Lyric Opera 2018-2019 Issue 7 La Boheme #2

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 January 10 - 31, 2019 | 25 Chicago, exemplifying the highest level of choral singing with an emphasis on excellence and diversity. Vocality debuted in 2015 at the Ravinia Festival in Porgy and Bess with the CSO and performed in the area premiere of Bernstein’s MASS in July, along with CCC members. Lee was recently featured in “The Transformative Power of Music,” a segment on the Oprah Winfrey Network’s show, Super Soul Sunday. SARAH FAHIE (Original Movement Director) Previously at Lyric: La bohème (Oct. 2018 performances). The Australian choreographer and director is closely associated with the Royal Opera, Covent Garden, where she debuted reviving Linda Dobell’s movement for Eugene Onegin (2008). She has subsequently worked as movement director for The Gambler , Il tabarro , Suor Angelica and Philip Venables’s 4.48 Psychosis , and on the revivals of Rigoletto and Gianni Schicchi , and as revival director for Il tabarro and Suor Angelica . Movement credits include Peter Grimes (La Scala), Rodelinda and Don Giovanni (English National Opera, Bolshoi Theatre), Der Rosenkavalier (Glyndebourne), Rumpelstiltskin (Birmingham Contemporary Music Group), Don Giovanni (Bergen National Opera and Northern Ireland Opera), Capriccio (Grange Park Opera), Hänsel und Gretel , Semele and The Skating Rink (Garsington Opera), Aida (Royal Albert Hall), La traviata and La bohème (Opera Holland Park), The Bartered Bride (Mid Wales Opera) and, in theater, The Trial (Young Vic). Credits as revival director include Der Rosenkavalier and Falstaff (Glyndebourne) and Rumpelstiltskin (Birmingham Contemporary Music Group). An alumna of the University of Melbourne and London Contemporary Dance School, Fahie received a Jerwood Foundation Choreography Award in 2003. DANIELLE URBAS (Revival Movement Director) Previously at Lyric: La bohème (Oct. 2018 performances). The British director/ choreographer, who trained as an actress at the Drama Centre London, appeared onstage, on television, and in films before making her directorial debut with Emily Howard’s opera Zatopek! , part of the New Music Festival 2012. Her most recent productions are Beverley Andrews’s Awa’s Journey , in collaboration with Union Dance in London, and a newly developed piece at the recent Tête à Tête Opera Festival. She assisted director Antony McDonald on Thomas Adès’s Powder Her Face for NI Opera and recently debuted at Irish National Opera directing that production’s revival. She previously assisted McDonald at Wide Open Opera, NI Opera, Opéra National du Rhin, and Grange Park Opera. She also regularly assists Oliver Mears, director of opera at London’s Royal Opera, on a highly diverse repertoire for companies including Tête à Tête Opera Festival, Northern Ireland Opera, and Scottish Opera, among others. She revived Mears’s production of The Turn of the Scre w for Moscow’s Novaya Opera, and also served as assistant movement director on La bohème at the Royal Opera and revival movement director for the same production at Madrid’s Teatro Real and the Royal Opera. SARAH HATTEN (Wigmaster and Makeup Designer) Wigmaster and makeup designer since 2011/12. Lyric’s wigmaster and makeup designer has worked in a wide repertoire at Des Moines Metro Opera and Michigan Opera Theatre, as well as Columbus Opera, Toledo Opera, the Cabrillo Music Festival, and the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music. She has also worked at the Glimmerglass Festival and the major opera companies of Los Angeles, Omaha, Cleveland, Sarasota, and Central City, as well as Wisconsin’s American Players Theatre and, in Los Angeles, the Pantages Theatre and the Geffen Playhouse. Hatten earned a B. A. in music at Simpson College. Sarah Hatten is the Marlys Beider Wigmaster and Makeup Designer Endowed Chair . SIMON IORIO (Associate Director) Previously at Lyric: La bohème (Oct. 2018 performances). The London-born director originally trained as a singer. He has worked on productions at the Royal Opera House, Glyndebourne Festival Opera/ Glyndebourne Tour, and Teatro Real, Madrid, with directors such as Richard Jones, Sir David McVicar, Laurent Pelly, and Keith Warner. In 2017 he was associate revival director on Così fan tutte for the Glyndebourne Tour. Directing credits include Monteverdi’s L'incoronazione di Poppea , Howard Moody’s Push for The Battle Festival/Glyndebourne, Offenbach’s Orpheus in the Underworld for Trinity Laban at Blackheath Halls, Bernstein’s Trouble in Tahiti and Wolf-Ferrari’s Susanna’s Secret for The Little Opera Company. He has directed opera scenes at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, where he is a visiting professor of stagecraft and acting. He has also directed opera scenes for the Royal Academy of Music and Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music, and has delivered workshops for the Jerwood Young Artists program at Glyndebourne. Future plans include directing the world premiere of Howard Moody’s Agreed for Glyndebourne, and assisting Sir David McVicar on I masnadieri at La Scala in Milan. Join us at Lyric Opera House as we sing and celebrate ABBA with Choir! Choir! Choir! this February! Participants will be sorted into vocal parts and given a song sheet of music, and in just 90 minutes, a beautiful choir will emerge. ARE YOU READY TO SING, CHICAGO? February 15, 2019 at 8pm Tickets just $25 Standing room event in the Rice Grand Foyer lyricopera.org/choir PHOTO:JACLYNSIMPSON