My Fair Lady

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from both the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music and DePaul University, Henneberry has also stage-managed for Seattle Opera, Utah Symphony and Opera, and Pittsburgh Opera.

Festival and School, Cleveland Orchestra, Florentine Opera (Milwaukee), LA Opera, Midsummer’s Music Festival (Door County, Wisconsin), and Lyric’s Ryan Opera Center.

Flemish Opera, Cologne Opera, Deutsche Oper am Rhein, and Opéra National de Paris. He has written many libretti, including – with Strasbourg composer Boris Boulanger- Haas – works based on Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus and Dostoevsky’s White Nights , as well as Richard III (Antwerp), Citoyen de Genéve (Geneva), The Duchess of Malfi (English National Opera), Pop’pea (Paris’s Châtelet), and CO2 (La Scala). Burton’s work as a director includes the prize for best production of the year given by the Province of Antwerp for three one-act works by Peter Maxwell Davies: Eight Songs for a Mad King , Vesalii Icones , and Miss Donnithorne’s Maggot .

TIM LENIHAN* ( Musical Preparation ), an alumnus of DePaul University, is an active pianist and conductor in the Chicago area working with several theaters, including the Para- mount Theatre ( Sweeney Todd , The Little Mermaid ,

RACHEL A. TOBIAS ( Assistant Stage Manager ) has been a stage manager and assistant stage manager at Lyric for 16 seasons. Since 2009 she has spent part of each summer as lead stage manager for opera programming at the

Mamma Mia! , West Side Story , Cats , Miss Saigon , Annie ), Drury Lane Theatre ( West Side Story , Camelot , Sunset Boulevard , Hairspray , Aida , Spamalot , Miss Saigon , Mame ), and Oriental Theatre ( Newsies , Wicked , Billy Elliot ). Lenihan has also performed with the Kalamazoo Symphony, Northwest Indiana Symphony, Elgin Symphony, Chicago Sin- fonietta, and Chicago Civic Orchestra.

Ravinia Festival in Highland Park. Tobias has held similar stage-management positions with San Francisco Opera, Michigan Opera Theatre, Glimmerglass Festival, and Chicago Opera Theater, among others.

CHRISTINE ADAIRE* ( Dialect Coach ) is a pro- fessor at the Chicago College of Performing Arts at Roosevelt University. She began her career as an actor, later apprenticed with the renowned vocal coach Kristin Linklater for five

VALERIE MAZE ( Assis- tant Conductor ) is a member of Lyric’s musical staff. She received the After Dark Award for outstanding music direction for Cats at Theatre at the Center. She has served as music director at Drury Lane

IAN BURTON* ( Drama- turg ) has worked with director Robert Carsen since 1987. Among their collaborations have been Orfeo ed Euridice (2005/06) and Iphigénie en Tauride (2006/07). Burton, who has published eight volumes

years, and has been a master teacher of Linklater’s technique since 1987. Adaire has coached Tony Award-winning actress Deanna Dunagan, Tom Hardy, Keeanu Reeves, Matthew Modine, and MarloThomas, among others. She has worked on more than 150 productions at prestigious venues (including the Guthrie, Chicago Shakespeare, Goodman, and Steppenwolf theater companies), as well as the first national tour of Mary Poppins . Her current area of research is transgender voice modification.

Theatre, Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Goodman Theatre, Writers Theatre, Peninsula Players, Repertory Theatre of Saint Louis, Wagon Wheel Theatre, Light Opera Works, and Provision Theater Company. Whether as assistant conductor or pianist, Maze has worked at Portland Opera, Indianapolis Opera, Utah Festival Opera, Light Opera Works (Evanston), Harrisburg Opera, and DuPage Opera. Among the recent acclaimed productions for which she has served as conductor are White Christmas (Drury Lane Theatre), Sondheim’s Gypsy and Follies (Chicago Shakespeare Theater), Brigadoon (Goodman Theatre), and A Little Night Music (Writers Theatre – Jeff Award nomination, music direction).

of poetry, has had articles published by many opera houses, including the Vienna State Opera, Metropolitan Opera, English National Opera,

MARIE-NOËLLE ROBERT / THÉÂTRE DU CHÂTELET

WILLIAM C. BILLING- HAM ( Musical Preparation ), has been on the music staff at Lyric since 1995. An active recital accompanist and chamber musician, he received his training from the Oberlin Conservatory, Peabody Conservatory,

and the University of Southern California. Billingham has been a répétiteur for the Heidelberg and Düsseldorf opera houses and has served as a coach at the Aspen Music

Higgins’s study, designed by Tim Hatley for the Châtelet production of My Fair Lady .

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*Lyric debut