Lyric Opera 2018-2019 Issue 8 Elektra

L Y R I C O P E R A O F C H I C A G O February 2 - 22, 2019 | 23 • Costumes constructed by the San Francisco Opera Association. • Scenery constructed by Bay Productions Limited, Cardiff, Wales, U. K. • Lyric Opera of Chicago gratefully acknowledges the support of the Irma Parker German Opera Endowed Chair. • Lyric Opera of Chicago wishes to thank its Official Airline, American Airlines. • Projected titles © 2012 by Lyric Opera of Chicago. • is season’s projected English titles are funded in part by a generous grant from the Lloyd E. Rigler-Lawrence E.Deutsch Foundation. Five Maids LAUREN DECKER° MARY PHILLIPS* KRYSTY SWANN ALEXANDRA LoBIANCO ANN TOOMEY° Overseer SUSAN FOSTER°° Elektra NINA STEMME* Chrysothemis ELZA VAN DEN HEEVER Klytämnestra MICHAELA MARTENS Confidante WHITNEY MORRISON° Trainbearer EMILY POGORELC° Young Servant ERIC FERRING*° Old Servant KENNETH NICHOLS Orest IAIN PATERSON * Orest’s Tutor PHILIP HORST Aegisth ROBERT BRUBAKER* Actors: TYLER GABRIELLE BROWN*, KATHERINE COYL, MARK LANCASTER, JOSHUA MOANEY, MAGGIE CLENNON REBERG, DANIELLA RUKIN, MICHAEL SAUBERT, JR., CHELSEA SHEPHARD, PHILIP SOULIDES, CLAUDIA URBANO*, KAREN ANNE YATES Conductor DONALD RUNNICLES* Original Director SIR DAVID McVICAR Revival Director NICK SANDYS** Set and Costume Designer JOHN MACFARLANE Lighting Designer JENNIFER TIPTON Chorus Master MICHAEL BLACK Wigmaster and Makeup Designer SARAH HATTEN Assistant Director DAVID CARL TOULSON Stage Manager RACHEL A. TOBIAS Musical Preparation WILLIAM C. BILLINGHAM MATTHEW PIATT Prompter SUSAN MILLER HULT Projected English Titles COLIN URE * Lyric debut **Lyric directorial debut ° Current member, e Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan Opera Center °°Alumna, e Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan Opera Center Richard Strauss ELEKTRA Opera in one act in German Libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal, after Sophocles’s tragedy First performed at the Sächsische Staatsoper, Dresden, on January 25, 1909 First performed by Lyric Opera of Chicago on October 10, 1975 Characters in order of vocal appearance: