Lyric Opera 2023-2024 Issue 3 - Daughter of the Regiment

Lyric Opera of Chicago | 32 Never Very Clear for the Junior Ballet de Cannes, and La Dolce Vita for the Ballet du Grand Théâtre de Genève. Hip-hop creations include Sol à sol avec poids, Quelque part par là, and Barbe Neige et les 7 petits cochons au bois dormant, currently touring. Scozzi collaborates regularly with Laurent Pelly and has worked with many other major directors in opera, theater, and film, among them Jean-Louis Grinda, Emmanuelle Bastet, Coline Serreau, Jean-Michel Ribes, and Matthieu Poirot-Delpech. In 2008, Scozzi directed her first opera, Benvenuto Cellini (Nürnberg) followed by The Magic Flute (Nürnberg, Bordeaux), Orpheus in the underworld (Bern, Bordeaux), Les Indes Galantes (Toulouse, Bordeaux, Nuremberg), Akhnaten (Bonn), and Il viaggio à Reims (Dresden). KARINE GIRARD REVIVAL CHOREOGRAPHER Previously at Lyric: Revival choreographer/ Cendrillon (2018/19). After completing her dance education at the Sorbonne, the French choreographer performed for several European dance companies and has also collaborated on several premieres with the Balafori and L4-L5 dance-theater companies. In 2003, she danced for the company directed by Laura Scozzi, Opinioni in Movimento and in the show F.E.I.R : desir-degout . She has worked as Scozzi’s artistic assistant in theater, movies, special events, and opera, in particular for Laurent Pelly’s productions of La Périchole (Marseille, 2005 and on tour), La fille du régiment (San Francisco, Paris, Madrid, Barcelona, Seville), and Cendrillon (London, Brussels, Lille, Barcelona, New York). She has also collaborated with directors Jean-Louis Grinda ( Die Fledermaus , Toulouse and on tour) and Emmanuelle Bastet ( L’étoile , Nancy). Since 2009, she has danced for such companies as COD, collaborating with director/choreographer Olivier Dubois. She has choreographed for shows directed by Guy Freixe ( Aprés la pluie ), Laurence Sendrowicz ( Que d’espoir ), and Agathe Mélinand ( Eric Satie-Memoires d’un amnésique ). In 2016, she choreographed Christophe Gayral’s production of Idomeneo for the Opéra national du Rhin, and staged and choreographed with Sandra Savin the show Storm for the students of ENACR (France’s National School of Circus Arts). AUGUST TYE BALLET MISTRESS The American dancer, choreographer, and ballet mistress has worked on nearly 50 productions at Lyric since 1993/94. She remounted the choreography of Lyric’s Iphigénie 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, Detroit Opera (formerly Michigan Opera Theatre), 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. AGATHE MÉLINAND NEW DIALOGUES AND DRAMATURG Lyric debut The director, dramaturg, and librettist was Co-Director with Laurent Pelly of the Théâtre national de Toulouse from 2008 to 2018. Mélinand has produced new dialogues and adaptations of numerous opera libretti. This season sees an adaptation of Le Chauve Souris in the original French for Opéra de Lille with Pelly. Other recent collaborations include Lakmé for Opéra Comique, La Périchole for the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, and Offenbach’s Le voyage dans la Lune for Opéra Comique, Greek National Opera, and Volksoper Vienna). With Pelly, Mélinand has adapted numerous Offenbach works including Barbe Bleue , Le roi Carotte, La vie parisienne, Les contes d’Hoffmann, La belle Hélène, as well as dialogue adaptations for Donizetti’s La fille du régiment (Covent Garden, Metropolitan Opera, Vienna State Opera), Chabrier’s L’étoile (Dutch National Opera), and Berlioz’s Béatrice et Bénédict (Glyndebourne Festival). Also for Glyndebourne, Mélinand wrote additional texts (derived from Goethe’s Faust ) for Berlioz’s La Damnation de Faust directed by Richard Jones. Recent theatre work theater includes the writing and realization of Le Petit Livre d’Anna Magdalena Bach, and new translations/adaptations of Mary Chase’s Harvey and Goldoni’s L’Impresario de Smyrne , directed by Pelly .