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SCENARIO 1994 Fall Season

A Season of

Masterpieces MADAME

BUTTERFLY

THE DAUGHTER OF THE

REGIMENT

David DiChiera , General Director

Copyright 2010, Michigan Opera Theatre


A Message From Th~

General Director ~~----------------------------------------~~

It gives me great pleasure to welcome you to Michigan Opera Theatre's 24th season - aptly named a "Season of Masterpieces." MOTs productions of these masterpieces by master composers - Puccini, Donizetti, Mozart and Tchaikovsky - feature performances by some of the world's most talented, established and rising artists. During our 1994-95 season MOT is extremely pleased to present such a collection of musical genius, along with a caliber of artistic talent that is truly remarkable. .

The fall opera season commences with Puccini's Madame Butterfly, the inspiration for the current Broadway sensation Miss Saigon. Our tragic Cio-Cio-San is beautiful Karen Notare whose star has been rising quickly in the u.s. and Europe alternating with Chinese-born Guiping Deng. I'm pleased to present a company premiere of Donizetti's The Daughter of the Regiment, not seen by Detroit audiences for more than 22 years. This delightful comedy features one of the world's most sought after coloratura sopranos Tracy Dahl alternating with an exciting new artist, Anna Vikre.

Our spring season opens with Mozart's timeless favorite, Don Giovanni. This dramatic comedy will be greatly enhanced by a stellar cast including Metropolitan Opera stars Jeffrey Wells as the Don, bass-baritone Philip Cokorinos, as his side-kick Leporello, and exciting soprano Martile Rowland as Donna Anna. This opulent Goya-inspired production was premiered by Michigan Opera Theatre in 1989, deSigned by English theatre artist John Pascoe. Next, we present Tchaikovsky's beloved Swan Lake, arguably the most popular ballet of all time. Choreographed by Detroit's own Iacob Lascu, Swan Lake features National Ballet of

Canada prima ballerina Margaret Illman as the Swan Queen. Just as we open our season with a Puccini classic, so too will we conclude with one - the beloved Tasca. Russian Soprano Maria Guleghina has triumphed as Tosca in major opera houses around the world, including a recent Met broadcast.

Met bass-baritone and MOT veteran Richard Cowan will play the villianous Baron Scarpia. Cohen, along with Kevin Anderson (one of the Tonios from our fall season) is a product of MOT's Young Appren~ice Program.

I am sure all of you share with me a sense of excitement and anticipation for MOTs new home, the Detroit Opera House. The inaugural season in the opera house, the spring of 1996, will be the fulfillment of this company's long-term goal to control its own performance facility, one which allows us to serve the community fully, and which is comparable in function, size and aesthetics with opera houses around the world. Many corporations, foundations and individuals have generously

demonstrated their support toward this goal, to them we are most grateful. For a complete listing of these contributors, and for an update on the Detroit Opera House, please refer to pages 10 and 11 .

Finally, I would like to extend my deepest thanks to our corporate and foundation contributors, government agencies and private individuals who have supported the company's extensive activities throughout the year, and, of course, to you our audience.

It is truly in the spirit of celebration that we embark on this 1994-95 season. Enjoy "A Season of Masterpieces! "


~ THE MAGAZINE OF MICHIGAN OPERA TH EATRE · FALL 1994 VOLUME 2, NO. 1 · DAVID DICHIERA, GE ERAL DIRECTOR ~

SCENARIO DEPARTMENTS

General Director's Message .. ..... .. .... .. ..... ...... 1 Board of Directors and Trustees ... .... ...... ..... .5

Administration and Production Staff ...... .... . 6 Detroit Opera House ...... .... .. .. ..... .......... .... .lO 1994 Fall Season Artist Profiles ..... ........ .... 20 Young Artists Apprentice Program ............. 24 Orchestra and Chorus ... ........ ...... ... ..... ....... 24 Community Programs .. .... ....... ........... ....... . 26 Volunteer Association .......... .. ....... .. .... ....... 28 Contributors ....... ... .... ..... .... .... .... .... .... .. .... .30

This publication is a production of the MOT Marketing and Public Relations Departments

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The 1994-95 Michigan Opera Theatre Season is presented in cooperation with classical radio station

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BaUlwin is the official piano of Michigan Opera Theatre. Pianos are provided and serviced by Evola Music Centers,

Main Office, Bloomfield Hills, MI.

Michigan Opera Theatre's 1994-95 subscript ion tickets have been graciously sponsored by Voice-Tel. Additionally, th is year's single tickets have been generously sponsored by

Harrison Luggage.

Michigan Opera Theatre is supported in part by grants fro m the National Endowment for the Arts and from the

State of Michigan through the Michigan Counci l for the Arts and Cultural Affairs.

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Michigan Opera Theatre is an equal opportun ity employer. Michigan Opera Theatre is a member of OPERA America.

Mon 1990 production of Madame Butterfly.

FEATURES

Madame Butterfly SYNOPSIS

13

MADAMA BUTTERFLY & MI SS SAIGO By Pa ula Citron

14

The Daughter of the Regiment

SYNOPS IS 17

NOTES ON LA FILLE DU REGIME NT By Herbert Kupferberg

18

1995 SPRING GRAND OPERA SEASON

Don Giovanni April 22-30

Swan Lake May 5-7

Tosca May 13-21

TICKET SERVICE The Michigan Opera Theaoe &x Office is located at 65 19 Second Avenue, lRtroit, Michigan 48202, and is open from 10:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. weekday.;. Phone (J 13) 874-7464 from 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. Monday through Friday. Call for weekend times in season. 01 perfonnance day.; after 6:00 p.m., visit the theatres' box offices. lIckets may also be purchased at all lIcketMastet ouclets or by call ing (810) 645-{5666.

UNUSED TICKETS Su1:s::ribers unable to use cl,eir tickets may make a tax

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EXCHANGE POLICY Exchanges for Slll:s::ribers will be made only on a space available basis to any other perfonnance in the 1994-95 Su1:s::ription Sea,;on. Exchanges must be made at least 48 hours prior to the perfonnance time printed on the tickets being exchanged.

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FOOD SERVICE Fisher Theaoe: Concession stands are open when the theaoe doors open and during intennissions. Simuit:aneollsly, wine beer and soft drinks are available for sale in the Fisher Building lobby. Masonic Temple Theaoe: TI,e Fountain Ballroom on cl,e lower level is open before curtain time and during intennissions of all perfOm1anCes for refreshments. Patrons arriving before theaoe doors open should enter the outer main lobby and follow the signs.

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SYNOPSIS SETTING: NAGASAKI, 1900

ACT I On a flowering terrace above Nagasaki harbor, u.s. Navy lieutenant B.F Pinkerton inspects

the house he has leased from a marriage broker, Goro, who has procured him three servants and a geisha wife known as Madame Butterfly (Cio-Cio-San). To the American consul Sharpless, who arrives breathless from climbing the hill, Pinkerton describes his philosophy of a navy man roaming the world in search of pleasure Amore 0 grillo. For the moment, he is enchanted with the fragile Cio-Cio-San and intends to undergo a marriage ceremony with her - for ninety-nine years, but subject to monthly renewal. When Sharpless warns that the girl may not take her vows so lightly, the lieutenant brushes aside such scruples, adding that he will one day take a "real" American wife. At that moment Cio-Cio-San is heard in the distance joyously singing of her wedding day Spira sui mare.

After she has entered, surrounded by her friends , she tells Pinkerton how, when her family fell on hard times, she had to earn her living as a geisha. Soon her relatives arrive and noisily express their opinions on the marriage. In a quiet moment, Cio-Cio-San shows her bridegroom her few earthly treasures, telling him her intention of embracing his Christian faith. With pomp the Imperial Commissioner performs the wedding ceremony, after which the guests toast the couple. Suddenly Cio-Cio-San's uncle, a Buddhist priest, bursts upon the scene, cursing the girl for having renounced her ancestors' religion. Pinkerton angrily orders priest and family to leave. Alone with his bride, he dries her tears and reminds her that night is falling. Helped by her maid Suzuki into a pure-~hite nuptial kimono, Cio-Cio-San joins the ardent Pinkerton in the moonlit garden, where they sing of their love Viene la sera.

ACT II Three yea~s later, Cio-Cio-San still waits for her husband's return. As Suzuki prays to her

gods for aid E Izaghei ed Izanami, her mistress stands by the doorway, her eyes fixed on the harbor. The maid shows Cio-Cio-San how little money is left but is told to have faith: one fine day Pinkerton's ship will appear on the horizon Un bel di, vedremo.

Sharpless comes in with a letter from the lieutenant, but before he can read it to Cio-Cio-San, Goro, who has been lurking outside, brings in the latest of a long line of suitors for her hand. The girl dismisses both him and the wealthy Prince Yamadori, insisting that her American husband has not deserted her. When they are alone, Sharpless again starts to read her the letter and suggests as tactfully as he can that Pinkerton may never return Amico cercherete. Cio-Cio-San proudly carries forth their child, insisting that as soon as Pinkerton knows of his son he will surely come back Che tue madre dovra prenderti. Moved by her devotion and lacking the heart to tell her of the lieutenant's remarriage, Sharpless leaves. Cio-Cio-San, in the point of despair, hears a cannon report; seizing a spyglass, she discovers Pinkerton's ship entering the harbor. Delirious with joy, she orders Suzuki to help her strew the house with flower petals, which they gather in the garden. Then, as night falls , she begins her vigil.

