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Welcome to this production of Leoš Janáček’s Katya Kabanova, the first time that the work has been presented by Seattle Opera. When we think of the great operas, naturally Italian, German, and French works first spring to mind; works written in Czech generally feature further down the list. Indeed, it took a while for word of Janáček’s operas to spread beyond his native land, and were it not for some pioneering work of the conductor Sir Charles Mackerras in the 1960s, they may well have rested in relative obscurity. But opinion has changed, and now Janáček is recognized as one of the truly great opera composers of the twentieth century.

My first acquaintance with Katya Kabanova was a long time ago. The performance was in London at English National Opera, and I was about 14 years old. Delayed in the London rush-hour traffic, I took my seat moments before the houselights dimmed. In those distant pre-supertitle days, we relied heavily on the printed synopsis in the program to know what was going on; but in this case, the program book was an object lesson of what not to do! A muddy-green typeface set against a slightly lighter, swirled, muddy-green background is not the easiest thing to read at the best of times, let alone in a darkened auditorium. So, as the conductor entered the pit, I steeled myself for an opening act at maximum concentration levels. What I wasn’t prepared for was the extraordinary impact the music made on me from the very first bars. (It was much later that I realized that with Charles Mackerras at the podium, I was in the very safest of hands!) This was a sound-world I had never experienced before. From its opening bars, the opera overwhelmed with a sense of savage beauty coupled with a dramatic intensity onstage. Even though I was desperately trying to follow every line of the dialogue—it was sung in English, I hasten to add!—I was aware from the get-go that the characters were real people, not stereotypes. There was a sense of inexorable tragedy in the air. I knew that the storm, which begins the final act, was a metaphor for the pent-up emotions of the two protagonists and that a death was somehow inevitable at the denouement.

That performance of Katya Kabanova was the beginning of a life-long devotion to Janáček’s operas. They have cropped up throughout both my directing and my producing careers, and even at my wedding, where my wife and I left the church to the joyous strains of the nuptial dance from The Cunning Little Vixen! But although Janáček’s works have now become relatively mainstream, one can never understate their inherent difficulty for the performers. Janáček’s compositional and notation style was highly eccentric, and a correct feel for the Czech language is crucial to the rhythmic pulse of the score. So it is with great pleasure that we give a debut to a true Janáček specialist, our maestro, Oliver von Dohnányi. And with this new Seattle Opera production, our creative team of Patrick Nolan, Genevieve Blanchett, and Mark Howett have made a truly exciting dramatic framework for the piece that will ensure that this great opera makes the same indelible impression on you as it did on a young operagoer all those years ago.

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Premiere: Brno, 1921

Seattle Opera Premiere

Performed at Marion Oliver McCaw Hall: February 25, 26m, March 1, 4, 8, 10, and 11, 2017

In Czech with English Captions

Performances 7:30 p.m. Matinee 2:00 p.m.

Part I: 71 minutes. Intermission: 30 minutes. Part II: 30 minutes.

Music by Leoš JanáčekLibretto by Leoš Janáček, adapted from Vincenc Červinka’s translation of Alexander Ostrovsky’s play The Storm

CONDUCTOR

Oliver von Dohnányi†

STAGE DIRECTOR

Patrick Nolan†

PRODUCTION AND DIGITAL DESIGN

Genevieve Blanchett†

LIGHTING AND DIGITAL DESIGN

Mark Howett†

HAIR AND MAKEUP DESIGNER

Joyce Degenfelder

ENGLISH CAPTIONS

Simon Rees†

CAST (in order of vocal appearance)

KUDRJAS

Joshua Kohl

GLASHA

Jennifer Cross†

DIKOJ

Stefan Szkafarowsky†

BORIS

Joseph Dennis† (Feb. 25, Mar. 4, 8, and 11)Scott Quinn† (Feb. 26, March 1 and 10)

FEKLUSHA

Susan Salas

KABANICHA

Victoria Livengood

TICHON

Nicky Spence†

KATYA KABANOVA

Melody Moore† (Feb. 25, Mar. 4, 8, and 11)Corinne Winters (Feb. 26, March 1 and 10)

VARVARA

Maya Lahyani

KULIGIN

Joseph Lattanzi

A WOMAN

Melissa Plagemann

ASSISTANT CONDUCTOR

Philip A. Kelsey

ASSISTANT DIRECTOR

Dan Wallace Miller

CHORUSMASTER

John Keene

MUSICAL PREPARATION

Philip A. Kelsey, David McDade, Jay Rozendaal

STAGE MANAGER

Yasmine Kiss

CZECH LANGUAGE COACH

Radoslava Biancalana†

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THE STORYACT ONEScene 1: Outside the Kabanov house, afternoon

Kudrjas, a science teacher, admires the beauty of the river. The servant Glasha is unimpressed. Dikoj arrives, rebuking his nephew Boris for his laziness. He leaves when he learns Kabanicha, the matriarch of the household, is not at home. Left alone with Kudrjas, Boris explains he only stays with his uncle because of a provision in his grandmother’s will: if he and his sister are to claim their inheritance, they must respect their uncle and do as he says. Boris also admits to Kudrjas he has fallen in love with Katya Kabanova, wife of Tichon Kabanov.

When the Kabanov family returns from church, Kabanicha orders her son, Tichon, to leave at once for the market in a nearby city. She complains that he neglects her for his wife, Katya, and rebukes Katya when she dares to answer. Varvara, Tichon’s younger adopted sister, criticizes him for drinking too much and not defending his wife from his mother’s attacks.

Scene 2: Inside the Kabanov house, afternoon

Katya tells Varvara of her happy childhood. Varvara encourages Katya to talk about her dreams. Katya says she hears a man’s voice whispering in her ear, urging her to run away with him. Tichon appears, about to leave for market as his mother has ordered. Kabinicha insists that Tichon lay down the law for Katya before he leaves: she must respect and obey Kabanicha and not look at other men.

ACT TWOScene 1: Inside the Kabanov house, late afternoon

Kabanicha reproaches Katya for not making a show of grief at Tichon’s departure. Once Kabanicha has left the room, Varvara reveals she has stolen the key to the garden gate; she tells Katya she will ask Boris to come to the garden. Katya nervously takes the key, hurriedly hiding it when Kabanicha re-enters with Dikoj, who is drunk.

Scene 2: Outside the Kabanovs’ garden gate Kudrjas arrives in the garden, waiting for Varvara. Boris arrives, hoping to meet Katya. Kudrjas warns him of the risks involved. Varvara tells Boris that Katya is coming, and then goes off with Kudrjas toward the river. Katya soon arrives. Boris declares his passion. Katya is guarded but ultimately concedes her impassioned feelings for him. Kudrjas and Varvara tell them it’s time to separate. Katya goes back through the gate, leaving Boris behind.

INTERMISSION

ACT THREEScene 1: Two days later, outside a ruined church overlooking the river

Seeking shelter from a storm, Kudrjas and his friend Kuligin notice old paintings of hell and the damned still visible on the ruined wall of a church that burned down. Dikoj arrives to take shelter. Kudrjas thinks the storm is “just electricity,” while Dikoj considers the storm a punishment from God.

Varvara tells Boris that Tichon has returned unexpectedly, prompting Katya to become hysterical. Other townsfolk, including Kabanicha and Tichon, soon gather, seeking shelter from the storm. Arriving panicked, Katya publicly confesses her infidelity. She rushes out into the storm.

Scene 2: On the banks of the river

Tichon and Glasha are searching for Katya. Varvara and Kudrjas decide to run away together to the big city. Katya enters alone. Confused, she regrets her confession and longs for death. Boris arrives and tells her that his uncle is sending him away. Katya will remain at the mercy of her mother-in-law and drunken husband.

Boris leaves and Katya imagines her grave. Crossing her arms, she throws herself into the river. A search party enters, and Dikoj arrives with Katya’s corpse. Tichon blames his mother for Katya’s death. Kabanicha thanks all the neighbors for their kindness.

ARTISTSMARK HOWETTLighting and Digital Design (Perth, Australia)

Seattle Opera DebutRecently: The Love for Three Oranges (Opera Australia); Good Little Soldier (Animal Farm Collective); Evita (Deutsche Oper Berlin)Upcoming: The Secret River (Sydney Theatre Company, Adelaide Festival); Commonwealth Games (Brisbane); Cockfight (The Farm)

JOSHUA KOHLKudrjas

Tenor (Reading, PA)Seattle Opera Debut: Brighella, Ariadne auf Naxos (’15)Recently: Amleto, Amleto (OperaDelaware); Tenor soloist, Messiah (Boston Baroque); Tenor soloist, Elijah (Hartford Symphony)Upcoming: Tenor soloist, B Minor Mass (South Dakota Symphony); Frederic, The Pirates of Penzance (Fargo-Moorhead Opera); Jaquino, Fidelio (Boston Baroque)

MAYA LAHYANIVarvara

Mezzo-Soprano (Tel Aviv, Israel)Seattle Opera Young Artist 2009/10 Seattle Opera Debut: Dryad, Ariadne auf Naxos (’15)Previously at Seattle Opera: Flora Bervoix, La traviata (’17)Recently: Soloist, Alonzo King LINES Ballet (Yerba Buena Center for the Arts); Carmen, Carmen (PORTopera and Opera Las Vegas)Upcoming: Flora, La traviata (Metropolitan Opera); Soloist, Mahler Symphony No. 2 (Charlotte Symphony Orchestra)

JOSEPH LATTANZIKuligin

Baritone (Mableton, GA)Seattle Opera Young Artist: 2011/12Seattle Opera Debut: Moralès, Carmen (’11)Previously at Seattle Opera: Assan, The Consul (’14); Registrar, Madame Butterfly (’12)Recently: Yamadori, Madame Butterfly (Arizona Opera); Hawkins Fuller, Fellow Travelers, world premiere (Cincinnati Opera); Don Giovanni, Don Giovanni, (Arizona Opera)Upcoming: Dandini, La Cenerentola (Arizona Opera)

GENEVIEVE BLANCHETTProduction and Digital Design (Sydney, Australia)

Seattle Opera DebutRecently: Notes from Underground (Sydney Chamber Opera); Sydney Christmas public domain events (City of Sydney); Flood Resilience Urban Design study (Parramatta City Council)Upcoming: Katya Kabanova (New Zealand Opera); Safe Space Interior Design, Lost in Books Community Bookshop (Think and Do Tank); Strategic Arts/Landscape Master Plan (Gosford City Council, Architectus)

