominating/Governance, and Lyric Labs of Lyric’s Board of Directors and a distinguished former President of the Women’s Board, Shirley Welsh Ryan was awarded the 2007 Carol Fox Award, Lyric’s most prestigious honor, in recognition of her many years of devoted service to the company.

Jack and Catherine Scholl

DR. SCHOLL FOUNDATIONSince 1983, the Dr. Scholl Foundation’s commitment to children, families and educational enrichment through the arts has led it to provide essential support for one of Lyric’s most popular cultural engagement opportunities available to young Chicagoans, the Student Matinees. Each year, these widely accessible performances at Lyric Opera of Chicago reach audiences of junior high and

high school students, many of whom are experiencing opera for the first time. Lyric Opera is deeply grateful to the Dr. Scholl Foundation for its generous ongoing support of Student Matinees/Performances for Students, commemorating Catherine A. and Jack E. Scholl, who championed cultural and institutional education.

Brenda Shapiro

EARL and BRENDA SHAPIRO FOUNDATIONProminent members of the Lyric family for many seasons, Brenda Shapiro and her late husband Earl provided vital support to the Annual Campaign and the Breaking New Ground Campaign. The Foundation has cosponsored several mainstage productions, including this season's Il trovatore. Lyric is honored to have Brenda Shapiro serve on the Board of Directors as well as the Executive, Production Sponsorship, and Lyric Unlimited Committees.

SHURE INCORPORATED Founded in 1925, Shure Incorporated is widely acknowledged as the world's leading manufacturer of microphones and audio electronics. Over the years, the Company has designed and produced many high-quality professional and consumer audio products that have become legendary for performance, reliability, and value. Shure’s diverse product line includes world-class wired microphones, wireless microphone systems, in-ear personal monitoring systems, conferencing and discussion systems, networked audio systems, award-winning earphones and headphones, and top-rated phonograph cartridges. Today, Shure products are the first choice whenever audio performance is a top priority. Lyric is honored to have partnered with Shure Incorporated for many years. Shure Incorporated generously provided major in-kind audio support for last season’s Broadway at Lyric premiere of Jesus Christ Superstar and will again for this season’s premiere of West Side Story.

SIDLEY AUSTIN LLPA leader in the international legal arena, the law firm of Sidley Austin is a generous corporate contributor to arts and culture in Chicago. Lyric deeply appreciates Sidley Austin’s cosponsorship of Lyric’s new productions of Orfeo ed Euridice (2005/06), Lulu (2008/09), Hercules (2010/11), Werther (2012/13), Rusalka (2013/14), The Passenger (2014/15), and Les Troyens (2016/17). This season, Sidley Austin LLP generously cosponsors Lyric’s

company premiere of Ariodante. Lyric is proud to have Larry Barden, Chairman of the firm’s Management Committee, on its Board of Directors and Compensation Committee.

LIZ STIFFELA passionate devotee of opera and loyal subscriber at Lyric, Liz is a prominent member of Lyric’s Women’s Board and a longstanding member of the Guild Board of Directors. She has cosponsored many mainstage productions, most recently last season’s new production of Orphée et Eurydice, Faust and the Celebrating 100 Years of Bernstein concert. This season Liz has generously sponsored the new coproduction of La bohème and is a sponsor of

the Renée Fleming 25th Anniversary Concert & Gala. Lyric has named Mezzanine Box 1 in recognition of her significant gift to the Breaking New Ground Campaign. Liz Stiffel was awarded the 2017 Carol Fox Award, Lyric’s most prestigious honor, in recognition of her continuing dedication to Lyric. “I believe that Lyric and all art forms are beacons of light that shine as examples of the best that mankind has to offer to our children, our nation, and ourselves.”

Larry Barden

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Carol and William Vance

MRS. HERBERT A. VANCE and MR. and MRS. WILLIAM C. VANCELyric Opera appreciates the extraordinary generosity and leadership of the Vance Family. The Vances have generously sponsored/cosponsored several Lyric premieres and new productions, including this season's West Side Story. For many years, the Vances have supported emerging singers through their sponsorship of Ryan Opera Center Ensemble members. In addition, Mr. and Mrs. William C. Vance contributed to the Breaking New Ground Campaign, and are generous

sponsors of the Renée Fleming Initiative. Mr. Vance is Vice President and an esteemed member of Lyric’s Board of Directors and Executive Committee. He also serves as a life member of the Ryan Opera Center Board, of which he is a past President. Bill Vance was awarded the 2016 Carol Fox Award, Lyric’s most prestigious honor, in recognition of his leadership, steadfast support, and many years of devoted service to Lyric Opera.

Donna Van Eekeren

DONNA VAN EEKEREN FOUNDATIONDonna Van Eekeren is a devoted opera fan, Lyric subscriber, and generous supporter of the Ryan Opera Center. She enjoys encouraging talented young artists as Lead Sponsor of Rising Stars in Concert and Exclusive Sponsor of its radio rebroadcast on 98.7WFMT. Reflecting her passion for introducing young people to opera, the Donna Van Eekeren Foundation has supported Lyric’s Performances for Students, NEXT discount tickets for college students, and Opera in the Neighborhoods. The Donna

Van Eekeren Foundation has cosponsored several mainstage productions including Lyric’s premiere of Les Troyens (2016/17), last season’s production of I Puritani, and this season's La traviata. Donna also made a leadership gift to the Breaking New Ground Campaign to help secure Lyric’s future. Executive Chairman of Land O’Frost, Donna Van Eekeren is a valued member of Lyric’s Board of Directors, serving as Secretary of the Board, on the Executive and Finance Committees, and on the Ryan Opera Center Board.

THE WALLACE FOUNDATIONThe Wallace Foundation is a national philanthropy that seeks to improve learning and enrichment for disadvantaged children and foster the vitality of the arts for everyone. Wallace has an unusual approach: funding projects to test innovative ideas for solving important social problems, conducting research to find out what works and what doesn’t and to fill key knowledge gaps – and then communicating the results to help others. Lyric is the recipient of a multi-phase grant as part of the Foundation’s Building Audiences for Sustainability initiative; the grant is funding research and analysis of Lyric audiences, and will reveal ways in which Lyric can maximize its reach in the community. Lyric’s work will inform lessons that will be shared with the broader field.

ROBERTA L. and ROBERT J. WASHLOWRoberta and Bob Washlow are cherished members of the Lyric family. For more than four decades, they have enjoyed attending Lyric performances and special events, and have generously supported the Annual Campaign. Since 1986, the Port, Washlow, and Errant Families together sponsored more than 20 Lyric productions. The Washlows made a generous commitment to the Breaking

New Ground Campaign to support Lyric Unlimited activities. Roberta and Bob have annually remained valued members of the production sponsorship family, and generously cosponsor this season’s production of La bohème, their eleventh opera cosponsorship, continuing a beloved family tradition. Lyric is honored to have Roberta Washlow as an esteemed member of its Board of Directors and Lyric Unlimited Committee. “Opera has always touched me,” Roberta once said. “I love the drama, passion, music, and excitement of a live performance at Lyric. Nothing can replace it, and I hope this beautiful art form will continue for generations.”

HELEN and SAM ZELLHelen and Sam Zell are passionate supporters of Chicago’s vibrant cultural scene. They are longtime subscribers to Lyric Opera and have contributed to the Annual Campaign for many years. Helen and Sam have cosponsored several new productions, most recently all four installments of Lyric’s new Ring cycle, including this season's Siegfried and next season's Götterdämmerung.

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Supporting Our Future – Endowments at LyricAs a perpetual fund, annually distributing a designated portion of earnings and investment income, endowments provide a steady source of funding so Lyric can be a leader in the opera world – now and into the future. This list includes endowments that have received partial funding and endowments that will be funded with a future commitment - to learn more about contributing to an existing endowment or establishing your own endowment please contact Lyric’s Gift Planning Office at 312. 827.5654 or email gift_planning@lyricopera.org.

Lyric Endowed Chairs

Supports Established byChorus Master Howard A. StotlerConcertmaster Mrs. R. Robert Funderburg, in honor of Sally FunderburgCostume Designer Richard P. and Susan KiphartGeneral Director The Women’s Board, in loving memory of Ardis KrainikLighting Director Mary-Louise and James S. Aagard, in honor of Duane SchulerMusic Director John D. and Alexandra C. NicholsProduction and Technical Director* Allan and Elaine MuchinWigmaster and Makeup Designer* Marlys Beider, in loving memory of Harold BeiderRyan Opera Center Director The Ryan Opera Center BoardRyan Opera Center Music Director Edgar D. Jannotta Family

Lyric Production Endowment Funds

Supports Established byAmerican Operas* Robert and Ellen MarksBaroque Operas AnonymousBel Canto Operas* Mr. and Mrs. William H. RedfieldFrench Operas W. James and Maxine P. FarrellGerman Operas* Irma ParkerItalian Operas The NIB FoundationMozart Operas Regenstein Foundation, in honor of Ruth RegensteinPuccini Operas* Mary Patricia GannonVerdi Operas The Guild BoardWagner Operas Anonymous

Lyric Endowment Funds

John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Endowment Sarah and A. Watson Armour III Endowment Shirley and Benjamin Gould Endowment

Ryan Opera Center Endowment Funds

Dr. C. Bekerman Endowment*Thomas Doran Endowment*Boyd Edmonston & Edward Warro Endowment*James K. Genden and Alma Koppedraijer Endowment*J. Thomas Hurvis Endowment Fund, in memory of Richard P. KiphartRobert and Ellen Marks Ryan Opera Center Vocal Studies Program*, in honor of Gianna RolandiLois B. Siegel Endowment*Joanne Silver Endowment*Drs. Joan and Russ Zajtchuk Endowment*

Lyric Unlimited Endowment Funds

Katherine A. Abelson Education EndowmentDr. C. Bekerman Endowment*Raynette and Ned Boshell EndowmentGeorge F. and Linda L. Brusky Youth Education EndowmentThe Chapters’ Education Endowment, in memory of Alfred GlasserJames K. Genden and Alma Koppedraijer Endowment*

*Future Planned GiftGenerous endowment gifts help to make possible productions

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Anna Netrebko in RecitalNIB Foundation

Annual Meeting Dinner 2018Strategy&, part of the PwC network Audience Development InitiativeThe Wallace Foundation Cast PartiesStephen Kohl and Mark TiltonMr. and Mrs. Robert G. Weiss

Innovation InitiativePatrick G. and Shirley Welsh Ryan Lyric Signature EventsPwCUnited Scrap Metal, Inc. Official AirlineAmerican Airlines Opening Night Opera Ball 2018Opening Night Gala SponsorAon Opera Ball SponsorsITWNorthern Trust

The Poet Premium Sponsors The Crown Family Patrick G. and Shirley Welsh RyanLiz Stiffel

The Painter Premium SponsorsAn Anonymous DonorMr. and Mrs. Henry M. Buchbindercloserlook, inc.Karen Z. Gray-Krehbiel and John H. Krehbiel, Jr.Harris Family FoundationBlythe Jaski McGarvie Mr. and Mrs. William A. OsbornAndy and Betsy RosenfieldMr. and Mrs. Alejandro Silva

The Philosopher Premium SponsorsNancy S. Searle Thierer Family Foundation

The Performer Premium SponsorsSylvia Neil and Daniel Fischel

Additional SupportChavez-Tatro FoundationMr. and Mrs. W. James FarrellMr. and Mrs. Philip FriedmannAnne Perillo MichudaMr. and Mrs. Todd D. MitchellMr. and Mrs. Steven F. MoloEllen and Jim Stirling

Overture Society LuncheonsSusan M. MillerMr. and Mrs. Merrill E. BlauRhoda and Henry Frank Family Foundation Planned Giving SeminarsMorgan Stanley (2)

Projected English TitlesLloyd E. Rigler-Lawrence E. Deutsch Foundation Renée Fleming InitiativeAn Anonymous DonorMr. and Mrs. John V. CroweThe Crown FamilyJ. Thomas HurvisThe Richard P. and Susan Kiphart FamilyJohn D. and Alexandra C. NicholsPatrick G. and Shirley Welsh Ryan

Renée Fleming 25th Anniversary Concert & GalaPremium SponsorsThe Crown FamilyJenner & BlockLiz StiffelMr. and Mrs. William A. OsbornJ. Christopher and Anne N. ReyesPatrick G. and Shirley Welsh Ryan

West Side Story CelebrationPremium Table SponsorsAn Anonymous DonorKaren Z. Gray-Krehbiel and John H. Krehbiel, Jr.ITWAnnie and Gregory K. JonesJ. Christopher and Anne N. ReyesPatrick G. and Shirley Welsh RyanLiz StiffelAnne Zenzer and Dominick DeLuca

Additional SupportAnonymous

Major Contributors — Special Events and Project SupportLyric is grateful to the following generous donors for their support of special events and projects. Listings include contributors whose gifts of $5,000 and above were received by October 1, 2018.

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Lyric UnlimitedLyric is grateful to the following generous donors for their support Lyric Unlimited programs. Listings include contributors whose gifts of $5,000 and above were received by October 1, 2018

With Major Support provided from the Nancy W. Knowles Student and Family Performances Fund

Chicago Public Schools Bus Scholarship

U.S. Bank Foundation

Opera in the NeighborhoodsAn Anonymous DonorDan J. Epstein, Judy Guitelman,

and the Dan J. Epstein Family Foundation

Komarek-Hyde-McQueen Foundation/Patricia Hyde

Opera Residencies for SchoolsAn Anonymous DonorRobert & Isabelle Bass

Foundation, Inc.Lloyd A. Fry FoundationPolk Bros. Foundation

Performances for StudentsPaul M. Angell Family

FoundationAn Anonymous DonorJohn and Rosemary Brown Family

FoundationDan J. Epstein, Judy Guitelman,

and the Dan J. Epstein Family Foundation

Shirley and Benjamin Gould Endowment Fund

John Hart and Carol PrinsJPMorgan Chase & Co.Dr. Scholl FoundationSegal Family Foundation

Rhoda and the Fossil HuntLeadership FundingJ. Christopher and Anne N. Reyes

Additional SupportAn Anonymous Donor (2)Francie ComerRobert and Evelyn McCullenSage FoundationRoberta L. and Robert J. WashlowJane Wilson and David Mayhew

Stone Charitable TrustWintrust Community Banks

Stars of Lyric Opera at Millennium Park 2018Lead Sponsorcloserlook, inc.

