Lyric Opera 2019-2020 Issue 4 Dead Man Walking

Lyric Opera of Chicago | 24 Barbican Centre, London. Nicole Paiement is sponsored by the Loretta Julian/Julian Family Foundation . LEONARD FOGLIA | DIRECTOR Previously at Lyric: El Pasado Nunca Se Termina (2014/15); Cruzar la Cara de la Luna (2012/13). Leonard Foglia directed the world premieres of Moby-Dick (filmed for PBS), Everest, It’s a Wonderful Life , Cold Mountain , The End of the Affair , Three Decembers , Stonewall , Cruzar la Cara de la Luna/To Cross the Face of the Moon (also librettist), A Coffin in Egypt (also librettist), and El Pasado Nunca Se Termina/The Past Is Never Finished (also librettist). His production of Dead Man Walking , produced by New York City Opera, has been seen across the U.S. and Europe. Broadway productions include Master Class , Wait Until Dark , Thurgood (filmed for HBO), The People in the Picture , On Golden Pond , The Gin Game . Off-Broadway productions include One Touch of Venus , The Stendhal Syndrome , If Memory Serves , About Alice , Let Me Down Easy (filmed for PBS), and Notes From The Field (filmed for HBO). Among the director’s upcoming projects is the world premiere of El Milagro del Recuerdo / The Miracle of Remembering (librettist and director) at Houston Grand Opera in December. MICHAEL McGARTY | SET DESIGNER Lyric debut Michael McGarty set designs for Dead Man Walking have been seen previously at New York City Opera, Cincinnati Opera, Opera Pacific, and most recently the Teatro Real (Madrid). McGarty also designed the world premiere of Jake Heggie’s The End of the Affair (Houston, subsequently Kansas City, Seattle). Broadway productions include Master Class , Wait Until Dark (revival), and Julia Sweeney’s God Said Ha! McGarty has worked extensively in New York and in regional theater nationwide. He has a 36-year association with Trinity Repertory Company in Providence, Rhode Island (where he is a resident designer) and is a resident designer at the Gamm Theatre (Warwick, Rhode Island), where he recently designed Festen (New England premiere) and The Night Watch (American premiere). Recent world premieres include The 27th Man (New York’s Public Theater) and A Tale of Two Cities . McGarty headed the design program at Brown University for 14 years and teaches at Rhode Island School of Design. JESS GOLDSTEIN | COSTUME DESIGNER Lyric debut The designer’s Broadway credits include Jersey Boys , Disney’s Newsies , On the Town , The Rivals (2005 Tony Award), The Merchant of Venice (Tony nomination), Henry IV (Tony nomination), Proof, Love! Valour! Compassion! , Tintypes , Buried Child , How I Learned to Drive , and The Mineola Twins (Lortel and Hewes Awards). Opera designs include Il trittico (Metropolitan Opera), La traviata and Lucia di Lammermoor (Washington National Opera), Two Women and Heart of a Soldier (San Francisco Opera), The End of the Affair (Houston Grand Opera), Dead Man Walking (New York City Opera, Opera Pacific) and Of Mice and Men , Agrippina , and The Pirates of Penzance (New York City Opera, Glimmerglass Festival). Designs for film and television include A Walk on the Moon , The Substance of Fire , and Talking With and Far East for PBS’s Great Performances . Goldstein, the 2015 recipient of the Irene Sharaff Lifetime Achievement Award, is a graduate of the Yale School of Drama. Jess Goldstein is supported by the Richard P. and Susan Kiphart Costume Designer Endowed Chair. BRIAN NASON | LIGHTING DESIGNER Previously at Lyric: Cruzar la Cara de la Luna (2012/13). The lighting designer’s work on Dead Man Walking has been seen at nine companies, among them Houston Grand Opera, New York City Opera, Cincinnati Opera, Pittsburgh Opera, and the Teatro Real de Madrid. Last season Nason returned to San Francisco Opera for Jake Heggie’s It’s a Wonderful Life , also seen in Houston and at Indiana University. Other major credits include A Little Night Music (Houston); West Side Story (La Scala); Salome (New York City Opera, Opera Pacific); and numerous contemporary operas, among them Jake Heggie’s Three Decembers (San Francisco, Houston); Pepe Martínez and Leonard Foglia’s Cruzar la Cara de la Luna (Houston, Fort Worth, San Diego); Ricky Ian Gordon’s A Coffin in Egypt (Chicago, Houston, Philadelphia); and Jennifer Higdon’s Cold Mountain (Santa Fe, Philadelphia, Raleigh). Nason has been nominated for a Tony Award, two Outer Critics Circle Awards, and three Audelco Awards. He has won a Barrymore Award for lighting design. Brian Nason is supported by the Mary-Louise and James S. Aagaard Lighting Director Endowed Chair. ELAINE J. McCARTHY | PROJECTION DESIGNER Previously at Lyric: El Pasado Nunca Se Termina (2014/15). Highlights of the American designer’s work on Broadway include Wicked , Monty Python’s Spamalot , Impressionism , The People in the Picture , Assassins , Man of La Mancha (2002 revival), Into the Woods (2002 revival), Thurgood , and Judgment at Nuremberg . Among McCarthy’s extensive off-Broadway credits are Frequency Hopping (set and projections), Distracted (set and projections), Speaking in Tongues , Suitcase , The Stendhal Syndrome , Once in a Lifetime , and Gloria: A Life . In addition to Dead Man Walking (New York City Opera, subsequently seen nationwide), her association with Jake Heggie’s works includes Great Scott , It’s a Wonderful Life , and Moby-Dick (world premieres, Dallas Opera). Among other world premieres are Jennifer Higdon’s Cold Mountain (The Santa Fe Opera) and Joby Talbot’s Everest (Dallas). McCarthy has designed projections for Tristan und Isolde (Dallas); Mazeppa and War and Peace (both at the Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg).