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M I CHA E L B L ACK
(
Chorus Master
) has served
as chorus master at Lyric
since 2013. At Opera
Australia he progressed
from rehearsal pianist to
assistant chorus master and
children’s chorus master,
before his appointment as
chorus master from to 2001 to 2013. He has
served in that capacity for such distinguished
organizations as the Edinburgh International
Festival, Opera Holland Park (London), the
Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Philharmonia
Choir, Motet Choir, and Cantillation chamber
choir. His recent activities include preparing
The Damnation of Faust
chorus, continuing
his association with the Grant Park Music
Festival. As one of Australia’s most prominent
vocal accompanists, Black regularly performed
for broadcasts and recordings and has chorus
mastered on four continents. His work has
been recorded and/or aired on ABC, BBC,
PBS, and for many HD productions in movie
theaters as well as on television. He has also
been a lecturer at the Sydney Conservatorium
of Music, of which he is an alumnus. Black
holds a master’s degree in musicology from
the University of New South Wales.
Michael
Black is the Howard A. Stotler Chorus
Master Endowed Chair.
LYNNE PAGE*
(
Chore-
ographer
) is renowned for
her work in theater, opera,
television, and film. Career
highlights in opera include
Les Troyens
(La Scala),
Medea
(English National
Opera),
Andrea Chénier
(Bregenz Festival), and
Carmen
(Opera Holland Park). In film, Page
has undertaken projects for Warner Brothers
and Working Title as a movement director and
choreographer. She has worked in London’s
West End and at the Royal National Theatre,
the Royal Shakespeare Company, as well as
on Broadway. In addition to
My Fair Lady
(Paris’s Châtelet, St. Petersburg’s Mariinsky),
her theater credits include
Funny Girl
(West
End, Menier Chocolate Factory, U. K. tour),
A
Little Night Music
(West End, Broadway), and
American Psycho
(Almeida, Broadway). She
was nominated for Tony, Drama Desk, and
Olivier awards for the West End and Broadway
productions of
La Cage aux Folles
(2010). Page
was choreographer for the Pet Shop Boys’ world
tours (2009-16) and her recent collaboration
with GOGO Penguin (
VEILS
) was performed
at the EFG London Jazz Festival (2015) and
Latitude Festival (2016).
REBECCA HOWELL*
(
Associate Choreographer
)
has choreographed for
several productions, among
them
She Loves Me
(Menier
Chocolate Factory),
Spam-
alot
(English Theatre
Frankfurt),
The Life of the
Party
(TheatreWorks, San
Francisco), and
Falstaff
(Covent Garden). As
Lynne Page’s associate, her credits include
American Psycho
(Almeida Theatre, Broadway),
Funny Girl
,
A Little Night Music
, and
Little Shop
of Horrors
(all at Menier and in the West End).
She is an alumna of the London Studio Centre.
SARAH HATTEN
(
Wig-
master
and
Makeup
Designer
) has served as
Lyric’s wigmaster and
makeup designer since
2011/12 and has worked
in a wide repertoire at Des
Moines Metro Opera and
Michigan Opera Theatre,
as well as Columbus Opera, Toledo Opera, the
Cabrillo Music Festival, and the University of
Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music. She
has also worked at the Glimmerglass Festival
and the major opera companies of Los Angeles,
Omaha, Cleveland, Sarasota, and Central City,
as well as Wisconsin’s American Players Theatre
and, in Los Angeles, the Pantages Theatre and
the Geffen Playhouse. Hatten earned a B. A.
in music at Simpson College.
Sarah Hatten is
the Marlys Beider Wigmaster and Makeup
Designer Endowed Chair.
MATTHEW OZAWA
(
Associate Director
) has
directed acclaimed Lyric
productions of
Don
Quichotte
(2016/17) and
Nabucco
(2015/16). His
most recent productions
include Florian Gassman’s
L’Opera Seria
(Wolf
Trap Opera, American premiere), Emmerich
Kálmán’s
Arizona Lady
(Arizona Opera,
American premiere), Matthew Aucoin’s
Second Nature
(Lyric Opera’s Lyric Unlimited,
world premiere), and Stephen Sondheim’s
A
Little Night Music,
David Hanlon’s
After The
Storm,
and Marty Regan’s
The Memory Stone
(Houston Grand Opera, the latter two in
their world premieres).
A Little Night Music
will mark Ozawa’s Des Moines Metro Opera
debut this summer. 2017/18 season highlights
include his debut at Opera Colorado with
La
bohème
and a new production of
The Barber
of Seville
(Kentucky Opera). As an associate
and assistant director, Ozawa has worked
at Lyric and the major opera companies of
Toronto, San Francisco, Santa Fe, and St.
Louis, as well as off-Broadway and at the
Oregon Shakespeare and Macau International
festivals.
ELISE SANDELL
(
Assis-
tant Director
) has directed
at the opera companies
of Tulsa, Portland, Min-
neapolis,Madison, Tacoma,
and Boise, and her
recent production of
La
traviata
with Central City
Opera was received with
critical acclaim. Sandell has staged two world
premieres for HGOco, the outreach branch of
Houston Grand Opera, and works frequently
with the artists at Lyric’s Ryan Opera Center.
In 2009, her production concept of
Einstein on
the Beach
was chosen as a finalist in OPERA
America’s Director-Designer Showcase.
JOHN W. COLEMAN
(
Stage Manager
) has been
a member of Lyric Opera’s
production staff for 27
seasons. Among his more
than 100 Lyric productions
have been five world
premieres, two
Ring
cycles,
and 47 new productions,
for which he has collaborated with many
of the world’s most distinguished directors,
including Robert Altman, Götz Friedrich,
Richard Jones, George C. Wolfe, and Graham
Vick. Coleman is former production stage
manager of Opera Theatre of Saint Louis,
Chicago Opera Theater, Portland Opera, and
Texas Opera Theater. Other regional credits
include productions with the major companies
of Pittsburgh, Houston, Santa Fe, and Miami.
An alumnus of the University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign, he has served as adjunct
faculty at DePaul University. Coleman is the
first vice president of the American Guild of
Musical Artists.
RACHELC.HENNEBERRY
(
Assistant Stage Manager
)
has been involved in more
than 40 productions with
San Francisco Opera,
working with such dis-
tinguished directors as
Francesca Zambello (
Ring
cycle), David Pountney
(
Macbeth
), Sir David McVicar (
Don Giovanni
),
and Graham Vick (
Lucia di Lammermoor
,
Tannhäuser
). A graduate in stage management
*Lyric debut