Lyric Opera 2019-2020 Issue 1 Millennium Park Program

16 including those of Chicago, Philadelphia, Boston, Cleveland, New York, Berlin, and Munich. He premiered an acclaimed song cycle, Tyshawn Sorey and Terrance Hayes’s Cycles of My Being , in Philadelphia, repeated in Chicago and at Carnegie Hall. MARIANNE CREBASSA returns to Lyric this season as Rosina/ The Barber of Seville , having previously been heard here in Così fan tutte and Romeo and Juliet . The French mezzo-soprano will be occupied for much of 2019/20 with Mozart, including Cherubino/ The Marriage of Figaro (Met, Berlin) and Dorabella (Berlin, Vienna). Among other recent successes are Irene/Handel’s Tamerlano and the title role/ La Cenerentola (La Scala, the latter also for her return to the Opéra National de Paris), Orphée/ Orphée et Eurydice (Paris’s Opéra Comique), and Mélisande/ Pelléas et Mélisande (Berlin State Opera). Crebassa debuted at the Salzburg Festival as Handel’s Irene and returned as Cecilio/ Lucio Silla , the title role/Marc Andre Dalbavie’s Charlotte Salomon (world premiere), and Sesto/ La clemenza di Tito . Further appearances have included Cherubino (Berlin, Vienna, Amsterdam, La Scala) and Cecilio/ Lucio Silla (La Scala debut). Crebassa’s solo recitals on CD have earned the Echo Klassik Award for Solo Recording (Voice) and the Gramophone Award. KAYLEIGH DECKER , a second-year Ryan Opera Center member, appears at Lyric this season as Kate Pinkerton/ Madama Butter y , after previous appearances in Cendrillon and Idomeneo . The mezzo-soprano is an alumna of the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music and the Oberlin Conservatory. At CCM Opera she sang leading roles in Idomeneo , Cendrillon , and The Cunning Little Vixen . Decker has also performed at The Glimmerglass Festival, Cincinnati Chamber Opera, Queen City Opera, and Oberlin Opera Theatre. A former Gerdine Young Artist at Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, she participated last season at Carnegie Hall. Decker has also appeared in concert with the St. Louis Symphony. Among her numerous honors are the Sara Tucker Study Grant and a 2019 Luminarts fellowship. Kayleigh Decker is sponsored by The C.G. Pinnell Family. MATHILDA EDGE , a rst-year Ryan Opera Center member, debuts at Lyric this season as Berta/ The Barber of Seville and will return as Gerhilde/ Die Walküre . An Illinois native, Edge has been heard at Indiana University as Butter y, Fiordiligi, Romilda/ Xerxes , and the First Lady/ The Magic Flute . Most recently, she was a recipient of a prestigious Sara Tucker Study Grant through the Richard Tucker Music Foundation. In 2016 she received third place in the NATS Artist Award Competition and the Washington International Competition for Voice. Also in 2016, she won Milwaukee’s Bel Canto Chorus Regional Artist Competition, subsequently singing Elijah with the BCC. A two-time winner in the Indiana District’s Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, she received the Georgina Joshi Fellowship through Indiana University’s Jacobs School of Music. Mathilda Edge is sponsored by Maurice J. and Patricia Frank. ERIC FERRING , a second-year Ryan Opera Center member, appears at Lyric this season in The Barber of Seville , Dead Man Walking , and The Queen of Spades . He earned critical praise last season as Lurcanio/ Ariodante (Lyric premiere) and was also heard in La traviata and Elektra . The Iowa-born tenor, previously a Resident Artist at Pittsburgh Opera and an apprentice singer at The Santa Fe Opera (Richard Tucker Memorial Award), has also performed with Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, Wolf Trap Opera, and Seagle Music Colony. He has received the Best Vocal Artist award from the American Opera Society of Chicago, a Sara Tucker Study Grant from the Richard Tucker Foundation, a Sullivan Foundation Career Grant. This summer he participated in the prestigious Britten-Pears and Aix-en-Provence Festival young-artist programs. Eric Ferring is sponsored by Richard O. Ryan and Cynthia Vahlkamp and Robert Kenyon .