Lyric Opera 2018-2019 Issue 5 Il Travatore

L Y R I C O P E R A O F C H I C A G O November 17 - December 9, 2018 | 23 • Additional costumes provided by Seams Unlimited. • Scenery constructed and painted in Wales by Cardiff Theatrical Services, Ellen Street, Cardiff, Wales, U. K. • Lyric Opera of Chicago gratefully acknowledges the support of the NIB Foundation Italian Opera Endowed Chair and the Guild Board of Directors Verdi Endowed Chair. • Lyric Opera of Chicago wishes to thank its Official Airline, American Airlines. • Projected English titles © 1993 by Francis Rizzo. • This season’s projected English titles are funded in part by a generous grant from the Lloyd E. Rigler-Lawrence E. Deutsch Foundation. Ferrando ROBERTO TAGLIAVINI* Inez LAUREN DECKER° Leonora TAMARA WILSON* Count di Luna ARTUR RUCIŃSKI* Manrico RUSSELL THOMAS Azucena JAMIE BARTON An Old Gypsy KENNETH NICHOLS A Messenger TYLER SAMUEL LEE* Ruiz MARIO ROJAS° Conductor MARCO ARMILIATO Original Director SIR DAVID M C VICAR Revival Director ROY RALLO* Set Designer CHARLES EDWARDS Costume Designer BRIGITTE REIFFENSTUEL Original Lighting Designer JENNIFER TIPTON Revival Lighting Designer CHRIS MARAVICH Chorus Master MICHAEL BLACK Wigmaster and Makeup Designer SARAH HATTEN Assistant Director JORDAN LEE BRAUN Stage Manager RACHEL C. HENNEBERRY Stage Band Conductor STEFANO SARZANI Musical Preparation GRANT LOEHNIG MATTHEW PIATT Fight Director NICK SANDYS Projected English Titles FRANCIS RIZZO * Lyric debut ° Current member, The Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan Opera Center Giuseppe Verdi IL TROVATORE Libretto by Salvadore Cammarano (with additions by Leone Emanuele Bardare), after Antonio García Gutiérrez’s play El trovador First performed at the Teatro Apollo, Rome, on January 19, 1853 First performed by Lyric Opera on November 5, 1955 Characters in order of vocal appearance: Actors : BRIAN BARBER, JACOB BARNES, JACOB BATES, JON BEAL, THOMAS BOETTCHER, CHUCK COYL, WESLEY DANIEL, KEITH DUTTON, DAVID GONZALEZ, MARCKARTHUR JOHNSON, MATTHEW KUHLMAN, MARK LANCASTER, KURT MERRILL, JOSHUA MOANEY, MICHAEL SAUBERT, JR., STEPHAN SCALABRINO, PHILIP SOULIDES, KAI YOUNG