The Dallas Opera 2021-2022 - Madame Butterfly/Flight

13 MADAME BUTTERFLY Laurie Feldman , Director The director has been closely associated with San Francisco Opera since the 1984/85 season. In addition to her own new production of Rossini’s Otello at SFO, she has created new staging for the company’s Lohengrin and La bohème and has been both revival director ( Mefistofele , Die Walküre , La traviata ) and associate director ( Luisa Miller, Götterdämmerung ). The more than 35 San Francisco Opera productions that she has assistant-directed range stylistically from Monteverdi’s Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria to Wagner’s Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg and Janá č ek’s Jen ů fa . Feldman has been revival director for Metropolitan Opera productions by such distinguished directors as Otto Schenk, Elijah Moshinsky, Franco Zeffirelli, Piero Faggioni, Giancarlo Del Monaco, John Copley, Jean-Pierre Ponnelle, and Jonathan Miller. She has directed La bohème for Utah Opera, and her production of Salome was seen at Turin’s Teatro Regio during the 2017/18 season. European credits also include remounting Robert Carsen’s production of The Makropulos Case at Strasbourg’s Opéra National du Rhin and, in Turin, Giulio Cesare , originally directed by Laurent Pelly, and Carmen , originally directed by Jean-Pierre Ponnelle. Michael Yeargan , Set and Costume Design The celebrated American designer’s work has been hailed at TDO in eight productions, beginning with Hansel and Gretel (1990/91). His designs for Madame Butterfly were previously seen here in 2000/01, 2009/10, and 2016/17. Yeargan’s acclaimed designs for plays and musicals include Broadway productions of Seascape , The Light in the Piazza (for which Yeargan received a Tony Award in 2005), South Pacific , Awake and Sing, Ah, Wilderness , and Joe Turner’s Come and Gone (the latter two originated at Yale Repertory Theatre). He has designed numerous productions off-Broadway and in major regional theaters throughout North America, such as the Long Wharf (New Haven), the Guthrie (Minneapolis), the Goodman, and Steppenwolf (both in Chicago), and the Stratford Festival (Canada). Yeargan’s work in opera has been seen at the Metropolitan Opera and the major opera companies of Seattle, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Houston, as well as in London, Paris, Frankfurt, and Sydney, among many other venues. For many years he has been the longtime resident set designer of Yale Repertory Theatre and Professor of Stage Design at Yale School of Drama. Duane Schuler , Lighting Design Lyric Opera of Chicago’s former resident lighting designer is associated with many of the world’s most prestigious opera companies. At Lyric, he designed more than 140 productions. Among his other major achievements in recent seasons have been productions at the Vienna State Opera ( Lucia di Lammermoor ), The Santa Fe Opera ( Jen ů fa ), and Dutch National Opera ( La Cenerentola ). In addition to more than 25 productions at the Metropolitan Opera, Schuler’s work has been seen at Glyndebourne, the Salzburg Festival, Dresden’s Semperoper, and the major opera houses of Barcelona, Paris, and Berlin as well as Japan’s Saito Kinen Festival, among many other companies. Schuler has also designed lighting for Broadway ( The Importance of Being Earnest ) and for American Ballet Theatre. He is a founding partner of Schuler Shook, a theater planning and architectural lighting design firm. Among their projects have been, in Seattle, Marion Oliver McCaw Hall and the Seattle Opera Center; in New York, Lincoln Center’s David H. Koch Theater; and, in Beverly Hills, the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts.