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The University of Michigan, School of Music, Theatre & Dance,University Opera Theatre presents

Music by Gaetano DonizettiLibretto by Felice Romani

L’Elisir d’Amore premiered at the Teatro della Canobbiana, Milan, May 12, 1832.

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Costume DesignerLighting Designer

Wig DesignerDiction CoachChorus Master

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Joshua MajorMartin KatzEiki Isomura‡Jeff BauerChristianne MyersGary DeckerDawn RivardTimothy CheekArian Khaefi Steven McGhee, Mariah MlynarekMichelle Elias

L’Elisir d’Amore will be performed with one intermission.‡ Eiki Isomura will conduct the performance on November 14, 2010

The performers in this production are graduate and undergraduate students in the SMTD and guests. The designers are guests and faculty in the Dept. of Theatre & Drama. Scenery, costumes, properties, sound, and lighting were realized by the students and staff of University Productions, the producing unit of the SMTD. Ticket sales assist in providing SMTD students with practical training experience before live audiences. Thank you for supporting our educational mission.

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The Elixir of Love(L’Elisir d’Amore)

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Special thanks to Bob White for the use of his vehicle and the Duderstadt Video Studio. Operatitles furnished by Aria Nuova Presentations. This production is entered in the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival (KC/ACTF). The aims of this national theater education program are to identify and promote quality in college-level theater productions. To this end, each production entered is eligible for a response by a regional KC/ACTF representative, and certain students are selected to participate in KC/ACTF programs involving awards, scholarships, and special grants for actors, playwrights, designers, and critics at both the regional and national levels.

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november 11 & 13, 2010 november 12 & 14, 2010Adina, a rich farm owner (soprano) ...Amy Petrongelli ..............Anne Jennifer Nash Nemorino, a young peasant (tenor)..Kyle Matthew Knapp ............................Kyle TomlinBelcore, a sergeant (baritone) .................... Steven Eddy .................Brian Rosenblum Dulcamara, a traveling ‘doctor’ (bass) .. Nicholas Ward ............Benjamin SieverdingGiannetta, a country girl (soprano) .............. Ariel Halt .....................Kristen Seikaly

Dulcamara’s Assistant ....................................................................Alexander BrennerEnsemble ......................... Alison Aquilina, Lindsay Alexis, Paul Robert Brumfield, Antonina Chekhovskaya, Michael De Souza, Brad Goad,Paul Grosvenor, Kathryn Graham, Marianne Gruzwalski, Glenn Healy, Austin Hoeltzel, Lauren Jacobs, Alexandra Kahn, Imani Mchunu, Meghan McLoughlin, Jesus Murillo, Alan Nagel, Francesco Salpietro, Alexandra Shaw, Drew Smith, Olivia Thompson, Jillianne Tucker, Jeff Wilkinson

Violin ... Theresa Prokes‡, Timothy Steeves*, Stephanie Bork, Gunnhildur Dadadottir, Kazato Inouye, Sharon Lee, Laura Longman, Alan Tilley, Noah Waters, Juliet YoshidaViola ... Linnea Powell*, Jacqueline Hanson, Emily Bartell, Kimberly MartinVioloncello .................Andrew Hayhurst*, Jamie Davis, Pierre DeryczDouble Bass .Jonathan Hammonds*, Will HackFlute.... Katherine Standefer, Kathleen LeungOboe ............Caroline Ross, Mi Rae SohnClarinet ..Lewis Gilmore, Steven Hildebrand

Bassoon...Christian Green, Katherine NibleyHorn .........Joseph L’Esperance, Ted LortsTrumpet ....Peter Stammer, Joseph BrownTimpani ............................. Scott VerduinPercussion ........................Katelyn HeasleyHarp ..........................Christina Tamarelli‡ Concertmaster * Principal

Production StaffDirector of Orchestras .......Kenneth KieslerManaging Director ...........David AderentePersonnel Manager ...................Paul FeenyEquipment ..Peter Garrett, Deanna Sirkot

Setting: The opera takes place in a small Italian village.

ACT I While Adina and the farm workers relax, Nemorino laments his inability to offer

her anything but love. Adina chuckles at the story of Tristan, who wins Isolde’s heart by drinking a magic love potion. Belcore, an arrogant sergeant, enters with his soldiers and courts Adina. Left alone with Adina, Nemorino proclaims his love, but she advises him to spend time with his ailing uncle and to give up on her.

A traveling salesman, Dr. Dulcamara, arrives selling a cure-all for any problem or ill for a pittance. Nemorino asks him if he has Tristan’s elixir, and Dulcamara claims to possess it. Nemorino empties his wallet to buy it, though Dulcamara reminds him that it will take 24 hours for the potion to take effect. When Adina approaches Nemorino, he ignores her, believing that that she will fall for him in 24 hours. To spite Nemorino, Adina decides to marry Belcore in six days. Nemorino is not fazed until he learns that Belcore’s regiment must leave the next morning. Belcore and Adina decide to marry that very day, much to Nemorino’s dismay.

ACT IIAt a pre-wedding celebration, Dulcamara and Adina sing a song about a senator

courting a humble girl. A notary arrives with the wedding contract, but Adina postpones the wedding until the evening. Nemorino, desperate, begs Dulcamara for more help. Dulcamara recommends another dose of the elixir to accelerate its effect. The penniless Nemorino is convinced by Belcore to enlist as a soldier in order to make money. Nemorino signs the necessary papers, takes the money from Belcore, and heads to Dulcamara for more elixir.

Giannetta informs her friends that Nemorino’s uncle just died and left him a huge inheritance. As soon as Nemorino appears, all the girls flock to him, just as Dulcamara promised. Unaware of his inheritance, Nemorino attributes the attention solely to the elixir. Adina and Dulcamara are flabbergasted to see all the girls chasing Nemorino. Dulcamara tells Adina that Nemorino bought his elixir in order to win her love, and that he sold his freedom by enlisting as a soldier in order to pay for it. Dulcamara, sensing that Adina is in love, offers her some elixir, but Adina relies on her own devices.

Adina asks Nemorino why he enlisted, but he tells her that it was to improve his lot. Adina then tells Nemorino that she has bought back his contract from Belcore. Nemorino tells Adina that without her love, he would prefer to die a soldier’s death. She relents and confesses that she loves Nemorino.

— courtesy of New York City Opera

synopsis

An opera by Mark Adamo based on the novel by Louisa May AlcottUniversity Opera Theatre directed by Robert Swedberg

University Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by Christopher Lees

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Gaetano Donizetti (Composer) was born in Bergamo, Italy, on November 29, 1797. Donizetti’s father insisted that his son become a teacher, but Gaetano disliked the life of a music teacher and decided to enlist in the army. While stationed with his regiment in Venice, Donizetti found time for composition; his first opera, Enrico, Conte di Borgogna, had a successful premiere in 1818. His second opera, Zoraide de Granata (1822), was so well received that

Donizetti was discharged from the army so that he could devote himself completely to music. During the years 1822-28 he produced a string of successful operas.

In 1830, Donizetti reached his artistic maturity with Anna Bolena, and his international reputation was established. Two years after Anna Bolena, L’Elisir d’Amore (The Elixir of Love) scored a success in Milan. In quick succession, Donizetti produced a series of notable operas; Il Furioso all’Isola di San Domingo (1833), Lucrezia Borgia (1833), and Maria Stuarda (1834). Donizetti triumphed with Lucia di Lammermoor in 1835 followed by Roberto Devereux in 1837. Several years later, the composer had a run-in with Italy’s political censors, so he traveled to Paris, where La Fille du Régiment (The Daughter of the Regiment) and La Favorite (1840) were well received. For Vienna, the composer then wrote Linda di Chamounix (1842) and Maria di Rohan (1843). His last well-known opera, Don Pasquale (1843), ranks as one of the greatest examples of opera buffa ever written.

Donizetti was an astoundingly prolific composer. In a little over twenty-five years he produced more than seventy operas, twelve string quartets, seven masses, songs, piano music, motets, cantatas, and psalms. The speed with which he worked was legendary; L’Elisir d’Amore, for example, was composed in the incredibly short period of eight days. The composer also played an invaluable role in the development of Italian opera, planting the seeds that enabled opera to flourish in the latter half of the nineteenth century, and paving the way for Giuseppe Verdi.

The death of his wife in 1837 was a blow from which Donizetti never recovered. He battled frequent bouts of depression and insanity, and in 1845 he suffered a stroke that left him completely paralyzed. He died at home in Bergamo on April 8, 1848.

feliCe romani (Libretto — born Genoa, 1788; died Moneglia, 1865) was an Italian poet and librettist who wrote over 100 opera librettos for Mayr, Rossini, Bellini, and Donizetti, among others. The best known are those of Il Turco in Italia (1814), Norma (1831), La sonnambula (1831), L’Elisir d’amore (1832), and Lucrezia Borgia (1833).