ACT III As dawn breaks, Suzuki insists that Cio-Cio-San rest. Humming a lullaby to her child, she

carries him to another room Dormi amor mio. Before long, Sharpless, Pinkerton and then Kate, his new wife, enter. When Suzuki realizes who the American woman is, she collapses in despair; out of consideration for his mistress, however, she agrees to aid in breaking the news to her. Pinkerton, overcome with remorse, bids an angUished farewell to the scene of his former happiness Addio fiorito asil , then rushes away. No sooner is he gone than Cio-Cio-San comes forth , expecting to find him but finding Kate instead. She takes a moment to· guess the truth. Leaning on Suzuki for support, she agrees to give up her child if the father will return for him. Then, sending even Suzuki away, she takes forth the dagger with which her father committed suicide and bows before a statue of Buddha, choosing to die with honor rather than live in disgrace. Just as she raises the blade, Suzuki pushes the child into the room. Tearfully sobbing a farewell , Iu, piccolo Iddio! , Cio-Cio-San crouches behind a screen and stabs herself as Pinkerton is heard calling her name.

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Madama Butterfly & Miss Saigon EAST MEETS WEST IN A STUDY OF CONTRASTS (EXCERPTED) by Paula Citron

A flash point that triggers creative genius can happen when one is least expecting it. For Giacomo Puccini, inspiration for his opera Madama Butterfly began with a one-act play he saw in london in 1900. It was by the American writer David Belasco and was called Madama Butterfly. Belasco, a showman in the grand style, was better known for the scenic effects he created than for the pot-boiler melodramas he churned out. His Madama Butterfly, making the most of the state-of-the-art lighting of the time, contained an extended scene in which a young Japanese woman, Cio-Cio-San, with her young child, waits in vain from twilight to dawn for her wayward American lover to arrive.

Although Puccini did not speak one word of English, he could follow the sense of the action and was profoundly moved by the pathos of the play, most particularly the "waiting scene. " With tears still in his eyes, he rushed backstage after the curtain fell to ask Belasco for the performarce rights. He was already composing the music in his mind for the beautiful off-stage 'Humming Chorus' to underscore Cio-Cio-San's hopeless vigil for the lover who had abandoned her.

For Claude-Michel Schoenberg and Alain Boublil , the inspiration for their musical Miss Saigon came from a photo in a French magazine Schoenberg was idly perusing in 1985. Taken in Saigon, the heart-breaking picture shows a Vietnamese woman, her faced etched in stoic resignation, clasping the hand of her crying, bewildered child , who is about to board a plane to the United States to meet her unknown American father.

"I was so appalled by the image of this deliberate ripping apart that I had to sit down and catch my breath," Schoenberg has written. "Was that not the most moving, the most staggering example of 'The Ultimate Sacrifice' as undergone by Cio-Cio-San in Madama Butterfly, giving her life for her child? This photograph was for Alain and me the start of everything .... "

The opera Madama Butterfly, which premiered in 1904, and the musical Miss Saigon, which opened in 1989, contain many similar threads. Both are about star-crossed love affairs between American military men and Asian women, one Japanese, one Vietnamese. In each case, the woman is abandoned and, unbeknownst to the man , has a child. In the end each woman allows her child to join their American father and his American wife. Having lost their children , both women commit suicide.

As hard as it is to believe, Madama Butterfly, arguably Puccini's best-loved opera, was a failure at its La Scala premiere in 1904. In particular, the "overly exotic musical score filled with oriental influences" was not to Italian tastes.

Puccini, his faith in his work undiminished, extensively re-worked the opera, eliminating the more objectionable exotic vocal passages while keeping oriental harmonic and instrumental sounds. Three

months later the opera was heard again in Brescia, and this time it was a triumph.

Miss Saigon did not share its predecessor's faulty start. It was an instant hit, opening to the largest advance box-office sales ever in London's West End.

like the opera, the musical's score contains elements from the oriental tradition. One third of the orchestra pit is taken up with exotic percussion instruments, with wooden Asian flute speCialists being key members of the ensemble. In retrospect, it can be seen that for both Puccini and Schoenberg (and his orchestrator, William D. Brohn) , the story line necessitated that both Madama Butterfly and Miss Saigon be musical children of both East and West.

Parallels in the music can be drawn from both the opera and the musical. "I Still Believe" is a duet sung by Kim and Ellen, Chris's American wife. Ellen hopes Chris will forget his former love; Kim declares she will wait for Chris to come back to her. It is similar to Cio-Cio-San's famous aria "un bel di," in which the young geisha declares that her Pinkerton will return to her one fine day. The two first-act duets between Kim and Chris, "Sun And Moon" and " The Last Night Of The World ," can be equated to the extended love duet "Viene la sera" that Puccini wrote for his lovers to bring his first act to a close.

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Since the inspiration for Miss Saigon was a woman's sacrifice for her child, it is not surprising to learn that Kim's heartfelt ''I'll Give My Life For You," sung to her child, Tam, was the first song Boublil and Schoenberg composed for the musical.

"As long as you can have your chance I swear, I'll give my life for you.

The opera Madama Butterfly also contains a poignant aria, "Tu ,tu , piccolo Iddio! ," sung by a sorrowful mother to a child she is sending away. In translation the text says:

"Butterfly must die, so

that you can go beyond the sea ...

While there are similarities in the music,

:3 the historical back-drops ,.g

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While Cio-Cio-San has many offers of marriage during Pinkerton's three-year absence, including one from rich Prince Yamadori, Schoenberg and Boublil give Kim a suitor with dangerous political overtones. Thuy, Kim's cousin, joined the Viet Cong,

for the works are quite different.

_ Belasco based his play on

becoming a powerful communist official after the fall of Saigon. He was promised by Kim's father that they would one day be wed. The Engineer leads Thuy to Kim, with tragic results. Thuy threatens to kill her son because his father is an American. If Kim were to marry Thuy, the child would dishonor him. When Kim kills Thuy to save her son, forces are set in motion that ultimately place the young woman in the Engineer's snare.

Yoko Watanabe as Cio-Cio-San in MOPs 1990 production of Madame Butterfly.

Perhaps the most political element in Miss Saigon

concerns the Bui Doi or "Dust of Life" - the an 1898 short st<?ry by John Luther Long, who had based his work on an 1893 French novel by Pierre Loti called Madame Chrysantheme. Loti had been a naval officer for 42 years and had fallen in love with the mysteries.of the East. In fact , another of his novels, which became Leo Delibes' opera Lakme, was set in Colonial India and concerned the ill-fated romance between an English officer and a Hindu

priestess. Loti's novels are rife with political anger about magnificent

cultures that are tarnished by contact with the imperialist West. The love stories are metaphors for a collision of ideals that results, more often than not, with the West trampling over the sensibilities of the East.

Pinkerton belongs to this imperialist and colonial mentality. After all, he is part of the tradition that began when the American naval officer Commodore Matthew Perry sailed his fleet of ships into Tokyo harbor in 1853, forCing the Shogunate to open Japan to foreign interests. Even as the political elements of the story have been diluted to non-existence in Puccini's opera, Pinkerton must nonetheless be regarded as Perry's spiritual heir; imperialism and jingoism are subliminal factors in Cio-Cio-San's seduction and abandonment.

Schoenberg and Boublil, on the other hand, deliberately set out to place their star-crossed lovers against the backdrop of a wider political canvas-the horrors of the Vietnam war and its aftermath.

From the obsequious Goro, the marriage broker who is a minor character in Puccini's opera , Schoenberg and Boublil fashioned the pivotal role of The Engineer - a sleazy, half-French, halfVietnamese pimp and wheeler-dealer totally corrupted by his vision of the "American Dream." He even pretends to be related to Kim and her child to reinforce this "American" connection in order to obtain an American visa and begin inquiries into Chris' whereabouts.

thousands of Amerasian children who are outcasts in Vietnamese society or who have been

abandoned and gathered in camps in Thailand. Act II of the musical opens with an ex-GI , John, trying to interest his fellow Americans in the plight of these homeless waifs. Film footage of real children in camps is shown on a screen in a classic merging of reality and art. Chris and his wife innocently attend a conference on the children, only to learn from John that Chris has fathered a Bui Doi.

Ultimately, it is political elements, or lack of them, that determine the scope of Madama Butterfly and Miss Saigon. Divorced from its political landscape, Puccini's opera focuses on the steadfast love and courage of Cio-Cio-San. The setting of Madama Butterfly is confined to the pretty little house and garden in Nagasaki that begins as the love nest for Pinkerton and his geisha and ends as the young woman's tomb. In the far-reaching scope of Miss Saigon, Kim's tragic story is just one of many themes that the writers explore. The epic musical necessitates 12 permanent sets covering three countries, including the famous scene in which the frenzied mob tries hopelessly to escape from Saigon as the last u.s. helicopter pulls away from the American embassy.

In the final analysiS, for fans of Miss Saigon already familiar with the story of Kim and her American lover and accepting of its sung-through format, it would seem to be a short jump over to an appreciation of the story of Cio-Cio-San and Pinkerton, and Puccini's glorious operatic music. Whether it is in the genre of

Italian verismo opera or modern 20th-century musical, the appeal of a young woman making the ultimate sacrifice for her child

resonates throughout any age.

Canadian Paula Ci tron is host of Classical 96s Saturday Night at the Opera and a freelance arts journalist. This article was

reprinted with the permission of Canadian Opera Company.

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SYNOPSIS ACT I

While a group of peasants prepare for a battle with the French, women pray for

protection; the Marquise of Berkenfield, who has come near the advancing army by

mistake, almost faints with terror. Her steward, Hortensius, urges her to control herself,

but the Marquise deplores the state of the world in which Napoleon's army ignores the

nobility ("Pour une femme de mon nom"). Sergeant Sulpice and his men appear from

behind the rocks. The voice of the French regiment'S drum majorette, Marie, heralds

her appearance, and she and Sulpice glory in their love of war and patriotism,

reminiscing over the stroke of luck that brought the orphaned Marie to the regiment

("Quel beau jour, quand la providence"). Since then, she has been like a daughter to all

the men, her singing and beauty enlivening their martial life. As Sulpice questions the

girl about a young Tyrolean she has been seen with, soldiers drag in Tonio, the youth in

question, who has been found near the camp. The soldiers want to kill him until Marie

relates how he saved her from falling off a precipice. Rejoicing in the men's acceptance

of Tonio , she sings the regimental song ("Chacun Ie sait"). The men are ordered to roll

call, taking Tonio with them, but he rushes back to declare his love to Marie. The two

fall into each other's arms and go off together. Sulpice, Hortensius and the Marquise

arrive, and the Marquise tells Sulpice that her late sister had a child by a Captain Robert

of Sulpice's regiment. Informed that Marie is that child, she insists on taking the girl

away to prepare her for her rightful station in life. Marie enters gaily, only to be told she

will soon depart with her newfound aunt. After the four leave, the soldiers usher in a

new recruit - Tonio, who hails the day that brought him the girl he loves ("Ah! mes

amis, que! jour de fete! "). The soldiers are jealous when they realize Tonio loves Marie,

but they accept fate graciously. Tonio's rhapsody on his delight ("Pour mon arne") is

ended abruptly by Sulpice's announcement of Marie's departure. Sadly, the girl resigns

herself to her new future (II faut partir"). Tonio, Sulpice and the soldiers bemoan their

loss as the Marquise drags Marie off, and Tonio vows to follow her.

ACT II

In a salon in her chateau the Marquise receives Sulpice, asking him to convince

Marie that the rich German prince she has found will be a good husband. When the

girl comes in, the Marquise asks her to sing an air she has learned as part of her

training in the social graces ("Le jour maissait dans Ie bacage"). Sulpice interjects

fragments of the regimental tune until Marie, after trying a few measures of both,

launches into the latter, with the Marquise and Sui pice singing along. Ho.rrified at

herself, the Marquise sweeps out, but she cannot help exclaiming at Marie's charm. As

Sulpice follows her out, Marie muses sadly upon her upcoming marriage. The strains of

a march inform her that the soldiers have arrived, and she salutes them ("Ah! salut ala

France! "). Tonio, Marie and Sulpice delight in their reunion ("Tous les trois reunis") ,

but the Marquise, interrupting, is unmoved by Tonio's expressions of devotion. The

lovers go off in opposite directions, and when the Marquise confides to Sulpice that

Marie is her own daughter and begs him to help her in the alliance she has set up, he

agrees. The Duchess of Krakentorp, mother of the prospective groom, arrives

unexpectedly with other wedding guests asking to meet Marie. Having learned the

Marquise's secret, the soldiers, led by Tonio, burst in and reveal Marie's rough-and

ready upbringing. Marie still is willing to proceed, but the Marquise tells her to take

the man she loves. All except the outraged Duchess praise Marie, Tonio and France.

- Courtesy OPERA NEWS

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Notes on La FilJe du Regiment by Herbert Kupferberg

"It is so merry, with so much of the real soldier's life in it. They call it bad, but it is surprising how easily one can become used to 'bad' music! "

Thus commented Felix Mendelssohn on Donizetti's La Fille du Regiment in 1847, seven years after its premiere in Paris. Mendelssohn was no friend to frivolity, in music or elsewhere, but he knew a gay, melodic, and . well-crafted opera when he heard one, and he admired the man who could write it. ~

~ Gaetano Donizetti 8

composed sixty-seven operas ~ in his fifty years, most of ~

them serious, dramatic and highly charged emotionally. Of these only one, Lucia di Lammermoor, can really be called part of the standard repertory, although the bel

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canto revival of recent E decades has restored , at least .g

~ to sporadic life, such works as Anna Bolena, Maria Stuarda, Roberto Devereuz, Linda di Chamounix and La Favorita. But scattered through his vast output are three comedies, rElisir d'Amore, La Fille du Regiment, and Don Pasquale, which have never dropped out of circulation and remain very much a part of opera's active repertory.

Among these three, La Fille has always held a special place. like Donizetti's other light works it has a hearty comic zest tempered by touches of pathos and sentiment. But it also offers an enchantment all its own simply because it is the closest that Donizetti, that archetype of Italian opera composers, ever came to writing an authentic French opera-comique.

Unlike his distinguished predecessor, Gioacchino Rossini, Donizetti never settled in Paris. But the French capital was the center of the musical world in those days, and several of his works received their first productions there while others were translated into French. Within two years of Donizetti's first trip to France in 1838 he had had four operas performed at different theaters, producing a state of mutiny among French composers. In fact, when La Fille du Regiment received its premiere at the Opera-Comique some of those composers seem to have organized a hostile reception which was soon overwhelmed by general public adulation.

Unlike other works of his (including Don Pasquale) written for Paris, La Fille du Regiment was thoroughly French from

the start. Its text was by two French librettists, Jules-Henri Vernoy de Saint-Georges and J ean-Francois-Alfred Bayard; it was cast in the traditional opera-comique form with spoken dialogues in French; and most important of all, it was a celebration in music of the

military glory of the Napoleonic era, which lay dear to the heart of every patriotic Frenchman. It may be remembered that 1840, the year of La Fille~ debut, was also the year in which Napoleon's remains were returned from their lonely grave on St. Helena for reinterment in the Invalides. louis-Philippe, the "Citizen-King," was on the throne, but louis-Napoleon was in the wings,

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preparing to restore the empire. It was a time when audiences were eager to respond to musical personification of military glory and glamour, particularly when they embellished a sentimentally romantic, if rather far-fetched , tale of mistaken identity and true love triumphant.

In his authoritative, if slightly misnamed, A Short History of Opera (which runs to 852 pages) Prof. Donald]. Grout remarks of Donizetti: "He had a Midas gift of turning everything into the kind of melody which people could

similar expressions. He also engages in a delightful duet with Marie which neatly contrasts the artifiCiality of a French salon song with a hearty military number. among the opera's most memorable numbers is the Act II trio for Marie, Tonio and Sulpice, "Tous Ie trois reunis," to which Donizetti miraculously gives an Offenbachian lilt - an effect that is considerably diminished when performed in its Italian equivalent as "Stretti insiem tutti tre."

Mostly, though, what one remembers from La Fille are those rousing military songs that seemed to Felix Mendelssohn to symbolize so well the lighter side of a soldier's life. Marie's song of the 21st Regiment, "Chacun Ie sait, chacun Ie dit:

remember and sing, or at least recognize when they heard it sung the next day in the streets. "

Trag Dahl as Marie in The Daughter of the Regiment

Le regiment par excellence," became a ~ Parisian street song soon after the opera's premiere, Such is the case, certainly, with La Fille du

Regiment.. Aside from the military ruffles and while Marie's concluding "Salut a la France" was almost an unofficial national anthem in France during the regime of Napoleon III. La Fille also helped establish the rataplan - a tune based on the beating of a drum - as an operatic staple, and it has turned up in a number of subsequent works including Verdi's La Forza del Destino.

flourIshes heard throughout, it abounds in tunes that are touched with Gallfc charm and ensembles that build up to heady climaxes. For all the unlikelihood of its story, the two leading figures are given Ilesh-and-blood dimensions by Donizetti's music. Marie, the daughter herself, is a vivandiere, a woman accompanying an army as a kind of informal supply sergeant. As such, she is an ancestress of Preziosilla in Verdi's La Forza del Destino. But Marie is a vivandiere with a difference, for she was adopted by the men of the 21st Grenadiers as a foundling and has traveled with them ever since. Obviously leaving them would be wrenching, whether it be for marriage or to enter a new life among the aristocracy, and Donizetti sympathetically depicts the girl's dilemma in such sensitive passages as her Act I song "If faut partir, mes bons amis d'armes" and a subsequent Act II aria in which, alone, she bemoans the loss of her real love. Similarly Tonio, the young peasant who enlists in the regiment so he can be near her, emerges as a young man of feeling as well as discrimination. While expressing his delight at becoming both a soldier and a husband in one day - 'j'ai sa flamme, et j'ai sa main!" he bursts into no fewer than eight high C's within two or three minutes, as convincing as demonstration of ardor as Italian opera can offer.

Sergeant Sulpice, the third of the protagonists of La Fille du Regiment, unfortunately has no aria of his own, and must establish his character through sheer swaggering and repeated exclamations of "Morbleu! ", "Sacre nom d'une pipe!" and

In view of its vigorous military quality, it's not surprising that La Fille du Regiment has been a particular wartime favorite in France; it attained its I,OOOth performance at the Opera-Comique in 1914.

