Lyric Opera 2022-2023 Issue 4- Don Carlos

27 | Lyric Opera of Chicago ALEJANDRO LUÉVANOS | A ROYAL HERALD Previously at Lyric: Riccardo/ Ernani (2022/23). Born in Durango, Mexico, the tenor is a rst-year member of the Ryan Opera Center Ensemble. He will appear at Lyric later this season in Carmen and Proximity . His appearances in Mexico include Don José/ Carmen (Toluca Philharmonic Orchestra); Borsa/ Rigoletto , Count Almaviva/ The Barber of Seville, and scenes from Il trovatore (Orquesta Sinfónica del Estado de México); and Rossini’s Stabat Mater and Petite Messe Solennelle , as well as an opera gala with Ramón Vargas (all at Mexico City’s Palacio de Bellas Artes). Luévanos was previously a two-year member of the Opera Studio at the Bellas Artes, where he is scheduled to return to appear in Shostakovich’s Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk . A former participant in the International Summer Program in Sankt Goar, Germany, he is also a 2021 and 2022 winner of the Mexico District in the Metropolitan Opera Laffont Competition. Alejandro Luévanos is sponsored by an Anonymous Donor. LINDSEY REYNOLDS | VOICE FROM ABOVE Lyric debut A rst-year member of the Ryan Opera Center Ensemble, the New Orleans native will appear at Lyric later this season in both Le comte Ory and Proximity . In 2021/22 she portrayed Despina/ Così fan tutte and Betty/Marc Blitzstein’s Triple-Sec (a lm adaptation) with Curtis Opera Theater. She was also an Emerging Artist with Opera Philadelphia, where she sang the Page/ Rigoletto . The soprano’s repertoire includes Zerlina/ Don Giovanni , Adina/ The Elixir of Love , Giulietta/ I Capuleti e i Montecchi , Miss Wordsworth/ Albert Herring , and Monica/ The Medium . She has appeared in concert with the Curtis Symphony Orchestra under Yannick Nézet-Séguin and with the Philadelphia Orchestra under Stéphane Denève. She is also the recipient of an Emerging Artist Award from Opera Index. Lindsey Reynolds is sponsored by an Anonymous Donor, Fred & Phoebe Boelter, and Donna Van Eekeren & Dale Connelly. ENRIQUE MAZZOLA | CONDUCTOR Lyric’s Music Director—only the third in the company’s history—is renowned as an expert interpreter and champion of bel canto opera and a specialist in French repertoire and early Verdi. Lyric audiences rst experienced the Italian conductor’s artistry in Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor in 2016/17, and subsequently in Bellini’s I puritani in 2017/18. During 2019/20, he led Verdi’s Luisa Miller to launch the company’s Early Verdi Series, which continued with Ernani to open the 2022/23 season. Mazzola’s rst opera as Lyric’s music director, Verdi’s Macbeth in Sir David McVicar’s new production, opened the 2021/22 season, followed by Donizetti’s The Elixir of Love as well as Verdi Voices and Rising Stars in Concert . Mazzola is Principal Guest Conductor at the Deutsche Oper Berlin and served as Artistic and Music Director of the Orchestre national d’Île-de-France from 2012 to 2019. Symphonic guest work has included the Orchestre national du Capitole de Toulouse, Philharmonia Orchestra, Vienna Symphony, London Philharmonic, and Brussels Philharmonic. He has conducted bel canto works for The Metropolitan Opera, La Scala, Paris’s Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, and the major houses of Florence, Strasbourg, Berlin, Zurich, Moscow, and Tokyo, in addition to a historic Meyerbeer cycle for Deutsche Oper Berlin. Past major European festivals include Glyndebourne (including DVD releases of Il barbiere di Siviglia and Poliuto ), new productions in 2019 for Bregenz ( Rigoletto ) and Salzburg ( Orphée aux Enfers ), Pesaro (Rossini Opera Festival), Venice, and Aix-en-Provence. Mazzola was born in Barcelona, Spain, into a musical family, and grew up in Milan, where he studied violin and piano, earning diplomas in composition and orchestral conducting at the Conservatorio Giuseppe Verdi of Milan. Enrique Mazzola is supported by the John D.and Alexandra C.Nichols Endowed Chair. SIR DAVID MCVICAR | ORIGINAL DIRECTOR Previously at Lyric: Seven productions since 2001/02, most recently Macbeth (2021/22) and Elektra (2018/19). Recent highlights for the renowned Scottish director include new productions of Medea (a co-production with Lyric), Adriana Lecouvreur, and Roberto Devereux at the Metropolitan Opera, Médée (Geneva’s Grand Théâtre), and La Calisto and I masnadieri (La Scala). McVicar has created nine new productions for the Royal Opera House, and seven for the Met. At Lyric, he has previously directed Il trovatore (2018/19, 2014/15, 2006/07), Wozzeck (2015/16), and La clemenza di Tito (2013/14). He has also directed at La Scala ( Les Troyens ), Opera Australia ( Don Giovanni , The Marriage of Figaro ), the Vienna Staatsoper ( Tristan und Isolde , Falstaff ), English National Opera, Glyndebourne, Scottish Opera, Opera North, Paris’s Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, the Salzburg Festival, the Mariinsky Theatre, and many other major companies. Among his awards is the 2011 Grand Prix de la Musique du Syndicat de la Critique. In 2012 he received a knighthood for his services to opera, and was made a Chevalier de l’ordre des arts et des lettres. AXEL WEIDAUER | REVIVAL DIRECTOR Lyric debut The freelance director and assistant director has extensive international opera experience, at Berlin (Dale Duesing’s production of L’Etoile and Christof Loy’s Falstaff ), Barcelona (a revival of Loy’s Abduction from the Seraglio , Arabella , Don Giovanni , and Turco in Italia ), Paris ( Alcina ), Copenhagen ( Alceste ), Vienna (where he assisted on Intermezzo , Der Prinz von Homburg , and La Donna del Lago at the Theater an der Wien, and worked on Alceste at the Staatsoper), Amsterdam (assisting Loy’s Les vêpres siciliennes and Königskinder ), and Los Angeles ( Turco in Italia ). His own directing projects at the