Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro

Libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte English translation by Andrew Porter

March 5, 6, 7, 2020 at 7:30 p.m.

March 8, 2020 at 3 p.m. Stansbury Theatre

Copeland Woodruff, stage director

Andrew Crooks, conductor and music director Dirk Durossette, scenic designer

Barry Steele, lighting and projection designer Erik Teague, costume designer

Assistant Director: Morgan Donahue

Assistant Conductor: Tyler Jaques Assistant Lighting Designer: Meryl Carson

Assistant Costume Designers: Kellyn Gagner, Abby Simmons Stage Manager: Maggie Smith

Assistant Stage Managers: Emilia Ciotti Hernández, Preston Parker

This performance is made possible through the Margaret Banta Humleker ’41 Opera Fund.

Warning: adult themes and situations

SPECIAL THANKS

To the vocal and instrumental studio teachers for their superb work with our singers and orchestra

To Timothy X. Troy and the Theatre Arts department and faculty for their continued support and enthusiasm

To Margaret Paek for her continued support

To Rosie Cannizzo, Jillian Johnson, Julia Jackson, and Morgen Moraine, without whom none of this would be remotely possible

SETTING

The Almaviva Residence

Act 1 Figaro’s and Susanna’s New Living Quarters

Act 2 Countess Rosina’s Dressing Chamber

INTERMISSION (15 minutes)

Act 3 Count Almaviva’s Office

Act 4 The Garden

The action takes place on the day of Figaro’s and Susanna’s wedding. They are servants in the service of Count Almaviva and Countess Rosina. In the first play, The Barber of Seville, Figaro helped the Count woo and release Rosina from her guardian, Doctor Bartolo. For this, the Count rewarded the barber by making him his personal valet. As the opera opens, we see Figaro and Susanna preparing for their coming nuptials.

CAST

(* students listed perform Thursday/Saturday; others perform Friday/Sunday)

Count Almaviva Erik Nordstrom* Nicholas Fahrenkrug Countess Emily Richter* Grace Drummond Figaro Max Muter* Alex Hadlich Susanna Emma Milton* Jena Bliss Cherubino Sam Gibson* Emily Austin Barbarina Pari Singh* Marissa Lake Bartolo Zachary Adams* Baron Lam Marcellina Colleen Bur* Hannah Jones Basilio Victor Montañez Cruz* Tommy Dubnicka Antonio David Womack* Joe Dennis Curzio Nysio Poulakos* Kyree Allen Flower Maidens Sarah Elise Navy, Emmeline Sipe

CHORUS

Soprano Sarah Elise Navy Emmeline Sipe Margaret Slavinsky

Mezzo Meg Burroughs Julia Hackler Lili Hull Erin Jackson

Tenor Kyree Allen Tommy Dubnicka Nysio Poulakos Victor Montañez Cruz Jack Murphy Joe Dennis

Baritone/Bass Zachary Adams David Womack Baron Lam Chris Hinrichs Ben Johnson

PRODUCTION TEAM

Technical Director: Austin Rose Scene Shop Staff: Meryl Carson, Oscar Robert Lunday Brautigam, Caroline Rosch, Taylor Blackson, Courtney Wilmington, Andrew Stelzer, Grace Foster, Carly Beyer, Alex Pollock, Jacki Healy, and Students of THAR 231 Costume Shop Manager: Kärin Kopischke Makeup Design: Sassy Portnow Audio Recording: Brent Hauer Supertitles: Samantha Victor Light Board Operator: Wasonu Allen Costume Shop and Wardrobe Crew: Andrea Lara, Donna Dezendorf, Isabel Kelly, Jean Shoaf, Kexin Sun, Klara Elliott, Kol Peduk, Lilly Kuipers, Lily Greenfield, Madeleine Stevenson, Mads Layton, Maggie McGlenn, Olivia VanSlyke, Rong Shi, Sassy Portnow, Xinyao Peng, Xinyi Xing, Yin Si Yang Movable Scenic Units: Means of Production, Jason Kingsley (Chicago)

OPERA PIT ORCHESTRA

Violin 1 Abi Keefe* Ella Kile Emily Yank Violin 2 Gabe Roethle* Rehanna Rexroat Claire Sternkopf Viola Emily McCabe* Lexie Livingood Jae Franklin Cello Ernesto Bañuelos* Evan Stroud Bass Ali Remondini* Steven Traeger Flute Hannah Elizabeth Tobias

Oboe Chester James Clarinet Anthony Dare Celeste Reyes Bassoon Nate Scott Horn Jonathan Ibach Mariel Lopez Trumpet Margaret Thompson Timpani Ben DePasquale Continuo (harpsichord) Frances Lewelling Noah Vazquez

