Opera Colorado Magazine May 2016

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Welcome to Opera Colorado’s world premiere of The Scarlet Letter! This

production would not exist without you and the many sponsors who invested in our vision of presenting this new American opera.

With this production, we will fulfill our dream of presenting a world premiere at Opera Colorado. Lori Laitman’s lyrical music, combined with a moving libretto by Colorado Poet Laureate Emeritus, David Mason and the inspired direction of Beth Greenberg will bring to life this extraordinary American novel. Our world premiere will be recorded live and commercially released on the Naxos label; Opera Colorado’s second release in partnership with Naxos (Nixon in China, 2009).

Our exciting season of performances planned for 2016-2017 will boast the addition of a third opera production. Two productions will take place at the Ellie Caulkins Opera House, including Opera Colorado’s own new production of Puccini’s

wild-west opera La Fanciulla del West and Donizetti’s tale of love, manipulation and insanity, Lucia di Lammermoor. The third opera will take place at the Performing Arts Complex at Pinnacle Charter School in Denver and will feature Laura Kaminsky’s As One, a 75 minute chamber opera depicting the experiences of its sole transgender protagonist, Hannah, as she endeavors to resolve the discord between herself and the outside world. As The Washington Post put it, “Laura Kaminsky’s As One proved to be a thoughtful and substantial piece as well as that rarest of operatic commodities — a story that lends itself to dramatization in music.”

We are excited to celebrate this world premiere with you today and experience together the joys of live opera performances for years to come. Thank you for your continuing patronage and support, and we look forward to many exciting nights (or afternoons) at the opera.

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The 2015-2016 Young Artists are getting ready to hit the road and they’re taking opera with them! Braving extreme

altitudes and sometime even extreme weather, the Opera Colorado Young Artists and Director Cherity Koepke embark on a two-week Greater Colorado Tour to bring opera to rural and underserved communities across Colorado. It is estimated that 90 percent of the audiences hearing Opera Colorado during this tour are experiencing opera for the very fi rst time.

This season, they will travel to Lake City, Estes Park, South Park, Fairplay, Leadville and Gypsum among other destinations. Communities will experience touring productions of Hansel and Gretel, Carmen, Arias & Ensembles and hands-on workshops created to teach opera in interactive ways. Members of these communities also connect directly with Opera Colorado’s fearless travelers during private receptions and community dinners. We hope you will stay connected with the Young Artists and team on their journey.

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WORLD PREMIEREOpera in Two Acts by Lori Laitman

Libretto by David Mason

There will be one 25 minute intermission between Acts One and Two

C A S T I N O R D E R O F V O C A L A P P E A R A N C E

A Sailor Charles Eaton^* A Farmer Ben Werley^ Goodwife 1 Emily Robinson^ John Wilson Kyle Erdos Knapp* Governor Bellingham Daniel Belcher Arthur Dimmesdale Dominic Armstrong* The Leader William Bryan^* Goodwife 2 Becky Bradley Goodwife 3 Danielle Lombardi^* Roger Chillingworth Malcolm MacKenzie* Hester Prynne Laura Claycomb* Mistress Hibbons Margaret Gawrysiak* A Shipmaster William Bryan^*

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THE SCARLET LETTER

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The Scarlet Letter Platinum Sponsors areThe Avenier Foundation, Ken and Donna Barrow, Noël and Thomas Congdon, Joy Dinsdale,

Dave and Pam Duke, the National Endowment for the Arts,Opera America, Jeremy and Susan Shamos and the Sorel Organization.

For a complete list of The Scarlet Letter sponsors, please see page 20 of the program book.

This world premiere production of The Scarlet Letter received funding from OPERA America’s Opera Fund.

The commissioning of Lori Laitman for The Scarlet Letter received funding from OPERA America’s Opera Grants for Female Composers program, supported by the Virginia B. Toulmin Foundation.

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ACT ONEA crowd gathers to gawk at young Hester Prynne, charged

with adultery. With the damning scarlet “A” on her breast, she appears on the platform with her babe in arm. In the crowd is the minister Arthur Dimmesdale, unacknowledged father of her child. Also present is Hester’s long-lost husband, unrecognized and now going by the name of Roger Chillingworth. Declaring that he will discover the name of her lover, he confronts Hester in her prison cell, but fails to learn what he is determined to know. In his absence, Hester sings a lullaby to her child, “the Pearl beyond all price.”

The chorus refl ects on the passage of time. The leaders of Boston, including Governor Bellingham, debate whether Hester should be permitted to keep her child, who they fear is not being raised in an appropriately Christian manner. Chillingworth takes rooms with the young minister Arthur Dimmesdale. The minster is concealing from all the fact that he is the father of Hester’s child. Although taunted by Mistress Hibbons, a local witch, Dimmesdale will not confess, and Chillingworth begins to sense that the minister is concealing something. Dimmesdale is almost overwhelmed by his guilt and is in ever-failing health.

ACT TWOSeveral years have passed, and the infant Pearl is now a

young girl. In the forest, Chillingworth accosts Hester once more, demanding to know her lover’s name, but again failing to force her to any revelation. After Chillingworth departs, Hester is approached by Dimmesdale. They muse on the idea of fl eeing the community, and it becomes clear that Pearl is coming to recognize Dimmesdale as her father. Plans are made for all three to take ship back to Europe and begin their lives anew, to “know joy again.” However, Dimmesdale, unable to set aside his guilt, chooses an election day rally to confess to the crowd, revealing a letter “A” branded on his own chest. Hester and Pearl join him on the platform, but Dimmesdale, his heart fi nally giving out, falls dead at their feet. Chillingworth is furious to have lost the target for his hatred. A choral epilogue resolves the story for mother and child.

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English subtitles written by Jeremy Sortore for Opera Colorado. Spanish translation by TranslatingSpanish.com

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C H A R A C T E R L I S THester Prynne, a young seamstress – soprano

Roger Chillingworth, her long-missing husband – baritoneArthur Dimmesdale, a young minister – tenorMistress Hibbons, a witch – mezzo soprano

John Wilson, an elder minister – tenorGovernor Bellingham – baritone

Pearl, Hester’s daughter – non-speaking role

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SYNOPSIS THE SCARLET LETTER


It is one of the most familiar of all works of American literature, the title alone having made its way into the popular lexicon. That the story is also a love triangle and

a moral allegory may have escaped some readers, but not composer Lori Laitman and librettist David Mason. Having worked together before on art songs, the colleagues now found themselves reveling in a far broader canvas with more theatrical space and orchestral resources to tell the story that much more vividly.

All operas require confl ict to drive the story, and most operas require a pair of sweethearts. Hawthorne’s 1850 novel has both, as the leading lady fi nds herself caught between two men; one is her long-missing husband, the other the father of her child, and neither is admitting to the neighbors exactly who he is. Of the three, it is Hester who is most likely to win the audience’s affections. She may be, in the public eye, a “fallen woman,” but she is also courageous, with more backbone than her lover and none of her husband’s tendency toward vengeance. Those features are not merely plot lines, but also musical features, for Laitman’s music changes color as demands upon Hester vary throughout the piece. Hester is sweet with daughter Pearl, fi rm with husband Chillingworth, and supportive with lover Dimmesdale. Dimmesdale, too, presents different faces, depending upon those around him. Given such mutable personalities, Laitman lets musical coloring bring out their complexities.

Hester’s scenes with Chillingworth tend to be dramatically and musically fi lled with tension. When she is in the company of Dimmesdale, words and music become more fl owing and patient in spirit. This contrast becomes particularly clear in the forest scene, when Hester is fi rst confronted by Chillingworth, and then fi nds herself alone

with Dimmesdale. She does not express herself the same way to both men, nor should she, from any logical dramatic point of view. Her duet with Dimmesdale is especially revealing, beginning as it does with the two fi rst alternating lines with one another, then beginning to overlap musically speaking, and fi nally blending together in harmony, as if expressive of their closeness with one another. It is a compositional approach that Mozart had used in his famed duet “La ci darem la mano” from Don Giovanni; that master composer would likely be impressed that Laitman thought to employ it here.

Along with the protagonists, there is also the issue of the community and how it judges Hester. In fact, it is the community that comes fi rst to listeners’ attention, intoning “One law” in shades of moody gray. It is, after all, the law, as much as Chillingworth, that has damned Hester, and librettist Mason emphasizes that point from the very fi rst words. It is a theme that will recur and one for which Laitman has crafted a stern motif, representative of the unforgiving Puritan culture in which the protagonists live. Mason says that, in his libretto, he wished to bring out “the moral texture of the book, or human law vs. the law of nature and life.” Laitman’s music reinforces the point. Let the characters get out into the forest, and they express themselves in freer, less constrained music than they do in the village.

As for Mason, he was faced with a dual task: not only

converting Hawthorne’s archaic language into readily singable phrases, but also abridging the work to make it manageable on stage. Admittedly, the original Scarlet Letteris far shorter than War and Peace or Moby Dick, both of which have been converted successfully into operatic form. However, Hawthorne lets fi fty pages pass before

ALL OPERAS REQUIRE CONFLICT TO DRIVE THE STORY, AND MOST OPERAS REQUIRE A PAIR OF SWEETHEARTS. HAWTHORNE’S 1850 NOVEL HAS BOTH, AS THE LEADING LADY FINDS HERSELF CAUGHT BETWEEN TWO MEN; ONE IS HER LONG-MISSING HUSBAND, THE OTHER THE FATHER OF HER CHILD, AND NEITHER IS ADMITTING TO THE NEIGHBORS EXACTLY WHO HE IS.

LORI LAITMAN THE SCARLET LETTER


one actually meets any of his protagonists, and, in later chapters, spends much space describing settings. That which works on the page may not work on the stage. Of his task, Mason declares “Hawthorne’s prose is a bit of a thicket, and I had to hack through it.” He entirely eliminated the opening Custom House portion to begin instead with Hester Prynne appearing in public, the red letter A blazoned upon her breast. It seizes the listeners’ attention, launching the opera with determined energy.

Of her vocal music, Laitman says, “I try to compose music that is kind to both singer and audience… I work from the words out: the music is in the service of the text… Approaching the composition from this angle allows the words and music to become completely entwined.” That debate between music and words has resounded for centuries. One can hope that those composers of the past who have wrestled with it would be impressed by the solution she has reached and the results she has achieved.

The Scarlet Letter was fi rst composed in 2008 on a commission from the University of Central Arkansas. Two years later, the work came to the attention of Opera Colorado which expressed an interest in giving the work its professional world premiere, as part of the company’s thirtieth season in 2013. Logistical considerations of bringing an entirely new opera to the stage caused delays, putting the work’s premiere back to May 7, 2016. That longer timeframe allowed Laitman to revise her score, not for the sake of corrections, but rather to accommodate new ideas. All truly creative artists grow in the process of their work, and sometimes, a fresh thought may be

even more powerful than the original one. So Laitman has allowed for longer transitional passages to facilitate scene changes, added more winds to the orchestra for the sake of “dramatic punch,” as she calls it, and evolved the vocal lines to take advantage of experienced performers. The

result is a score that, combined with Mason’s text and the production as a whole, guarantees a powerful experience for listeners and performers alike. Anyone who has been skeptical of the likeability of new opera will fi nd almost certainly fi nd The Scarlet Letter as proof that the opera world is still alive and

well even in the 21st century.

Program notes and synopsis by Betsy Schwarm, author of the Classical

Music Insights series.


