Porgy and Bess

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Directors Tim Albery John Caird John Cox Robert Falls Leah Hausman

Chorus Master Michael Black Children’s Chorus Master Josephine Lee Choreographers

Sopranos Adina Aaron Uliana Alexyuk Valerie Bernhardt Emily Birsan Tracy Cantin Andriana Chuchman Adrienne Danrich Renée Fleming Hui He Kelly Kaduce Alexandra LoBianco Indira Mahajan Amanda Majeski Angela Mannino Ana María Martínez Hlengiwe Mkhwanazi Sondra Radvanovsky Marina Rebeka Carter Scott Tatiana Serjan Karen Slack Amber Wagner Nina Warren Laura Wilde Mezzo-sopranos Jamie Barton Stephanie Blythe Kelley O’Connor Agnieszka Rehlis Michaela Schuster Anne Sofie von Otter Contralto Gwendolyn Brown Tenors Corey Bix Johan Botha William Burden David Cangelosi Jorge de Leon Juan José de León Richard Decker Matthew DiBattista Jeffrey Hartman Bernard Holcomb Bryan Hymel John Irvin Keith Jameson Jonathan Johnson Brandon Jovanovich Yonghoon Lee Robert McPherson Misha Didyk Jesse Donner J’nai Bridges Judith Forst Suzanne Hendrix Daveda Karanas Megan Marino Lauren McNeese Julie Miller

Baritones Mark Delavan Anthony Clark Evans Gerald Finley Norman Garrett Eric Greene Joshua Hopkins Audun Iversen Quinn Kelsey Mariusz Kwiecień Will Liverman

Peter McClintock Sir David McVicar

Val Caniparoli Leah Hausman Denni Sayers August Tye Jasmin Vardimon Associate Choreographer Mafalda Deville Ballet Mistress August Tye Wigmaster and Makeup Designer Sarah Hatten Fight Directors Chuck Coyl Nick Sandys Translators for English Titles Cori Ellison

Kevin Newbury David Pountney Francesca Zambello Associate Directors

John Moore Bo Skovhus Daniel Sutin Hyung Yun Bass-baritones Bradley Garvin David Govertsen

Rob Kearley Denni Sayers Set and Costume Designers Bunny Christie

Kyle Ketelsen Evgeny Nikitin Richard Ollarsaba Eric Owens Derrick Parker John Relyea Michael Sumuel Dale Travis Basses Gustav Andreassen Wilbur Pauley Peter Rose Andrea Silvestrelli Bradley Smoak Richard Wiegold Actors Dev Kennedy John Lister Brian McCaskill Principal Dancers Jonathan Emanuell Alsberry Brittany Amoroso

Peter J. Davison Charles Edwards

Johan Engels Jessica Jahn Ana Kuzmanic Marie-Jeanne Lecca Michael Levine Jon Morrell Mauro Pagano Neil Patel Robert Perdziola Brigitte Reiffenstuel Walt Spangler Paul Tazewell Lighting Designers David Finn Fabrice Kebour Mark McCullough

Paul Hopper Roger Pines David Pountney Francis Rizzo Colin Ure

The American Guild of Musical Artists, AFL-CIO (AGMA), is the union that represents the singers, dancers, actors, and staging personnel at Lyric Opera of Chicago.

Duane Schuler Jennifer Tipton D. M. Wood

Jacob Ashley Brenna Dwyer

DANREST

Jennifer Goodman Veronica Guadalupe Randy Herrera Jeffery B. Hover, Jr. Elizabeth Luse Luke Manley Alanna Nielsen Ashley Rockwood Greg Sample Abigail Simon James Monroe Stevko J. P. Tenuta

Nicole von Arx Conductors Sir Andrew Davis Asher Fisch Dmitri Jurowski Patrick Summers Ward Stare

Antonio Poli Rodell Rosel Jermaine Smith Eduardo Villa

Clara (Laquita Mitchell) and her husband, the fisherman Jake (Eric Greene): Porgy and Bess at Lyric Opera, 2008-09 season.

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