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orchestras of Cleveland, Detroit, Houston,
Dallas, and Québec, as well as the Moscow
Chamber Orchestra, Bangkok Symphony,
and Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin.
Musical Americanamed 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
recently Show Boat (2011-
12); Porgy and Bess (2008-
09); Salome (2006-07).
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
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)
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
bohème, 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.
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
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:
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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