JENNIFER CROSSGlasha

Soprano (Boise, ID)Seattle Opera DebutSeattle Opera Chorus Member since 2009Recently: Chorus, Mary Stuart, The Flying Dutchman, La traviata (Seattle Opera)Upcoming: Chorus, The Magic Flute, Madame Butterfly (Seattle Opera)

JOYCE DEGENFELDERHair and Makeup Designer (Los Angeles, CA)

Seattle Opera Debut: Parsifal (’03)Previously at Seattle Opera: La traviata (’17); Hansel and Gretel (’16); Count Ory (’16)Recently: Well and Vietgone (Seattle Repertory Theatre); La traviata (Seattle Opera)Upcoming: Here Lies Love and Dry Powder (Seattle Repertory Theatre)

JOSEPH DENNISBoris

Tenor (Sacramento, CA)Seattle Opera DebutRecently: Tamino, The Magic Flute, and Nick, La fanciulla del West (Wiener Staatsoper); Chevalier des Grieux, Manon (Des Moines Metro Opera)Upcoming: Tichon, Katya Kabanova (Wiener Staatsoper)

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VICTORIA LIVENGOODKabanicha

Mezzo-Soprano (Mint Hill, NC)Seattle Opera Debut: Charlotte, Werther (’89)Recently: Ruth, The Pirates of Penzance (Atlanta Opera); Azucena, Il trovatore (Hawaii Opera Theatre); Mother and Witch, Hansel and Gretel (Lyric Opera of Kansas City)Upcoming: Older Lady, Flight (Opera Omaha); Artist in Residence (Amalfi Coast Music Festival)

MELODY MOOREKatya Kabanova

Soprano (Dyersburg, TN)Seattle Opera DebutRecently: Senta, The Flying Dutchman (Austin Opera); Lady Macbeth, Macbeth (Glimmerglass Festival); Florencia, Florencia en el Amazonas (Washington National Opera)Upcoming: Tosca, Tosca (Los Angeles Opera)

PATRICK NOLANStage Director (Sydney, Australia)

Seattle Opera DebutRecently: Notes from Underground (Sydney Chamber Opera); La bohème (New Zealand Opera); Dido and Aeneas (Opera Australia)Upcoming: Katya Kabanova (New Zealand Opera); Dry River Run, world premiere (Queensland Conservatory)

SCOTT QUINNBoris

Tenor (Marshall, TX)Seattle Opera DebutRecently: Pinkerton, Madame Butterfly (Palm Beach Opera); Steva, Jenůfa (San Francisco Opera); Villiers, Duke of Buckingham, Prince of Players (Houston Grand Opera)Upcoming: Rodolfo, La bohème (Minnesota Opera); Duke of Mantua, Rigoletto (Lyric Opera of Kansas City)

SUSAN SALASFeklusha

Mezzo-Soprano (Spokane, WA)Seattle Opera Debut: Abbess, Suor Angelica (’13)Seattle Opera Chorus Member since 2003Recently: Chorus, La traviata (Seattle Opera); Marquise de Birkenfeld, The Daughter of the Regiment (NOISE)Upcoming: Chorus, The Magic Flute and Madame Butterfly (Seattle Opera)

STEFAN SZKAFAROWSKYDikoj

Bass (Yonkers, NY)Seattle Opera DebutRecently: Aleko, Aleko (New York City Opera); The Bonze, Madame Butterfly (Metropolitan Opera); High Priest of Baal, Nabucco (Lyric Opera of Chicago)Upcoming: Soloist, Concert (Key West, FL); Don Pasquale, Don Pasquale (Martha’s Vineyard); The Bonze, Madame Butterfly (Metropolitan Opera)

NICKY SPENCETichon

Tenor (Dumfries, Scotland)Seattle Opera DebutRecently: Alwa, Lulu (English National Opera); Mime, Das Rheingold (Hallé); Brian, Two Boys (Metropolitan Opera)Upcoming: Andres, Wozzeck (Opéra Bastille); Steva, Jenůfa (Grange Park Opera); Tichon, Katya Kabanova (Opera Holland Park)

OLIVER VON DOHNÁNYIConductor (Trenčín, Slovakia)

Seattle Opera DebutRecently: Andrea Chenier (Opera North); Satyagraha and The Passenger (Bolshoi Theatre and Yekaterinburg Opera House)Upcoming: Das Liebesverbot (Teatro Colón); Rusalka (Yekaterinburg Opera House); Carmen (New Zealand Opera)

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Rotating members of the string section are listed alphabetically.The Orchestra is composed of members of the Seattle Symphony Orchestra.

CORINNE WINTERSKatya Kabanova

Soprano (Frederick, MD)Seattle Opera Debut: Violetta, La traviata (’17)Recently: Fiordiligi, Così fan tutte (Royal Opera Covent Garden); Desdemona, Otello (Opera Vlaanderen); Fiordiligi, Così fan tutte (Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia)Upcoming: Violetta, La traviata (San Diego Opera and Royal Opera Covent Garden)

SUPERNUMERARIESWaverly ArauctoJulee FeltsCorinne FischerRosetta GreekJessica Hewitt

Sarah HubertCarol LevinEsteban OrtizLisa PriceJohn Smilgin

ACTORST.J. MustardJohnny PatchamatlaOrion Protonentis

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SopranoDonna BaldwinCarissa CastaldoKaren Early EvansDana JohnsonMary McLaughlinEleanor Stallcop-Horrox

Mezzo-SopranoLorraine BurdickLaura EichelbergerElizabeth PetersonMelissa PlagemannSusan SalasLucy Weber

TenorNathan BarnesJoel CummingsJon FarmerJoshua QuesadaKarl ReyesStephen Wall

Bass/BaritoneDan AarthunRyan BedeMichael DunlapCraig GraysonGlenn GuhrKwangsuk Ku

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FluteJeffrey Barker, PrincipalJudith KriewallZartouhi Dombourian-EbyRobin Peery

PiccoloZartouhi Dombourian-EbyRobin Peery

Oboe Mary Lynch, PrincipalChengwen Winnie LaiStefan Farkas

English HornStefan Farkas

ClarinetBenjamin Lulich, PrincipalLaura DeLucaEric Jacobs

Bass ClarinetEric Jacobs

BassoonSeth Krimsky, PrincipalPaul RafanelliFrancine Peterson

ContrabassoonFrancine Peterson

HornJeffrey Fair, PrincipalJenna BreenJohn TurmanJonathan KarschneyJoshua Paulus

TrumpetDavid Gordon, PrincipalGabriel PalmerAlexander White

TromboneKo-ichiro Yamamoto, PrincipalDavid RittStephen Fissel

TubaJonathan Hill, Principal

TimpaniMichael Crusoe, Principal

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Personnel ManagerScott Wilson

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LEARNING KATYA By Jessica Murphy Moo

Sopranos Melody Moore and Corinne Winters have graced the stages of the finest opera houses around the world, putting their personal stamp on the standard-rep Puccini and Verdi roles we know and love. Moore has recently ventured into Wagner’s repertoire as Senta and Freia. And Winters has recently performed Verdi’s Desdemona and Violetta, which is becoming a signature role. Seattle audiences enjoyed her La traviata just last month.

But both of these accomplished singers have also eagerly awaited the opportunity to sing the role of Katya Kabanova, a role that audiences don’t get to hear as often as some, and that we are hearing for the first time here in Seattle.

What’s the draw? Who is Katya and why is her character worth exploring, along with the added challenges of having to sing in Czech and to sing Janáček’s music, which is a language all its own as well?

One draw is the complexity of the character herself. Moore is drawn to the challenge of portraying—of singing—the role of a woman who really has no voice.

“She is silenced by her mother-figure, by her friends,” Moore says. “They tell her how to feel. ‘You should try this. You should do this.’”

And while the original opera took place in a small Russian village on the Volga River, and this production sets the drama in a small town in 1950s America, Moore doesn’t see the community as much of a stretch to a contemporary sensibility. Being judged by one’s community is all too familiar an experience. “We can identify if we’ve ever worked in an office, as part of a community where we know everything there is to know about 'Sally’s husband' and everyone eats at Quiznos for lunch because that’s the only place to go... It’s the day in and day out gossip, where people pass moral judgment.”

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Winters is also interested in Katya’s desire for freedom from those restrictions. In her first moment alone, Katya sings of freedom, how she longs to be free, to fly away like a bird.

So why doesn’t she up and leave? This crucial question made Winters look more closely at the psychology of this role. She notes that Katya’s first line to Kabanicha, her controlling and verbally abusive mother-in-law, is, “You are like a mother to me.” That she has accepted Kabanicha as a maternal figure speaks both to the limits of Katya’s external circumstances and to her internal emotional life. “It’s almost as if she’s a battered child,” Winters says.

When we hear Katya say, “Some strange longing is creeping into my head, and there’s no place to escape it,” we know that Katya is trapped, inside and out. Moore notes that Katya is perhaps more akin to Virginia Woolf than to the many opera heroines who take their own lives.

The other draw to a role like Katya is the music. Katya can’t escape and neither can the audience. Janáček’s music doesn’t allow us the relief that an easy melody might subconsciously provide.

“The text is written like theater,” says Winters. “The music is emotional without being sentimental, nothing gushy about it. It’s true and real.” What we hear from the singers will be close to the pace of

the spoken word. The events of the opera happen almost in real time.

Moore will arrive in Seattle after two other debuts, so she has a lot of new work at the front of mind. She performed “The Tell-Tale Heart,” based on an Edgar Allan Poe story at SubCulture NYC and then Bruckner’s “Te Deum” with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra. But learning Janáček was a challenge all its own. She worked with five language coaches before she could find someone who would work all the way through the score with her, working at the piano for hours and hours a day. “I had to say, ‘Tell my wife not to call me’,” she quipped. “The meter changes every other bar! And the consonants are crazy!”

Winters is grateful that Seattle Opera could hear that her voice was moving in the right direction for a role like Katya. “You need certain qualities—roundness and vulnerability—but also an ‘edge’ to cut through the huge orchestration,” she says.

Both of these sopranos welcome the role’s challenge and its newness, and it’s clear their careers have been created out of a certain versatility. While they are now firmly situated in the operatic repertoire, neither of them started there. Winters began in a chorus and singing pop music at open mics. Moore thought she was going to get a degree in music therapy when

she was encouraged to switch to a vocal performance degree.

After Katya, both sopranos will dive back into the familiar. Moore will head to Los Angeles for Tosca, a role she has performed four times. And Winters will head out on a west coast drive, after three full months in Seattle. She’ll hit Portland, the Redwoods, and San Francisco, before ending in San Diego, where she’ll be performing in a 1920s-era staging of La traviata. Will their experiences with Katya inform and color the leading ladies they already know so well? We’ll have to follow these incredible sopranos to find out.

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SMALL TOWN, BIG MUSIC By Jonathan Dean

Somewhere along the Puget Sound, or maybe the Columbia, water laps the shores of a seemingly idyllic small town. Some can’t get enough of the dazzling view, the peace and possibility; others have a very different experience. One woman is feeling trapped, tired of a marriage that isn’t working, frustrated by a community that asks little and offers less. Like any prisoner, she will seek escape.

Katya Kabanova could indeed happen anywhere. Brokeback Mountain set a similar story in the western US, Far From Heaven in the east. Czech composer Leoš Janáček based his opera on a play with a very specific cultural context: The Storm by Alexander Ostrovsky, set in the small Russian town of Kalinov, along the mighty Volga, in the mid-nineteenth century. From his urban, intellectual life in Moscow, Ostrovsky had traveled the entire length of the river and was responding to specific contemporary issues in his social drama. Janáček, however, saw the universal possibilities, the human journey at the core of Ostrovsky’s story. What’s more, he knew that music would inevitably transform realistic local detail into something almost mythic. The composer refashioned a Czech translation of the play into the exact libretto he needed to write one of twentieth-century opera’s most compelling tragedies.

In adapting Ostrovsky’s play, Janáček tightened the focus on Katya, only one of many intriguing characters in The Storm. He deleted much and re-ordered the scenes, so that Katya’s experience of love and sex is framed by the casual affair of Varvara and Kudrjas, on the one hand, and the grotesque liaison of Kabanicha and Dikoj, on the other. Katya, her husband, and her lover are neither as simple as the former, nor as ridiculous as the latter.

In Kabanicha and Dikoj, Ostrovsky was satirizing specifically Russian types: the autocratic matriarch and the samodur or unpredictable petty tyrant. Neither of these disagreeable characters has the stature of real villains; they’re more akin to the clowns of commedia dell’arte, universally recognizable despite very specific local origins. Building on his experience writing satire in his previous opera, The Excursions of Mr. Brouček, Janáček renders Dikoj’s boorish galumphing and Kabanicha’s

shrewish nagging precisely in music. But unlike Brouček, Katya Kabanova is no comedy. It’s dark even for Janáček, and these two appear all the nastier because of that darkness. Audiences may be inclined to agree with Tichon at the end, when he tells Kabanicha, “You’re the one who killed her!” But that’s way overstated. Tichon not only bungles his life, marriage, and family, he even gets the moral of his story wrong.

If it’s almost too easy to hate Kabanicha and Dikoj, it’s almost too easy to like Varvara and Kudrjas. Janáček stacks the deck in this younger couple’s favor by giving them the opera’s most hummable tunes, catchy folk songs full of the pungent eastern modal flavors the composer had spent much of his career collecting and studying. But if he wasn't writing a comedy, he wasn’t writing a

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folk opera, either. (Folk operas had been popular in Czech-speaking Bohemia and Moravia a generation earlier.) By giving this appealing young couple folk music, Janáček characterizes their relationship as uncomplicated, attractive, and impersonal. They represent hookup culture, easy-come easy-go couplings in which no real feelings are risked.

Nobody in Janáček’s little world feels as deeply as Katya herself. Janáček sharply diminished the role of Kuligin, who’s the moral center of Ostrovsky’s play, the Tevye of this Anatevka: an idealized Everyman, spokesman for the playwright’s social criticism. Less interested in social critique, Janáček made his extraordinary orchestra tell the story (rather than Kuligin). Not only does the orchestra feel everything Katya feels at each moment of her story, the orchestra extends that compassion to

us: in the music we hear all her frustration, longing, anxiety, bliss, crushing guilt, pain, and emptiness.

Janáček made one other telling change to the structure of the piece. In the play, Katya does indeed beg her pushover husband to demand from her a solemn oath that she won’t look at other men while he’s out of town, with as little result. But in the opera, she does so before her mother-in-law compels Tichon to make the same demand, not after. Kabanicha, concerned as ever with tradition and keeping up appearances, considers such an exchange the proper formality: of course a husband must lay down the law before he parts from his wife. Katya, however, has a burning human need for her husband to show her some sign of affection. Does he not value her at all? Wouldn’t he mind if she took a lover? Her longing for

love is so extreme, she’d even accept an old-fashioned chest-thumping display of patriarchal possessiveness as a gesture of love. By repositioning this scene, Janáček makes it clear that Katya’s problem isn’t so simple, so external, as having an awful mother-in-law. Her problem is internal; her awful mother-in-law only repeats what she has already said. Katya already has her own inner Kabanicha.

What can she do about it? She can’t turn that voice off; it’s part of her. If she were to turn it outwards, she might learn how to compel and extort Tichon’s love the way his mother does. But by doing so her humanity would be silenced. She’d have to become the next Kabanicha, an empty shell of a person, defined by social status and hierarchy and dominance, not by the music that plays so beautifully inside her. Instead, Katya chooses the music.

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Principals, stage directors, choristers, stage managers, assistant stage managers, and assistant directors employed in this production are members of the American Guild of Musical Artists AFL-CIO.The musicians are represented by the Seattle Symphony and Opera Players’ Organization, a Chapter of the International Guild of Symphony, Opera, and Ballet Musicians.Scenery construction and stage crew work is performed by employees represented by I.A.T.S.E., Local #15.Costume and wardrobe work is performed by employees represented by T.W.U., Local #887.Scenic artists and hair/makeup work is performed by employees represented by I.A.T.S.E., Local #488.

Lisa BuryDirector of Development

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STAFF CHAT: ALBERT SANDERSAlbert Sanders, Senior Account Representative for Seattle Opera’s Direct Sales team since 2001, loves to share his enthusiasm for an art form that speaks to his heart. We spoke about his own career in theater—on Broadway, off Broadway, and in regional theaters around the country. As an actor he aimed for impeccable comic timing—of course!—but mostly for authenticity, which is a quality Albert brings offstage and into the connections he makes in our community. —Jessica Murphy Moo

HOW DO YOU DESCRIBE YOUR JOB IN DIRECT SALES? Basically, we wear two hats. We fundraise, and we try to put people in seats by talking about the season. Because I’ve been going to opera for a very long time, I’m able to share my experiences and get people excited about coming, especially if they don’t know the opera. People tell me their opera stories and I tell them mine. I can be on the phone and have a wonderful conversation for a half hour. It’s great fun. I just love it.

ARE THERE COMMON RESPONSES FROM PEOPLE? Not so much. Everyone finds that one moment that spoke to them. And it might not be a “big” moment. One of my favorite moments in Traviata is when she reads the letter from Germont. Some singers will be terribly melodramatic and some singers read it simply; it is so important because it

builds to the death scene. Moments like that are not the big obvious moments, but they bring something to life. It’s the same in the theater. Magic happens in the strangest of places, unexpected places, the little moments.

HAVE YOU SEEN KATYA KABANOVA BEFORE? No. I’m so excited about it. The story is tension-packed. Seattle Opera’s dramaturg Jon Dean came into the office and played some of the music for us. I had never heard it before—I’d never heard any Janáček before—and I thought why do I know this? I realized it reminded me of the film scores of Alfred Hitchcock’s films. All the music is very high-wire emotional ….

THAT’S YOUR HOOK. Exactly! It’s a high-wire act, a take-no-prisoners kind of situation.

WHAT ARE YOUR FAVORITES? I call myself an Italian olive-oil opera fan. I love long, long lines of music, long legato… Lucia di Lammermoor is one of my favorites.

HOW DID YOU FIRST COME TO OPERA? My grandfather took me to the Met to see Madame Butterfly. At 10 years old, I didn’t know what I was watching. But when the curtain came down, tears were coming down his face, and I thought, “This must be really important.” So I started listening to the Met broadcasts, and one thing led to another and I’ve been going ever since.

When I moved to New York in the late ’60s, I started going practically once a week to New York City Opera. I’ve seen Beverly Sills in everything she’s ever done. And then when I had a few more bucks, I crossed the plaza to the Met, though I felt a little disloyal.

YOU SPENT YOUR CAREER IN THEATER. YOU MUST HAVE SOME GOOD STORIES! When I was doing Not in the Book, Maureen O’Sullivan “went up.” She couldn’t remember the opening lines, which in this play set up everything. So I came on with a newspaper and I gave all the exposition. “Did you hear about this? Did you hear about that?” It was scary! But some of the scariest moments are the truest moments because there’s no artifice involved.

In 1972, I was in the ensemble of Captain Brassbound’s Conversion, starring Ingrid Bergman. I was also the understudy for the comic lead, and I had to stand in for that role during the final rehearsal. I knew the part, but just looking Ingrid Bergman in the eyes told me exactly what to do! Once, when we were in New York, I invited her to my apartment for lunch because I lived nearby and she was always overwhelmed with autograph requests at the local restaurants. I knocked on the door, and my partner was wondering, “What is he doing home now? Did he forget his keys?” He opened the door and there was Ms. Bergman herself. We had leftover tuna casserole for lunch. It was wonderful.

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Anonymous (2) • Chap and Eve Alvord • Warren & Anne Anderson • Toby Bright and Nancy Ward ^ • Marshall and Jane Brown † ^ • Jonathan Caves and Patricia Blaise-Caves † ³ • Robert and Loretta Comfort † • Janice C. Condit ^ • David and Linda Cornfield ³ • Susan Coughlin and John Lauber † ³ • Norma B. Croco ^ • Christopher and Carolyn Eagan ³ • Geraldine Lindsey and Don Froomer • Richard and Mary Beth Gemperle ³ • Natalie Gendler ^ ³ • Lyn and Jerry Grinstein • Eric Hawley and Gwen Lowery l • Dr. Kennan Hollingsworth ^ ³ • Jay and Linda Lapin • Mr. Everil Loyd Jr. ^ • Ann H. Milam ^ ³ • Susan and Furman Moseley • John F. and Laurel Nesholm ^ • Bill and Sally Neukom • Joan Snelson ^ • John Sullivan and Paula Stokes • Jay S. Wakefield and Susanne M. Wakefield, Ph.D. ^ • Joan and the late Craig Watjen ³ • Sally Anne West • Judith A. Whetzel ^ ³

BRONZE$15,000-$24,999

Anonymous (2) ^ • Mr. and Mrs. Willie C. Aikens † ³ • Linda and Tom Allen ^ ³ • Eileen M. Birge ³ • Jack and Connie Bloxom ^ ³ • Brenda Bruns, M.D. and Richard Deininger † • James and Wendy Cullen ^ • Sandra B. Dunn • Dr. William S. Etnyre ^ ³ • Robert Fries and Debra Dahlen • Paul Goodrich and Shannon Sperry • Dr. Martin L. Greene and Kathleen Wright • Jeffrey and Rosario Hanna ^ • Mr. and Mrs. Richard C. Hedreen • Ron Hosogi • Victoria Ivarsson • Laura Lundgren • Tom and Gretchen Puentes † • Anne M. Redman • Jeff and Martha Sherman • Dr. Jay D. Sprenger with Stephen A. Sprenger • Stephen A. Sprenger with Dr. Jay D. Sprenger † ^ ³ • Ev Trout • Jim and Camille Uhlir • Susan Winokur and Paul Leach • Scott and Jenny Wyatt l

CROWN DONOR SOCIETYDIAMOND

$10,000-$14,999Anonymous (3) ³ • Richard R. and Constance Albrecht • Kim A. Anderson • John Bates and Carolyn Corvi • Milkana and Colin Brace • William B. and

† = Learning and Engagement Donor H= Opera Star Monthly Donor ^ = Encore Society Memberl= SOWING Circle Member ³= Wagner and More Member

SEATTLE OPERA INDIVIDUAL DONORSSeattle Opera thanks the following donors, whose support brings this art form to life on stage and throughout our community. Your gift creates opera magic! The list below reflects annual giving levels beginning July 1, 2015, through January 25, 2017.

GENERAL DIRECTORS CIRCLE

$250,000-$499,999Anonymous ^

Ann P. Wyckoff

$100,000-$249,999Lenore Hanauer

Brian Marks and Carol Maione Barbara Stephanus

Tagney Jones Family Fund at Seattle Foundation ³ l

PLATINUM CIRCLEGOLD

$50,000-$99,999Anonymous † ^

Gary and Parul Houlahan ³ Bruce R. McCaw

James and Sherry Raisbeck ^ Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth L. Schubert Jr. ^

Gene and Jean Stark

Ann S. Burstiner ^ ³ • Karen Carlson-Iffert and Jena Marie Myers ³ • Drs. Darlene and Gregory Chan • Heidi Charleson • Steven and Judith Clifford • Dr. Susan E. Detweiler and the late Dr. Alexander Clowes ^ ³ • Charles and Sandra Cossé • John Delo and Elizabeth Stokes ^ ³ • Tim Dreyling • Michael G. Dryfoos and Ilga Jansons ^ ³ • Leslie Giblett ^ • Merrie Good • John M. Goodfellow • Dave and Cheryl Hadley • Margaret Haggerty † • Dr. M. Elizabeth Halloran l • Hylton and Lawrence Hard • Adrian and Jane Hobden • J. Marilyn Holstad ^ • Darrell and the late Ruth Jackson • Bruce E.H. Johnson and Sandra E. Davis ³ • Gavin Lambie l • Winnie and Ven T. Lee ³ • Lex Lindsey and Lynn Manley • Marcella McCaffray • James and Lora Melhorn † ^ • Brendan Murphy • Sarah Navarre ^ ³ • Linda Nordstrom • Lev and Isabella Novik • Steven C. Phelps ^ • Dana Rasmussen ^ • Jonathan Rosoff and Kristin Winkel • Eric and Margaret Rothchild • Janet and Thomas Seery • Matthew Segal and Corrie Greene • The late Amy Sidell ^ • Rose M. Southall ^ ³ • John Starbard ^ • Charles and Delphine Stevens • Russell F. and Sarah M. Tousley ^ • Moya Vazquez ^ ³ l • Donald and Gloria Swisher ^ • Virginia and the late Bagley Wright

SAPPHIRE$7,500-$9,999

Anonymous (2) ^ ³ • George Allen • Joshua and Megan Barnard • John and the late Joyce Bozeat • Dr. Joseph and Barbara Buchman • Susan Buske ³ l • Stephanie Cook • Norma Cugini • Laurie and William Daniel ^ • Jane and David R. Davis • Karen Easterbrook and Alex Sutton • K. Carole and the late William Ellison • Marc D. and Maria Erlitz • Linda Hanika • Frederick and Catherine Hayes • Drs. Mary and Marvin Hoffert • John and Pamela Jolley • Neil and Ciara Jordan • Andrea C. Lewis • Dale and Shirley Martin • John and Mary Ellen Matthews • Lillian C. McDermott • Renate McVittie • Stafford and Louise Miller † ³ l • Walter C. Moore and Susanne M. Forderer • Joyce and Thomas Morgan • Gordon H.

Orians • Drs. Lester and Keiko Permut • Lori and Bill Price † • Lupe Salazar and Barry Bolding • Judy Tsou and David Carlson † • Hans H. van der Velden • David and Romayne Watt • Wayne Wisehart

EMERALD$5,000-$7,499

Anonymous (12) † ^ • Jack Aldrich • Pamela and the late Dr. Harold Amoss • Betty Azar and Larry Harris • Steve and Bonnie Baker • Peter and Jane Barrett • Ralph and Catherine Bauman • Lynly Beard • Paula Begoun • Ellen Bierman • Neil M. and Kathleen Bogue ^ • Jay and Carol Bowditch • Stephen Brenner • Gary Bromberg • Brian Bross and Bonnie Daniels • Lisa Bury and John R. Taylor † ^ l • Cy and Kathleen Butler • Ruth Cannon • Jeff Carnevali † • Gayle and Michael Charlesworth † • Leslie Chihuly • Gerry & Fran Conley • Dow Constantine and Shirley Carlson l • George and Carolyn Cox • Marc and Maud Daudon • Suzanne DeWitt and Ari Steinberg • David and Helen Dichek • Virginia Dombrowski • Kenneth Duncan and Tanya Parish • Lois Gamble Duncan and George Rolfe • Jeanne E and Michael Milligan • Carolyn and Lindsey Echelbarger • The late Gretchen and Jim Faulstich ^ • Barbara Feasey and Bill Bryant l • Carol and Philip Fortuna • Ernest and Elizabeth Scott Frankenberg ^ • Maureen Frisch l • Nina Fuller • Diana Gale and Jerry Hillis ^ • Dennis Gibb • Dr. and Mrs. Michael L. Gilbert • Ben Goetter and Kathryn Hinsch • Phyllis Golden • Peter Goldman and Martha Jane Kongsgaard • Mr. and Mrs. David Haley • Paul and Becky Haley • Jenny Hartley ^ ³ • Ann and Glen Hiner • Connie and Dan Hungate • Michael and Zhenya Hyman † • Linda L. James † • The Janecke Family † • Marshall and Kelly Johnson • H. David Kaplan † ^ • Ed Kim • Jon and Eva LaFollette • Dr. Brian A. LaMacchia • Aidan Lang and Linda Kitchen • Jeanne Marie and the late Rhoady Lee • Geo and Carol Levin • Carla and Don Lewis • Henry Li • Kathleen Lofstedt and Susan Lofstedt • Dr. Lois Lowden-Lunde • Rebecca and Laird Malamed •

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William B. Maschmeier and Patricia Haggerty ^ • David and the late Leslie Mattson ^ • William and Anna Maynard • Terry McCarthy • Mr. and Mrs. Dean A. McManus • Karen and Rick McMichael ³ • Dr. Robert Meier • Jerry Meyer and Nina Zingale • Donald and Linda Miller • Richard Mills and Karen Covington ³ • Karen Rose Mitchell • Egon and Laina Molbak • Jens Molbak • Sue Montgomery • Christopher L. Myers and Judith Schoenecker ^ • Beth Naczkowski • John W. Nemanich, M.D. and Ellendee Pepper, M.D. • Dr. David C. Norris and Alina M. Kostina • Diana C. and Angela C. Oberti • Charles and Teruko Pace • Mary and D. Pat Patterson • Gayle Peach • Barbara B. Peterson • Judy Pigott l • Ryan Porter † ³ • Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Purdy ^ • Carolyn J. Purnell and Wes C. Uhlman • Douglass and Katherine Raff • Michael Raftery • Alice and Dick Rapasky • Fleet Ratliff • Frances Rogers and the late Fred Rogers • Joy Rogers and Bob Parker ³ • Koryn Rolstad l • Cornelius and Penny Rosse † ^ ³ • James T. and Barbara Russell ^ • Irwin and Barbara Sarason ^ • Frederick and Connie Scheetz • Betsy R. and Jason Schneier, MD • Janet Sears ^ ³ • Dr. Anita Shaffer • Evelyn E. Simpson ^ • Christopher Snow • Mr. and Mrs. James Solimano • Karen and Michael Souter ³ l • Patricia Spotanske • Janet Stanton and Arthur Hurd • Carolann and Gary Steinhoff • R. Patton Swaim • N. Donn Talenti and the late Julian Patrick ³ • Pamela and Ronald Taylor • Jennifer Thill • Beryl A. Thompson ^ • Ian L. Thompson, M.D. ^ • Evelyn M. Troughton ^ ³ • Terrence Turner • Vilma Vojta • In Memory of Frank and Mary Iaconetti • Dr. and Mrs. Mike Waring • Bill and Carol Warren ^ ³ • Ruth and Todd Warren • Norman Weeks • Ms. C. A. Wen and Mr. David Garlow • Mary A. and David L. Williams • Kenneth and Rosemary Willman • Jeff Wood and Diane Summerhays • Frank and Virginia Wyland

FRIENDS OF SEATTLE OPERARUBY

$3,000-$4,999Anonymous (9) • Lee Acton and Lucinda Wilson • John and Marlies Amaya • Hans Andersen and Angyl Bender • In Memory of Robert L. Autrey • Martha K. Bargren • Kirk Barker • Dr. Aaron Barnes • Jillian Barron and Jonas Simonis • Mike Barta and Cynthia Shelly • Jamie Barton • Dr. Ronald and Ruth Beck • Holly and Brent Beckstead • Mr. Arnold and Mrs. Judith Bendich • Donna Berube • Andrea Bettger • Leslye and Robert Bohrer • Joseph Borden and Sara Marks • J. Cleve and Judith Borth • Beverly and the late Phillip Brazeau • John Brazel • Thomas and Virginia Brewer • Alec and Maddy Brindle • Betty R. Carter ^ ³ • Joe Bailey Cole • Dr. Allen Colic • Theodore and Patricia Collins • Sandra and Richard Counts • the late Dr. and Mrs. J. Terrence Coyle • James Crouse and Lee Oatey-Crouse • Gavin Cullen and David Jamieson • Stephen L. and Joan Cunha • John J Demakas • Steven Driscoll • Duane and Laura Eichelberger • Helene Ellner • Michael Emanuel • Laura and Robert Emmerichs • Kristina M. Erickson • Victor and Patricia Feltin • Glauco Ferrari • Jack and Marsha Firestone ^ • Mary and David Flowers • Peggy Fogliano • Steve and Susan Ford • Susan G. Ford and Geoffrey Ogle • Jim Fox • Celia and Toby Freeman • Donald and Ann Frothingham • Ben, Charlotte and Carrie Fulton • Janet A. George • Ruth Gerberding • Genevra Gerhart • Deborah Giles • Kristopher K. Gould • Richard and the late Marie Haase • Richard and Diane Haelsig • Kristina Haight • Samuel and Catherine Hardy • Dr. H. Hasche-Kluender and H. Shahri •

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JADE$1,500-$2,999

Anonymous (30) † ^ ³ • Ahmad and Zeina Abouammo • John Abrams and Karl Compton • Stephan Adler • Reverend and Mrs. John M. Allen ^ • Victor and Lisa Allen • Connie J. Alley • Ignacio Alvarado • Byron L. and Pauline P. Anderson • Carlton C. Anderson • Dr. J. M. Anderson and Ms. Lynn Gabriel • Dr. Larry S. Anderson • Robert L. and Rosemarie Anderson ^ ³ • Rebecca Andrews • In memory of Joseph S. Axup • Jere L. Bacharach and Barbara Fudge • Redmond J. and Suzanne W. Barnett • Tim and Tony Barrick ³ • Ms. Mary Barta • Kathryn Bartholomew • Evelyn and Richard Bateman • Douglas and Maria Bayer • Philip Bayne and Anne Schmidt • Barbara G. Bedell • Diana N. Bennett • Dr. and Mrs. Forrest C. Bennett • Alan and Sarah Black • Earl and Paula Black • Rebecca Black • Karl Bonn • Barry Booher and Mary Ellen Olander • Bill Boris • Molly Bostic • Cyd Scofield Boyd • Rebecca Boyd ³ • Nancy Rieketts Bradley • Bonita and David Brewer • Gilbert and Mary Ann Brokaw • David C. Brunelle • Lydia Budak and Bruce Kincy • Carl Bunje and Patricia Costello • Dr. Boyce Burdick • Roger K. Burk and Meg Murch • April Cameron † • Corinne A. Campbell ^ • Irene Campbell † • Joe and Dorothy Canavan • Barbara A. Capron and David A. Holm • Eugene Carlson • Carolyn Chawla ^ ³ • Elaine and Eric Clark • Heinke Clark ^ ³ • Conni and Doug Clarke † • Drs. Sterling and Sandra Clarren • Jack Clay • Adelle and Monte Clements • Candace Coe • Charles and Nancy Bagley • Joan and Frank Conlon • Carol and Carl Corbin • Jan and Jack Creighton • Roger and Emma Crew • Rachel Crum † • Greg and Gina Crumbaker • Dennis and Judith Cunneen • Jacqueline Davenport • Christine Davis • Thomas DeBoer and Durga Doriasamy •

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Seattle Opera 2016/17 Season28

Jane Remsberg and Jerome Anderson • Braiden Rex-Johnson and Spencer A. Johnson ^ ³ • Steven and Fredrica Rice • Nancy Ritzenthaler and Albert Odmark Jr. l • Joyce C. and Saul Rivkin • Richard Robbins • Paul A. and Mary Ann Roberts • Sharon Robinson • Ansel Rognlie and David Steindl • Arnold and Rosalyn Rom • Neil Roseman • Lawrence R. Ross • Weston Roth • Kevin Ruddell and Heather Kroll • Joanna Ryan • Jean Sanders • Carl Sanders • Debra Santos • Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Scheidel • Eckhard Schipull • Mrs. Chella Schmidt • Garry and Ruth Schneider • Jean E. Schweitzer ³ • Charles and Maria Schweizer • John and Joan Scott • Virginia Senear ^ • Christine Seyfried and William Catterall • John W. Showalter † • Sarah Shreeve • Bernard and Susan Silbernagel • Stephen Silha • Susan Simons • Landry Slade and Gretchen Van Meter • Evelyn and Leroy Smith • Judith L. Smith-Foote • Yana Solovyeva and Igor Zverev • Dorothy Somers • Shannon and Donna Stafford • Alan and Bonnie Steele • Anne Steele l • Mr. and Mrs. John W. Stephanus • Sheila and Craig Sternberg • Matthew Stewart and Marshall Bilderback • Robert Stewart and Harriet Winkelman • Philip R. Stoller • Howard and Vivienne Strickler • Frederick B. Strom • Aggie and Chick Sweeney • Bob Swoffer • Teruhisa and Yasuko Takeuchi • Mary C. Tevis • Tamlyn P. Thomas • C. Rhea and Wendy Thompson • Gertrud Tobiason • Thomas and Lisa Tocher • Julie Trautmann • Richard Tucker • Izabella and Andrzej Turski † • Marjorie and Thomas Tyler • Edith Ulatoski • Lance Vail and Terri Traub ³ • Ken Van Hyning • William A. Vance • Alice and Bill Van Pelt • James Vernon • Dallas and Shirley Viall • Betty L. Wagner † ^ • Keith Keyt • Jost Wanden • Carolyn Wasteneys • William and Marilyn Watson • Julie and Mike Weisbach • Richard D. Weller • John and Jane Whiteley • Mary Ellen Williams • Kevin Wilson and Emily Evans • Pat Wilson • Steven and Gail Wish • Mark Wittlinger • Albert and Angelina Yen • Dan Young and Camille Minogue † • Charles A. Zaragoza ^

GARNET $1,000-$1,499

Anonymous (25) † ^ • Dr. and Mrs. John H. Addison • David and Heidi Adkisson • Carolyn Aldredge • Marianna Alexandersdottir • Susan Allan • James and Anita Allen • Mary Ann Allen • Paul G. Allen • Susan Allen • Dr. and Mrs. Corrie Anderson • Jerilyn and Paul Anderson • Mr. Ben Armstrong and Mrs. Werona Armstrong • David Ashby • Michael and Helen Baker • Thomas and Stephanie Baker • Joan Baldwin and James Walsh • Phillip Baldwin and Layne Goldsmith • Ronald L. Barclay • Alice C. Barker • the late Ivan G. Barker • Leonie Barnes • Dr. Sanford C. Barnes and Eugene Carlson • Diann Barry • Cheryle Beighle and Stephen Schroeder • Charles and Marie Bender • Sharlen Bennett • Patricia M. Bentz • Jason Bergevin and Kelly Abner • Robert Bergman • Marianne Bergstrom • Jean Berry ^ ³ • Karen and Herb Berry • Dona Strombom Biermann • Judith Bishop • Roxanne Blanco-Mitchell • Verle M. Bleese • Sue Bohn • Beatrice and William Booth • Christopher and Linda Borland • Mr. Alan Boyd • Tim and Tami Boze • David Branch • Marilyn J. Braarud • Anitra Breit • Marcela Brink • Mrs. Walter F. Brissenden • Benedict J. Brown • Paul B. Brown and Margaret A. Watson † • Thomas A. Brown • Aleta Brunkel • Julia Buck • Abra Buffalo • I. Sharon Bunnell • Gloria Burch • Lisa Burkett † ³ • Rosemary P. Burkhart • Melanie A. Burton • Christina Byrne • Richard Cahall † • William F. Calderhead • Dianne F. Calkins ³ • Jeanne and Jon Cantalini • Kati Cardea • Eric Carnell and Angela Walker † • Dorothy Cervinsky • Seely Chandler and James Kelly † • Linda Chaves • Russell Cheetham • Bonnijo Chervenock • Allen Clark † • Dan and Karen Clements • Fran Clifton • Donna Cole • Katherine and Rudy Cologna • Bruce and Mary-Louise Colwell • Dr. Lisa Conaghan • Beth and Marc Cordova • Collett Cox •

In Memory of James H. Crichton • Sara Culver • D’Adre Cunningham • Richard Cuthbert and Cheryl Redd • David Darrow • Barry Davison • Carol and Daniel De Matteis † • Leslie Decker • Michael and Natalie de Maar • Geoffrey Deschenes and Meredith Broderick • Mary Dickinson • Kyl Dinsio • Alan and Tanya Dodson • Kathy Donaldson • Zander and Hilary Doroski • Tom Douglas • Patricia K. Dowd • Frank Dreyer • Fred and Adele Drummond ^ • Drs. Rebecca Dunsmoor-Su and Leonard Su • Maria M. Durham • Erin Earl • Richard D. Eidal • Dr. Sadek El-Alfy • Pamela Elderkin • Kristen Eliker • Dr. and Mrs. William N. Elledge • Julie Elliott • Russell Elliott † • Cynthia Ellis • Georgiana Ellis, M.D. • Bruce and Mary Enter • Marian E. Evans • Paul and Lois Evans • Lorri Falterman and Stephen Strong • Mrs. Gerry Fardal • Dr. Raya Fidel • Dave and Marianne Finrow • Mr. and Mrs. David Fliegel • Ludmeela M. Fraser • Clive and Shari Freidenrich • Thomas Funk • Bernard Garbusjuk • Beth Garrett • Marilyn Germano • Denise Goforth • Dr. Jeffrey Norman Golub • Gwen Goodbee • Philip and Robyn Grad • Douglas and Jane Granum • Dr. and Mrs. J. Thomas Grayston • Claudia Greenwald • Brian Grimes • Tom Grossi • Dr. and Mrs. Arthur S. Grossman • Ivan and Gerlinde Gruber • Brett B. Gutsche, MD • Brian Hahn and Mary Klubben • Mrs. Gail A. Halpern • Adrian Hanauer and Khanh Tran • Christine R. Hansen and Peter T. Hurd ^ • Benson and the late Pamela Harer • Gini Harmon • Karen Harvey and Steve Shelton † • Dr. Geraldine A Hashisaki • Kenneth and Susan Hassenmiller • Donald Hatch • Lunell Haught and Robert Pyle • Mr. and Mrs. Jahn R. Hedberg • Ian Hellen and Paula Cerni • Don Henry • Jean M. Large and Fred F. Herzberg • Diane Higgins • Suzanne Hittman • Rod and Nancy Hochman • Patricia Hofmann and Michael O’Brien • H. Lee Holcomb • Frank and Katie Holland ^ • Jana C. Hollingsworth † ³ • Bob Holtz and Cricket Morgan • Mr. and Mrs. William Hoppin ^ • Jim Horne • John Hrncir † • Janice Hsia • Janet C. Hunter • Robert and Kimberly Hunter • Nicholas Huppe • Drs. James Hurley and Leslie Dierauf † • Spencer H. Hurst & Jennifer R. Hurst • John and Annick Impert ³ • Ms. Roslyn Isseroff and Mr. Arthur Huntley • Arthur D. Jackson Jr. • Barbara Lynne Jamison and Keith Logan • Ann Janes-Waller and Fletch Waller ³ • Paul and Susan Jason • Warren and Mary Jane Jessop • Darryl and Kathleen Johnson • Jeffrey and Christina Johnson • Mark J. Johnson • Janet Johnson and the late Paul W. Johnson • James L. Johnston and Vivian Mendenhall • Gilbert Joynt • Randolph Kahle • Narcisa and Stefan Kaminski • Gilla Kaplan • Ana Karaman • Donna Kaufman † • Marlyn and Gordon Keating • Margaret Keenan • John and Eleanor Kelley • Peter Kelly • Benjamin Kendall • Larry Kessler and Bonnie Berk • Dong Kim and Rebecca Banset • Ji-Young Kim • Kristen Kimball • Sally Kincaid • Virginia King • Robert Kirkman and Gakyung Chung • Bartley Kleypas • Mitchell Knox • Barbara Konkle and Peter Kollros • Ted Korolak ³ • Dr. and Mrs. Robert Kremers • Dr. George S. Kriz • Pavel Krupets • Akshay Kulkarni ³ • Janet Kusler and Mary Pat Connors • The Kuzeja Family • June R. Kvarda • Isabelle S. Lamb • Michael Adler and Michel Lebas • Ellen Lehman and Charles Kennel • Sue Lesser • In memory of Mr. Norman Levin and Mr. Martin Hochfeld • Mark and Vanessa Levine • Jerry and Marguerite Lewis • Pauline Lim • Clare Livingston • Micheal Lofstedt • Marianne and Jim LoGerfo † • George Lovell and Carrie Cihak • Jim Lyle • Susan Machler • Ellen Mack and Edward Gomez • Robert Mack • Patricia A. Magnuson ³ • Peggy and David Mainer • Dr. and Mrs. Theodore Mandelkorn • Ann Manly • Dr. James E. Marcia • Paul and Mary Jo Martin • James Martinek • John R. Mason • Kathryn McAuley • David McClure • Philip McClure • Patricia McDonald-Scott ³ • Lesley McGalliard and Rich Layman • Jean F. McGarah † • Margaret McGraw • A. Wayne McGuire • James McIntire and Christina

Koons l • Therissa McKelvey and Heli Roiha • Kelly A. Meagher • Don Meberg • Francisco Medina • Dylan Meissner and Tung Ho • Richard Meyer • Marilyn Milberger • Abraham Miller • Juris Mindenbergs • Dr. and Mrs. Dudley T. Moorhead • John Morris • D.C. Morse Jr. and Jan Marchbanks • Karen Morse • David and Meg Mourning • Carmen Murphy • Don and Lynn Murphy • James W. and Pamela Murray • George and Ellen Naden • Linda and J. Patrick Naughton • John and Jane W. Nelson • Sharon L. Nelson • Craig Norton and John French • Worth Norton • Vivian Oehler • Pamela A. Okano † ^ • Dr. and Mrs. Bruce A. Olson • Patrice O’Neill • Debbie Pabst • Dr. Roy C. and Patricia R. Page • Margaret and John C. Pageler • Anthony Park • Soo Park and Jeff Rosenfeld ³ • Teresa Parker • Richard and Sally Parks • Mary Ruth Payne • Dr. Robert A. Pearlman • Kathryn A. Pearson • Nancy Peregrine • Rosemary Peterson • Beth and Jeff Pfost • Peggy Phillips • Dr. Zaiga Alksne Phillips • Raimund Pichler • Mr. Donald Pogoloff • Vicki L. Pogorelc • Dean A. Pollack and Lizabeth A. Wilson • Russell Powell • James Powers • LaVern and Frances M. Puddy • J.T. and Suzi Pundt • Judith Ramey • Patricia Rantos † • Russell and Julia Reid • William C. Rense • Robert Rich • Jan Richards † • Lanse and Rebecca Richardson • Sheri Richardson and Rick Lappin • Estate of Mildred Riekki • Jo Ann Riggs • Mr. J. Karl and Mrs. Christina Ris • Drs. Tom and Christine Robertson • Robert Rodriguez-Lawson • Melanie Ross and Tim Buck • Shawn Roth • Mr. Kenneth J. Russell • June Ryder and Michael Church • Dr. and Mrs. Werner E. Samson • Bev Schaaf and Rick Kirkwood • Paul and Terri Schaake • Mrs. R. Scheumann • James L. Schindler ^ • Dustin Schultz • Lidia Schwarz • Paul and Lorrie Scott • Lynn and Kathryn Olson Sharp • Kathlyn Shaw • Stephen Sheehy • Marilyn Sherron • Christine Shigaki • Alison Shuler • Jillian Simmons • A. McNair Smith, M.D. • Douglas Smith and Stephanie Ellis-Smith • Keith Smith • Peter Smith • Mr. and Mrs. William Smith • Susanne E. Snortland • Stephanie Solien • David and Jannie Spain • Sonia Spear • Sarah Speck, M.D. • Martin and Carol Stacey • Mari Stamper • Carlyn Kaiser Stark • Drs. Gordon and Mary Starkebaum • Christoph and Ellen Stauder • Lisa and John Stewart • Larry Stonesifer and Ron Angress • Marilyn Mathisen Sullivan • Charles Surine • M. and H. Sussman • Christine Swanson • Nishant Thakkar • Mary Anne Thorbeck • Patricia Thorpe • Jack Tilford • Nanette Toyoshima • John and Anne Trench • Rae Tufts ^ • Harold and Helen Tukey • R. Thurbon Tukey • Dennis and Dorene Tully • Joan Underwood • Donn Van Dyke and Theresa Dyke • Mark W. and Margaret Van Gasken • Paul S. Vevik • David Wachter • Susan F. Wagner • Maggie Walker l • In honor and memory of Helen English Walker • Mary and Findlay Wallace • Annie Walters † • Raleigh Watts ^ • Marc Wautier • Eugene Webb and Marilyn Domoto Webb • Jennifer Weis • Dr. Peter A. Weiss • William Weiss • Tom and Joan Wekell • Dorothy Wendler • Richard Wetmore • Greg Wetzel • Alexandra Wilber l • Evelyn Bittner and Jason Williams • Michael Williams • Dr. Antoinette Wills ³ • Donald G. Wilson • Barbara Ann and Victor M. Winquist • Ann K. Wittkowsky and Katherine L. Powell • Craig Wolfe • Dr. Jon Wongsurawat • Glen and Cathy Wyatt † • Marvin Yamaguchi and Dianne Graham † • Jennifer Zaccardo • Michael Zampani • M. Diane Moss and Robert Zawalich • Nancy and Stanley Zeitz † • Samuel Zinner and Walt Mason † • Gregory A. Ziuzin, CPA • Christian and Joyce Zobel

† = Learning and Engagement DonorH= Opera Star Monthly Donor^ = Encore Society Memberl= SOWING Circle Member³= Wagner and More Member

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For the last three seasons, Pacifica Law Group has sponsored Seattle Opera’s Concierge Desk, where audience members can resolve ticketing and other issues directly with Seattle Opera staff prior to every performance at McCaw Hall.

In addition, Pacifica Law Group’s volunteerism has led to collaborations with more than 70 area nonprofits. Providing expert support to these groups strengthens their ability to provide services to communities throughout the Northwest. The Legal Foundation of Washington recently recognized Pacifica Law Group for its commitment to equal justice for all people by naming the firm a Champion of Justice in 2017.

Seattle Opera is proud to recognize Pacifica Law Group for its service to our shared community.

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Songs of Love and War / MONTEVERDI / February 17-25

Big Night Concert / April 8

La Bohème / PUCCINI / May 5 -13

Man of La Mancha / LEIGH / June 9-17

Così fan tutte / MOZART / July 14 -29

The Diffi culty of Crossing a Field & The Little Match Girl Passion / LANG / July 28 - Aug 5

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INSTITUTIONAL DONORSSeattle Opera is exceedingly grateful for the following donations of $1,000 and more made between July 1, 2015, and January 25, 2017. The impact of these organizations and individuals keeps opera and the arts thriving in our community.

$1,000,000 and more

Seattle Opera Foundation

$500,000-$999,999Seattle Opera Guild in memory of

Marian E. Lackovich and Captain Louis J. Lackovich

$250,000-$499,999

$100,000-$249,999

$50,000-$99,999

$25,000-$49,999

OFFICIAL IN-KIND PARTNERS

VOLUNTEER FUNDRAISING$25,000 and moreThe SOWING Circle Gemperle Holiday Soiree 2015

$7,500 - $24,999 Seattle Opera Guild—Lakeside Preview

Group Seattle Opera Guild—Mercer Island

Preview Group

$5,000 - $7,499 Seattle Opera Guild—Amici Preview Group Seattle Opera Guild—Parties and Previews Wagner and More—San Francisco Trip

$3,000 - $4,999 Seattle Opera Guild—Bellini Preview

Group Seattle Opera Guild—Magnolia/Queen

Anne Preview Group

$1,500 - $2,999 Seattle Opera Guild—Allegro Preview

Group Seattle Opera Guild—Vivace Preview

Group

$1,000 - $1,499 Opera Plus—Horizon House

$500 - $999 Seattle Opera Guild—Bel Canto Preview

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IN-KIND DONORS Chateau Ste. Michelle • Cossé International Securities • Richard and Mary Beth Gemperle • Morrison Hershfield • Talking Rain

MATCHING GIFTSAlaska Airlines • Apple • AT&T • Bank of America • Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation • The Boeing Company • Cambia Health Foundation • Costco Wholesale • D.A. Davidson • Eli Lilly and Co. • Expedia Inc. • Exxon-Mobil • General Electric • Getty Images, Inc. • Global Payments • Google • IBM • KeyBank • The Meredith Corporation Foundation • Macy’s Inc. • Microsoft Corporation • Puget Sound Energy • Starbucks • Shell Oil Company • Symetra • T-Mobile • Texas Instruments • U.S. Bancorp • UnitedHealth Group • Western Tile and Marble

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John Graham Foundation

Ann and GordonGetty Foundation

The Chisholm Foundation

The Hot Chocolate Fund

Peach Foundation

$15,000-$24,999Costco Wholesale • OPERA America’s Building Opera Audiences Grant Program

$10,000-$14,999Ackerly Excellence Fund • The Foster Foundation • Norman Archibald Charitable Foundation • Nuckols-Keefe Family Foundation • U.S. Bank Foundation • Wagner and More

$5,000-$9,999Cornerstone Advisors, Inc. • The Dabney Point Fund • Envestnet | Tamarac • Firestone Family Foundation • Lease Crutcher Lewis • Charles Maxfield and Gloria F. Parrish Foundation • Richard B. and Barbara B. Odlin Foundation • Thurston Charitable Foundation • Janet Wright Ketcham Foundation • The Peg and Rick Young Foundation

$3,000-$4,999The Seattle Foundation: Poncho Legacy Fund • Wyman Youth Trust

$1,500-$2,999ArtsLEAF • Colymbus Foundation • Fales Foundation Trust • Madden Associates • D.V. and Ida J. McEachern Charitable Trust • Moccasin Lake Foundation • Pacific Coast Feather Company • Stratocent Technologies

$1,000-$1,499Educational Legacy Fund • Leathercare, Inc. • The Reed McClure Firm • PRCN Foundation SkyOpera Fund

C.E. StuartCharitable Trust

True-Brown Foundation

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PROJECT TIMELINEDesign review with Seattle Center

Project placed on hold due to Great Recession

Seattle Opera Board voted to resume project and kick off fundraising campaign

Confirmed design and obtained building permits

Construction began at Mercer Arena site with the start of demolition

Demolition of Mercer Arena is complete

Lease expires at 1020 John Street administrative/rehearsal building; Seattle Opera moves into new facility!

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We are grateful to the Fred Rogers family, whose building has housed our operations since 1990. However, our lease ends in October 2018 with no viable option to renew. Nothing matters more to Seattle Opera’s long-term health than the successful completion of the building that will house our education, artistic, and administrative spaces.

More than just replacing our present operation home, which is at the end of its useful life, this new dynamic building on the northeast corner of Seattle Center will help unlock opera for all.

WELCOMING AND ACCESSIBLE COMMUNITY RESOURCE Anyone will be able to view technical and artistic trades and participate in theater workshops. Spaces will support partnerships with our fellow nonprofit arts organizations and allow us to expand low-fee and admission-free programming.

EXPANDED EDUCATION PROGRAMS TO ENRICH AND INSPIRE Multimedia space for community and education programs will invite arts lovers and novices of all ages to discover, create, play, and perform. Service to the community outside of McCaw Hall will grow when we have appropriate space to prepare for classes, camps, workshops, and lectures.

PURPOSE-BUILT ENVIRONMENT FOR WORLD-CLASS ARTISTRY We are expanding rehearsal space and efficiently coordinating the layout of our production spaces, coaching rooms, and scenic and costume facilities. For the first time, we will be able to roll scenery directly from assembly to rehearsal and straight to the McCaw Hall stage! (See rendering on page 33.)

As of February 4, 2017, we have raised 65 percent of our private fundraising goal of $28.5 million. We have made great progress thanks to the generosity of our Board of Directors, individual and foundation contributors, as well as support from the City of Seattle, King County, and the State of Washington.

Your support will make a difference. Leave a lasting legacy for you and your loved ones with named donor recognition in the new building.

You can help Seattle Opera build a new civic home next to McCaw Hall. Support your opera company's bold vision to make opera accessible to everyone.

LEARN MORE AND DONATESEATTLEOPERA.ORG/ATTHECENTER

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CORNERSTONE CIRCLE$5,000,000+Tagney Jones Family Fund at Seattle Foundation

$2,500,000–$4,999,9994Culture and King County, Building For Culture

$1,000,000–$2,499,999Anonymous Apex FoundationLenore M. HanauerMarks Family FoundationNorcliffe Foundation

$500,000–$999,999The Neukom FamilyTrue-Brown FoundationWA State Dept of Commerce

$250,000–$499,999Toby Bright and Nancy WardRobert and Loretta ComfortGary and Parul HoulahanEveril Loyd Jr.

$100,000–$249,999Anonymous (3)Richard R. and Constance AlbrechtChap and Eve AlvordJohn Bates and Carolyn CorviJack and Connie BloxomMilkana and Colin BraceSandra and the late William DunnChris and Carolyn EaganRichard and Mary Beth GemperleJohn Goodfellow and Barbara PetersonJohn Graham Foundation Adrian and Jane HobdenDr. Kennan H. HollingsworthRon Hosogi

The Hot Chocolate FundSeattle Opera Guild in memory of Marian E. Lackovich and Captain Louis J. LackovichLaura LundgrenNesholm Family FoundationJames and Sherry RaisbeckJudith Schoenecker and Christopher L. MyersPaula Stokes and John SullivanThe Jonathan F. Whetzel Family

CENTER CIRCLE$50,000–$99,999AnonymousThomas H. and Linda L. AllenJonathan Caves and Patricia Blaise-CavesJanice C. ConditDr. Susan E. Detweiler and the late Dr. Alexander ClowesJack M. and Marsha S. FirestoneRobert Fries and Debra DahlenGrousemont Foundation in memory of Howard S. WrightD.V. and Ida J. McEachern Charitable TrustRosemary Peterson to honor the late Richard H. PetersonSteven C. PhelpsSeattle Opera GuildMartha and Jeff Sherman Shannon Sperry and Paul GoodrichBarbara StephanusCharles and Delphine StevensMoya VazquezJay and Susanne WakefieldJennifer and Scott Wyatt

$25,000–$49,999AnonymousMr. and Mrs. Willie C. AikensMarshall and Jane BrownDrs. Gregory and Darlene ChanSusan M. Coughlin Laurie and William DanielEllen FergusonDiana H. Gale and Jerry HillisJeffrey and Rosario HannaEric Hawley and Gwen LoweryH. David KaplanDr. Brian A. LaMacchiaKaren and Rick McMichaelJames and Lora MelhornBrendan Murphy Sarah NavarreTom and Gretchen PuentesMr. and Mrs. W. H. PurdyRose M. SouthallStephen A. SprengerJohn F. StarbardRussell F. and Sarah M. TousleyJames R. Uhlir and Camille M. Uhlir The Peg and Rick Young Foundation

$10,000–$24,999AnonymousKim A. AndersonLynly BeardGary BrombergBrenda Bruns, M.D. and Richard DeiningerDr. Joseph and Barbara BuchmanWilliam B. and Ann S. BurstinerBetty R. CarterSteven and Judith CliffordJesse and Lenora DillerMichael G. Dryfoos and Ilga JansonsKen Duncan and Tanya Parish Paul and Becky Hiner

Ann and Glen HinerMichael and Zhenya HymanBruce E.H. Johnson and Sandra E. Davis Aidan Lang and Linda KitchenJohn LauberStafford and Louise MillerRichard MillsHeidi Munzinger and John Shott, in honor of Linda and Tom AllenJocelyn Phillips and Warren BakkenMegan and Greg PursellCornelius and Penny RosseJanet and Thomas SeeryMatthew Segal and Corrie GreeneJudy Tsou and David CarlsonWagner and MoreDavid and Romayne Watt

COMMUNITY CIRCLE$5,000–$9,999Anonymous (2)Rebecca BoydLisa Bury and John R. TaylorJames and Wendy CullenPatricia DubrowGreg MeldahlJoy Rogers and Bob Parker Estate of Ralph W. PeoplesJonathan Rosoff and Kristin WinkelRachel R. Schneider Carla Tachau, in memory of Frank and Paula TachauTerrence Turner

IN-KINDCollins Group, a division of Campbell & CompanyHeartlandNBBJPacifica Law Group

THANK YOU TO THE FOLLOWING DONORS WHO HAVE GENEROUSLY CONTRIBUTED $5,000 OR MORE BETWEEN JULY 1, 2005, AND FEBRUARY 3, 2017:

Stage level cutaway rendering showing seamless movement between artisan workshops (blue & purple), rehearsal space (green), and the McCaw Hall stage (pink)

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IN MEMORIAM: SUE HUBBACH

Sue Hubbach believed that the type of opera she experienced as a young woman in New York had every ability to thrive in Seattle and was always willing to help it get there. For Sue, opera was not only a multi-faceted art form for the big stage, opera had the rare ability to offer something to everyone.

Sue Hubbach grew up in the Pacific Northwest as part of the Fisher family who founded Fisher Communications. She went to the University of Washington and studied home economics, later becoming a dietician. Her love of opera began in 1936 when she attended her first opera, Lohengrin, in Seattle and a year later as she completed an internship in New York City, where she also saw her second opera, Tosca, on the Met Opera stage. Her love affair with opera followed her back to Seattle where she married and raised her family.

She often told me that she supported Seattle Opera because she could always pick a winner. She had a natural business savvy even though she rarely admitted it. Once she confided that her father didn’t think that his daughters had a place in business, so he set aside dollars in a trust fund rather than giving them shares in the family business. She used her funds to purchase her own shares and invested her earnings to support causes she cared about. That generosity extended to organizations such as the Girl Scouts, education, and Seattle Opera. She was a longtime member of the Seattle Opera Guild. She joined the Seattle Opera Board in 1986 and the advisory board in 2007, and she was later distinguished as an honorary lifetime member.

Sue and I had many conversations about opera, and those conversations always got down to brass tacks. Her questions lacked pretension—she wasn’t interested in debating the pedigree of singers or suggesting repertoire (that was for the experts). She only wanted to know what the company needed help with to succeed. She gave from her heart, and she gave to Seattle Opera because she truly believed in its potential to become, in her words, “one of the best opera companies in the world.”

-Kelly Tweeddale, former Executive Director, Seattle Opera

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Seattle Opera’s strong foundation of support is thanks to donors like you who create a lasting legacy gift with an endowed fund.

A gift to the Seattle Opera Foundation helps to:

· Maintain long-term security for Seattle Opera · Provide a financial cushion during economic downturns · Allow Seattle Opera to take more risks and create better art · Increase education and community engagement activities

To learn more about Seattle Opera Foundation and the Endowment for Seattle Opera, please visit seattleopera.org/plannedgiving or contact Janell Johnson, Associate Director of Development—Estate and Gift Planning, at 206.676.5534 or janell.johnson@seattleopera.org.

ENDOWMENT FOR SEATTLE OPERA AT SEATTLE OPERA FOUNDATIONThe Seattle Opera Foundation is a separate 503(c)3 organization to hold unrestricted and restricted funds for Seattle Opera’s benefit. The donors listed on this page have given cumulative gifts of $25,000 or more for endowment purposes with outright gifts, estate gifts, or irrevocable planned gifts through a charitable remainder trust or charitable gift annuity from 1968 through January 20, 2017.

$100,000 - $249,999Dr. Phyllis Bagdi and Dr. Kennan

Hollingsworth Endowed FundDiana M. Blackmore Endowed FundCarmen Elizabeth Delo Endowed

Fund for EducationIn memory of H. Wendell EndicottJim and Gretchen Faulstich

Endowed FundMargaret Rose GrayWilliam Randolph Hearst Endowed FundSuzanne Dressler KellarEleanor Hale Wilson Charitable TrustJeffrey and Rosario HannaSpeight Jenkins Endowed FundMildred King DunnKaren S. LarsonPerry Lorenzo Fund for In-School

EducationLundgren Endowment for New WorksDr. Stanley M. Pier Endowed FundBraiden Rex-Johnson and Spencer

A. Johnson Endowed Artist FundGertrude E. Sprenger Education

EndowmentJames T. Williams

$50,000 - $99,999Garvey Schubert BarerEdward S. BrignallLeopold R. Gellert Family TrustHartmut B. Gottschau Endowed FundGeorge H. LancasterElizabeth ParkeMary F. Stowe FundPatricia A. Wilson

$25,000 - $49,999Rosemarie and Robert L. AndersonHenriette BaumEstate of Egon BaumannDoris H. CakaEstate of Shirley Callison MinerArnold H. ChinJames and Wendy CullenDavid B. FelchMargery FriedlanderEstate of Edward P. GoodrichThe Estate of Dale LehrmanDelorez RossellRuth M. RystogiCecilia Schultz Music Foundation FundFrances Stillman HodgesThe Lawrence W. Wells TrustJudith A. WhetzelEstate of Maureen P. Woodman

$15,000,000 and moreGerard L. Hanauer

$1,000,000 and moreLenore M. Hanauer

Kreielsheimer Endowment FundGladys and Sam Rubinstein

$500,000 - $999,999Anonymous

The Clowes Fund, Inc.Max E. Gellert Memorial Fund

Ruth H. HoffmanSeattle Opera Guild in Memory of Marian E. Lackovich and

Captain Louis J. Lackovich Endowed FundHoward D. Wigle

$250,000 - $499,999Anonymous

C. Keith Birkenfeld Memorial Trust for EducationSusanne F. Hubbach

Marion Oliver McCaw GarrisonEulalie Schneider Fund for Artistic Excellence

AMUSEMENTSGifts of Artistic Expression

SEATTLE OPERA ONLINEVisit seattleopera.org to find trailer videos, photos, audio clips, and interactive guides about Katya Kabanova and all the operas we present.

VIDEOSKATYA KABANOVA HIGHLIGHTS Find out why General Director Aidan Lang thinks Katya Kabanova is an ideal “first” opera, and hear Corinne Winters on her experiences preparing for this new and challenging role.

SMALL-TOWN AMERICANA Meet Stage Director Patrick Nolan and Production and Video Designer Genevieve Blanchett and see how they arrived at the small-town American 1950s concept for this production and the vintage designs for the costumes and set. Nolan will also speak to the important role that nature plays in Katya’s story—how nature’s power contrasts the vulnerability of the individual.

ONE-MINUTE TRAILERA montage of dress rehearsal footage from Seattle Opera’s Katya Kabanova.

AUDIO PLAYERMUSICAL EXCERPTSSample audio clips and highlights from Katya Kabanova and many other Seattle Opera performances at soundcloud.com/seattle-opera.

ALSO ON THE WEB

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EXCLUSIVE ARTWORK T-SHIRTSDesigner Kelly Colglazier and illustrator Erika Norris created this custom illustration for Seattle Opera’s premiere presentation of Janáček’s romantic tragedy. Four silhouetted cameo portraits depict the primary players in the drama, including the “Dreamer” Katya and her “Nightmare” Kabanicha. Black and yellow design on light heather grey. Available in men’s and women’s T-shirts. Prices vary.

KATYA KABANOVA CDTake home the remarkable music of Janáček’s captivating drama with this remastered 1977 Decca recording featuring Elisabeth Söderström, Petr Dvorský, and Naděžda Kniplová. Sir Charles Mackerras conducts the Wiener Staatsopernchor and Wiener Philharmoniker. 2-CD set includes libretto. $29.95

MAGIC FLUTE MÉLANGEIn preparation for our revival of Mozart’s effervescent extravaganza this May, we offer a wide variety of merchandise for Flute fans of all ages. Books, CDs, DVDs, and more—including exclusive costume rendering posters by fabulous fashion designer Zandra Rhodes! Prices vary.

SHOP AMUSEMENTS ONLINE AT SEATTLEOPERA.ORG/SHOP.

Located on the Kreielsheimer Promenade Level of McCaw Hall. Open two and a half hours prior to curtain.

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Leadership Circle Members as of January 25, 2017

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Anonymous (1)

William and Sally Neukom

Gary and Parul Houlahan

Carol Maione and Brian Marks

Eric Hawley and Gwen Lowery

Loretta and Robert

Comfort

Christopher and Carolyn Eagan

Toby Bright and Nancy Ward

Nesholm Family Foundation

James and Sherry Raisbeck

Joan Snelson

Maryanne Tagney and David Jones

True-Brown Foundation

Gail and William Weyerhaeuser

Jay and Susanne Wakefield

LEADERSHIP CIRCLE

Through a multiyear Annual Fund commitment of $100,000 or more, you can join the Leadership Circle and help realize an unbounded vision for Seattle Opera’s future.

By providing an enduring level of support, Leadership Circle members act as pillars for our community, ensuring the vitality of the arts that enrich our region’s culture. Thank you to our members for keeping Seattle Opera connected and thriving.

LEADERSHIP CIRCLE GIFTS • Are customized gifts planned in

advance for three years or more totaling $100,000+.

• Give you premium recognition and access to your opera company.

• Allow you to create a lasting impact!

Members will join General Director Aidan Lang for an intimate dinner as a token of gratitude for their meaningful gifts. To learn more about the Leadership Circle, contact Director of Development Lisa Bury at 206.676.5530 or lisa.bury@seattleopera.org.

Take your place in the circle of Seattle Opera’s most visionary supporters.

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UPCOMING EVENTSSeattle Opera Gala: Beyond the StageApril 22, 2017Join us for a glamorous celebration featuring artists of The Magic Flute, including special guest Zandra Rhodes. This festive evening will include gourmet food and wine, silent and live auctions, live performances, and more!(Tickets start at $500; 50% discount for patrons under 40)

FOR DONORSWine Music ChocolateMarch 23, 2017The SOWING Circle’s signature event! Enjoy an evening listening to selected opera pieces at a private home, sampling wines that fit the mood of each, and indulging in chocolate.

“Wagner and the Vikings” with Dramaturg Jonathan DeanMarch 30, 2017Join Wagner and More for a look at the five main literary sources for the Ring cycle (Elder Edda, Younger Edda, Volsungasaga, Thidreksaga, Nibelungenlied). Explore the literature behind the music!(Annual Fund donors of $50 and more)

Magic Revealed: Piano Technical RehearsalApril 30, 2017Hear Technical & Facilities Director Robert Schaub discuss his experience designing the sets for The Magic Flute. Then watch the artists in their first mainstage rehearsal at McCaw Hall.(Annual Fund donors of $500 and more)

The Magic Flute Dress RehearsalsMay 3 & 4, 2017Watch the final details come together at the last rehearsals prior to opening night.(Annual Fund donors of $250 and more)

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THREE, FOUR, AND FIVE OPERA SEASON TICKETPACKAGES AVAILABLE TODAY!Experience a globe-spanning variety of unforgettable musical storytelling with a subscription customized to your taste, schedule, and budget. Choose all 5 and receive free parking!

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Spotlight Dinner: The Magic FluteMay 4, 2017General Director Aidan Lang hosts this insightful three-course dinner prior to the Magic Flute Dress Rehearsal, featuring a special guest artist.(Annual Fund donors of $500 and more)

Questions? Contact Donor Services at rsvp@seattleopera.org or 206.389.7669. SEATTLEOPERA.ORG/DONATE

OPERA ON THE RADIOTune to 98.1 Classical KING-FM every Saturday evening for more great opera, including live performance from the Seattle Opera stage and great recordings hosted by Aidan Lang or Jonathan Dean.KING.ORG

BRAVO!BRAVO! NightsBRAVO! members enjoy complimentary wine and coffee in the BRAVO! Lounges during intermission. SEATTLEOPERA.ORG/BRAVO

EDUCATION & COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT EVENTSFree Community Previews Our new format features professional singers and an accompanist in an hour-long presentation that takes the audience on a journey through the story and music of the upcoming mainstage opera.

If you’d like to bring a community preview to your neighborhood, contact Mark Allwein at 206.676.5566.

Speakers BureauPreviews by Norm Hollingshead are available throughout King, Pierce, and Kitsap counties. Visit SEATTLEOPERA.ORG/SPEAKERSBUREAU for a full list of dates and events.

Seattle Opera Lecture Series at SUMarch 21, 2017, 7:00 p.m.Join us in the Pigott Auditorium at Seattle University for a fun and interactive multi-media experience designed to make you think about opera in new and innovative ways. Free.

Artful AgingIn community centers, retirement homes, and memory loss centers, Seattle Opera will provide a host of engaging creative experiences, including recitals, guided sing-alongs, workshops to create original opera scenes, and more. The arts keep our minds engaged and our spirits strong!SEATTLEOPERA.ORG/ARTFULAGING

Youth Events

CINDERELLA EN ESPAÑA

A bilingual one-act opera for children, visiting schools and community centers January-June, 2017. Also performing for the public on March 19 at Kirkland Performance Center.SEATTLEOPERA.ORG/TOUR

YOUTH OPERA CHORUS

A training chorus for children in grades K-7, focusing on diction, collaborative singing, and stage movement. Three levels to choose from: Overture Chorus, Crescendo Chorus, Advanced Ensemble.SEATTLEOPERA.ORG/YOC

STUDENT DRESS REHEARSALS

Up Next: The Magic Flute, May 3 and 4, at 7:00 p.m.SEATTLEOPERA.ORG/EXPERIENCEOPERA

CLASSROOM OPERA FORUMS

A customized classroom-based discussion where students will “read between the lines,” engaging with opera through the underlying social, historical, and literary connections with opera. SEATTLEOPERA.ORG/EXPERIENCEOPERA

TALKS AND PUBLIC PRESENTATIONSPre-Performance Talks60 minutes before every Seattle Opera performance. Free.Nesholm Family Lecture Hall, McCaw Hall

Opera Talk BacksThis 30-minute free event is hosted by a member of the artistic or education staff and will feature a special guest from the cast or creative team. Join us to explore a variety of perspectives on performance and production. In the Allen Room at McCaw Hall after every performance. Space is limited.

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