CosponsorsAn Anonymous DonorRhoda and Henry Frank Family FoundationBaker Tilly Virchow Krause, LLPCrain-Maling FoundationFifth Third BankKomarek-Hyde-McQueen Foundation/Patricia HydeAllan and Elaine MuchinSipi Metals Corp.Music Performance Trust FundFilm Funds Trust Funds

With Major Support from the Caerus Foundation, Inc.An American DreamLeadership FundingThe Wallace Foundation

Additional SupportBaker & McKenzieSeymour H. Persky Charitable TrustMary Stowell

Caminos a la ópera (Pathways to Opera)Dan J. Epstein, Judy Guitelman, and the Dan J.

Epstein Family FoundationRosy and Jose Luis Prado

Empower Youth! Igniting Creativity through the ArtsThe Beaubien FamilyEisen Family FoundationLauter McDougal Charitable FundEric and Deb HirschfieldEstate of Pierrete E. SauvatTony Valukas and Cathy Beres

Family Day at LyricBank of America

General SupportAnonymous (4)Drs. Walter and Anne-Marie BruyninckxThe Barker Welfare FoundationBNSF Railway FoundationHelen Brach FoundationEnvestnetMichael and Leigh HustonElizabeth Khalil and Peter BelytschkoMolexMUFG

Kenneth R. NorganNorthern TrustCharles and M.R. Shapiro Foundation, Inc.Rose L. Shure Charitable TrustMichael Welsh and Linda Brummer

NEXT Student Ticket ProgramLeadership FundingThe Grainger Foundation

Additional SupportPaul and Mary Anderson Dr. and Mrs. Arthur J. Atkinson, Jr. The Brinson FoundationDeloitteElaine FrankJackie and James HollandNuveen Investments

Pre-Opera TalksRaynette and Ned Boshell

Senior MatineeBuehler Family FoundationLannan FoundationShirley and Benjamin Gould Endowment FundThe Retirement Research FoundationSiragusa Family Foundation

Student Backstage ToursShirley and Benjamin Gould Endowment FundDan J. Epstein, Judy Guitelman, and the Dan J.

Epstein Family Foundation

Youth Opera CouncilTerry J. Medhurst Penelope and Robert Steiner

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in Lyric Unlimited's EmpowerYouth! initative

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Gifts of $500 and above contributed in the name of a friend, loved one or colleague are a unique expression of thoughtfulness.

In Memory Of:Ken Babe from the Riverside ChapterJohn R. Blair

from Barbara Blair Sandra Box

from Barbara Box John "Jack" V. Crowe

from John and Judy Keller, Lisbeth Stiffel

Larry Fox from Julie Benson,

Mary and Larry Selander Myron and Karen Tiersky Household Dixie Lim Go from Gregory Chen, Robert Dow, Gregg and Wendy Elstien, Lionel Go, Jonathan Lichter, Jimmy Lim, Daniel and Tracey Murray, Kenneth Pollard, Mary Ruscher, and Filemon and Elizabeth YaoJane Rolandi Gray

from William PorterElaine De G. Harvey

from Daggett Harvey and Yvonne Yamashita Thomas W. Hill

from Richard Nora Angela Holtzman

from Marjory M. OlikerKatie Jacobson

from Lisbeth Stiffel Lee and Billye Jennings

from Alfred Goldstein Kip Kelley, Sr.

from Anonymous, Aon Corporation, Kip and Sarah Kelley, Charles and Mary Shea, Lisbeth Stiffel, John Sullivan, William and Kathie Vit Kip Kelley, Sr. and Ed Zasadil

from James Alexander and Curtis Drayer

William Laird Kleine-Ahlbrandt from Sheila Hegy

Nancy Knowles from Roberta and Robert Washlow

Gordon G. Lakin from Lawrence and JoAnne Winer

Robert H. Malott from John Furrer,

Lincoln Academy of Illinios, from Wainwright Investment Council, LLC,Vivi Martens

from James KarrArmida Melino Melone

from Bernadette McCarthyHugo Melvoin

from Lois Melvoin Virginia Byrne Mooney

from Kathleen VondranDr. Antonio E. Navarrete

from Virginia Navarrete Peer and Sarah Pedersen

from James BramsenKen Piggott from Tully Family FoundationDr. Robert A. Pringle

from Marla PringleDiane Ragains

from James Tucker Marilyn and Roland Resnick

from J. Kline Joan Richards

from Harris Family Foundation, Alan and Drue Huish, Harry Roper and Helen Marlborough' Craig Sirles ,Gisela Elizabeth Rill

from Mary Ring Shirley Ryan's parents

from Patrick and Shirley Ryan Dr. Sheldon K. Schiff

from Sheldon Schiff Stephen Schulson

from Susan Schulson Edwin J. Seeboeck

from James HeimNancy Wald

from The Humanist Fund

Irving and Ruth Waldshine from Deane Ellis,

Marcia Purze Dr. William Warren

from Marshall and Joann Goldin Sarita Warshawsky

from Carol WarshawskyNikolay Zhizhin

from Larisa Zhizhin

In Honor Of:Julie Baskes

from Peter WenderMarion Cameron

from Susan PayneMarie Campbell's Birthday from Patti FazioRenee Crown

from Minow Family FoundationAngela DeStefano

from Jerry and Kathy Biederman Erika Erich

from Richard MooreSally Feder

from Dan Feder, Carroll Joynes and Abby O'Neil,

Paula Kahn, Philip Lumpkin,

Julia Nowicki Dr. Bradley Fine and family

from Bradley FineAnthony Freud and Colin Ure from James and Laurie BayRegan Friedmann

from Eisen Family Foundation, Leslie and Donna Pinsof Kay and Craig TuberRuth Ann Gillis

from Lisbeth StiffelRuth Ann Gillis and Michael McGinnis from James and Laurie BayKeith Kiley Goldstein

from Patricia CoxAgnes Hamos' Birthday from Barbara Currie Gillian Larkin William and Ethel Gofen Richard and Martha Schoenfeld John Casey

Caroline Huebner from Jason and Rachel Mersey

Lori Julian from Charles Brooks and Suzan Bramson

Mary Klyasheff from Peoples Gas

Margot and Josef Lakonishok from Arsen and Elizabeth Manugian

Frank and Lynne Modruson from Donna Gustafsson

Frank Modruson from Protiviti

Gael Neeson and Stefan Edlis from Tom Shapiro

Sylvia Neil & Dan Fischel from Andrea Markowicz

Sue Niemi from BCLLP Foundation

Greg O'Leary from Suzanne Wagner

Richard O. Ryan from Ardell Arthur,

Michael and Sally Feder Shirley Ryan

from Rodney and Keith Goldstein Erica Sandner from Mirja and Ted HaffnerNancy Searle

from Carol and James Pollock, Michael and Lynne Terry Nancy Searle and Keith Goldstein

from Prince Charitable TrustsMary Selander

from William and Carol Vance Chelsea Southwood from James and Laurie BayLiz Stiffel

from Ruth Ann Gillis and Michael McGuinnis Dr. Bryan Traubert

from Pritzker Foundation

Commemorative Gifts

Champagne Bar

Sunday Afternoon Tea

Florian Opera Bistro

Sarah and Peer Pedersen Room

The William B. and Catherine Graham Room

DRINK AND DINEAT LYRIC

Make your outing even more delicious with some of Lyric’s on-site dining and refreshment options.

For more information, visit lyricopera.org/dining.

Champagne Bar

Florian Opera Bistro

Sarah and Peer Pedersen Room

The William B. and Catherine Graham Room

DRINK AND DINE AT LYRICMake your outing even more delicious with some of

Lyric’s on-site dining and refreshment options.

For more information, visit lyricopera.org/dining.

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The Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan Opera CenterThe Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan Opera CenterDan Novak Director The Ryan Opera Center Board Endowed Chair

Craig Terry Music Director The Jannotta Family Endowed Chair

Julia Faulkner Director of Vocal Studies Elizabeth F. Cheney Foundation

Renée Fleming Advisor

BaritoneCHRISTOPHER

KENNEY

Sponsored byAnonymous Donor

SopranoWHITNEY

MORRISON

Sponsored byJ. Thomas Hurvis

TenorMARIO ROJAS

Sponsored byElizabeth F. Cheney

Foundation

SopranoANN

TOOMEY

Sponsored byThe Susan and Richard P.

Kiphart Family, Richard O. Ryan, Richard W. Shepro and Lindsay E. Roberts

Bass-BaritoneDAVID

WEIGEL

Sponsored byLois B. Siegel,

Michael and SalmeHarju Steinberg,Mrs. J. W. Van

Gorkom

Mezzo-SopranoKAYLEIGH

DECKER

Sponsored byThe C. G. Pinnell

Family

Bass-BaritoneALAN

HIGGS

Sponsored byHeidi Heutel Bohn, Lawrence O. Corry,

Robert C. Marks

PianistMADELINE

SLETTEDAHL

Sponsored byNancy Dehmlow, Loretta N. Julian, Philip G. Lumpkin

ContraltoLAUREN DECKER

Sponsored by Anonymous Donor, Susan M. Miller, Thierer Family

Foundation

BaritoneRICARDO JOSÉ

RIVERA

Sponsored by Dr. David H. Whitney and Dr. Juliana Chyu,

Drs. Joan and Russ Zajtchuk

Ensemble

FacultyJulia FaulknerW. Stephen Smith Voice Instruction The Robert and Ellen Marks Vocal Studies Program Endowed Chair in honor of Gianna Rolandi

Marco ArmiliatoDeborah BirnbaumSir Andrew DavisMatthew A. EpsteinMichael FabianoRenée FlemingGerald Martin Moore Guest Master Artists

William C. BillinghamDana BrownAlan DarlingLaurann GilleyCeleste RueEric WeimerPedro Yanez Coaching Staff

Julia Savoie KleinDerek MatsonMarina VecciAlessandra ViscontiMelissa Wittmeier Foreign Language Instruction

Dawn ArnoldSarah AshleyKatie KleinE. Loren MeekerMatthew Ozawa Acting and Movement Instruction

Orit Carpenter Performance Psychology

Roger Pines Guest Lecturer and Consultant

Artistic/Production PersonnelChristopher AllenAndrew Grams Conductors

David Paul Director

Peggy StengerBill Walters Stage Managers

Robert S. KuhnLucy LindquistMaureen Reilly Wardrobe

DeShawn BowmanHair and Makeup

SopranoEMILY

POGORELC

Sponsored bySally and Michael Feder,

Ms. Gay K. Stanek, Ms. Jennifer L. Stone

TenorJOSH

LOVELL

Sponsored byMaurice J. and Patricia Frank

TenorERIC

FERRING

Sponsored byStepan Company,

Cynthia Vahlkamp and Robert Kenyon

JAMES KRYSHAKDeutsche Oper Berlin Tosca

MEREDITH ARWADYL’Opéra de Montréal Das Rheingold

Alumni Perform at Lyric — and Around

the World — in 2018/19

The Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan Opera Center at Lyric Opera of Chicago is recognized as one of the premier professional artist-development programs in the world. To make a gift in support of the Ryan Opera Center’s efforts, or for more information, please visit lyricopera.org/ryanoperacenter, or call Meaghan Stainback at 312.827.5691.

LAURA WILDEScottish OperaKatya Kabanova

DAVID PORTILLO(Arbace/Idomeneo)My experience as a member of the Ryan Opera Center was nothing short of extraordinary. The unparalleled opportunity to perform roles on the Lyric Opera stage and to train with the company’s roster of artists and instructors prepared me to enter the professional opera world with assuredness. I am very proud to be an alumnus of the Ryan Opera Center, and I always look forward to returning to Lyric to spend time with its amazing patrons, many of whom have become good friends. My sincere thanks to all of the Ryan Opera Center donors for your continued support of this program and its work.

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The Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan Opera Center

Artist Support, Special Events, and Project SponsorsFinal AuditionsNix Lauridsen and Virginia Croskery LauridsenThe Cozad FamilyForeign Language InstructionErma S. MedgyesyGuest Master ArtistElizabeth F. Cheney FoundationLadies’ Choice CelebrationLead Individual SponsorJames N. and Laurie V. BayLead Foundation SponsorLauter McDougal Charitable FundBenefit Table PurchasersAnonymous (3)Julie and Roger BaskesHeidi Heutel BohnSally and Michael FederMaurice J. and Patricia FrankJulian Family FoundationPhilip G. LumpkinFrank B. Modruson and Lynne C. ShigleyWilliam J. Neiman FamilyPatrick G. and Shirley Welsh RyanDr. Scholl FoundationThierer Family FoundationDebbie K. WrightLaunchpadMarcus BoggsLeslie Fund, Inc.Judith W. McCue and Howard M. McCue IIIMaster ClassesMrs. Thomas D. HeathMartha A. HesseNational AuditionsAmerican AirlinesRenée Fleming Master ClassJulian Family FoundationTraining ProgramNational Endowment for the ArtsVoice InstructionAnonymousElizabeth F. Cheney FoundationMira Frohnmayer and Sandra SweetWFMT Recital SeriesJulie and Roger BaskesWorkshop PerformancesMartha A. Hesse

General SupportAria Society($100,000 and above)Patrick G. and Shirley Welsh RyanPlatinum Grand Benefactor($50,000 to $99,999)Lauter McDougal Charitable FundThe Elizabeth Morse Charitable Trust

Lyric is grateful to the following generous donors for their contributions to The Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan Opera Center, one of the world’s premier artist development programs. Listings include contributors whose gifts of $5,000 and above were received by October 1, 2018.

