Lyric Opera 2018-2019 Issue 7 La Boheme #2

L Y R I C O P E R A O F C H I C A G O January 10 - 31, 2019 | 21 • 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 STEFANO SARZANI* (January 31) 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 JERAD MOSBEY (January 31) Musical Preparation SUSAN MILLER HULT JERAD MOSBEY MATTHEW PIATT ERIC WEIMER Projected English Titles KENNETH CHALMERS * Lyric conducting 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