THE ARTISTS Lori LaitmanComposerDescribed by Fanfare Magazine as “one of the most talented and intriguing of living composers,” Lori Laitman has composed multiple operas and choral works, and over 250 songs, setting texts by classical and contemporary poets (including those who

perished in the Holocaust). Her music is widely performed, internationally and throughout the United States, and has generated substantial critical acclaim. The Journal of Singing wrote “It is diffi cult to think of anyone before the public today who equals her exceptional gifts for embracing a poetic text and giving it new and deeper life through music.” Collaborators since 2004, Laitman and David Mason are developing the opera Ludlow, based on Mason’s award-winning verse novel about the 1914 Colorado mining town disaster. Laitman’s children’s opera with librettist Dana Gioia, The Three Feathers, was commissioned by the Center for The Arts at Virginia Tech and premiered October 2014 in a production directed by Beth Greenberg. Laitman and librettist Leah Lax are fi nalists for the 2018 Pellicciotti Opera Prize and are writing an an opera, Uncovered, based on Lax’s memoir Uncovered: How I Left Hasidic Life and Finally Came Home. Laitman has received numerous prestigious commissions, including from Opera America, Opera Colorado, Washington Master Chorale, Music of Remembrance and Wolfgang Holzmair. Her latest, a 2015 commission from the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, is for an orchestral piece to celebrate the BSO’s 100th anniversary. The work, entitled Unsung, will premiere in September 2016. Laitman was graduated magna cum laude from Yale College and received her MM from Yale’s School of Music. For more information, please visit www.artsongs.com and www.scarletletteropera.com.

David MasonLibrettistBorn and raised in Bellingham, Washington, David Mason’s award-winning collections of poetry include The Buried Houses (1991), The Country I Remember (1996), Arrivals (2004), the verse novel Ludlow (2007), and Sea Salt: Poems of a Decade:

2004 – 2014. A children’s book, Davey McGravy, appeared in 2015. He has also published a memoir, two collections of essays, several anthologies and a poetry textbook, Western Wind. His work appears in Best American Poetry, The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, TLS, Poetry, The Hudson Review and many other publications. As a librettist, Mason collaborated with Lori Laitman on her opera The Scarlet Letter and on an opera adaptation of Ludlow, for which Mason received the 2009 Thatcher Hoffman Smith Creativity in Motion Prize. He wrote the libretto for her oratorio, Vedem, and for Tom Cipullo’s opera, After Life. He has also been awarded a Fulbright Fellowship to Greece. Mason served as Colorado poet laureate from 2010 to 2014. He teaches at The Colorado College.


Dominic Armstrong*Arthur DimmesdaleDominic Armstrong has quickly established himself as an artist of superb musicality and characterization. This season includes his Opera Colorado debut as Dimmesdale in Lori

Laitman’s The Scarlet Letter, as well as performances of Freddy in My Fair Lady with Ash Lawn Opera and performances of Britten’s War Requiem with the Russian National Orchestra. Other recent engagements include Count Almaviva at Wexford Opera in Corigliano’s Ghost of Versailles, Nemorino in L’elisir d’amore with Musica Viva Hong Kong, and roles in Peter Grimes, Tannhäuser, and Idomeneo with Teatro Regio Torino. In concert he has appeared with the New York Philharmonic, Boston Symphony, and the Philadelphia Orchestra, and was nominated for the inaugural Warner Prize for his debut at Carnegie Hall. Upcoming performances include Alfredo in La traviata with Chautauqua Opera, the Second Jew in Salome with the Detroit Symphony, and Don José in Carmen with Dayton Opera.

John Baril | Chorus Master John Baril recently made his debut with Virginia Opera in Romeo et Juliette and returns there next fall for Il barbiere di Siviglia. Earlier this spring he conducted The Turn of the Screw at UMKC Opera Theater,

where he led Cosi fan tutte last season. As long-time Music Director of Central City Opera he has conducted Die Sieben Todsuenden, Les Mamelles de Tiresias, Gianni Schicchi, Three Decembers, Lucia di Lammermoor, West Side Story, Cendrillon, Il barbiere di Siviglia, Madama Butterfl y, Dead Man Walking and La Traviata among many others, and looks forward to leading both Tosca and Musto’s Later the Same Evening this summer.

Daniel BelcherGovernor BellinghamGrammy® Award-winning baritone Daniel Belcher has performed in many of the world’s music capitals and returns to Opera Colorado after appearing here as Papageno in

2015 in The Magic Flute, Mercutio in Romeo and Juliet and Dandini in La Cenerentola. With a 60-role repertoire, Belcher has championed roles from the Baroque to those composed expressly for him. He came to international attention in 2004 creating the role of Prior Walter in Peter Eötvös’ Angels in America for the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris. He received the Grammy for Saariaho’s opera,L’Amour de Loin in 2010. Future premieres include Kevin Puts’ Elizabeth Cree and Ricky Ian Gordon’s The House without a Christmas Tree. Upcoming performances include Ping in Turandot with Opera Philadelphia and Atlanta Opera, Owen Hart in Dead Man Walking with Lyric Opera of Kansas City, The Mikado at Chautauqua Opera and Silent Night at Michigan Opera Theatre.

Topher Blair*Projection DesignTopher Blair is a designer, animator and fi lmmaker. A life-long Coloradan, Topher received a BFA in fi lm studies from the University of Colorado at Boulder,

where he studied under experimental fi lmmakers Phil Solomon and Alex Cox. Since 2012 Topher has been a resident multimedia specialist at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts. He has contributed to the DCPA Theatre Company productions of All the Way, As You Like It, Lord of the Flies, Appoggiatura and black odyssey. He designed projections for Off-Center’s Perception and Drag Machine. This is Topher’s fi rst time designing for Opera Colorado.

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Becky Bradley | Goodwife 2Becky is a fourth generation Colorado native. She graduated from Denver University, Lamont School of Music with a double major in music and elementary education. She also holds a master’s degree in

Education. Becky has performed throughout Denver since the 1980s. She has sung with The Singing Bees (opera style telegrams), Bonfi ls, Arvada Center, and Evergreen Players. Ms. Bradley joined Opera Colorado in its second season. She has been performing in the chorus for 32 years, singing in over 60 operas. Becky also performed with The Opera Colorado Madrigal Singers for 13 years, primarily as the Lady of the Manor. Becky spent 30 years teaching Elementary Music in Jefferson County and currently has a private vocal studio. She continues to sing at church and for weddings and funerals. She loves playing cards, golfi ng, and “hanging out” with her adult children, four grandbabies and wonderful husband.

William Bryan*The Leader and A ShipmasterA native of Saint Paul, Minnesota, William fi nished his Master of Music degree in Vocal Performance at Flor-ida State University, where he per-formed the title role in Don Giovanni,

Apollo in Handel’s Apollo e Dafne, and Rappaccini in Daniel Catán’s La Hija de Rappaccini. In 2012, he graduated from the University of Minnesota with a Bachelor’s degree in Vocal Performance, where he played the title role in Elmer Gan-try, Ford in Falstaff, and Demetrius in A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Additional credits include Utah Festival Opera & Mu-sical Theater, Quad City Symphony, Mill City Summer Opera, and Skylark Opera. As a Young Artist with Opera Colorado, he also appears in touring productions as Escamillo in Car-men and Sandman in Hansel and Gretel. Upcoming engage-ments include Guglielmo in Cosi fan tutte with Opera Wilm-ington for the summer of 2016, and joining Minnesota Opera as a Resident Artist for the 2016-17 Season.

Amith Chandrashaker*Lighting DesignAmith Chandrashaker’s theater credits include HerRequiem LCT, Fidelis The Public, Ping Pong The Public, The Convent of Pleasure Cherry Lane Ike at Night UTR/ The

Public, Take Care The Flea, Platonov The Kitchen/Jay Scheib, The Hatmaker’sWife Playwrights Realm, Book of Disquiet Peak Performances, Ghosts Theatreworks, Stoop Stories Weston Playhouse, Carnival Kids Lesser America, The Woodsman Oberon Ensemble, The DrawerBoy Soho Playhouse and Baal Hoi Polloi. His opera credits include La Boheme AtlantaOpera, Cato in Utica Opera Lafayette, L’ Elisir D’Amour The Curtis Institute. His dance credits include Premieres with, Sidra Bell, Alexander Ekman, Aszure Barton, Kate Weare, Benoit Swan- Pouffer, Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet, Rennie Harris Pure Movement, The National Dance Co. of Wales and Aalto Ballet Theatre Essen Germany.

Laura Claycomb* | Hester PrynneLaura Claycomb is a musician who took her grounded Texan roots, a carefully-wrought and solid vocal technique, a fun and refi ned sense of style, a deep interest in languages and a love of the theater and spun

them all into a unique presence in the very fi rst rank of the world’s classical performers, a musical personality loved and known by professional and amateur alike all over the world. She has appeared repeatedly with the Paris Opera, San Francisco Opera, Houston Grand Opera, Los Angeles Opera, Grand Théâtre de Genève, Théâtre de la Monnaie, the London Symphony Orchestra, the San Francisco Symphony, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Le Concert d’Astrée, and the Cleveland Orchestra. Recent roles included Amina in La sonnambula at the Bolshoi Theater, Lucia di Lammermoor with New Orleans Opera, and Cunegonde in Candide with the Maggio Musicale in Florence, as well as Ophélie in Hamlet with the Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra among others.

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Charles Eaton* | A SailorBaritone Charles Eaton received his Master’s degree from the University of Minnesota in 2015. In 2013, Charles received his Bachelor of Music degree at the University of Connecticut, where he sang Papageno Die Zauberfl öte,

Thomas Putnam The Crucible and more. In the summer of 2013, he performed the role of John Brooke Little Womenwith Hartford Opera Theater. Credits with the University of Minnesota Opera Theatre included Conte Almaviva Le nozze di Figaro, the Forrester The Cunning Little Vixen and MasettoDon Giovanni. In the past two summers, Charles performed Belcore L’elisir d’amore and Taddeo L’Italiana in Algeri with La Musica Lirica in Novafeltria, Italy. As a 2015-2016 Young Artist, he sings the Father in Hansel and Gretel and Zuniga in Carmen (touring productions). He sang in the chorus of Aida, and sings the role of Governor Bellingham for the Student Matinee performance of the world premiere of The Scarlet Letter.

Kyle Erdos-Knapp* | John WilsonAn enthusiastic proponent of new works, Chicago-based tenor Kyle Erdos-Knapp is thrilled to make his Opera Colorado debut in the world premiere of The Scarlet Letter. This summer, Kyle will also create the title

role in Gregory Spears’ Jason and the Argonauts at Chicago Lyric Opera. Recent appearances include a Carnegie Hall debut as the tenor soloist in Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde, Tebaldo in I Capuleti e i Montecchi at Crested Butte Music Festival, Ramiro in La Cenerentola with Lakes Area Music Festival and Opera at the Florham, Peter Quint/Prologue in The Turn of the Screw and Pylade in Iphigénie en Tauride with Palm Beach Opera, Flute/Thisbe in A Midsummer Night’s Dream with Hawaii Opera Theatre, and Tobias in Sweeney Todd with Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, Hawaii Opera Theatre and Pensacola Opera.

Margaret Gawrysiak*Mistress HibbonsMargaret Gawrysiak’s recent engagements include Marcellina in Nozze di Figaro with Seattle Opera, Mrs. Lovett in Sweeney Todd with Fresno Grand Opera, The Marquise

in Daughter of the Regiment with Arizona Opera, Mrs. De Rocher in Dead Man Walking with Dayton Opera, Jezibaba in Rusalka with North Carolina Opera, Frugola in Il Tabarro with Opera Theatre of St. Louis, Mother/Witch in Hansel and Gretel with Virginia Opera, and Dame Quickly in Falstaff with Wolf Trap Opera Center. She has performed multiple roles including Zita in Gianni Schicchi with Maestro Lorin Maazel at the Castleton Festival. In concert she has been heard with the Buffalo Philharmonic, Seattle Symphony, Rochester Philharmonic, Syracuse Symphony, American Symphony Orchestra at Carnegie Hall, and the Boston Symphony Orchestra at Tanglewood.