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aboUt the Cast alison aqUilina (Ensemble) first-year, BM Vocal Perf. w/Teaching Cert., Milford, MIlindsay alexis (Ensemble) sophomore, BM Vocal Perf./BTA Theatre Studies, West Bloomfield, MIalexander brenner (Dulcamara’s Assistant) ninth grade, Skyline High School, Ann Arbor, MIpaUl robert brUmfield (Ensemble) first-year, BM Vocal Perf., Bakersfield, CAantonina Chekhovskaya (Ensemble) junior, BM Vocal Perf., Grand Rapids, MImiChael de soUza (Ensemble) senior, BM Vocal Perf./BA Political Science, Dearborn

Heights, MIsteven eddy (Belcore) grad student, Specialist Vocal Perf., Laurel, MDbrad goad (Ensemble) junior, BM Vocal Perf., Christiansburg, VApaUl grosvenor (Ensemble) sophomore, BM Vocal Perf., Brooklyn, NYkathryn graham (Ensemble) junior, BM Vocal Perf., Ann Arbor, MImarianne grUzwalski (Ensemble) sophomore, BM Choral Music Educ., Oakland, MIariel halt (Giannetta) junior, BM Vocal Perf., Milford, MIglenn healy (Ensemble) first-year, BM Vocal Perf., Los Altos, CAaUstin hoeltzel (Ensemble) sophomore, BM Vocal Perf., Marshall, MIlaUren JaCob (Ensemble) sophomore, BM Vocal Perf. w/Teaching Cert., Grosse Pointe Park, MIalexandra kahn (Ensemble) senior, BMA Vocal Perf./BBA Business Admin., Briarcliff Manor, NYkyle matthew knapp (Nemorino) grad student, MM Vocal Perf., Hudson, OHimani mChUnU (Ensemble) first-year, BM Vocal Perf., New York, NYmeghan mCloUghlin (Ensemble) sophomore, BM Vocal Perf., Farmington, MIJesUs mUrillo (Ensemble) first-year, BM Vocal Perf., Redford, MIalan nagel (Ensemble) sophomore, BM Vocal Perf., Johnston, IAanne Jennifer nash (Adina) grad student, DMA Vocal Perf., Pittsford, NYamy petrongelli (Adina ) grad student, MM Vocal Perf., Harrison, MIbrian rosenblUm (Belcore) grad student, MM Vocal Perf. Roslyn, NYfranCesCo salpietro (Ensemble) sophomore, BM Vocal Perf., Pittsburgh, PAkristen seikaly (Giannetta) junior, BM Vocal Perf., Lathrup Village, MIalexandra shaw (Ensemble) first-year, BM Vocal Perf., Burlingame, CAbenJamin sieverding (Dulcamara) grad student, MM Vocal Perf., Sioux Falls, SDdrew smith (Ensemble) senior, BM Vocal Perf., Saline, MIolivia thompson (Ensemble) junior, BM Vocal Perf., Southfield, MIkyle tomlin (Nemorino) grad student, MM Vocal Perf., Stroudsburg, PAJillianne tUCker (Ensemble) first-year, BM Vocal Perf., Bronx, NYniCholas ward (Dulcamara) senior, BM Vocal Perf., Pontiac, MIJeffrey wilkinson (Ensemble) junior, BM Vocal Perf., Grand Rapids, MI

aboUt the artists Jeff baUer (Scenic Designer) UM: Rituals and Reveries, Jazzin’, Dances for Petersburg, Resonant Rhythms, Dances of Passion, Susannah. Regional Theatre: Court Theatre (Sleuth, Gross Indecency); Victory Gardens Theatre and Off-Broadway at The Promenade (Trying); Chicago Opera Theatre (Madama Butterfly, The Turn of the Screw, Shining Brow); Hubbard Street Dance Theatre, Grand Rapids Ballet (Dracula, Cinderella, The

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aboUt the artists Gift of the Magi, Peter Pan). Awards: Emmy nomination for Gesualdo, PBS; Joseph Jefferson Award for Best Scenery (and Four Nominations), Court Theatre. Other: RPM Productions; design faculty at the Theatre School at DePaul Univ.

gary deCker (Lighting Designer) has designed more than 100 productions. In Michigan, he has worked at the Gem, Attic, Birmingham, Boarshead, and Purple Rose Theatres. Recent designs include the national tours of The Sunshine Boys and Same Time, Next Year. His scenic design for Fully Committed at The Century Theatre earned the Detroit Free Press 2002 Theatre Design Excellence Award. He has designed interiors or lighting for commercial projects including: The Elwood Grill in Detroit, The Fashion Cafe in New York, and The Arndale Centre in Manchester, UK.

miChelle elias (Stage Manager) is a senior in the BFA design and production program, concentrating on stage management. UM: Uncommon Women and Others, Arcs in Time, Ella Minnow Pea (First ASM); As You Like It (ASM); 42nd Street (LBO). Basement Arts: Summertime (ASM), Brooklyn Boy (SM). Other: Dance Mix (SM).

eiki isomUra (Assistant Conductor) is a second year DMA student in orchestral conducting. UM: Die Zauberflöte (co-conductor, opera workshop), Titanic: the Musical (asst. music director, MUSKET). Regional Theatre/Opera: L’Amico Fritz (asst. conductor), Great Moments in Opera (conductor), UA Opera Theatre; The Music Man (conductor), Arizona Repertory Theater.

martin katz (Conductor) Professor & Chair of Collaborative Piano for SMTD since 1984. Partner for many of the world’s most celebrated singers. Unabashed opera fan and particularly a bel canto addict. For UM, more than a dozen opera productions, including La Traviata, La Bohème, Eugene Onegin, Così fan Tutte, Don Giovanni, Falstaff, Le nozze di Figaro and La Cenerentola. I dedicate my performances of L’Elisir to the memory of a superb Adina, the recently departed Dame Joan Sutherland, who taught us all what great bel canto singing can be.

JoshUa maJor (Director) is in his 19th year as Opera Director at U-M; Artistic Director of the Pine Mountain Music Festival since 2003; Stage Director and Faculty with the Israel Vocal Arts Institute since 1993. UM: Armide, Eugene Onegin, Postcard from Morocco, The Bartered Bride, The Coronation of Poppea, Hansel and Gretel, Gianni Schicchi, Xerxes. Regional Opera: Cape Town Opera, Michigan Opera Theatre, Cleveland Opera, Opera Omaha, Opera Theatre of St. Louis, Wolf Trap Opera, Central City Opera, Opera Carolina, Jacksonville Symphony, New Orleans Opera, Kentucky Opera, Tulsa Opera, Indianapolis Opera, Academy of Vocal Arts, Music Academy of the West.

Christianne myers (Costume Designer) is an Asst. Professor in the Dept. of Theatre & Drama. UM: Our Town, The Marriage of Figaro, Tartuffe, Ella Minnow Pea, Rent, As You Like It, and She Stoops to Conquer among others.  Off-Broadway:  Running Man,  Oedipus,  American Dreams: Lost & Found;  Theatreworks/USA; The Public Theatre & Ma-Yi Ens.; Irondale Ens.; Lincoln Center Institute.  New York:  The Juilliard School. Regional Theatre: Purple Rose Theatre; Indiana Rep; Vermont Stage

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staff for the elixir of love

SCHOOL OF MUSIC, THEATRE & DANCEDean .........................................................Christopher Kendall

UNIVERSITY OPERA THEATREVoice Chair .......................................................Melody Racine Opera ................. Martin Katz, Joshua Major, Robert SwedbergVoice ........ Caroline Helton, Freda Herseth, Stephen Lusmann, Carmen Pelton, Rico Serbo, Martha Sheil, Daniel Washington, Stephen WestDiction .............................................................Timothy CheekProf. Emeriti ..............................George Shirley, Shirley Verrett

UNIVERSITY PRODUCTIONSDirector ................................................................Jeffrey KurasDepartment Administrator ............................. Fatima AbdullahOffice Assistant III/Usher Coordinator .................Shelda SmithMarketing & Communications Dir. ........... Kerianne M. TupacGraphic Design ......................................................David ZinnPhotographer .................................... Peter Smith PhotographyInformation Systems Manager .........................Henry ReynoldsFacilities Manager ................................................Shannon RiceHouse Manager ............................................ Dianne WidzinskiSenior Backstage Operations Mgr. .........................Barry LaRueBackstage Operations Mgrs. ........Mark Gordon, David Pickell, Kurt Thoma, Donald C. WatkinsAdministrative Office Assistants ................. Zoë Allen-Wickler, Allison Brown, Abrielle Case, Pauline Hagedorn, Sara Shvartzman, Kevin Tan, Caleb White

PRODUCTION STAFFProduction Manager .....................................Amanda MengdenProduction Stage Manager...................................Nancy UffnerProduction Office Assistants ....................................Bianca Lee, Brandon Penberton, Elise WootenTechnical Director (Power) ............................ Douglas EdwardsMaster Carpenter (Power) .................................Michael BraicoCarpenter (Power) ......................................... Brandon CarruthTechnical Director (Walgreen) ...............Richard W. Lindsay, Jr.Carpenter (Walgreen) ...................................... Robert MichaelCharge Scenic Artist ...........................................Toni Y. AulettiScenic Artist .....................................................Beth SandmaierProperties Master ................................................Arthur RidleyAsst. Properties Master ........................................Patrick DroneMaster Electrician............................................Mark Allen BergSound Engineers .......................Roger Arnett, Henry Reynolds

Costume Shop Manager ................................... Lynn HolbrookAssoc. Costume Shop Manager .......................... George BaconCutter/Drapers ...........................................Virginia R. Luedke, Lea M. Morello, T J WilliamsonCrafts Artisan ...........................................Elizabeth GundersonCostume Stock Administrator .............................. Renae Skoog

PRODUCTION CREWFirst Asst. Stage Managers .......... Geehoon Lim, Carolyn ReichAsst. Stage Manager......................................Doron BloomfieldSupertitles ............................................................Jordan BraunAsst. Director ..................................................Jennifer GordonAsst. Master Electrician ...............................Michele OnwocheiScenery (Power) ....... Ariel Halt, Justin Megrete, Megan Sawyer, Paint .............Shana Burns, Jordan Braun*, Catherine Cornell*, Claire DiVizio, Steven Eddy, Christine Ella, Elena Garcia*, Richard Grasso, Austin Kozlowski, Alicia Moore, Jordan Schroeder, Nicolas Ward, students of Theatre 250Props ....... Rachael Albert, Michelle Bryan, Holland Grossman, Tyler Jones, Catherine Keys, Louis King, Trevor St. John-Gilbert, Erik Skoog, Katherine Thomas, students of Theatre 250Professional Stitchers ..................Patty Branum, Laura Kantner, Rene Plante, Suzanne YoungCostumes ............................... Joshua Beurer, Amalea Chininis, Corey Davis, Carrie Fisk, Catherine Herron, Austin Hoeltzel, Laura Irion, Adrienne Johnson, Maura Niemisto, Desiree Oakley, Yonit Olshan, students of Theatre 250Lighting ....................Rachael Albert, Mary Clare Blake-Booth, Carisa Bledsoe, Zachary Broughman, Michelle Bryan, Andrew Burkhardt, Nathaniel Daly, Kimberly Hunter, Claire Jaffe, Andrew Lott, Charles Malott, Adam McCarthy, Tess Nugent, Sarah Petty, Amanda Rutishauser, William Welch, Andrew Wysocki, students of Theatre 250

RUNNING CREWScenery ................ Tyler Clouse, Erika Henningsen, Sarah KornProps ... Lou King‡, Stephanie Styles, Ryan Vasquez, Sam VettrusLight Board Operator ................................... Adrienne JohnsonLighting/Sound .............................................. Emily WanserskiWardrobe ..Yonit Olshan‡, Stephanie Aboukasm, Chloe Aiello, Leslie Bates, Rachele Donofrio, Katlin LantzWigs and Makeup ........................................... Camila Ballario, Robert Harris, Sammi Rosenfield

‡ Crew Head * Practicum Student

aboUt the artists Co.; Clarence Brown Theatre; Syracuse Stage; Caldwell Theatre; Pine Mountain Music Festival. Other: BFA, Pace Univ.; MFA, New York Univ. 

dawn rivard (Wig & Make-up Designer)  World Premieres:  Ragtime, Sunset Boulevard, Showboat, Rio de Sangre. International Theatre: Teatro Alla Scala, Rinaldo; Award winning productions of Cats and Beauty and the Beast in Germany & Switzerland. TV/Film: Emmy Award for Feast of All Saints, wig builder for Hairspray, Skinwalkers, and Mike Myers’ The Love Guru. Clients have included Sir Peter Ustinov, Donald Sutherland,  Neve Campbell,  Stockard Channing, Shawn Ashmore, and Louis Gossett, Jr. 

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