Lyric Opera 2019-2020 Issue 3 Luisa Miller

Lyric Opera of Chicago | 23 AUGUST TYE | CHOREOGRAPHER Previously at Lyric: 39 productions since 1993/94 as dancer, choreographer, or ballet mistress, most recently Cendrillon (2018/19); The Pearl Fishers , Orphée et Eurydice (both 2017/18). The American dancer-choreographer remounted the choreography of Lyric’s Iphigénie en Tauride at San Francisco Opera and London’s Royal Opera. She has presented a 20-year retrospective of her work at Chicago’s Vittum Theater and Ruth Page Dance Center, as well as in her hometown, Kalamazoo, Michigan. A graduate of Western Michigan University, Tye performed with The Kalamazoo Ballet, dancing leading roles in Sleeping Beauty , Cinderella , and The Nutcracker . She received Regional Dance America’s Best Young Choreographer Award and is a two-time recipient of the Monticello Young Choreographer’s Award. She has performed in Chicago with Lyric, Joel Hall Dancers, Salt Creek Ballet, Second City Ballet, and Chicago Folks Operetta. Tye is artistic director at the Hyde Park School of Dance, which she founded in 1993. Four years later she founded Tyego Dance Project, which has performed at Steppenwolf, the Athenaeum, and throughout America in a revival of Spike Jones’s Nutcracker . SARAH HATTEN | WIGMASTER & MAKEUP DESIGNER 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. KATRINA BACHUS | ASSOCIATE STAGE DIRECTOR Previously at Lyric: Five productions as assistant director since 2016/17, most recently Siegfried (2018/19); Die Walküre , Orpheé et Eurydice (both 2017/18). The American director, who will return to Lyric later this season for the Ring cycle, is closely associated with Houston Grand Opera. She has worked on more than 20 productions there since 2013/14, including both standard repertoire and contemporary works. The latter have included the world premieres of Tarik O’Regan’s The Phoenix , Carlisle Floyd’s The Prince of Players ,and Iain Bell’s A Christmas Carol . Bachus returns to HGO this season for La favorite . After working with John Neumeier on Orphée et Eurydiceat Lyric, she was associate director for that production at LA Opera in 2018. She has also assistant-directed Bartlett Sher’s new Metropolitan Opera production of Otello . Among the other distinguished directors with whom she has collaborated are John Caird, Francesca Zambello, John Cox, Carlos Padrissa, and James Robinson.