My Fair Lady

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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.

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

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

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

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. 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). 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

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,

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,

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.

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.

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

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

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