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L Y R I C O P E R A O F C H I C A G O
October 6 - 20, 2018
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• A coproduction between Lyric
Opera of Chicago, Royal Opera House
Covent Garden, and Teatro Real Madrid.
• Lyric Opera of Chicago gratefully
acknowledges the support of The NIB
Foundation Italian Opera Endowed
Chair and the Mary Patricia Gannon
Puccini Endowed Chair.
• Lyric Opera of Chicago wishes
to thank its Official Airline, American
Airlines.
• English surtitles by Kenneth
Chalmers 2017© Royal Opera House,
Covent Garden.
• This season’s projected English titles
are funded in part by a generous grant
from the Lloyd E. Rigler-Lawrence E.
Deutsch Foundation.
• Additional costumes provided by:
Seams Unlimited, Steppenwolf Costume
Shop, Uber Costume, and Laura
Whitlock.
• Children's eye wear provided by
Dr. Adam Black of Couture Vision,
Naperville, IL.
Marcello
ZACHARY NELSON
Rodolfo
MICHAEL FABIANO*
Colline
ADRIAN SÂMPETREAN
Schaunard
RICARDO JOSÉ RIVERA*°
Benoît
JAKE GARDNER
Mimì
MARIA AGRESTA
Prune Man
GEOFFREY AGPALO
Parpignol
MARIO ROJAS°
Alcindoro
JAKE GARDNER
Musetta
DANIELLE
DE
NIESE
Sergeant
NIKOLAS WENZEL
Customs Guard
RONALD WATKINS
Conductor
DOMINGO HINDOYAN*
Director
RICHARD JONES
Set and Costume Designer
STEWART LAING*
Lighting Designer
MIMI JORDAN SHERIN
Chorus Master
MICHAEL BLACK
Children’s Chorus Master
JOSEPHINE LEE
Original Movement Director
SARAH FAHIE*
Revival Movement Director
DANIELLE URBAS*
Wigmaster and Makeup Designer
SARAH HATTEN
Associate Director
SIMON IORIO*
Assistant Director
JORDAN LEE BRAUN
Stage Manager
JOHN W. COLEMAN
Stage Band Conductor
STEFANO SARZANI
Musical Preparation
SUSAN MILLER HULT
JERAD MOSBEY
MATTHEW PIATT
ERIC WEIMER
Projected English Titles
KENNETH CHALMERS*
*
Lyric Debut
°
Current member,
The Patrick G. and Shirley W.
Ryan Opera Center
New Coproduction
Giacomo Puccini
LA BOHÈME
Opera in four acts in Italian
Libretto by Giuseppe Giacosa and Luigi Illica,
after Henry Murger’s novel,
Scènes de la vie de Bohème
First performed at the Teatro Regio, Turin on February 1, 1896
First performed by Lyric Opera on November 6, 1954
Characters in order of vocal appearance
:
CHICAGO CHILDREN’S CHOIR
Actors
:
Jacob Bates, Emma Jo Boyden, John Byrnes, Phillip Christian, Katherine Coyl,
Jack DeCesare, Bobby Duncalf, Jodi Gage, Matthew Kuhlman, Gary Mcmillan, Jr.,
Kirk Osgood, Philip Soulides, Jake Stempel, Kai Young