Carmen

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February 11 - March 25, 2017

(LA Opera), and Tod Machover’s

Death and

the Powers

(Dallas Opera), as well as Rob

Ashford’s

Carmen

production at Houston

Grand Opera and Bartlett Sher’s production of

Otello

(Met). He has won the Tony and Henry

Hewes awards for

South Pacific

(2008) and

Tony, Drama Desk, and Outer Critics Circle

awards for

The Lion King

(1998). He has also

received Tony nominations for his Broadway

designs for

The King and I

The Bridges of

Madison County, Golden Boy

Ragtime

Les

Liaisons Dangereuses

Gem of the Ocean

Streetcar Named Desire

Movin’ Out,

and

Juan

Darien

. Additional Broadway credits include

Spiderman-Turn Off The Dark,

She Loves Me,

On The 20th Century

Promises, Promises

Cyrano de Bergerac

Thoroughly Modern Millie

and

The Boy from Oz

. Holder’s television

successes include both seasons of

Smash

for

NBC. A graduate of the Yale School of Drama,

he has designed at resident theaters across the

United States.

MICHAEL BLACK

(

Chorus Master

)

Previously at Lyric:

Chorus master since 2013-

14; interim chorus master,

2011-12.

Lyric’s chorus master’s

activities in the past

nine months included

continuing his association with the Grant

Park Music Festival by preparing the chorus

for Berlioz’s

The Damnation of Faust.

Chorus

master from to 2001 to 2013 at Opera

Australia in Sydney, Black prepared the OA

chorus for more than 90 operas and many

concert works. He has served in the same

capacity 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. Among the

distinguished organizations with which he has

been associated are the Edinburgh International

Festival, Opera Holland Park (London), and,

in Australia, the Sydney Symphony Orchestra

(including Rachmaninoff’s

The Bells

, led by

Vladimir Ashkenazy), Philharmonia Choir,

Motet Choir, and Cantillation chamber

choir. He has been a lecturer at the Sydney

Conservatorium of Music, of which he is an

alumnus. Black also 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

JOSEPHINE LEE

(

Children’s Chorus Master

)

Previously at Lyric:

Seven operas since 2000-

01, most recently

Wozzeck

(2015-16);

Tosca

(2014-

15);

La bohème

(2012-13).

The president and artistic

director

Chicago

Children’s Choir has revolutionized youth choral

music through cutting-edge performances of

diverse repertoire and innovative collaborations

with world-class artists. Through her vision and

leadership, she has established CCC as one of the

city’s premier cultural institutions, solidifying

partnerships with Lyric, the Chicago Symphony

Orchestra, and Ravinia. Recent projects include

a revival of the original world musical

Sita

Ram

at the Harris Theater (2012) with David

Kersnar of Lookingglass Theatre and Natya

Dance Theatre, as well as the development of a

fully staged theatrical work with the Q Brothers.

The Chicago native has led tours nationally and

internationally to 20 countries since 1999. In

2015 she founded Vocality, a festival chorus

comprising CCC alumni as well as young vocal

artists from a wide array of communities within

and surrounding Chicago, exemplifying the

highest level of choral singing with an emphasis

on excellence and diversity. Vocality made its

premiere in 2015 at Ravinia Festival in

Porgy and

Bess

with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Lee

was recently featured in “The Transformative

Power of Music,” a segment on Oprah Winfrey

Network’s show,

Super Soul Sunday

SARAH HATTEN

(

Wigmaster and

Makeup Designer

)

Lyric’s wigmaster and

makeup designer has

worked in a wide reper-

toire 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,

in addition to 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

LOUISA MULLER

(

Associate Director

)

Previously at Lyric:

Madama Butterfly

(2013-

14);

La bohème

(2012-13).

In recent seasons the

American director has

debutedattheMetropolitan

Opera, Houston Grand

Opera, Grand Théâtre de Genève, Opera

Queensland, and Atlanta Opera. She

earned considerable critical acclaim for new

productions of

The Ghosts of Versailles

and

The

Rape of Lucretia

at Wolf Trap Opera. She is in

her ninth season on the directing staff of the

Metropolitan Opera, where she has directed

revivals of

Cavalleria rusticana/Pagliacci

L’elisir d’amore

, and

Don Giovanni

and assisted

directors such as Sir David McVicar, Robert

Carsen, Bartlett Sher, Michael Grandage, and

Stephen Wadsworth. This season she directs

the New York Philharmonic’s staged concert

Das Rheingold

and a new production of

Tosca

with the National Symphony at Wolf

Trap Opera, returns to the Met to direct

Don

Giovanni

and assist Robert Lepage on

L’amour

de loin

, and works with young singers at Rice

University, London’s National Opera Studio,

and the Scuola di Belcanto Urbania.

SARAH O’GLEBY

(

Associate Choreographer

)

Previously at Lyric:

Dance Captain/

Carousel

(2014-15).

Originally from the U. K.,

the dancer has been living

in New York City for eight

years. She has performed in

more than ten Broadway and West End musi-

cals. Her recent choreography credits include

NBC Universal and Univision Upfronts, the

Kennedy Center Honors, and Hermes Events.

Her associate-choreography credits include

Ted 2

, the Oscars (2009, 2013-15), NBC’s

The Sound of Music

and

Peter Pan,

How to

Succeed in Business Without Really Trying

with

Daniel Radcliffe, many Tony Awards telecasts,

and

A Million Ways to Die in the West

. Her

work in opera includes

Die Fledermaus

at the

Metropolitan Opera and both

Carousel

and

Carmen

at Houston Grand Opera.

CHUCK COYL

(

Fight Director

)

Previously at Lyric:

Seven productions since

2006-07, most recently

Don Quichotte

Das

Rheingold

(both 2016-

17);

Tosca

(2014-15).

A professional fight direc-

tor for more than 30 years, Coyl is vice

president of the Society of American Fight

Directors. Recent credits include the Broadway

production and national tour of

August Osage

County

;

The Crucible

and

Superior Donuts

Steppenwolf Theatre Company;

2666, Another

Word for Beauty,

and

The Upstairs Concierge

at the Goodman Theatre; and

Sucker Punch

at Victory Gardens Theatre. Coyl is a found-

ing member of the Single Action Theatre

Company, and is on the faculty of the Actor’s

Gymnasium and Roosevelt University in

Chicago.