Article courtesy of the Metropolitan Opera.

A scene from The Daughter of the Regiment

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Fall Season Artist Profiles ~

SUZANNE ACTON CONDUCTOR, CHORUS MASTER

(MICHIGAN) MOT Credits

Chorus Master/Assistant Music Director since 1981

1994 faIl Suson Conductor, The Daughter of the Regiment

Chorus Master, Madama Butterjly

Conductor, Michigan Opera Thealer, The Barber of Seville, The Music Man, The Pirates of Penza nee;

Dayton Opera, West Side Story, My Fair Lady, The Piratts of Penzanee; Coach, Opera Theater o[ 51. louis, San Diego Opera; Visiting Assistant Professor o[ Music,

Oakland University

THEODORE CARLSON BARITONE (M ICHIGAN)

MOT Del1ul

1994 fall Season Sharpless, Madama Buuerjly

National Theater o[ Mannheim, Pagliacci; Kre[eld, Germany, Zar und Zimmermann; Benelux, La Boheme,

Tosea, le Nozze di Figaro, lucia di Lammermoor, La Traviata, Die Tote Stadt, Don Giovanni , Gianni

Schicchi; Munich Biennial Festival [or WDR Television, The Mother of Three Sons; Schwetzinger Fiestval,

The Game of love and Chanee

GUlPING DENG SOPRANO (CHINA)

MOT Dwul

1994 fallSuson Madama Butterfly, Madama Buuerjly

Opera Theater o[ SI. louis, Madama BUUerjly, Don Giovanni; Houston Grand Opera, Madama BuUerjly;

Opera Delaware, Boston lyric Opera, los Angeles, La Boheme, Salisbury lyric Opera le nozze di Figaro; 0rra

New England, La Cenerentola; soloist [or Centra Broadcasting Company in China

KEVIN ANDE RSON TENOR (ILLINOIS)

MOT Credits Manin, The Tender Land

1994 fall Season Tonio, Daughter of the Regiment

New York City Opera, A liule Nighl Music broadcast on PBS "live [rom lincoln Center,' Sireel Scene, l1feu re Espagnole; lyric Opera o[ Chicago, Six Characters in

Search of an AUlhor; San Francisco Opera, lear, fAfricaine broadcast on PBS "Great Performances;" Chicago Opera Theater, The Merry Wives of Windsor; English National

Opera, Sireet Scene; Scottish National Opera, Cosi fan lutte; BBC broadcast o[ I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Kurt Weill in

America; PBS broadcast o[ an all-star salute to Stephen Sondheim [rom Carnegie Hall o[ "Great Performances"

KEN CAZAN DIRECTOR (OHIO)

MOT Credits Director, Faust 1994

1994 fall Season Director, Madama Buuerjly

Canadian Opera Company, Werther, Suor Angelica; Opera Pacific, Greater Miami Opera,

Fausl; Boston lyric Opera, Atlanta Opera, Carmen; Sante Fe Opera, Inlermezzo; Seattle Opera, Academy o[ Vocal Arts in Philadelphia, La Boheme; Opera Theater o[ SI. louis, Mitridate, II Turco in /talia, Seattle Opera;

Madama Buuerjly, Die Zauberjlote; Opera Hamilton broadcast on CBC, Fausl; Opera Omaha, Rigoleuo

LAWRENCE F. FORMOSA BARITONE (MICHIGAN)

MOT Credits Fiorello, The Barber of Seville 1993; Messenger, Aida

1992; Chorus, Candide 1991; Marullo, Rigoleuo 1990; Paris, Romeo el julieue 1990; Marquis, La Traviala 1990

1994 faIl Suson YarnadorilCommissioner, Madama Buuerjly

Dayton Opera, The Impresario, First The Music, Then The Words; Opera Omaha, Manon, Rigoleuo;

Santa Fe Opera,La Bohtme, Ariadne auf Nuxos, judith, La Calista, A Nighl At The Chinese Opera;

Huron Civic Theater, Evila

DENNIS BERGEVIN JEFFREY FRANK

CO-DIRECTORS ELSEN ASSOCIATES (NEW YORK)

MOT Credits Resident Hair and Make-Up Designers, since 19BB

1994 fall Season Resident Hair and Make-Up, Madama Buuerjly,

The Daughter of the Regimenl

New York Shakespeare Festival; Radio City Music Hall; Washington Opera; Philadelphia Opera; Greater Miami

Opera; Pittsburgh Opera; Dallas Opera; Spoleto Festival; USA, Italy, Australia; Edinburgh Festival;

Merchanl of Venice, Broadway; PBS and HBO

TRACY DAHL COLORATURA SOPRANO (CANADA)

MOT Credits Euridice, Orpheus in Ihe Underworld 1986

1994 fall Season Marie, The Daughter of the Regiment

Melropolitan Opera, Canadian Opera Company, Washington Concen Opera, Ariadne auf Naxos; Washington Concen Opera, Lahml; Wol[Trap, Manitoba Opera, le Nozze di

Figaro; Wol[ Trap, San Francisco, les Conies D' Hoffmann; Washington Opera, Cendrillon, Cosi fan Tuite, Die

Fledermaus; Canadian Opera Company, Die Fledermaus; los Angeles Music Center Opera, 01eo and Euridi((; los Angeles

Opera, Houston Grand Opera, Orpheus in the Underworld; San Francisco Opera, Houston Grand Opera, Un Ballo in Maschera; National Ans Center, Don Giovanni; Manitoba

Opera, The Doughier of Ihe Regiment

THOMAS HAMMONS BASS-BARITONE (OKLAHOMA)

MOT Credits BenoitiAlcindoro,La Boheme 1992

1994 fallSuson Sulpice, Daughter of the Regiment

New York City Opera, Martha; New York City National Company, La Boheme; San Francisco Opera, Brooklyn Academy, The Dealh of Klingho{{er; Austin lyric Opera, Don Giovann i, La CenerenlOla; Houston Grand Opera, Frankfun Opera, Paris, los Angeles

Music Center Opera, Nixon in China; Atlanta Opera, rElisir d'Amore; Teatro liceu, Atlanta Opera,

le Nozze di Figaro; Opera Pacific, Tosea

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ROBERT BRUBAKER TENOR (PENNSYLVANIA)

MOTDmul 1994 faIl Season

Pinkenon, Madama Buuerjly

Metropolitan Opera Entfuhrung aus dem Serai/, Die Meistersinger, Ariadne auf Nuxos; New York City Opera, La Bohtme, Lucia di Lammermoor, Madama Buuerjly, Die Fledermaus; Opera Orchestra o[ New York ,jenufa; New York City Opera Touring Company, La Traviala, Tasca;

Canadian Opera, ateI/o, La Rondine; [Opera de Montreal, Portrait of Manon; Greater Miami Opera,

Manon leseaul, Macbelh, The Passion oflonathan Wade

DOROTHY DANNER DIRECTOR/CHOREOGRAPHER

(M ISSOURI) MOT Credits

Director, The Merry Widow 1993; Director, Candide 1991; Director, Mikado 1982

1994 faIl Suson Director, The Daughla of Ihe Regimenl

Boston Pops Orthcstra, PBS broadcast of ' An Evening with Gilbert and Sullivan"; Chicago Opera Theater, La Traviata;

Manioba Opera, New Orleans Opera, Syracuse Opera, Orlando Opera, The Daughter o{the Regiment; Pennsylvania Opera

Theater, Tasca, La Granat DuchfSSl de Gemlstein; New York's ( emer for Contemporary Opera, Postcard from Morocco; Cunis

Institute, POSlcard from Morocco, Th , Tender Land; Opera Carolina, HMS Pinafort, Oil ZauiJerjlill'; The Minnesota Opera,

The Pira!es of Penzance; Glimmerglass Opera , The Mikwlo, Albert Herring; Central City Opera, The Student Prince; Opera Pacific, The Men)' Widow; Portland Opera, Man of La Mancha

PAUL HARTFIELD TENOR (MICHIGAN)

MOT Dwul

1994 faIl Suson Pinkenon, Madama Buuerjly

New York City Opera, La Boheme, Madama Butterjly, Rigoleuo, Anna Bolena, Lucia di Lammermoor, lyric Opera

o[ Chicago, La Boheme; San Diego Opera, Baltimore Opera, The Daughter of the Regiment; Cincinnati Opera, Rigoletto; Greater Mianti Opera, Seattle Opera, Cosi fan

tutte; Houston Grand Opera, Der Rosenkavalier, La Boheme, Madama Butterjly, Lucia di Lammermoor;

Theatre des Champs-Elysees, Der Rosenkavalier; Royal Opera de Wallonie, Rigoleuo

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DONALD CONRAD HARTMANN

BASS-BARITONE (NORTH CAROLINA) MOTCret!its

Wagner, Faust 1994; Mandarin , Turandot 1994

1994 fall Season Bonze, Madama Butterfly

Opera Delaware, Aida, La Traviata, 51. Matthew Passion, Verdi's Requiem, Beethoven's Ninth

Symphony, Messiah; Staduheater Regensberg, Toledo Opera, Opera!Lenewee, Greensboro