* Principal

ARTISTIC STAFF

Copeland Woodruff, director of opera studies at Lawrence University, most recently was honored as the recipient of the Charles Nelson Reilly Prize for Directing for 2017-18 (formerly The American Prize) and has been on the directing staffs of New York City Opera (Lincoln Center), Santa Fe Opera, Michigan Opera Theatre, and Chautauqua Opera, among others. He has held teaching appointments at University of Memphis, The Juilliard School, Oberlin Conservatory, and Temple University as well as the prestigious Academy of Vocal Arts in Philadelphia. Copeland is dedicated to the re-imagining of the artist and of the artist’s creative dialogue with the world, especially in recital, concert, and operatic performance practice. He is a proud member of AGMA and Actors’ Equity Association, a board member of the National Opera Association, and is an extended member of the SITI Company (Anne Bogart). Andrew Crooks joins the Lawrence opera faculty having worked in Germany since 2010, first at the Deutsche Oper Berlin and most recently at the Komische Oper Berlin, where he held the position of Deputy Chorus Master. While at the Komische Oper he was in sole-charge of chorus preparation for several operas including critically-acclaimed productions of Massenet’s Cendrillon and Ravel’s L’enfant et les sortilèges. He was also heavily involved in the musical preparation of Schoenberg’s Moses und Aron, for which the Komische Oper chorus was awarded the title of “Chor des Jahres” (Chorus of the Year) by the Opernwelt magazine in 2015. Andrew assisted on over 80 different operas and worked with conductors such as Donald Runnicles, Henrik Nánási, Alberto Zedda and Sir Simon Rattle, and directors including Barrie Kosky, David Alden, Robert Carsen and Graham Vick. Andrew completed a B.Mus./B.A. double-degree from the University of Otago (New Zealand) with majors in piano and oboe performance as well as German language and literature. He holds a Master of Music degree in choral conducting from Indiana University and an Artist Diploma in opera coaching from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music.

Barry Steele (Lighting and Projection Designer) has created video and lighting designs for opera, dance, and music productions worldwide. Notable engagements include San Francisco Opera Center, Lucinda Childs Dance Company, Nantes Opera, and Carnegie Hall. New operas such as Vincent, Florencia en el Amazonas, and The Fall of the House of Usher complement his considerable list of standard opera repertory from designing many productions as Resident Lighting Designer for Sarasota Opera, Des Moines Metro Opera, and New Jersey Opera. Since 1989, Mr. Steele has lit dance in all styles for a diverse range of dance groups including ODC Dance Company and Battery Dance Company. Dirk Durossette (Scenic Designer) has been designing scenery and teaching design, and drawing and rendering for the theater for the past 15 years in and around the Philadelphia region. Off-Broadway scene designs include: The Outgoing Tide and Any Given Monday. He has designed for Amaryllis Theater Company, Azuka Theater (Barrymore Nomination - Skin and Bone), Act II Playhouse (Any Given Monday - World Premiere), Enchantment Theater Company (National Tour - Harold and the Purple Crayon), Theater Exile, 1812 Productions, Delaware Theatre Company, EgoPo, Freedom Theater, Flashpoint Theater, Idiopathic Ridiculopathy Consortium, InterAct Theater Company, Lantern Theater (Barrymore Nomination - Skylight), Luna Theater, Theater Horizon, Philadelphia Shakespeare Theater, MumPuppetTheatre, Portland Opera (Maine), The Wilma Theater (Leaving - Associate Designer - American Premiere), Temple Theaters, Temple Opera Theater, University of the Arts, Drexel University, Lawrence University (Wisconsin), Peabody Institute (Baltimore), West Chester University, Villanova University, The University of Memphis. Erik Teague (Costume Designer) is a DC-based freelance costume designer and crafts artist. Originally from Cartersville, Georgia, he holds a B.A. in Theatre and Performance Studies from Kennesaw State University and an MFA in Costume Design from Boston University. Some designs of note are La Bohémè, The Cunning Little Vixen, The Flying Dutchman and Ariadne in Naxos for The Glimmerglass Festival, The Lion, The Unicorn, and Me at Washington National Opera, The Touchstone at Wolf Trap Opera, Blackbeard at Signature Theatre, Master and Margarita and The Wild Party at Constellation Theatre Co., The Trial (Helen Hayes Award Winner), Richard III and The Phantom of the Opera at Synetic Theater. Past Serenbe designs are HAIR, Cabaret, The Little Mermaid, The Secret Garden, Evita, and The Snow Queen. He is happy to work with Lawrence University and these amazing young artists. www.erikteaguedesign.com