Rising Stars in ConcertApril 7, 2018

Lead SponsorDonna Van Eekeren FoundationSponsorsBMO Harris BankDentons US LLPAnn M. DrakeSue and Melvin GrayPatricia A. Kenney and

Gregory J. O’LearyNix Lauridsen and Virginia Croskery LauridsenChauncey and Marion D. McCormick

Family FoundationLauter McDougal Charitable FundFrank B. Modruson and Lynne C. ShigleyAdditional SupportAlan Schriesheim and Kay TorshenRising Stars in Concert BroadcastDonna Van Eekeren FoundationRising Stars in Concert ReceptionMr. and Mrs. Allan Drebin

Golden Grand Benefactors($25,000 to $49,999)AnonymousMary Ellen HennessyNix Lauridsen and Virginia Croskery LauridsenLyric Young ProfessionalsIngrid PetersEnsemble Friends($10,000 to $24,999)Anonymous (2)Dr. and Mrs. Robert M. Arensman Paul and Robert Barker FoundationAdrienne and Arnold BrookstoneTamara ConwayAnne Megan DavisFred L. Drucker and Hon. Rhoda Sweeney

DruckerErika E. ErichMr. and Mrs. Jack ForsytheMary Patricia GannonSue and Melvin GrayIllinois Arts CouncilCapt. Bernardo Iorgulescu, USMC Memorial

FundStephen A. KaplanJean McLaren and John NitschkeHelen MelchiorMargo and Michael Oberman and FamilyMrs. Vernon J. PellouchoudMrs. Robert E. SargentThe George L. Shields FoundationMs. Billie Jean SmithMr. and Mrs. Henry UnderwoodWalter Family FoundationDebbie K. WrightArtist Circle($5,000 to $9,999) Anonymous (2) Thomas Doran Mrs. Sheila Dulin Stephen and Mary EtheringtonSally and Michael Feder

Donna GustafssonThe Blanny A. Haganah Family FundJames and Mary Houston Jeffrey and Cynthia McCreary Phyllis NeimanD. Elizabeth PriceMr. and Mrs. Michael T. Sawyier Michael and Salme Harju SteinbergKsenia A. and Peter Turula Dan and Patty WalshMarilee and Richard Wehman Drs. Joan and Russ Zajtchuk

Last season, during the second of his two years with the Ryan Opera Center, baritone Emmett O’Hanlon (left) played Wagner in Faust with bass-baritone Christian Van Horn (right), an alumnus of the program, as Méphistophélès.

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The Overture SocietyThe Overture Society consists of dedicated supporters of Lyric who have designated a special gift, through bequests, trusts, or other planned giving arrangements, to benefit Lyric. These generous gifts will ensure Lyric’s artistic success well into the twenty-first century for succeeding generations of Lyric audiences. Lyric is honored to acknowledge these members of the Overture Society.

Aria BenefactorsThe Lyric Opera acknowledges with deep appreciation the extraordinary support of the following individuals who comprise the Aria Benefactors of the Overture Society. These individuals have made leadership gift plans which will benefit Lyric far into the future and in gratitude we are pleased to offer annual benefits at the Aria Society level. For information about becoming an Aria Benefactor, please call Lyric’s Gift Planning Office at at 312 827-5654 or email gift_planning@lyricopera.org.

Advisory CouncilJoseph O. Rubinelli, Jr., McDermott Will & Emery LLP ChairmanPatrick Bitterman, Quarles & Brady LLPChristopher Brathwaite, William BlairMary C. Downie, BMO Financial GroupBarbara Grayson, Jenner & BlockMarguerite H. Griffin, Northern TrustBenetta Jenson, J. P. Morgan Private BankNeil Kawashima, McDermott Will & Emery LLPDorothy Korbel, U.S. Trust, Bank of America Private Wealth Management

Michael A. LoVallo, Reed SmithLouis Marchi, Fidelity InvestmentsDavid McNeel, CIBCGina Oderda, Mayer BrownLynne L. Pantalena, U.S. Trust, Bank of America Private Wealth ManagementKathleen O’Hagan Scallan, Loeb & LoebAnita Medina Tyson, J. P. Morgan Private Bank

Bel Canto BenefactorsThese Overture Society members are making a major planned gift to Lyric as well as generous annual gifts each year.

Anonymous (9)Mrs. James S. AagaardLouise AbrahamsDr. Whitney AddingtonMrs. Roger A. AndersonKaren G. AndreaeCatherine AranyiL. Robert ArtoeMr. and Mrs. Ron BeataAlvin R. BeattyMerrill and Judy BlauDr. Gregory L. BoshartDanolda (Dea) Brennan

Dr. Gerald and Mrs. Linda Budzik

Thomas DoranMr. and Mrs. James D. EricsonMarilyn D. Ezri, M.D.Jack M. and Marsha S.

FirestoneMaurice J. and Patricia FrankRhoda and Henry Frank

Family FoundationRichard J. FrankeJulian W. HarveyMr. and Mrs. Thomas C. Heagy

Concordia HoffmannEdgar D. JannottaRonald B. JohnsonJohn and Kerma KarolyLeRoy and Laura KlemtJennifer Malpass, O.D.Daniel T. ManoogianMr. and Mrs. Richard P. MayerNancy Lauter McDougalBill MelamedMargaret and Craig MilkintSusan M. MillerDrs. Bill and Elaine Moor

Allan and Elaine MuchinDavid J. and Dolores D. NelsonJohn H. NelsonKenneth Porrello and Sherry

McFallSheila and David OrmesherNathaniel W. PuseyCharles and Marilynn RivkinChatka RuggieroLois B. SiegelIlene SimmonsLarry G. SimpsonCraig Sirles

Joan M. SolbeckMs. Gay K. StanekLisbeth Cherniack StiffelMr. and Mrs. James P. StirlingMary StowellCarla M. ThorpeVirginia TobiasonPaula TurnerMrs. Elizabeth Upjohn-MasonMrs. Robert G. WeissClaudia WinklerFlorence Winters

Planned Giving at Lyric

Paul and Mary Anderson FamilyMarlys A. BeiderDr. C. BekermanChristopher Carlo and Robert ChaneyDavid and Orit CarpenterJames W. ChamberlainRobert F. Finke and Carol Keenan

Mary Patricia GannonJames K. Genden and Alma KoppedraijerBruce A. Gober, M.D. and Donald H. RatnerHoward GottliebSue and Melvin GrayJames C. Kemmerer

Dr. Petra B. Krauledat and Dr. W. Peter HansenPhilip G. LumpkinRobert C. MarksJohn NighIrma ParkerJulia Pernet

Lyn and Bill RedfieldRichard O. RyanDr. Robert G. ZadylakDrs. Joan and Russ ZajtchukAnne Zenzer

Society MembersAnonymous (46)Valerie and Joseph AbelCarol A. AbriouxMrs. Judy AllenMrs. Robert L. AndersonMrs. Roger A. AndersonCatherine AranyiL. Robert ArtoeRichard N. BaileyDavid G. BakerSusann Ball

Constance and Liduina Barbantini

Margaret BaschMrs. Bill BeatonLynn BennettJulie Anne BensonCharles E and Nancy

T. BergJoan I. BergerBarbara BermudezKyle and Marge BeversPatrick J. Bitterman

M. J. BlackDr. Debra Zahay BlatzAnn BlickensderferD. Jeffrey and Joan H.

BlumenthalNed and Raynette

BoshellDavid E. BoyceRobert and Phyllis BrauerLeona and Daniel

BronsteinKathryn Y. Brown

Richard M. and Andrea J. Brown

Jacqueline BrumlikMr. and Mrs. Edward H.

Bruske IIIGeorge F. and Linda L.

BruskySteven and Helen

BuchananDr. Mary Louise Hirsh

Burger and Mr. William Burger

Muriel A. BurnetLisa BuryRobert J. CallahanPatrick V. CasaliEsther CharbitJeffrey K. Chase, J.D.Ramona ChoosJ. Salvatore L. CiancioloHeinke K. ClarkRobert and Margery CoenDr. and Mrs. Peter V.

Conroy

Sharon ConwaySarah J. CooneyDr. W. Gene Corley FamilyJoseph E. CorriganMr. and Mrs. Paul T.

CotteyMorton and Una

CreditorBarbara L. DeanDonald A. DeutschPhyllis DiamondRoger Dickinson

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Ms. Janet E. DiehlMr. and Mrs. William S.

DillonDr. and Mrs. Bernard J.

DobroskiThomas M. DolanMary Louise DuhamelMrs. Alfred V. Dunkin, Jr.Kathy DunnRichard L. EastlineCarol A. EastmanLowell and Judy EckbergLucy A. Elam, in memory

of Elizabeth ElamMr. and Mrs. Don

EllemanCherelynn A. ElliottTerrence M. W. EllsworthDr. James A. EngMr. and Mrs. Philip L.

EngelMartha L. FaulhaberDr. and Mrs. Paul Y. FengNadine FergusonFelicia FinkelmanMr. and Mrs. John C.

ForbesJames Victor FranchMs. Susan FrankelThomas H. Franks, Ph.D.Penny and John E. FreundDr. Paul FroeschlMarie and Gregory FugielSheilah Purcell Garcia,

Lady WittonGeorge and Mary Ann

GardnerSusan Boatman GarlandScott P. GeorgeMr. Lyle GillmanJohn F. GilmoreMichael GoldbergerJohn A. GoldsteinDr. J. Brian GreisJames R. GrimesPatricia GroganCarolyn HallmanCarl J. HalperinMs. Geraldine HaraczAndrew HatchellWilliam P. HauworthMrs. Thomas D. HeathRonald G. HedbergMrs. John C. HedleyJosephine E. HeindelMartha A. Hesse

Stephanie and Allen Hochfelder

Mrs. Marion HoffmanJames and Mary Lunz

HoustonH. Eileen HowardKenneth N. HughesMichael HuskeyCpt. Bernardo Iorgulescu,

USMC Memorial FundJ. Jeffrey JagloisBarbara A. JoabsonJohn Arthur JohnsonLaurence P. JohnsonRoy A. JohnsonBarbara Mair JonesJanet JonesMoreen C. JordanDr. Anne JuhaszMr. Theodore KalogeresisWayne S. and Lenore M.

Kaplan

Kenneth KellingPaul R. KeskeChuck and Kathy

KillmanNeil KingDiana Hunt KingEsther G. KlatzR. William Klein, Jr.J. Peter KlineHelen KohrSusan KrylMary S. KurzJadwiga Roguska-Kyts,

M.D., in memory of Robert Kyts

Larry LapidusBarbara K LarsenAngela Larson and

Bamshad Mobasher Thomas and Lise LawsonHenrietta LearyMarilyn E. MillerDr. and Mrs. Robert LevyDr. and Mrs. Andrew O.

Lewicky

Carole F. LiebsonCarol L. LinneCandace Balfour Broecker

and the Estate of Howard W. Broecker

Mary Mako HelbertMr. and Mrs. Nicholas

MalatestaJeanne Randall MalkinAnn Chassin MallowDr. and Mrs. Karl Lee

MandersMrs. John Jay MarkhamDaniel F MarselleChristine S. Winter

Massie MD & James C. Massie

Michael M. and Diane Mazurczak

James G. and Laura G. McCormick

Gia and Paul McDermott

William F. McHughFlorence D. McMillanLeoni Zverow McVey

and J. William McVeyMartina M. MeadMr. and Mrs. Leland V.

MeaderDr. and Mrs. Jack L.

MelamedMr. and Mrs. Peter M.

MesrobianDr. and Mrs. Joseph

MeyersMs. Barbara Terman

MichaelsEdward S. and Barbara

L. MillsVlasta A. "Vee" MinarichDavid and Justine K.

MintzerBettyAnn Mocek and

Adam R. WalkerRobert and Lois MoellerDr. Virginia Saft Mond

Mr. and Mrs. Michael E. Murphy

Mr. Oliver NickelsEdward A. NieminenFlorence C. NorstromRenate P. NorumLinda Novak MosesMr. and Mrs. Paul W.

Oliver, Jr.Dr. and Mrs. Frederick

OlsonStephen S. OrphanosJonathan OrserJoan PantsiosRobert W. Parsons, M.D.George R. PatersonDr. Joan E. PattersonGeorge Pepper, M.D.Elizabeth Anne PetersSusanne P. PeterssonGenevieve M. PhelpsFrances Pietch

Karen and Dick PigottAlan and Carol PohlMs. Lois PolakoffMartilias A. Porreca, CFPD. Elizabeth PriceMrs. Edward S. PriceDr. Sondra C. RabinRoberta Lyn Anderson

RainsRobert L. Rappel, Jr.Sherrie Kahn ReddickMr. and Mrs. Keith ReedMichael and Susan

"Holly" ReiterEvelyn R. RicherJennie M. RigheimerGerald L. RitholzMary Raffetto-RobinsJames and Janet

RosenbaumDr. John Gregory RussoJoseph C. RussoDennis RyanLouise M. Ryssmann

Eugene Rzym, in memory of Adaline Rzym

David SachsSuzanne and William

SamuelsMary T. SchaferDouglas M. SchmidtFranklin R. SchmidtLois K. SchmidtMartha P. SchneiderDonald SeibertSherie Coren ShapiroCharles Chris ShawMr. and Mrs. Gordon

M. ShawMett and David ShayneDavid ShermanJared ShlaesJoanne SilverAndrew Barry Simmons

and Mitchell Loewenthal-Grassini

Larry G. SimpsonDr. Ira SingerThomas SinkovicNorman and Mirella

SmithMary SoleimanElaine SoterMrs. Jay SpauldingPhilip and Sylvia Spertus James A. StaplesSherie B. SteinK. M. StelletelloJ. Allyson SternLisbeth Cherniack StiffelMr. and Mrs. James P.

