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L Y R I C O P E R A O F C H I C A G O
50 | February 11 - March 25, 2017
Mr. and Mrs. Jay A. Pritzker
PRITZKER FOUNDATION
The Pritzker Foundation is a leading supporter of
arts and education philanthropies in Chicago. Lyric
Opera of Chicago is truly grateful for the Pritzker
Foundation’s generous support of the Breaking New
Ground Campaign to underwrite the Pritzker Family
Concert Shell, designed by renowned Chicago architect
Jeanne Gang and Studio Gang architects. Lyric Opera is
honored to have Life Member Mrs. Jay A. Pritzker and
M. K. Pritzker serve on its esteemed Women’s Board.
John Oleniczak Vinay Couto
PwC
A world-wide leader in professional services,
PwC is a prominent member of Lyric Opera of
Chicago’s Business Ensemble. PwC has staunchly
supported Lyric’s Annual Campaign for over three
decades, underwriting such special projects as
production sponsorship, the Board of Directors,
Annual Meeting, and Lyric Signature Events. PwC
has provided a leadership gift to the Breaking New
Ground Campaign, having previously supported the Campaign for Excellence.
Lyric is fortunate to receive generous in-kind consulting services from Strategy&,
part of the PwC network. Lyric Opera is proud to have several PwC representatives
as members of the Lyric family: John Oleniczak, PwC’s Midwest Region Assurance
Managing Partner, serves on Lyric’s Board of Directors, Executive, and Finance
Committees, and as Chairman of the Audit Committee; Vinay Couto, Principal,
Strategy&, part of the PwC network, serves on Lyric’s Board of Directors and Lyric
Unlimited Committee; Maggie Rock Adams, Director and Client Relationship
Executive, is a dedicated member of Lyric’s Guild Board; and
Tamara Conway, Director at Strategy&, part of the PwC network
(formerly Booz & Company), is a committed member of the Ryan
Opera Center Board.
Joe Tarantino Tom Andreesen
PROTIVITI
Protiviti, represented by Managing Director Tom
Andreesen and President and CEO Joe Tarantino,
is a global business consulting and internal audit
firm composed of experts specializing in risk,
advisory and transaction services. They help solve
problems in finance and transactions, operations,
technology, litigation, governance, risk, and
compliance. Their highly trained, results-oriented
professionals provide a unique perspective on a wide range of critical business issues
for clients in the Americas, Asia-Pacific, Europe and the Middle East. Protiviti
and its independently owned Member Firms serve clients through a network of
more than 70 locations in over 20 countries. The company’s more than 3,800
professionals provide a host of consulting and internal audit solutions to over
60 percent of FORTUNE 1000 ® and 35 percent of FORTUNE Global 500 ®
companies. Protiviti is proud to provide in-kind
consulting services to Lyric Opera of Chicago
this season.
J. CHRISTOPHER and ANNE N. REYES
Anne and Chris Reyes are prominent members of
the Lyric family. Immediate past President of Lyric’s
Women’s Board, Anne was recently elected to serve
on Lyric’s Board of Directors, Executive and Lyric
Unlimited Committees; Chris is also a valued member
of the Board of Directors, and serves on its Nominating/
Governance and Finance Committees. Together they
have made important contributions to Lyric as cosponsors of several mainstage
productions, most recently Carousel (2014/15) and this season’s My Fair Lady.
They have staunchly supported Wine Auctions 2009, 2012, and 2015, Lyric’s 60th
Anniversary Concert and Diamond Ball, and are major supporters of the Annual
Campaign. In addition, they provided significant and much appreciated gifts to
the Campaign for Excellence and the Breaking New Ground Campaign. Chris and
Anne Reyes provided leadership support for Lyric Unlimited’s world premiere of
Second Nature (2015/16), and Lyric deeply appreciates their leadership gift for this
season’s new opera for youth, Jason and the Argonauts.
LLOYD E. RIGLER-LAWRENCE E. DEUTSCH FOUNDATION
A graduate of the University of Illinois and life-long arts philanthropist Lloyd E.
Rigler established the Lloyd E. Rigler-Lawrence E. Deutsch Foundation in 1977 in
memory of his partner to provide major support to arts organizations in Los Angeles
and nationwide. In 1994, the late Mr. Rigler established the Classic Arts Showcase
in an effort to provide free arts programming to those who could not afford to attend
live performances. Mr. Rigler’s nephew James Rigler now serves as President of the
Foundation and continues the important legacy established by his late uncle. As
Lyric strives to expand its reach and relevance, it is grateful to the Rigler-Deutsch
Foundation for its support of the annual Operathon broadcast on 98.7WFMT.
This season, the Rigler-Deutsch Foundation also generously cosponsors the Lyric’s
company premiere of Les Troyens.
PATRICK G. RYAN and
SHIRLEY WELSH RYAN
Lyric cherishes the enduring friendship and dedication
of Patrick G. and Shirley Welsh Ryan. Since 1966 when
they first subscribed to Lyric as newlyweds, they have
shared their leadership, talents, vision, and resources to
advance Lyric’s mission. Over the past four decades,
the Ryans have contributed generously to the Annual
Campaign, the Great Opera Fund, Wine Auctions
(which Mrs. Ryan initiated in 1988), and the Building on Greatness Capital
Campaign for which Lyric named the Pat and Shirley Ryan Family Rehearsal Center
located backstage to honor their major contribution. In recognition of his leadership
role in the Building on Greatness Capital Campaign, Pat Ryan was a recipient of
the 1994 Carol Fox Award. For many seasons, they have sponsored Lyric Opera
Commentaries, underwriting this special project to honor the memory of their
parents. The Ryans are sponsors of the Renée Fleming Initiative, and supported
the 60th Anniversary Concert and Diamond Ball. This season they are a Diamond
Record Sponsor of the Chicago Voices Gala Benefit Concert. In recognition of
their extraordinary gift to the Campaign for Excellence, Lyric’s premier artist
development program was renamed The Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan Opera
Center. Pat and Shirley serve as Honorary Co-Chairs of the Ryan Opera Center.
Lyric is deeply grateful for their major leadership gift to the Breaking New Ground
Campaign in support of the Innovation Initiative. A Vice President and a member
of the Executive, Nominating, and Innovation Committees of Lyric’s Board of
Directors and a distinguished former President of the Women’s Board, Shirley
Welsh Ryan was awarded the 2008 Carol Fox Award, Lyric’s most prestigious
honor, in recognition of her many years of devoted service to the opera company.
Jack and Catherine Scholl
DR. SCHOLL FOUNDATION
Since 1983, the Dr. Scholl Foundation’s commitment to
children, families and educational enrichment through
the arts has led it to provide essential support for one of
Lyric’s most popular cultural engagement opportunities
available to young Chicagoans, the Student Matinees.
Each year, these widely accessible performances at the
Civic Opera House reach audiences of junior high and
high school students, many of whom are experiencing
opera for the first time. The Foundation has generously supported family
presentations of The Magic Victrola (2014/15) and The Family Barber (2013/14).
Lyric Opera is deeply grateful to the Dr. Scholl Foundation for its generous ongoing
support of Student Matinees/Performances for Students, commemorating Catherine
A. and Jack E. Scholl, who championed cultural and institutional education.
Brenda Shapiro
EARL and BRENDA SHAPIRO FOUNDATION
Prominent members of the Lyric family for many seasons, Brenda
Shapiro and her late husband Earl provided vital support to the
Annual Campaign, the Building on Greatness Capital Campaign,
the Campaign for Excellence, and the Breaking New Ground
Campaign. The Foundation has cosponsored several mainstage
productions, most recently The Passenger (2014/15) and this
season’s presentation of Norma. Lyric is honored to have Brenda
Shapiro serve on the Board of Directors as well as the Executive,
Production Sponsorship, and Lyric Unlimited Committees.