Austin Rose (Technical Director) is from Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas. He attended Texas Wesleyan University majoring in theatre arts. He holds a graduate degree in theatre from Texas A&M University, Commerce, and he is currently finishing an MFA in Scenic Design at the University of Idaho. Austin has been a teacher for the past decade in Texas at both the high school and college level. He is thrilled to join Lawrence University’s theatre department. Austin has designed sets and costumes for numerous productions in Texas, and has restored and executed new decorative murals in a 115-year-old church in Fort Worth. Kärin Simonson Kopischke ’80/’81 (Costume Shop Manager) is thrilled to be a part of Lawrence University’s theatre arts faculty. She has designed costumes for regional theatre Tony winners American Conservatory Theatre, Chicago Shakespeare, Goodman Theatre, Steppenwolf Theatre, Long Wharf, Victory Gardens, Children’s Theatre Company, Crossroads, and Cincinnati Playhouse. She has worked with award-winning directors Anna Shapiro, John Rando, Douglas Hughes, Anna Deavere Smith, Joe Chaikin, and Eric Simonson. She designed costumes for the feature film Feed the Fish with Tony Shalhoub and has had the privilege to design costumes new works for Harry Connick Jr. and Stephen Schwartz. Most recently Kärin designed costumes for Minnesota Opera’s world premiere, Silent Night, which went on to receive a Pulitzer Prize for its composer. She will be designing costumes for their world premiere of The Shining this spring. She has also had the privilege to design for productions at Boston Lyric Opera, Opera Philadelphia, Opera Kansas City, Opéra de Montréal, Opera Colorado, and Opéra de Québec. Kopischke has received the Joseph Jefferson Award, AriZoni Award, and a Praque Quadrennial nomination. In addition, she has taught costume design at The Theatre School of DePaul, Northwestern and Carroll University. She lives in Door County with her husband Alan and her two children, Anya & Simon.

STUDENT BIOS

Zachary Adams ’22 From the studio of John T. Gates Previous LU Productions: Fall Scenes 2019 Kyree Allen ’22 From the studio of John T. Holiday Previous LU Productions: Fall Scenes 2019 Emily Austin ’21 From the studio of Estelí Gomez Previous LU Productions: Fall Scenes 2017, The Count Ory 2018, Spring Scenes 2018, Pippin 2018, Bernstein’s Mass 2019, Spring Scenes 2019 Jena Bliss ’20 From the studio of Steven Paul Spears Previous LU Productions: Fall Scenes 2019 (SM), Spring Scenes 2019, Bernstein’s Mass 2019, The Count Ory 2018, SPAMALU Musical Theater Scenes 2018, Fall Scenes 2017 Colleen Bur ’21 From the studio of Karen Leigh-Post Previous LU Productions: Bernstein’s Mass, Little Shop of Horrors Meghan Burroughs ’21 From the studio of Estelí Gomez Previous LU Productions: Spring Scenes 2019, Bernstein’s Mass 2019, Fall Scenes 2018, The Count Ory 2018, Fall Scenes 2017, A Man of No Importance 2016 Meryl Carson Previous LU Lighting Design Credits: Response (A Sculptural Performance), Tension (Three Ten-Minute Performances), Fred Gaines Student Playwright Series, and The Maids Emilia Ciotti Hernández ’22 Previous LU Productions: Pippin 2018 (ASM), SPAMALU Little Shop of Horrors 2019 (SM), Into a Void, Out from the Light 2019 (ASM), SPAMALU Ordinary Days 2020

Joe Dennis ’20 From the studio of Estelí Gomez Previous LU Productions: A Man of No Importance, Next to Normal, Fall Scenes 2017, The Count Ory, Fall Scenes 2018, Pippin, Bernstein’s Mass, Little Shop of Horrors, Ordinary Days Morgan Donahue ’22 From the studio of Karen Leigh-Post Previous LU Productions: Fall Scenes 2019 Grace Drummond ’21 From the studio of Steven Paul Spears Previous LU Productions: Spring Scenes 2019, Bernstein’s Mass, Fall Scenes 2019 (SM), SPAMALU Scenes 2018, The Count Ory 2018, Fall Scenes 2017 Thomas Dubnicka ’21 From the studio of Steven Paul Spears Previous LU Productions: Hydrogen Jukebox 2017 (ASM), Fall Scenes 2017, The Count Ory 2018, Spring Scenes 2018, Pippin 2018, Fall Scenes 2018, Bernstein’s Mass 2019, She Ventures, and He Wins 2019 (ASM), Spring Scenes 2019, Into a Void, Out from the Light 2019 Nicholas Fahrenkrug ’20 From the studio of John T. Gates Previous LU Productions: Spring Scenes 2019, Bernstein’s Mass 2019, Spring Scenes 2018, The Count Ory 2018, Fall Scenes 2017 Samantha Gibson ’20 From the studio of Karen Leigh-Post Previous LU Productions: Fall Scenes 2017, The Count Ory 2018, Spring Scenes 2018, Bernstein’s Mass 2019, Spring Scenes 2019 Julia Hackler ’22 From the studio of Steven Paul Spears Previous LU Productions: Fall Scenes 2019, Legerdemain Alex Hadlich ’20 From the studio of Estelí Gomez Previous LU Productions: Fall Scenes 2017, Fall Scenes 2018, Bernstein’s Mass 2019, Spring Scenes 2019

Chris Hinrichs ’22 From the studio of Steven Paul Spears Previous LU productions: Fall Scenes 2019 Lili Hull ’22 From the studio of Karen Leigh-Post Previous LU Productions: Fall Scenes 2019, She Ventures, and He Wins 2019 (ASM) Erin Jackson ’22 From the studio of John T. Gates Previous LU Productions: Fall Scenes 2019 Tyler Jaques ’21 From the studio of John T. Gates Previous LU Productions: The Count Ory 2018, Fall Scenes 2018, Bernstein’s Mass 2019 Ben Johnson ’23 From the studio of Karen Leigh-Post Previous LU Productions: Fall Scenes 2019, She Ventures, and He Wins, Little Shop of Horrors, Sandbar, Pippin Hannah Jones ’22 From the studio of John T. Holiday Previous LU Productions: Spring Scenes 2019 (ASM), Fall Scenes (2019) Marissa Lake ’22 From the studio of John T. Gates Previous LU Productions: Spring Scenes 2019 (ASM), SPAMALU Little Shop of Horrors 2019, Fall Scenes 2019, SPAMALU Ordinary Days 2020 Baron Lam ’21 From the studio of John T. Gates Previous LU Productions: Fall Scenes (2018), Bernstein’s Mass (ASM) Frances Lewelling ’21 From the studio of Michael Mizrahi Previous LU Productions: Spring Scenes 2019, Spring Scenes 2020

Emma Milton ’21 From the studio of Estelí Gomez Previous LU Productions: Fall Scenes 2018, Bernstein’s Mass, Spring Scenes 2019 Victor Montañez Cruz ’20 From the studio of John T. Gates Previous LU Productions: Fall Scenes 2017, The Count Ory 2018, Spring Scenes 2018, Bernstein’s Mass, Spring Scenes 2019, Fall Scenes 2019 (ASM) Max Muter ’21 From the studio of Steven Paul Spears Previous LU Productions: Fall Scenes 2017, The Count Ory, Bernstein’s Mass (ASM), Spring Scenes 2018, 2019 Jack Murphy ’21 From the studio of John T. Holiday Previous LU Productions: SPAMALU Little Shop of Horrors 2019, Bernstein’s Mass, Fall Scenes 2018, Pippin, SPAMALU Scenes 2018 Sarah Elise Navy ’22 From the studio of John T. Holiday Previous LU Productions: Fall Scenes 2019 Erik Nordstrom ’19 From the studio of Steven Paul Spears Previous LU Productions: Fall Scenes 2017, Hydrogen Jukebox 2017, Spring Scenes 2018, SPAMALU 2018, The Count Ory 2018, Fall Scenes 2019 (ASM), Bernstein’s Mass 2019, Spring Scenes 2019 Preston Parker ’23 From the studio of John T. Holiday First LU Production! Nysio Poulakos ’21 From the studio of Steven Paul Spears Previous LU Productions: Spring Scenes 2019 (SM), SPAMALU Little Shop of Horrors 2019, Bernstein’s Mass, Fall Scenes 2018

Emily Richter ’20 From the studio of Steven Paul Spears Previous LU Productions: Fall Scenes 2017, The Count Ory 2018, Spring Scenes 2018, Bernstein’s Mass 2019, Spring Scenes 2019 Pari Singh ’20 From the studio of Karen Leigh-Post Previous LU productions: Fall Scenes 2016, The Count Ory 2018, Spring Scenes 2018, Spring Scenes 2019 Emmeline Sipe ’23 From the studio of Estelí Gomez Previous LU Productions: Fall Scenes 2019 Margaret Slavinsky ’22 From the studio of Steven Paul Spears Previous LU Productions: Fall Scenes 2019, Bernstein’s Mass 2019 (Lights), SPAMALU Little Shop of Horrors 2019 (Sound) Maggie Smith ’20 From the studio of John T. Gates Previous LU Productions: Next to Normal, Fall Scenes 2017, Micro-Operas 2017, Bernstein’s Mass (SM), SPAMALU Little Shop of Horrors 2019 (Music Director), Tension: Three Ten-Minute Plays (ASM), SPAMALU Ordinary Days 2020 (Director) Noah Vazquez ’21 From the studio of Catherine Kautsky Previous LU Productions: Spring Scenes 2019 David Womack ’22 From the studio of John T. Holiday Previous LU Productions: Bernstein’s Mass 2018, Fall Scenes 2019