StirlingCarol A. StitzerNorene W. StuckaMr. and Mrs. Glenn L.

StuffersEmily J. SuPeggy SullivanSherwin A. SwartzMr. and Mrs. John C.

Telander

Cheryl L. ThaxtonL. Kristofer ThomsenDr. David ThurnMyron TierskyKaren Hletko TierskyJacqueline TillesLawrence E. TimminsMr. and Mrs. Robert W.

TurnerJean M. Turnmire Paul and Judith

TuszynskiUltmann Family

Charitable Remainder Unitrust

Mrs. Elizabeth Upjohn-Mason

Marlene A. Van SkikeNancy Johnson VazzanoRaita VilninsMalcolm V. Vye, MDDarcy Lynn WalkerGary T. WaltherAlbert WangBarbara M. WankeLouella Krueger WardBoyd Edmonston &

Edward Warro Karl N. WechterPatricia M. WeesMrs. Richard H.

WehmanClaude M. WeilEric Weimer and Edwin

HanlonMr. and Mrs. Arnold

WeinbergJoanna L. WeissJoan and Marco WeissMrs. Robert G. WeissMrs. Melville W. WendellSandra WennerCaroline C. WheelerDr. and Mrs. Peter

WillsonNora WinsbergDavid G. WinterBrien and Cathy WlochMrs. William WunderDaniel R. Zillmann

Estate Gifts The following estates have generously provided gifts of bequests and other planned gifts to Lyric. Due to space limitations, listings include only all planned bequests received in the past three years. With deepest regards, Lyric commemorates and remembers those departed Lyric patrons who have honored us with these most profound commitments.

James AagaardJames AscareggiWalter BandiVelma BerryRev. Dr. and Mrs. Warren F. BestEleanor BriggsRobert P. CookeMarianne Deson-Herstein Trust

in memory of Samuel and Sarah Deson

Christopher D. DoemelEdmund J. ValonisAnonymousElaine S. FrankHenry Frank

Edward ElisbergEllen Cole Charitable Remainder

TrustDoris C. LorzDr. Doris GraberEvelyn GreeneAnn B. GrimesLester and Betty GuttmanDr. Alexis W Maier TrustJoseph YashonKathryn CunninghamKip KelleyPhil TurnerRichard Pearlman Charitable

Trust Fund for Music

Sara P. AnastaploThomas FrischRegina C. FainLynette FlowersRobert B. FordhamqesDr. Martin L. Gecht and Francey

GechtCarlyn E. GoettschElaine H. HansenJoseph M. KacenaStuart KaneNancy W. KnowlesErnest LesterAmanda VeazleyArthur B. Logan

Beth Ann Alberding MohrHerbert and Brigitte NeuhausJohn and Maynette NeundorfMrs. Oliver NickelsVenrice R. PalmerIra J. PeskindHelen PetersenGeorge T. RhodesMerlin and Gladys RostadMargart R. SagersThomas W. ScheuerEdwin and Margaret W.

SeeboeckRose L. Shure and Sidney N.

Shure

Joan M. SkepnekGerald Sunko, M.D.James M. WellsPaul and Virginia WilcoxAudrey A. Zywicki

“My passion for Lyric motivated me to structure my estate plan to help ensure the Chicagoans will always be able to hear and see

the world’s best operas on the Ardis Krainik Theatre stage.” -Mary Patricia Gannon

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Corporate PartnershipsLyric gratefully recognizes and sincerely appreciates the generosity of the following distinguished corporate contributors. The following list includes donors whose gifts or pledges were received by October 1, 2018. For more information about corporate partnership opportunities, please contact Daniel Moss, Lyric’s Senior Director of Institutional Partnerships at 312.827.5693 or dmoss@lyricopera.org.

ARIA SOCIETY • $100,000 and above

GOLDEN GRAND BENEFACTOR • $25,000 to $49,999

PLATINUM GRAND BENEFACTOR • $50,000 to $99,999

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AcknowledgementsThe following individuals and organizations have very generously provided gifts and services in support of Lyric’s efforts:

Special Thanks• American Airlines for its 37 year partnership as the Official Airline of Lyric Opera of Chicago.• Corporate Suites Network for its partnership as the Broadway at Lyric preferred housing provider.• CORT Furniture Rentals for its generous conference room furniture partnership.• Jenner & Block and Craig C. Martin, Partner, for the firm’s pro bono legal services throughout the year.• Warner Classics as the Official Education and Promotion Music Provider.

Generous GiftsCalihan CateringCoco PazzoHMS Media, Inc.Harrison and Held, LLP by Attorney Robert T. Napier Naples, FL and Chicago IL

CH DistilleryNorthern Trust, Palm Beach, FLSegall Bryant & Hamill by Alfred Bryant Naples, FL and Chicago, IL

Notable GiftsArtists Frame ServiceLloyd’s ChicagoMartha NussbaumModern Luxury

Glo RolighedThe Second CityTemperance Beer CompanyBooth OneNico OsteriaVinny's Pizza Bar

This performance is partially sponsored by a grant from the Illinois Arts Council, a state agency. Lyric Opera of Chicago is a member of OPERA America.

SILVER GRAND BENEFACTOR$10,000 to $24,999Alexander & Alexander, Attorneys at LawChicago Title and Trust Company FoundationCNADeloitteEnvestnetMichuda Construction, Inc.MolexMorgan StanleyNuveenQuarles & Brady LLPReed Smith LLPRopes & Gray LLPStarshak Winzenburg & Co.Strategic Reimbursement Group, LLCWinestyrWintrust Community Banks

PREMIER BENEFACTOR$7,500 to $9,999Amsted Industries FoundationChicago White Metal Charitable Foundation

BENEFACTOR$5,000 to $7,499BNSF Railway FoundationItalian Village RestaurantsSahara Enterprises, Inc.

BRAVO CIRCLE$3,500 to $4,999Corporate Suites NetworkOld Republic International Corporation

IMPRESARIO$2,000 to $3,499American Agricultural Insurance CompanyEnterprise Holdings FoundationHoward & Howard Attorneys PLLCOlson & Cepuritis, Ltd.OPERA AmericaShoe Center Fund

FRIEND$1,000 to $1,999Carl Johnson’s Gallery in GalenaConcierge Unlimited InternationalDraper and Kramer, IncorporatedKinder Morgan FoundationMidwest Cargo Systems, Inc.L Miller & Son Lumber Co.One Smooth StoneProtivitiTurks’ Greenhouses

SUSTAINER$500 to $999DonationXchangeNetwork for GoodPeoples Gas

Matching Gifts

Anonymous Allstate Giving ProgramAon FoundationBank of America FoundationBaxter International FoundationBenevity Community Impact FundBMO Harris Bank FoundationHelen Brach FoundationCaterpillar Foundation Inc.Elizabeth F. Cheney Foundation

CNA FoundationConAgraDoing Good LLCEmerson ElectricGeneral Mills FoundationGraham HoldingsGrenzebach, Glier, and AssociatesHSBC-North AmericaIBM CorporationIngredion Incorporated

ITW FoundationJohnson & JohnsonJohnson Controls FoundationJPMorgan Chase FoundationJohn D. and Catherine T. MacArthur FoundationKimberly Clark FoundationMorgan StanleyNuveen InvestmentsPfizer Foundation

Polk Bros. FoundationThe Retirement Research FoundationThe Rhoades FoundationThe Warranty GroupUnited Technologies CorporationW. W. Grainger Inc.William Harris Investors

For purposes of recognition, we are pleased to combine matching gifts with an individual’s personal gift. If your employer has a matching gift program, please request a matching gift form through your Human Resources or Community Affairs office, and send it to us along with your contribution.

A special thank you to the following companies for matching their employees’ gifts to Lyric Opera of Chicago.

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Anonymous (5)Paul and Mary AndersonRobin AnglyThe Barker Welfare FoundationDr. and Mrs. Mark BowenAmy and Paul CarboneCharles and M.R. Shapiro Foundation, Inc.Joyce E. ChelbergMr. and Mrs. Michael P. ColeThe Cozad FamilyCrain-Maling FoundationSir Andrew Davis and Lady Gianna Rolandi DavisMr. and Mrs. James M. DennyAnn M. DrakeDrs. George and Sally DuneaDonald and Anne EdwardsDan J. Epstein Family Foundation/

Judy Guitelman & ALAS WingsMr. and Mrs. Eugene F. FamaSally and Michael FederMr. and Mrs. Michael W. Ferro, Jr.Renée FlemingMaurice J. and Patricia FrankMr. and Mrs. Richard J. Franke Elaine S. Frank Fund

Mary Patricia GannonVirginia and Gary GerstMr. and Mrs. Ronald J. GidwitzRuth Ann M. Gillis and Michael J. McGuinnisMr. and Mrs. Rodney L. Goldstein

David Drew and Marcie HemmelsteinMary Ellen HennessyMartha A. HesseMr. and Mrs. George E. JohnsonMr. and Mrs. George D. KennedyVictoria M. KohnMr. and Mrs. Fred A. KrehbielSilvia Beltrametti and Jay Krehbiel

Frederic S. LaneMr. and Mrs. Richard H. LennyPhilip G. LumpkinRobert and Evelyn McCullenBlythe Jaski McGarvieMr. and Mrs. Andrew J. McKenna

Susan M. MillerFrank B. Modruson and Lynne C. ShigleyAllan and Elaine MuchinLinda K. and Dennis M. MyersCellmer/Neal Foundation FundKenneth R. NorganMake It Better Media

Mr. and Mrs. Lee OberlanderMatt and Carrie ParrIngrid PetersJohn RaittThe C. G. Pinnell FamilyRobert and Isabelle Bass Foundation, Inc.Sandra and Earl Rusnak, Jr.Sage Foundation Erica L. SandnerMr. and Mrs. Scott SantiBarbara and Barre Seid FoundationMorris Silverman and Lori Ann KomisarMichael and Salme Harju SteinbergPenelope and Robert SteinerMary StowellJoseph and Pam SzokolThierer Family FoundationCarl and Marilynn ThomaCherryl T. ThomasRobert L. TurnerMrs. J. W. Van GorkomWalter Family FoundationMr. and Mrs. Robert G. WeissMr. and Mrs. Patrick Wood PrinceDrs. Joan and Russ Zajtchuk

GOLDEN GRAND BENEFACTOR · $25,000 to $49,999

Anonymous (3)Ada and Whitney AddingtonThe Beaubien FamilyThe Chicago Community TrustThe Crown FamilyNancy DehmlowEisen Family FoundationRhoda and Henry Frank Family

Foundation

Lloyd A. Fry FoundationIllinois Arts CouncilJulian Family FoundationLloyd E. Rigler-Lawrence E. Deutsch

FoundationPolk Bros. FoundationBetsy and Andy RosenfieldSegal Family FoundationLois B. Siegel

Chauncey and Marion D. McCormick Family Foundation

Mr. and Mrs. Edward O. Boshell, Jr.Sue and Melvin GrayThe Ferguson-Yntema Family

Charitable TrustThe Brinson FoundationJ. B. and M. K. Pritzker Family

Foundation

Annie and Greg K. JonesRebecca and Lester KnightKomarek-Hyde-McQueen Foundation/

Patricia HydeEric and Deb HirschfieldGreg and Mamie CaseDrs. Young, Byong Uk, and Mrs. Myung Soon ChungMrs. Linda Wolfson

PLATINUM GRAND BENEFACTOR · $50,000 to $99,999

Anonymous (10)Ada and Whitney AddingtonPaul M. Angell Family FoundationThe Andrew W. Mellon FoundationThe Michael and Susan Avramovich

Charitable TrustJulie and Roger BaskesMarlys BeiderRandy L. and Melvin R. BerlinHenry M. and Gilda R. BuchbinderCarolyn S. BucksbaumThe Butler Family FoundationDavid and Orit CarpenterMr. and Mrs. John V. CroweThe Crown FamilyThe Davee FoundationDr. Scholl FoundationStefan T. Edlis and Gael NeesonElizabeth F. Cheney Foundation

Mr. and Mrs. William C. FlorianFranke Family Charitable FoundationBrent and Katie GledhillEthel and William GofenHoward L. Gottlieb and Barbara G. GreisThe Grainger FoundationGramma Fisher Foundation of

Marshalltown, IowaKaren Z. Gray-Krehbiel and John H.

Krehbiel, Jr.Mr. & Mrs. Dietrich M. GrossThe Harris Family FoundationJ. Thomas HurvisThe Edgar D. Jannotta Family John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur

FoundationJohn R. Halligan Charitable FundJulius Frankel Foundation

The Richard P. and Susan Kiphart Family Mr. and Mrs. Fred A. Krehbiel Estate of Nancy W. KnowlesMr. and Mrs. Sanfred KoltunJosef and Margot LakonishokNix Lauridsen and Virginia Croskery

LauridsenMalott Family Foundation Mazza FoundationLauter McDougal Charitable FundThe Monument Trust (UK)Mr. and Mrs. Robert S. MorrisonNational Endowment for the ArtsThe Negaunee FoundationSylvia Neil and Daniel FischelJerome and Elaine Nerenberg

FoundationNIB FoundationJohn D. and Alexandra C. Nichols

Patricia A. Kenney and Gregory J. O'LearySheila and David OrmesherMr. and Mrs. William A. OsbornPritzker Foundation J. Christopher and Anne N. Reyes

FoundationCandy and Gary RidgwayPatrick G. and Shirley Welsh RyanEarl and Brenda Shapiro FoundationLisbeth StiffelDonna Van Eekeren FoundationMrs. Herbert A. VanceMr. and Mrs. William C. VanceThe Wallace FoundationRoberta L. Washlow and Robert J. WashlowHelen and Sam Zell

ARIA SOCIETY · $100,000 and above

Lyric deeply appreciates annual campaign gifts from the following individuals, foundations, and government organizations. Their continued support is vital to our success. The following listings include donors whose gifts or pledges were received by October 1, 2018.

