Lyric Opera 2019-2020 Issue 4 Dead Man Walking

Lyric Opera of Chicago | 23 Opera, Asheville Lyric Opera, Opera North, and the Brevard Music Center. David Weigel is sponsored by Lois B. Siegel, Michael and Salme Harju Steinberg, and Mrs. J. W. Van Gorkom. ANTHONY REED | SECOND PRISON GUARD Lyric debut A first-year member of the Ryan Opera Center, the bass returns to the Lyric stage later this season in Madama Butterfly and The Queen of Spades . Reed was recently seen at Wolf Trap Opera as Friar Laurence/ Romeo and Juliet . A former Adler Fellow at San Francisco Opera, he has appeared there in Aida , The Magic Flute , and La traviata , among other roles. Additionally, his repertory encompasses such major roles as Sarastro/ The Magic Flute , Don Magnifico/ La Cenerentola , and Don Basilio/ The Barber of Seville . He has performed with some of the world’s most esteemed conductors, among them Nicola Luisotti and Donald Runnicles. Reed is an alumnus of the Curtis Institute of Music and the Merola Opera Program. Anthony Reed is sponsored by J. Thomas Hurvis . EMILY POGORELC | A PARALEGAL Previously at Lyric: Confidante/ Elektra , Noémie/ Cendrillon (both 2018/19). The soprano, a Milwaukee native and second-year Ryan Opera Center member, returns to the Lyric stage later this season in The Queen of Spades . Among her major successes have been Cunegonde/ Candide (Washington National Opera); Romilda/ Xerxes , Berenice/ L’occasione fa il ladro , and Johanna/ Sweeney Todd (all at The Glimmerglass Festival); and Chan Parker/ Charlie Parker’s Yardbird (New York’s Apollo Theater). She has also appeared at Carnegie Hall in Berio’s Sinfonia . In 2018 Pogorelc received the Ginette Theano Prize for Most Promising Talent at the inaugural Glyndebourne Opera Cup competition. She has participated in England’s Britten-Pears Programme and at the Aix-en-Provence Festival’s Mozart Residency. The soprano is a graduate of the Curtis Institute of Music. She has received first prize in numerous competitions, including The Carolyn Bailey and Dominick Argento Vocal Competition. Emily Pogorelc is sponsored by Sally and Michael Feder , Ms. Gay K. Stanek , and Jennifer L. Stone . ARI KRAIMAN | A TEENAGE GIRL Lyric debut The actress has been seen at The August Wilson Center (Tilly/ She Kills Monsters ), Williamstown Theatre Festival (Grandchild/ Once Upon a Time …, Prisoner/ Far Away ), Clock Productions (Becca/ Six Views of Love ), Cuckoo’s Theatre Project (Kaliope/ She Kills Monsters ), and Chicago’s Babes with Blades Theater Company (Tilly/ The Lady Demands ). She has also appeared in The Hunchback of Notre Dame at PittsburghMusical Theater and, at the University of Pittsburgh – of which she is a recent alumna, in suchmajor roles as Tytania/ AMidsummer Night’s Dream and Saraghina/ Nine . She has trainedwith the Society of American Fight Directors and is a former participant in both theWilliamstown Theatre Festival Professional Training Program and the Stella Adler Summer Conservatory. MILES BORCHARD | A TEENAGE BOY Lyric debut The actor has appeared in a wide variety of roles at the Patrick O’Malley Theatre at Roosevelt University. He was featured there as John Buchanan/ Summer and Smoke , Tonino and Zanetto/ The Venetian Twins , and David Kingsley/ Stage Door , and also portrayed Theseus/ A Midsummer Night’s Dream , Prof. Claude Knight/ Good Night Desdemona ( Good Morning Juliet ), and Max/ Cabaret . Borchard starred earlier this year at Chicago’s Greenhouse Theater Center as Paul Morel/ Sons and Lovers . He has appeared on film in leading roles for DePaul Productions, Philhouse Productions, and SHOED! Productions. Borchard graduated with a bachelor of fine arts degree in acting from the Chicago College of Performing Arts. CHICAGO CHILDREN’S CHOIR Previously at Lyric: 11 productions since 2000/01, most recently La bohème (2018/19); Turandot (2017/18). Chicago Children’s Choir (Josephine Lee, president and artistic director) is the nation’s preeminent youth choral organization, serving 5,200 students across the city of Chicago. Founded in Hyde Park in direct response to the Civil Rights Movement in 1956, CCC has grown from one choir into a vast network of in-school and after-school programs driven by one mission: to inspire and change lives through music. CCC has impacted the lives of more than 50,000 diverse youth throughout its 62-year history. Since its founding, CCC has focused on building programs that reflect the racial and economic diversity of Chicago. Eighty percent of youth served are from low-moderate income homes, with over 4,000 students annually participating completely free of charge. All singers in CCC programs receive some level of subsidy. High-school seniors enrolled in CCC have a 100% graduation and college acceptance rate, becoming global ambassadors who carry on CCC’s core values in a wide array of professional fields. NICOLE PAIEMENT | CONDUCTOR Lyric debut Nicole Paiement is an internationally recognized conductor of contemporary music and opera. She is the artistic director of Opera Parallèle in San Francisco and the principal guest conductor at The Dallas Opera. Also an active guest conductor, Paiement recently appeared with Seattle Opera, Glimmerglass Festival (2016-2018) and the Washington National Opera. Earlier this year she conducted the world premiere of Jake Heggie’s latest work, If I Were You , with San Francisco’s Merola Opera Program. In 2020, Opera Parallèle will present a new version of Stewart Wallace’s Harvey Milk in San Francisco with Paiement at the helm. Other upcoming engagements include George Benjamin’s Written on Skin at L’Opéra de Montréal, a return to The Dallas Opera for a double bill of Poulenc’s La voix humaine and Stravinsky’s Pulcinella , and a debut with the BBC Symphony Orchestra with Joby Talbot’s Everest at the