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Volume 38 Issue 4
Seattle Opera Presents
The Consul
Contents
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Menotti’s Cry for Humanity Spe ight Je nkin s
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To This She’s Come: A Profile of Marcy Stonikas Jonathan Dean
13 In Memoriam: Jim Faulstich
PRODUCTION ESSENTIALS
SEATTLE OPERA’S 50TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION
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Celebrating Our 50 Years: The New and Unusual
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The Consul Production Sponsor
15
The Cast of The Consul
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The Story of The Consul
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About the Artists
19Orchestra
19Actors
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Season Program and Event Sponsors
DEPARTMENTS
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Service Directory
5
Letter from the President
6
Board of Trustees
7
Staff Chat
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Online at seattleopera.org
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Leadership Circle
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Individual Donors
29 Institutional Donors
SEATTLE OPERA
Editor
Jessica Murphy
Photo Researcher
Monte Jacobson
Graphic Design
Karin Kough, Art Director
Amie Sheppard
Contributing Editors
Ernesto Alorda
Mary Brazeau
Jonathan Dean
Ed Hawkins
David McDade
Rob Wiseman
Cover Image
The Consul, Arizona Opera
© Tim Fuller
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Annual Fund
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The Encore Society
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Seattle Opera Foundation
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In-Kind Sponsors
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Volunteer Fundraising
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Upcoming Events
36Amusements
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Upcoming Operas
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Seattle Opera Staff
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March 2014
Volume 38, No. 4
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From The President
I
find it so exciting to move from the successful run of
a classic like Rigoletto to a more contemporary Seattle
debut like The Consul—an opera that I am thrilled to be
seeing for the first time. Your faith and support make it
possible for us to venture into new operatic territory.
Your commitment to this organization and to our artists
has also brought a group of stellar singers together for these
performances. Remarkably, a total of nine former Seattle
Opera Young Artists are showcased in The Consul. They
all came to our program at different times, ranging from 2003 to 2013, and have
each developed fulfilling international careers. Your support of their training, their
nascent careers and the relationships they made while they were here has played an
important role in what you will hear at this performance.
The company has also recently announced that Marcy Stonikas, one of our Magda
Sorels, is a finalist in the 2014 International Wagner Competition. We will carry on
Seattle Opera’s commitment to emerging singers at this exciting event on August
7. We hope you will join us for the competition and for the other events scheduled
for our festive 50th Anniversary Celebration (August 9), featuring a concert
followed by dinner with the artists to honor General Director Speight Jenkins’ vast
contributions—to the company and to the art form.
We have also recently announced our exciting 2014/15 season. Now is a perfect
opportunity to renew your subscription and support our tradition of bringing worldclass performers to our stage.
—WILLIAM T. WEYERHAEUSER
PRESIDENT, SEATTLE OPERA BOARD OF TRUSTEES
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TEN YEARS AT SEATTLE CENTER
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Seattle Opera Board of Trustees 2013/14
CHAIRMAN
John F. Nesholm
TREASURER
Gary Houlahan
PRESIDENT
William T. Weyerhaeuser
SECRETARY
Jonathan Caves
PRESIDENT-ELECT
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CHAIRMAN EMERITUS
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Thomas H. Allen
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VICE PRESIDENTS
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Carolyn Eagan
Lily Garfield
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TRUSTEES
Jeffrey Hanna
Jim L. Hodge
Kennan Hollingsworth, M.D.
Mary Justice
Jay Lapin
Thomas A. Lemly
Laura Lundgren
Bruce R. McCaw
Tom McQuaid
James Melhorn
Rosemary W. Peterson
Tom Puentes
Matthew Segal
John Starbard
Delphine Stevens
Russell F. Tousley
James Uhlir
Moya Vazquez
Susanne Wakefield
Joan S. Watjen
Judith A. Whetzel
Kenneth W. Willman
Scott Wyatt
Connie Bloxom
John M. Bloxom Jr.
Beverly Brazeau
Norma B. Croco
David R. Davis
Jane Davis
Hester Diamond
Mildred K. Dunn
ADVISORY BOARD
Betty Hedreen
Susanne F. Hubbach
Victoria Ivarsson
Don Johnson
Duff Kennedy
Lynn J. Loacker
Mae Lui
Wah Lui
Betty McCurdy
James G. McCurdy
Joseph Morse
Karen Morse
Linda Nordstrom
George S. Schuchart Sr.
Judy Schuchart
Eulalie Schneider
Virginia B. Wright
Beverly Brazeau
Jeffrey Hanna, President
James D. Cullen
Sandra B. Dunn
Jay Lapin
Norma B. Croco
Albert O. Foster†
Max E. Gellert†
Harold H. Heath
H. Dewayne Kreager†
HONORARY LIFE MEMBERS
Donald L. Johnson
Michael M. Scott
SEATTLE OPERA FOUNDATION
Everil Loyd
Michael Tobiason
Steven C. Phelps
Moya Vazquez
Anne M. Redman
William T. Weyerhaeuser,
ex officio
PAST PRESIDENTS
Francis A. LeSourd†
James M. McDonald Jr.†
Stanley N. Minor
John F. Nesholm
Sheffield Phelps†
Steven C. Phelps
Russell F. Tousley
Richard S. Twiss
Howard S. Wright†
REPRESENTATIVES TO THE BOARD
Peggy O’Brien-Murphy, Seattle Opera Guild
Dana Johnson, Seattle Opera Chorus
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Marti McCaleb, Bravo! Club
Tim Hale, The Seattle Symphony and Opera Players’ Association
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WHAT PROPS SHOULD WE EXPECT TO SEE IN THE CONSUL? The big props are the
magician’s props. We have hired a magician to train the tenor to do several magic tricks, things
like a wand that shoots fire, a dove trick, scarves of many colors, flowers that come out of a wand.
The ones he does best will end up in the show.
WILL THERE BE ANY GUNS OR GUNFIRE? Potentially. Guns came with the show when we
purchased it from Arizona Opera, but as of yet we don’t know if we’ll use them. The director will
make those choices.
IS IT COMMON FOR DIRECTORS TO BE FIGURING OUT WHAT THEY NEED AS THEY
GO? Yes. Before directors get here, they’ve looked at the libretto and started figuring out how people
are moving [on the stage]. Sometimes the libretto indicates what kind of props are in the show, and the
directors will usually add to the list. If we have a prop, we provide it; if not, we purchase or create it.
© Alan Alabastro
CAN YOU GIVE AN EXAMPLE OF ONE YOU’VE MADE? In The Tales of Hoffmann, there is a
young lady who turns out to be a doll. The doll’s head then gets taken off. In 2005, the cast was
multiracial, so we ended up buying two mannequins so that we could make each one appear as the
singer who was singing the role that night. We made a cast of the singers’ faces which we then put
on a Styrofoam head that then screwed on to the body. When we first started rehearsals, the director
hadn’t made any of those decisions.
Staff Chat:
Petrude Olds
Petrude Olds, Seattle Opera’s
Props Manager, has been
working backstage since 1984.
Not only has he developed a
vast array of stage props, but
he has also made his way into
company legend for “saving”
the opening of the 1986
Das Rheingold. An immense
sheet of blue nylon, representing the Rhine, got stuck in full
view of the audience. A quickthinking Olds scrambled up a
twenty-foot ladder and freed
the fabric seconds before
Fricka started to sing. Rhine
safely in hand, Olds stayed
put, hidden from view for
the rest of that long scene.
WHAT WAS YOUR TRAINING BEFORE YOU STARTED HERE? IT SEEMS LIKE YOU
HAVE TO KNOW HOW TO DO EVERYTHING. When I was young, my parents let me do
lots of things, got me to do lots of things. I learned to do leather work when I was in elementary
school; my dad worked in movie theaters, so I learned a lot about A/V (and how to clean, because
he’d make me clean the theater after the movies). I was a Boy Scout and learned knots, how to use
weapons, all those things. Being a prop guy, I use all those skills.
DO YOU HAVE A BACKGROUND IN MUSIC? I played trombone in college, but I ended up
working in the theater.
ALWAYS BACKSTAGE? I had to be onstage once. That was more than enough for me.
EXCEPT THAT WE ALWAYS SEE YOU ONSTAGE TAKING A BOW AFTER THE DRESS
REHEARSALS. WHAT’S THE STORY THERE? I’m really the stand-in conductor for bows at
rehearsal. At performances the leading lady usually comes out and gets the conductor to bring him
onstage for the bow, but at one particular rehearsal the conductor was still in the pit working with
the orchestra. I was standing there, and the stage manager asked if I would go out instead. “Sure.”
So the soprano came over, and they put my hand in hers, and I went out and did the bow. They kept
asking me to do that, and that was years ago.
WHAT DO YOU DO OUTSIDE OF THE OPERA? Who’s got time? I like to volunteer. The latest
volunteering project is in the elementary school where my daughter teaches music.
CAN YOU TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT ANY OF THE EDUCATIONAL EVENTS YOU HAVE
HOSTED? This past summer my union [IATSE #15] asked me to do a class about the props in the
Ring. It was open to the public. We had 18 people; most of them were teachers and a few students.
They got to handle the props, and see the blueprints and the process of making the props in the
show. There are a couple YouTube videos of other presentations I have done for Seattle Opera.
AS SOMEONE WITH ALL THESE SKILLS, DO YOU FIND YOURSELF GETTING ROPED
INTO STRANGE PROJECTS OUTSIDE OF WORK? I had two kids go through public schools,
and I built haunted houses at school. I’ve been an auctioneer at school functions, I’ve been a
chaperone on many trips, and I’ve helped with plays and musicals at schools. You don’t necessarily
get roped into it, but how do you say no? n
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Menotti’s Cry for Humanity
BY SPEIGHT JENKINS
Gian Carlo Menotti’s The Consul received its Broadway premiere 99 years almost to the day after the
first performance of Verdi’s Rigoletto, the last opera Seattle Opera presented. Both have gripping
stories and are basically grim; Rigoletto dwells on the results of the title character’s misuse of
power (both as jester and father), The Consul with the strangling power of the bureaucracy of the
modern state. Each soprano’s emotional aria, coming at roughly the same place in both operas,
has crucial importance to the opera’s plot. In Rigoletto, more significantly, Verdi created a wildly
popular work revolutionary in its style and its form for
its time, while The Consul, an opera firmly based in the
Italian tradition of verismo, used many of the techniques
contemporary to Menotti’s time and became perhaps the
first music-theater full grand opera. Like Rigoletto, The
Consul captivated its first audiences. It has a unique record
for an opera: 269 performances on Broadway to sold-out
houses, plus a Pulitzer Prize and other awards.
Inspired by a newspaper story of the suicide of
a 38-year-old Polish immigrant who was denied
admission to the United States and hanged herself in
the Ellis Island detention room, the opera dramatized
an international problem. Many displaced persons
after World War II were desperate to come to a new
home—the United States, Canada, Israel, any country
in which they could be free. In this period the United
States accepted some of these desperate individuals,
but the various U.S. consulates were besieged with
potential immigrants who would do anything to come
here. Americans generally did not know of the agonies
many were experiencing as they tried to escape the
cruel regimes in which they lived; the news didn’t carry
their stories, and we were far less aware of the rest of
the world than we are today. That said, the situation
is similar in 2014. Refugees from Syria, many of the
African countries, and other countries where dictators
rule by oppression and cruelty will do anything to
improve their lot. So although The Consul spoke to a
problem very real in 1950, it is sadly still a problem for
which there is no answer.
What makes the opera so powerful is not just its
superb music, but the clear picture Menotti paints of
a bureaucracy made emotionally inaccessible. The
opera tells a story familiar to many who have dealt
with Immigration Services—or the same branch of
most Western governments. People become numbers;
everything is about filling out forms properly, following
precise protocols often developed by bureaucrats but
treated as though delivered from on high.
Each of the opera’s characters waiting for a visa has a
good story—some much more dire than others. But all
are treated exactly the same, and all must fill out forms
precisely and accurately or they have to start over again.
The composer uses many of the techniques of Italian
opera in this work, including a variety of ensembles—
duets, trios, and larger combinations—and several very
memorable arias. He also created a sense of drama that
never flags. His idealistic freedom fighter, John Sorel,
seems completely real. Sorel doesn’t have a lot to sing,
but his portrait is clearly drawn as someone who will
give up his life to win his country’s freedom. Still,
he sacrifices himself when he hears that his wife and
child are in trouble. He is a patriot but puts his family
first. Menotti was at his best in creating the Consul’s
Secretary—absolutely proper, totally removed from
personal involvement with all the desperate people who
come to her desk. Her vocal line is a perfect portrait
of her isolation. But she is not a caricature. When she
finally does become concerned, it is too late. Her world
is falling apart around her, and her international status
does not save her from caring.
Menotti created an array of characters, all trying to
leave the unnamed country, including foreigners to that
country, a fairly wealthy woman eager to leave, and,
memorably, an itinerant magician who brings the only
levity to the opera. He tries hard, and sometimes he can
even hypnotize people who are profoundly depressed.
Each of these characters peripheral to the main story
has good music to sing that brings them to life.
The Secret Police Agent shows Menotti’s contempt
for the type. He is called “secret,” yet everything about
him screams police. His words, his music, his actions
are that of a man looking for his victims and sure that
he will find them.
John’s mother has one of the loveliest pieces
in the score, a lullaby that stands by itself
as a rewarding aria for a mezzo-soprano.
Her warm, maternal figure shows a decided
development over Turiddu’s helpless mother
in Cavalleria Rusticana, who is in a somewhat
similar situation. This is a woman who speaks
her mind and suffers, even if in the end she is
unable to help.
Finally, there is Magda, the woman around
whom the story turns, as important to The
Consul as Violetta is to La traviata and in her
personality as intense as Tosca. Often mothers
in opera are characterized as being principally
concerned with their children; not Magda.
She loves her little son, but her focus from the
first moments of the opera until the end is
for her husband. Everything she does, all her
waking moments are involved in trying to get
a visa to join him and save him.
Her great aria describing her frustration
with her treatment has the whole history
of Italian opera behind it, with a touch of
Wagner added. Romantic in the extreme,
it has a climax both vocal and symphonic
that equals the best of nineteenth-century
opera, but it is different in one big respect
from the typical romantic aria that speaks
to one emotion: it sums up the whole
piece. All the frustration, all the agony, all
that has made so many desperate people
devastated, can be heard in it. The climax
also describes a woman imprisoned in an
all-male system, a plea for compassion and
understanding to a world that didn’t seem
to care. “The day will come,” she exclaims,
“when our hearts aflame will burn your
paper chains.” Menotti almost surely did
not imagine the feminism that appeared a
quarter-century later, but he did describe
a woman who would not stop, would not
retreat, would never give up.
The score of The Consul is powerful,
and the combination of score and libretto,
sung in very simple language, makes it a
definitive portrait of tyranny, and a cry for
understanding of those who cannot combat
the system, a cry that is as meaningful in
2014 as it was in 1950. n
The Consul, Arizona Opera © Tim Fuller
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To This She’s Come:
A Profile of Marcy Stonikas
BY JONATHAN DEAN
Fans of Seattle Opera’s Young Artists Program know the deep pleasure of hearing a voice develop
over time. Last fall, for example, many operagoers enjoyed the performances of Lawrence Brownlee
and Sarah Coburn in The Daughter of the Regiment; but some had the additional pleasure of
remembering the two of them as promising young artists a decade earlier and marveling at the
growth in their voices, technique, and personality. Both have become artists of great depth.
© Kristin Hoebermann
Lucky for us, both consider Seattle an artistic home.
Many of the singers in this performance
of The Consul are likewise graduates of
the Young Artists Program. Soprano
Marcy Stonikas, who stars as Magda Sorel
on opening night, was a tremendous
find for an opera company that made its
reputation on Wagner: here was a huge,
voluptuously beautiful sound, ideal for
Wagner heroines, with their long vocal
lines that soar out over a vast orchestra.
Stonikas has proven herself in leading
roles at Seattle Opera twice before—in the
title role of Turandot and as Leonore in
Fidelio. As Turandot, she not only sang the
high Cs with the requisite laser-like intensity,
she portrayed a meltingly vulnerable and
beautiful ice princess. In the Beethoven, she
surmounted the extreme vocal challenge of
the role and brought dramatic crediblility to
Leonore’s unusual situation. The vocal and
dramatic challenges for The Consul’s leading
soprano are even greater: Magda Sorel must
carry the show.
Stage Director Peter Kazaras calls the role
the “lynchpin” of the opera, and he says that
Speight Jenkins’ decision to cast Marcy is
a stroke of genius. “Marcy is the right age
chronologically and vocally for the role, and
she is able to bring to it the right dramatic
and vocal colors,” says Kazaras. He knows
she will make the most of the character’s
descent from hope to despair: “Magda is
not beaten down at the beginning, but full
of defiance and hope. Marcy is able to limn
Magda’s journey beautifully.”
Stonikas as Turandot, Turandot, Seattle Opera, 2012 © Elise Bakketun
It takes a long time to prepare a singer to tackle a role like Magda. Jenkins
and Kazaras, then Artistic Director of the Young Artists Program, first recognized
Stonikas’s potential six years ago, when she auditioned for Seattle Opera’s Young
Artists Program. But they knew her voice would need time to develop; big voices
mature later. Another of Stonikas’s mentors, Marilyn Horne, gave her the same
advice a few years earlier: “When I was 21, she told me, ‘I hope I’m around to hear
you in 25 years when you sing your first Isolde.’ And I questioned her: ‘25 years?’
‘Yes,’ she said, ‘25 years!’”
There’s much an opera singer needs to develop in those years, beyond just voice.
As Stonikas puts it, “When you’re young, you not only need to find your actual
physical voice, you need to find your figurative voice: who you are as a person,
what you’re into. Actually, that happens first, because the voice doesn’t finish
maturing until the late ’20s, or later, for some of us.”
Stonikas found her “figurative” voice as a teenager growing up in the American
Midwest in Elmhurst, Illinois—just outside Chicago, not far from where American
opera legends Sherrill Milnes and Deborah Voigt grew up. Music was always a big
part of her life, but initially she was drawn to jazz. “I have a huge affinity for big
band stuff—Duke Ellington, that era. I idolized Anne Hampton-Calloway. I even
tried to emulate her when I was young, but it didn’t work; that’s not my voice.”
Stonikas sang jazz while in high school, but also learned valuable lessons about
making music—and about breath control—playing woodwinds (flute and bassoon)
in her high school orchestra. Excursions with her high school orchestra into
Chicago for the Verdi Requiem and Mahler’s 8th opened her ears to music for big
voices, but still it never occurred to Stonikas that she might have one of them.
It was at Oberlin, where she went for college, that Stonikas met her fate. She
calls attending her first opera a “revolutionary” experience: “I saw a double bill
of Floyd’s Slow Dusk and Menotti’s The Old Maid and the Thief. The soprano looked
and sounded exactly like me,” she says. During those college years she figured out
what to do with her enormous voice, and later, graduate work at Roosevelt
University, back in Chicago, furthered her training. Stonikas was a grad student
at Roosevelt when she met a gifted actor, Brian Simmons, who later became her
husband. (You may remember Simmons in the spoken part of the Sherriff in
Seattle Opera’s 2011 Porgy and Bess.)
They met during the American premiere of Jerry Springer: the Opera. Simmons
was Jerry Springer, and Stonikas sang the role of the Virgin Mary. They were
married the next year, and their son, Henry, was born in 2011, as Stonikas was
finishing her time as a Seattle Opera Young Artist. “He heard five operas in utero!”
she says. “I sometimes think I must be shockingly loud for him, but he’s pretty
attentive when I sing.”
As a Young Artist she had all sorts of adventures: taking abridgments of Così
fan tutte (Fiordiligi) and Donizetti’s little-performed Viva la Mamma! on tour
around the state; performing side-by-side with children from any number of Seattle
Opera’s partner schools, as Brünnhilde in the education department’s Siegfried
and the Ring of Fire; and impressive performances at Bellevue’s Meydenbauer
Center as Ariadne and Donna Anna.
Shortly after singing Ariadne, an opera the company chose to showcase Stonikas,
she had the rare opportunity to work with another singer she idolized: Jane Eaglen.
Stonikas covered the role Eaglen created, Aunt Helen, in Seattle Opera’s world
Stonikas as Leonore, Fidelio, Seattle Opera, 2012 © Elise Bakketun
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Next season, Stonikas will return to sing
Ariadne, this time on the mainstage. Seattle
colleagues who were impressed by her
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Stonikas is excited to be part of Seattle
Opera’s first-ever production of The Consul—
indeed, our first Menotti, unless you count
touring productions of Amahl and the Night
Visitors back in the ’70s. She has already
performed in two lighter works by this
composer: The Old Maid and the Thief and
Amelia Goes to the Ball, as well as singing
the title role in Samuel Barber’s Vanessa, to a
libretto by Menotti, with Menotti’s adopted
son Chip directing.
Working on The Consul has given her an
enormous respect for Menotti, who wrote his
own libretto. “The fact that we don’t know
where The Consul is set makes it transcend—it
could be happening fifty years ago, or it could
be happening now,” she says. “Unfortunately
[this story] is still happening now. It’s not a
world I can imagine anyone having to live in.
Yet I know that people have and do.”
She also has a healthy respect for the vocal
challenge of the role. “It’s going to be a big
sing. You have to be careful with this piece,
because it’s so dramatically charged. You can’t
let your voice do that work for you—you have
to act,” she says.
Stonikas anticipates using the less
vocally demanding passages as a grounding
mechanism for her voice. “Those bring you
back to zero, to sea-level, and then you start
again. Like the Act Two aria that begins, very
calmly, ‘To this we’ve come.’ By the time you
get to the end of that, you’re soaring.”
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THE CONSUL PRODUCTION SPONSOR
KREIELSHEIMER ENDOWMENT FUND
2013/14 SEASON SPONSOR
The Consul, Arizona Opera © Tim Fuller
THE LATE GLADYS RUBINSTEIN,
IN MEMORY OF SAM RUBINSTEIN
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Seattle Opera Presents
The Consul
MUSIC AND LIBRETTO BY GIAN CARLO MENOTTI
PREMIERE: PHILADELPHIA, SHUBERT THEATRE, MARCH 1, 1950
DEDICATED TO THE MEMORY OF JIM FAULSTICH
Seattle Opera Premiere
Performed at Marion Oliver McCaw Hall: February 22, 23m, 26, 28, March 1, 5, and 7, 2014.
In English with English captions. Performances 7:30 p.m. Matinee 2:00 p.m.
Latecomers or those who leave during the performance will not be seated once the music begins.
Act I: 45 minutes. Intermission: 30 minutes. Act II: 54 minutes. Intermission: 25 minutes. Act III: 31 minutes.
Speight Jenkins • General Director
Conductor
Stage Director
Set Designer
Costume Designer Lighting Designer
Choreographer
Hair and Makeup Designer
English Captions
Carlo Montanaro
Peter Kazaras
David Gordon†
Melanie Taylor Burgess
Duane Schuler
Mark Haim†
Joyce Degenfelder
Jonathan Dean
Cast (in order of vocal appearance)
John Sorel Michael Todd Simpson
Magda Sorel Marcy Stonikas (2/22, 26, 3/1, 5, 7)
Vira Slywotzky (2/23, 28)
Mother Lucille Beer
Secret Police Agent Steven LaBrie†
Secretary Sarah Larsen
Mr. Kofner Colin Ramsey†
Foreign Woman Deborah Nansteel
Nika Magadoff Alex Mansoori
Vera Boronel Margaret Gawrysiak†
Anna Gomez Dana Pundt
Assan Joseph Lattanzi
Fight Director Geoffrey Alm
Assistant Conductor Philip A. Kelsey
Assistant Director Alan E. Hicks
Musical Preparation John Keene, Philip A. Kelsey, David McDade
Production Stage Manager Yasmine Kiss
English Language Coach Lynn Baker
Magician Consultant Samuel Shaefer†
† Seattle Opera debut
Margaret Gawrysiak, Sarah Larsen, Joseph Lattanzi, Alex Mansoori, Deborah Nansteel, Dana Pundt,
Michael Todd Simpson, Vira Slywotzky, and Marcy Stonikas are former Seattle Opera Young Artists.
The Consul by Gian Carlo Menotti © 1950 G. Schirmer, Inc. (ASCAP). All rights reserved.
Used by arrangement with G. Schirmer, Inc., publisher and copyright owner.
Scenery and costumes by Arizona Opera. English captions provided by Jonathan Dean © 2014 Seattle Opera. Makeup provided by M.A.C.
The offstage voice is the voice of Mabel Mercer from the original 1950 production on Broadway.
Opera presentation and production © Seattle Opera 2014. Copying of any performance by camera, audio, or video recording equipment,
and by any other copying device, and any other use of such copying devices during the performances is prohibited.
Marcy Stonikas performances sponsored by Jim and Gretchen Faulstich
Young Artists Program Alumni performances sponsored by Joan Snelson
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The Story of The Consul
ACT I
SCENE I
John Sorel, a freedom fighter, staggers home, wounded. He tells
his wife, Magda, and his mother that the secret police raided
a meeting of the resistance. John’s mother spots the police
approaching the house, and John hides. The police interrogate the
women and leave unsatisfied. John emerges and explains his plan:
he will seek refuge in a neighboring country and communicate
with Magda through Assan the glass-cutter. When the window is
broken by a stone, she should contact Assan for John’s message.
Meanwhile, Magda will apply for a visa so the family can
emigrate and join John. In the trio “Now, o lips, say good-bye,”
they all say farewell.
SCENE II
Several hopeful applicants are seeking visas at the consulate
of the nation where Magda is hoping to take her family. The
process is slow. Magda asks to meet with the Consul, but the
Secretary informs her such a meeting is impossible. The Secretary
encourages Magda to fill out some forms. Each individual traveller
is in a difficult situation, and they join their voices to express their
despair in the ensemble “In endless waiting rooms.”
ACT II
SCENE I
At home, Magda frets over her sick child. Mother comforts
the child with a lullaby (“I shall find for you shells and stars”).
Magda, too, is lulled to sleep; but she swiftly falls into a nightmare
and awakens with a scream shortly before a rock shatters the glass
in their window. Magda calls Assan; she soon answers a knock at
the door only to find the Secret Police Agent. He offers her visas
in exchange for information about John’s friends, and she rebuffs
him furiously. Finally, Assan arrives to fix the window. He tells
Magda that John is waiting in the mountains until she and the rest
of the family have visas and can join him. Trying to save John,
Magda encourages Assan to lie and tell John that she will join him
soon. Mother discovers that the child has died.
SCENE II
In the Consul’s waiting room, nothing has improved. In the
aria “My charming Ma’moiselle,” the magician Nika Magadoff
demonstrates his vaunted skill, hypnotizing the travellers even as
his magic tricks go awry. Magda again begs to see the Consul, and
when the Secretary refuses her, Magda snaps. In the aria “To this
we’ve come,” she rages against the Secretary, the bureaucracy, and
the unfeeling system. Deeply moved, the Secretary agrees to admit
Magda when the Consul is finished with an important visitor.
When she realizes that the visitor is the Secret Police Agent,
Magda faints.
ACT III
SCENE I
At the Consulate, the Secretary warns Magda that they’ll be
closing soon. Assan arrives; he tells Magda that John, having
heard of the deaths of his child and Mother, intends to return.
Magda tells Assan she has a message which will dissuade John
from risking his life and imperiling everyone in the resistance. She
writes a note, gives it to Assan, and goes home. Later, when the
Secretary prepares to leave for the night, John rushes in, looking
for Magda. The secret police arrest him. The Secretary tries to
alert Magda to this development.
SCENE II
Magda returns home, and takes the necessary steps to resolve the
situation.
Costume sketches by Melanie Taylor Burgess
Setting: A city in a police state; 1950
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About the Artists
Geoffrey Alm
David Gordon
Fight Director (Seattle, WA)
Seattle Opera Debut: War and Peace (’90)
Previously at Seattle Opera: Rigoletto (’14); Der
Ring des Nibelungen (’13); Die Zauberflöte (’11)
Recently: James and the Giant Peach (Seattle
Children’s Theatre); The Hound of the
Baskervilles and Venus in Fur (Seattle Repertory
Theatre)
Upcoming: The Tales of Hoffmann (Seattle Opera)
Set Designer (Philadelphia, PA)
Seattle Opera Debut
Professor of Set Design, Mason Gross School of the
Arts, Rutgers University
Recently: Der Fliegende Holländer (Sarasota
Opera); Breath and Imagination (Hartford Stage);
Die Vogel (LA Opera)
Upcoming: Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike
(Philadelphia Theatre Co.)
Lucille Beer
Mark Haim
Choreographer (New York, NY)
Seattle Opera Debut
Recently: Choreographer, This Land Is Your Land
(Festival Ardanthé, Paris, and Joyce Theater, NY);
Choreographer, Stu for Silverton (Intiman Summer
Festival)
Upcoming: Choreographer, The Tales of Hoffmann
(Seattle Opera); Faculty (American Dance Festival,
North Carolina); Collaborator and performer,
Mori/Asukawa Dance Project (Osaka, Japan)
Mother
Mezzo-Soprano (New York, NY)
Seattle Opera Debut: Erda, Der Ring des
Nibelungen (’13)
Recently: Verdi’s Requiem (The Charlottesville
& University Symphony Orchestra); Messiah
(Evansville Philharmonic Orchestra)
Upcoming: Dvořák’s Stabat Mater (Albany
Symphony Orchestra); Evening of arias and duets
(Portland Chamber Orchestra); Italian mezzosoprano arias (Catskill High Peaks Festival)
Peter Kazaras
Costume Designer (Nampa, ID)
Seattle Opera Debut: Elektra (’08)
Previously at Seattle Opera: La voix humaine
(’13), Attila (’12); Ariadne auf Naxos (Young
Artists Program ’10)
Recently: Stu for Silverton and Trouble in Mind
(Intiman Theatre); Big River (Village Theatre)
Upcoming: The Foreigner (Village Theatre);
Importance of Being Earnest (Seattle Shakespeare
Company); Short Tree and the Bird that Could
Not Sing (Cincinnati Playhouse)
Stage Director (New York, NY)
Seattle Opera Debut: Steva, Jenůfa (’85)
Previously at Seattle Opera: Loge, Das Rheingold
(’95, ’00, ’01, ’05); Herod, Salome (’02); Pierre,
War and Peace (‘90)
Director of Opera Studies at UCLA, Professor of Music
Recently: The Duchess of Krackenthorp, La
fille du régiment (Seattle Opera); Stage Director,
Tristan und Isolde, The Barber of Seville, Madama
Butterfly (Seattle Opera)
Upcoming: Stage Director, Cendrillon (Juilliard);
Stage Director, An American Tragedy (Glimmerglass)
Joyce Degenfelder
Steven LaBrie
Melanie Taylor Burgess
Hair and Makeup Designer (Los Angeles, CA)
Seattle Opera Debut: Parsifal (’03)
Previously at Seattle Opera: Rigoletto (’14); La fille
du régiment (’13); Der Ring des Nibelungen (’13)
Recently: The Hound of the Baskervilles (Seattle
Repertory Theatre); James and the Giant Peach
(Seattle Children’s Theatre); Sleeping Beauty
(Pacific Northwest Ballet)
Upcoming: Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
(Seattle Repertory Theatre)
Secret Police Agent
Baritone (Dallas, TX)
Seattle Opera Debut
Recently: Dancaïre, Carmen (Dallas Opera);
Carmina Burana and Don Alvaro, Il viaggio a
Reims (Wolf Trap Opera Company)
Upcoming: Raimbaud, Le comte Ory (Des Moine
Metro Opera); Schaunard, La bohème (Dallas
Opera)
Sarah Larsen
Margaret Gawrysiak
Vera Boronel
Mezzo-Soprano (Geneseo, IL)
Seattle Opera Young Artist: 2007/08; 2008/09
Seattle Opera Debut
Recently: Frugola, Il tabarro (Opera Theatre of St.
Louis); Dame Quickly, Falstaff (Wolf Trap Opera
Company); Witch, Hansel and Gretel (Virginia
Opera)
Upcoming: Ježibaba, Rusalka (North Carolina
Opera); Mistress Hibbons, The Scarlet Letter
(Opera Colorado); Marquise, La fille du régiment
(Arizona Opera)
The Secretary
Mezzo-Soprano (Roseville, MN)
Seattle Opera Young Artist: 2012/13; 2011/12
Seattle Opera Debut: Mercédès, Carmen (’11)
Previously at Seattle Opera: Maddalena, Rigoletto
(’14); Tisbe, La Cenerentola (’13); Suzuki, Madama
Butterfly (’12)
Recently: Stéphano, Roméo et Juliette (Des Moines
Metro Opera); Neris, Medea (The Glimmerglass
Festival); Sarelda, The Inspector (Wolf Trap
Foundation)
Upcoming: Suzuki, Madama Butterfly (Tacoma
Opera); Mercédès, Carmen (Santa Fe Opera);
Soloist, Beethoven Symphony No. 9 (Seattle
Symphony)
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About the Artists, continued
Joseph Lattanzi
Dana Pundt
Assan
Baritone (Mableton, GA)
Seattle Opera Young Artist: 2011/12
Seattle Opera Debut: Moralès, Carmen (’11)
Previously at Seattle Opera: Registrar, Madama
Butterfly (’12)
Recently: Albert, Werther, and Dr. Malatesta, Don
Pasquale (Seattle Opera Young Artists); Papageno,
Die Zauberflöte (Cincinnati College-Conservatory
of Music); Count Almaviva, Le nozze di Figaro
(Merola Opera Program)
Upcoming: War Requiem (Orchestra Sinfonica di
Milano Giuseppe Verdi); Moralès, Carmen and
Yamadori, Madama Butterfly (Cincinnati Opera)
Anna Gomez
Soprano (Liberty City, TX)
Seattle Opera Young Artist: 2012/13
Seattle Opera Debut: Clorinda, La Cenerentola
(’13)
Previously at Seattle Opera: Suor Genovieffa, Suor
Angelica (’13)
Recently: Marchesa del Poggio, Un giorno di regno
(Seattle Opera Young Artists); Second Niece, Peter
Grimes (Des Moines Metro Opera)
Upcoming: Queen of the Night, Die Zauberflöte
(West Bay Opera); Semele, Semele (Seattle Opera)
Alex Mansoori
Mr. Kofner
Bass (Greenwich, CT)
Seattle Opera Debut
Recently: Il Frate, Don Carlo (Austin Lyric
Opera); Angelotti, Tosca (Opera Naples); Colline,
La bohème (Utah Lyric Opera)
Upcoming: Cadmus/Somnus, Semele (Pacific Music
Works); Alidoro, La Cenerentola (Green Mountain
Opera Festival); Mr. Kofner, The Consul (Opera
Santa Barbara)
Nika Magadoff
Tenor (Seattle, WA)
Seattle Opera Young Artist: 2008/09; 2009/10
Seattle Opera Debut: Juan, Don Quichotte (’11)
Recently: Soloist, A Modern Person’s Guide to
Hooking Up and Breaking Up (New York Festival
of Song); Monostatos, Die Zauberflöte (Ravinia
Festival and Chicago Opera Theater); Monostatos,
Peter Brook’s Une flûte enchantée (Théâtre des
Bouffes du Nord)
Carlo Montanaro
Conductor (Cecina, Italy)
Seattle Opera Debut: Don Quichotte (’11)
Previously at Seattle Opera: Attila (’12); La
bohème (’13)
Recently: Madama Butterfly (Hamburgische
Staatsoper); La bohème (Hungarian State Opera);
Don Carlo (Teatr Wielki Opear Narodowa,
Warsaw)
Upcoming: Carmen and L’elisir d’amore
(Bayerische Staatsoper); La fanciulla del West
(Hamburgische Staatsoper)
Deborah Nansteel
Foreign Woman
Mezzo-Soprano (Okinawa, Japan)
Seattle Opera Young Artist: 2012/13
Seattle Opera Debut: The Nursing Sister, Suor
Angelica (’13)
Recently: Various roles, The Lion, the Unicorn
and Me and Curra, La forza del destino
(Washington National Opera); Frau Mary, Der
Fliegende Holländer (Glimmerglass Opera)
Upcoming: Third Lady, Die Zauberflöte
(Washington National Opera); Nettie Fowler,
Carousel (Glimmerglass Opera); Juno and Ino,
Semele (Seattle Opera)
Colin Ramsey
Duane Schuler
Lighting Designer (Elkhart Lake, WI)
Seattle Opera Debut: Norma (’94)
Previously at Seattle Opera: Fidelio (’13); Madama
Butterfly (’12); Porgy and Bess (’11)
Recently: Cendrillon (Gran Teatre del Liceu);
Rigoletto (English National Opera); Parsifal (Lyric
Opera of Chicago)
Upcoming: Lucia di Lammermoor (Los Angeles
Opera); La Donna del Lago (Metropolitan Opera);
Don Pasquale (Santa Fe Opera)
Samuel Shaefer
Magician Consultant (Kirkwood, MO)
Seattle Opera Debut
Samuel Shaefer has been a practicing magician for
10 years. He performs for private and corporate
clients, most recently for Microsoft and Experience
Music Project. Last year he performed at the
“That’s Impossible” magic show at Egan’s Ballard
Jam House. He has also performed with the
Harlem Globetrotters and often teaches magic at
summer camps.
Michael Todd Simpson
John Sorel
Baritone (Gastonia, NC)
Seattle Opera Young Artist: 2003/04; 2004/05
Seattle Opera Debut: Hermann, The Tales of
Hoffmann (’05)
Previously at Seattle Opera: Escamillo, Carmen
(’11); Marcello, La bohème (’13 and ’07)
Recently: Demetrius, A Midsummer Night’s
Dream and Lescaut, Manon (Metropolitan Opera);
Don Giovanni, Don Giovanni (Pittsburgh Opera)
Upcoming: Ravenal, Show Boat (San Francisco
Opera)
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Vira Slywotzky
Magda Sorel
Soprano (Cambridge, MA)
Seattle Opera Young Artist: 2008/09; 2009/10
Seattle Opera Debut: Inez, Il trovatore (’10)
Recently: Catherine, A Death in the Family
(Center for Contemporary Opera, Armel Opera
Festival and Festival D’Avignon); Mercédès,
Carmen (Sarasota Opera); Nedda, Pagliacci
(Chautauqua Opera)
Upcoming: Roxane, Cyrano de Bergerac (Victor
Herbert Renaissance Project - Live!)
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Marcy Stonikas
Magda Sorel
Soprano (Elmhurst, IL)
Seattle Opera Young Artist: 2009/10; 2010/11
Seattle Opera Debut: Second Lady, Die
Zauberflote (’11)
Previously at Seattle Opera: Leonore, Fidelio (’12);
Turandot, Turandot (’12)
Recently: Donna Anna, Don Giovanni (Wolf Trap
Opera Company); Salome, Salome (Utah Opera);
Tosca, Tosca (Opera Santa Barbara)
Upcoming: Leonore, Fidelio (Volksoper Vienna);
Ariadne, Ariadne auf Naxos (Seattle Opera)
Violin II
Gennady Filimonov,
Principal
Artur Girsky,
Asst. Principal
Natasha Bazhanov
Linda Cole
Kelly Farris
Xiao-po Fei
Artur Girsky
Kimberly Houglum
Mae Lin
Viola
Susan Gulkis Assadi,
Principal
Penelope Crane
Wesley Dyring
Sayaka Kokubo,
Asst. Principal
Shari Link
Laura Renz
Cello
Eric Han, Principal
Roberta Downey
Walter Gray, Asst. Principal
Vivian Gu
Hélène Ferret-Kaufman
Chuck Jacot
Double Bass
Jordan Anderson, Principal
Jonathan Burnstein
Travis Gore
Matt McGrath
Flute/Piccolo
Zartouhi Dombourian-Eby,
Principal
Oboe
Ben Hausmann, Principal
English Horn
Selina Greso
Clarinet
Craig Rine
Bassoon
Seth Krimsky, Principal
French Horn
Mark Robbins, Principal
Jonathan Karschney
Trumpet
David Gordon, Principal
Toby Penk
Trombone
Ko-ichiro Yamamoto,
Principal
Timpani
Ron Johnson, Principal
Percussion
Michael Werner, Principal
Harp
Valerie Gordon, Principal
Keyboard
David McDade
Personnel Manager
Scott Wilson
Assistant Personnel Manager
Keith Higgins
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The Orchestra is composed of members of the Seattle Symphony Orchestra.
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Rosetta Greek
David S. Hogan
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Simon James
Jennifer Bai
Blayne Barnes
Cecelia Poellein Buss
Ayako Gamo
Leonid Keylin
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Leadership Circle
LEADERSHIP CIRCLE GIFTS
• Are customized gifts planned in advance for
3 years or more.
Celebrated for breathtaking artistry and productions, Seattle Opera
has achieved world-class stature under Speight Jenkins’ remarkable
leadership. As Speight retires and we welcome General Director
Designate Aidan Lang, you can join us and play a principal role in the
next chapter of Seattle Opera history.
LEADERSHIP CIRCLE MEMBERS
LORETTA
AND ROBERT
COMFORT
CHRISTOPHER
AND CAROLYN
EAGAN
• Total $100,000 or more over 3 years.
• Give you premium recognition and access
to your opera company. Leadership Circle
members will be invited to a private dinner
with incoming General Director Designate
Aidan Lang during the spring of 2014.
• Allow you to create a lasting impact.
TAKE THE LEAD!
Please join the Leadership Circle today by
contacting Director of Development Lisa Bury
at 206.676.5530 or lisa.bury@seattleopera.org.
as of 1/29/14
CAROL MAIONE
AND BRIAN
MARKS
NESHOLM
FAMILY
FOUNDATION
JAMES AND
SHERRY
RAISBECK
JOAN
SNELSON
LAWRENCE TRUE
AND LINDA BROWN
FOUNDATION
GAIL AND WILLIAM
WEYERHAEUSER
© Alan Alabastro, Rozarii Lynch, Brandon Patoc
Take your place in the circle of Seattle Opera’s most visionary supporters.
Through a multiyear commitment of $100,000 or more, you can join
the Leadership Circle and help realize an unbounded vision for Seattle
Opera’s future.
2013/14 Program and Event Sponsors
Seattle Opera is grateful to the following generous donors for their
support of special events and projects during the 2013/14 season.
Commitments of $5,000 and more as of January 29, 2014.
2013/14 Season Sponsor
The late Gladys Rubinstein, in memory of Sam Rubinstein
PRODUCTION AND
PERFORMANCE SPONSORS
LA FILLE DU REGIMENT
Microsoft
Maryanne Tagney and David Jones
Ann P. Wyckoff
Delta Air Lines–
October 23, 2013
RIGOLETTO
Lenore Hanauer
Charles and Delphine Stevens
THE CONSUL
Kreielsheimer Endowment Fund
National Endowment for the Arts
Additional support from ArtsWA
Michael G. Dryfoos and Ilga Jansons–Costumes
LES CONTES D’HOFFMANN
ArtsFund
Nesholm Family Foundation
Office of Arts & Culture | Seattle
Seattle Opera Foundation
Robert and Loretta Comfort–May 17, 2014
EVENT SPONSORS
Delta Air Lines–
Official Airline of The Jester’s Ball
Lease Crutcher Lewis–Crown Donor Dinner
Sponsor The Tales of Hoffmann
MetLife Financial Planning Division, an
office of MetLife–Gift and Financial
Planning Seminar
LEAD ARTISTS SPONSORS
THE CONSUL
Jim and Gretchen Faulstich—
Marcy Stonikas
Joan Snelson—Young Artists Program Alumni
LES CONTES D’HOFFMANN
Steven and Judith Clifford—William Burden
Janice C. Condit—Leah Partridge
Richard and Mary Beth Gemperle—
Kate Lindsey
James and Sherry Raisbeck—Norah Amsellem
AUDIENCE DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVES
The Paul G. Allen Family Foundation
OPERA America’s Building Opera Audiences
Grant Program
EDUCATION AND COMMUNITY
ENGAGEMENT
The Boeing Company
Costco Wholesale
Susan Coughlin and John Lauber
Leonora and Jesse Diller
Firestone Family Foundation
The Foster Foundation
H. David Kaplan
NBBJ
True-Brown Foundation
Safeco Insurance Foundation
U.S. Bank Foundation
The Peg and Rick Young Foundation
Seattle Opera’s 2013/14 sponsorship opportunities include:
• Production Partners (Performance,
Lead Artist, and Dress Rehearsal)
• Education and Community Engagement
(Experience Opera, Opera Goes to School,
Opera Camps, Speakers Bureau, and
Opera Time)
• New Works
• Events (Speight Celebration Concert and
Dinner, Crown Donor Dinner, Donor
Lounge(s), Pre-Performance Talks,
Post-Performance Q&As, Encore Society
Luncheon, and Estate Planning Seminar)
Sponsorship benefits are customized to meet an organization’s branding objectives,
client entertainment needs, and philanthropic priorities. For further information, please
contact Institutional Giving Manager Sarah Michael at sarah.michael@seattleopera.org
or 206.676.5536.
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Seattle Opera Individual Donors
Seattle Opera acknowledges with appreciation its individual donors, whose philanthropy allows the company to continue its commitment
to artistic excellence and fiscal stability. In this program book we celebrate our most loyal donors, recognizing that gifts of all sizes are
essential to creating great opera experiences in Seattle. The list below reflects annual donors at the Garnet level and higher ($1,000 and more)
beginning July 1, 2012 through January 29, 2014.
FOUNDING BENEFACTORS
The late Priscilla Bullitt Collins
The late Marion Oliver McCaw
Michael M. Scott
35 OR MORE SEASONS
Anonymous (3)
Pamela and the late Dr. Harold Amoss
Daniel T. and Portia Anderson
Dr. Larry S. Anderson
Warren and Anne Anderson
Kathryn Bartholomew and Richard Beuthel
Evelyn and Richard Bateman
Forrest C. and Barbara Bennett
Verle M. Bleese
Karen Carlson-Iffert and Jena Marie Myers
Jack T. Cashdollar
Steven and Judith Clifford
Patricia and Ted Collins
Mike and Yoko Colpitts
Frank and Joan Conlon
Norma B. Croco
Janine H. de Saint Giles
Paula Diehr and Frank Hughes
Patricia Dowd
Glenn and Bertha Eades
Dr. William Etnyre and David Claus
Rose Ann and Charles Finkel
Gerald B. Folland
Priscilla A. Fortiner
Clive and Shari Freidenrich
The late Max Gellert
Ruth and Bill Gerberding
Dr. and Mrs. J. Thomas Grayston
Dr. and Mrs. Arthur S. Grossman
Marie and Richard Haase
Frederick and Catherine Hayes
Barbara Howell
Susanne F. Hubbach
Connie and Dan Hungate
Travis and Suzanne Keeler
George E. and Mary P. Kenny
Margaret Dean Kleyn
George Kriz
Frances J. Kwapil
Marian E. Lackovich
Isabelle S. Lamb
Robert and Joan M. Lawler
Mrs. Maria Levenson
Mark P. Lutz
Dr. and Mrs. Edgar K. Marcuse
Mr. and Mrs. Dale R. Martin
Kathleen Maryatt
Barbara J. Mauer
James and Betty McCurdy
Dr. and Mrs. Donald W. Miller Jr.
Egon and Laina Molbak
John F. and Laurel Nesholm
David S. and Sheila K. Newman
Lois North
Sarah M. Ovens
Dr. Roy C. and Patricia R. Page
Douglass and Katherine Raff
Anne M. Redman
The late Gladys Rubinstein,
in memory of Sam Rubinstein
James T. and Barbara Russell
Frederick and Connie Scheetz
Chella S. Schmidt
Judith A. Schweikhardt
Amy Sidell
Barbara and Paul C. Stephanus
Dr. and Mrs. Alexander R. Stevens
Gertrud Tobiason
Arthur and Louise Torgerson
In memory of Jacqueline B. Velikanje
Betty L. Wagner
Nancy and Stanley Zeitz
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30-34 SEASONS
Anonymous (3)
Mr. and Mrs. Willie C. Aikens
Mary Alberg*
George Allen
Chap and Eve Alvord
Ronald L. Barclay
David W. Barker
Dr. Sanford C. Barnes and
Dr. Calvin L. Tregar
Dr. Bertha Barriga
Ruth and Ronald J. Beck
Patricia M. Bentz
Jack and Connie Bloxom
Phillip and Beverly Brazeau
Bonita and David Brewer
William B. and Ann S. Burstiner
William F. Calderhead
Tom Coffey and Ron Sheriff
Charles and Sandra Cossé
Dr. Charles Cowan and Dr.
Rhonda Levitt
Jane and David R. Davis
Dr. and Mrs. Milton T. English
Harold and Gerry Fardal
Jim and Gretchen Faulstich
Bernard Garbusjuk
Dennis and Evette Glauber
Adele Golub
Dr. Martin L. Greene and the
late Toby Saks
Dr. and Mrs. T. K. Greenlee Jr.
Jenny Hartley
Terrill and Jennifer
Hendrickson*
Jean M. Large and Fred F.
Herzberg
Ron and the late Geraldine
Hoefer
Cynthia C. Holdren, M.D. and
Robert A. Gold
Bruce and Judy Hutchison
Victoria Ivarsson
Bernita Jackson
Speight and Linda Jenkins
Mark Jennings
Bruce E.H. Johnson and Sandra
E. Davis
Kathy Kreps
Ursula Kuepfer and Jon Paddock
The Kuzeja Family
Winnie and Ven T. Lee
Thomas A. and Kathleen B.
Lemly
George and Carol Levin
Mr. Everil Loyd Jr.
Edith Maffeo
Barbara Maly
Jean Manwaring
Dr. James E. Marcia
Patti and the late Louis G.
Marsh
Dr. and Mrs. John McFatridge
Mr. and Mrs. Dean A. McManus
Renate McVittie
Gwynn Meden
John and Martha Melcher
Elaine Miller
Juris Mindenbergs
D.C. Morse Jr. and Jan
Marchbanks
Susan and Furman Moseley
Diana Neely
Marilyn W. Newland
Diana C. and Angela C. Oberti
Gordon H. Orians
Debra S. Pabst*
Dr. Zaiga Alksne Phillips
Sylvia B. Pollack and Molly
McGee
Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Purdy
James and Sherry Raisbeck
Dr. and Mrs. Edward Reifel
Mr. and Mrs. Lanse Richardson*
Frances Rogers and the late
Fred Rogers
Cornelius and Penny Rosse
Werner E. and Joan Samson
Irwin and Barbara Sarason
Frances and Thomas M.
Scheidel
Mrs. V. R. Scheumann
Dr. and Mrs. Jason Schneier
Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth L.
Schubert Jr.
Allen and Virginia Senear
A. McNair Smith, M.D.
Dr. Jay D. Sprenger with
Stephen A. Sprenger
Mari Stamper
In honor of Speight Jenkins
Frederick B. Strom
R. Patton Swaim and Sandra
Gurosko
Fredric and Marilyn Tausend
Beryl A. Thompson*
Ian L. Thompson, M.D.
Russell F. and Sarah M. Tousley
Bill and Carol Warren
Eugene and Marilyn D. Webb
Ralph and Virginia Wedgwood
Sally Anne West*
Kathryn Williams
Naomi Wilson Family
Virginia and the late Bagley
Wright
Deanna D. Young
Mrs. Louis J. Zorotovich
25-29 SEASONS
Anonymous (11)
Harlan and Asja Adams
Richard R. and Constance M.
Albrecht
Paul G. Allen
Linda and Tom Allen
Robert L. and Rosemarie Anderson
Virginia R. Anderson
Joe and Lee Ashley
Ivan G. Barker
Marcia Batchelor
John and Carol Belton
Marilyn J. Bierman
Leslye and Robert Bohrer
Beatrice and William Booth
J. Cleve and Judith Borth
Patricia L. Bostrom
Herb Bridge and Edie Hilliard
Marshall and Jane Brown
Mr. and Mrs. Karl J. Brunner
Louis Burzycki
Corinne A. Campbell
Dr. Alexander Clowes and Dr.
Susan E. Detweiler
Sandra and Richard Counts
Dr. and Mrs. J. Terrence Coyle
Norma and Alex Cugini
James and Wendy Cullen
Hope Curtis
Wendy H. del Valle
Suzanne DeWitt and Ari Steinberg
Mary Dickinson
Johanna and Bill Dock
Sandra B. Dunn
William Duvall, in memory of
Roberta Duvall
Christopher and Carolyn Eagan
Roy E. and Diane Edfast
John Erickson
Victor and Patricia Feltin
Peggy Fogliano
Ludmeela M. Fraser
Donald and Ann Frothingham
Diana Gale and Jerry Hillis
Martha and Michael Galvin
Joyce E. Ferm
Dr. and Mrs. Robert Gibbons
Claire and Michael Gordon
Dr. and Mrs. Joel E. Haas
Richard and Diane Haelsig
Mrs. Lawrence M. Halpern
Lenore M. Hanauer
Steven T. Haney
Hylton and Lawrence Hard
Gini Harmon
Dr. H. Hasche-Kluender and H.
Shahri
Kenneth and Susan Hassenmiller
Mr. and Mrs. Jahn R. Hedberg
Mr. and Mrs. Richard C. Hedreen
Hans and Heidi Herrmann
Dr. Kennan Hollingsworth
Gary and Parul Houlahan
Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. Houston III
Robert Howell and Jackie Bardsley
Barbara and the late John Huston
Ruth and Darrell Jackson
Ken and Karen Jones
H. David Kaplan
Suzanne Dressler Kellar
Daniel Kerlee and Carol
Wollenberg
Mary and Chris Lawrence
Gordon D. Lazerte
Rosemary Leong-Miller
Laura Lundgren
In memory of Marilyn I. Magnuson
Dr. and Mrs. Theodore Mandelkorn
Patricia Martin
Louise McAllister
Marcella McCaffray
Anne Meeker
James and Karen Mhyre
Prof. Ann H. Milam
John W. Nemanich, M.D. and
Ellendee Pepper, M.D.
Susan H. Nivert
Pamela A. Okano, in memory of
Patricia Berg Donovan
Roger J. Oliver and Carol Hahn
John W. O’Meara
George and Terry Pagos
Dr. Robert A. Pearlman
Meg and Ovidio Penalver
Barbara B. Peterson
Steve Phelps
Karen M. Place
Edward A. and Eleonore Pottenger
Harry F. Reinert and Cecilia M.
Paul
Jane Remsberg and Jerome
Anderson
Steven and Fredrica Rice
Drs. Tom and Christine Robertson
Jean E. Schweitzer
Paul and Lorrie Scott
Evelyn E. Simpson
Jim and Linda Sprenger
Shannon and Donna Stafford
Peter and Janet Stanley
Margaret T. Stanley
Michael Steiner, M.D.
Dr. and Mrs. Morton A. Stenchever
Tamlyn P. Thomas
Mary Anne Thorbeck
Devora Turner
Doris and Richard Turner
Jim and Camille Uhlir
Edith Ulatoski
Hans H. van der Velden
Vilma Vojta
Jay Wang and Nancy Current
Judith Warshal and Wade Sowers
Judith A. Whetzel
Mary A. and David L. Williams
Dr. Antoinette Wills
Carolyn and Vincent Wirkman
Jerry and Nancy Worsham
Scott and Jenny Wyatt
Charles A. Zaragoza
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Seattle Opera Individual Donors, continued
20-24 SEASONS
Anonymous (10)* • David and
Heidi Adkisson • Mary Ann Allen •
Redmond J. and Suzanne W. Barnett
• Cynthia and Christopher Bayley
• Drs. Irwin and Ilene Bernstein •
Sally and Walter Bonsack • Sandra
Boyd • Frederick H. Braymer •
Gilbert and Mary Ann Brokaw • Mr.
and Mrs. Robert Bruland • David C.
Brunelle • Roger K. Burk and Meg
Murch • Lisa Burkett • Jeanne and
Jon Cantalini • Heidi Charleson •
Michael and Gayle Charlesworth •
Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence W. Clarkson
• Janice C. Condit • Frances and
Gerry Conley • Amy H. and Larry
Corey • Anne Croco • Laurie and
William Daniel • Michael and Natalie
de Maar • Donald Desalvo and Susan
Wagner • Clinton Diener and Diane
Lasko • George and Susan Dimitroff
• Virginia Dombrowski • Michael
G. Dryfoos and Ilga Jansons • Lois
Gamble Duncan and George Rolfe
• Karl and Carol Ege • Carol Jean
Ehlers • Richard D. Eidal • Julie
Elliott • Dr. Raya Fidel • Robert
S. Fisher • Russell R. Fosmire
and Nancy J. Fosmire • Cheryl
Gagne and Deborah Raymond •
Richard and Mary Beth Gemperle
• Dr. and Mrs. Michael L. Gilbert •
Ross Grazier • Mr. and Mrs. David
Haley • Paul, Becky and Thomas
Haley • Jeffrey and Rosario Hanna
• Karen Harvey and Steve Shelton
• Dr. and Mrs. Fred I. Hasegawa •
Janice Hayes • H. Lee Holcomb •
Jim Horne • Pamela Hughes and
Robert Munoz • Warren and Mary
Jane Jessop • Charles E. and Joan
Johnson • Jeanne Kapsi • Jeffrey
Keane and Martha Noerr • Nancy
J. King • Kathleen and Richard
Kirkendall •
Anonymous (11) • Lee Acton and
Lucinda Wilson • Robin and Judith
Adams • James and Anita Allen •
Connie J. Alley • Carlton and Grace
Anderson • Dr. Ross E. Armstrong •
Drs. Anne Marie and Rolf Arvidson •
Betty Azar and Larry Harris • Nancy
Bachant and Kevin Freeman • Kirk
and Mona Barker • Leonie Barnes
• John Bates and Carolyn Corvi •
Catherine Bauman • Frank S. Bayley
• Ward Beattie and Keeman Wong
• Patricia Benca • David and Diana
Bennett • Nancy Rieketts Bradley
• Toby Bright and Nancy Ward •
Paul B. Brown and Margaret A.
Watson • Dr. Joseph and Barbara
Buchman • Katharine Bullitt • Karen
V. Burke and Donald Feldman •
Cy and Kathleen Butler • Christina
Byrne • Maria Cantrell • Barbara A.
Capron and David A. Holm • Betty R.
Carter • Michael and Cathy Casteel
• Jonathan and Patricia Caves •
Virginia Chappelle* • Stan and Elin
Christianson • Robert and Loretta
Comfort • Debra Dahlen and Robert
Fries • Marc and Maud Daudon •
Frederick B. Davis and Ms. Harriet
Platts • Peter and Diane Demopulos
• Blair and Laura Dillaway • Tim
Dreyling • Jeanne E and Michael
Milligan •
Carolyn and Lindsey Echelbarger •
Elaine Eigeman and Daniel Schalke
• Karen and Keith Eisenbrey • Dr.
Sadek El-Alfy • Pamela Elderkin
• K. Carole and the late William
Ellison • Michael Emanuel • Laura
and Robert Emmerichs • In memory
of H. Wendell Endicott • Marc
D. and Maria Erlitz • Steve and
Kay Frank • Ernest and Elizabeth
Frankenberg • Wilhelmine and the
late Bill Frankenburg • Nina Fuller
• Ben, Charlotte and Carrie Fulton
• Nancy Garrett • Natalie Gendler •
Leslie Giblett • Mr. and Mrs. John
M. Goodfellow • Paul Goodrich and
Shannon Sperry • Kristopher K.
Gould • Brian Grimes • Lyn and
Jerry Grinstein • Mr. and Mrs. W.D.
Pete Hale • Richard M. Halffman
• Tania and Tim Halladay • Adrian
Hanauer • David and Carole Hardy
• Samuel and Catherine Hardy •
Benson and Pamela Harer • Andrew
G. Hilen and the Hilen Foundation •
Jim and Gail Hodge • Drs. Mary and
Marvin Hoffert • Jana Hollingsworth
• J. Marilyn Holstad • Mr. and Mrs.
William Hoppin • Teresa A. Howe
• Farouk and Elisabeth Husseini
• Linda James • Didi and Johann
Jansen • Dr. Laurence D. Jewell •
Irene Johnson •
Anonymous (14) • Jack Aldrich •
June Allison* • Jerry Anches • Kim
A. Anderson • Donald P. Aupperle
• Joan Baldwin and James Walsh •
Phillip Baldwin and Layne Goldsmith
• Peter and Jane Barrett • Jillian
Barron and Jonas Simonis • Ms.
Mary Barta • Mike Barta and Cynthia
Shelly • Dr. Mel Belding and Dr.
Kate Brostoff • Charles and Marie
Bender • Lisa E. Bergman and David
L. Fluharty • Eileen and James Birge
• Alan and Sarah Black • Rebecca
Black • Roxanne Blanco-Mitchell •
Neil M. and Kathleen Bogue • Barry
Booher and Mary Ellen Olander • Mr.
and Mrs. Joseph Borden • Bill Boris
• Cyd Scofield Boyd • John and the
Dr. and Mrs. Albert S. Kobayashi •
Dr. W. Ladson and Darlene Hinton
• Eric and Jan Lamers • M.J. and
M.Y. Lee • Carla and Don Lewis •
Stephen and Mary Lindberg • Robert
and Bridget Lyons, in memory of
Max Gellert • Catherine Banchero
and Stephen K. Malshuk • Paul
and Yaffa Maritz • William B.
Maschmeier and Patricia Haggerty
• Lillian C. McDermott • Walter
C. Moore • Dr. and Mrs. Dudley
T. Moorhead • Beth Naczkowski •
Eunice Nakao-Tribelhorn and Roy
Tribelhorn • Sarah Navarre • Kirsten
and Erika Nesholm • Bill and Sally
Neukom • Arthur P. Oberto and the
late Dorothy Oberto • Margaret and
John C. Pageler • Teresa Parker •
Gayle Peach • Jocelyn D. Phillips
• Richard and Karen Prince • Lynn
Prunhuber and David Stobaugh •
Megan and Greg Pursell • Carol
Ann and Thomas Quinsey • Dana
Rasmussen • Joy Rogers and Bob
Parker • H. Stewart Ross • Norman
and Elisabeth Sandler • Garry and
Ruth Schneider • Mr. and Mrs.
William Smith • Joan Snelson •
Mr. and Mrs. John W. Stephanus •
Ann and Daniel Streissguth • Mark
Stumpf • M. and H. Sussman •
Maryanne Tagney and David Jones •
N. Donn Talenti and the late Julian
Patrick • Mary C. Tevis • Michael P.
Theisen, M.D. • Evelyn M. Troughton
• Ev and the late Sandy Trout •
James and Karen Unkefer • Alice
and Bill Van Pelt • Jay and Susanne
Wakefield • Mary and Findlay
Wallace • Barbara and John Ward
• Joan and the late Craig Watjen •
Raleigh Watts • Richard D. Weller
• The late Annette B. Weyerhaeuser
• Susan Winokur and Paul Leach •
Ann P. Wyckoff
15-19 SEASONS
James L. Johnston and Vivian
Mendenhall • Harvey Jones and
Nancy Iannucci • Gilbert Joynt •
Jeanne Kanach • Michael and Nancy
Kappelman • Ivan and Barbara
Katz* • Virginia King • Dan and Pat
Kinney • Peggy and Brian Kreger •
Janet Kusler and Mary Pat Connors
• Diana and Les Kutas • Don and
Kristi Larson • Melissa Lattimore
• Andrea C. Lewis • Henry Li •
Alexander Lindsey and Lynn M.
Manley • Kathleen Lofstedt and
Susan Lofstedt • Dr. Lois LowdenLunde • Major General Timothy and
Mary Lowenberg • Billie Manring •
Richard and E. Ann Marks • Richard
and Carolyn Mattern • Mr. and Mrs.
James P. McGough • Dr. William
McKee • Jean McTavish • Dr. and
Mrs. David L Mehlum • Edward
L. Miles • Barbara and Jim Miller
• Howard and Catherine Miller •
Stafford and Louise Miller • Richard
Mills • Karen Rose Mitchell • Peter
O. Mueller • Donald and Vicki Mukai
• George and Ellen Naden • Eric and
Mary Nelson • Linda Nordstrom • Dr.
and Mrs. Bruce A. Olson • Theresa
O’Neil • Joan Ostendorff • Don and
Judy Ostrow • Charles and Teruko
Pace • Les and Robbi Pennington •
Dr. Mary Lee Peters •
Dean A. Pollack and Lizabeth
A. Wilson • Jack and Carolynn
Prelutsky • Susan Price • Thomas
and Marilyn Price • LaVern and
Frances Puddy • Karen Purcell • K.
Carolyn Ramamurti • Paul L. Rowe
and R. Michael Sereno • Eckhard
Schipull • Janet Sears • Janet and
Thomas Seery • Susan Simons •
Chuck Sitkin • Dr. John and Lauri
Skalski • Dr. and Mrs. Howard A.
Slack • Landry Slade and Gretchen
Van Meter • Dorothy and Burton
Smith • Lori Smith • Christopher
and Cameron Snow • John and Rose
Southall • David and Jannie Spain
• Martin and Carol Stacey • Chuck
Stempler and Sally McKenzie •
Sheila and Craig Sternberg • Charles
and Delphine Stevens • Carolyn
Sutton and Cort Liddell • Lisa and
Thomas Tocher • Dr. M. R. Tribble
and Gary Tribble • Mr. and Mrs.
Stanley W. Vail • Dr. Bertil van Boer
and Margaret Fast • Moya Vazquez
• Marcia Walker • Dr. and Mrs. Mike
Waring • Ruth and Todd Warren
• Julie and Mike Weisbach • Ms.
Jane Wells • Ms. C. A. Wen and Mr.
David Garlow • Drs. William and
Gail Weyerhaeuser • John and Jane
Whiteley • Julie Wieringa • Vaew
Jon Wongsurawat • Carol Yurkanin •
Gregory A. Ziuzin, CPA
10-14 SEASONS
late Joyce Bozeat • Gary Bromberg
• Brian Bross and Bonnie Daniels
• Carl Bunje and Patricia Costello
• Dave and Marcia Butchart • Beth
Carlyle-Askew • Drs. Darlene and
Gregory Chan • Sara Culver • Richard
Cuthbert and Cheryl Redd-Cuthbert
• David Darrow • Ann De Lancey •
Carol and Daniel De Matteis • Mary
Desjardins • David and Helen Dichek
• Margaret Durante • Maria and
James Durham • Russell Elliott • Lorri
Falterman and Stephen Strong • Jack
and Marsha Firestone • Steve and
Susan Ford • Dean and Mary Fournier
• Jim Fox • Maureen Frisch • Carole
Fuller and Evan Schwab • Janet A.
George • Deborah Giles • Glen Gould
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and Bunny Laden • Robin Gray • Kristina Haight
• Wolfram and Linda Hansis • David and Michele
Hasson* • Eric Hawley and Gwen Lowery • Richard
L. Hay • Mr. and Mrs. Don Hirst • Judith and Alan
Hodson • Nathaniel Hollywood • Gerald and Gladys
Hoshijo • Ron Hosogi • John Hrncir • Jeanne Hunt
• Joseph Iano • Duke and Brenda Jackson • Jo
Kurth Jagoda • Ann Janes-Waller and Fletch Waller
• Robert C. Jenkins • Andrea and Steve Jones •
Patricia and Kieran Kealy • Peter Kelly • Marie
Kennedy and Mark Cockerill • Beverly R. Klein •
Thomas and Linda Koch • Firoz and Najma Lalji •
Gavin Lambie • Jay and Linda Lapin • Jeanne Marie
and the late Rhoady Lee • Margaret Leiberton and
Dr. R. Venkatesan • Nancy and Charles Lennstrom
• Mark and Vanessa Levine • Mark Looi and Susan
Cheng-Looi • Claire Madsen • Peggy and David
Mainer • James Martinek • Elizabeth K. Mathewson
• John C. and Mary Ellen Matthews • In memory of
Sue M. Maule • Terry McCarthy • Dave McCauley
• Philip McClure • Mary H. McConnell • Sharon
McGrayne and George Bertsch • Brian and Lillian
W. McKee • Dr. Robert Meier • Bruce and Elizabeth
Miller • Randa Minkarah and Scott Mullins •
Gloria Morrison • Heidi Munzinger and John
Shott • Donald and Lynn Murphy • James W. and
Pamela Murray • Christopher L. Myers and Judith
Schoenecker • Barbara S. Nims • Lev and Isabella
Novik • Vivian Oehler • Andrea Ordean • Dr. David
Mourning and Meg Pageler Mourning • Drs. Lester
and Keiko Permut • Nancy Pierson • Kenneth
Powers • Buddy Ratner and Cheryl Cromer-Ratner
• Dr. and Mrs. John B. Reed • Mary Lou Reed •
William C. Rense • Thomas and Teita Reveley •
Leigh and Ivy Robinson • Toska R. Rodriguez •
Florence Rose-Thompson • Angelamaria Ross •
Eric and Margaret Rothchild • Marguerite Russell
• Betty and Jack Schafer • Grace Berg Schaible •
Dustin Schultz • Dr. and Mrs. Thomas P. Sculco •
Lynn Sharp and Kathryn Olson Sharp • Jane and
John Simpson • Marcia T. Skinner • Mr. and Mrs.
James Solimano • Yana Solovyeva and Igor Zverev
• Karen and Michael Souter • Kristi L. Stakston*
• Christoph and Ellen Stauder • Carolann and
Gary Steinhoff • Karen Sternal • Robert Stewart
and Harriet Winkelman • John Sullivan and Paula
Stokes • Dr. Larry D. Stonesifer • John and Vivika
Sundqvist • Ellyn W. Swanson • Marvin Theimer •
Patricia Thorpe • Julie Trautmann • John and Anne
Trench • Janet Turpen • Izabella and Andrzej Turski
• Dallas and Shirley Viall • In honor and memory
of Helen English Walker • Dr. and Mrs. Brownlee
Waschek • Maureen Watson • William and Marilyn
Watson • David and Romayne Watt • Norman Weeks
• Elizabeth and Richard Wennberg • Steven and
Gail Wish • Larry and James Woods-Palmer • Albert
and Angelina Yen • Jennifer Zaccardo • Marcia and
Klaus Peter Zech
Mirabella
Put yourself in
the middle of it.
5-9 SEASONS
Anonymous (8) • Reham Abdelshahid • Patricia
Akiyama and David Larsen • Nell Altizer • John and
Marlies Amaya • Hans Andersen and Angyl Bender
• Melody Annaed • Calvin Arnason • Susan ArnoldAldea and Dr. Gabriel Aldea • In Memory of Robert
L. Autrey • Judith and Max Bailey • Steve and
Bonnie Baker • Joshua and Megan Barnard • Dr.
Aaron Barnes • Brenda Beckett • Barbara G. Bedell
• Paula Begoun • Jason Bergevin and Kelly Abner •
Janice Berlin • Mr. and Mrs. Turney Berry • Donna
Berube • Mr. and Mrs. Lucius H. Biglow Jr. • Nancy
Blase and Chuck Goldstein • Don Bordner and Cheryl
Oprea • Mr. Alan Boyd • Milkana and Colin Brace
• Lawrence Brandt • John Brazel • Krista and Rex
Breunsbach • Mrs. Walter F. Brissenden • Patricia
Brown • Larry and Sally Brown • Brenda Bruns, M.D.
Mir 11
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Seattle Opera Individual
Donors, continued
NOT-FOR-PROFIT SENIOR LIVING
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www.SkylineAtFirstHill.org • 1-800-817-3379
If your
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and Richard Deininger • Lydia Budak • L. Y. Buhler •
Susan Butler • Dr. Jeffrey and Mrs. Amanda Cain • Joe
and Dorothy Canavan • Stan and Mary Case • Joyce
Castle* • Gerard Centioli • Warren and Fay Chapman
• Linda Chaves • Carolyn Chawla • Heinke Clark •
Dr. Sterling Clarren • Joyce M. Clise • Allen and Sara
Colic • Dow Constantine and Shirley Carlson • David
and Linda Cornfield • Dona Costello • Susan Coughlin
and John Lauber • Jan and Jack Creighton • Alexander
Cross • D’Adre Cunningham • Jayne and Peter Davis
• Barry Davison • Charles Dishman • Corinne Dixon •
Steven Driscoll • Steven Drury • Robert Dutton • Karen
Easterbrook and Alex Sutton • Kristina Erickson • Paul
and Lois Evans • Paul Fischbach • Panos Fourtounis
• Russell Frank • Ann and Martin Gelfand • Genevra
Gerhart • James Glasgow • Denise Goforth • Merrie
Good • Curt and Janet Graeber • Michael Graves •
Elizabeth Gresch • Katherine Gribble • Dr. Brett B.
Gutsche • Dave and Cheryl Hadley • Brian Hahn and
Mary Klubben • Catherine Haley • Dr. M. Elizabeth
Halloran • John R. Hamilton • Stephen Harrison •
Mary Harvey • Donald Hatch • Candy Havens • C. Terry
Hendrix • Roger Hensley • Drs. Russell and Raquel
Hicks • B. Lane Hill • Martha Himber and Bernard
Evans • Luther M. Hintz • Pamela J. Hoiles • In Honor
of Norm Hollingshead • Robert Howie and Maria Milano
• Gary and Janice Hudak • Laura and Bernard Jacobson
• Helen Jaeggi • Jon Magnussen • Renan Jeffereis
and Gail Kaminishi • Helga Johnson • Marshall and
Kelly Johnson • John and Pamela Jolley • Neil Jordan
• Margaret Keenan • Steven and Julie Kennedy • Larry
Kessler • Ed Kim • Capt. Witold and Darlene Klimenko
• Richard Koch • Andrea Kovich • Maureen Kremers
• Barbara and J. David Kroon • Robert Lachmund •
Jon and Eva LaFollette • Robert E. Lee • Paul Leiba
• Stanton J. and Lucille Linden • Gretchen and Matt
Loschen • Heidemarie Lundblad • J. L. Mabrey • Ms.
Kelly Jo MacArthur and Mr. Christopher MacArthur •
Robert Mack • Brian Marks and Carol Maione • Fowler
Martin • Marilyn Mason-Plunkett • Peter A. Mathisen
• Dorothy E. McBride • Caroline McCullam • Susan
McGreevy • Georgia H. Meagher • John and Susan
Meyer • Laura Middaugh and Adam Kline • Robert
and Jean Miller • Mark and Susan Minerich • Terri
Mitchell and Therese MacIsaac • Patricia and Paul
Mitchell • David Monteith • Sue Montgomery • Lorenzo
Moog • Tatiana Moore • John Morris • Andrew Murphy
and Michelle Duffy • David Nelson • Dadog Wriggley
• Brian Patton • Terry Paugh • Eric and Ruth Peavy
• Jorge Peraza • Tom and Gretchen Puentes • Alice
and Dick Rapasky • Sheri Richardson and Rick Lappin
• Richard Robbins • Richard and Nancy Robblee •
Sharon Robinson • Robert Rodriguez-Lawson • Ansel
Rognlie and David Steindl • Jon and Patricia Rosen
• Jonathan Rosoff and Kristin Winkel • Melanie Ross
and Tim Buck • Weston Roth • Thomas and Patty
Ruehle • Sue Rupp • Paul Sack • Lupe Salazar and
Barry Bolding • Lidia Schwarz • William and Anne
Scragg • Matthew Segal and Corrie Greene • Jeff
and Martha Sherman • Marilyn Sherron • Ms. Jean
A. Sherrow • Sarah Shreeve • Kathryn F. Siewert •
Bernard and Susan Silbernagel • Douglas Smith and
Stephanie Ellis-Smith • J. Andrew and Sue W. Snyder
• Sarah Soutter • Patricia Spotanske • Cindy and
Peter Sprenger • John Starbard • Gene and Jean Stark
• Alan and Bonnie Steele • Dr. Steven Stoll • Darci
Swanson • Bob Swoffer • Pamela and Ronald Taylor •
Dennis Tierney and Grace Grant • Mr. and Mrs. John
R. Tomkins • Kathleen Tozer • Rae Tufts • Dennis and
Dorene Tully • Dean and Kelly Tweeddale • Lance Vail
and Terri Traub • William and Ruth Vance • George and
Jean Wagner • Carolyn Wasteneys • Lyle and Stephanie
Waterman • Thea Williams • Rosemary and Kenneth
Willman • Wayne Wisehart • Craig Wolfe • Leslie and
Tachi Yamada • Christian and Joyce Zobel
PRCN 091813 skyline 1_6h.pdf
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206.551.4084 www.portagebaycafe.com
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Isn’t It Time to Visit
Exeter House and Discover
How Easy Life Can Be?