Opera, Virginia Opera

JEFFREY LENTZ TENOR (PENNSYLVANIA)

MOT Credits Nanki-Poo, Mikado 1991

1994 fall Season Tonia, The Daughter of the Regiment

Toronto, Phantom of the Opera; Minnesota Opera, The Pirates of Penzance; Connecticut Grand Opera, Barbe Bleu; National Public Radio broadcast and recording with the Stamford Master Singers, The Flight of

Lindbergh; Pittsburgh Opera, Mefistofele, Contes d'Ho((mann, Sa lome; Muhlenberg Music

Festival , the Red Hill , HMS Pinafore, Kismet; Yale University, Don Giovanni

MARION PRATNICKI MEZZO SOPRANO (NEW YORK)

MOT Credits Marthe SchwiUen, Faust 1983; Annina,

La Traviata 1983; Zita, Gianni Schieci 1985

1994 fall Season Marquise, The Daughter of the Regiment

Cleveland Opera, The Barber of Seville, The Ballad of Baby Doe, The Sound of Music, Yeoman of the

Guard; Chautauqua Opera, Orlando Opera, The Daughter of the Regiment; Glimmerglass Opera, Turn of the Screw, Iolanthe; Kentucky

Opera, Turn of the Screw; Opera at Wildwood, Pirates of Penzance; Dallas Opera, }enufa,

La Traviata; Liule Rock, The Mikado

AARON HUNT TENOR (MICHIGAN)

MOT Credits PrilSChilSCh, The Merry Widow 1993; Chorus: Tosca, Ca rmen, Haunted Castle, Lucia di Lammermoor, The Marriage of Figaro, La Traviata , Die Zauberfl6te, The

Barber of Seville,Falstalf, La Boh/m,

1994 fall S£ason Hortensius, Daughter of the Regiment

Prince Street Players, Alice in Wonderland; Dayton Opera, Kismet; 1010 Players, H.M.5. Pinafore; Michigan Lyric Opera, Marriage of Figaro; Marquis Productions,

Annie; Nancy Gurwin Productions, Once Upon A Mattress; Theatre of the Ans, little Mary Sunshine, Godspell, Celebration, Luv, 1 Do! 1 Do!; Crossroads Productions, Fantasticks, Wi za rd of Oz, Hansel and

Gretel; Downriver Children's Theater, Aladdin

IRINA MISHURAmHTMAN MEZZO SOPRANO (RUSSIA)

MOT Deblll

1994 fall Season Suzuki, Madama Butterfly

Moldavian State Opera, Faust, 11 Trovatore, Un Ballo in Maschera, Don Ca rlo, Norma, La forza

del Destino, Marriage of Figaro, Barber of Sevi lle, Cavalleria Rusticana, Werther, Boris Godunov; Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Snow Maiden;

Toledo Opera, Faust

KENDALL SMITH LIGHTING DESIGNER (MICHIGAN)

MOT Credits Lighting Consultant 1989--94

1994 fall Season Lighting Designer, Madama Butterfly, The

Daughter of the Regiment

Opera Pacific, Tosca; Dayton Opera, Madama Butterfly; Malibu American Stage Festival,

Jesus Christ Superstar; MOT, Madama Butterfly, Ariadne auf Naxos, Candide, Mikado; Pioneer

Theatre, UT, A Penny for a Song; Attic Theatre, Teibele and Her Demon

MITCHELL KRIEGER CONDUCTOR (NEW YORK)

MOT Credits Conductor, The Barber of Sevi lle 1993;

Conductor, Candide 1991

1994 fall Season Conductor, Madama Butterfly

MOT Director of Artistic Resources, 1990 to present; Cleveland Opera, HMS Pinafore, My Fair

Lady, Madama Butterfly; Universty of Michigan Musical Theater, Lave Life; NYC Opera National

Tour; La Boh/me, Carmen, Conducting Staff, NYC Opera; Santa Fe Opera, Virginia Opera,

Des Moines Metro Opera, Opera Pacific

KAREN NOTARE SOPRANO (NEW JERSEY)

MOT Deblll

1994 fall Season Madama Butterlly, Madama Butterfly

New York City Opera National Company, Rockford Symphony Orchestra, Madama

Butterfly; Opera de Nice, La Boheme; Wexford International Opera Festival, Zaza, 11 Piccolo Marat; Hong Kong Opera Company, Otello;

Pittsburgh Symphony, "An Evening of Italian Opera"; Cincinnati Symphony, La Vida Breve;

Orquestra do Porto, Verdi's Requiem; Kalamazoo Symphon y, Tosca; Three-time winner of the Puccini Foundation Award; Winner of the Puccini International Vocal CompetiLion

DINA SORESI-WINTER MEZZO SOPRANO

(MICHIGAN) MOT Debut

1994 fall S£ason Duchess, The Daughter of the Regiment

Italy, Cavalleria Rusticana; Compagnia dell' Opera Italiana, Norma, Aida, Pagliacci; Teatro Donizeui di Bergamo, Maria Stuarda; Staats theater, Tosca

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DANA LENTINI SOPRANO (CALIFORNIA)

MOTCret!its Chorus, Samson et Delilah 1992;

Chorus, La Boh!:me 1993

1994 fall Season Kate Pinkerton, Madama Butterfly

Opera Theatre at Wildwood, Little R.R. Hood; Toledo Opera, !Elisir D'Amore, Sid and the

Serpent, Hansel and Gretel; Rochester Symphony Orchestra, Livonia Symphony Orchestra,

featured soloist; Grosse Pointe United Church, soloist; Detroit Concert Choir; Temple Israel,

soloist; Opera Theatre at Wildwood, Young Artist Apprentice

SCOTT PIPER TENOR (COSTA RICA)

MOTDeblll 1994 fall Season

Goro, Madama Butterfly

1995 Spring Season spofetta , Tosca

Rackham Society, Mozart's Requiem, Handel's Messiah; Detroit Oratorio Society, Part's Te Deum; University of Michigan, Die Za uberflote, Falstalf, Saint of Bleecker Street, Vanessa , Messe in d-dur,

Gabet; Ann Arbor Civic Theater, West Side Story; Northeastern Missouri University, Lincoronazione di Poppea, The Barber of Seville, Gianni Schicchi,

Cosi fan tuUe; University of Michigan Gilbert and Sullivan, Patience

ANNA VIKRE SOPRANO (SACRAMENTO)

MOTDeblil 1994 fall Season

Marie, Daughter of the Regiment

Palm Beach Opera, Aspen Music Festival , Greater Miami Opera, Die Zauberfl6te; Finalist in Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions,

winner of Loren L. Zachary Society National Vocal Competition, The Boca Raton Vocal

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Artists Apprentice Program is now in its 15th year of training aspiring young vocal artists and production apprentices for the rigors of the professional theatre world.

This fall , talented young singers recruited from across the country will take up residence with Michigan Opera Theatre for multiple-week sessions of masterclasses with the conductors, directors and singers from current productions;private coachings with MOTs professional music staff preparing their assigned comprimario roles for the season's productions; and many rehearsals

and performances, designed to assist them in making the transition from student to professional. Additionally during the 1994-95 season, the company will also train and utilize production apprentices in the areas of stage management, stage direction and costuming.

Since its inception, Michigan Opera Theatre has been committed to the development of young American talent, and regards with pride those who have gone on to establish careers in the field . Many singers as well as several company production and artistic staff have returned to MOT in full professional capacities

after apprenticeships with the company. Furthermore, the list of now

prominent artists who made their debuts or had early starts with MOT is impressive; Carmen Balthrop, Kathleen Battle, Rockwell Blake, Richard Cowen, Maria Ewing, Terese Fedea, Wilhelmenia Fernandez, Rebecca Luker, Catherine Malfitano, Leona Mitchell, David Parsons, Kathleen Segar, Neil Schicoff and Victoria Vergara, among others.

For further information on auditions and application requirements for the Apprentice Program, please dial the MOT Production Office at (313) 874-7850.

Or che s tra a n d Chor us ORCHESTRA VIOLIN I VIOLA FLUTE HORN PERCUSSION *Charlotte Merkerson *Jessica Nance *Pamela Hill *Susan Mutter *John F. Dorsey

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CLARINET TROMBONE *Diane Bredesen *Victoria Haltom *Minka Christoff *Brian Bowman *MauryOkun *=Member , Michigan

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CHORUS Christopher Bauder Michaella Patches Dionne Dana Lentini* Peggy O'Shaughnessey Jim Talpos Jill Helene Boes Alvis- Wayne Duncan David 1. Lindsey Michael Parr James R. Wells Cecilia Bohorquez- Vanessa Ferriole Robin Lounsbury Jan R. Phillips Jim Wilking

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Community Programs Not only does Michigan Opera Theatre perform its mainstage

season in Detroit, it champions the company name throughout

Michigan all year through. The Department of Community

Programs is currently celebrating its sixteenth anniversary.

education for all ages, the Department provides approximately 300

services a year and reaches almost 100,000 people throughout

Michigan, neighboring states and Canada, with full and one- act

operas and operettas, musical revues, and age-appropriate school

performances and classes. Founded in 1978, by Karen DiChiera, MOT's award- winning

Department is nationally known for its innovative and

comprehensive programming. Offering entertainment and

Residencies for your community can be created by combining

any of our season's offerings.

