Porgy and Bess

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PAUL TAZEWELL ( Costume Designer ) Previously at Lyric Opera: Show Boat (2011-12); Porgy and Bess (2008-09). The designer has extensive credits in theater, dance, and opera in the United

orchestras of Cleveland, Detroit, Houston, Dallas, and Québec, as well as the Moscow Chamber Orchestra, Bangkok Symphony, and Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin. Musical America named him “Musician of the Month” in November 2011. Stare participated in the prestigious Allianz Cultural Foundation’s 2012 International Conductors’ Academy, which culminated in his London Philharmonic Orchestra debut. He received both the Robert J. Harth Conductor Prize (2006) and the Aspen Conducting Prize (2007) at the Aspen Music Festival before spending the 2007-08 season as a League of American Orchestras Fellow with the Los Angeles Philharmonic. The Juilliard graduate is former principal trombonist of the Lyric Opera Orchestra, to which he was appointed at the age of 18. FRANCESCA ZAMBELLO ( Director ) Previously at Lyric Opera: Four productions since 1999-00, most The renowned director’s celebrated production of Porgy and Bess premiered at Washington National Opera and was subsequently seen at Lyric, Los Angeles Opera, and San Francisco Opera. Zambello has been one of her generation’s most significant creators in theater and opera since her U. S. debut ( Fidelio , Houston, 1984) and European debut ( Beatrice di Tenda , Venice, 1987). Among her most important operatic achievements have been the Ring cycle (San Francisco Opera, Washington National Opera); Cyrano de Bergerac, Les Troyens , and An American Tragedy/ world premiere (Metropolitan Opera); Heart of a Soldier /world premiere (San Francisco Opera, where she served as artistic advisor, 2006-11); The Fiery Angel (Bolshoi Theater); Carmen and Don Giovanni (Covent Garden); Amahl and the Night Visitors (BBC Television); The Little Prince/ world premiere (Houston Grand Opera, BBC, PBS); and War and Peace, Billy Budd , and Guillaume Tell (Opéra National de Paris). Recent musical- theater projects include Show Boat (Lyric, Houston, Washington, San Francisco), The Little Mermaid (Broadway), Little House on the Prairie (Guthrie Theatre and National Tour), and Rebecca (Austria, Germany and Asia). Zambello has been artistic and general director of the Glimmerglass Festival since September 2010 and artistic director of the recently Show Boat (2011- 12); Porgy and Bess (2008- 09); Salome (2006-07).

Washington National Opera at the Kennedy Center since 2011. Her current season also includes Candide at Glimmerglass, Dialogues of the Carmelites in Washington, and Marco Tutino’s La Ciociara at San Francisco Opera. Among her awards and honors are the rank of Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres from the French government and, for London productions, three Olivier Awards. PETER J. DAVISON ( Set Designer )

States and internationally. For Broadway he has designed Bring in ’Da Noise, Bring in ’Da Funk (Tony Award nomination), Side Show, On the Town, Def Poetry Jam, Elaine Strich at Liberty, and Fascinating Rhythm. His work off-Broadway includes Flesh and Blood, Harlem Song, Dinah Was, City Center Encores! Li’l Abner, Once Around the City, Before It Hits Home, Playboy of the West Indies (Lincoln Center Theatre). Joseph Papp Public Theatre: Boston Marriage, One Flea Spare, Henry V, Venus, and Blade to the Heat . He has designed for most of the nation’s leading regional theaters from Chicago’s Goodman Theatre to Arena Stage (Washington),.Hartford Stage, Long Wharf Theatre (New Haven), Seattle Repertory, Milwaukee Repertory, and Center Stage (Baltimore). He has also created productions for Glimmerglass Opera, New York City Opera, Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, Pacific Northwest Ballet, and Boston Ballet. Among Tazewell’s awards and honors are the Lucille Lortel Award ( On the Town ), two Helen Hayes Awards for Outstanding Costume Design, the Michael Merritt Award, the AUDELCO Award ( Harlem Song ), the TDF Irene Sharaff Young Master Award, and a Princess Grace Fellowship. Tazewell is a graduate of North Carolina School of the Arts and NYU Tisch School of the Arts. MARK McCULLOUGH (Lighting Designer)

Previously at Lyric Opera: Porgy and Bess (2008-09). The British designer’s wide operatic repertoire includes Mozart ( Mitridate /Wexford Festival and Salzburg

Festival, Le nozze di Figaro /Metropolitan Opera, Vienna Festival, Ferrara, Tokyo, new production for Florence’s Maggio Musicale), bel canto ( Anna Bolena /Bayerische Staatsoper, Mary Stuart /English National Opera), Bizet ( Carmen /ENO, NCPA Beijing China), Verdi ( Falstaff /Zürich Opernhaus; La forza del des- tino/ Washington National Opera; La traviata/ Moscow’s Bolshoi Theater), Janáček ( Katya Kabanova , New Zealand International Festival), Gilbert and Sullivan ( The Yeoman of the Guard / Welsh National Opera, Glimmerglass Festival), Puccini ( Manon Lescaut , Opera Australia; La boh è me , Royal Albert Hall,), Britten ( Peter Grimes /Dublin Grand Opera), Strauss ( Der Rosenkavalier /ENO, Capriccio /Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin, Salome /Washington National Opera), Stravinsky ( The Rake’s Progress/ Met), Alfano ( Cyrano de Bergerac/ La Scala, Met, Covent Garden), and Offenbach ( Les con- tes d’Hoffmann/ NCPA Beijing China). Work in dance: Stuttgart Ballet, Birmingham Royal Ballet, and London’s DV8 Physical Theatre. Work in musical theater: Jesus Christ Superstar (U. K. tour, Broadway), Rebecca (Vienna, Stuttgart), Der Besuch der alten Dame / (Vienna), Artus (St. Gallen). Plays: Bed, The Beaux’ Stratagem, Le Cid, Copenhagen, Democracy, Afterlife (National Theatre), Blithe Spirit (Broadway). Also work for Almeida Theatre, Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Sydney Theatre Company ( Hamlet, Medea, Is He Dead?, Copenhagen, Democracy ). Tony, Drama Desk and Olivier award nominations for Medea. Olivier award nominations for Le Cid and Saint Joan .

Previously at Lyric Opera: Show Boat (2011-12); Porgy and Bess (2008-09). The lighting designer maintains a highly successful career with opera and theater

companies in the United States and abroad. He has lit productions for the Bolshoi Theatre ( Les contes d’Hoffmann ); the Metropolitan Opera ( Le nozze di Figaro ); the National Centre for the Performing Arts (NCPA) in Beijing ( Les contes d’Hoffmann ); La Scala ( Cyrano de Bergerac ); Madrid’s Teatro Real ( Luisa Miller ); Strasbourg’s Opéra National du Rhin ( The Beggar’s Opera ); Covent Garden ( The Queen of Spades ); and Opera North ( Eugene Onegin ), as well as numerous productions with Boston Lyric Opera,

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