Lyric Opera 2022-2023 Issue 1-Ernani

27 | Lyric Opera of Chicago LOUISA MULLER | DIRECTOR Previously at Lyric: Four productions since 2012/13, most recently Tosca (2021/22) and Madama Butterfly (2019/20, 2013/14). Last season, Muller returned to Garsington Opera to reprise her production of The Turn of the Screw that was awarded a Royal Philharmonic Society Award. She was associate director for Lyric’s Carmen in the 2016/17 season. Her upcoming engagements include a new production of The Wreckers for Houston Grand Opera, a new Rinaldo for Pinchgut Opera, and bringing her production of Amadigi di Gaula —originally staged for Boston Baroque—to the Philharmonia Baroque. Among her recent performances are concert stagings of Ariadne auf Naxos (Edinburgh Festival) and Das Rheingold (New York Philharmonic); Tannhäuser and Don Carlos (LA Opera); and four new productions for Wolf Trap Opera: Roméo et Juliette , Corigliano’s The Ghosts of Versailles , The Rape of Lucretia , and Tosca . SCOTT MARR | SET & COSTUME DESIGNER Wardrobe, wigs, and makeup artist director at Lyric since 2007, Marr designed costumes and sets for The Magic Victrola (2021/22) , Hansel and Gretel in the Park (2020/21), El Pasado Nunca Se Termina (2014/15), La fanciulla del West (2010/11), The Pearl Fishers (2008/09), and the Ring cycle (2004/05). During the 2013/14 season he curated the company’s retrospective exhibit devoted to the work of Cait O’Connor, its costume designer for La traviata . Along with his designs for Lyric’s mainstage and Ryan Opera Center productions, the Illinois native’s stage designs include The Count of Luxembourg (Light Opera Works), Help, Help, the Globolinks (Madison Opera), Noye’s Fludde (Chicago Opera Theater), and both Candide and the American premiere of Philip Glass’s Marriages Between Zones 3, 4, and 5 (DePaul Opera Theatre). Scott Marr is supported by the Richard P.and Susan Kiphart Costume Designer Endowed Chair. DUANE SCHULER | LIGHTING DESIGNER Previously at Lyric: More than 140 productions since 1977, most recently Tosca (2021/22) and Cendrillon (2018/19). Lyric’s former resident lighting designer has recently created lighting for the Vienna State Opera ( Lucia di Lammermoor ), The Santa Fe Opera ( Jen ˚ufa ), and Dutch National Opera in Amsterdam ( La Cenerentola ). Other operatic highlights have included works as diverse as Turandot (La Scala), Pelléas et Mélisande and Cendrillon (Metropolitan Opera, where he has designed more than 25 productions), La fanciulla del West (Opéra National de Paris), Elektra (Salzburg Festival), Fidelio (London’s Royal Opera House), Béatrice et Bénédict (Glyndebourne Festival Opera), Don Pasquale (Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie), and Candide (The Santa Fe Opera). Ballet credits include Swan Lake and The Snow Maiden (American Ballet Theatre), The Sleeping Beauty (Stuttgart Ballet), Giselle (Deutsche Ballet), and The Nutcracker (Houston Ballet). Theatre credits include House and Garden (Manhattan Theatre Club), The Royal Famil y (Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles), The Importance of Being Earnest (Broadway), and Ragtime (The 5th Avenue Theatre in Seattle). Schuler is a founding partner of Schuler Shook, a theater planning and architectural lighting design firm. Duane Schuler is supported by the Mary-Louise and James S.Aagard Lighting Director Endowed Chair. MICHAEL BLACK | CHORUS MASTER The Australian chorus master is beginning his 11th season at Lyric, having held this position at Opera Australia in Sydney from 2001 to 2013. Black has served in this capacity for such distinguished organizations as the Edinburgh International Festival, Opera Holland Park (London), the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, and, in Australia, the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, the Philharmonia Choir, Motet Choir, the Cantillation chamber choir, and the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra. Other activities include preparing The Damnation of Faust chorus and Haydn’s Creation at the Grant Park Music Festival, where he has worked for two seasons. He has served as chorus master for close to 140 different operas 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 supported by the Howard A. Stotler Chorus Master Endowed Chair. SARAH HATTEN | WIGMASTER & MAKEUP DESIGNER Lyric’s wigmaster and makeup designer has worked in a wide repertoire at Des Moines Metro Opera, Michigan Opera Theatre, 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. Sarah Hatten is supported by the Marlys A. Beider Wigmaster and Makeup Designer Endowed Chair.