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RICCARDO FRIZZA
(
Conductor
)
Lyric debut
The Italian conductor has
previously enjoyed great
successes with
Norma
at
the Metropolitan Opera
(where he has also led
Armida, Maria
Stuarda, La bohème,
and
Tosca
) and Paris’s
Théâtre des Champs-Elysées. He most
recently conducted
Attila
(Venice’s Teatro
La Fenice),
Lucia di Lammermoor
(Opéra
National de Paris), and Donizetti’s
Linda
di Chamounix
(Rome). Later this season he
returns to
Rigoletto
(Barcelona), and
Lucia
(Venice). Acclaimed as one of today’s
premier interpreters of 19th-century
Italian repertoire, Frizza has earned critical
praise at many of the world’s major opera
houses, including Munich’s Bavarian State
Opera (
I Capuleti e i Montecchi
,
Cinderella,
The Barber of Seville
) and San Francisco
Opera (
Tosca
,
Capuleti,
Lucrezia Borgia
– the latter two were released on DVD).
Appearances at major opera festivals
include those of Macerata (
Otello
,
Così
fan tutte
), Valle d’Itria (
Giovanna d’Arco
,
DVD, CD), and Munich (
Capuleti
).
Frizza has led such prestigious ensembles
as the Philharmonia Orchestra at London’s
Royal Festival Hall and Munich’s Bavarian
State Orchestra. Highlights of his extensive
recording activities include DVDs of
Don
Giovanni
(Macerata),
La fille du régiment
(Genoa),
Tancredi
(Florence), and
Nabucco
(Zurich), as well as well collaborations on
CD for recital discs with tenors Juan
Diego Flórez and Ramón Vargas.
KEVIN NEWBURY
(
Director
)
Previously at Lyric:
Bel Canto
(2015-16,
world premiere);
Anna
Bolena
(2014-15).
The American director’s
production of
Norma
premiered in San
Francisco before further performances in
Barcelona, Valladolid, and earlier this
season in Toronto. Recent credits also
include the greatly acclaimed world
premieres of Gregory Spears’s
Fellow
Travellers
(Cincinnati) and Kevin Puts’s
The Manchurian Candidate
(Minnesota);
Maria Stuarda
in Seattle and
Eugene
Onegin
in Portland; and the national
tour of a new music-theater work,
Kansas
City Choir Boy
. In the current season
Newbury debuts at Long Beach Opera
with Philip Glass’s
The Perfect American
and returns to The Santa Fe Opera for
Mason Bates’s
The (R)evolution of Steve
Jobs
(world premiere). He has undertaken
repeat engagements with Park Avenue
Armory, The Minnesota Opera, The Santa
Fe Opera, Opera Philadelphia, Houston
Grand Opera, San Francisco Opera, New
York’s Prototype Festival, and Wexford
Festival Opera (including Mercadante’s
Virginia
, winner of the 2010
Irish
Times
Theatre Award for Best Opera
Production). He also has directed for
Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center, Lyric
Opera of Kansas City, Canadian Opera
Company, L’Opéra de Montréal, the San
Francisco Symphony, the Glimmerglass
Festival, and Opera Theatre of Saint
Louis. Newbury is director of three short
films:
Monsura is Waiting, Stag,
and
Another Dance of Death.
(See Director’s
Note, p. 34.)
DAVID KORINS
(
Set Designer
)
Previously at Lyric:
Bel Canto
(2015-16,
world premiere).
The highly acclaimed
American designer has
created sets for numerous prestigious
theater and opera productions, including
Hamilton
, for which he was nominated
for a Tony Award. His set designs for
Norma
have been seen at San Francisco
Opera, Barcelona’s Gran Teatre del
Liceu, Valladolid’s Teatro Calderón, and
Toronto’s Canadian Opera Company.
Additionally he has designed the world-
premiere productions of Mark Adamo’s
The Gospel of Mary Magdalene
in San
Francisco and Theodore Morrison’s
Oscar
and Lewis Spratlan’s
Life is a Dream
,
both in Santa Fe. Korins’s extensive
Broadway credits include
Misery
,
Vanya
and Sonia and Masha and Spike
,
Motown
,
Bring It On
,
Magic/Bird
,
The Pee-wee
Herman Show
,
Lombardi
,
Passing Strange
,
Bridge & Tunnel
,
Annie,
and
Godspell
.
His designs for
Why Torture is Wrong,
and the People Who Love Them
(Off-
Broadway) earned him Drama Desk and
Henry Hewes Design awards. Regionally
his designs have been seen at La Jolla
Playhouse, the Alliance Theatre, The Old
Globe, American Conservatory Theater,
the Geffen Playhouse, and the Goodman
Theatre (
War Paint
). Among his most
notable film and television credits are
Grease Live!,
for which he won an Emmy
Award,
Winter Passing
, and
Blackbird
.
Korins has also designed concerts for
Kanye West, Sia, Mariah Carey, Andrea
Bocelli, Bruno Mars, Lady Gaga, and the
Bonnaroo Festival.
JESSICA JAHN
(
Costume Designer
)
Previously at Lyric:
Anna Bolena
(2014-15).
The acclaimed work of
the American costume
designer appears this
season at Washington National Opera
(Jake Heggie’s
Dead Man Walking
) and
the Glimmerglass Festival (Donizetti’s
The Siege of Calais
). Her designs for
Norma
were seen by audiences in
Toronto, Barcelona, and San Francisco.
Jahn has designed extensively for The
Minnesota Opera, including productions
of
Carmen
, Kevin Puts’s
The Manchurian
Candidate
(world premiere),
Anna Bolena
,
Roberto Devereux
, and
Werther
. She has
also created costumes for productions
of
The Crucible
(Glimmerglass Festival),
Maria Stuarda
(Seattle Opera), and the
world premiere of Lewis Spratlan’s
Life
is a Dream
(The Santa Fe Opera). Her
extensive credits include
Akeelah and
the Bee
(Arena Stage, Children’s Theatre
Company),
Love, Loss and What I Wore
(Westside Theatre),
Die Mommie Die!
(New World Stages, winner of the Lucile
Lortel Award, Outer Critics Circle and
Drama Desk award nominations)
, Once