Lyric Opera 2019-2020 Issue 8 Madama Butterfly

Lyric Opera of Chicago | 23 CHRISTOPHER ORAM | SET AND COSTUME DESIGNER Previously at Lyric: Madama Butterfly ( 2013|14). The Britain-based scenic and costume designer is a recipient of the Tony, Drama Desk, Olivier, Evening Standard, Critics’ Circle, Garland, Falstaff, and Ovation awards for his work in both the U. K. and the U. S. Theater credits include Peter and Alice , Macbeth (Manchester International Festival, New York’s Park Avenue Armory); Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (New York); A Streetcar Named Desire , Othello , Grand Hotel , Red , King Lear , Passion , Parade , Frost/Nixon (Donmar Warehouse); Man and Superman , Summerfolk , Danton’s Death , Stuff Happens , Power , The Marriage Play , Finding the Sun (National Theatre); Evita (also New York); Guys and Dolls (Piccadilly); King Lear , The Seagull (Royal Shakespeare Company, also world tour); and Wolf Hall/Bring up the Bodies (Royal Shakespeare Company, London and New York). Opera credits include Billy Budd (Glyndebourne, Brooklyn Academy of Music), The Marriage of Figaro (Glyndebourne, Houston), Madama Butterfly (Houston), and Don Giovanni (Metropolitan Opera). Christopher Oram is supported by the Richard P. and Susan Kiphart Costume Designer Endowed Chair . NEIL AUSTIN | ORIGINAL LIGHTING DESIGNER Previously at Lyric: Carousel (2014|15); Madama Butterfly (2013|14). The British lighting designer is a multiple Tony and Olivier Award winner. His work can currently be seen in Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (London, New York, Melbourne), Company (London), Cinderella (Matthew Bourne’s New Adventures at the Ahmanson Theatre, Los Angeles), and Ink (New York). Recent shows include Travesties (Menier Chocolate Factory, Broadway), Hughie (Broadway), The Lieutenant of Inishmore , Red , Labour of Love , Ink , The Goat , Photograph 51 , and Shakespeare in Love (all in the West End), and Woyzeck (Old Vic). He was nominated for Best Lighting Design in the 2009 Laurence Olivier Awards for Piaf and No Man’s Land . Further awards and nominations include Best Musical Theatre Lighting Design Award at the 2008 Knight of Illumination Awards for Parade at the Donmar Warehouse, and Best Lighting Design Nomination at the 2007 Laurence Olivier Awards for Thérèse Raquin at the National Theatre. CHRIS MARAVICH | REVIVAL LIGHTING DESIGNER Previously at Lyric: Ten productions since 2014|15, most recently Idomeneo (2018|19); I puritani (2017|18). Lyric’s lighting director served in the same position from 2006 to 2012 at San Francisco Opera, where he created lighting for many productions including The Gospel of Mary Magdalene , Cosi fan tutte , Turandot , Cyrano de Bergerac , Il trittico , Tosca , Simon Boccanegra , Don Giovanni , Nixon in China , and Attila . He has collaborated on the lighting designs for Wozzeck (Finnish National Opera, Grand Théâtre de Genève), Doktor Faust at Staatsoper Stuttgart, Tannhäuser for the Greek National Opera, and La fanciulla del West , The Makropulos Case , The Daughter of the Regiment , Il trovatore , Samson et Dalila , and Macbeth for San Francisco Opera. Maravich has also designed lighting for LA Opera, Opera Colorado, San Diego Opera, Opera Santa Barbara, Lyric Opera of Kansas City, Florida Grand Opera, Madison Opera, Cal Performances, and Opera San José. Maravich also currently serves as lighting supervisor for the Joffrey Ballet. Chris Maravich is supported by the Mary-Louise and James S. Aagaard Lighting Director Endowed Chair . MICHAEL BLACK | CHORUS MASTER The Australian chorus master held this position in Sydney at Opera Australia from 2001 to 2013. Black has served in this capacity for such distinguished organizations as the Edinburgh International Festival, Opera Holland Park (London), and, in Australia, the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, the Philharmonia Choir, Motet Choir, Cantillation chamber choir, and the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra. Recent activities include preparing The Damnation of Faust chorus at the Grant Park Music Festival, where he has worked for two seasons. As one of Australia’s most prominent vocal accompanists, Black has regularly performed for broadcasts and recordings. He has served as chorus master on four continents, and his work has been recorded and/or aired on ABC, BBC, PBS, for many HD productions in movie theaters, and on television. Michael Black is the Howard A. Stotler Chorus Master Endowed Chair . AUGUST TYE | CHOREOGRAPHER Previously at Lyric: 38 productions since 1993|94 as dancer, choreographer, or ballet mistress, most recently Don Giovanni , Luisa Miller (both 2019|20). The American dancer-choreographer’s operatic credits include remounting the choreography of Lyric’s Iphigénie en Tauride at San Francisco Opera and the Royal Opera House Covent Garden. A graduate of Western Michigan University, Tye performed with The Kalamazoo Ballet, dancing leading roles in Sleeping Beauty , Cinderella , and The Nutcracker . She is a past recipient of Regional Dance America’s Best Young Choreographer Award (at age 15) and a two-time recipient of the Monticello Young Choreographer’s Award: the latter garnered her invitations to choreograph throughout America. In addition to Lyric and Joel Hall Dancers, she has performed in Chicago with 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 AND 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 .