Lyric Opera 2022-2023 Issue 6 - Hansel and Gretel

27 | Lyric Opera of Chicago (2013/14). He made his Royal Ballet debut in 1985 with Giselle . He has since returned regularly to the Royal Opera House, designing Glen Tetley’s La Ronde and Liam Scarlett’s Asphodel Meadows , Sweet Violets , The Age of Anxiety , Frankenstein , and Swan Lake for the Royal Ballet and Peter Grimes , The Magic Flute , Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk , Gianni Schicchi , and L’heure espagnole for the Royal Opera. His many other ballet designs include The Nutcracker , Le Baiser de la fée, and Cinderella for Birmingham Royal Ballet. In 2019, he was made Designer Laureate of Benois de la Danse. Macfarlane’s painting and printmaking are widely exhibited across the UK and Europe. He was created a Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 2006 and in 2021 was awarded Outstanding Creative Contribution by the Critics Circle at the National Dance Awards. JENNIFER TIPTON | LIGHTING Previously at Lyric: Eight productions since 1988/89, most recently The Queen of Spades (2019/20) and Elektra (2018/19, 2012/13). The American lighting designer is well known for her work in theater, dance, and opera. Her recent opera credits include Ricky Ian Gordon’s Intimate Appare l, with libretto by Lynne Nottage, at Lincoln Center. Other recent credits include Barcelona’s Gran Teatre del Liceu ( La clemenza di Tito ), the Metropolitan Opera ( Maria Stuarda ), and Seville’s Teatro de la Maestranza ( La traviata ). She designed lighting at Lyric for Il trovatore (2018/19, 2014/15, 2006/07), and for Romeo and Juliet (La Scala), David Lang’s The LoseOr (LA Opera), The Magic Flute (Tokyo’s New National Theatre), The Age of Anxiety (Royal Ballet), and Harold Pinter’s The Room (Wooster Group). Her recent work in theater includes To Kill a Mockingbird for London and on tour, Beckett’s First Love for ZOOM, and all of Richard Nelson’s Rhinebeck Panorama plays. She is a past recipient of the Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize, the Jerome Robbins Prize, and the Mayor’s Award for Arts and Culture in New York City. In 2008 she was made a United States Artists “Gracie” Fellow and a MacArthur Fellow. In December 2019 she was named the 2019/20 Cage Cunningham Fellow by the Baryshnikov Arts Center. Jennifer Tipton is supported by The Mary-Louise and James S.Aagard Lighting Director Endowed Chair. JOSEPHINE LEE | CHILDREN’S CHORUS MASTER Previously at Lyric: 14 productions since 2000/01, most recently Tosca (2021/22) and The Queen of Spades (2019/20). As the president and artistic director of Uniting Voices Chicago (UVC, formerly the Chicago Children’s Choir), Josephine Lee has revolutionized youth music education, infusing their experience with cutting-edge performances of diverse repertoire, ongoing partnerships with leading cultural institutions such as Lyric, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, and Ravinia Festival, and extensive national and international tours. For her work on the documentary Songs on the Road to Freedom (2008), Lee was honored with an Emmy Award. Among Lee’s recent projects are two world premiere theatrical pieces ( Long Way Home with the Q Brothers Collective and Sita Ram with David Kersnar of Lookingglass Theatre), several collaborations with Chance the Rapper (including 2016’s Grammy Award-winning project, Coloring Book ), and an original piano and cello composition, Ascension , with choreographer Frank Chaves for Ballet Chicago in 2017. Lee earned a Grammy Award nomination as a soloist in the world premiere of Ted Hearne’s Place at the Brooklyn Academy of Music Next Wave Festival (2018). In 2019, she conducted Lisa Fischer and members of the National Philharmonic at Strathmore. Lee founded Vocality in 2015, a festival chorus comprising young vocal artists from a wide array of communities in the city of Chicago. Among her current projects is a new theatrical work by David Kersnar, J. Nicole Brooks, and UVC composer-in-residence Mitchell Owens III. LINDA DOBELL | ORIGINAL CHOREOGRAPHER Previously at Lyric: The Queen of Spades (2019/20) and Hansel and Gretel (2012/13, 2001/02). The late British actress/choreographer began her career in her teens, performing in the original Rocky Horror Show . Onstage she was seen with many major companies, including Theatre Royal Stratford East, the National Theatre, the Young Vic, and the Royal Court Theatre. She made her Royal Opera debut in 1993 with The Magic Flute , returning for Eugene Onegin and Richard Jones’s production of Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk . Other productions with Jones included The Queen of Spades (Welsh National Opera, Oslo, Brussels, Houston), Lulu and FromMorning to Midnight (English National Opera), Wozzeck (WNO, Berlin), Hansel and Gretel (WNO, Metropolitan Opera, Munich), Macbeth and Falstaff (Glyndebourne), AMidsummer Night’s Dream (Royal Shakespeare Company), and Tales from the Vienna Woods (National Theatre). Among other major choreography credits were Alice inWonderland (Royal Shakespeare Company) and Così fan tutte , Peter Grimes , and The Magic Flute (Scottish Opera). 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.