Lyric Opera 2022-2023 Issue 4- Don Carlos

Lyric Opera of Chicago | 28 Frankfurt Opera include The Excursions of Mr. Brouˇcek to the Moon and to the 15th Century by Janáˇcek, Curlew River by Benjamin Britten (which received a restaging at the Teatr Wielki in Warsaw) and Igor Stravinsky’s The Rake’s Progress . At the Salzburg Festival, his credits include Armida , Theodora , and Die Frau ohne Schatten with Christof Loy, Shirin Neshat’s Aida , and Simon Stone’s Médée . A longtime collaborator at the Teatro Real in Madrid, Weidauer’s productions there include Lulu (2009), Rodelinda (2017), Don Carlo (2019), and Rusalka (2020), and he will return for the revival of Loy’s Arabella this season. ROBERT JONES | SET DESIGNER Previously at Lyric: Giulio Cesare (2007/08). Jones’s design work was seen on the Lyric stage in the touring production of The Light in the Piazza (2019/20). He made his Royal Opera House Covent Garden debut in 2015, designing sets for Andrea Chénier , directed by Sir David McVicar. Other collaborations with the director include The Coronation of Poppea (Paris and Berlin), Don Carlos (Frankfurt), Giulio Cesare (also Glyndebourne Festival and the Metropolitan Opera), Tristan und Isolde (Tokyo and Vienna), Don Giovanni (Opera Australia) and Anna Bolena (Metropolitan Opera). His other opera designs include Die Fledermaus (Metropolitan Opera), Werther (La Coruña), The Elixir of Love (English National Opera), and Manon Lescaut (Gothenburg). He has designed more than 15 productions for the Royal Shakespeare Company, including Romeo and Juliet , Twelfth Night , The Merchant of Venice , Hamlet, and Othello ; and productions for the National Theatre including Look Back in Anger , Noises Off (West End and Broadway), and The Playboy of the Western World. West End credits include Fatal Attraction , Kiss Me Kate , The Wizard of Oz , The Sound of Music , The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie , The Secret Rapture , Benefactors , Calendar Girls (UK tour, Australia and Canada), Jolson (Canada and Australia), and The Sound of Music (Toronto, UK tour, and Tokyo). BRIGITTE REIFFENSTUEL | COSTUME DESIGNER Previously at Lyric: Seven productions since 1995/96, most recently Il trovatore (2018/19, 2014/15, 2006/07) and Giulio Cesare (2007/08). The German costume designer’s work has been seen at opera and theater companies worldwide, with productions including Falstaff (Canadian Opera Company, La Scala, Metropolitan Opera, Dutch National Opera), Faust (Opéra de Lille, Opéra de Monte Carlo, Teatro Verdi Trieste, Valencia’s Palau de les Arts Reina Sofía, Opera Australia), Peter Grimes (London’s English National Opera, Ópera de Oviedo, De Vlaamse Opera, Deutsche Oper Berlin) and Giulio Cesare (Glyndebourne, Metropolitan Opera, Opéra de Lille). In Europe she has designed costumes for companies including Theater Bonn, the Zurich Opera House, Paris’s Théâtre du Châtelet, Madrid’s Teatro Real, La Scala, the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, Stuttgart State Theatre, Komische Oper Berlin, Frankfurt Opera, and Deutsche Oper am Rhein. She made her debut at London’s Royal Opera in 2003 with Charles Edwards’s production of Elektra , and subsequently returned for Sir David McVicar’s productions of Faust and Adriana Lecouvreur , and Robert Carsen’s productions of Falstaff and Der Rosenkavalier . She provided costume design for Lyric Opera’s Billy Budd (2001/02). Brigitte Reiffenstuel is supported by the Richard P. and Susan Kiphart Costume Designer Endowed Chair. JOACHIM KLEIN | ORIGINAL LIGHTING DESIGNER Lyric debut Klein has been the Lighting Supervisor and Resident Lighting Designer at Frankfurt Opera since 1994, while also working on projects elsewhere in Germany and worldwide. In 2013, he became the Head of Lighting at Frankfurt Opera, where his recent designs include La forza del destino , I Puritani , Tri sestry , Aus einem Totenhaus , Capriccio , L’Italiana in Londra , Maskerade, and Bianca e Falliero . His engagements elsewhere include Carmen (London, Copenhagen), Rodelinda (Madrid, Lyon, and Barcelona), Un ballo in maschera , The Fiery Angel and Agrippina (Munich), Saul (Glyndebourne, Adelaide, and Houston), Dido and Aeneas / Bluebeard’s Castle (Edinburgh and Los Angeles), La traviata (Graz, London, Vienna, and Seattle), Salome (Salzburg and Oslo), and Don Carlo (Tokyo). JAN HARTMANN | REVIVAL LIGHTING DESIGNER Lyric debut Hartmann has worked at the Frankfurt Opera since 1999 and was appointed lighting master in 2010. Current projects include lighting design for the upcoming Ring cycle at the Erl Festival, Blühen by Vito Žuraj at Frankfurt, and Francesca da Rimini at the Erl Winter Games and Frankfurt. Previous productions at the Frankfurt Opera include Handel’s Amadigi , Britten’s Midsummer Night’s Dream , Idomeneo , Orpheus , The Golden Dragon , Julietta , L’Africaine , Dalibor , The Cunning Little Vixen , Rigoletto , Pénelopé , La gazzetta , and The Medium . He has extensive lighting design experience with crossover projects such as the Balthasar Neumann Ensemble’s Festa Teatrale in Hong Kong, choreographer Deborah Hay’s As Holy Sites Go in Frankfurt, and performances by the Daedalus Company in Frankfurt. Since 2013, Hartmann has been a lecturer of lighting design at the Offenbach University of Design. 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