Lyric Opera 2018-2019 Issue 11 Ariodante

L Y R I C O P E R A O F C H I C A G O March 2 - 17, 2019 | 21 • Used by arrangement with European American Music Distributors Company, U.S. and Canadian agent for Baerenreiter-Verlag, publisher and copyright owner. • Production of the Festival d’Aix-en- Provence, in coproduction with Dutch National Opera, Amsterdam; Canadian Opera Company, Toronto; and Lyric Opera of Chicago. • Lyric Opera of Chicago gratefully acknowledges the support of the Anonymous Donor Baroque Opera Endowed Chair. • Lyric Opera of Chicago wishes to thank its Official Airline, American Airlines. Ginevra BRENDA RAE* Dalinda HEIDI STOBER Polinesso IESTYN DAVIES Ariodante ALICE COOTE King of Scotland KYLE KETELSEN Odoardo JOSH LOVELL° Lurcanio ERIC FERRING° Conductor HARRY BICKET Original Director RICHARD JONES Revivial Director BENJAMIN DAVIS* Set and Costume Designer ULTZ* Lighting Designer MIMI JORDAN SHERIN Puppetry Director FINN CALDWELL* Puppetry Designers FINN CALDWELL*, NICK BARNES* Puppetry Costume Designer DULCIE BEST* Chorus Master MICHAEL BLACK Choreographer LUCY BURGE* Associate Puppetry Director KATE COLEBROOK* Wigmaster and Makeup Designer SARAH HATTEN Assistant Director DAVID CARL TOULSON Stage Manager RACHEL A. TOBIAS Continuo Instrumentalists MARK SHULDINER, harpsichord CALUM COOK, cello DAVID WALKER, theorbo Musical Preparation WILLIAM C. BILLINGHAM MATTHEW PIATT ERIC WEIMER Prompter SUSAN MILLER HULT Projected English Titles BÉATRICE ARNAL* * Lyric debut ° Current member, e Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan Opera Center Lyric Premiere New-to-Chicago Production George Frideric Handel ARIODANTE Opera seria in three acts in Italian Anonymous libretto, based on a work by Antonio Salvi adapted from Cantos 5 and 6 of Ludovico Ariosto’s Orlando furioso Edited for the Hallische Händel-Ausgabe by Donald Burrows First performed at Covent Garden, London, on January 8, 1735 First performed by Lyric Opera of Chicago on March 2, 2019 Characters in order of vocal appearance: Puppeteers: SAM CLARK*, KATE COLEBROOK*, TOMMY LUTHER*, JOHN TRINDLE*