Lyric Opera 2023-2024 Issue 9 - Rising Stars

Lyric Opera of Chicago | 4 Program Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Le nozze di Figaro DONALD LEE III (Conductor) (1756 – 1791) Overture George Frideric Handel Giulio Cesare LINDSEY REYNOLDS (Cleopatra) (1685 – 1759) “Da tempeste il legno infranto” Jules Massenet Cendrillon LUCY BAKER (Cendrillon) (1842 – 1912) “Enfin, je suis ici” Charles Gounod Roméo et Juliette TRAVON D. WALKER (Roméo) (1818 – 1893) “L’amour! L’amour!... Ah! lève-toi, soleil!” Benjamin Britten A Midsummer Night’s Dream RON DUKES (Bottom) (1913 – 1976) “When my cue comes, call me” Giacomo Puccini La Bohème ALEJANDRO LUÉVANOS (Rodolfo) (1858 – 1924) “Che gelida manina” Handel Serse SOPHIA MAEKAWA (Serse) “Crude furie degl’orridi abissi” Massenet Hérodiade LAUREANO QUANT (Hérode) “Ce breuvage pourrait me donner un tel rêve… Vision fugitive” Douglas Moore The Ballad of Baby Doe CHRISTOPHER HUMBERT, JR. (Horace Tabor) (1893 – 1969) “Warm as the autumn light” Giuseppe Verdi La Traviata KATHRYN HENRY (Violetta) (1813 – 1901) “È strano!...Ah fors’è lui…Sempre libera” with ALEJANDRO LUÉVANOS (Alfredo) Carlisle Floyd Of Mice and Men IAN RUCKER (George) (1926 – 2021) “I must be crazy trav’lin’ with you… RYAN CAPOZZO (Lennie) An’ we’ll live off the fat of the land” INTERMISSION