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DENNI SAYERS
(
Choreographer
)
Previously at Lyric:
Seven productions since
2000-01, most recently
The Magic Flute,
Das Rheingold
(both
2016/17);
Porgy and
Bess
(2014/15).
The British choreographer and director’s recent
projects range from
Hamlet
(Glyndebourne)
to
The Cunning Little Vixen
(Brussels), and
The Pearl Fishers
(Tulsa Opera). Highlights of
the current season include
Rigoletto
(Dresden)
and
Hänsel und Gretel
(Vienna). Sayers,
who has worked on eight productions at the
Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, since
1999, collaborates regularly with many major
directors, including most recently David
Pountney (
Das Rheingold
, Lyric), Neil Armfield
(
Hamlet,
Glyndebourne), Adrian Noble
(
Hänsel und Gretel
, Vienna), and Jonathan
Kent (
Manon Lescaut
, Covent Garden).
She has also enjoyed close associations with
Francesca Zambello (including the Washington
National Opera’s acclaimed
Ring
cycle) and
the late Nikolaus Lehnhoff (six productions,
among them
Turandot at
La Scala‚
Elektra at
the
Salzburg Festival, and
Parsifal at
English
National Opera). Sayers was revival director of
Zambello’s ROH production of
Carmen
, and
has also directed revivals of
Of Mice and Men
(Washington), and
Ariadne auf Naxos
(Boston);
new productions of
Tosca
(Toronto) and
West
Side Stor
y (Tel Aviv); and Rachel Portman’s
The Water Diviner’s Tale
and two Doctor Who
concerts (all for the BBC Proms). Her work has
also been seen at the Bregenz Festival and the
leading opera houses of Sydney, Amsterdam,
Berlin, and San Francisco.
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, 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.
Sarah Hatten is the
Marlys
Beider Wigmaster and Makeup Designer
Endowed Chair.
ROB KEARLEY
(
Associate Director
)
Previously at Lyric:
Das
Rheingold
(2016/17);
The Passenger
(2014/15).
The British director,
who will also be at Lyric
this season to stage
Turandot
, returned to
the U. S. last this season for his San Francisco
Opera debut (
Rigoletto
). He has worked with
companies across Europe and North America
including English National Opera, Canadian
Opera Company, Opera North, Opéra de
Lyon, Prague State Opera, Prague National
Theatre, Teatro Comunale Bolzano, and the
Bregenz Festival. Kearley has collaborated
with numerous renowned directors, among
them David Pountney, Christopher Alden,
Tim Albery, Robert Carsen, Chen Shi-
Zheng, and Yoshi Oida, among others. Recent
engagements include
Portraits de Manon
at
the Wexford Festival; revivals of
The Passenger
for Florida Grand Opera, Michigan Opera
Theatre, and Houston Grand Opera; directing
at the Europa Cantat Festival in Turin; Judith
Weir’s
Miss Fortune
at the Royal Opera House,
Covent Garden; working with the Opéra
Comique in Paris;
Faust
(new production) and
Death in Venice
for Opera North;
The Magic
Flute
for the Bregenz Festival; and
Peter Grimes
for Opéra de Lyon.
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