CREATE-AN-OPERA WITH ORCHARDS CHILDREN SERVICES

The squeals of relay race runners; jump rope chants; the sounds of xylophones, drums, tambourines and the sing-song of childrens voices greeted one when walking upstairs into the ope~ offices during the last three weeks of August The two large rehearsal rooms became elementary and middle school classrooms for twenty-five youngsters. Sponsored by the Orchards Childrens Services, a three week Create- an-Opera arts camp was directed by Karen VanderKloot DiChiera and the Depamnent of Community Programs.

Community Programs artists, and Depamnent Assistant Director, Mark Vondrak along with soprano Kristin Donahue, Kevin Cannon (Falah Salam) of the Bonstelle Theatre, and Rennell Rice, music teacher with the Detroit Public Schools worked daily with the children. Coordinating the program for Orchan:ls Childrens SeIVices was Community Planning Coordinator, Kimberly Bunon, whose son Alexis was also a camper.

The arts camp grew from meetings between Marilyn Wheaton, Director of Concerned Otizens for the Arts in Michigan;Jerry Levin, CEO of Orchards Childrens SeIVices; joan Binkow, of Orchards' Board of Directors; Marianne Endicott, of MOTs Board of Directors; and Bernie Quinlan of MOTs Volunteer Association.

Family, friends, and staff members of both MOT and Orchards Childrens Services enjoyed the joyful, standing-room-only closure perfonrtance in the opera rehearsal rooms on August 27th.

KARENVANDERKLOOT DICHIERA CHAIRS OPERA CONVENTION IN TORONTO:

November 8-12, 1994 is opera convention week in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Opera For Youth (OFY) is an international organization promoting operas for and by young people, perfonned by adults and/or children. The National Opera Association (NOA) is an international organization comprised of opera companies and colleges, universities, and conservatories which have opera depamnents and workshops.

These two organizations traditionally hold their annual conventions together.

Karen VanderKloot DiChiera is chair of the OFY proceedings, November 8-9. The OA portion, November 9-12 is being chaired by Steven Henrikson, Head of the Voice Area of the Music Depamnent of the University ofWmdsor, frequent MOT perfonner, and perfonner and vocal coach for the Toronto production of Phantom oj the Opera.

Some of the weeks offerings include presentations by the Canadian Opera Company and the Canadian Children:s Opera Chorus. Aeso~ Fables, the newly commissioned Community Programs childrens opera is one of only four new operas chosen for a live read-through. Donald Hartmann (Sacrastan in MOTs Tosca) brings his opera workshop students from Eastern Michigan University to perfonn. John Leberg is pan of an NOA panel and Dr. Jonathon Swift, host of MOT,s Time Out Jor Opera with Bloomfield Community TV participates in a panel on education and TV

AESOP'S FABLES The depamnentS newly commissioned a new childrens

opera, Aesops Fables by award-winning composer Uiwrence Singer and noted librettist Douglas Bravenrtan is currently being booked throughout Michigan and neighboring states.

Uiurie jensen--Russsell, teacher at Garfield Elementary School in The Flint Community School District, is creating the animal costumes. Ms. Russe\ls thin! grade class participated in a Create-an-Opera project for which she executed the costumes in spring of 1994.

Karl Schmidt, Mark Vondrak, Betsy

Bronson, Maria Cimarelli

REVUE A HIT! lnjuly 1994, the

Macomb Center for the Performing Arts (William Biddle, Executive Director; Uirry Carrico, Technical Director) sponsored twelve enthUSiastically received perfOnrtances of the Depamnents revue, From

Broodway to Hollywood. It was accompanied by Kevin Bylsma (musical

arranger) andjim Hohmeyer and choreographed by Annette Bergasse. Our thanks to all who made this possible!

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Irina Lekhtman & Jonathan Swift

TIME-OUT FOR OPERA The popular television series Time-Out Jor Opera, recently

nominated internationally for a cable award in the Arts Series Category, has taped thineen new programs with Bloomfield Community Television, Naydene Maynard, General Manager. Brainchild of Dr. Jonathan Swift, series host, it is co-hosted and produced by Karen VanderKloot DiChiera, directed by Tun Pamplin, and features many personalities well-known to MOT audiences including Dr. David DiChiera,John Leberg, Mitchell Krieger, Dr. Wallace Peace, and singers Frances Brockington, Candace De Uittre, Irina Lekhtrnan, Eamestine Nimmons, Donald Hartmann, Steve Henrikson, Scott Piper, Karl Schmidt and other artists of Community Programs.

The programs will air throughout the 1994-95 season to residents of Bloomfield Hills and Bloomfield Township on channelll.

HARRY Due to popular demand, the Depamnent will extend its

unique anti-5moking show, The Night Hany Stopped Smoking through 1995 in Michigan and neighboring states. "Harry," written by Ross Dabrusin and john Davies, promotes an antismoking message to young audiences. State perfOnrtances are sponsored by the American Lung Association of Michigan.

For infonnation on all of the DepamnentS activities, contact Dolores Tobis, Marketing Manager, (313)874-7894.


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Chairman Betty Bright

Publicity Bill Schultz

Finance Chairman Nancy Moore

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Committee Members

Our nearly quarter century of activity has only been possible through the efforts of many dedicated individuals contributing their time and resources in support of Michigan Opera Theatre's mission.

Volunteer Association Members Receive:

• BRAVO, MOT's informative news magazine

This dedicated support has been through a variety of forma and has encompassed individuals and corporations participating on the Board of Directors, operating the Opera Boutique, providing hospitality

• Volunteer Association Membership Card

• Inclusion in the Volunteer Association Invitation Directory

• Invitation to attend a Dress Rehearsal of a MOT production

to visiting artists, and hosting a cavalcade of social fundraising events.

The Board of Directors of Michigan opera Theatre has recognized the impact volunteer participation and leadership has on developing the company for our growth into the Detroit Opera House. On June 8, 1993

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the Board created a standing committee to revitalize and encourage volunteerism within the organization, combining innovative responses to our changing volunteer community with the success of the past.

Your $25 annual membership in the Volunteer Association helps to support the ongoing activities

and programs of Michigan Opera Theatre, and is fully tax-deductible as a contribution to a 50lCc)3 organization.

The Michigan Opera Theatre Volunteer Association is an exciting initiative whose purpose is to promote a solid base of volunteer support for Michigan Opera Theatre. To receive information on how you can participate as an MOT volunteer, please contact the MOT Volunteer Association Coordinator at 6519 Second Avenue, Detroit, MI 48202; or call (313) 874-7850 to receive a membership brochure.

This committee, the Volunteer Association Committee, has launched the Volunteer Association this season by identifying the common interests of volunteers and encouraging participation at all levels of the company. Under the leadership of Gloria A. Clark, a dedicated group of 27 enthusiastic individuals stepped forward to form a volunteer structure that can be responsive to all volunteers. We encourage you to join us and help to

continue to be the most vital part in the growth of Michigan Opera Theatre. We are always looking for new groups! If you have an idea for a new

group, please call us!

OFFICE VOLUNTEERS Jeanette Pawlaczyk, Chairman

Help with addressing mailings and the many day-to-day tasks that keep our wheels turning

OPERA BOUTIQUE Terry Shea, Chairman

Assist in the marketing and design of MOT related opera and ballet gift items

OPERA HOUSE AMBASSADORS Cliff Peters, Chairman

Learn the fascinating history of the Detroit Opera House and share your expertise with others

EDUCATION & OUTREACH Bernie Quinlan, Chairman

Help to create and promote programs that serve the entire state of Michigan

OPERA LEAGUE OF DETROIT Carol Larson Wendzel, Chairman

FRIENDS OF THE BALLET Joanne Danto Honhart, Chairman

VOLUNTEERS, ETC Dolores Sackett, Chairman

The core of Michigan Opera Theatre's involvement in the community, these fun

groups are important to bringing new people into the sqcial whirl of the opera world. Their events have all the glitter and glamour of grand opera and ballet;

they make a significant impact on providing financial support to Michigan

Opera Theatre. These friends gather throughout the year, drawn together by

common interests and goals.

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MOT MOVERS Nancy Krolokowski, Chairman

Assist in the "care and feeding" of MOT's visi ting artists and dignitaries

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Contributors Michigan Opera Theatre gratefully acknowledges its generous corporate, foundation and individual donors

whose contributions were made between July 1, 1993 and June 30, 1994. Their generosity plays an integral part in the Company's financial stability, necessary for producing quality grand opera, musical theatre and classical ballet. In addition to enjoying outstanding entertainment on the stage, MOT contributors are offered a number of opportunities which allow them to observe the many phases of opera production, meet the artists and experience other "behind the scenes" activities. For more information on becoming involved in these exclusive and exciting donor benefits and services, contact the Development Department (313) 874-7850.

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Foundation David M. Whitney Fund

SUSTAINERS $5,000 - $9,999 Mary Thompson Foundation

PATRONS $2,500 - 4,999 Japanese Society of Detroit

Foundation

DONORS $1,000 - $2,499 Drusilla Farwell Foundation Young Woman's Home Association

CONTRIBUTORS $500 - $999 Alice Kales Hartwick Foundation Meyer and Anna Prentis Family

Fdn. Inc. The Clarence and Jack Himmel

Foundation Village Women's Club Foundation

Beginning with the 1993-94 season, Evola Music has graciously agreed to provide and service Baldwin pianos Jor Michigan Opera Theatre's rehearsal and perJormance needs.

We are grateJul to Ben Evola and his associates Jor their enthusiastic cooperation, and look

Jorward to greatly enhanced musical satisJaction with the addition oj these pianos

to the opera company's artistic process.


IMPRESARIO CIRCLE $10,000+ Mr. &: Mrs. Philip E. Benton,]r. Mr. &: Mrs. Robert E. Dewar Dr. &: Mrs. Sam B. Williams

MAJOR BENEFACTORS $5,000 - $9,999 Anonymous Mr. &: Mrs. ]. Addison Bartush Mr. &: Mrs. Donald]. Bortz,Jr. Estate of Allen B. Christman,

at the request of Katherine J. Gustafsson

Mr. &: Mrs. Irving Rose Mr. &: Mrs. George Strumbos Mr. &: Mrs. Lynn A. Townsend Mr. &: Mrs. R. Jamison

Williams, Sr. Mr. &: Mrs. R. Alexander

Wrigley

BENEFACTORS $2,500 - $4,999 Anonymous Mr. &: Mrs. Terence Adderley Dr. &: Mrs. Roger M. Ajluni Dr. &: Mrs. Agustin Arbulu Dr. &: Mrs. Donald C. Austin Mr. &: Mrs. Mark Alan Baun Mr. &: Mrs. W Victor Benjamin Mr. &: Mrs. Gerald Bright Mrs. Martin L. Butzel The Honorable Dominick R.

Carnovale Mr. Thomas Cohn Mr. &: Mrs. Cameron B. Duncan Mr. &: Mrs. Max M. Fisher Mr. &: Mrs. Samuel Frankel Mrs. Aaron H. Gershenson Mr. &: Mrs. Preston B. Happel Mr. &: Mrs. Kenneth E. Hart Mr. &: Mrs. David B. Herrnelin Mr. &: Mrs. Verne G. Istock Dr. &: Mrs. Richard W Kulis Mrs. Ruth Mott Mr. &: Mrs. Kenneth A. Pickl, Jr. Mr. &: Mrs. David P Ruwart Mr. &: Mrs. Donald E.

Schwendemann Mr. &: Mrs. S. Kinnie Smith,]r. Mr. Richard A. Sonenklar Mr. &: Mrs. James]. Trebilcott Mrs. Richard Van Dusen Mr. &: Mrs. George C. Vincent Mr. &: Mrs. Richard C. Webb Mrs. Beryl Winkelman

FELLOWS $1,500 - $2,499 Dr. Lourdes V Andaya Mrs. Robyn J. Arrington, Sr. Drs. John and Marilyn

Belamaric Mr. Charles A. Bishop Mr. David Chivas The Honorable &:

Mrs. Avern L. Cohn Mr. &: Mrs. Rodkey Craighead Mr. &: Mrs. Richard E. Cregar Mr. &: Mrs. Ernest S. Curtis Julia Donovan Darlow and

John O'Meara Lady Jane Easton Mrs. Charles M. Endicott Mrs. Benson Ford,]r. Mrs. Barbara Frankel Mr. &: Mrs. Edward P Frohlich Mr. &: Mrs. Larry Garberding Mr. &: Mrs. John C. Griffin Mrs. Robert M. Hamady Mr. &: Mrs. E. J. Hartmann Mrs. Roger W Hull Mr. &: Mrs. MaxwellJospey Mr. &: Mrs. Thomas G. Kirby Mr. &: Mrs. Eugene L. Klein Th.: Honorable Jack Martin and

Dr. Bettye Arrington-Martin Mr. &: Mrs. William 1.

McCormick,Jr. Mr. &: Mrs. Daniel Medow Mr. &: Mrs. Morkus Mitrius Mr. Edwin Lee Morrell Mr. &: Mrs. Marco Nobili Mr. &: Mrs. Eino Nurme Dr. &: Mrs. Moon]. Pak Mr. &: Mrs. Jules Pallone Mr. John E. Perry Mr. &: Mrs. John B. Renick Mr. &: Mrs. Louis R. Ross Mr. &: Mrs. Fred C.

Schneidewind Mr. &: Mrs. Alan E. Schwartz Mr. &: Mrs. Frank C. Shaler Mr. &: Mrs. William H. Smith Mrs. Mark Stevens Dr. &: Mrs. L. Murray Thomas Mr. &: Mrs. C. Thomas Toppin Mr. &: Mrs. Robert C.

VanderKloot Mr. &: Mrs. Walter Wilkie Dr. Marilyn L. Williamson Mr. &: Mrs. Morton Zieve

SUSTAINERS $1,000 - $1,499

Anonymous Mrs. Judson B. Alford Mr. &: Mrs. Robert A. Allesee Mr. &: Mrs. David Aronow Mr. &: Mrs. Donald]. Atwood The Honorable &: Mrs. Edward

Avadenka Mr. &: Mrs. Mandell L. Berman Dr. &: Mrs. John G. Bielawski Dr. &: Mrs. David Bloom Mr. &: Mrs. Douglas Borden Dr. Mark I. Burnstein Dr. Barbara D. Chapman and

Mr. Frank Andrews Mr. &: Mrs. Frederick H. Clark Mr. Michael]. Connolly Dr. Mary Carol Conroy Mr. &: Mrs. Peter Cooper Mr. and Mrs. Lawerence David Mr. &: Mrs. Lawrence H.

Dickelmann, Jr. Ms. Hilda R. Ettenheimer Mr. &: Mrs. Paul E. Ewing Mr. &: Mrs. Lloyd C. Fell Mr. &: Mrs. Charles 1. Fisher, III Mr. &: Mrs. Louis P Fontana Mr. Brian Fossee Mr. and Mrs. David M. Fried Mrs. Roy Fruehauf Mr. &: Mrs. Frank A.

Gerrnack, Jr. Mr. &: Mrs. Keith E. Gifford Mr. &: Mrs. Alan L. Gornick In memory of

Dr. Berj H. Haidostian - Mrs. Alice Berberian Haidostian

Dr. &: Mrs. Joel I. Hamburger Mr. &: Mrs. Frederic H. Hayes Mr. &: Mrs. David H. Hill Ms. Mary Ann Hollars Mr. and Mrs. Keith Honhart Miss H. Barbara Johnston Mrs. William E. Johnston Mr. Martin and Ms. Geneva

Maisel Kellman Dr. &: Mrs. Charles Kessler

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Mr. and Mrs. Robert Klein Dr. &: Mrs. Alfred M. Kreindler Mr. &: Mrs. David W Krupp Mr. and Mrs. William Ku Mr. and Mrs. Gary W Laehn Mrs. Leonard 1. Lewis Dr. &: Mrs. Kim K. Lie Dr. &: Mrs. Robert P Lisak Mr. &: Mrs. Harry A. Lomason Louise Mr. &: Mrs. Alphonse S.

Lucarelli Dr. &: Mrs. Henry W Maicki Mrs. Wade H. McCree, Jr. Mr. &: Mrs. Eugene Miller Mr. &: Mrs. Carl Mitseff Mr. &: Mrs. Fred Morganroth Mr. &: Mrs. E. Clarence

Mularoni Mr. &: Mrs. E. Michael Mutchler Mr. &: Mrs. James Pamel Dr. Robert E. L. Perkins Mr. &: Mrs. Brock E. Plumb Mr. and Mrs. David Pollack Mr. &: Mrs. Robert R. Reilly Mr. &: Mrs. Richard H. Rogel Mr. &: Mrs. Hans Rogind Dr. &: Mrs. Norman R. Schakne The Honorable Joan Young and

Mr. Thomas Schellenberg Dr. &: Mrs. Arthur H. Schultz Mr. Joseph Schwartz Mr. &: Mrs. Roger E Sherman Mr. &: Mrs. Richard Sloan Mr. &: Mrs. Norman Sloman Mr. &: Mrs. Richard D.

Starkweather Mr. &: Mrs. A. Alfred Taubman Dr. &: Mrs. Lawrence Usher Mrs. C. Theron Van Dusen Dr. Estelle P Wachtel-Torres Mr. &: Mrs. Gary L. Wasserman Mr. &: Mrs. Gary L. White Mr. &: Mrs. James E. Wilkes Mr. &: Mrs. Eric A. Wiltshire Dr. Kathryn]. Wimbish Dr. &: Mrs. Clyde Wu Ms. Lucia Zurkowski


ORCHESTRA CIRCLE $500 - $999 Ms. Louise Hodgson Dr. Harold Mitchell Arrington Dr. RobynJ . Arrington,Jr. Dr. Joseph L. Cahalan Mr. & Mrs. Steve Djelebian Mr. & Mrs. Robert Fair,Jr. Mr. Albert Febbo Mr. & Mrs. Mitchell B. Foster Dr. & Mrs. Byron P. Georgeson Ms. Gloria D. Green Mr. & Mrs. Joseph Gualtieri Ms. Mary C. Harms Miss Mary A. Hester Mrs. Joyce Ann Kelley Mr. Dennis M. King Mr. & Mrs. John A. Kirlin Mr. & Mrs. Harvey Kline Mr. & Mrs. Lee E. Landes Dr. Barbara Lockard-Zimmerman Dr. & Mrs. Robert E. Mack Mr. Norman Mackie Mr. & Mrs. Joseph Maniscalco Dr. & Mrs. Anthony B. Michaels Mr. Ralph Miller Mrs. Helen M. Muzleski Mr. Michael W. Pease Dr. & Mrs. Peter J. Polidori Mr. & Mrs. John R. Rake Dr. & Mrs. David B. Rorabacher Mr. Hugh C. Ross Mr. Wayne J. Ruchgy

. Mr. & Mrs. Mark Schmidt Mr. William E. Scollard Mr. & Mrs. Stephen M. Sweeney Mrs. Ludwik Szczesny David Kinsella and Joyce Urba Dr. Joseph Valentin, DDS · Mr. & Mrs. Melvin C. Vander Brug Mr. & Mrs. Dante Vannelli Mr. & ~rs. David Weinberg Mr. J. Ernest Wilde Mr. & Mrs. Lawrence E. Witkowski Mr. & Mrs. Walter and Elizabeth Work

LUMINARY $250 - $499 Mr. & Mrs. WilliamJ. Adams Mrs. Emilia Arnold Mr. & Mrs. Jay N. Baker Dr. Reuven Bar-Levav Anthony & Patricia Barclae Dr. & Mrs. Hugh Beckman Mr. Dean Bedford, Jr. Mr. Robert J. Benett Mr. & Mrs. Jeff Bickerstaff Dr. & Mrs. Eric Billes Mrs. Norman Bird Mr. John Bisha Dr. & Mrs. Sander J. Breiner Ms. Mary C. Caggegi Mr. & Mrs. Roy E. Calcagno Mr. & Mrs. Robert G. Campbell Mr. William E Canever Miss Helen H. Cannon Dr. John E Casey Miss Lola Cesina Mr. Kenneth Channell Dr. Susan D. Charlamb Ms. Judie L. Cochill Mr. & Mrs. James W. Collier Mr. & Mrs. George A. Cooke Mr. & Mrs. Claude H. Cooper Mrs. Ellen R. Cooper Dr. Warren W. Cowan Mrs. Mary Rita Cuddohy Dr. & Mrs. ViCtor Curatolo Mr. & Mrs. Edward P. Czapor Mr. & Mrs. Ronald K. Dalby Mr. Robert Daniels Mr. & Mrs. Keith D. Danielson Mr. & Mrs. WilliamJ. Davis Mr. Thomas Day Mr. & Mrs. William A. Day

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Mr. & Mrs. Richard A. Place Mr. Abraham L. Raimi Mr. & Mrs. Robert R. Reilly Mr. & Mrs.JohnJ. Riccardo Mr. & Mrs. Eugene C. Robelli Dr. & Mrs. Roger Robinson Mr. & Mrs. HoraceJ. Rodgers Ms. Alice L. Rodriguez Mr. Peter Ronan Mr. & Mrs. Theodore Rudner Mr. & Mrs. DavidJ. Runyon Mr. & Mrs. Luigi Ruscillo Dr. & Mrs. William H. SalOL Dr. & Mrs. Hershel Sandberg Mr. & Mrs. John W. Sanders Mr. & Mrs. John Schmidt Drs. Theodore & Michelle Schreiber Dr. & Mrs. M. U. Scott Mr. & Mrs. Kingsley Sears Ms. Ellen Sharp Mr. & Mrs. Robert W. Siegel Mr. & Mrs. Peter Silveri Mrs. Rosemary Skupny Ms. Irene R. Snider Ms. Phyllis Funk Snow Mr. & Mrs. Newton Sobel Dr. & Mrs. Robert J. Sokol Drs. William P. & Frances L.

Sosnowsky Dr. & Mrs. Sheldon and Jessie Stem Mr. & Mrs. Gerald H. Stollman Dr. & Mrs. Komol Surakomol Mr. & Mrs. NormanJ. Tabor,Jr. Mrs. Elaine Taro Mrs. Edward D. Thomson Mrs. Dorothy Alice Tomei Mr. Emmet E. Tracy,Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Sheldon Turley Mrs. Marcia Valenstein Mr. & Mrs. Elliott H. Valentine Ms. Helen Wainio Mr. Clune Walsh Miss Evelyn A. Warren Mr. & Mrs. W. N. Warren Mr. & Mrs. Seymour Weissman Ms. Hildegard Wintergerst Ms. Anne C. Wolf Mrs. Minoru Yamasaki Mr. Matthew Zelenak Mr. Matthew Zelenak Mr. & Mrs. David Zimmerman

SUPPORTERS $120 - $249 Miss Mary M. Abbott Mr. & Mrs. John H. Adams Mr. & Mrs. Richard D. Adams Mr. & Mrs. Thomas B. Adams Mr. David A. Agius Mr. & Mrs. Richard Alder,J r. Mr. & Mrs. Wickham Allen Mr. Augustine Amaru Mr. & Mrs. Raymond P. Amelotte Mr. James Anderson Ms. Margaret Angus Mr. Charlie Antal Ms. Elizabeth Aprahamian Mr. Carl Arko Mrs. Marvin V Arnett Ms. Lillian L. Arnold Mr. & Mrs. Harold Arnoldi Mr. & Mrs. Morris Arnowitz Ms. Niara Arpaci Dr. Maria Arrubla Mr. & Mrs. John A. Ashton Ms. Winifred K. Avery Mrs. Simon S. Baer Mrs. Doris I Bailo Mrs. Mary T. Baker Mrs. Anna Bakonyi Mr. & Mrs. Eugene Balda Mr. Jack B. Baldwin Ms. Katherine Balfour Ms. Patricia Ball Mr. John Baltic Mrs. Irene M. Barbour Mr. & Mrs. C. Robert Barnard

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SYNOPSIS ACT I

While a group of peasants prepare for a battle with the French, women pray for protection; the

Marquise of Berkenfield, who has come near the advancing army by mistake, almost faints with terror.

Her steward, Hortensius, urges her to control herself, but the Marquise deplores the state of the world in

which Napoleon's army ignores the nobility (Upour une femme de mon nom"). Sergeant Sulpice and his

men appear from behind the rocks . The voice of the French regiment's drum majorette, Marie, heralds her

appearance, and she and Sui pice glory in their love of war and patriotism, reminiscing over the stroke of

luck that brought the orphaned Marie to the regiment (uQuel beau jour, quand la providence") . Since

then, she has been like a daughter to all the men, her singing and beauty enlivening their martial life. As

Sulpice questions the girl about a young Tyrolean she has been seen with, soldiers drag in Tonio, the

youth in question, who has been found near the camp. The soldiers want to kill him until Marie relates

how he saved her from falling off a precipice. Rejoicing in the men's acceptance of Tonio, she sings the

regimental song (UChacun Ie sait"). The men are ordered to roll call, taking Tonio with them , but he

rushes back to declare his love to Marie. The two fall into each other's arms and go off together. Sulpice,

Hortensius and the Marquise arrive, and the Marquise tells Sui pice that her late sister had a child by a

Captain Robert of Sulpice's regiment. Informed that Marie is that child, she insists on taking the girl away

to prepare her for her rightful station in life. Marie enters gaily, only to be told she will soon depart with

her newfound aunt. After the four leave, the soldiers usher in a new recruit - Tonio, who hails the day

that brought him the girl he loves (UAh! mes amis, quel jour de fete! "). The soldiers are jealous when

they realize Tonio loves Marie , but they accept fate graciously. Tonio's rhapsody on his delight (Upour mon

ame") is ended abruptly by Sulpice's announcement of Marie's departure. Sadly, the girl resigns herself to

her new future (ll faut partir") . Tonio, Sulpice and the soldiers bemoan their loss as the Marquise drags

Marie off, and Tonio vows to follow her.

ACT II

In a salon in her chateau the Marquise receives Sui pice , asking him to convince Marie that the rich

German prince she has found will be a good husband. When the girl comes in, the Marquise asks her to

sing an air she has learned as part of her training in the social graces (ULe jour maissait dans Ie bacage").

Sulpice interjects fragments of the regimental tune until Marie, after trying a few measures of both,

launches into the latter, with the Marquise and Sulpice singing along. Horrified at herself, the Marquise

sweeps out, but she cannot help exclaiming at Marie's charm. As Sulpice follows her out, Marie muses

sadly upon her upcoming marriage. The strains of a march inform her that the soldiers have arrived, and

she salutes them (UAh! salut a la France! "). Tonio, Marie and Sulpice delight in their reunion (UTous les

trois reunis"), but the Marquise, interrupting, is unmoved by Tonio's expressions of devotion. The lovers

go off in opposite directions, and when the Marquise confides to Sulpice that Marie is her own daughter

and begs him to help her in the alliance she has set up, he agrees. The Duchess of Krakentorp , mother of

the prospective groom, arrives unexpectedly with other wedding guests asking to meet Marie. Having

learned the Marquise's secret, the soldiers, led by Topio, burst in and reveal Marie's rough- and- ready

upbringing. Marie still is willing to proceed, but the Marquise tells her to take the man she loves. All

except the outraged Duchess praise Marie, Tonio and France.

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MADAME BUT T E R F LY*

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Karen Notare/Cui·Ping Deng, Irina Lekhtman, Robert Brubaker, Theodore Rulfs Carlson;

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THE DAUGHTER OF TN ERE G I MEN T

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