Lyric 2022-2023 Special-The Brightness of Light

Lyric Opera of Chicago | 8 Introduction RENÉE FLEMING First Correspondence RENÉE FLEMING / ROD GILFRY A Soul Like Yours ROD GILFRY Ache RENÉE FLEMING / ROD GILFRY Georgia and Alfred ORCHESTRAL INTERLUDE Violin RENÉE FLEMING Faraway ROD GILFRY Taos RENÉE FLEMING The Thing You Call Holy RENÉE FLEMING / ROD GILFRY The High Priestess of the Desert ORCHESTRAL INTERLUDE Friends RENÉE FLEMING Sunset RENÉE FLEMING INTERMISSION The Brightness of Light Music and libretto by Kevin Puts Projection design by Wendall K. Harrington Text excerpts from the letters by Georgia O’Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz used and reprinted by permission of the Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library. All rights reserved. Images courtesy of: Alamy Stock Photo;Alfred Stieglitz,An American Place,1938(c) The Ansel Adams Publishing Rights Trust;Alfred Stieglitz Collection, Gift of The Georgia O’Keeffe Foundation © Board of Trustees, National Gallery of Art,Washington;Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth,Texas;The Art Institute of Chicago / Art Resource, NY; Everett Collection Historical / Alamy; Georgia O’Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe / Art Resource, NY; Georgia O’Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe / Artist Rights Society (ARS), New York; Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division,The Alfred Stieglitz Collection, Gift of Georgia O’Keeffe; LOOK Magazine Photograph Collection, Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, National Archives and Records Administration;The Metropolitan Museum of Art / Art Resource, NY;The Museum of Modern Art / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York; Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza / Scala / Art Resource, NY; National Archives and Records Administration;The Philadelphia Museum of Art / Art Resource, NY;The Estate of Yusef Karsh;The Ansel Adams Publishing Rights Trust Commissioned by The University of Texas at Austin,Texas Performing Arts and the Boston Symphony Orchestra (Andris Nelsons, Music Director), Colorado Symphony Orchestra (Brett Mitchell, Music Director), National Symphony Orchestra (Gianandrea Noseda, Music Director), Eastman School of Music/Howard Hanson Institute for American Music, and Artis-Naples for the Naples Philharmonic (Andrey Boreyko, Music Director) Premiere: July 20, 2019 at Tanglewood Music Center Program