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recent releases including a greatly acclaimed
performance of one of his longtime
specialties, Elgar’s
The
Dream of Gerontius
,
as well as individual discs devoted to the
works of Hector Berlioz, Richard Strauss,
and Sir Arnold Bax.
Sir Andrew Davis is the
John D. and Alexandra C. Nichols Endowed
Chair
.
MATTHEW OZAWA
(
Director
)
Previously at Lyric:
Nabucco
(2015-16).
In addition to Lyric’s
critically praised
Nabucco
,
the American director’s
most recent acclaimed productions
include Florian Gassman’s
L’Opera Seria
(Wolf Trap Opera, American premiere),
Emmerich Kálmán’s
Arizona Lady
(Arizona
Opera, American premiere), Matthew
Aucoin’s
Second Nature
(Lyric Opera’s
Lyric Unlimited, world premiere), Somtow
Sucharitkul’s
The Snow Dragon
(Skylight
Music Theatre world premiere, also Opera
Siam), and
A Little Night Music,
David
Hanlon’s
After The Storm,
and Marty Regan’s
The Memory Stone
(Houston Grand Opera,
the latter two, world premieres).
A Little
Night Music
will mark Ozawa’s Des Moines
Metro Opera debut next summer. Other
2016-17 projects include
Romeo and Juliet
(The Minnesota Opera) and
Madama
Butterfly
(Arizona Opera). Further directing
credits include
Hand Eye
for eighth blackbird
(Carnegie Hall, Museum of Contemporary
Art, Chicago), the world premiere of
Tsuru
(Houston Ballet), and a new production of
Les Mamelles de Tirésias/Le Pauvre Matelot
(Wolf Trap Opera). As an associate and
assistant director, Ozawa has worked at the
major opera companies of Toronto, Chicago,
San Francisco, Santa Fe, and St. Louis, as
well as off-Broadway and at the Oregon
Shakespeare and Macau International
festivals. He made his New York directorial
debut writing, directing, choreographing,
and producing
Bound Shadow
. (
See Director's
Note, p. 32.
)
RALPH FUNICELLO
(
Set Designer
)
Lyric debut
The acclaimed American
designer has created
sets for more than
300
productions
internationally. His opera designs have most
recently been seen at San Diego Opera
(
Don Quichotte,
Pizzetti’s
Murder in the
Cathedral
), LA Opera (Zemlinsky’s
The
Dwarf
, Ullmann’s
The Broken Jug
), and New
York City Opera (
La rondine
). Holder of
San Diego State University’s Powell Chair
in Set Design, Funicello recently designed
South Coast Repertory’s production of
Robert Schenkkan’s
All the Way
. He has
extensive experience in plays on Broadway
(
Henry IV
, nominated for
Outer Critics
Circle, Drama Desk, and Tony Awards;
Julius Caesar, Brooklyn Boy, King Lear,
QED
,
Division Street
), Off-Broadway (
Ten
Unknowns
, Lortel nomination;
Saturn
Returns, Pride’s Crossing
,
Labor Day
), and at
San Diego’s Old Globe Theater (
Much Ado
About Nothing
,
The Tempest
,
A Midsummer
Night’s Dream
,
Othello
,
Titus Andronicus
),
where he is an associate artist. His work
has been exhibited at the Library and
Museum of the Performing Arts at New
York’s Lincoln Center, Tiffany & Co., San
Francisco’s Chevron Gallery, the Prague
Quadrennial, and Beijing’s Exhibition
of Stage Design. Funicello has received a
Michael Merritt Award for Excellence in
Design and Collaboration, three Bay Area
Critics Circle Awards, and five LA Drama
Critics Circle Awards.
MISSY WEST
(
Costume Designer
)
Lyric debut
The American costume
designer’s work on
Don
Quichotte
has been seen at
Seattle Opera (2011) and
San Diego Opera (2014). She has served
as assistant designer for a wide repertoire
during an association of more than 20 years
with San Diego Opera and has designed for
other important companies, including Fort
Worth Opera (world premiere of Pasatieri’s
Frau Margot
), The Santa Fe Opera (
La
fanciulla del West
), and Seagle Music
Colony (
Così fan tutte,
Mark Adamo’s
Little
Women
). In addition to opera, West has
designed costumes for large-scale musical
theater productions such as
The Phantom
of the Opera
,
Les Misérables
,
Jelly’s Last Jam
,
Cats
,
Starlight Express
, and
Black and Blue
.
She also has an extensive film history, having
worked on set for numerous major releases,
among them
Seabiscuit
,
The Legend of Bagger
Vance
,
The Thomas Crown Affair
,
For the Love
of the Game
,
Die Hard with a Vengeance
,
Mighty Aphrodite,
and
Fried Green Tomatoes
.
West has also worked for the Alvin Ailey
Dance Company on international tours,
for the fashion industry, on commercials,
and for the television industry. She earned
bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
CHRIS MARAVICH
(
Lighting Designer
)
Previously at Lyric:
Lucia di Lammermoor
(2016-17);
The Merry
Widow
(2015-16); Pepe
Martínez and Leonard
Foglia’s
El Pasado Nunca
Se Termina
, world premiere (2014-15).
Currently Lyric’s lighting director,
Maravich served in the same position from
2006 to 2012 at San Francisco Opera,
where he has created lighting for many
productions including
The Gospel of Mary
Magdalene, Così fan tutte, Turandot,
Cyrano de Bergerac, Il trittico, Tosca, Simon
Boccanegra, Don Giovanni, Nixon in China,
and
Attila.
Maravich has collaborated on
the lighting designs for
Doktor Faust
at
Staatsoper Stuttgart,
Tannhäuser
for Greek
National Opera, and
La fanciulla del West,
The Makropulos Case, The Daughter of the
Regiment, Il trovatore, Samson et Dalila,
and
Macbeth
for San Francisco Opera. He has
also designed lighting for Opera Colorado,
San Diego Opera, Opera Santa Barbara,