Lyric Opera 2021-2022 Issue 6 Tosca 2

Lyric Opera of Chicago | 42 RODELL ROSEL At Lyric this season: Spoletto/ Tosca . Previously with Lyric: 22 roles since 2005/06, most recently Goro/ Madama Butterfly (2019/20); Pang/ Turandot (2017/18). Being accepted into the Ryan Opera Center was the very first feeling of validation I received as an opera singer, that I had a place in the art form and had something to contribute. My time in the program included exceptional training, both technical and artistic, and the fellow emerging artists I met remain some of my closest and dearest friends. The most life-changing aspect of being at the Ryan Opera Center was sharing the stage with the greatest artists in the world: learning from them firsthand and assimilating all their knowledge to become the best singer and colleague one can hope to be. Andriana Chuchman Rigoletto The Metropolitan Opera René Barbera Il barbiere di Siviglia Opéra national de Paris Cecelia Hall Die Zauberflöte Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra Administration Dan Novak Director, The Ryan Opera Center Board Endowed Chair Craig Terry Music Director The Jannotta Family Endowed Chair Julia Faulkner Director of Vocal Studies Elizabeth F. Cheney Foundation Renée Fleming Advisor Susanna McNatt Manager Annika Donnen Associate Librarian Faculty Julia Faulkner W. Stephen Smith Vocal Instruction Robert and Ellen Marks Ryan Opera Center Vocal Studies Program Endowment, in memory of Gianna Rolandi Deborah Birnbaum Sir Andrew Davis Nathalie Doucet Renée Fleming Enrique Mazzola Gerald Martin Moore Stefano Sarzani Guest Master Artists Emanuele Andrizzi William C. Billingham Alan Darling Laurann Gilley Jonathan Gmeinder Celeste Rue Eric Weimer Coaching Staff Irina Feoktistova Julia Savoie Klein Derek Matson Klára Moldová Sharon Peterson Alessandra Visconti Melissa Wittmeier Foreign Language Instruction Omer Ben Seadia Louisa Muller Todd Rhoades Acting and Movement Instruction Orit Carpenter Beth Clayton Performance Psychology Roger Pines Guest Lecturer and Consultant Artistic/Production Personnel Enrique Mazzola Donald Palumbo Conductors Omer Ben Seadia Kristine McIntyre Directors Kristen Barrett Bill Walters Stage Managers PROGRAM STAFF THIS SEASON Ryan Opera Center alumni around the world Photo: Marc Cartwright Photo: Corey Weaver Photo: Chia Messina