Ravinia 2022, Issue 3

MARCO BORGGREVE (SUH); MARIE STAGGAT (GOERNE); TODD ROSENBERG (BLACK) MARCO BORGGREVE (SUH); MARIE STAGGAT (GOERNE); TODD ROSENBERG (BLACK) YEREE SUH, soprano With a nuanced soprano voice, Yeree Suh has cultivated an international reputation as a leading interpreter of 17th and 18th century repertoire as well as of contemporary music. Following studies at Seoul National Universi- ty, she advanced her artistry at Berlin’s Uni- versity of the Arts and the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis. Suh is currently professor of voice at Darmstadt’s Academy of Music and Art. Since her debut as Ninfa in Monteverdi’s L’Or- feo at the Innsbruck Festival in 2003, followed by engagements at the Berlin Staatsoper and Theater an der Wien, the Korean singer has worked regularly with specialists in histori- cal performance practice, including such en- sembles as Anima Eterna and the Venice and Finnish Baroque Orchestras. Her early music highlights have also included singing Made- moiselle Silberklang in Mozart’s Der Schaus- pieldirektor on tour with Concerto Köln in 2011/12 and debuting at the Beijing Festival in 2010 in the title role of Handel’s Semele . In contemporary performance, Suh collabo- rated with Kent Nagano and the Deutsches Symphonie Orchester Berlin on the Euro- pean premiere of Matthias Pintscher’s with lilies white in 2003. She subsequently worked with the composer-conductor for the 40th anniversary celebrations of Ensemble Inter- contemporain in 2016, interpreting songs by Anton Webern. In 2015 Suh sang Orff ’s Car- mina Burana under Yannick Nézet-Séguin in Dortmund. In September 2017 she returned to the Musikfest Berlin to perform Toshio Hosokawa’s Klage , having debuted at the festival in 2015 with Schoenberg’s Die Jakob- sleiter . Another highlight of her 2017/18 sea- son was singing Mahler’s Fourth Symphony with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra in Seoul. Collaborating with the Lucerne Sym- phony Orchestra, Suh interpreted Brahms’s German Requiem in Lucerne and Tongyeo- ng in 2019, and she has also been featured at such venues as Lincoln Center, the Lucerne and Salzburg Festivals, Vienna’s Konzerthaus, Paris’s Philharmonie, and London’s Barbi- can Centre. This season she reprises the title role of Semele at the Händelfestspiele Halle, sings in Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater at Vienna’s Musikverein, and joins a Vienna Symphony Orchestra concert with Andrés Orozco-Es- trada. Yeree Suh is making her Ravinia and Chicago Symphony Orchestra debuts. MATTHIAS GOERNE, baritone Born in Weimar, Germany, in 1967, Mat- thias Goerne began his professional voice training in 1985 with Hans-Joachim Beyer in Leipzig, later studying with legendary lieder and operatic performers Elisabeth Schwarz- kopf and Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau. By 1990 he had earned top prizes from the Lindberg Salomon, Hugo Wolf, and Robert Schumann Competition. In 1994 Goerne made debuts with Zurich’s Tonhalle Orchestra performing Brahms’s German Requiem and at London’s Wigmore Hall. Goerne’s successes in opera date to a 1992 production of Hans Werner Henze’s Der Prinz von Homburg in Cologne, for which he sang the title role, and his Deut- sche Oper Berlin debut as Marcello in Puc- cini’s La bohème . Since his Salzburg Festival operatic debut as Papageno in Mozart’s The Magic Flute in 1997, Goerne has appeared at London’s Royal Opera House, Madrid’s Te- atro Real, Paris National Opera, Bavaria and Vienna State Operas, and the Metropolitan Opera, among many other leading stages. Goerne’s repertoire includes the Wagnerian roles of Wolfram in Tannhäuser , Amfortas in Parsifal , Kurwenal in Tristan und Isolde , and Wotan in Die Walküre ; Strauss’s Orest in Elektra and Jochanaan in Salome ; and the title roles of Berg’s Wozzeck , Bartók’s Bluebeard’s Castle , Hindemith’s Mathis der Maler , and Aribert Reimann’s Lear . His broad discog- raphy has earned awards from Gramophone , BBC Music Magazine , and Diapason , as well as five Grammy nominations. Between 2008 and 2014, Goerne released nine Schubert discs with Harmonia Mundi, which recently issued his albums of Schumann songs (with Leif Ove Andsnes) and the German Requi- em (with the Swedish Radio Symphony and Choir). In June, Deutsche Grammophon re- leased his album with Daniil Trifonov, featur- ing repertoire from their concert tour, having also recently issued his duo collections with Seong-Jin Cho and Jan Lisiecki. In recent seasons, Goerne was an artist-in-residence at Hamburg’s Elbphilharmonie and with the New York Philharmonic, and the past year has included concerts with the Royal Con- certgebouw Orchestra, French National Or- chestra, Israel and Munich Philharmonics, and Boston Symphony. First appearing at Ravinia in 2001, Matthias Goerne is marking his ninth season at the festival this summer. CHICAGO SYMPHONY CHORUS For the Chicago Symphony Chorus’s biography, see page 50. CHERYL FRAZES HILL, associate director JENNIFER KERR BUDZIAK, assistant director ANDREW LEWIS, assistant director BENJAMIN RIVERA, assistant director The chorus was prepared for this performance by Michael Black. Geoffrey Agpalo Anastasia Cameron Balmer Enrico Bellomo Annie Bennett Laney A. Benson III Christina Bernadoni Nicole Besa Madison Bolt Michael Boschert Michael Brauer Evan Bravos Matthew Brennan Terry L. Bucher Laura Bumgardner Melanie Burbules Diane Busko Bryks * Katherine Buzard Michael Cavalieri Joseph Cloonan Natalie Conseur Magaly Cordero Sandra Cross Carolyn Dalmonte Beena David Anna De Ocampo Kain Leah Dexter Chris DiMarco Micah A. Dingler Katarzyna Dorula Katrina Dubbs Kathryn Kinjo Duncan Ashley Eason Nicholas Falco Andrew Fisher Leigh Folta Margaret Fox Kirsten Fyr-Searcy Ace T. Gangoso Dominic German Liana Gineitis Mary Lutz Govertsen Nida Grigalaviciute Kimberly Gunderson Elizabeth Haley Kevin Michael Hall Ashlee Hardgrave Ruth Ginelle Heald Betsy Hoats Ingrid Israel Mikolajczyk Alfredo, Jimenez Garrett Johannsen * Robin A. Kessler Jess Koehn Susan Krout Alexandra Kunath Mathew Lake Rosalind Lee Kristin Lelm Lee Lichamer Nicholas Lin Amanda Compton LoPresti * Bill McMurray Mark James Meier Rebecca S. Moan Keith A. Murphy Lillian Murphy Susan Nelson Karen R. Nussbaum Nathan S. Oakes Máire O’Brien Kristina Pappademos Wha Shin Park Steven Michael Patrick Wilbur Pauley Douglas Peters Larry Pitts Cari Plachy Elvira Ponticelli Robert J. Potsic Angela Presutti Emily Price Ian R. Prichard Nicholas Pulikowski Margaret Quinnette William Roberts Stephanie Schoenhofer Cole Seaton Silfredo Serrano Elizabeth Shuman Bridget Skaggs Joseph Smith Tiana Sorenson Ryan Townsend Strand Avery Sujikowski Samantha Thielen Paul W. Thompson Scott Uddenberg William Vallandigham Debra Wilder * Megan Wilhelm Jonathan Wilson * Section leader Chorus Manager Shelley Baldridge Assistant Manager and Librarian Heather Anderson Rehearsal Pianists John Goodwin Sharon Peterson Andrew Rosenblum MICHAEL BLACK, chorus director Michael Black has been Lyric Opera of Chi- cago’s chorus master since 2013. He held the same position at Opera Australia from 2001 to 2013 and has also served in this capacity at the Edinburgh International Festival, Opera Holland Park (London), and, in Australia, the Sydney and Melbourne Symphony Orches- tras, Philharmonia and Motet Choirs, and Cantillation chamber choir. Other activities include preparing the chorus for Berlioz’s Damnation of Faust at the Grant Park Music Festival, where he has worked for two sea- sons. As one of Australia’s most prominent vocal accompanists, Black has regularly per- formed for broadcasts and recordings (in- cluding numerous appearances on Australian Broadcast Corporation programs). He has served as chorus master 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. He has also been a lecturer at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, of which he is an alumnus. RAVINIA.ORG • RAVINIA MAGAZINE 33