Annual Individual and Foundation Support

“We love opera and have made Lyric our opera home. We are pleased with the quality productions provided.

We believe Lyric is a good steward of our gifts and appreciate the Lyric’s community programs and creative

stimulus beyond the performance hall.” Winston and Lally B.

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Anonymous (3)Kelley and Susan AndersonMs. Ronelle D. AshbyMr. and Mrs. William H. Baumgartner, Jr.Mark and Judy BednarMr. and Mrs. D. Theodore BerghorstLieselotte N. BettermanNorman and Virginia Bobins/The

Robert Thomas Bobins FoundationWinston and Lally BrownJoy BuddigAudre CarlinMrs. Warren M. ChoosLawrence ChristensenThomas A. Clancy and Dana I. GreenSusan E. CreminRosemary and John CroghanMr. and Mrs. John V. CroweMr. and Mrs. Avrum H. DannenDecyk Charitable FoundationMrs. Sheila DulinRichard B. EgenMiss Gay Elfline

Sondra Berman EpsteinStephen and Mary EtheringtonRobert F. FinkeMr. and Mrs. J. Jeffrey GeldermannBruce A. Gober, M.D.Mr. and Mrs. Stanford GoldblattHelyn D. GoldenbergMr. and Mrs. William M. Goodyear, Jr.Phillip and Norma GordonChester A. Gougis and Shelley OchabMrs. John M. HartiganMr. and Mrs. Julian W. HarveyMr. and Mrs. Thomas C. HeagyMidge and Frank HeurichMrs. Richard S. Holson, Jr.Ronald B. JohnsonJared KaplanNancy Rita KazKate T. KestnbaumMr. and Mrs. Robert E. KingJean KlingensteinDr. Katherine KnightMartin and Patricia Koldyke

Eldon and Patricia KreiderMaryBeth Kretz and Robert BaumBernard and Averill LevitonJulius LewisRaymond and Inez SaundersMs. Michelle McCarthyMr. and Mrs. James A. McClungMichuda Construction, Inc.Julian OettingerMr. and Mrs. Michael O'MalleyKaren and Tom PhillipsHarvey R. and Madeleine P. PlonskerDr. and Mrs. Leonard PotempaIrene D. PritzkerJohn and Betsey PuthJames T. and Karen C. ReidThe Retirement Research FoundationAngela Tenta, M.D.Daryl and James RileyEdgar RoseSheli and Burt RosenbergJ. Kenneth and Susan T. RoskoMr. and Mrs. Edward B. Rouse

Norman SackarGeorge and Terry Rose SaundersGeorge and Joan SegalMary and Stanley SeidlerPatricia Arrington SmytheDel SnowThe Solti Foundation U.S.Doris F. SternbergMr. and Mrs. Harvey StruthersMr. O. Thomas Thomas and Mrs. Sandra Inara ThomasDr. David ThurnHoward and Paula Trienens

FoundationChristian VinyardDan and Patty WalshMarilee and Richard WehmanMr. and Mrs. Richard G. WeinbergStephen R. WintersDonna and Phillip ZarconeAnne Zenzer and Dominick DeLuca

PREMIER BENEFACTOR · $7,500 to $9,999

Anonymous (4)Ken and Amy AldridgeJohn and Ann AmboianMr. and Mrs. Stuart ApplebaumDr. and Mrs. Robert ArensmanDr. and Mrs. Arthur J. Atkinson, Jr.Juliette F. BaconE. M. BakwinPaul and Robert Barker FoundationJudith Barnard and Michael FainRobert S. BartoloneMr. and Mrs. Ron BeataMs. Catharine Bell and Mr. Robert WeigleinRoss and Patricia D. BenderLeslie BertholdtPatrick J. BittermanMr. and Mrs. Merrill E. BlauJim BlinderHeidi Heutel BohnMr. and Mrs. John Jay BorlandBetty BradshawDr. and Mrs. Thomas A. BroadieAdrienne and Arnold BrookstoneJohn and Rosemary Brown Family

FoundationBuehler Family FoundationRosemarie and Dean L. BuntrockMr. and Mrs. Duane L. BurnhamMarie CampbellMr. and Mrs. John Canning JrAnonymousAnn and Reed ColemanFrancie ComerTamara ConwayLynd W. CorleyLawrence O. CorryWinnie and Bob CrawfordDr. and Mrs. Tapas K. Das GuptaAnne Megan DavisM. DillonShawn M. Donnelley and Christopher M. KellyMr. and Mrs. Allan DrebinFred L. Drucker and Hon. Rhoda Sweeney DruckerRoger and Chaz Ebert FoundationJames Huntington FoundationErika E. Erich

Marilyn D. Ezri, M.D.Mr. and Mrs. W. James FarrellJames and Deborah FellowesMira Frohnmayer and Sandra SweetFilm Funds Trust FundsSonja and Conrad FischerMr. and Mrs. Philip FriedmannSusan J. GarnerMs. Elisabeth O. GeraghtyMr. Robert Gienko JrJudy and Bill GoldbergMrs. Richard GrayMaria C. Green and Oswald G. LewisMrs. Mary Winton GreenDan and Caroline GrossmanJoan M. HallDr. James and Mrs. Susan Hannigan

Irving Harris FoundationJohn Hart and Carol PrinsMrs. Thomas D. HeathMrs. John C. HedleyHelen Brach FoundationDr. Judith and Mr. Mark C. HibbardStu Hirsh OrchestraMr. and Mrs. Wayne J. Holman IIIMr. and Mrs. Charles HuebnerMr. and Mrs. Roger B. HullCapt. Bernardo Iorgulescu, USMC

Memorial FundLaurie and Michael JaffeThe Edgar D. Jannotta FamilyMr. and Mrs. William R. JentesMr. and Mrs. L. D. JorndtStephen A. KaplanKlaff Family FoundationStephen Kohl and Mark TiltonDr. and Mrs. Mark F. KozloffAlbert and Rita Lacher

Marc LacherLannan FoundationDr. and Mrs. Edmund LewisLouis and Nellie Sieg FundDaniel and Deborah ManoogianMr. and Mrs. Robert MarjanRobert C. MarksShari MayesJudith W. McCue and Howard M. McCue IIIErma S. MedgyesyTerry J. MedhurstDawn G. MeinersHelen MelchiorMartha A. MillsMr. and Mrs. Todd D. Mitchell

Music Performance Trust FundPhyllis NeimanDavid J. and Dolores D. NelsonJean McLaren and John NitschkeFredric G. and Mary Louise Novy

FoundationMartha C. NussbaumMargo and Michael Oberman and

FamilyMr. and Mrs. James J. O'ConnorThe Bruno and Sallie Pasquinelli

FoundationMrs. Vernon J. PellouchoudSeymour H. Persky Charitable TrustElizabeth Anne PetersMarian Phelps PawlickMaya PolskyRosy and Jose Luis PradoAndra and Irwin PressDr. and Mrs. James C. PritchardBryan Traubert and Penny Pritzker

The Rhoades FoundationRoger and Susan Stone Family

FoundationRocco and Cheryl RomanoJohn W. and Jeanne M. RoweJoseph O. Rubinelli, Jr.Susan and David RuderRichard O. RyanMrs. Robert E. SargentRodd M. Schreiber and Susan HassanEric and Jana SchreuderAlan Schriesheim and Kay TorshenMr. and Mrs. Richard J. L. SeniorMary Beth SheaRichard W. Shepro and Lindsay E. RobertsThe George L. Shields Foundation, Inc.The Shubert FoundationMr. and Mrs. Alejandro SilvaIlene SimmonsSiragusa Family FoundationThe Smart Family Foundation, Inc.Ms. Billie Jean SmithMs. Gay K. StanekMr. and Mrs. Eugene StarkDr. Cynthia V. StauffacherEllen and Jim StirlingMs. Jennifer L. StoneNorene W. and Daniel A. StuckaDr. and Mrs. Arnold TatarMr. and Mrs. Richard L. ThomasVirginia TobiasonMr. and Mrs. James M. TrappTully Family FoundationMr. and Mrs. Henry UnderwoodElizabeth Upjohn MasonCynthia Vahlkamp and Robert KenyonMr. and Mrs. Peter Van NiceMichael Welsh and Linda BrummerKim and Miles D. WhiteDr. David H. Whitney and Dr. Juliana ChyuDr. and Mrs. Peter WillsonMrs. John A. WingPaul Wood and The Honorable Corinne WoodMr. and Mrs. Robert E. Wood IIDebbie K. Wright

SILVER GRAND BENEFACTOR · $10,000 to $24,999

“My favorite Lyric moment happens when I am literally transported by the music....when I’m ‘not in the opera house’ and completely unaware of people around me

and even the chair I occupy.” -Helena S.

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Anonymous (11)Mrs. James S. AagaardGinny Alberts-Johnson and Lance JohnsonAllison AlexanderMrs. Judy AllenMary C. AllenMrs. John H. AndersenRonald and Donna BarlowBastian Voice InstitutePriscilla and Anthony BeadellAlvin R. BeattyDiane and Michael BeemerJennifer BelliniMr. and Mrs. Gregory BeneshMeta S. and Ronald Berger Family

FoundationBergerMrs. Michele BergmanDr. and Mrs. Leonard BerlinMrs. Arthur BillingsRichard and Heather BlackMrs. John R. BlairDr. Debra Zahay BlatzMr. and Mrs. Andrew K. BlockJohn BlosserMs. Virginia BoehmeMinka and Matt BoscoMrs. Fred BosselmanRichard Boyum and Louie ChuaMr. and Mrs. Eric Brandfonbrener

Drs. Walter and Anne-Marie BruyninckxChristopher Carlo and Robert ChaneyMr. and Mrs. Anthony CecchiniBarry and Marcia CesafskyJames W. ChamberlainCharles B. Preacher FoundationMr. and Mrs. David R. ClarkDr. Frank F. ConlonKatherine Hutter CoynerMr. and Mrs. J. William CuncannanMr. and Mrs. Gerry V. CurciarelloRobert O. DelaneyDorothy DeppenMr. and Mrs. Roger DeromediMr. and Mrs. John DeWolfBernard J. and Sally DobroskiMr. and Mrs. Eben DorrosRichard and Ingrid DubberkeDrs. Walter Dziki and Emily MiaoCherelynn A. ElliottLa Ferrenn and Philip EngelSusanna and Helmut EppDr. Thelma M. EvansJim and Elizabeth FanuzziFirestone Family FoundationMr. and Mrs. Matthew A. FisherAnita D. FlournoyAdrian FosterArthur L. Frank

Jerry Freedman and Elizabeth SacksMrs. Norman GatesJames K. Genden and Alma KoppedraijerMr. Scott P. GeorgeDebbie Gillaspie and Fred SturmGordon and Nancy GoodmanGreene Family FoundationDr. Mona J. HagyardDaggett HarveyJames HeimDr. Allen W. Heinemann and Dr. William BordenHoellen Family FoundationSandra HoffmanConcordia Louise HoffmannJoel and Carol Honigberg FundBill and Vicki HoodEdmund A. and Virginia C. HorschRobert and Sandra IrelandGenerations FundDr. Peter H. Jones and Marian M. PearcyMary Ann KarrisJudith L. KaufmanMrs. Philip E. KelleyMr. and Mrs. Joe KingNeil and Diana KingMarian KinneyElaine H. KlemenDr. and Mrs. Sung-Tao Ko

Mr. John KounsDr. and Mrs. Ken N. KuoPeter N. Lagges, Jr.Mr. Fred LatskoDr. M. S.W. LeeMr. and Mrs. Thomas M. LeopoldDr. and Mrs. Andrew O. Lewicky Gregory M. Lewis and Mary E. StrekDr. Judith LichtensteinDr. and Mrs. Philip R. LiebsonKnox and Gabrielle LongLuminartsMr. and Mrs. Lawrence MagesDr. and Mrs. John F. MamonLiz and Arsen ManugianMr. and Mrs. Stanford MarksMr. and Mrs. Ronald MartinBob and Doretta MarwinWilliam Mason and Diana DavisMrs. David McCandlessMarilyn McCoy and Charles R. ThomasMrs. John H. McDermottMr. and Mrs. Andrew McNally VMartina M. Mead and Michael T. GoreySheila and Harvey MedvinBill Melamed and Jamey LundbladSusan Hill MesrobianPamela G. MeyerMrs. Pamela E. Miles

Anonymous (4)Dr. Michael AngellArch W. Shaw FoundationPeter and Lucy Ascoli Family FundMr. and Mrs. Douglas S. BaslerDavid Q. Bell and Mary A. BellBolton Sullivan FundWiley and Jo CaldwellCathleen CameronMr. and Mrs. Stanley D. ChristiansonJane B. and John C. ColmanPatricia O. CoxThe Dancing Skies FoundationMr. and Mrs. Harry DennisThomas DoranMr. and Mrs. Richard EldenJim and Pati EricsonDavid S. FoxFred Freitag and Lynn StegnerAnthony Freud and Colin UreJohn F. GilmoreAlfred G. GoldsteinMr. Gerald and Dr. Colette GordonDavid and Elizabeth GrahamJames R. GrimesDaniel Groteke and Patricia TaplickSandra L. GrungJames and Brenda Grusecki

Donna GustafssonGlen and Claire HackmannThe Blanny A. Hagenah Family FundJackie and James HollandJames and Mary HoustonMichael and Leigh HustonShirley R. Jahn

Dr. Carolyn and Dr. Paul JarvisHoward E. JessenJoy JesterTyrus L. KaufmanMr. and Mrs. Dan KearneyRobert Kohl and Clark PellettMr. Craig Lancaster and Ms. Charlene T. HandlerMr. and Mrs. Jeffrey LennardLeslie Fund, Inc.Judith Z. and Steven W. Lewis FamilyMrs. Paul LiebermanJennifer MalpassMrs. Beatrice C. MayerThomas J. McCormick

Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey S. McCrearyFlorence D. McMillanLois MelvoinMary Lou and Jack MillerJon and Lois MillsMr. and Mrs. Newton N. MinowDrs. Bill and Elaine Moor

Mr. and Mrs. Charles MooreCraig S. MorrisZehava L. NoahMickey NortonRenate P. NorumLuis A. Pagan-Carlo, MDMr. and Mrs. Donald PattersonJean Perkins and Leland HutchinsonNorman and Lorraine PermanSherry McFall and Kenneth PorrelloD. Elizabeth PriceJennifer N. PritzkerNathaniel W. PuseyEdward and Leah Reicin

Merle ReskinDr. Petra and Mr. Randy O. RissmanMr. and Mrs. Michael T SawyierThe Schroeder FoundationMr. and Mrs. Chip SeeligPhyllis W. Shafron and Ethan LathanDr. S. P. ShahSherie Coren ShapiroIlene and Michael Shaw Charitable TrustElizabeth S. SheppardJames A. StaplesDusan Stefoski and Craig SavageCraig SirlesDr. and Mrs. Peter W. StonebrakerAndrea and Mark TaylorMrs. M. James TermondtL. Kristofer ThomsenMrs. Theodore D. TiekenLawrence E. Timmins TrustMr. Michael Tobin M.D.Mr. and Mrs. Richard P. ToftKsenia A. and Peter TurulaTony Valukas and Cathy BeresScott D. Vandermyde and Julie T. EmerickDavid and Linda WesselinkClaudia Winkler

BENEFACTOR · $5,000 to $7,499

IMPRESARIO · $2,000 to $3,499

Anonymous (3)Dr. and Mrs. Herand AbcarianEric A. AndersonMychal P. AngelosSusann BallRon and Queta BauerMr. and Mrs. George BaylyAstrid K. BirkeDr. Gregory L. Boshart and Dr. William R. LawrenceMr. and Mrs. James BramsenDanolda (Dea) BrennanMs. Elaine CueDr. and Mrs. Richard DavisonJon W. DeMossMr. and Mrs. Charles G. DenisonJohn Edelman and Suzanne KrohnDeane EllisAmanda FoxMr. and Mrs. James V. FranchDr. and Mrs. James L. FranklinDr. Lucy Freund

Mr. and Mrs. Heinz GrobMr. and Mrs. David L. GrummanSolomon GutsteinMr. and Mrs. O. J. Heestand, Jr.Dr. and Mrs. Arthur L. HerbstMr. and Mrs. Milan HornikMr. and Mrs. Peter HuizengaDr. and Mrs. Todd and Peggy JanusDr. and Mrs. Joseph W. JarabakDrs. Perry and Elena KamelMr. and Mrs. John A. KarolyMr. and Mrs. LeRoy C. KlemtJ. Peter Kline and Julio Padin, Jr.Thomas A. KmetkoJohn and Mary KohlmeierGeoffrey Bauer and Anna LamMr. and Mrs. Robert M. LevinThe Barbara and Frank Lieber Family

Charitable TrustPamela Forbes LiebermanMarilyn and Myron MaurerDr. John J. McGrath and Ms. Tola Porter

David E. McNeelMr. and Mrs. Gregory L. MelchorMs. Britt M. MillerJohn H. NelsonDrs. Funmi and Sola OlopadeJonathan F. OrserMr. and Mrs. Bruce L. OttleyPat and Lara PappasBarbara and Jerry PearlmanDrs. Sarunas and Jolanta PeckusJim and Polly PierceKaren and Richard PigottDr. Joe PiszczorDr. Lincoln and Dr. Carolyn RamirezCharles and Marilynn RivkinDr. Cynthia J. Sanders and Mr. Otis SandersThomas and Judy ScorzaMr. and Mrs. Charles SheaBill and Harlan ShropshireDr. and Mrs. Alfred L. SiegelJoan M. SolbeckMary Soleiman

Glenn and Ardath SolsrudJames H. StoneMinSook SuhMs. Carla M. ThorpePhil and Paula TurnerElizabeth K. TwedeLori L. and John R. TwomblyJean Morman UnsworthDavid J. VarnerinMr. and Mrs. Todd ViereggDr. Catherine L. WebbLouis WeberHilary and Barry Weinstein Family

FoundationHoward S. WhiteSarah R. Wolff and Joel L. HandelmanMr. and Mrs. Michael WooleverOwen and Linda YoungmanDr. Robert G. Zadylak and James C. Kemmerer

BRAVO CIRCLE · $3,500 to $4,999

“The moment you enter Lyric, you are transformed. It is an experience that stays with you forever.”

-Paula B.

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Anonymous (10)A & T Vavasis Philanthropic FundMr. Steve Abbey and Ms. Pamela BrickLouise AbrahamsRichard Abram and Paul ChandlerMr. and Mrs. Sherwin D. AbramsAnn AckerDuffie A. AdelsonSusan S. AdlerJudith A. AkersDr. and Mrs. Todd D. AlexanderJohn AlmasiMs. Joanne B. AlterDr. and Mrs. Ronald F. AltmanSheila and James AmendDoris W. AngellDaniel J. AnziaDr. Edward Applebaum and Dr. Eva RedelMargaret AthertonMr. and Mrs. Robert D. BaldwinPeter and Elise BarackWilliam and Marjorie BardeenMr. and Mrs. Robert E. BarkeiMr. and Mrs. William BarkerMichael A. BarnaRichard and Shirley BaronMr. Jim BarrettBarbara BarzanskySandra BassMr. and Mrs. Robert G. BaumPatricia Bayerlein and Michael HoffmanW.C. BeattyRoger B. Beck and Ann F. BeckSeth BeckmanMr. and Mrs. Brian D. BeggerowJohn C. BenitezRoy C. BergstromJacquie BerlinLois M. BermanJane BerryMr. and Mrs. Turney P. BerryJerry and Kathy BiedermanDr. Vanice (Van) BillupsMargaret C. Bisberg and Richard VanMetreCynthia L. BixelM. J. Black and Mr. ClancyElaine and Harold BlattAnn BlickensderferE. M. BluhmFrima H. BlumenthalTerence and Mary Jeanne BolgerRobert and Anne Bolz Charitable TrustMr. Donald W. BonneauDonald F. BousemanGiovanna and Joseph BreuNicholas Bridges and Margaret McGirrJoan and Tom BroderickJerry and Gisela BrosnanMs. Kathryn Y. BrownWarren and Patricia BucklerStephen and Elizabeth GeerCarolyn S. BucksbaumDr. Gerald and Mrs. Linda BudzikHoward and Moira BuhseDr. Mary Louise H. Burger

Ms. Sheila BurkeSusan BurkhardtGeorge J. BurrowsDr. and Mrs. William C. CarithersFairbank and Lynne CarpenterStephen H. Carr and Virginia McMillan CarrDon CarruthersMrs. Clarissa ChandlerMrs. Beatrice ChapmanJeffrey K. Chase EsqAnonymousRobert CieslakHeinke K. ClarkMitchell CobeySusan Somers and Ray CoccoJean M. CocozzaMargery and Robert CoenElaine CollinaDr. Peter and Beverly Ann ConroyJames M. CormierDaniel CorriganEvelyn Crews

Gary CrosbyKaren and John CrottyPamela CrutchfieldRobert CurleyBarbara Flynn CurrieMr. Matthew CurtinTimothy and Cheryl DahlstrandJames and Marie DamionMr. Timothy DanielsJason DanticoRathin DattaGreg DavisRosanne DiamondLyn DickeyRobert and Anne DiffendalDr. and Mrs. Anthony DiGianfilippoDr. Elton DixonJill S. DoddsMichael L. DollardMr. and Mrs. Ramsey B DonnellMr. Fred M. DonnerDr. and Mrs. Peter E. DorisTom DraskiDouglas F. DuchekMs. Susan A. DudaRonald B. DukeM. Stephen DunbarBernard T. DunkelKathy DunnMr. and Mrs. Frank A. DusekKimberly A. EberleinBarbara and John EckelHugh and Jackie EdforsJames W. EdmondsonMrs. Marlene EisenMs. Jan Elfline

Mr. and Mrs. James G. EllisPeter EmeryEmil J. and Marie D. Kochton

FoundationMr. and Mrs. Paul EpnerErnst And Young Foundation -

Matching GiftsDr. and Mrs. James O. ErtleMs. Elizabeth M. FadellThe Feder FamilyJoan and Robert FeitlerDr. and Mrs. Carl FetkenhourGeraldine K. FiedlerPenny FriedmanSuja FinnertyElizabeth W. FischerSusan Fisher-YellenJames and Jane FitzgeraldWilliam A. FleigMarvin FletcherMr. and Mrs. Lewis FlintNona C. FloresPaul Fong

Eloise C. FosterMichael and Nancie FreebornMr. and Mrs. John FreundMs. Pauline FriedmanSamuel and Adriana FrontMr. John FurrerJohn A. GableDr. Anthony W. Gargiulo and Mrs. Jane Duboise GargiuloMs. Lili GaubinCarolyn and Stephen GeldermannDedre GentnerMs. Esther GeppertMr. and Mrs. John E. GepsonNancy GerrieSasha Gerritson and Eugene JarvisGregory GeutherSharon L. GibsonDr. Howard P. GirardGay L. GirolamiBarbara and Norman GoldMr. and Mrs. Samuel D. GoldenDr. and Mrs. Marshall GoldinRobert and Marcia GoltermannJerry GoodmanJaimy Gordon and Peter BlickleMr. Andrew GoreAlan Salpeter and Shelley GorsonMotoko GotoDavid GouldDr. Steven A. GouldAnnemarie H. GrammDr. Ruth Grant and Dr. Howard SchwartzAnthony GreenGreene Family

Rochelle and Michael GreenfieldJohn R. GrimesPatricia GroganDonald HaavindMirja and Ted Haffner Family FundMr. Allen HagerMr. and Mrs. Paul Hallisy, Sr.Mary E. HallmanMr. and Mrs. M. Hill HammockAgnes HamosBarbara MacDowall and Robert HanlonMichael G. Hansen and Nancy E. RandaBetty Ann HauserMr. and Mrs. Bruce HawverJames HegerSheila Ann HegyMr. and Ms. Ross HeimCarrie and Harry HightmanDr. and Mrs. Roger D. HilbertMr. and Mrs. Thomas H. HodgesMr. and Mrs. James A. Hollensteiner

Cynthia and Ron HolmbergStephen D. HolmesGeorge R. Honig, M.D. and Olga WeissLarry and Ann HossackLinda Samuelson and Joel HowellMichael and Beverly HuckmanMr. and Ms. Gary HuffHumanist FundDr. Kamal IbrahimBea IrmingerDr. and Mrs. Harold E. JacksonJohn G. and Betty C. JacobsCharlene JacobsenMr. and Mrs. Paul A. JamesMrs. Judith H. JanowiakJerry and Judy JohansenCarl Johnson's Gallery in GalenaMaryl R. Johnson, M.D.JS Charitable TrustJudith JumpOlivier C. Junod & Dan DwirDr. and Mrs. James J. KaneMrs. Myrna KaplanWayne S. and Lenore M. KaplanThomas R. KasdorfDr. and Mrs. Robert KatzMrs. Helen KedoLarry M Keer, M.D.Alfred KelleyAnne and John KernMr. and Mrs. John E. KirkpatrickMr. and Mrs. Richard KirschFrank and Alice KleinmanDiane F. KlotniaMary Klyasheff

Emily and Christopher KnightLionel and Jackie KnightEdward and Adrienne KolbMr. and Mrs. Daniel KonczalWilliam Konczyk and Stanley ConlonMichael KrcoJeanne LaDukeCarol and Jerome LametMary Anne LeerDr. and Mrs. Alan LeffMrs. Harold E. LeichenkoDominique LeonardiDr. and Mrs. Peter LetarteMrs. Nancy LeviDavid Levinson and Kathy KirnDr. and Mrs. Robert LevyMyron and Eleanor LiebermanAnne and Craig LinnCaroline P. LippertWilliam and Diane LloydLloyd R. LobackMelvin R. LoebCandace B. BroeckerAbby and George LombardiSherry and Mel LopataCraig and Jane LoveMr. and Mrs. Stuart LucasCarlotta and Ronald LucchesiWayne R. LuedersKurtice LutherMs. Bonghee MaCharlene and Gary MacDougalDaniel Carroll Madden and Tuny MokrauerJeffrey and Paula MalakMark and Wendy MantoMr. and Mrs. Warren W. MarkMs. Andrea R. MarkowiczRobert Markowski and Randi RaginsWilliam MaroneyDr. Maija Freimanis and David MarshallMs. Karin MartinMr. Michael MattinglyAnn and Philip MayJohn E MazuskiMaureen and Michael McCabeMr. John G. McCordDrs. William and Margaret McCullochJulie and Herb McDowellBonnie McGrathTherissa McKelveyMaryjanet McNamaraMr. and Mrs. Zarin MehtaClaretta MeierMr. Herbert MeltzerDr. Janis MendelsohnRachel and Jason MerseyJim and Ginger MeyerMr. Joseph MichalakRev. Dr. Mary L. MilanoSally S. MileyBarry and Sharon MillmanMr. and Mrs. Edward S. MillsDr. and Mrs. Ronald M. MilnarikMr. and Mrs. David MintzerWilliam MondiCharles Moore

“When an institution enriches my life, I want to give back and help support that place for future recipients. I treasure the performances I attend at Lyric and say, ‘thank you’ with my financial assistance.”

