Lyric Opera 2018-2019 Issue 6 Il Travatore

L Y R I C O P E R A O F C H I C A G O December 1, 2018 - January 20, 2019 | 23 Pandolfe DEREK WELTON*** Mme. de la Haltière ELIZABETH BISHOP* Noémie EMILY POGORELC*° Dorothée KAYLEIGH DECKER° Lucette (Cendrillon) SIOBHAN STAGG** Fairy Godmother MARIE-EVE MUNGER* Master of Ceremonies CHRISTOPHER KENNEY*° Dean of the Faculty JOSH LOVELL° First Minister DAVID WEIGEL° Prince Charming ALICE COOTE e King ALAN HIGGS° Royal Herald HOSS BROCK Spirits DESIRÉE HASSLER, RACHAEL HOLZHAUSEN, KIMBERLY McCORD, MAIA SURACE, LAURIE VASSALLI, CORINNE WALLACE-CRANE Conductor SIR ANDREW DAVIS FRANCESCO MILIOTO* (January 11) Director LAURENT PELLY* Set Designer BARBARA DE LIMBURG* Costume Designer LAURENT PELLY Lighting Designer DUANE SCHULER Chorus Master MICHAEL BLACK Original Choreographer LAURA SCOZZI* Revival Choreographer KARINE GIRARD* Ballet Mistress AUGUST TYE Wigmaster and Makeup Designer SARAH HATTEN Associate Director BENOÎT DE LEERSNYDER* Assistant Director MO ZHOU* Stage Manager JOHN W. COLEMAN Musical Preparation WILLIAM C. BILLINGHAM ARAM DEMIRJIAN*°° JERAD MOSBEY Prompter SUSAN MILLER HULT Projected English Titles KENNETH CHALMERS * Lyric debut ** American debut *** American operatic debut ° Current member, e Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan Opera Center °° Solti Fellow Lyric Premiere Jules Massenet CENDRILLON A fairytale in four acts in French Libretto by Henri Cain, based on Charles Perrault’s fairytale of the same name (published in Contes de ma mère l’oye , 1698) First performed at the Opéra Comique (Salle Favart), Paris, May 24, 1899 First performed by Lyric on December 1, 2018 Cast in order of vocal appearance: Solo Dancers: DJANGO ALLEGRETTI*, JAIME BORKAN*, KRISTIAN BROOKS, JOSEPH A. HERNANDEZ*, ANTONIO LUIS MONTALVO*, JIMI LOC NGUYEN, ELA OLARTE*, ANDREA PUGLIESE*, JACQUELINE STEWART, LUIZ VAZQUEZ* Actors: PHILLIP CHRISTIAN, JACK DECESARE, BOBBY DUNCALF, IAN MICHAEL MINH, MICHAEL TURRENTINE • By arrangement with G. Schirmer, Inc. publisher and copyright owner. • Produced in association with the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, London, Gran Teatre del Liceu, Barcelona, éâtre Royal de la Monnaie, Brussels, and Opéra de Lille. is production was first performed at e Santa Fe Opera. • Additional costumes by Seams Unlimited. • Costume Supervisor: Timmy Church. • Lyric Opera of Chicago gratefully acknowledges the support of the W. James and Maxine P. Farrell French Opera Endowed Chair. • Lyric Opera of Chicago wishes to thank its Official Airline, American Airlines. • Projected English titles by Kenneth Chalmers © 2011 Royal Opera House Covent Garden. • is season’s projected English titles are funded in part by a generous grant from the Lloyd E. Rigler-Lawrence E. Deutsch Foundation.