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• Costumes constructed by the
San Francisco Opera Association.
• Scenery constructed by Bay
Productions Limited, Cardiff,
Wales, U. K.
• Lyric Opera of Chicago
gratefully acknowledges the support
of the Irma Parker German Opera
Endowed Chair.
• Lyric Opera of Chicago
wishes to thank its Official Airline,
American Airlines.
• Projected titles © 2012 by
Lyric Opera of Chicago.
•
is season’s projected English
titles are funded in part by a
generous grant from the Lloyd
E. Rigler-Lawrence E.Deutsch
Foundation.
Five Maids
LAUREN DECKER°
MARY PHILLIPS*
KRYSTY SWANN
ALEXANDRA LoBIANCO
ANN TOOMEY°
Overseer
SUSAN FOSTER°°
Elektra
NINA STEMME*
Chrysothemis
ELZA VAN DEN HEEVER
Klytämnestra
MICHAELA MARTENS
Confidante
WHITNEY MORRISON°
Trainbearer
EMILY POGORELC°
Young Servant
ERIC FERRING*°
Old Servant
KENNETH NICHOLS
Orest
IAIN PATERSON
*
Orest’s Tutor
PHILIP HORST
Aegisth
ROBERT BRUBAKER*
Actors:
TYLER GABRIELLE BROWN*, KATHERINE COYL, MARK LANCASTER,
JOSHUA MOANEY, MAGGIE CLENNON REBERG, DANIELLA RUKIN,
MICHAEL SAUBERT, JR., CHELSEA SHEPHARD, PHILIP SOULIDES,
CLAUDIA URBANO*, KAREN ANNE YATES
Conductor
DONALD RUNNICLES*
Original Director
SIR DAVID McVICAR
Revival Director
NICK SANDYS**
Set and Costume Designer
JOHN MACFARLANE
Lighting Designer
JENNIFER TIPTON
Chorus Master
MICHAEL BLACK
Wigmaster and Makeup Designer
SARAH HATTEN
Assistant Director
DAVID CARL TOULSON
Stage Manager
RACHEL A. TOBIAS
Musical Preparation
WILLIAM C. BILLINGHAM
MATTHEW PIATT
Prompter
SUSAN MILLER HULT
Projected English Titles
COLIN URE
*
Lyric debut
**Lyric directorial debut
°
Current member, e Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan Opera Center
°°Alumna, e Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan Opera Center
Richard Strauss
ELEKTRA
Opera in one act in German
Libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal, after Sophocles’s tragedy
First performed at the Sächsische Staatsoper, Dresden, on January 25, 1909
First performed by Lyric Opera of Chicago on October 10, 1975
Characters in order of vocal appearance: