Lyric Opera 2022-2023 Issue 4- Don Carlos

25 | Lyric Opera of Chicago JOSHUA GUERRERO | CARLOS Previously at Lyric: Macduff/ Macbeth (2021/22). This season, the Mexican-American tenor will make debuts at Bayerische Staatsoper ( Manon Lescau t) and the Opéra national de Paris ( La bohème ), and make return appearances at Royal Opera House Covent Garden ( Madama Butter y ), Oper Frankfurt ( Manon Lescaut ), and The Santa Fe Opera ( Tosca ). Other recent roles include Gabriele Adorno/ Simon Boccanegra (Opéra national de Bordeaux), Pinkerton/ Madama Butter y (Glyndebourne Festival Opera), Nemorino/ L’elisir d’amore (Teatro de la Maestranza), and Rodolfo/ La bohème with the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra in Caracas, where he has also sung Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9, conducted by Gustavo Dudamel. In the United States, his roles include Rodolfo (San Diego), Edgardo/ Lucia di Lammermoor (Miami), and tenor soloist in Haydn’s The Creation (Los Angeles Philharmonic). Guerrero’s portrayal of Count Almaviva/Corigliano’s The Ghosts of Versailles can be heard in a recording that was honored with two Grammy Awards. RACHEL WILLIS-SØRENSON | ELISABETH Previously at Lyric: Donna Anna/ Don Giovanni (2019/20). The American soprano is known for her diverse repertoire ranging fromMozart to Wagner. An acclaimed Verdian, she recently triumphed in Il trovatore (Turin) and Les vêpres siciliennes (Munich) and also sang in La traviata and Otello . Other highlights this season include Ellen Orford ( Peter Grimes ), Violetta ( La traviata ) and Desdemona ( Otello ) at the Bayerische Staatsoper and at LA Opera, Elisabeth ( Don Carlos ) at Grand Théâtre de Genève, Rosalinde ( Die Fledermaus ), and Mimi ( La bohème ) at the Wiener Staatsoper, the title role (debut) in Arabella at the Deutsche Oper, and Leonora ( Il trovatore ) at the Royal Opera House. Previous engagements include Rusalka at the San Francisco Opera and NDR Hamburg, Marschallin ( Der Rosenkavalier ) at Glyndebourne, Semperoper Dresden, and the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Marguerite ( Faust ) as part of the Royal Opera House’s tour of Japan, Elsa ( Lohengrin ) at Deutsche Oper Berlin, Opernhaus Zurich, and Oper Frankfurt, Donna Anna ( Don Giovanni ) at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, the Metropolitan Opera, Wiener Staatsoper, Houston Grand Opera, and Semperoper Dresden. A Sony recording artist, she released her rst solo album, Rachel , in April 2022. CLÉMENTINE MARGAINE | EBOLI Previously at Lyric: Dulcinée/ Don Quichotte (2016/17). The French mezzo-soprano has gained international acclaim in recent seasons at theaters such as the Metropolitan Opera, Opéra national de Paris, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Bayerische Staatsoper, Teatro Colón, Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, Grand Théâtre de Genève, Teatro di San Carlo, Opera Australia, and the Canadian Opera Company. She began the 2019/20 season with two sold-out concerts at the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, and a program of operatic repertoire at the Tchaikovsky Concert Hall in Moscow. She recently sang Amneris/ Aida at Barcelona’s Gran Teatre del Liceu, Fidès in Meyerbeer’s Le Prophète at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, and the title role in Carmen at the Liceu and at the Teatro di San Carlo in Naples. She previously appeared in the title role in Carmen at the Metropolitan Opera and as Dulcinée/ Don Quichotte at the Deutsche Oper Berlin. In 2018, Margaine made her Carnegie Hall debut with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra led by Riccardo Muti, part of a ve-city, eight-concert East Coast tour with the ensemble. IGOR GOLOVATENKO | RODRIGUE Lyric debut Golovatenko made his professional debut in the 2006 Russian premiere of Delius’ Eine Messe des Lebens with the Russian National Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Vladimir Spivakov. Recent roles include Simon Boccanegra at the Teatro Regio di Parma, Iago/ Otello at the Teatro di San Carlo in Naples, Robert/ Iolanta (Berlin Philharmonic), Riccardo/ I puritani (Vienna), and the title role of Eugene Onegin at the Metropolitan Opera. Last season, Golovatenko appeared as Rodrigue/ Don Carlos for his debut at the Vienna State Opera, where he later returned as Germont/ La traviata . In the 2019/20 season, he made his debut at the Metropolitan Opera as Prince Yeletsky in Pique Dame . He also made role debuts as Riccardo/ I puritani at the Paris Opera and Francesco/ I masnadieri at the Bavarian State Opera. In the 2018/19 season, he made his North American debut as Eugene Onegin at Washington National Opera, and made debuts as Germont at Covent Garden and the Los Angeles Opera. Golovatenko is a leading baritone at the Bolshoi Opera. Artist pro les