Beth Greenberg* | DirectorBeth Greenberg is renowned for her work with the New York City Opera. For the Lincoln Center company she has directed original mainstage productions of Turandot and Tales of Hoffmann as well as many revivals

of classics. Beth Greenberg has earned a solid reputation for her collaborations with living composers. Recent world-premieres include The Three Feathers (Laitman & Gioia) and The Red Silk Thread (Sung & Hilbert). Current operas-in-development include The Rat Land (Beeferman & Jackson), Harriet Tubman (Okoye) and Steal a Pencil for Me (Cohen & Brevoort). She has staged works for Crested Butte Music Festival, Phoenicia International Voice Fest, Utah Festival Opera, Pittsburgh Opera Center, Opera Delaware and the Asheville Lyric. A Fulbright award brought her to Germany where she apprenticed with Gotz Friedrich at Berlin’s Deutsche Oper. Ms. Greenberg is currently the Director of Opera Theater at the University of Arizona in Tucson.

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Danielle Lombardi* | Goodwife 3Danielle received her Bachelor’s degree from Oberlin Conservatory and recently graduated from Rice University’s The Shepherd School of Music. Her operatic roles include Annio in La Clemenza di Tito, 1st Trio

Member in Trouble in Tahiti, Dorabella in Così fan tutte, Mrs. Herring in Albert Herring, Ericlea in Monteverdi’s Il Ritorno d’Ulisse in Patria, and Sandman in Hänsel und Gretel. In addition, during the summer of 2012 Danielle was a Gerdine Young Artist with the Opera Theater of St. Louis. While there, she covered the role of Dorabella in Così fan tutte and sang in the chorus of Carmen, Così fan tutte and Alice in Wonderland. As an Opera Colorado Young Artist, Danielle is singing Carmen and Hansel in the touring production of Hansel and Gretel and Carmen respectively. She sang in the chorus of Aida and for the Student Matinee production of The Scarlet Letter, she sings Mistress Hibbons.

Malcolm MacKenzie*Roger ChillingworthHaving a “rich vocal range full of inviting nuance,” Malcolm MacKenzie is quickly capturing attention in the dramatic baritone repertoire. Opera News recently praised him as a

“confi dent, commanding Count di Luna… of robust tone, ardent address, arching phrases and genuine baritonal squillo.” Recent engagements include Germont in La traviata with Virginia Opera; a return to the Metropolitan Opera as Dancaïre in Carmen; the title role in Simon Boccanegra with Kentucky Opera; Belcore in L’Elisir d’amore and Sharpless in Madama Butterfl y with San Diego Opera; Iago in Otello and Jack Rance in La fanciulla del West with Nashville Opera; Count di Luna in Il trovatore and Alfi o/Tonio in Cavalleria rusticana/Pagliacci with Arizona Opera. Other performances have included Count Almaviva in Le nozze di Figaro with Sacramento Opera; the baritone soloist for Horatio Parker’s Hora Novissima with the Pacific Master Chorale; and Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony with the Reno Philharmonic.

Ari Pelto | ConductorWith past performances that have been called poetic, earthy, vigorous and highly individual, Ari Pelto was recently appointed Music Director at Opera Colorado following an acclaimed debut conducting Don Giovanni. This

season’s productions with Opera Colorado included Aidaand this world premiere of Lori Laitman’s The Scarlet Letter. Additionally this season, he conducts Aida at Utah Opera, La voix Humaine and Gianni Schicchi at Chicago Opera Theatre, returns to Atlanta Ballet, Opera Memphis, Omaha Symphony and the NYU Symphony. Recent highlights include La Rondinein Cortona (Italy), A Streetcar named Desire and Salomeat Virginia Opera, The Rake’s Progress at Portland Opera, Rigoletto, Don Pasquale and Il Barbiere di Siviglia at Opera Memphis (Principal Guest Conductor); La Boheme at Opera Theatre of St. Louis, Cunning Little Vixen at Chautauqua, Rusalka at Boston Lyric Opera, The Magic Flute at Portland Opera and Hansel und Gretel at Utah Opera among others.

Emily Louise RobinsonGoodwife 1Emily completed her undergraduate work at the University of Chicago and received her Master’s Degree from New England Conservatory. Emily completed a Performer’s

Certifi cate at the Moores School of Music at the University of Houston, where she was most recently seen in the title role of Thomas Pasatieri’s Frau Margot and Beatriz in Daniel Catán’s Rapaccinni’s Daughter. Other past roles include; Love Simpson Cold Sassy Tree, Magda The Consul, Mimi La Boheme and Silverpeal The Impresario. While at New England Conservatory she debuted the role of June Jenkins in Dan Shore’s NOA prize winning opera An Embarrassing Position. This season as a Young Artist at Opera Colorado she sings Gretel and Micaëla in the touring productions of Hansel and Gretel and Carmen respectively. On the mainstage she sang the role of the High Priestess in Aida and she will sing Hester Prynne in the Student Matinee of The Scarlett Letter.

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THE ARTISTSErhard Rom | Set Designer Erhard Rom was a fi nalist in the Designer of the Year category for the 2015 International Opera Awards in London. He has designed settings for more than 200 productions across the globe, and his design work has

been displayed in the Prague Quadrennial and at the National Opera Center in NY. His credits include San Francisco Opera, Wexford Festival Opera, Seattle Opera, Bard Summerscape, Glimmerglass Festival, Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, Vancouver Opera, Wolf Trap Opera, Boston Lyric Opera, Florida Grand Opera, Opera Colorado, Opéra de Montréal, Atlanta Opera, Lyric Opera of Kansas City, Syracuse Stage, Geva Theatre Center, Indiana Repertory Theatre and the Folger Shakespeare Theatre. He designed the European premiere of Silent Night and the production was awarded best opera production of 2015 by the Irish Times Theatre Awards. Future engagements include Nixon in China for the Royal Swedish Opera. Mr. Rom teaches design at Montclair State University.