1-4 SEASONS
Anonymous (7)* • John Abrams and Karl Compton •
Stephan Adler • Joan Affleck-Smith • Stephanie Cook
• Richard and Joanne Akeroyd • Carolyn Aldredge •
Chris Alexander • Norah Amsellem • Shirley Anderson
• Irene Aronoff • Wade and Ann Austin • Donna Bajelis
• René Barbera • Peter Barrett • Diann Barry • Craig
Bartholomew • Lynly Beard • Robert R. Berbec • Isaiah
and Debbie Bier • Tony and Tanya Bigge • Alan Biller
• David and Elaine Billmire • John Boling • Karl Bonn
• Richard and Evelyn Bothell • Jay and Carol Bowditch
• Scott Boyd and Wendy Haas • Patrick Bradley • Larry
and Jessica Breitbarth • Marcela Brink • Dock Brown •
Estate of Ralph E. Bruno • Lisa Bury • Susan Buske •
Elizabeth Caballero • Renee and Darrell Cannon • Gilla
Kaplan • Alicia Carnevali • James and Barbara Caro
• Chris Carrell • F. Patrick Cavallero • Victoria Papp
Cavallero • Peter Challman • Luis Chapa • Ms. Kirsti
Charlton • Matthew F. Chen • Elaine and Eric Clark •
Sarah Cody Roth • Mr. and Mrs. Ronald E. Compton
• Lisa Conaghan • Carl Corbin • George and Carolyn
Cox • James and Annica Crouse • Greg and Gina
Crumbaker • Sherry De Leon • John Delo and Elizabeth
Stokes • Antonia DeMatto • Geoffrey Deschenes and
Meredith Broderick • Leonora and Jesse Diller • Ms.
Eva Dines • Teresa Donahue • Zander and Hilary
Doroski • Kenneth Duncan and Tanya Parish • Lewis
and Susan Edelheit • Ian Einman • The late Archie
A. Drake • Bill Dubay • Donna and Richard Esteves
• Michael Fabiano • Barbara Feasey and William
Bryant • Richard Paul Fink • David and Mary Flowers
• Edwin Fontaine • Carol and Philip Fortuna • Gregory
and Kathleen Fowler • Nancy Fowler • Brian and
Sonia Frank • Thomas Funk • Genevieve Gambardella
• Margery Gardow • Geoff and Lucy Garnett • Larry
and Joanne Gay • Sharon Gill • Martha Gorder •
Chris Gould • Alex Grauert • Melony Joyce • Grace
Greenwich • Maridee Gregory • Jennifer Gross and
Jerry LeFevre • Linda Hanika • H. Deforest Hardinge
• Susan Harney • Brad Harris • Philip Harrison •
Meredith Hartley • Ian Hellen and Paula Cerni • Susan
K. Henderson • Adrian and Jane Hobden • Ron and
the late Geraldine Hoefer • Kathleen Huckabay • Mr.
and Mrs. George Hume • Michael and Zhenya Hyman
• Jeannette Idiart and Babu Rajendran • Dr. Robert
Janes and Jonna Kaplan • Jeaneen C. Jones • Mary
Justice • Sandra Kemp • Susan Kennedy • Willis
Kleinenbroich • Bartley Kleypas • Sandy Klineburger
• Mitchell Knox • Timothy Konich • Barbara Konkle
and Peter Kollros • Ryan Kosai • Steve Krauss • Anne
Kroeker and Richard Leeds • June Kvarda • Dr. Brian
A. LaMacchia • Eugene and Margaret Lapin • Stephen
Leanos • Susan and Peter Lee • Stefan Lewis • Donald
Luther • Gene and Chiemi Ma • Nathan Machin •
Duncan Maclean • Kathryn McAuley • Marcus Meier
• Greg Meldahl • James and Lora Melhorn • Suzanne
Merriman • Jerry Meyer and Nina Zingale • Marilyn
Milberger • Abraham Miller • Ronald E. Miller and
Murl Barker • Dennis and Deborah Minium • Karen
Mooney • L Gordon Moore • Diana Nash • Robert
Neal • David Nicol • Craig Norton and John French •
Martha Nussbaum • Opera Plus • Loni Pendergrass
• Dennis Petersen • Gary Peterson • Sue and Marty
Peterson • Lori Phillips and Jay Baylon • Kathleen
Pierce • Judy Pigott • Thomas Pisz • Gerald Pittenger
• Lori and Bill Price • J.T. and Suzi Pundt • Carolyn J.
Purnell and Wes C. Uhlman • Sam Purvine • Michelle
Quesada • Michael Raftery • Ann Ramsay-Jenkins •
Victoria Reed • Robert Rich • Mr. J. Karl and Mrs.
Christina Ris • Nancy Ritzenthaler and Albert Odmark
Jr. • Lawrence R. Ross • Carolyn Rowe • Kristin
Rowe-Finkbeiner and Bill Finkbeiner • Kevin Ruddell
• Ron and Susan Runyon • Milton Ruppeck • Henry
and Linda Rutkowski • Michael A. Salmon and Louis
R. Parent • Elizabeth Sanderson • Tim Schoenfelder
• Dr. Frederick A. Schubert • Nancy Schultz • Nancy
Scurlock and Tracey Yonick • Deborah Senn • Andrea
Silvestrelli • Mika Sinanan • Dr. and Mrs. Thomas
Sinclair • Stuart Skelton • Peter Smith • Stephanie
Solien • Dorothy Somers • Mark Spelich • Kathleen
Please call 206-215-1398 for a tour.
www.exeterhouse.org
720 Seneca St. Seattle, WA 98101
EH 080712 easy 1_6h.pdf
GER
Only Two Performances!
16th Season • Mina Miller, Artistic Director
Hans Krása
Brundibár A Children’s Opera
• Erich Parce, director • Joseph Crnko, conductor
MOR presents the beloved children’s opera
Brundibár, featuring an all-child
cast drawn primarily
from the acclaimed
Northwest Boychoir
and Vocalpoint!
Concert Tickets $40
Gala Dinner $250 per person
Saturday, March 22, 2014, 4:00 p.m.
Sunday, March 23, 2014, 7:00 p.m.
Seattle Children’s Theatre at Seattle Center
Gala Night! Saturday, March 22, 2014
Join special guest Ela Stein
Weissberger—The Cat in the original
Brundibár performances in
Terezín—for a post concert
reception and dinner at The
Ruins.
(206) 365-7770
www.musicofremembrance.org
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Seattle Opera Individual
Donors, continued
Stamm • Ms. Carol Starin • Sandra Starkey • Raymond
Steckel • Lisa Sterritt • Mary Stowell • Kurt Stromberg
• Steve Sussman • Christine Swanson • Gregory Swart
• Aggie and Chick Sweeney • John and Sherry Tessier •
Maryl Thomas • C. Rhea and Wendy Thompson • Linda
Tonn • James Toomey and Jason Reuer • Terrence
Turner • Kenji and Marcy Ushimaru • Case van Rij •
Pieter and Tjitske Van der Meulen • Youri Vater • Gerd
von Doemming • Stephen Wadsworth • Wagner and
More (IMO Jim Faulstich) • Cynthia Walk • Maggie and
Doug Walker • William D. Watt • Margie Wetherald •
Alexandra Wilber • Reginald Wilson • Christine Yarrow •
Evelyn Zabo with Phill Mroz
*Indicates gifts made in honor of Speight
Jenkins. After more than 30 years at the
helm, General Director Jenkins will retire
in August 2014. You can celebrate Speight
by marking your 2013/14 Annual Fund
gift in his honor and by joining us for our
Speight Celebration Concert and Dinner on
August 9, 2014.
Please note: To the donors not listed due
to limited space, Seattle Opera extends
heartfelt appreciation. Every attempt
to ensure the accuracy of donor listings
has been made, and we apologize for
any errors or omissions. To report
corrections, please contact Donor Services
at 206.389.7669 or donor.services@
seattleopera.org.
PSBC 110413 hug 1_3s.pdf
The Bellingham Festival of Music
presents a Special Event
Violinist
HILARY
HAHN
in Recital
APRIL 28, 2014
Western Washington University
Performing Arts Center
Tickets are$35 and $45. A limited number of premium tickets, at $75,
will include a post-recital reception with Hilary Hahn
Tickets on Sale from the WWU Box Office (360) 650-6146
http://purchase.tickets.com/buy/TicketPurchase?organ_val=22357
JULY 5 – 20, 2014
Michael Palmer, Artistic Director
and the Festival Orchestra and Chorus
Includes Major Works by Brahms, Elgar, Mozart, Prokofiev, and Schumann
Visit the Website for a Complete List of Artists, Programs, and Venues
bellinghamfestival.org • (360) 201–6621 • facebook.com/bellingham.festival
Development Staff Contact Information
Lisa Bury Director of Development
206.676.5530; Lisa.Bury@seattleopera.org
Allison Rabbitt Associate Director of Development,
Individual Giving
206.676.5519; Allison.Rabbitt@seattleopera.org
Rob Wiseman Associate Director of Development,
Annual Fund
206.676.5561; Rob.Wiseman@seattleopera.org
Bonita Hagbom Individual Giving Officer
206.676.5842; Bonita.Hagbom@seattleopera.org
Tracy Reich Individual Giving Officer
206.676.5533; Tracy.Reich@seattleopera.org
Jessica Breitbarth Planned Giving Officer
206.676.5534; Jessica.Breitbarth@seattleopera.org
Sarah Michael Institutional Giving Manager
206.676.5536; Sarah.Michael@seattleopera.org
Brian Ramos Development Operations Manager
206.676.5532; Brian.Ramos@seattleopera.org
Jackie Ernst Donor Stewardship Manager
206.676.5535; Jackie.Ernst@seattleopera.org
Lauren Cooper Individual Giving Officer
206.676.5593; Lauren.Cooper@seattleopera.org
Christine Johnson-Duell Grant Writer
206.676.5528;
Christine.Johnson-Duell@seattleopera.org
Nicholas Walls Individual Giving Associate
206.676.5531; Nicholas.Walls@seattleopera.org
Anna Lehn Annual Fund Associate
206.676.5838; Anna.Lehn@seattleopera.org
Michael L. Moore Financial Services Coordinator
206.676.5578; Michael.L.Moore@seattleopera.org
Annie Walters Development Associate
206.676.5508; Annie.Walters@seattleopera.org
11/4/13 4:25 PM
Ilona Davis Donor Stewardship Associate
206.676.5568; Ilona.Davis@seattleopera.org
Jacob Roy Development Associate
206.676.5509; Jacob.Roy@seattleopera.org
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Seattle Opera Institutional Donors
Seattle Opera is most grateful for the following corporate, foundation, and
government agency grants made between July 1, 2012, and January 29, 2014.
$1,000,000 and more
Anonymous
Seattle Opera
Foundation
$500,000-$999,999
Seattle Opera Foundation – Hanauer Fund
$250,000-$499,999
N eshol m Fa m i ly
F ou n dat ion
$100,000-$249,999
C.E. Stuart
Charitable Trust
True-Brown
Foundation
$50,000-$99,999
Apex
Foundation
Ann and Gordon
Getty Foundation
John Graham
Foundation
$25,000-$49,999
OPERA America’s
Building Opera Audiences
Grant Program
R. B. and Ruth H. Dunn
Charitable Foundation
Spark Charitable
Foundation
$10,000-$24,999
The Chisholm Foundation
Costco Wholesale
The Foster Foundation
The Hot Chocolate Fund
Norman Archibald Charitable Foundation
Peach Foundation
Safeco Insurance Foundation
U.S. Bank Foundation
$5,000-$9,999
ArtsWA
Colymbus Foundation
Federal Home Loan Bank of Seattle
Firestone Family Foundation
Lease Crutcher Lewis
Charles Maxfield and Gloria F. Parrish Foundation
MetLife Financial Planning Division, an office of
MetLife
Richard B. and Barbara B. Odlin Foundation
Wyman Youth Trust
The Peg and Rick Young Foundation
$3,000-$4,999
Fales Foundation Trust
Thurston Charitable Foundation
$1,500-$2,999
Cornerstone Advisors, Inc.
The Dabney Point Fund
David and Lorna Gladstone Foundation
KPMG
Madden Associates
D.V. and Ida J. McEachern Charitable Trust
The Reed McClure Firm
Pacific Coast Feather Company
PRCN Foundation SkyOpera Fund
Herman and Faye Sarkowsky Charitable Foundation
Lorin H. Wilson Foundation
$1,000-$1,499
Ireene S. Barnett Foundation
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OVER 50 YEARS, YOU’VE HELPED
BUILD AN OPER A COMPANY with an
international reputation for excellence.
You know that at Seattle Opera the voices
onstage will thrill you and the stories will
transport you.
The Next 50 Years
Today nine of the eleven singers onstage
are graduates of our Young Artists Program.
Your investment in their training has
produced the next generation of opera
stars. They’ve chosen not only to perform
around the world but to come back to
perform for you, the Seattle audiences that
helped them get started.
YOU’VE MADE SEAT TLE OPER A
A CULTUR AL CORNERSTONE of our
community. You are our backbone and our
inspiration. Simply put, we make opera
because of you.
The Daughter of the Regiment, Seattle Opera, 2013 © Elise Bakketun
What role will you play in the next 50 years
here at Seattle Opera?
COMMIT TO THE NEXT 50 YEARS of
Seattle Opera with your donation. Please
give for opera today.
CALL
206.389.7669
VISIT
seattleopera.org/donate
E-MAIL
donor.services@seattleopera.org
seattleopera.org
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Seattle Opera Legacy Giving
THE ENCORE SOCIETY
This list reflects Encore Society membership as of January 29, 2014. Every attempt to ensure the accuracy of donor listings has been made and we apologize for any errors or
omissions. To report corrections, please contact Donor Services at 206.389.7669 or donor.services@seattleopera.org.
Anonymous (37)*
Charles and Barbara Ackerman
Gary N. Ackerman and Robin
Dearling*
John Akamatsu
Reverend and Mrs. John M.
Allen*
Linda and Tom Allen*
Margaret Almen*
Robert L. and Rosemarie
Anderson*
Ms. Laura Arpiainen
Ronald Barensten and Rachael
Black
David W. Barker*
Mary L. Bass
Dr. Janet Beckmann and the late
Dr. George Beckmann
Jean Berry*
Jack and Connie Bloxom*
Neil M. and Kathleen Bogue*
Patricia L. Bostrom*
Sandra Boyd*
Joseph Brancucci and William
Carley
F. H. Braymer*
Dr. and Mrs. David V. Brown
Marshall and Jane Brown*
Lynn Buell*
Sarah H. Burdell
William B. and Ann S. Burstiner*
Lisa Bury*
Louis Burzycki*
Betty R. Carter*
Jean Cho and David Mankoff
Mrs. Heinke Clark*
Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence W.
Clarkson*
Jan Condit*
Norma B. Croco*
Tavia Crowder*
James and Wendy Cullen*
William and Laurie Daniel*
Nancy Davies*
Lorraine del Prado and Thomas
Donohue*
John and the late Carmen Delo*
Sharon Demuth
Susan Detweiler and Alexander
Clowes*
Fred and Adele Drummond*
Michael G. Dryfoos and Ilga
Jansons*
Pat Dubrow
Sandra B. Dunn*
Ann R. Eddy
Patricia Edwards
Karl and Carol Ege*
Anna F. Egidy
In memory of H. Wendell
Endicott*
William Etnyre and David Claus*
Jane and Thomas Fadden*
Gretchen and the late Jim
Faulstich*
A. H. Feige Jr.
Lyn and Paul Fenton*
Jack and Dorothy Fidler
Susan and Thomas Fife
Jack and Marsha Firestone*
Russell and Nancy Fosmire*
Ernest and Elizabeth
Frankenberg*
Margery Friedlander
Carole Fuller and Evan Schwab*
Dr. Lena Furgeri
Gloria Gagne
Dr. Sharon M. Galbraith*
Diana Gale and Jerry Hillis*
Donna Gathany*
Gail J. Gazda*
Natalie Gendler*
Dr. and Mrs. Robert P. Gibbons*
Leslie Giblett*
Rebecca C. Gillette*
Dr. Ulf G. and Ingrid A.
Goranson*
Claire and Michael Gordon*
Mark J. Gralia
John Andrew Hackley
Jeffrey and Rosario Hanna*
Larry Hanna
Christine R. Hansen and Peter
T. Hurd*
Karen Hansen
Jenny Hartley*
Roger Henderson
Sylvia H. Hobbs*
Julia L. Hodson
Frank and Katie Holland*
Dr. Kennan Hollingsworth and the
late Dr. Phyllis Bagdi*
Marilyn Holstad*
Horace and Lois Hopkins
Barbara Howell*
Jan Jarvis*
Speight Jenkins
Julia G. Johansen*
Esther Jane Johnson
Vincent M. Jolivet*
H. David Kaplan*
Suzanne Dressler Kellar*
Frances J. Kwapil*
Sandra and John Labadie*
Michelle Labrie-Ripple
Eric and Jan Lamers*
Consuelo F. Larrabee*
Gary M. Law
Rosemary Leong-Miller and
Robert Miller*
Marjorie J. Levar*
Lady M. Boswell Lindal*
Thomas D. Loftus*
Lynne Lovejoy
Mr. Everil E. Loyd Jr. and the late
Mrs. Vesta Loyd*
Elizabeth A. Marcoe
William B. Maschmeier and
Patricia Haggerty*
David and the late Leslie Mattson
Elisabeth McKee*
Carroll C. McMasters
Greg Meldahl*
Prof. Ann H. Milam*
Colonel Norman D. Miller*
Carolyn and Roger N. Miller*
Robert C. Milnor*
Rosalie B. Minier*
Richard S. Munsen*
Lin Murphy
Nadine and John Murray
Nancy P. Narraway
John F. and Laurel Nesholm*
Bruce W. Novark M.D., D.D.S.
Pamela A. Okano*
Richard Q. Opler
Sarah M. Ovens*
Dolores J. Palomo*
Patricia S. Parrent*
William and Carol Parsons
Ralph W. Peoples
Steve Phelps*
Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Purdy*
Megan Pursell*
Dennis and Margaret Purvine
Erica Rayner-Horn
Eloise and Glen Rice*
Joyce C. and Saul Rivkin*
John and Charlotte Robins
Mr. and Mrs. N. Stewart Rogers
Michael and Cheryl Rolland
Sharon Romm
The late Gladys Rubinstein, in
memory of Sam Rubinstein*
Martha Lou Allan Sampson
Irwin and Barbara Sarason*
Dr. Carolyn Scheve
James L. Schindler*
Christopher L. Myers and Judith
Schoenecker*
Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth L.
Schubert Jr.*
Allen and Virginia Senear*
Evelyn E. Simpson*
Joan Snelson*
John and Rose Southall*
Stephen A. Sprenger*
Margaret T. Stanley and the late
Thomas Bleakney*
John Starbard
Dr. and Mrs. Alexander R.
Stevens*
Duane and Barbara Swank*
Maureen Swanson
Donald and Gloria Swisher*
Delma Tayer*
Beryl A. Thompson*
Ian L. Thompson, M.D.*
Russell F. and Sarah M. Tousley*
Mr. and Mrs. Roland M. Trafton
Evelyn M. Troughton*
Rae Tufts
James and Karen Unkefer*
Muriel A. Van Housen*
Sharon F. Van Valin*
Moya Vazquez*
Carol Veatch*
Jean B. Viereck and Robert S.
Leventhal
Betty L. Wagner
Jay and Susanne Wakefield*
Bill and Carol Warren*
Karola Watson
Raleigh Watts*
Douglas Weisfield*
Robert D. Welden and Jeffrey A.
Watts*
Judith A. Whetzel*
Julie Wieringa*
Naomi Wilson Family*
James and Felicity Wornast
Carolynne and Phil Wright*
Jim Yancy
Charles A. Zaragoza*
*Indicates Encore Society members and estates that contributed
to the Annual Fund between
July 1, 2012, and January 29,
2014. A special thanks to these
donors for their support of Seattle
Opera’s present and future.
SEATTLE OPERA FOUNDATION
The Seattle Opera Foundation is a separate 501(c)(3) organization created to hold unrestricted and restricted funds for Seattle Opera’s benefit. The donors listed below have
made contributions of $25,000 or more for endowment purposes with outright gifts, estate gifts, or irrevocable planned gifts through a charitable remainder trust or charitable
gift annuity from 1968 through January 29, 2014.
$25,000 AND MORE
Anonymous*
The Norman Archibald Charitable Trust
Henriette Baum
Egon Baumann
C. Keith Birkenfeld Memorial Trust
The late Diana Blackmore
The late Mrs. Louis Brechemin
Edward S. Brignall
Louis Burzycki
Doris H. Caka
Arnold Hay Chin
The Clowes Fund, Inc.
Drs. Alexander Clowes and Susan
Detweiler (E)†
James D. and Wendy Cullen
John and the late Carmen Delo (E)
Mildred King Dunn
David B. Felch
The late Albert Foster
The O.D. Fisher Foundation
The Ford Foundation
Margery Friedlander
Richard Fuller
Marion O. Garrison
The late Max E. and Carol Gellert†
Leopold Gellert Family Trust
Adele Golub and the late Stanley Golub
Edward P. Goodrich
Hartmut Bruno Gottshau
Margaret Rose Gray
Everett G. Griggs III
The late Gerald L. Hanauer
Lenore M. Hanauer
Jeffrey and Rosario Hanna*†
The William Randolf Hearst Foundation
Mr. and Mrs. Harold Heath
Frances Stillman Hodges
Ron and Geraldine Hoefer
Ruth H. Hoffman
Kennan Hollingsworth, M.D. and the late
Phyllis Bagdi, M.D. †
Susanne F. Hubbach*
Vincent Jolivet
Suzanne Dressler Kellar
Kreielsheimer Endowment Fund
The Kresge Foundation
Eric and Janice Lamers
The late Richard Lang
George H. Lancaster (E)
Karen S. Larson
The late Dale Lehrman
Laura Ludgren
The late Louis G. March
Shirley Callison Miner
The late Albert Moss
M.J. Murdock Foundation
National Endowment for the Arts
Elizabeth Parke
The late Sheffield Phelps
Dr. Stanley M. Pier Endowed Fund
PONCHO
Mr. and Mrs. W.H. Purdy
Dr. C. Wright Reade
John and Charlotte Robins
Mr. and Mrs. Steward Rogers
Delorez Rossell
Ruth M Rystogi
Martha Lou Allan Sampson
Mr. and Mrs. John B. Schack†
Eulalie Schneider
George S. and Judy Schuchart
The Seattle Foundation*
Paul Smith
The late Jack L. and Gertrude E. Sprenger*
Stephen A. Sprenger*
Margaret T. Stanley and the late Thomas
Bleakney
Mary F. Stowe
The late Mrs. Charles E. Stuart
Muriel Van Housen
The Lawrence W. Wells Trust
Judith and the late Jonathan F. Whetzel
Howard D. Wigle
John T. Williams
Eleanor Hale Wilson
Patricia A. Wilson
Maureen Woodman
Howard S. Wright Charitable Trust
(E) Signifies restricted to Education
* Denotes Donors who gave to the Gertrude
Sprenger Education Endowed Fund
† Denotes Donors who gave to the Perry
Lorenzo Fund for In-School Education
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In-Kind
Seattle Opera
Volunteer Fundraising
OFFICIAL IN-KIND PARTNERS
Seattle Opera thanks these companies for providing major in-kind support throughout the
2013/14 season.
IN-KIND DONORS
Seattle Opera thanks the following individuals and corporations for generous in-kind
support received between July 1, 2012, and January 29, 2014.
Rosemarie Anderson
Alabastro Photography
Arts Consulting Group
ArtsFund/Alaska Airlines
Chateau Ste. Michelle
Choice Linens
Christensen O’Connor Johnson Kindness,
PLLC
Cossé International Securities
Davis Wright Tremaine LLP
Richard and Mary Beth Gemperle
Garvey Schubert Barer
La Toscanella
M∙A∙C
Jerry Meyer and Nina Zingale
Prof. Ann H. Milam
New Renaissance Cakes
Paula’s Choice
Qliance Medical Group
Talking Rain
Toppers European Floral Design
Robert Wade
Matching Gifts
Seattle Opera offers its thanks to the following companies for matching gifts received
or pledged between July 1, 2012, and January 29, 2014. Corporations’ matching
gifts support Seattle Opera’s Annual Fund and qualify employees to receive enhanced
donor benefits based on the combined value of their gift and the corporate match.
For questions about corporate matching, contact Donor Services at 206.389.7669 or
donor.services@seattleopera.org.
Aetna
Amgen
ArtsFund Workplace Giving
Bank of America
BECU
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
The Boeing Company
The Bullitt Foundation
Cambia
Carnegie Corporation of New York
Charles Schwab Foundation
Chevron
College Spark Washington
COSTCO Wholesale
ECG Management Consultants, Inc
ExxonMobil
General Electric
General Mills Foundation
Google
Hewlett-Packard Company Foundation
IBM
ING Foundation
Johnson & Johnson
JP Morgan Chase
Laird Norton Family Foundation
The Meredith Corporation
Methodologie
Microsoft Corporation
MSNBC
Regence
Starbucks
Texas Instruments
U.S. Bancorp
United E-way/Truist
United Health Group
Western Tile and Marble
The following groups joined together
in support of Seattle Opera between
July 1, 2012, and January 29, 2014.
This support demonstrates exceptional
community spirit and great generosity.
Seattle Opera sincerely appreciates these
gifts.
$25,000 and more
The Sowing Circle
$10,000 - $24,999
Gemperle Holiday Soiree 2012
Gemperle Holiday Soiree 2013
$7,500 - $9,999
Norm Hollingshead Birthday Fund
$5,000 - $7,499
Seattle Opera Guild – Amici Preview
Group
Seattle Opera Guild – Magnolia/Queen
Anne Preview Group
Seattle Opera Guild – Mercer Island
Preview Group
Wagner and More! Chicago Trip
$3,000 - $4,999
Seattle Opera Guild – Bel Canto Preview
Group
Seattle Opera Guild – Lakeside Preview
Group
Seattle Opera Guild – Parties and
Previews
$1,500 - $2,999
Seattle Opera Guild – Allegro Preview
Group
Seattle Opera Guild – Bellini Preview
Group
Seattle Opera Guild – Vivace Preview
Group
$1,000 - $1,499
Opera Plus – Horizon House
Seattle Opera Guild – West Seattle
Preview Group
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Upcoming Events
Talks and Public
Presentations
stories using song, dance, read-aloud story
time, visual art, drama, and elements of
music theater. After care available.
SUE ELLIOTT’S PRE-PERFORMANCE
TALKS
McCaw Hall, 90 minutes before curtain
Price: $7 (and worth every penny)
AHOY, PIRATES! CAMP AT SPRING
BREAK
April 7–11 and April 14–18, 2014
9:30 a.m.–3:30 p.m.
Cost: $325
Boys and girls in grades 2–5, choose
the Spring Break camp that fits with your
school’s schedule. This week is jampacked full of frolicking fun with Gilbert
and Sullivan’s Pirates of Penzance. A ton of
tongue-twisting tomfoolery abounds! Sing
and act your way to discovering your inner
pirate. We’ll perform for friends and family
on Friday.
SEATTLE UNIVERSITY SERIES
At the Wyckoff Auditorium, 7:00 p.m.
Mar. 25, Of Leitmotivs and Lightsabers: the
Music of Star Wars
April 22, The Hollywood Musical: film
musicals that rival original Broadway hits
May 20, The Task of the Translator: Libretti
vs. Screenplays
FREE NEIGHBORHOOD PREVIEWS (THE
TALES OF HOFFMANN)
Apr. 11 Everett Public Library, 2:00 p.m.
Apr. 19 Kitsap Library, 2:15 p.m.
Apr. 22 Freeland Library, 12:00 p.m.
Apr. 22 Coupeville Library, 2:00 p.m.
Apr. 23 Edmonds Library, 6:30 p.m.
Apr. 24 Green Lake Library, 2:00 p.m.
Apr. 27 Frye Museum, 2:00 p.m.
Apr. 28 West Seattle Library, 6:30 p.m.
Apr. 29 Queen Anne Library, 2:00 p.m.
Apr. 29 Third Place Books (Bothell Way),
7:00 p.m.
Apr. 30 Ballard Library, 2:00 p.m.
May 1 Seattle Central Library, 12:00 p.m.
SEATTLEOPERA.ORG/SPEAKERSBUREAU
Opera on the Radio
Saturday nights are opera nights on Classical
KING FM. Tune to 98.1 every Saturday
evening for broadcasts of notable opera
recordings, hosted by General Director
Speight Jenkins or Director of Education Sue
Elliott. The second Saturday performance
is broadcast live, starting at 7:30 p.m.;
recorded broadcasts begin at 8:00 p.m.
THE TALES OF HOFFMANN ON 98.1
CLASSICAL KING-FM
April 26Preview with Speight Jenkins at
8:00 p.m.
May 10Live Broadcast from McCaw Hall at
7:30 p.m.
Family Fun And
Youth Programs
OPERA TIME CAMP
March 14, 2014
9:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m.
When school is out, we play! Opera Time
Camp expands small moments into big
FIGARO! FOR TEEN OPERA PLAYERS
April 14–18, 2014
9:30 a.m.–4:00 p.m.
Cost: $325
In this workshop intensive for teens, we
will learn and stage scenes from Mozart’s
Le nozze di Figaro. Through this brilliant
comedy, we will incorporate Italian
diction, classical dance forms, character
development, and comedic timing. We
will stage our scenes and arias for a Friday
performance for friends and family.
AUDITION WORKSHOP FOR TEEN OPERA
PLAYERS
April 26 & May 3, 2014
12 noon–3:00 p.m.
Cost: $75
Have you ever wanted to do that audition
again? In this two-Saturday workshop,
you’ll have the chance to do just that! Each
participant will perform an audition for a
panel of music and theater professionals
in a supportive environment, receive
encouraging written feedback, learn a
few tricks and tips—and get to do it again,
incorporating what you learned the week
before. All this plus a panel discussion with
Q&A.
To register for any Seattle Opera camp,
contact barbara.jamison@seattleopera.org.
THE TALES OF HOFFMANN FAMILY DAY
MATINEE
May 4
2:00 p.m.
SING-ALONG WITH SEATTLE OPERA
May 22
5:00 p.m.-9:00 p.m.
SEATTLEOPERA.ORG/YOUTH
Exclusive Events for Seattle
Opera Donors
Annual Fund donors are invited to attend
these upcoming events. Please see the
corresponding gift levels below.
ENCORE SOCIETY RECOGNITION
LUNCHEON
March 14, 2014—Annual celebration for
donors who have made a commitment to
Seattle Opera or Seattle Opera Foundation in
their estate plans. (Encore Society members)
SCENIC ELEMENTS
March 22, 2014—A trip to our Scenic
Studios in Renton to learn from the
artists and craftspeople who create sets
and scenery for Seattle Opera and other
organizations. ($1,500 and more)
GIFT AND FINANCIAL PLANNING
SEMINAR
April 30—Learn about tools for gift and
financial planning from wealth management
experts. Followed by dinner and The Tales
of Hoffmann dress rehearsal. Price: $45
THE TALES OF HOFFMANN DRESS
REHEARSALS
April 30 and May 1, 2014
($400 and more)
CROWN DONOR DINNER
May 1, 2014—A reception and dinner
featuring an exclusive preview talk by
General Director Speight Jenkins prior to
the Thursday dress rehearsal of The Tales
of Hoffmann. Dinner is $85 per person.
($5,000 and more)
MEET THE ARTISTS
May 12, 2014—A cocktail reception hosted
by the General Director and featuring the
cast of The Tales of Hoffmann. ($1,500 and
more)
NATIONAL PATRONS’ WEEKEND
May 16-18, 2014—A full weekend of events
for out-of-town donors during The Tales
of Hoffmann. ($1,000 and more; live 100
miles or more outside Seattle)
YOUTH CHORUS REHEARSAL
May 17, 2014—A reception and performance
by our talented Youth Chorus backstage at
McCaw Hall. ($1,000 and more)
BACKSTAGE TOUR
May 17, 2014—An hour-long guided tour of
McCaw Hall featuring the opera set of The
Tales of Hoffmann. ($1,000 and more)
Questions? Contact Donor Services at rsvp@
seattleopera.org or 206.389.7669.
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Located on the Kreielsheimer Promenade Level of McCaw Hall.
Open two and a half hours prior to curtain and during intermissions.
THE CONSUL CD
Bring home the Pulitzer Prize-winning music of Menotti’s
cinematic score with this excellent 1998 live recording
from the Spoleto Festival, a brainchild of Menotti himself.
Featuring a uniformly excellent cast, including Susan Bullock
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DON GIOVANNI CD
Our recently announced 2014/15 season kicks off
in October with Mozart’s multifaceted portrait of an
unrepentant Casanova that has fascinated audiences ever
since its premiere. Preview the bold and masterful music
with this highly regarded 2007 recording overseen by René
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Weisser, Lorenzo Regazzo, Alexandrina Pendatchanska, Olga
Pasichnyk, and Kenneth Tarver. $59.95
TOSCA “LIVE IN ROME” DVD/BLURAY
Next January marks the return of Puccini’s fiery prima donna to the
McCaw Hall stage. Preview the sights and sounds of the crackling
melodrama with this DVD release of live performances, recorded
in Rome in the exact locations and at the precise times of day
as Puccini had written into his score. Featuring Plácido Domingo,
Catherine Malfitano, and Ruggero Raimondi. Zubin Mehta
conducts the Rome Symphony Orchestra and Chorus. $34.95
SEMELE DVD
Handel’s sensuous and sparkling fable about an unsophisticated
but ambitious maiden who journeys to the realm of the “beautiful
people” makes its Seattle Opera debut in an all-new production
next spring. Preview Handel’s elegant and expressive music with
this 2009 DVD release from Decca. Opera superstar Cecilia Bartoli
is Semele, performing such well-known arias as “Endless pleasure,
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Upcoming Opera
2 014 /15 S E A S O N
The Tales of Hoffmann, Seattle Opera, 2005 © Rozarii Lynch
Don Giovanni
MOZART
Oct. 18-Nov. 1, 2014
Tosca
PUCCINI
Jan 10-24 2015
Semele
and the Wrath of Juno
Seattle Opera Revival
The Tales of Hoffmann
(Les contes d’Hoffmann)
Music by Jacques Offenbach
Libretto by Jules Barbier and Michel
Carré, after ETA Hoffmann
May 3, 4m, 8, 10, 14, 16 & 17, 2014
Evenings: 7:30 p.m., Sunday Matinee:
2:00 p.m.
In French with English captions
REMARKABLE IMAGINATIVE FANTASY
One of the most talked-about productions in
Seattle Opera history returns to McCaw Hall for
a glorious season finale. An endlessly inventive
poet regales his drinking buddies with stories
of romancing three fantastic women. A trio
of colorful villains foils our hero at every turn.
Three fabulous shows in one, Offenbach’s
sumptuous collage of whimsy, creativity,
heartbreak, and artistic salvation enchants and
delights with luminous music and compelling
theater. Not to be missed.
Production Sponsors:
Seattle Opera Foundation
Nesholm Family Foundation
ArtsFund
Office of Arts & Culture | Seattle
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May 2-16, 2015
Look Listen
Don Giovanni, Seattle Opera, 2007 © Wah Lui
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Seattle Opera Staff
SPEIGHT JENKINS, GENERAL DIRECTOR
KELLY TWEEDDALE, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
Janice Bondar
Lisa Bury Jonathan Dean
Director of Human Resources
Director of Development Director of Public Programs and Media
Aren Der Hacopian
Sue Elliott
Vincent A. Feraudo
Director of Artistic Administration
Director of Education
Director of Production
Alvin Alexander Henry
Richard A. Johnson
Director of Marketing Chief Financial Officer
and Communications
ADMI NISTRATION
Mary Brazeau Executive Assistant to
Speight Jenkins
Cathi Turner Executive Assistant to Kelly
Tweeddale and Melanie Ross
Ernesto Alorda Artists Relations Manager
Raluca Marinescu Administration Intern
DE V E LOPMENT
Allison Rabbitt Associate Director of
Development, Individual Giving
Rob Wiseman Associate Director of
Development, Annual Fund
Bonita Hagbom Individual Giving Officer
Tracy Reich Individual Giving Officer
Jessica Breitbarth Planned Giving Officer
Sarah Michael Institutional Giving Manager
Brian Ramos Development Operations
Manager
Jackie Ernst Donor Stewardship Manager
Lauren Cooper Individual Giving Officer
Christine Johnson-Duell Grant Writer
Nicholas Walls Individual Giving Associate
Anna Lehn Annual Fund Associate
Michael L. Moore Financial Services
Coordinator
Annie Walters Development Associate
Ilona Davis Donor Stewardship Associate
Jacob Roy Development Associate
Michael Cooke, Erin McKiernan
Development Interns
E DU CATION
Barbara Lynne Jamison Youth Programs
Manager
Robert McClung Community Programs
Manager
Kristina Hammer Our Earth Production
Assistant
April Heding Assessment/Research
FI NANCE
Jeremiah Marks Controller
Marissa Betz-Zall Senior Accountant
Randee Byrd Payroll
Socorro Manuel-Alpuerto Payroll
Shirley Gay Accounts Payable Associate
IN FO RM A T I ON S Y S T EM S
Iain Quigley Desktop User Support
Technician
Stuart McLeod Software Systems
Administrator
M A RKET IN G A N D
CO M M UN ICA T IO N S
Kristina Murti Associate Director of
Marketing
Ed Hawkins Marketing Manager/
Copywriter
Lauren Erlinger Digital Media Manager
Karin Kough Graphic Designer
Josh TerAvest Web Producer
Lindsey Morck Marketing Coordinator
M E D I A RE L A T I O N S
Jessica Murphy Communications Editor
Gabrielle Nomura Media Relations
Manager
Monte Jacobson Media Relations
Coordinator
Emmy Ulmer Titlist
S A L E S A N D S E RV I CE S
Michelle M. Carrasquillo Associate
Director of Marketing, Sales and
Services
Tony Kay Ticket Office Supervisor
Dana Pompa Ticketing Operations
Specialist
Emily van der Harten Patron Services
Representative
Justine Thayer Subscriber Relations
Coordinator
John Allbritton, Emily Bolton, Emma Lynn,
Emily Odell, Michael Seidel, N. Donn
Talenti, Catrina Vroman Ticket Agents
D I RE CT S A L E S
Dan Murphy Direct Sales Manager
Bernard Pack Direct Sales Assistant Manager
Mary Hobbs, Albert Sanders Senior Account
Representatives
Michael Blue, Virginia Jackson, James
Lewis, Jim Pennington, Heidi
Vanderford Account Representatives
PRO D UCT IO N
P RO D UCT I O N A D M I N I STR ATIO N
Paula Podemski Production Supervisor
Andrea Reay Production Administrator
Yuko Ariga Production Administration
Intern
STAGE MANAGEMENT
Yasmine Kiss Production Stage Manager
Mike Janney, Thea Railey Assistant Stage
Managers
Daphne Maurides Production Assistant
Melanie G. Ross
Robert D. Schaub
Director of Artistic Operations and Season Planning
Technical and Facilities Director
MU SIC
Sarah Kern Potter Music Administrator
Philip A. Kelsey Assistant Conductor
David McDade Head of CoachAccompanists
John Keene Chorusmaster
Jeffrey Jordan Music Assistant/Chorus
Personnel Coordinator
Beth Kirchoff Chorusmaster Emeritus
T E C HN I C A L
C O STU ME S
Susan I. Davis Costume Shop Manager
Ingrid Thompson Costume Show Manager
Heidi Zamora Assistant Costume Shop
Manager
Ieva Ohaks Costume Rental-Stock
Coordinator
Mary Ellen Walter Lead Cutter
Shanna Parks Cutter
Cynthia Abbott, Denise Barry First Hands
Kate Hartman, Yoko Niendorf Stitchers
Lia Surprenant Crafts Supervisor
Ron Erickson Wardrobe Head
Madeleine DeGracia Assistant Wardrobe
Head
Scott Arend, Christy Kazimour Wardrobe
Attendants
Sophy Wong Costume Rental Intern
S T AGE C R E W
H AIR AN D MAK E U P
Liesl Alice Gatcheco Hair and Makeup
Manager
Shelby Adele Rogers Lead Principal Hair
and Makeup Artist
Anne McGowan, Trisha Partida, Terry
Wright Principal Hair and Makeup
Artists
Mae Saul Hair and Makeup Assistant
Manager
Krista Kammerzell Hair and Makeup Intern
TE C H N IC AL ADMINIST RAT ION
Robert F. Reynolds Associate Technical
Director
Chris Reay Assistant Technical Director
Connie Yun Assistant Lighting Designer
Linda Kenworthy Properties Coordinator
Alicia Hall Technical Financial Services
Coordinator
Charles T. Buck Master Stage Carpenter
Jack F. Harrison Assistant Master Stage
Carpenter
Justin Loyd Head Flyman
Scot Allison, Chris Balducci, Jason Balter,
Dallas Duell, Ian Gardner, Adam Lantz
Assistant Stage Carpenters
Jim Nash Master Electrician
Martin Cunningham Assistant Master
Electrician
Desirae Brownlee, Chris Dimoff, Jim Gable,
David Hult Assistant Electricians
Petrude W. Olds Jr. Properties Master
Sandy Burke Assistant Properties Master
Marc Rothschild Properties Assistant
Candy Solie Lightboard Operator
Jack Burke Master Sound Technician/
Designer
Charles Whitmore Supertitle Technician
SC E N IC STU DIO S
Michael Moore Scenic Studios Manager
Phillip Lienau Associate Resident Scenic
Designer
Bruce Warshaw Master Scenic Carpenter
George Howard Jr. Assistant Master Scenic
Carpenter
Brian Ainslie, Clinton Mathis, Scott Staheli
Lead Scenic Carpenters
Kitty Kavanaugh Master Scenic Artist
Susannah Anderson, Rick Araluce Lead
Scenic Artists
F AC IL ITIE S AN D OPERAT IONS
Claudia Gallagher Associate Facilities
Director
Principals, stage directors, choristers, stage managers,
assistant stage managers, and assistant directors
employed in this production are members of the
American Guild of Musical Artists AFL-CIO.
The musicians are represented by the Seattle
Symphony and Opera Players’ Organization, a
Chapter of the International Guild of Symphony,
Opera, and Ballet Musicians.
Scenery construction and stage crew work is
performed by employees represented by I.A.T.S.E.,
Local #15.
Costume and wardrobe work is performed by
employees represented by T.W.U., Local #887.
Scenic artists and hair/makeup work is performed
by employees represented by I.A.T.S.E., Local #488.
Celebrating Our 50 Years
The New and Unusual
The Queen of Spades, 1980 © Des Gates
Satyagraha, 1988 © Matthew McVay
Amelia, 2010 © Rozarii Lynch
While you’re in McCaw Hall for The Consul,
be sure to stop by the photo displays in
the outer lobby. You’ll find photos from
50 years of Seattle Opera history, with a
special focus this month on our new and
unusual productions. From Of Mice and
Men and The Who’s Rock Opera Tommy
to Robert Lepage’s intriguing staging of
Bluebeard’s Castle and Seattle Opera’s
first commissioned work, Amelia, Seattle
audiences are always up for an adventure
into unexplored operatic territory.
Clockwise from top right:
Seattle Opera’s first commissioned work, Amelia, told a
story of war, family, and flight. Set in Vietnam and in a
large American city where airplanes are manufactured,
the opera was written by Daron Hagen (music), Gardner
McFall (libretto), and Stephen Wadsworth (story). Philip Cutlip and Mary Mills played adulterous lovers
Maurice Bendrix and Sarah Miles, whose relationship takes
a strange turn when a bomb nearly kills them during the
London Blitz, in Jake Heggie’s The End of the Affair, based
on the novel by Graham Greene.
Satyagraha, by Philip Glass, starred Douglas Perry
as Mohandas Gandhi. The opera, which follows the
origins of non-violent resistance in Gandhi’s South Africa
experiences, is sung entirely in Sanskrit, with a libretto
drawn from the Bhagavad-Gita.
The End of the Affair, 2005 © Bill Mohn
Regina Resnik as the Countess in Tchaikovsky’s The
Queen of Spades. Seattle Opera’s other Russian
productions include Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin;
Mussorgsky’s Boris Godunov; and, unforgettably,
Prokofiev’s War and Peace, for the 1990 Goodwill
Games.
S E A T T L E O P E R A 5 0 . C O M
To see more photos of Seattle Opera’s 50
years, visit the lobby displays before a
performance or during intermission. Or visit
seattleopera50.com, where you can explore
every production in Seattle Opera history—
Speight’s favorites, Wagner spectaculars, the
Glynn Ross era, behind the scenes, and
more. The site includes videos, audio clips,
and a place for you to share memories of
your own. Come join the celebration—we
want to hear from you!
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