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at San Francisco Opera and the Opéra
de Monte Carlo. Stylistically Perdziola’s
operatic repertoire is remarkably varied,
in recent seasons encompassing works
as diverse as
Giulio Cesare
(Fort Worth
Opera),
Alcina
(Indiana University),
and
The Marriage of Figaro
(Garsington
Opera);
Beatrice and Benedict
(Opera
Boston) and
Faust
(Festival Internacional de
Macau);
Falstaff
(Performing Arts Centre,
Matsumoto) and
Tosca
(Cincinnati Opera).
Perdziola’s collaboration with director John
Cox for
Ariadne auf Naxos
triumphed in
that production’s Lyric premiere, as well
as in subsequent revivals at San Francisco
Opera and Houston Grand Opera. The
designer’s work has also been seen at the
Metropolitan Opera (
Il pirata
), Opera
Theatre of Saint Louis (
Il re pastore,
Faust)
,
Santa Fe Opera (
Arabella
), Garsington
Opera (
Così fan tutte
), Hannover’s
Niedersächsische Staatstheater (
Faust
),
and Opera Australia (
Arabella
, winner of
five Helpmann Awards). In addition to
an ongoing association with Washington’s
Shakespeare Theatre Company (including
Helen Hayes Awards for
Don Carlos
,
The
Country Wife,
and
Lady Windermere’s Fan
),
Perdziola has also designed for the Stratford
Shakespeare Festival, American Ballet
Theatre, San Francisco Ballet, and Miami
City Ballet.
CHRIS MARAVICH
(
Lighting Designer
)
Previously at Lyric:
Eight productions
since 2014/15, most
recently
I puritani,
Turandot
,
Rigoletto
(all 2017/18).
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
. He
has collaborated on the lighting designs
for
Doktor Faust
at Staatsoper Stuttgart,
Tannhäuser
at the Greek National Opera,
and
La fanciulla del West, The Makropulos
Case, The Daughter of the Regiment, Il
trovatore, Samson et Dalila
, and
Macbeth
at San Francisco Opera. Maravich has also
designed lighting for Opera Colorado,
San Diego Opera, Opera Santa Barbara,
Lyric Opera of Kansas City, Florida Grand
Opera, Madison Opera, Cal Performances,
and Opera San Jose.
MICHAEL BLACK
(
Chorus Master
)
Chorus master since
2013/14; interim
chorus master,
2011/12; 42 operas
to date.
Chorus master from to 2001 to 2013 at
Opera Australia in Sydney, during his
tenure Black prepared the OA chorus for
more than 90 operas and many concert
works. He has served in that capacity for
such distinguished organizations as the
Edinburgh International Festival, Opera
Holland Park (London), and, in Australia,
the Sydney Symphony Orchestra (including
Rachmaninoff’s
The Bells
, led by Vladimir
Ashkenazy), the Philharmonia Choir, Motet
Choir, and Cantillation chamber choir.
Black has also worked with the Melbourne
Symphony Orchestra in Australia with Sir
Andrew Davis. His recent activities include
preparing the
Damnation of Faust
chorus,
continuing his association with the Grant
Park Music Festival, where he has worked
for two seasons. As one of Australia’s most
prominent vocal accompanists, Black has
regularly performed for broadcasts and
recordings (he has been heard numerous
times in Australian Broadcast Corporation
programs). He has served as chorus master
on four continents, and 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.
He has also been a lecturer at the Sydney
Conservatorium of Music, of which he is
an alumnus. Black 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
.
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 PlayersTheatre
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
.
Supernumeraries
(
Così fan tutte
)
Angela Allyn
James Edward Dauphin
Matt Goto
Alicia Hilton
Michael Ortyl
Kirk Osgood
Bruno Rivera
Jorge Santos
Theo Vlahopoulos