Terese Wadden* | Costume DesignTerese Wadden is a Brooklyn-based costume designer. She has recently designed 1776 Encores! NY City Center, Arthur Miller’s The Price Mark Taper Forum, and Kat’a Kabanova Spoleto Festival USA. Other theatre

and opera designs include Philip Glass’s In The Penal Colony Boston Lyric Opera, the Handel operas Orlando and Alcina WhiteBox Art Center, Pyramus and Thisbe Canadian Opera Company, Who Left This Fork Here? Barishnikov Art Center, and Oklahoma Bard Summerscape. She has designed Lizzie Borden Boston Lyric Opera and Tanglewood, New Work for the Desert NYLA, Dialogues of the Carmelites Curtis Institute/Opera Philadelphia, and Lucia di Lammermoor Lyric Opera of Chicago. Additionally designs include Eternal Incubator Arts Project and touring, House For Sale Transport Group, As You Like It The Acting Company, A Florentine Tragedy & Gianni Schicchi Canadian Opera Company, Cosi Fan Tutte New York City Opera and Don Giovanni New York City Opera and Portland Opera among others.

Benjamin Werley | A FarmerBenjamin completed his Master’s in Vocal Performance at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music where he had previously completed a BM in Vocal Performance. Ben sang the role of Don Ottavio in Don

Giovanni with the Merola Opera Program and worked with Virginia Opera as an Emerging Artist where he sang Giuseppe in La Traviata. In 2015, as an Apprentice Artist at the Santa Fe Opera and will return there this summer. Ben’s other roles include Rodolfo La Bohème, Der Wird Der Rosenkavalier and Monostatos Die Zauberfl öte. As an Opera Colorado Young Artist, he sang The Messenger in Aida. Ben is covering the role of Arthur Dimmesdale in this performance of The Scarlet Letter, which he will perform for the Student Matinee. In the touring productions, he is singing the roles of The Witch in Hansel and Gretel and Don José in Carmen.

Robert Wierzel | Lighting DesignAs a lighting designer, Mr. Wierzel has worked with artists from diverse disciplines and backgrounds in theatre, dance, contemporary music, museums and opera on stages throughout the country and abroad.

Productions with the opera companies of Paris-Garner, Tokyo Opera, Toronto, Bergen, Folk Opera in Sweden, New York City Opera, Glimmerglass, Seattle, Boston Lyric, San Francisco, Houston, Washington, Chicago Lyric, Opera Theatre of Chicago, Montreal, Vancouver, Colorado and San Diego among others. His theatre work has been seen on and off Broadway, including recently Lady Day At Emerson’s Bar & Grill. Other productions include the musical Fela! (Tony Award nomination) and David Copperfield’s Broadway debut Dreams and Nightmares. Additional credits include productions at the New York Shakespeare Festival/Public Theatre, The Signature Theatre, The Roundabout, Playwrights Horizons, BAM, The Acting Company and Lincoln Center Festival/American Songbook Series among others. Robert’s Dance work includes 31 years with the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company.


PRODUCTION STAFFMUSIC STAFFJohn Baril, Chorus MasterKeun-A Lee, Coach/AccompanistKim Peoria, Orchestra Personnel ManagerIngrid Peoria, Orchestra Librarian

PRODUCTION STAFFKatie Preissner, Production ManagerBarbara Donner, Stage ManagerJordan Braun, Assistant DirectorVanessa Chumbley, Assistant Stage ManagerAmelia Nordin Assistant Stage ManagerJeremy Sortore, Title CoordinatorBeth Nielsen, Title OperatorPark Wm. Showalter, Chorus LiaisonBrian Greffe, MD, Company PhysicianBuzz Reifman, NPPA, Company Otolaryngologist

TECHNICAL STAFFAlan Bogar, Head CarpenterJohn Gordon, Shop/Production Carpenter

Michael Boswell, Assistant CarpenterChristopher Cory, Head FlymanChris Green, Head ElectricianTanya Rist, Light Board OperatorPatrick Howard, Assistant Lighting DesignerPamela Chavez, Head PropsTerry Gulley, Assistant PropsLon Levine, Head Projections/VideoCharles Polich, Head SoundMarlena Schwartz, Purchasing AgentMary Lou Faherty, A2

ELLIE CAULKINSOPERA HOUSE CREWRandy Mitchell, House CarpenterJohn Kendrick, House SoundAl Price, House PropDave Wilson, House Electrician

COSTUMESAnn Piano, Costume DirectorAlison Milan, Shop Manager and Wardrobe Head

SHOP ASSISTANTSSara Lynn HildebrandBarbara PianoElizabeth C. PorterAnnabel Reader

DRAPERKevin BrainerdChristine Samar

VOLUNTEER STITCHERJulie Parker

DRESSERSLisa BorgmannKevin BrainerdSara Lynn Hildebrand Alie HoldenTeresia LarsenElizabeth C. PorterAnnabel ReaderChristine Samar

VOLUNTEER DRESSERSValerie Kreck AmburnLeslie CadyKathy HeiderJan HeimerPat Smith

WIGS AND MAKEUPSarah Opstad, Associate Wigs and Makeup CoordinatorAngela Norris, Wigs and Make-Up Assistant

ARTIST HOSTSHost Chairmen: Merrill ShieldsJeff BrownKaty BurleyGreg CarpenterWendy, Dillon and Lillian CogdalBrian CraneNancy HawkinsRobert KahnHeather MacKinnonRobert MontgomeryKevin O’ConnorAstrid StocksMaradith and Rusty Wilkins

SUPERNUMERARIESMaiah Elyse Howie (Pearl)Hazel Kachline (Student Matinee Pearl)Elliot Maschka (Cover Boy)Ezzah E. Rauf (Cover Pearl/Twins)Emma Sipe (Bellingham Twin)Mercer Stauch (Boy)Ella Tolbert (Bellingham Twin)

A supernumerary is a person who appears as an extra in a non-speaking, non-singing role.

ORCHESTRAVIOLINMargaret Soper Gutierrez, concertmasterRené Knetsch, principal secondAngela DombrowskiLynne GlaeskeDebbie HollandRobyn JulyanChris JusellAnnamaria KaracsonCyndi MancinelliSusie PeekIngrid Peoria Gyongyi PetheoLeslie SawyerRobyn Sosa

VIOLAMatthew Dane, principalMichael BrookBrian CookMary HarrisonSarah RichardsonLora Stevens

CELLOCedra Kuehn, principalCharles LeeEleanor WellsCarole Whitney

BASSDavid Crowe, principalJeremy Nicholas

FLUTE AND PICCOLOSusan Townsend, principalElizabeth Sadilek

OBOE AND ENGLISH HORNSarah Bierhaus, principalElizabeth Telling

CLARINET ANDBASS CLARINETMichelle Orman, principalHeidi Mendenhall

BASSOON Kim Peoria, principalKaori Uno-Jack

HORNDevon Park, principalLauren Varley

TRUMPETColin Oldberg, principal

TROMBONEBron Wright, principal

TIMPANIPeter Cooper, principal

PERCUSSIONMark Foster, principalCarl Dixon

HARPJanet Harriman, principal

OPERA COLORADO CHORUSSOPRANOBecky BradleyClaire BrookerMichelle DanielsAndrea KehmeierAmy Kopatich

MEZZO-SOPRANOSusan ClarkHeather MillsSusan RahmsdorffKatie SnyderHallie Spoor

TENORMatt CantwellPark Wm. ShowalterNorman SpivySteve WalzKeith Williamson

BASS/BARITONEShane DelavanJeff DixonPatrick MaschkaDoug Wilson

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$20,000+AnonymousThe Avenir FoundationKen and Donna BarrowThe Bonfils-Stanton FoundationNoël and Thomas CongdonJoy DinsdaleDave and Pam DukeNational Endowment for the ArtsOpera AmericaJeremy and Susan ShamosThe Sorel Organization

$10,000-$19,999Bob and Betsy FeinbergThe Janet Mordecai Foundation

$5,000-$9,999The Francis Goelet Charitable Lead TrustsThe Gradison FoundationMike Hughes and The Hon. Karen BrodyHal and Ann LoganThe Hon. Mary MocharyDaniel L. RitchieGerald and Ann Saul

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$1,000-$2,499Karen BruggenthiesDr. Steven DiltsKenneth R. FeinbergRay J. GrovesCynthia and Bill KellyCheryl McGinnis and Ed WoolmanKent Rice and Ann CorriganFrieda Sanida Leason and Bernard LeasonMr. and Mrs. Duncan Whitaker

$50-$999AnonymousWalter ArnheimDaniel BelcherCharles Berberich and Marilyn MunstermanLinda BjellandDonald K. BradenDr. Michael BrazMs. Margaret CaldwellGregory CarpenterDr. and Mrs. Laurence K. ChanMr. Ronald D. CoveyMs. Margaret EwellL. Richard and Sigrid Halvorson FreeseJoan GlickJelica IselyDr. and Mrs. John C. JerniganJennifer KurtzDeanna Rose LeinoMs. Margo LopenskePaul Lorton, Jr.Ms. Heather MacKinnonMuffy MooreMr. Jeffrey MorrisClint Morrison and Nancy RosenbergerMs. Josie NobleJanice ParkerBennett PriceAnagloria RodriguezGershen RosenblumDr. Andrew Sirotnak and Jamie WhiteCamille SpaccaventoShawnet SweetsBarbara ThorngrenMs. Anne P. TurnerAnne WattenbergCarol C. WhitleyKen and Charlotte Ziebarth

THE SCARLET LETTER SPONSORSThe world premiere of Lori Laitman’s The Scarlet Letter is a significant milestone in the artistic history of Opera Colorado. We wish to thank the following individuals and foundations for their generous support.

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The Song of the Earth with Grammy award winning mezzo-soprano, Kelley O’Connor and tenor Richard Cox Gustav Mahler’s “Das Lied von der Erde” and Debussy’s “Nocturnes”Thursday, August 4, 7:30pm

The Tragedy of Carmen BIZET/BROOK Pocket-sized, but dramatically intense! Guest Artists: Abigail Fischer, mezzo-soprano; Jeanine De Bique, soprano; Jason Slayden, tenor; Aleksey Bogdanov, baritoneSunday, July 10, 7:30pm

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OCT 21-23 FRI-SAT 7:30 ■ SUN 1:00Andrew Litton, conductorColorado Symphony Chorus, Duain Wolfe, directorColorado Children’s Chorale, Deborah DeSantis, artistic directorPUCCINI La BohèmeAndrew Litton conducts the Symphony in a staging of a beloved Puccini opera, La Bohème, 120 years after its premiere in Turin, Italy. The heartbreaking story of impassioned, young bohemians in a reimagined contemporary Paris— also adapted into the Broadway smash, Rent— La Bohème tells the timeless tale of love found and lost between Rodolfo and Mimi as they enjoy their youth in the lively Latin Quarter. The Colorado Symphony Chorus and the Colorado Children’s Chorale add another layer to the complexity of this classic story. This concert event follows Andrew Litton’s and the Orchestra’s smashing production of Tosca which was presented during the 2014/15 season.

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intermission. All donations, no matter the size, are appreciated. Thank you!

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ANNUAL CONTRIBUTORSThe Board of Directors of Opera Colorado and the staff express their deepest appreciation to the individuals, corporations and foundations who have contributed to the Annual Fund.

The following list acknowledges individual donors, corporations and foundations who made gifts to Opera Colorado’s Annual Fund from March 1, 2015 – March 1, 2016.

INDIVIDUALSPRESIDENT CIRCLE $20,000+Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth T. BarrowMike and Julie BockEllie CaulkinsDave and Pam DukeHugh A. Grant and Merle C. ChambersMr. and Mrs.Harold R. Logan Jr. Jeff Baldwin and Debra J. PerryMarcia and Dick RobinsonJeremy and Susan ShamosPatrick Spieles and Carol McMurry

DIRECTOR $10,000+Mr. and Mrs. Bruce G. Allen Al and Rebecca BatesPeyton and Suzanne D. BucyNoel and Thomas CongdonMary and Tom ConroyMr. Robert Damrauer Mr. Ray J. GrovesCy and Lyndia Harvey Harley and Lorraine HigbieMr. and Mrs. Jeremy F. KinneyThe Honorable and Mrs. Kenneth LaffTracy McCarthyMs. Muffy Moore and Mr. Al MinierMr. and Mrs. Leonard M. Perlmutter Kevin O’Connor and Janet Ellen RaaschAnn and Gerald SaulMerrill Shields and M. Ray ThomassonMarlis and Shirley SmithMrs. Beatrice B. Taplin

Mr. and Mrs. Charles I. ThompsonMartha and Will TraceyByron WatsonMr. and Mrs. Richard WeilHerbert Wittow

MAESTRO $5,000+AnonymousLinda BjellandMs. Allene O. CashDr. and Mrs. Laurence K. ChanMrs. Margaret N. DillonKaren FukutakiRobert S. GrahamCeleste and Jack GrynbergMark HeiderDiana and Mike KinseyMs. Carole LeightFrank and Virginia LeitzDr. and Mrs. William ManiatisVeronica A. McCaffrey and Barbara A. FrankTom and Mary MeadeMrs. Rhea J. MillerRobert R. Montgomery and Nancy HawkinsCraig and Maria PonzioRobert and Myra RichMr. and Mrs. George G. ShawDick and Pat TuckerMrs. Carol C. WhitleyLarry and Brigitte Zimmer

DIVA $2,500+AnonymousJanice BaucumMs. Janice BarrowMrs. Pamela D. BeardsleyMr. James L. BerggrenSheila BiseniusRobin E. BlackJane Halle Schultz-BurnettMr. and Mrs. George P. Caulkins IIIMarcus & Wendy DivitaMr. and Mrs. Chris HuntCraig N. Johnson and Alicia McCommonsMs. Judy JohnstonDr. Jan Kennaugh and Mr. Chip Horne Mrs. Patricia A. LivingstonChristine and Harry PhillipsNijole and Walter RasmussenVicki and Harry SterlingJerry and Debi Tepper

COMPRIMARIO $1,000+AnonymousMr. and Mrs. William D. ArmstrongJohn and Rosemary AshbyMr. Hartman AxleyChris & Heather BennettMr. Charles E. Berry and Mrs. Maria Garcia BerryBrian Bross M.D. and Bonnie DanielsDr. Bill and Betty BuchananLeslie CadyMr. and Mrs. Ken CalkinsMr. and Mrs. Maxwell CaulkinsMrs. Sue M. CannonMr. and Mrs. Lawrence G. CarpenterCharles Case and Phillip St. CloudMr. David J. ChavollaMs. Kathryn CodoDr. and Mrs. Aubrey CopelandSteve and Pat CorderZe and Dick DeaneDr. Stephen L. DiltsMs. Marian O. DinesMr. James C. Donaldson and Ms. Ellen AndermanLois N. EckhoffCarl and Nan EklundGeorge and Sissy GibsonMark Groshek MD and Carl Clark MDDr. and Mrs. Burton GolubMr. Frank Guerra and Ms. Jo Ellen GraybillMr. J. Lawrence Hamil Deborah Hayes and James L. Martin IIIMr. Richard HiltyDrs. Kathryn Hobbs and Marc CohenMr. William T. HoffmanChristine Hollander and Michael McGeeRuth Hopfenbeck and George Hopfenbeck Jr.Mr. and Mrs. Robert J. Jennett Gary and Judith JuddJohn N. Kabalin, MD.Dr. and Mrs. Charles B. KafadarJoe and Francine KelsoDr. Lawrence Kim and Nhung VanRichard KoseffMrs. Dagmar Kress Kay Lawrence

Dr. and Mrs. Jeremy LazarusDeanna Rose LeinoCheryl McGinnis and Edward WoolmanV.W. McKnab and Margaret JuradoDave and Miza McReynoldsDr. Monica I. Minkoff and Mr. Harry M. SiegfriedMr. William R. MoningerLynnette MorrisonMr. and Mrs. Chris J. MurphyDr. and Mrs. Calvern E. NarcisiDrs. Harold and Sarah NelsonRobert NelsonMr. and Mrs. Robert C. NewmanNancy and Paul ObermanMr. Steven OkuleyDorothy PearsonBonnie PerkinsBruce Polkowsky and Bill PowellRick Poppe and Jana EdwardsMr. Thomas J. Powers Jr.Alexander and Cynthia ReadSteven and Joan RingelAyliffe and Fred RisJuan and Alicia RodriguezMs Susan J. RuttHelen Scott SantilliMs. Ruth E. SchoeningMr. John ShottDr. and Mrs. Edwin R. SmithMs. Jennifer SobanetDrs. Morris and Ellen SusmanDiana TerryMs. Kathleen R. TowerMr. John B. Trueblood Richard Tubbs and Marilyn SmithMary and Ken Willis

RED DOT PATRON $500+AnonymousMarilyn and Jules AmerDr. and Mrs. Sol BassowPeter Batty and Paula KechichianDr. and Mrs. Henry J. BeckwittMr. and Mrs. Mitchell Benedict IIIBrian Bennett and Bev DanielsBrewster and Helen BoydDr. Lucinda and Mr. Edward BryantSandy and Rogene BuchholzMr. and Mrs. David Budd Gordon and Ron ButzMr. and Mrs. Douglas M. CainMarjorie and Doug CarrigerMark and Margaret Carson

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