-Jo Ann P.

FRIEND · $1,000 to $1,999

Mr. and Mrs. Craig R. MilkintMr. and Mrs. William A. MillerSteven Montner and Scott BrownRosemary MurgasChris and Eileen MurphyDr. and Mr. Andy NawrockiGayla and Ed NieminenKenneth Douglas FoundationJanis Wellin Notz and John K. Notz, Jr.Marjory M. OlikerDr. and Mrs. Frederick OlsonGerald L. PadburyLaurie and Michael PetersenKaren PetitteMrs. Zen PetkusMrs. Geoffrey C. M. PlampinMary and Joseph PlaucheDr. and Mrs. Alan PohlDr. and Mrs. Don Randel

Christina RashidPhillip C. and Jeanne R. RavidSandra and Ken ReidMr. and Mrs. William RevelleCarol RobertsMaggie Rock and Rod AdamsLynn Hauser and Neil RossMegan RoudebushMr. and Mrs. Norman J. RubashSusan B. RubnitzChatka and Anthony RuggieroRobert RussellJohn SagosMr. and Mrs. Robert M. SarnoffRobert and Mary Ann SavardDr. and Mrs. Anthony J. SchaefferDavid SchiffmanMr. Jim SengMs. Fay Shong and Mr. Tracy Mehr

Adele and John SimmonsMr. and Mrs. John B. SimonLarry G. Simpson Dr. Ross Slotten and Mr. Ted GradyMr. Edward SmedsMr. and Mrs. David SnyderPhil and Sylvia SpertusCarol D. Stein and James SterlingMrs. Karl H. SteinDr. and Mrs. Ralph W. StollMr. and Mrs. Eugene StopeckDr. and Mrs. Frank P. StuartDevora Grynspan and Sam StuppOscar Tatosian, Jr.Dr. Andrew J. ThomasGayle and Glenn R. TillesJoanne TremulisThe Trillium FoundationDulcie L. Truitt

Mr. and Mrs. Robert W. TurnerRaita VilninsRobert Mann and Kathryn Voland-MannCate and Rick WaddellMrs. William N. Weaver, Jr.Donald R WertzDavid WetherbeeHeide WetzelCaroline C. WheelerDr. and Mrs. Lawrence W. WickNancy FifieldDr. Wendall W. WilsonF. C. WintersMr. and Mrs. Brien WlochChip and Jean WoodMarsha and David WoodhousePriscilla T. Yu

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Anonymous (24)Julia and Charlotte AbarbanellAndrew Abbott and Susan SchloughPhillip Adams and Carmen WilcoxMr. and Mrs. William Adams IVMrs. Carol E. AdelmanDr. and Mrs. Carl H. AlbrightJudith L. AllenMr. and Mrs. Gary R. AlliePeri M. AltanKen and Mary AndersenCarol L. AndersonJudith C. AndersonMs. Louise E. AndersonWilliam AnkenbrandtDrs. Vijayalakshmi and Bapu ArekapudiDrs. Andrew and Iris AronsonMs. Ardell ArthurDr. David AshbachMr. and Mrs. Theodore M. AsnerMr. Vadim BackmanMr. Richard BaerMs. Shirley M. BallakLeslie BallardMr. Stan BalogMr. and Mrs. Theodore BanksH. BarefieldMarilyn R. BarmashBarbara J. BarnesMr. Merrill Z. BarnesMrs. and Mr. Martin S. A. BeckElizabeth S. BeckHans F. BellBenevity Community Impact FundJulie Anne BensonDiane and Karl BerolzheimerMr. and Mrs. Loren M. Berry IIIMr. Thomas BerryMr. and Mrs. Kyle BeversMr. and Mrs. William E. BibleRichard Blackwell and Linda ChristiansonDiane and Tom BlakeLouis and Catherine BlandMs. Elizabeth BlindermanMr. and Mrs. Albert H. BloomJames BlumMr. Robert A. BlumbergD. Jeffrey and Joan H. BlumenthalFran Bly and Charles HampleErminio Bonacci

Dr. H. Constance BonbrestMr. and Mrs. Thaddeus M. Bond, Sr.Laurence and Patricia BoothJordan BouchardAldridge and Marie BousfieldDr. Gilbert W. BowenMs. Barbara BoxDavid E. BoyceMary and Carl BoyerDr. and Mrs. Boone BrackettWendy and Norman BradburnMichael BradieRobert BradnerMr. Richard H. Brewer and

Dr. Mary Ann SchwartzMr. and Mrs. Richard BreyDr. John H. BrillMs. Myrna BromleyLeona and Daniel BronsteinMr. Charles Brooks and Mrs. Suzan S. Bramson BrooksJohn A. Bross, Jr.Todd BrueshoffMr. and Mrs. Edward H. Bruske IIIMr. Dan Bujas and Mrs. Mary ReyesDr. Jack BulmashMs. Pamela A. CabeenMary Ellen CagneyLidia Calcaterra and Paul BargerHon. and Mrs. Michael T. CaldwellAgnes B. CanningElena Carbajal-GauleWalter and Nancy CarlsonCarnot & Luceile Allen FoundationPatrick V. CasaliDonald and Bonnie ChaunceyMs. June F. ChoateMs. Angela CiciConnie ClarkMr. Henry Clark and Mrs. Elizabeth SimonMs. Kathleen Clark

Ms. Marsha Clinard and Mr. Charles BoastMs. Kimberly K. CodaySusan and John CombesStevie Conlon and Sue SkauSharon ConwayDr. Joseph P. Cousins and Dr. Kate L. ForhanNancy CrawfordRobert C. CroninCzarkowski FamilyMs. Lisa DeAngelisPaul B. DekkerMs. Sarah Demet

Patricia K. DenmanAnonymousMichael DePriestWilliam Diaz and Theresa Gross-DiazMs. Wendy DiBendedettoDr. Gary DillehayMr. and Mrs. William S. DillonMaureen DooleyMs. Jill DoughertyRoy and Rachel DowningMs. Nancy DreherPaul E. DrennanMs. Jody LewisMr. and Mrs. Richard W. DurkesMs. Roma DybalskiJoan M. EagleHon. Frank Easterbrook and Mrs. B. Englert EasterbrookRalph D. EbbottAdrienne EckerlingMs. Martha EdwardsRyan Jay Eikmeier and Timothy SilverMs. Marjorie ElliottMrs. Richard J. ElrodDavid ElzingaMr. and Mrs. James Estes

Mr. and Mrs. Kevin EvanichMr. and Mrs. Thomas W. EvansMs. Patti EylarJanet Eyler and Edwin WalkerMarion and Burt FainmanMr. David FanninMr. and Mrs. John H. FaulhaberJoseph Feldman, MDSteven E. FeldmanDr. Eva D. FergusonMr. Jim FerneborgDr. Bradley FineHoward and Charlotte FinkMr. Emmett Finneran

Mr. Anthony K. FisherDr. and Mrs. William E. FishmanMarilyn E. FitesMs. Karen E. FlanaganAbbie FlemingR. Michael Flores, MD and Prof. Alan GriggLafayette J. FordStephen and Rosamund ForrestRichard W. FosterAnne and Willard FraumannMr. and Mrs. Walter FriedPriscilla and Henry FrischMichael and Jane FritzLori FultonMr. and Mrs. Thomas L. GahlonLeota P. GajdaThomas F. GajewskiDr. Sandra GarberThomas and Patricia GerminoDr. and Mrs. Hugh C. GilbertMr. and Mrs. Lawrence E. GilfordMs. Robyn R. Gilliom and Mr. Richard FriedmanMr. Lyle GillmanKik and S. I. GilmanDale and David GinsburgDavid L. Gitomer

Dr. Paul B. GlickmanCai Glushak and Martin DiCrisciMr. Richard GnaedingerDr. Susan R. GoldmanDr. Deirdre Dupre and Dr. Robert GolubAmy and Michael GordonDrs. Margaret and Richard GoreAnne H. GorhamPhillip and Suzanne GossettSarah J. GottermeyerMr. and Mrs. Delmon GrapesRick GreenmanGinger GriffinRobert GristCharles R. GrodeMrs. Kathleen GrzybekJohn GustaitisDr. and Mrs. Norm A. HagmanMr. and Mrs. Cameel HalimLucy HammerbergDavid HansonCharles HanusinJohn and Sharon HanusinMr. Gregory J. HarmsMr. and Mrs. Roger B. HarrisDr. and Mrs. David Jerome HaydenMrs. John S. HayfordDr. and Mrs. Robert HeidenryRobert and Raynelle HeidrickJosephine E. HeindelStephen HellerValerie A. HendricksDr. and Mrs. Joseph J. HennessyKimberlee S. HeroldMr. Theodore W. Herr and Ms. Carla Carstens HerrNorman K. HesterCaren B. HiattDr. and Mrs. Charles W. HighThomas W. and Helen C. HillMrs. J. Dillon HoeyMs. Sarai HoffmanJohn E. HollandMr. Rodney HolmesJoel HorowitzWilliam HoskenMr. and Mrs. R. Thomas Howell, Jr.Mr. Robert HudsonWilliam and Sarah HuffordMr. and Mrs. Alan HuishCleveland and Phyllis Hunt

“When the opera’s staging, the chorus and soloist voices, and the conducting all come together, one is transported

and everyday concerns disappear.” -Raita V.

SUSTAINER · $500 to $999

Lloyd MorganMr. Greg MorrisMs. Helen H. MorrisonCorinne MorrisseyDavid and Linda MoscowMary Anne LynskeyDr. John S. and Nan D. MunnMr. and Mrs. Robert MustellDr. Belverd Needles and Dr. Marian PowersMs. Amélie Négrier-OyarzabalDavid and Lynne NellemannElaine T. NewquistJeffrey NicholsNancy A. NicholsJohn NighCarol M. NigroDaniel S. Novak and Dean RickerDr. W. E. NullMr. and Mrs. Bernard NusinowMr. and Mrs. Jim NuttPenny J. ObenshainGail O'GormanMr. and Mrs. Keith OlsonVirginia A. O'NeillMr. and Mrs. John OstremMark Ouweleen and Sarah HardingEvelyn E. PadorrJohn and Dawn PalmerAllen J. Frantzen and George R. PatersonMrs. Mona L. PennerLorna and Ellard PfaelzerShirley Pfenning and Robert J. Wilczek

Mrs. Marlene PhillipsMs. Lyneta Grap PielaDr. Martha Heineman PieperMr. and Mrs. Les PinsofMr. and Mrs. Robert PolenzaniMrs. Carol PollockMr. and Mrs. Michael PolskyWilliam V. PorterCharlene PosnerDorothy M. PressDrs. Joseph and Kimberly PyleMr. David QuellWilliam H. RedfieldRoseanne Rega McGrathDennis C. ReganAlicia and Myron ResnickEvelyn RicherMrs. Mary K. RingJerry and Carole RingerGabriel and Beth RodriguezDr. Ashley S. Rose and Charlotte Puppel-RoseRoberta RosellSaul and Sarah RosenMr. Samuel RosenbergBabette RosenthalLorelei RosenthalMarsha and Robert RosnerDolores RuetzLouise M. RyssmannEugene W. RzymDavid SachsDr. and Mrs. Hans SachseMr. and Mrs. Frank R. SaffordMr. and Mrs. Gary Sagui

Sharon Salveter and Stephan MeyerPatricia SchaeferMary T. SchaferRobert P. SchaibleNancy SchmittDr. Michelle SchultzJim and Joan SearsPaul R. SeidlitzDr. and Mrs. Emanuel SemeradJohn and Floria SerpicoTom ShapiroRoy Fisher and Charles Chris ShawMr. and Mrs. James F. SheaDavid ShermanMs. Shannon ShinMs. Carolyn M. ShortDr. and Mrs. Kenneth I. SiegelNancy SilbermanLinda SimonMr. and Mrs. Frank M. SimsPaul and Ann SingerMargles Singleton and Clay YoungBarbara Smith and Timothy BurroughsSuzanne L. Hoffman and Dale SmithLouise K. SmithMary Ann SmithRobert A. SniegowskiMr. and Mrs. Paul A. SnopkoThe Sondheimer Family Charitable

FoundationLarry and Marge SondlerCarol Sonnenschein SadowMr. and Mrs. O. J. SopranosCarole and Bob Sorensen

Elaine SoterRon Bauer and Michael SpencerMs. Julie StaleyMr. and Mrs. Eric H. SteeleJoyce L. SteffelCarol Stein and Doris AshkinMs. Catherine E. StewartGeraldine L. SzymanskiAnne TaftMr. and Mrs. Terrence TaylorGilbert TerlicherIlene Patty and Thomas TerpstraGenevieve Thiers and Daniel RatnerLinda and Ronald ThistedMyron and Karen Hletko TierskyEleanor W. TippensMr. and Mrs. Michael TirpakDiane Tkach and James FreundtMr. and Mrs. Harold B. TobinMr. and Mrs. Stuart TownsendKay and Craig TuberMr. James W. TuckerJudith TuszynskiProfessor Harald and Mrs. Christine UhligUnited Way Metro ChicagoManuel S. ValderramaMarlene A. Van SkikeFrances and Peter VandervoortRosalba VillanuevaRobert and Camille Von DreeleJohn and Kathleen VondranMr. Malcolm V. VyeWalter and Caroline Sueske

Charitable Trust

April Ware and Jess ForrestDr. Richard WarneckeBenjamin WasmuthMr. and Mrs. Virgil L. Watts JrPam and David WaudMr. and Mrs. Richard J. WeilandMr. and Mrs. Richard WelcomeAdele and Joseph R. WellsMr. and Mrs. Melville W. WendellPeter J. WenderManfred WendtDr. and Mrs. Robert WertzMr. Stefan WesterhoffPatricia and William WheelerMrs. John WhiteCharles A. WhitverArlene and Michael WinfieldKathryn B. WinterMichael A. WislekCharles B. WolfMr. and Ms. Francis WolfeTed and Peggy WolffChristopher and Julie WoodD.P. Wood and R.L. SufitKathleen Arthur and Stephen WoodMark Woodworth and Randi Ravitts WoodworthMichael and Judy ZeddiesBarbara ZelenyMarianne and Ted ZelewskyRichard E. Ziegler

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Lyric is very grateful to the thousands of donors who give gifts of less than $500 to our annual campaign. Due to space limitations, we are unable to list the names of these donors, but their generosity is sincerely appreciated.

Mr. and Mrs. James A. IbersDr. Stephen and Kathy IrwinHoward IsenbergVirginia A. JachDouglas and Lynn JacksonMerle L. JacobBett C. and Ronald E. JacquartDr. Robert P.F. Buerglener and Dr. Paul B. JaskotMr. and Mrs. A. Paul JensenMs. Barbara JillsonMr. Tim JohnsonMr. and Mrs. Thomas JohnstonBarbara Mair JonesJanet JonesMr. Edward T. JoyceAbby O'Neil and Carroll JoynesMr. and Mrs. Thomas P. KaeserPaula KahnMr. Roman KahnBeth KalovEthel R. KaplanMr. James KarrMs. Andrea KatzensteinMatthew J. Keller, Jr.Sarah and Kip Kelley IIDouglas and Christine KelnerThomas E. KerberJeffrey R. KerrMr. and Mrs. Dennis L. KesslerMs. Emily Kessler and Ms. Kay E. HughesChuck and Kathy KillmanMr. and Mrs. Merwyn KindMr. and Mrs. Robert E. KingMr. and Mrs. Thomas L. Kittle-KampEsther G. KlatzMr. and Mrs. Douglas KnuthGerald A. and Karen A.

Kolschowsky Foundation, Inc.Dr. and Mrs. Howard KonowitzAmy Kontrick and Mark MycykMr. and Mrs. Richard KracumStephen KraftMr. and Mrs. Gary E. KretchmerKonrad K. KuchenbachThomas P. KuczwaraDr. Klaus and Erzsebet KuettnerWalfrid and Sherry KujalaAxel Kunzmann and Bruce J. NelsonJohn and Lynn LaBarberaLaimonis and Kristina LaiminsSusan LaingElisabeth M. LandesJohn T. LansingMrs. Frederick LarsenMr. and Mrs. E. R. LarsenMr. and Mrs. Gary S. LaserMr. and Mrs. Harold LaughlinMr. and Mrs. Michael M. LawrenceMarsha LazarDr. and Mrs. Eugene LeeEileen Leiderman and Ben L. BrenerDr. Michael C. LelandMr. and Mrs. J. C. LenahanBonnie and Ed LeraczMs. Kiyoko LernerRalph and Carol LernerLaurence and Mary LevineMichael and Diane LevyMr. Randy LewisDr. Eva F. Lichtenberg and Dr. Arnold Tobin

Paul M. LiebensonRobert E. LindgrenCarol LinkowskiDeAnn LiskaMr. Alan LittmannDr. Vassyl A. Lonchyna and Dr. Roksolana Tymiak-LonchynaRichard LordSharon and Henry LorschMs. Janet LubinLutz Family FoundationJohn and Roseanne LynchMrs. Diane L. MacewiczSuzanne C. MackMiss Joan C. MaddenMs. Svetlana MagdelGeorge and Roberta Mann

Philanthropic FundMartha MarberryFrank and Jeanette MarcheseDr. Lawrence and Sylvia MargoliesMr. and Mrs. Miles MarshJeordano MartinezMr. and Mrs. Reginald MarzecMr. and Mrs. Donald BurnettLeslie Bradberry

Dr. and Mrs. Marshall MatzMrs. John MayEdward and Myrna MazurBernadette McCarthyMs. Hope McFaddenAndrew S. McFarlandCondon McGlothlenJohn and Etta McKennaMr. and Mrs. Leland V. MeaderJoann H. MeigsErnst MelchiorDr. R. Menegaz and R. D. BockDr. Patricia A. MerwickBarb and Bob MeyerMr. and Mrs. Bernard J. Miller, Jr.David E. MillerGerry M. MillerVee MinarichEdward J. MitchenSanford MoltzMr. Richard MooreMartin W. MorrisJohn A. MorrisonLarry MorrisonJames E MorstadtBeverly MortensenMr. and Mrs. Karlos MoserHelga MuenchZane F. MuhlMs. Jan MunagianMr. George MurphyThomas F. MurphyBarbara B. MurrayMrs. Natalie MycykHolly I. MyersMr. William F. MyersHarvey A. NathanVirginia NavarreteJ. Robin Naylor

Mr. and Mrs. Anthony A. NicholsEleanor A. NicholsonMr. and Mrs. Jerry NolenRichard Nora MDAnna Marie NorehadMs. Sandra NorlinPatricia A. NoskaMrs. Ellen NothWilliam Novshek and Lynda ThomanJulia NowickiDr. Dragic M. ObradovicMr. Michael J. O'ConnellMr. Michael K. OmanSandra L. OsbornMary OttoPaloucek Family FundMr. Tomas PalubinskasJoan L. PantisiosDavid ParisRobert W. Parsons, M.D.Alap PatelMr. Bohdan O. PaukBruce and Nancy PayneMs. Susan PayneSusan Carter Pearsall

Jean T. PenninoMr. and Mrs. John PepeVictorina PetersonViktoras PetroliunasMr. Robert PhelanMr. and Mrs. William PinsofRoland and Karen PorterDr. David Alexander PowellDr. Kathryn PressMr. and Mrs. Barry F. PrestonMr. Dan E. PrindleMarla McCormick PringleMr. Sunil PuriJudith PurtaChris and Elizabeth QuiggMs. R. L. Anderson RainsJ. Usha Raj, MDDorothy V. RammJeffrey Rappin and Penny BrownJudge S. Louis Rathje and Maria R. CostanzoDr. and Mrs. Pradeep RattanMs. Anne RayBiswamay Ray, M.D.John ReppyMr. and Mrs. Gary R. RichertDr. Patricia C. RiegerEd and Susan RittsHelen H. RobertsDr. Diana M. RobinMary Raffetto-RobinsJames Engel RocksThe Philip and Myn Rootberg

FoundationSusan RosboroughElaine G. RosenMaureen L. SheaDrs. Ronald and Linda RosenthalThomas and Barbara Rosenwein

Ms. Barbara RubenMs. Mary RundellDrs. Cynthia and Gary RuoffLena M. RuppmanJoe and Natalie SacchettiMary Ann SadilekMr. Eugene Saenger JrNatalie SaltielRichard H. SandersMs. Joyce SaxonMarie-Claude SchauerAnne McMillen ScheyerMr. and Mrs. Edward K. SchieleMrs. Sheldon K. SchiffMrs. Rosita M. SchlossMarcia G. SchneiderDr. and Mrs. Stephen SchollySusan B. SchulsonMark SchultzStacy and Robert SchultzeDeborah and George SchulzLinda S. SchurmanMr. and Mrs. Charles Schwartz JrJudy and John ScullyBarbara and John T. Seaman, Jr.Dr. Itai Seggev and

Dr. Dara GoldmanRichard and Betty SeidMr. and Mrs. Valentine SengDr. Robert F. ShanklandMr. and Mrs. Myron D. ShapiroMr. and Mrs. Robert E. ShapiroEllen and Richard ShubartBarbara Fulton SidemanRoberta E. SingerThomas SinkovicMr. Christopher SkrableEdward W. and Alice L. SmedsArthur B. Smith, Jr. and Tracey L. TruesdaleMelissa and Chuck SmithMr. and Mrs. Howard S. Smith, Jr.Mr. and Mrs. Robert SmolenMs. Elizabeth SmythMichael and Donna SocolEdward and Eileen SoderstromDr. and Mrs. R. John SolaroDr. and Mrs. Hugo SonnenscheinMr. Ryan SpohnMichael SprinkerPhillip V. St. Cloud and Charles P. CaseMichael and Cheryl StackHelena StancikasDr. and Mrs. Lawrence A. SterkinMr. and Mrs. Mark J. SternMrs. James H. StonerJoanne StormTimothy J.S.Mr. John StrasswimmerGary L. StrawnMrs. Kelly J. Sullivan SoleyCharles SullivanJohn B. SullivanMary W. Sullivan and

Coleman S. KendallKatherine Abbott and Jerry SzatanMr. Robert TanakaBradley L. and Simone Himbeault TaylorMr. Harold TempleDr. and Mrs. Michael TerryMr. and Mrs. Otto TeskeMr. Ernest ThompsonMs. Michele M. ThompsonThomas B. ThuererMs. Elizabeth TisdahlMr. and Mrs. Ray TittleJay and Kelly TunneyMr. and Mrs. R. P. TurcotteBrig. Gen. Sue E. TurnerMr. and Mrs. Howard TynerMr. and Mrs. Tal TzurAris Urbanes & Bill HulskerMr. Richard UszynskiMrs. Denise M. UtterMrs. Murray J. ValeSharon Van Dyck and Richard KelberAndre Van EeMarie VanagasDr. Eladio A. VargasMr. and Ms. Francois VeldeMs. Antoinette VigilanteJohn N. VinciMr. and Mrs. William P. VitMrs. Barbara VlackDmitro VoinorovichDr. Annabelle VolgmanMr. Richard WagnerSuzanne L. WagnerMs. Lucinda WakemanAlbert R. WalavichProf. John S. WalkerRobert D. WallinGary T. WaltherThe Warranty GroupNancy E. WebsterJoanne Michalski and Michael WeedaClaude M. WeilMr. James WeinbergerMrs. and Mr. Susan WeindruchMarco and Joan WeissEllen WernerMs. Suzanne K. WesterholdFloyd and Judith W. WhellanDr. and Mrs. Walter WhislerMr. Chad Williams and Ms. Amy WilliamsMargaret E. WilliamsRabbi Larry and JoAnne WinerMr. and Mrs. Kenneth WitkowskiAnn S. WolffMr. Hak WongRobert E. Woodworth, Jr.Teana and Abbott WrightMark ZajackowskiTom and Elena ZanussiMr. and Mrs. John G. ZasiDr. Antoinette Zell and Kenneth R. WalterMs. Wei ZhangLarisa ZhizhinDr. and Mrs. Eric ZickgrafCamille J. Zientek

“At every single opera, I am enthralled; I even cried at a couple! And I love the moments with my family.”

-Simone R.

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Facilities and Services

Welcome to the Lyric Opera House! Here are a few guidelines designed to ensure all of our audience members have the best experience possible.

• Please remain silent during the performance.

• As a gesture of respect for other audience members and the performing artists, please remain seated until intermission or the end of the show. If you need to leave the auditorium, you may not be readmitted while the performance is in progress.

• Program and artists are subject to change without notice.

• Please turn off or silence all electronic and personal devices and refrain from using any device with a glowing screen at any time during the performance.

Your understanding and cooperation are appreciated. Please let a member of Lyric’s house staff know if you have any questions.

Patrons with Disabilities:The Lyric Opera House is accessible to persons with physical disabilities, with elevator service to all floors except the Opera Club. The Ardis Krainik Theatre contains seating that is accessible to persons in wheelchairs, as well as seats with removable armrests. The Lyric Opera House has automatic door-openers on exterior doors, and accessible drinking fountains and public telephones. A TTY phone is available in the Box Office for outgoing calls only.

Restroom facilities for female patrons with disabilities are located on all levels except the Opera Club. For male patrons, these facilities are located on all levels except the Opera Club and the sixth floor.

Assistive listening devices for persons desiring amplification are available at no cost at the Main Floor coat check. A valid driver’s license or state identification is required as a security deposit.

Large print and Braille programs may be available at the Main Floor coat check.

Audio description, touch tours, and American Sign Language interpretation is available for select performances; please see www.lyricopera.org/accessibilty for dates and details.

Lost and Found:Please call 312.827.5768 for lost items. Unclaimed articles are held for 30 days.

Other important policies:Photography and/or audio and video recording of any kind are prohibited during the performance. You are encouraged to take photographs and share your experience on social media

from the lobby and other parts of the public, non-performance spaces in the house, as well as the house itself, but not during the performance.

Lyric, for safety reasons, has the right to inspect any large bags or packages and insist that all large backpacks, bags, luggage, etc. be stored at coat check.

Outside food and beverages may not be brought into the Lyric Opera House. Refreshments may be purchased onsite and limited items may be brought in with you to the performance.

Thank you again for joining us at Lyric Opera of Chicago!

Front of House Managers: Sheila Matthews, Chuck TuckerFood & Beverage Manager: Geri LaGiglio

Box Office Manager: Gregg Brody

Box Office Assistant Treasurers: John Thor Sandquist and Joseph DunnRestaurant Manager: David Adelsperger

Usher Supervisors: Lena Reynolds-Sneed, Nate Tuttle

All photos by Jaclyn Simpson, Todd Rosenberg.