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NEW PHILHARMONIC
Kirk Muspratt, Artistic Director and Music Director
39th Season 2015–2016
Così fan tutte
Music by: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Libretto by: Lorenzo Da Ponte
Music Director and Conductor
Kirk Muspratt
Stage Director
Jonathon Field
Assistant Conductor
Lindsay Riemer
Accompanist
Lisa Kristina
Scenic and Properties Designer
Michael Moon
Lighting Designer
Elias Morales
Costume, Make-Up and Hair Designer
Kimberly G. Morris
General Manager
Paula Cebula
Stage Director support sponsored by:
Media support provided by:
Saturday, Jan. 23, 2016, 7:30 p.m.
Sunday, Jan. 24, 2016, 3 p.m.
Belushi Performance Hall
CAST
Fiordiligi.................................................................................................... Jessica Faselt, Soprano
Dorabella................................................................................ Kathryn Leemhuis, Mezzo-Sporano
Guglielmo, officer, betrothed to Fiordigli.....................................................Paul Scholten, Baritone
Ferrando, officer, betrothed to Dorabella............................................................Aaron Short, Tenor
Despina, chambermaid to Fiordigli and Dorabella.................................Angela De Venuto, Soprano
Don Alfonso, philosopher........................................................... Leo Radosavljevic, Bass-Baritone
Servants........................................................................................... Olivia Duncan, Eugene Rzym
Please disengage wristwatch alarms, beepers and cell phones.
Immediately following the performance Maestro Kirk Muspratt, as well as the cast and orchestra,
cordially invite you to participate in the “Cookies with Kirk” in our lobby, sponsored by Brookdale
Glen Ellyn.
PROGRAM
Place: Naples
Time: The 21st Century
ACT I
Scene 1: A café
Scene 2: A seaside garden
Scene 3: A room
Scene 4: Another part of the garden
Interactive Intermission
The 20-minute intermission will be interactive.
Please meet and mingle with cast and orchestra members in our lobby.
ACT II
Scene 1: A boudoir
Scene 2: The garden
Scene 3: A room
Scene 4: The garden
New Philharmonic would like to thank
the Fulks, Iorgulescu, and Smith families
for providing hospitality to our cast members.
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PRODUCTION STAFF
Production Manager.....................................................................................................Joe Hopper
Stage Manager......................................................................................................Cathryn Bulicek
Assistant Stage Manager......................................................................................... Olivia Duncan
Supertitle Operator....................................................................................................Jan Krischer
Sound and Equipment Manager......................................................................................Bob Murr
Lighting Designer.....................................................................................................Elias Morales
Sound Engineer........................................................................................................ Ben Johnson
Stage Crew...........................................................Bobby Bryan, Amanda Hantson, Sabrina Zeidler
THE STORY
ACT I
Don Alfonso, a cynical old philosopher, declares to his young friends Ferrando and Guglielmo that
no women can be trusted, including their respective fiancées, the sisters Dorabella and Fiordiligi.
Enraged at this slur, they accept his offer to wager 100 sovereigns that he can prove his point in
24 hours if they will agree to follow his instructions unquestioningly. Don Alfonso then announces
to the two sisters that their sweethearts have been ordered off to the wars. There is a touching
scene of farewell and the two officers ostensibly sail off. Despina, maid to the sisters, finds them
prostrated by their loss and pooh-poohs their lamentations, saying that one man is pretty much
like another. To further his scheme Don Alfonso enlists Despina’s aid and introduces to her two
young and wealthy “Albanians,” who are enamored of her mistresses. She does not recognize
Ferrando and Guglielmo in their disguises and supports their suit. Fiordiligi and Dorabella are
outraged at this intrusion upon their sorrow and angrily order the two foreigners to leave. When
the young men pretend to take poison in their despair, the sisters relent somewhat. Despina
appears in the disguise of a doctor and revives the “Albanians’” by means of a huge magnet.
They renew their ardent attack on the young ladies’ affections but are again repulsed.
ACT II
After Despina derides their constancy, the sisters, especially Dorabella, weaken and decide a
flirtation will do no harm. Dorabella chooses Guglielmo and Fiordiligi Ferrando. As the couples
stroll in the garden Guglielmo wins Dorabella’s love and gives her a bracelet in return for a
picture of Ferrando. Fiordigli, however, refuses to yield to Ferrando and decides to disguise
herself as a man and join her betrothed at the front. But when Ferrando threatens to slay
himself, she too gives in. Both Guglielmo and Ferrando are now utterly cast down by the clear
evidence of their sweethearts’ fickleness; but the triumphant Don Alfonso promises them that
he will fix everything. He arranges a ceremony in which Ferrando is to marry Fiordiligi and her
sister Guglielmo. In the midst of the ceremony, which is conducted by Despina in the guise of a
notary, the military music to which the two officers marched off to war is heard again and it is
announced that they have returned. In the confusion Ferando and Guglielmo leave the stage and
come back without their disguises, explaining that they have received royal permission to return
to the arms of their loved ones. The officers pretend to fly into a rage when they find the marriage
contract, the sisters blame Don Alfonso and Despina for leading them astray, their lovers reveal
that they were tile “Albanians,” the sisters are properly chastened, and all ends happily.
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PROGRAM NOTES
Towards the end of 1789—two years before his death—Mozart was, as usual during this period
of his career, in dire financial straits. On Dec. 29 he wrote to his friend and fellow-Mason, Michael
Puchberg: “According to the present arrangement I am to receive from the management next
month 200 ducats for my opera. If you can and will lend me 400 gulden until then, you will be
rescuing your friend from the greatest embarrassment ...”
The opera in question was Così fan tutte, asia Ia scuola degli amanti (Women Are Like That, or
The School for Lovers). Mozart had been since 1787 official composer to the Imperial Court at
Vienna, at a salary of 800 gulden a year, but had been given little to do besides writing dances.
A successful revival of The Marriage of Figaro in Vienna in 1789 (it was given 12 times from
August to November), however, had impressed the music-loving Emperor Joseph II, and Mozart
was commissioned to write a new opera. He set to work immediately and completed the music
in January 1790.
While the libretto for Figaro was derived from a play by Beaumarchais and that for Don Giovanni
from an opera by Bertati and Gazzaniga and other sources, the plot of Così fan tutte seems to
have been invented by da Ponte.
Così fan tutte was performed for the first time on Jan. 26, 1790, at the Burgtheater in Vienna.
The opera seems to have been fairly successful at first. Even Count von Zinzendorf, who had
found Figaro a bore, thought “Mozart’s music charming and the subject very amusing.” After
five performances the theater was closed for two months because of the death of Joseph II (Feb.
20). When it was reopened, Così fan tutte was given five times more and then was dropped. But
the following year it was performed in German at Frankfurt and Mainz and in Italian at Prague,
Leipzig, and Dresden; and after Mozart’s death it spread beyond Central Europe. Strangely
enough, the first New York performance does not seem to have taken place until 1922.
Mozart lavished on this work some of his most delightful music, his most exquisite
craftsmanship. If some of the arias are not perhaps as telling as the best in his other mature
operas, they are outnumbered by the ensembles, which are wonderfully varied in style and
construction. The orchestration is Mozart at his most sparkling—in other words, the finest to be
found in 18th-century music. Occasionally a mock-serious piece, aping the style of the lamenting
or heroic aria of the opera seria, underscores the gentle irony of the work. The sly humor extends
even into the Overture, which, unlike that to Figaro, employs several themes from the opera. A
subtle touch is the appearance here, as a tailpiece to one of the themes, of a jolly figure sung by
Basilio in Figaro (Act I, No. 7) to the words così fan tutte le belle. It is difficult to see why Così fan
tutte has not always been accepted, especially in our times, for what it is—a musical lark that is
one of the gems of opera buffa.
— Program notes published by G. Schirmer, Inc.
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PROFILES
PROFILES
Jessica Faselt
(Fiordiligi) is pursuing
her master’s degree
at the University of
Cincinnati CollegeConservatory of
Music (CCM). She
has performed the
roles of Fiordiligi (Così
fan tutte) and Hanna
(The Merry Widow)
during her time at CCM. She had previously
performed Mrs. Grose (Turn of the Screw),
Vitellia (La Clemenza di Tito), and Rosalinda
(Die Fledermaus) at the University of Iowa.
Faselt competed in the Metropolitan Opera
National Council Auditions in January 2015
and advanced to the Upper Midwest Regionals
where she received an Encouragement Award.
In October 2015, she again advanced in the
Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions
and received the third-place award at the
Chicago Regionals. Faselt was a young artist
with the Opera Theater of Saint Louis Gerdine
Young Artist Program in the summer of 2015
and is again engaged with the company for
the summer of 2016. Faselt was the recipient
of the Corbett Award at the Corbett Opera
Scholarship Vocal Competition to attend the
Cincinnati Conservatory of Music for the
Academic Year of 2015–2016.
American mezzosoprano Kathryn
Leemhuis (Dorabella)
is widely gathering
acclaim for having
“a large, beautiful,
dark instrument,
intelligently used,
and spot-on dramatic
timing” (St. Louis
Today), and her
voice has been described as “stunning in its
combination of musical and dramatic nuance”
(Living at the Opera). Most recently, Leemhuis
made her role and company debuts with
Cincinnati Opera as Inez in Verdi’s Il Trovatore,
and as the Mother in Menotti’s Amahl and the
Night Visitors with the Cincinnati Chamber
Orchestra. She returned to the Tanglewood
Music Festival as Paquette in Bernstein’s
Candide with the Boston Symphony Orchestra
following a triumphant run as Dorabella in
Mozart’s Così fan tutte with Fort Worth Opera.
The Dallas Morning News hailed Leemhuis’s
Dorabella as “ravishing,” declaring that “her
sheer vocal beauty allied to nimbleness and
an astonishing range of dynamic and coloristic
nuance.” Upcoming engagements include
Leemhuis’s debut with Dallas Opera as Javotte
in Massenet’s Manon.
In the 2013–2014 operatic season, Leemhuis
appeared as Carrie in Ash Lawn Opera’s
production of Rodger & Hammerstein’s
Carousel. She performed as the mezzo soloist
in Haydn’s Missa in Angustiis with Chicago’s
Music of the Baroque and as the mezzo
soloist with the Apollo Chorus of Chicago in
Handel’s Messiah. Leemhuis then traveled to
Macon, GA, to sing Hänsel in Humperdinck’s
Hänsel und Gretel with the Macon Symphony
Orchestra, and made her role and company
debut as Florence Pike in Britten’s Albert
Herring with Florentine Opera to great success.
Additionally, Leemhuis appeared with the
Richmond Symphony to present Berlioz’s
Les nuits d’été, and the performance was
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graciously embraced: “Her dark lower register
tones seemed to fill the considerable space of
the Carpenter Theatre and impose a profound
quiet on both the accompanying musicians
and the audience. It was a remarkable display
of artistry exercising spell-binding authority.”
(Virginia Classical Music).
The 2011–2012 season found Leemhuis
understudying the role of Giulietta in Offenbach’s
Les contes d’Hoffmann at the Lyric Opera of
Chicago. She made her role debut as Suzuki
in DuPage Opera’s production of Puccini’s
Madama Butterfly, and sang the mezzo solo in
Mendelssohn’s Die erste Walpurgisnacht with the
Richmond Symphony Orchestra. Leemhuis also
made a thrilling return to Opera Theatre St. Louis
as Dorabella in a production of Mozart’s Così fan
tutte. Opera News Magazine praised her rendition,
asserting, “As Dorabella, mezzo-soprano Kathryn
Leemhuis matched Willis-Sorensen in vocal
beauty and musical sophistication, and showed
a wonderful comic side, drowning her grief in
macaroons and rendering ‘Smanie implacabili’
as a petulant rant.” Leemhuis’s 2010–2011
season included her company debut as Amaltea
in Rossini’s Mosè in Egitto at the Chicago Opera
Theater, and performances as Paquette in
Bernstein’s Candide with both the esteemed
Ravinia Festival and the Los Angeles Philharmonic
at the Hollywood Bowl. Making her DuPage Opera
debut, Leemhuis portrayed Zita in Puccini’s Gianni
Schicchi, and culminated the season as Zerlina
in Opera Theatre St. Louis’ production of Mozart’s
Don Giovanni.
Donna Elvira in Mozart’s Don Giovanni and
Rosina in Rossini’s Il barbiere di Siviglia, both
in Ryan Opera Center productions. She also
performed Dorabella at the Tanglewood Music
Center under the baton of Maestro James
Levine, Flora in Verdi’s La traviata at Opera
Colorado under Maestro Stephen Lord, and
Tulip in the collegiate premiere of Bolcom’s A
Wedding at Indiana University. Leemhuis has
been a young artist with esteemed programs
such as Opera Theatre St. Louis’ Gerdine
Young Artist Program, the Tanglewood Music
Center, the Carmel Bach Festival, and Ravinia’s
Steans Institute.
Leemhuis is the first-place winner of the
2015 Shreveport Opera Singer of the Year
Competition, the 2013 New York Lyric
Opera Vocal Competition, the 2013 Opera
at Florham Vocal Competition, the 2012
Bel Canto Competition, and the 2012 Heida
Hermanns Competition. She is the secondplace winner of the 2013 Opera Birmingham
Vocal Competition, the 2013 Florida Grand
Opera Competition, the 2011 Gerda Lissner
Foundation Vocal Competition, and the 2010
Fort Worth McCammon Competition. She
is the third-place winner of the 2010 Licia
Albanese-Puccini Competition, and a national
semi-finalist in the 2012 Metropolitan Opera
National Council Auditions. Leemhuis has also
received prizes from the Sullivan Foundation,
the George London Foundation, the Orpheus
Vocal Competition, and the Opera Columbus
Vocal Competition.
While in the Lyric Opera of Chicago’s Ryan
Opera Center, Leemhuis portrayed the roles of
Giovanna in Verdi’s Ernani, Glasa in Janácek’s
Kát’a Kabanová, Javotte in Massenet’s
Manon, and Kunstgewerblerin in Berg’s Lulu.
She understudied Marguerite in Berlioz’s
La damnation de Faust, Siebel in Gounod’s
Faust, Varvara in Janácek’s Kát’a Kabanová,
Kate Pinkerton in Puccini’s Madama Butterfly
and Lola in Mascagni’s Cavalleria Rusticana.
Leemhuis made two significant role debuts:
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PROFILES
American baritone
Paul Scholten
(Guglielmo) has
been hailed as
“an excellent
baritone with
notable intelligence
and trenchant
musicality,” (Opera
News). Recent
season highlights
include his notable debuts of the title role in
Mendelssohn’s Elijah with the Kent Singers
of Connecticut, and the role of MacDuff in
Ernest Bloch’s Macbeth with Chicago Opera
Theatre. Scholten made his company debut
with the Cincinnati Opera in their 2015
production of Donizetti’s Don Pasquale. He
also recently made his Fort Worth Opera
Festival debut in the role of Guglielmo in
Mozart’s Così fan tutte, performed the title
role in Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin with
Opera Company of Middlebury, Sharpless
in Puccini’s Madama Butterfly with DuPage
Opera, and Baburov in Shostakovich’s
Moscow Cheryomushki with Chicago
Opera Theater. Scholten created the role
of the General in a Metropolitan Opera
Workshop of Scott Wheeler’s The Sorrows
of Frederick, and performed Der Vater
in Humperdinck’s Hänsel und Gretel
with the Macon Symphony Orchestra.
Upcoming engagements include his return
to Cincinnati Opera to create the role of
Tommy McIntyre in the world premiere of
Gregory Spears’s Fellow Travelers, followed
by his performance as Father Flynn in a
new production of Robert Cuomo’s Doubt,
opposite Christine Brewer, for Union Avenue
Opera in St. Louis.
Scholten was a young artist in the Ryan
Opera Center at the Lyric Opera of Chicago
in 2010, 2011 and 2012. While at the Lyric,
he was seen in a number of roles including
Normanno in Lucia di Lammermoor, Zweiter
Priester in Die Zauberflöte,
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Der Perückenmacher in Ariadne auf Naxos,
Dancaïro in Carmen, Starveling in Britten’s
A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Happy
in Puccini’s La Fanciulla del West. Other
performances, while a member of the
Ryan Center, included Dandini in highlights
from Rossini’s La Cenerentola in a concert
performance with the Grant Park Music
Festival, Don Alfonso in Così fan tutte, and
Don Magnifico in La Cenerentola. Scholten
was also young artist in the San Francisco
2009 Opera Merola Opera Program, where
he covered the role of David in Mascagni’s
L’Amico Fritz, and performed scenes from
La Bohème and Il barbiere di Siviglia as part
of Merola’s Schwabacher Summer Concert
and Merola Grand Finale. He was a fellow
of the Tanglewood Music Center in 2005,
2006 and 2007, where he sang the role of
Don Alfonso in Così fan tutte conducted by
Maestro James Levine, and took part in a
variety of performances including Samuel
Barber’s Dover Beach, Purcell’s Dido and
Aeneas with the Mark Morris Dance Group,
and numerous art song recitals. Other
notable roles for Scholten include Tarquinius
in Britten’s The Rape of Lucretia, Zurga in
Bizet’s Les Pêcheurs des Perles, Schaunard
in La Bohème, Krušina in Smetana’s
The Bartered Bride, and Le Directeur in
Poulenc’s Les Mamelles de Tirésias. When
Scholten performed the role of Bartolo in Il
Barbiere di Siviglia, the Cincinnati Enquirer
hailed him as, “The scene-stealer … A
fusty old crank re-conceived by Miller as a
full blown obsessive-compulsive, he was
brought vividly to life by Scholten, whose
rapid ‘patter aria’ facility was the most
impressive of the show.”
Scholten’s success also extends to the
concert stage, where most recently, he
was the recent baritone soloist in Handel’s
Messiah with the Apollo Orchestra and
Chorus. He has been the soloist in Bach’s
B Minor Mass with the Cincinnati CollegeConservatory of Music, soloist in Handel’s
Messiah and Haydn’s Creation Mass with
Musica Sacra in Cincinnati, and soloist in
Bruckner’s Te Deum with the Berkshire
Choral Festival. He made his Carnegie
Hall debut in 2010 under the auspices of
The Marilyn Horne Foundation’s The Song
Continues Festival, where he sang for
Maestro James Levine in a public master
class of art song. Scholten was a national
semi-finalist in the 2012 Metropolitan
Opera National Council Auditions and
second-place winner of the 2012 National
Orpheus Vocal Competition. He is the firstplace winner of the American Opera Society
Competition, as well as the first-place
winner of the Irma M. Cooper International
Opera Columbus Vocal Competition (junior
division), the first-place winner of the
University of Michigan Friends of Opera
Scholarship Competition, the third-place
winner of The Florida Grand Opera/Young
Patronesses of the Opera National Vocal
Competition and the third-place winner of
the 39th Annual William C. Byrd Young Artist
Competition.
Scholten received his Master of Music
degree from the University of Cincinnati
College-Conservatory of Music, and his
Bachelor of Music degree with highest
honors from The University of Michigan
School of Music, Theatre and Dance. He
is a native of Muskegon, MI.
Tenor Aaron Short
(Ferrando), a native
of Kansas City, MO,
recently completed
his second season
as a Studio Artist
with Florentine
Opera, where he
sang Steersman in
The Flying Dutchman
and Lockwood in the
world’s first commercial recording of Carlisle
Floyd’s Wuthering Heights. Short has spent
the past two summers at The Santa Fe Opera
as an Apprentice Artist, singing First Prisoner
in Fidelio and the Fourth Jew in Salome. He
has also been a Young Artist with Chautauqua
Opera, Wolf Trap Opera, Lyric Opera Studio
Weimar and Opera in the Ozarks. At Manhattan
School of Music, he performed the roles of
Bégearss (The Ghosts of Versailles), Nicias
(Thaïs) and Jimmy Mahoney (Aufstieg und Fall
der Stadt Mahagonny), for which The New
York Times praised him for his “simultaneously
subtle and shattering performance.” Other
previous opera credits include Edgardo (Lucia
di Lammermoor), Don Ottavio (Don Giovanni),
Des Grieux (Manon) and the title roles in Faust
and Albert Herring. Short is the recipient of
many awards, including third prize in the 2015
Mildred Miller International Vocal Competition,
as well as two Grant Awards from The Santa
Fe Opera. He was also recently awarded
second place at the Upper Midwest Regional
Round of the Metropolitan Opera National
Council Auditions. In 2016, Short will join
Portland Opera’s Resident Artist Program
for their inaugural Summer Festival season,
where his assignments include singing the
First Armored Man and covering Tamino in
The Magic Flute, and singing Lensky in
Eugene Onegin. For more information, visit
www.tenoraaronshort.com.
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PROFILES
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Vibrant soprano Angela
De Venuto (Despina)
has a magnetic stage
presence that has
led her to perform in
a variety of venues
from opera houses
and concert halls to
maximum-security
prisons.
De Venuto was most recently seen as Miss
Jessel throughout Chicago Fringe Opera’s sold
out run of Britten’s The Turn of the Screw to
critical and dramatic acclaim. Other operatic
highlights include Frasquita (Carmen) with Kor
Productions, Adele (Die Fledermaus), the title
role of Angélique (Ibert), Emily Webb (Our Town),
Fiametta (The Gondoliers), Peep-Bo (The Mikado)
with DePaul Opera Theatre, and Lady Saphir
(Patience) with Savoyaires. She has performed
scenes as Rusalka, Lauretta (Gianni Schicchi),
Lakmé, Giullietta (Les contes d’Hoffmann),
Sophie (Der Rosenkavalier) with the Northwest
Chicago Symphony and as Countess (Le Nozze
di Figaro) at Northwestern University.
De Venuto’s oratorio experience includes
soprano soloist for Vivaldi’s Gloria, and
excerpts of Fauré’s Requiem and Pergolesi’s
Stabat Mater. A prolific recitalist, Ms. De
Venuto has performed composers such
as Respighi, Chausson, Dowland, Barber,
Pasatieri, Libby Larsen, Cage, Ives and Previn.
She also occasionally performs throughout the
country with composer and pianist Eric Genuis
as part of The Eric Genuis Quartet.
De Venuto trained in the Advanced Artist
Program with OperaWorks during the
Summer of 2014 and earned her B.M. in
Vocal Performance from DePaul University.
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Twenty-six-yearold baritone Leo
Radosavljevic (Don
Alfonso), recent winner
of the third prize at
the 8th International
Klaudia Taev
competition in Pärnu,
Estonia, is establishing
himself as a uniquely
versatile performer in
the world of opera. He was recently heard in
the role of Bonze in Madama Butterfly at Opera
Colorado and on tour with Juilliard 415 in New
York City, Vancouver and San Francisco as bass
soloist in Telemann’s Die Tageszeiten. During
his time at Juilliard he premiered the role of
Willi Graf in the first United States performances
of Sir Peter Maxwell Davies’ Kommilitonen! in
2011, which also featured him as a pianist and
brought him critical acclaim from The New York
Times. While at Juilliard he also performed the
roles of Tobias Mill in Rossini’s La Cambiale
di Matrimonio, Carlino in Donizetti’s Don
Pasquale, Bottom in Britten’s A Midsummer
Night’s Dream, and Simone in Puccini’s Gianni
Schicchi. In competition, Leo won first prize in
the 2014 American Prize competition, second
prize in The Bel Canto Foundation competition
in Chicago, was a finalist in the Luminarts
competition and several time grant winner of
the Gerda Lissner, Licia Albanese and Giulio Gari
competitions in New York.
Radosavljevic is also making a name for himself
as a performer of art song. At only 19 he made
his Alice Tully hall debut, and has performed as
a recitalist at Carnegie Hall every season since
2012, most recently as a participant of Marilyn
Horne’s The Song Continues... program. He has
also participated in the Toronto Summer Music
Festival where he studied with baritone Sir
Thomas Allen, and Ravinia Festival’s prestigious
Steans Young Artist Program. Radosavljevic
received his undergraduate degree from
Juilliard with Scholastic Distinction in 2011,
and his graduate degree from Juilliard in 2013.
Kirk Muspratt
(Music Director and
Conductor) was
recently named a
“Chicagoan of the
Year” by music critic
John von Rhein and
the writing staff of
the Chicago Tribune.
In honoring Kirk, von
Rhein said, “Ask
the delighted adults
and kids who flocked to his concerts...with the
Northwest Indiana Symphony Orchestra...They
will tell you he made concertgoing an interactive
experience that was both enlightening and—are
you ready?—fun.” Recognized as one of the
outstanding figures in the new generation of
conductors, Muspratt has garnered international
critical acclaim and was hailed as a “born
opera conductor” (Rheinische Post) and “a
knowledgeable musician who delivers superbly
controlled, gorgeously shaped readings.” (St. Louis
Post-Dispatch). The Los Angeles Times declared
“Watch him!”
Muspratt begins his 16th highly acclaimed
season as music director of the Northwest Indiana
Symphony Orchestra. In his first 15 seasons,
he has instituted several highly commended
programs that include a popular Solo Competition
for Children that results in a child performing
at almost every Northwest Indiana Symphony
concert. He has also implemented an Orchestral
Fellowship Program with Valparaiso University and
his vision was instrumental in founding the South
Shore Summer Music Festival.
One of his most highly praised new projects at
NISO has been the innovative collaborations
with the Lyric Opera Center for American Artists.
Together they have presented La Traviata, Die
Fledermaus, Carmen and La Boheme.
In order to involve the community to the
maximum, he has created “Just Ask Kirk™”
cards for audience members’ questions,
“Interactive Intermissions” and “Cookies with
Kirk” for patrons and musicians of the orchestra,
chorus and youth orchestra to meet, and a
“Kirkature™” cartoon to help advocate the
credo: “Symphonic music is for everyone.”
He also writes monthly columns in two local
newspapers during the concert season.
In July 2004, Muspratt was named both music
director of New Philharmonic and artistic director/
music director of DuPage Opera Theatre.
In 2011, New Philharmonic was awarded
“Professional Orchestra of the Year” by the Illinois
Council of Orchestras. In his first nine seasons,
productions at the DuPage Opera Theater
featured repertoire including Faust, Otello, Tosca,
Turandot, and Carmen. Repertoire at the New
Philharmonic was equally adventurous, including
the world premieres of the Stybr Variations for
Contrabassoon and Orchestra, Taylor Firefly Orrery
and Lofstrom Oboe and Harp Concertinos.
In his first months at the New Philharmonic,
Muspratt instituted a Side-by-Side program for
local high school students and an Interactive
Intermission Project involving both the musicians
of the orchestra, opera and the patrons.
From 1991 through 1996, he served as resident
conductor to Lorin Maazel at the Pittsburgh
Symphony Orchestra. Prior to that, he was
appointed as associate conductor to Joseph
Silverstein at the Utah Symphony Orchestra (19901992). From 1987 through 1990, he served both
as assistant conductor to Leonard Slatkin at the
St. Louis Symphony Orchestra and music director
of the St. Louis Symphony Youth Orchestra. He
was music director of the Alberta Ballet from 1997
through 1999. At the New York Philharmonic,
Muspratt has served as a cover conductor.
In addition to his work in Pittsburgh, Utah and
St. Louis, Muspratt has guest conducted the
orchestras of Los Angeles, Montreal, London,
Korean Broadcast Symphony, Detroit, Rochester,
National Arts Center, Vancouver, Knoxville, Puerto
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Rico, Rhode Island, Winnipeg, Calgary, Edmonton,
Hamilton, Victoria, New Orleans, Stamford,
Binghamton, South Bend, Lafayette, Puchon,
Annapolis, Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra and
Baltimore Chamber Symphony.
Having always enjoyed working with young
people, he has conducted the Pennsylvania
Regional Orchestra and the Pennsylvania All-State
Orchestra. He has conducted the Boston University
Tanglewood Orchestra at the Tanglewood Festival.
Summer debuts have included the Tanglewood,
Chautauqua and Sewanee Music Festivals. He
has also conducted at the Banff Center for
Performing Arts.
Muspratt has been the recipient of numerous
awards, among them grants from the Canada
Council and the Presser Foundation. In 1983
and again in 1984, he was winner of the Strauss
Conducting Prize while a conducting student at
the Vienna Conservatory. During his tenure in Utah,
he received the first Utah Up’n Comers Award
ever given to a classical musician. This honor was
awarded for his work and involvement in the Utah
Arts Community. In 1987, he was named winner
of the prestigious Exxon/Affiliate Artists Award.
He was named a “Professional to Watch” by the
Times of Northwest Indiana in 2013.
In Europe, he was assistant conductor in the
opera houses of Monchengladbach/Krefeld,
Germany, from 1985 to 1987. His American opera
conducting debut came with the Utah Opera in
1991. He returned there to premiere Mascagni’s
L’Amico Fritz. Maestro Muspratt has conducted
Die Fledermaus for the Calgary Opera, Faust and
Merry Widow for the Utah Opera, Of Mice and
Men, Il Barbiere di Siviglia for the Arizona Opera
and Amahl and The Night Visitors at the Opera
Illinois, all to stunning critical acclaim.
In 1983 and 1984, he was invited to be a
scholarship student at the Chautauqua Institute
and in 1986 was selected as a Conducting Fellow
at the Aspen Music Festival. A year later, he
was invited into the Conducting Program at the
Tanglewood Festival. In 1988, he was chosen
to be one of three Conducting Fellows for the
Los Angeles Philharmonic Institute at the
Hollywood Bowl.
Muspratt has taught at the Conductors’ Institute of
the University of South Carolina, the Conductors’
Guild National Workshops, Association of Canadian
Orchestras National Conference in Toronto, the
Conductors’ Studio at Illinois State University and
at Westminster Choir College in Princeton. During
the summer, he has taught graduate conducting
classes at VanderCook College of Music, at the
Northwestern University seminar for singers, and
most recently at the SAI National Convention in St.
Louis. He recently completed six-year tenure on
the board of directors of the Conductors’ Guild.
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In 2006, Muspratt was initiated as a National Arts
Associate with the Lake County Alumnae Chapter
of Sigma Alpha Iota International Music Fraternity.
He is the first such Distinguished Member in
Northwest Indiana. A National Arts Associate is a
man or woman who is nationally recognized for
distinguished contribution to the arts. He joins the
likes of other SAI National Arts Associates such as
Van Cliburn, Keith Lockhart, Henry Mancini and
Wynton Marsalis.
He is a native of Crows Nest Pass, Alberta,
Canada. His early training was as a pianist. After
leaving Alberta, he studied in St. Louis and New
York with Harold Zabrack. Muspratt continued
in both a bachelor’s and master’s performance
program at Temple University with Adele Marcus
and Alexander Fiorillo. Subsequent to that he
studied conducting at the Vienna Conservatory of
Music. He became a citizen of the United States in
November 2010.
Lindsay Riemer
(Assistant Conductor)
is music director of
the Trinity Community
Philharmonic Orchestra
in Deerfield. Previously
she freelanced as a
conductor in London
after earning her
master’s degree from
the Royal Academy of
Music. Prior to that she was assistant conductor
of the New Philharmonic and DuPage Opera
Theatre in Chicago for three orchestra seasons
and for productions including Tosca, La Boheme,
Carmen, Hansel and Gretel, Britten’s Beggar’s
Opera, L’Elisir d’Amore and Otello. She has also
served as assistant conductor for the Battle
Creek Symphony Orchestra, and the Michigan
Philharmonic (formerly Plymouth Symphony and
Orchestra Canton) in the United States.
She enjoys working with students and has
conducted side-by-side performances with New
Philharmonic and the Michigan Philharmonic.
She was the founding conductor of the
Celebration Youth Orchestra, which grew very
quickly and is now the Michigan Philharmonic
Youth Orchestra. She has given classroom
presentations in local schools for the Battle
Creek Symphony Orchestra in preparation for
their school performances.
At the Academy, she was four times invited to
assist in preparation for performances of the
Royal Academy of Music Symphony and Concert
Orchestras. She has participated in master
classes and conducting courses with teachers
including David Zinman, Larry Rachleff, Carl St.
Clair, Michael Jinbo and Kenneth Kiesler.
At the Royal Academy of Music, she recorded
Ravel’s orchestration of Mussorgsky’s Pictures
at an Exhibition and collaborated on a recording
of the Walter Piston Viola Concerto with violist
Clifton Harrison. She has also conducted a live
recording of Shostakovich’s Festival Overture
with the New Philharmonic.
Jonathon Field (Stage
Director) has become
one of America’s more
versatile and popular
stage directors. A
trailblazer in the
world of opera, Field
is fascinated with
traditional as well
as modern stage
techniques. He has
developed and used video-projected scenery
for more than 25 years in productions that have
been called “brilliant,” “dazzling” and “riveting.”
Field is currently the director of the Oberlin
Opera Theater and an associate professor at
the Oberlin Conservatory of Music.
Field directed the American premiere of Lost
Highway, an opera based on the David Lynch
film, that played to sold-out performances at
the Miller Theater in New York. He directed
the world premiere of the jazz opera Leave
Me Alone in a partnership between Oberlin
Conservatory and Real Time Opera, which
was one of the first operas to broadcast live on
the Internet. His productions for Lyric Opera of
Chicago of Trouble in Tahiti, Gianni Schicchi,
The Old Maid and the Thief and The Spanish
Hour were successfully revived at the
Illinois Humanities Festival. He directed
touring productions of La Cenerentola and
Die Fledermaus for San Francisco Opera’s
Western Opera Theatre, which played in more
than 20 states. Over the past eight years,
Field directed 10 productions with Arizona
Opera, being deemed by the press “their
most perceptive stage director.” From 2000
through 2006 he served as artistic director of
Lyric Opera Cleveland, where he presented
the operas of Mozart, Rossini, Donizetti and
the Ohio premieres of works by John Adams,
Mark Adamo and Philip Glass. Field received a
Northern Ohio Live Award for his work on Don
Giovanni in Cleveland, which was called, “An
electrifying production that has come to be the
hallmark of Field’s tenure.”
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PROFILES
Field has been praised for his international
work as well, having directed The Riverboat
Show at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival,
Dido and Aeneas at Teatro Colon in Buenos
Aires, Suor Angelica and Menotti’s Amalia al
Ballo at the Urbania Festival in Italy. He has
collaborated with such esteemed artists as
Teresa Zylis-Gara, Jerome Hines, Pablo Elvira,
Giorgio Tozzi and Angelina Reux.
Field’s expertise extends from the avant garde
to musical comedy. In 1996, he introduced
computer-generated scenery to the opera
world in a production of Candide at West Bay
Opera in Silicon Valley, CA, with assistance
from Apple, Inc. The press called the show,
“virtual Voltaire—the backgrounds are as
varied as the story.” He pioneered the use
of video-projected scenery in productions of
The Turn of the Screw, Tales of Hoffmann and
Der Freischütz. In the realm of operetta and
musical theatre, Field staged H.M.S. Pinafore
for Opera Omaha, Trial by Jury for Lake
George Opera, Bernstein’s Wonderful Town
in Chicago, and Merry Widow and Countess
Maritza in San Francisco. For the Oakland
Symphony he translated and choreographed
Stravinsky’s Pulcinella, using members of the
Oakland Ballet.
Cathryn “Bula” Bulicek (Stage Manager) just
finished Ballet Chicago’s The Nutcracker at
the Athenaeum Theatre. Prior to that she was
out to Oberlin College to stage manage The
Rape of Lucretia for Jonathon Field. Bulicek
served as production stage manager of The
Doyle and Debbie Show at the Royal George
Theatre, and directed that show in Denver and
Minneapolis. She’s been the resident stage
manager for DuPage Opera Theatre’s last six
operas, and stage managed all the main stage
productions of new plays for the International
Mystery Festival for two years. Highlights of
her career include taking Wenceslas Square to
the Belfast Arts Fest in Northern Ireland, and
stage managing the ’93 Parliament of World
Religions at the Palmer House. Bulicek served
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PROFILES
as resident SM at Chicago Opera Theatre for
eight years, at Ballet Chicago for four years,
Court Theatre for two years, and has also
SM-ed shows at Steppenwolf, Body Politic,
Victory Gardens, Northlight, Next Theatre,
Columbia College, North Park University, and
was a resident assistant stage manager at the
Goodman Theatre for five years.
Bulicek is also a theatrical hairdresser, coiffing
Broadway shows in Chicago such as the
premiere of Aida at the Cadillac Palace and
Showboat at the Auditorium Theatre, on which
she was hairdresser for Dorothy Loudon and
Joyce Van Patten. In addition she was the
hairdresser on the national tour of The Odd
Couple—the Female Version starring Barbara
Eden, and for Rene Taylor in If You Ever Leave
Me I’m Going with You at the Apollo. Some
commercials and films, most notably The
Road to Perdition and Dhoom III, round out
her hairdressing career.
In addition, she taught anthropology at UIC
for three years, and at Northeastern Illinois
University for 11 years, where she garnered a
teaching excellence award two years in a row.
Elias Morales (Lighting Designer) is ecstatic
to have recently joined the MAC as an
assistant production specialist and lighting
designer this past August. For the past 12
years he has spent his spare time working as
a freelance lighting designer, stage manager
and stage technician around Chicago. In
addition, he also served as an assistant
technical director and lighting designer for
Northeastern Illinois University for more than
six years. During that time he also worked with
Ensemble Español Spanish Dance Theatre as
their technical director and lighting designer.
This past summer he ran and designed lights
for Ensemble Español’s American Spanish
Dance and Music Festival.
Kimberly G. Morris (Costume, Make-up and
Hair Design) is pleased to continue her work at
College of DuPage. For the past 13 years she
has been a freelance costume, makeup, wig
and properties designer throughout Chicago
and the east coast. She is a company member
of Babes with Blades Theatre Company where
she has designed Titus Andronicus, Julius
Caesar, Patchwork Drifter, Macbeth, Susan
Swayne and Bewildered Bride and Bo Thomas
and the Case of the Spy Pirates. Other favorite
past projects include puppet design for Lifeline
Theatre’s Neverwhere, and costumes/masks
for their Island of Dr. Moreau; costume and
puppet design for Akvavit Theatre’s production
of Blue Planet; and properties design for
Chicago Children’s Theatre productions of
A Year with Frog and Toad and 100 Dresses.
She has also designed for Stage Left Theatre,
Fox Valley Repertory, Ball State University,
American Shakespeare Center, Shenandoah
Shakespeare Express, Heritage Repertory
Theatre, Tecumseh!, Wilmette Arts Center,
NWHS and MEHS.
Finally, she is also a semi-professional
bassoonist, performing in the Prism Chamber
Ensemble and playing first chair in the South
Loop Symphony, both of which she also
manages (of course!) Michael W. Moon (Scenic and Properties
Design) is the technical director and resident
scenic designer for the MAC. His many scenic
design credits for COD include The Skriker, The
Dreams of Antigone, and A Christmas Carol.
He designed The Marriage of Figaro as well
as Hansel and Gretel and Faust for Dupage
Opera Theater/New Philharmonic. He is also
a playwright having had pieces performed
across the country, as well as an adaptation
of Spoon River Anthology done by COD in 2013.
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NEW PHILHARMONIC PERSONNEL
1st Violin
Michele Lekas, Concertmaster
Debra Ponko
Gretchen Sherrell
Man Man Jiang
Miki Santibanez
Whun Kim
2nd Violin
Mara Gallagher, Principal
Kristen LeJeune
Chikako Miyata
Eric Pidluski
Viola
Ryan Rump, Principal
Sarah Tompkins
Karen Dickelman
Cello
Claire Langenberg, Principal
Melissa Bach
Nancy Moore
Bass
Michael Meehan, Principal
Phillip Serna
Flute
Carolyn May, Principal
Lisa Cisneros
Oboe
Kevin May, Principal
Melinda Getz
Clarinet
Mary Payne, Principal
Barbara Drapcho
YOUR ORCHESTRA
YOUR MUSIC
YOUR MAESTRO
Bassoon
Karl Rzasa, Principal
Lynette Pralle
Horn
Phil Stanley, Principal
Beth Mazur-Johnson
Trumpet
Wesley Skidgel, Principal
James Hahn
Timpani
James Bond-Harris
Harpsicord
Lisa Kristina
Orchestra Manager
Paula Cebula
Librarian
Jack Riddle
Personnel Manager
Karen Dickelman
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COMMUNITY
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RENTALS
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Give Your Event the Spotlight
IT’S ALL ABOUT
THE SPACE!
Business or personal, large or small, we have a venue that
is right for you. The MAC offers a range of reinvented
distinctive spaces and impressive venue options including three theaters, meeting rooms, the Cleve Carney Art
Gallery, an outdoor pavilion and more. Bring along your
own vendors or choose from our list of preferred
partners. Formal and elegant or laid-back and relaxed,
you’ll entertain in style and treat your guests to an
incredible experience when you choose the MAC.
To learn more, email Melissa Mercado
[email protected]
or call 630.942.3008.
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GROUPS
The More the Merrier at The MAC!
SAVE WITH A GROUP
OF 10 OR MORE!
We offer a variety of customized entertainment
packages to help create a memorable and unique
experience. Along with reduced ticket prices, we can
help plan and execute additional private events
around the performance you attend, such as pre- or
post-show receptions, cocktail hours, full banquet
catering, meet- and-greets with the artists, backstage
tours, or lectures and Q&A sessions.
Let us help create a package for your group.
Call our friendly, professional and knowledgeable
sales team today at 630.942.3026 or email
Melissa Mercado, [email protected].
World class cultural
experiences are meant
to be shared. With a
group of 10 or more,
your friends, family,
co-workers or clients
can enjoy savings up
to 20%!
GROUPS of 10–29
10% OFF!
GROUPS of 30–49
15% OFF!
GROUPS of 50+
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Free
GLOBAL FLICKS
Films shown on Wednesdays at 1:30 and 7:30p
in the Playhouse Theatre
Co-sponsored by COD Academic Affairs (Field Studies/
Study Abroad) and the McAninch Arts Center
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Life, Above All
Turkey - Musical Comedy
FEBRUARY 24
A Coffee in Berlin
Germany – Comedy
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The Lunchbox
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Friends of the MAC
The Friends of the MAC is a family of people who have decided
that a world-class performing and visual arts center should reside
in their community. Ticket sales only provide 42 percent of our
$3 million operating budget. It is through the support of College
of DuPage and through the generous gifts from patrons and local
businesses that we can keep art in our gallery and on our stages.
Your gift to the MAC
• Brings nationally and internationally renowned artists to
our community
• Supports our SchoolStage program that annually offers
affordable arts experiences to thousands of school children
downtown style & sophistication with suburban convenience..
• Beautifully Appointed Guestrooms & Suites
• Elegant Meeting & Banquet Rooms
• Allgauer’s Restaurant Award Winning Service & Cuisine
• 24 Hour Business Center
• Beautiful Indoor Pool, Whirlpool Spa & Fitness Center
Whether you join us for a spectacular weekend get-away,
exquisite dining experience or a once-in-a-lifetime
special occasion banquet, rest assured our staff and
accommodations will exceed your expectations.
• Provides students and community members the opportunity
to interact with artists
• Enhances the quality of life in our community
Without the generous support of the Friends of the MAC we would
not be the cultural hub of DuPage County. We gratefully thank our
friends and we invite others to join them.
For complete details, visit the MAC Ticket Office or call the
MAC at (630) 942-2263 or the College of DuPage Foundation
at (630) 942-2466.
Arts Center and MAC-tastic Treat Seats Endowments
Donors may choose to direct gifts to the Arts Center Endowment
or the newly established MAC-tastic Treat Seats — Tickets for
Kids & Families Endowment. Donations made to these MAC’s
Endowments, our “savings accounts,” go into a principal secured,
invested accounts that will provide ongoing support for arts
programs and arts accessibility for years to come.
The McAninch Arts Center and the College of DuPage Foundation can
also provide you with information on Planned Giving opportunities.
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For more information, please contact the MAC at (630) 942-2263,
the College of DuPage Foundation at (630) 942-2466 or visit
foundation.cod.edu.
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FRIENDS OF THE MAC
FRIENDS OF THE MAC
McAninch Arts Center acknowledges and gives grateful thanks to those donors who have
contributed in support of the MAC mission and vision. This list of donors reflects contributions made
from Dec. 1, 2013 through Aug. 31, 2015. While we carefully prepared this list we recognize that errors
may have occurred. Please accept our apology if you are not properly represented on this list and
contact the College of DuPage Foundation at (630) 942-2462 so we may correct our records.
Encore Circle ($2,500 and up)
Anonymous (4)
Lowell and Barbara Anderson
Arthur J. Gallagher &
Company
James A. Belushi
Mark Wight and
Eszter Borvendeg
Dr. and Mrs. Robert L. Breuder
Catherine M. Brod
Mr. and Mrs. Steven G. Brown
Cleve Carney*
Mrs. Clark G. Carpenter
College of DuPage
Alexander and Lisa Demos
Follett Higher Education Group
Franczek Radelet P.C.
Mr. and Mrs. Michael Hanes
Herricane Graphics Inc.
Sara and Stacey Huels
Dr. Jean V. Kartje
Karen and Gene Kuhn
Mr. and Mrs. Keith R. Kushner
Landworks
Mr. and Mrs. Joe Legat
Legat Architects, Inc.
Dr. Daniel E. Lloyd
Peter* and Gretchen Maren
Barb and Scott R. Marquardt
Marquardt & Belmonte, P.C.
David and Carolyn May
Dr. and Mrs. Harold D. McAninch
Ed Miniat, LLC
Mitsubishi UFJ Financial
Group, Inc.
Mortenson Construction
Northwestern Medicine
Central DuPage Hospital
Judith May O’Dell
Mr. and Mrs. Donald Panovich
Pepper Family Foundation
Robbins Schwartz
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Steven M. Ruffalo and
Lisa Jones Ruffalo
Charles Schlau
Ms. Dianne M. Skeet*
SmithGroup JJR
Terrence J. Taylor and
Maureen Sullivan Taylor
The JCS Fund of The DuPage
Foundation
The PrivateBank
DuPage Foundation
U.S. Bank
Mr. Bjarne R. Ullsvik
VALIC
Mr. and Mrs. Michael V. Vivoda
Dr. Donald G. Westlake
Bonnie M. Wheaton
Wheaton Bank and Trust —
A Wintrust Community Bank
Wight & Company
William Blair and Company
Director’s Circle
($1,000–$2,499)
Anonymous (3)
Anthony and Gwen Achilles
Mr. James R. Adams
Mr. Larry Armour and
Dr. Kim L. Armour
Mr. Anson Arndt
The John A. Attard Family
Foundation
Mr. Andrew J. Balint and
Ms. Julie R. Bradley
Anna Ball
Milton and Heide Bentley
Mr. John Mulherin and
Dr. Sara Bonkowski
Ronald and Hope Bucher
Chapman and Cutler, LLP
Chicago Regional Council of
Carpenters
Ginni and Chris
Stephen and Sunday Cummins
Mark and Kim Dorn
James and Marie Drasal
William Dunn
George and Kathryn Fairbairn
Ken and Debbie Fulks
Jeanette N. and Renee
Giragos, in memory of
Dr. Henry G. Giragos
Mary Gower
Mr. and Mrs. Randy Gunst
John and Katharine Hamilton
Don and Jackie Hegebarth
Dr. and Mrs. Ryon Hennessy
Mrs. Heidi Heutel Bohn
Jeffrey Jens and Ann Boisclair
Mr. Lawrence P. Katzenstein
Mr. Thomas Kiley
Jacqueline Vernot and
Raymond Kotz
Anne and Ira J. Kreft
Susan and Richard Lamb
Charitable Fund of the
DuPage Foundation
Mary Anne Lambert
Eliot and Eileen Landau
Gil and Lola Lehman
Alice Logan
Ms. Diana L. Martinez
John and Lynette McCortney
Margaret and Michael McCoy
Terrance and Linda McGovern
Sandy and Keith Moore
Bill and Nancy Moore
Dr. and Mrs. Joseph S.
Morrissey
Kirk Muspratt
Drs. Donald E. and
Mary Ellen Newsom
Rebecca Nicholson
Alan Peterson, in memory of
Carolyn Levickas
Meri Phillips
Jeffrey and Debora Ponko
Richard and Elizabeth
Quaintance
Roland and Kelly Raffel
Riverside Technologies, Inc
The Rev. Dr. Curtis and
Leanne Rolfe
Nancy and John Rutledge
William and Nancy Schierer
Mr. and Mrs. Henry W.
Steinbrecher
Theodore M. Utchen
James and Patricia Vary
Scott and Kristen Wiersum
Ms. Cynthia Williams Cappello
Ambassador ($500–$999)
Anonymous (5)
Robert and Laura Barron
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas F. Belle
Ray Billett
Mr. Paul Bradley
Dr. and Mrs. Christopher B.
Burke
Rick and Patty Carney
Bill Charis
Greg and Janet Chejfec
Chicago Blackhawks Hockey
Team, Inc.
Chicago Bulls
Diane Cooper
Mr. Brett A. Coup
Don and Anna Mae Davia
Mr. and Mrs. Kevin T. Dixon
DML Solutions
Drasal Family Fund of Fidelity
Charitable Gift Fund
Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Droszcz
Eagle Ridge Resort
Robert Eakins
ECOLAB Inc.
Mr. and Mrs. Christopher
C. Faber
Mr. and Mrs. Donald H. Fischer
Four Leaf Clovers Garden
Center, LLC
Joan and Ken Frank
Dick and Marge Gieser
Jacquelyn L. Gill
Mr. and Mrs. William Gillard
Ms. Jean D. Goris
Mr. and Mrs. Linsley Gray
Mr. Fred Greenwood and
Ms. Dianne A. McGuire
Georgia Hamilton
Mr. and Mrs. Robert
G. Hartman
Gwen and Chet Henry
Hotel Arista at CityGate Center
Stephen and Michelle Hujar
Jorge and Beatriz Iorgulescu
Mr. and Mrs. William S. Kenshol
Kenneth and Rosemarie Kuhn
Mary Lou Lowry
Theresa A. Mally
Mr. Robert Marks
Aurelia and Ronald Maslana
Ellen and Daniel McGowan
Dr. and Mrs. John Messitt
Ms. Patricia G. Murray
Charles and Kay Myler
Mr. and Mrs. Sherman L. Neal
North Central Illinois Labor Council
Bob and Joan Olach
Helen Pachay
Madeleine Pachay
Mr. and Mrs. William Parker
PowerForward DuPage
Judy Ronaldson
Ms. Theresa M. Sak
Dave and Margie Scheffler
Beth Schell
Jerry and Susan Schurmeier
Skeet and Laura Skeet
Mr. Craig Smith, RATIO Architects
Lloyd Smith
Cherry Stoddard
E.J. and Joyce Van Cura
and the E Jay Van Cura M.D.
Charitable Fund of Vanguard
Charitable
Mr. Robert H. Eakins and
Mrs. Julie L. Wachowski
Robert and Kay Wahlgren
Dr. and Mrs. Matthew
C. Wanzenberg
Ms. Kathy Wessel
Wheaton Grand Theater
Joan and Raymond Wielgos
Woods Event Management
Ms. Kathleen Yosko
Performer ($250–$499)
Anonymous (7)
Young Ahn
Irene D. Antoniou
Katherine Balek
Mary Ellen and Jack Barry
Harold and Karen Bauer
Ms. Eunice Becker
Biff Behr and Lynne Richman
Mr. and Mrs. James R. Benté
Peggy Bickham
Mr. and Mrs. Tyler Birt
Judith L. Bittikoffer
Mary and Bill Boylan
Broadway in Chicago
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Brosseau
Mr. and Mrs. Charles A. Buettner
Carolyn B. Collins
Dr. and Mrs. Joseph E. Collins
Dr. and Mrs. Charles Currier
George W. and Ann Dervis
Barbara and George DiGuido
Mr. and Mrs. Earl E. Dowling
Edwin A. and Gerry Dulik
Joseph and Frances Eraci
Camille and Joe Esterman
Marcela Fanning
Elinor Flanigan
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas J. Glaser
Bill and Alyce Grant
Mr. and Mrs. James E. Haley
Dr. Eugene G. Hallongren and
Dianne J. Hallongren
Dr. Steven L. Havens
Aleene L. Henninger-Boyden
John A. Herndon
Lance Herning
Mrs. Jo Ann Jacobson
Ms. Sharon Jurgensen
Virginia and Charles
Klingsporn
Ms. Susan Kolavo
Charlene Kornoski-Du Vall
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FRIENDS OF THE MAC
FRIENDS OF THE MAC
Performer ($250–$499) cont.
Laborers Local 68
Ida Lee
James and Kimberley McDonnell
Mr. and Mrs. Francis Mies
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Moore
Mr. Randle Jennings and
Ms. Jennine S. Moorman
J. C. Morgan
Mr. and Mrs. David W. Morton
Bud and Pat Motz
Michael and Judith Nigro
North American Roller
Products, Inc
Mr. and Mrs. Bernard
Nusinow
Jane Oldfield
Sarah Packard
Byrd and Alice Parmelee
Jim and Lorraine Paulissen
Jack and Marilyn Pearson
William Podgorski
Mr. Daniel B. Porter
Ruth J. Pozesky*
Tom and Karen Pulver
Ginny and Don Raths
Ms. Rose Reever
Donald and Mary Rericka
Ms. Lynne E. Richman and
Mr. Biff Behr
Jack E. Riddle
Jack E. Riddle, II
Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Rochlis
Nancy L. Ruby
Lynn Sapyta
Mary K. Smith
Marilyn Smrcina
Ellen and Grier Stephenson
Richard and Janice Sticka
Dr. and Mrs. E. Veleckis
Carol C. Wallace Family
Lyn and Debbie Whiston
Ms. Alice M. Wilbur
Dr. and Mrs. K. M. Wilcox
Ken and Viviane Wilcutts
Jo Anne Zipperer
Friend ($50–$249)
Anonymous (28)
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Sue Adams
Peggy Aldworth
Nancy Allured
Mrs. John Andersen
AT&T
Auditorium Theatre
Renato and Mary Bacci
Darlene Barger
Alyce Barnicle
Debbie Barrett and
Barry Zelinski
Michael and Gail Baruch
Richard and Grace Bauer
Patricia and Bruce Beck
Dennis and Mary Beemer
Ms. Margaret Beile
Mr. Ronald Ben
Martin and Betty Bender
Fred and Judy Bennett
Ken and Annabel Bergman
Ms. Carolyn E. Blatt
Doris M. Blickle
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Boryla
Mr. and Mrs. James Boves
Mrs. Aleene L. HenningerBoyden
Kay Braulik
Mr. and Mrs. William Bulger
Ed and Kay Burton
The Cantlin Family
Kevin and Lori Carlson
Mr. Joseph Cassidy and
Mrs. Tatiana Sifri
Paula and John Cebula
Robert and Barbara Ciesko
Gail Christoffer
Peggy Connolly
The Honorable and
Mrs. Daniel J. Cronin
Marsha Cruzan and Thomas
McGinnis
Jennifer and Matt Darnall
Jeanne E. Davik
Dorothy Deen
Ms. Lynn F. Dempsey and
Mr. Brian Musker
Janet Derber
Mr. and Mrs. George W. Dervis
Joy and Ron Detmer
Linda A. Dickerson
William Donnelly
Alan and Carolyn Drake
William and Kathleen Drennan
Ms. Marilyn R. Drury-Katillo
John T. Earley, Jr.
Joanne East
Daniel Edelman and
Fran Kravitz
Ms. Sally Effner
Robert and Linda Fairbairn
William and Sally Newton
Fairbank
Geraldine Fekete
Jack and Janet Feldman
Janet Ferroni
Stanley Flis
Eric and Marilyn Fors
Earl Stubbe and
Kathleen Frank
David and Helen Fraser
Janet R. Gahala
Annette Gambo
Sandra M. Ganakos
Urs Geiser and Mary Hobein
Phil Gelber
Pamela and Jerome Giermann
Goodman Theatre
Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Graham
Roy and Priscilla Grundy
Dr. and Mrs. Richard D. Guerra
Susan and Robert Haa
Rebekah and Rodney Harris
Patricia A. Harrison
David and Karen Haugen
Jean M. Hawkinson
Sandra Hill
Allan Hins and Marilyn
Wilgocki
Paul and Jessica Holler
IBM
Stephanie Iglehart
Inn at Water’s Edge
Edward and Susan Jeszka
Bob Johnson
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Jonah
Mr. John R. Wolff and
Mrs. Shirley Justin-Wolff
Senator Doris Karpie (Ret.)
Mr. James Karpus
Anne V. Klecka
Lawrence and Ellen Klinger
Mr. and Mrs. R. P. Kolak
Wayne H. Koepke
Marcia A. Koppenhoefer
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Kovacic
Michael F. Kozlowski
Mr. John L. Ladle, Jr.
Ms. Patricia Leahy
Gintautas Leonavicius and
Ryte Leonaviciene
Elaine Libovicz
Drs. David and Joanna
Livengood
Mr. and Mrs. James Long
Nancy Louck
Ms. Norma MacKay
Madeleine and Ralph
Marbach
John Mategrano
Richard and Mary Ellen
Matthies
Jeffrey May
Paul McCurnin and
Evelyn McNeill
Donald E. McGowan and
Mary Leah Prazak
Marty and Marian McGowan
Diane Meiborg and
Roger Zacek
Ms. Sharon Metz-Gohla
Ms. Mary C. Michna
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Morgan
Joan Mueller
Holly Myers
Susan Neustrom
Betty and John North
Mr. Gerard Nussbaum and
Dr. Linda Veleckis Nussbaum
Eileene Nystrom
Jean and Joanne Oliphant
Ms. Shirley H. Orlopp
Mr. Jeff Orlove
Kay Osborne*
Karen Webb Owen
Alice E. Packard
Mr. Peter Pattison
Roberta and Thomas Pawlak
Mr. and Mrs. Scott Pector
Robert Pendlebury
George Pepper, M.D.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Polito
Anna Marie Poll
Rita Potter
Susanne Riedell
Ms. Elizabeth Robertson
Gail Robinson
Marlene and Bob Romba
Marlene and Bob Rosecrans
Edward Rosiar
S. E. Ross
Mr. and Mrs. Mark Sand
Geri Sandford
Mr. and Mrs. J. Patrick
Sanford
Janey Sarther
Ms. Kim Savage
Mr. and Mrs. Patt Schiewitz
Kathy L. Schleicher
Ken and Trish Scott
Dr. Thomas R. Scott
Vikki Scull
Roger and Ann Shipley
Sigma Alpha Iota LaGrange
Alumnae Chapter
Dolores and Warne Stauss
Ms. Dawn D. Stefek
Mr. Arnold R. Stenvog
Carolyn and Joe Stoffel
Mr. Russ G. Streeter
Melissa Striedl
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas J.
Suhrbur
Dr. Nancy E. Svoboda
Grace and Len Swanson
Mr. and Mrs. Richard E.
Swanson
Bob and KC Swininoga
Anthony and Mona Taylor
Wendolyn E. Tetlow
William and Mary Jane
Thomas
Virginia and Jerry Thompson
Tom and Teri Tracey
William and Roberta Treasurer
Mr. and Mrs. Jerome L. Ulane
Eugenio and Carmen Valdes
Gerry Vandenbrook
Olga and Henry Vilella-Janeiro
Marilee Viola
Lucy and George Vorick
Penelope Wainwright
Ms. Janine Wallin
Ms. Mary Ward
Mr. and Mrs. Edward
Warmowski
Mr. Roland Weber
Judy Webster
Anne and Jim Wengerd
West Suburban Affiliate of the
Museum of Contemporary Art
Kathy and Rich Wilders
Carol Woods
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Wulffen
Beverly Yacko
Lori and Gary Zeman
Mr. James Zilligen
Margot & Arthur Zwierlein
* deceased
Corporate and Community
Sponsors
Arts Midwest
BMO Harris Bank
Brookdale Glen Ellyn
Cabernet & Company
Carlucci
COD Foundation
DuPage Foundation
Follett
Glen Prairie
Hilton Hotels —
Lisle/Naperville
I Have a Bean
Illinois Arts Council
JCS Fund of the DuPage
Foundation
National Endowment for
the Arts
Parkers’ Restaurant and Bar
Smith Financial Advisors Inc.
U.S. Bank
Warren’s Ale House
90.9PM WDCB
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HOUSE NOTES
• Mailing List: If this is your first visit to the McAninch
Arts Center, please stop by our Box Office to add
your name to our mailing list or register your email
at www.AtTheMAC.org.
• Cameras and recording devices are not allowed
in the theater and are prohibited by our contracts
with the artists.
• Smoking is not permitted in the theater or on campus.
• For your comfort and security, all backpacks and
large bags must be checked.
• Electronic pagers and patrons’ seat locations should
be given to the House Manager, who will notify you
in the event of a call. Patrons wearing wristwatch
alarms or carrying cellular phones are respectfully
requested to turn them off while in the theater.
• Emergency phone number at College of DuPage Police
Department for after-hour calls is (630) 942-2000.
• Latecomers are seated at the discretion of the
House Manager.
• Groups of 15 or more may contact the Box Office at
(630) 942-4000 to arrange for group discounts.
• If you notice a spill in the theater, please notify an usher.
• McAninch Arts Center volunteers are people
who assist the house staff in areas of ticket taking,
ushering and general management during
performances. To get involved, call (630) 942-4000.
• For Americans With Disabilities Act
accommodations, call (630) 942-2141 (voice)
or (630) 858-9692 (TDD).
• Infrared Assistive Listening Devices: For
audience members who desire audio amplification
of performances, headsets with individual volume
controls are now available. You may check out the
headsets at the Ticket Office with a credit card or
driver’s license. Underwritten by a generous gift
from The Knowles Foundation.
MAC Administrative Staff
Director of the McAninch Arts Center.............................................................................. Diana Martinez
Marketing and Donor Relations Coordinator.......................................................................Roland Raffel
Business Manager..........................................................................................................Ellen McGowan
Cleve Carney Art Gallery Curator.......................................................................................... Justin Witte
Education and Community Engagement Coordinator......................................................... Janey Sarther
Director of Development for Cultural Arts.......................................................................... Janie Oldfield
Group and Rental Sales Coordinator............................................................................. Melissa Mercado
Administrative Assistant....................................................................................................Mandy Rakow
Clerical Assistants............................................................... Sherry Gendel, Molly Junokas, Erin Posavec
MAC Box Office and Front of House Staff
Box Office Manager...............................................................................................................Julie Elges
Assistant Box Office Manager......................................................................................Mary Ellen Reedy
Box Office Assistants.......................................................................... Colleen Trinko, Gretchen Woodley
Patron Service Manager....................................................................................................... Tom Murray
Patron Services Assistant..................................................................................................... Rob Nardini
MAC Resident Professional Ensemble
New Philharmonic, Conductor and Music Director..............................................................Kirk Muspratt
New Philharmonic Manager............................................................................................... Paula Cebula
MAC Design and Technical Staff
Technical Production Coordinator.............................................................................................Jon Gantt
Technical Director........................................................................................................ Michael W. Moon
Costume and Make-up Design Coordinator................................................................ Kimberly G. Morris
Production Manager............................................................................................................ Joe Hopper
Assistant Production Managers....................................................................Ben Johnson, Elias Morales
Sound and Equipment Manager...............................................................................................Bob Murr
Stage Hands................................................................. Bobby Bryan, Amanda Hantson, Sabrina Zeidler
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