Lyric Opera 2022-2023 Issue 4- Don Carlos

29 | Lyric Opera of Chicago 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. ANDREW GEORGE | ORIGINAL CHOREOGRAPHER Previously at Lyric: Five works since 2007/08, most recently Macbeth (2021/22) and Wozzeck (2015/16). The Welsh choreographer’s work has been seen at the Royal Opera House in Andrea Chénier (also Barcelona), Les Troyen s and Adriana Lecouvreur (also La Scala, Metropolitan Opera, Barcelona, Vienna, Paris), and Salome . For the English National Opera, he choreographed Agrippina (also Barcelona), The Turn Of The Screw , The Handmaid’s Tale , and Die Walküre . At Lyric, he previously choreographed Rusalka (2013/14), Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (2012/13), and Giulio Cesare (2007/08). His work has been seen at the Metropolitan Opera ( Agrippina , Cavalleria rusticana/Pagliacci , Anna Bolena , Giulio Cesare , and Don Giovanni ); Santa Fe Opera and Scottish Opera ( Falstaff ); and Glyndebourne ( The Abduction from the Seraglio , Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg , Giulio Cesare (also Lille), and Carmen (also Copenhagen and Dallas)). In addition to numerous productions for Scottish Opera, Welsh National Opera, and Opera North, his work has been seen in Paris at the Châtelet ( A Little Night Music ) and the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées ( Ariodante , Semele , L’incoronazione di Poppe a); La Scala ( Tannhäuser ); Oper Frankfurt ( Don Carlos ); Wiener Staatsoper and Tokyo ( Tristan und Isolde ); the Salzburg Festival ( The Tales of Hoffmann ); and the Brussels’s Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie ( Agrippina , Orphée aux Enfers ) in Brussels. AUGUST TYE | REVIVAL CHOREOGRAPHER Previously at Lyric: 43 productions since 1993/94 as dancer, choreographer, or ballet mistress, most recently Fiddler on the Roof (2022/23) and Fire Shut Up in My Bones (2021/22). The American dancer and choreographer’s operatic credits include remounting the choreography of Lyric’s Iphigènie en Tauride at San Francisco Opera and the Royal Opera House Covent Garden. She has presented a 20-year retrospective of her work at Chicago’s Vittum Theater and Ruth Page Dance Center, as well as in her hometown of Kalamazoo, Michigan. A graduate of Western Michigan University, Tye performed with the Kalamazoo Ballet, dancing leading roles in Sleeping Beauty , Cinderella , and The Nutcracker . In addition to Lyric and Joel Hall Dancers, she has performed in Chicago with Salt Creek Ballet, Second City Ballet, and Chicago Folks Operetta. Tye is artistic director at the Hyde Park School of Dance, which she founded in 1993. Four years later she founded Tyego Dance Project, which has performed at Steppenwolf, the Athenaeum, and throughout America in a revival of Spike Jones’s Nutcracker . 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 (now known as Detroit Opera), 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.