Lyric Opera 2018-2019 Issue 11 Ariodante

P R O F I L E S | L Y R I C O P E R A O F C H I C A G O March 2 - 17, 2019 | 23 Philharmonia Orchestra. e bass-baritone has appeared with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in Stravinsky’s Pulcinella under Boulez (CD) and Berlioz’s Lélio under Muti. ERIC FERRING (Lurcanio) Previously at Lyric: Young Servant/ Elektra (2018/19). The Iowa-born tenor, a first-year Ryan Opera Center member, is an alum- nus of Drake University and Boston Conservatory. As a Resident Artist at Pittsburgh Opera (2016/17, 2017/18), he appeared as Spoletta/ Tosca , Basilio and Curzio/ e Marriage of Figaro , Ricky/Jeremy Howard Beck's e Long Walk , Flask/ Jake Heggie’s Moby Dick , Nemorino/ L’elisir d’amore , and e Protagonist/ Douglas J. Cuomo’s one-man opera Ashes and Snow (world premiere, based on Wilhelm Müller’s Winterreise poetry). Ferring was a 2017 apprentice singer at e Santa Fe Opera, where he received the Richard Tucker Memorial Award. He has also been seen at Opera eatre of Saint Louis, Wolf Trap Opera, and Seagle Music Colony. In 2017/18 he received a Sara Tucker Study Grant from the Richard Tucker Foundation, a Career Grant from the Sullivan Foundation, and ird Prize in the Gerda Lissner Foundation International Voice Competition. In 2015, Opera eatre of Saint Louis presented Ferring with a career award from the Richard Gaddes Fund for Young Artists. Eric Ferring is sponsored by Richard O. Ryan, Stepan Company, and Cynthia Vahlkamp and Robert Kenyon. JOSH LOVELL (Odoardo) Previously at Lyric: Fourth role since 2017/18, most recently Dean of the Faculty/ Cendrillon, First Trojan Man/ Idomeneo (both 2018/19); Emperor Altoum/ Turandot (2017/18). e Canadian tenor, a second-year Ryan Opera Center member, was recently named the Grand Prize and Opera Prize winner at the 52nd Annual International Vocal Competition s-Hertogenbosch. In summer 2018 he performed Count Almaviva/ e Barber of Seville (Aspen Music Festival) and DonOttavio/ Don Giovanni (Italy’s NewGeneration Festival). Past performances include Ferrando/ Così fan tutte (Ryan Opera Center, also the University of Michigan, of which he is an alumnus); Lysander/ A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Rinuccio/ Gianni Schicchi (University of Michigan); and Normanno/ Lucia di Lammermoor and Bardolfo/ Falstaff (Pacific Opera Victoria). Lovell has participated in the Britten-Pears Young Artist Programme and San Francisco Opera’s Merola Opera Program. He debuts this season with Music of the Baroque, the International Music Foundation, Apollo Chorus, and I Musici de Montréal. Among his many awards are 2nd place in the Dallas Opera Vocal Competition and semifinalist in the 2017 Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions. Later this year, he will join the ensemble of the Vienna State Opera. Josh Lovell is sponsored by Maurice J. and Patricia Frank . KATE COLEBROOK (Puppeteer, Associate Puppetry Director) Lyric debut e English actress gradu- ated from the Guildford School of Acting and began her career in London por- traying two Shakespeare heroines: Isabella/ Measure for Measure for the Sam Wanamaker Festival at Shakespeare’s Globe eatre and Desdemona/ Othello with the Icarus eatre Collective. She has subsequently been seen as Sybil Vane/ A Portrait of Dorian Grey (Leicester Square eatre), the Duck/ Duck, Death and the Tulipi ( e Unicorn eatre), Papandiek/ e Madness of George the ird ( e Original eatre Company in Bury St. Edmunds), and Ophelia/ Hamlet (Tivoli eatre Dublin). She also appeared as Emilie and Baby Joey/ War Horse at the National eatre. Colebrook has been directed by such distinguished figures of British theatre as Richard Jones ( Ariodante , Festival d’Aix-en-Provence), Matthew Warchus ( Groundhog Day: e Musical) , e Old Vic), Sir Nicholas Hyt- ner (National eatre’s 50th Anniversary Perfor- mance) and Sir Trevor Nunn (Betty/ Flare Path , Royal Haymarket eatre). She was recently seen in La princesse légère at the Opéra Comique in Paris. Among her film credits are WW1 Remembered (BBC2), e Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret (Channel 4), and Versailles (Canal Plus). SAM CLARK (Puppeteer) Lyric debut e British actor has previously been seen in Richard Jones’s production of Ariodante at the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, the Dutch National Opera in Amsterdam, and the Canadian Opera Company in Toronto. He was also seen in A Dog’s Heart , a coproduction of London’s English National Opera and Complicité. Other theater work in London includes productions at the Old Vic ( e Missing Light ), the Young Vic ( e Space Between ), the National eatre ( War Horse , seen on the West-End), Little Angel eatre ( e Steadfast Tin Soldier ), Mercury eatre ( e Butterfly Lion ), Applecart Arts ( Buckets by David Emmings ), and two shows for the Jersey Arts Trust’s New Plays Project. Clark is an alumnus of London’s highly prestigious Central School of Speech and Drama, where his roles included Laërtes/ Hamlet , Marcel/ Remembrance of ings Past , and Garry Essendine/ Noël Coward’s Present Laughter . TOMMY LUTHER (Puppeteer) Lyric debut e actor/puppeteer was born in Porto, Portugal, and studied acting at the London Academy of Dramatic Art. As an actor he has worked for the Festival d'Aix-en-Provence and Canadian Opera Company ( Ariodante ), subsequently produced at the Canadian Opera Company), Glyndebourne (Annabel Arden’s production of e Barber of Seville , also at the Royal Albert Hall for the BBC Proms), Dutch National Opera ( A Dog’s Heart ), Royal National eatre, New London eatre, Edinburgh Fringe, the Chichester Festival, Porto’s Casa da Música, and TED talks (Long Beach 2011). As associate director of puppetry for Handspring Puppet Company and the National eatre, he has directed the puppetry for five productions of War Horse (Beijing, Shanghai, Toronto, London, “NT Live” production in cine- mas worldwide). He created the movement and puppetry for the demons and ice bears in e Golden Compass . Luther also works as an acrobat, is involved in several musical projects, and has written and directed numerous plays. JOHN TRINDLE (Puppeteer) Lyric debut e British actor was previously seen in Ariodante in the Canadian Opera Company’s 2016 presenta- tion of Richard Jones’s production. Among his most recent London credits have been Billy/ e Hartlepool Monkey at Fuel eatre; Bud/ Sweet Bird of Youth at the Old Vic, directed by Marianne Elliott; Billy/ War Horse (two years) in Elliott’s National eatre production; and Darren /Wild Horses ( eatre 503). He has also been seen as Curley/ Of Mice and Men at the West Yorkshire Playhouse and in the U.K. tour of Equus . On Britain’s Channel 4 he appeared in Paul Berczeller’s documentary Letters from a Forgotten Army .