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SARAH HATTEN
(
Wigmaster and Makeup
Designer
)
Wigmaster and makeup
designer since 2011-12.
Lyric’s wigmaster and
makeup designer has
worked in a wide repertoire
at Des Moines Metro Opera and Michigan
Opera Theatre (both since 2006), 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.
AUGUST TYE
(
Ballet Mistress
)
Previously at Lyric Opera:
33 productions since
1993-94 as dancer,
choreographer, or ballet
mistress, most recently
The Passenger
,
Tannhäuser
,
Porgy and Bess
(all 2014-15).
The American dancer-choreographer’s operatic
credits include remounting the choreography
of Lyric’s
Iphigénie en Tauride
at San
Francisco Opera and the Royal Opera House,
Covent Garden. She has presented a 20-year
retrospective of her work at Chicago’s Vittum
Theater and Ruth Page Dance Center, as well
as in her hometown, Kalamazoo, Michigan.
A graduate of Western Michigan University,
Tye performed with The Kalamazoo Ballet,
dancing leading roles in
Sleeping Beauty
,
Cinderella
, and
The Nutcracker
. In Chicago she
continued her training at the Joel Hall Dance
Center. Tye is a past recipient of Regional
Dance America’s Best Young Choreographer
Award (at age 15) and a two-time recipient
of the Monticello Young Choreographer’s
Award; the latter garnered her invitations to
choreograph throughout America. In addition
to Lyric Opera and Joel Hall Dancers, she has
performed in Chicago with Salt Creek Ballet
and Second City Ballet. Tye is artistic director
and principal ballet instructor at the Hyde Park
School of Dance, which she founded in 1993.
Four years later she founded Tyego Dance
Project, which has performed at Steppenwolf,
the Athenaeum, and throughout America in a
revival of Spike Jones’s
Nutcracker.
GINA LAPINSKI
(
Associate Director
)
Previously at Lyric Opera:
Fidelio
(2004-05).
The Pittsburgh native is in
her 18th year as member
of the stage-directing
staff of the Metropolitan
Opera, where she has directed or assisted on
more than 60 productions and has served as
National Council Auditions dramatic coach.
Lapinski has also directed productions for such
companies as San Francisco Opera (Emilio
Sagi’s production of
Don Carlo
), Connecticut
Opera (
Madama Butterfly
,
La traviata
,
Carmen
), and L’Opéra de Montréal (
The
Turn of the Screw
,
L’elisir d’amore
,
Madama
Butterfly
), as well as Houston Grand Opera,
Covent Garden, and Barcelona’s Gran Teatre
del Liceu. Closely associated with Florida
Grand Opera (
Eugene Onegin
), she has directed
numerous young-artist productions, including
The Rape of Lucretia
,
L’isola disabitata
, and
The Music Shop
. Among her numerous
collaborations with Tony Award-winning
stage director Barlett Sher are
Romeo and Juliet
(Salzburg Festival and La Scala),
Faust
(Baden-
Baden), and
Otello
,
Les contes d’Hoffmann
,
and
L’elisir d’amore
(all at the Metropolitan
Opera). Lapinski served three times as associate
director for the acclaimed
Ring
cycle at Seattle
Opera, conceived by Stephen Wadsworth.
Collaborating with Roberto Oswald, she
co-directed a new
Das Rheingold
for the Teatro
Municipal in Santiago, Chile.
A scene from Shakespeare’s tragedy – Juliet’s nurse
urging Romeo to flee – painted in 1778
by American artist Benjamin West.
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