BITTER SWEETAugust 4–14, 2011

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Cover Cover of the score published in London, 1929. Lebrecht Music & ArtsInside Back Cover ©Peter Aaron ’68/Esto

The Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College

Chair Jeanne Donovan FisherPresident Leon BotsteinHonorary Patron Martti Ahtisaari, Nobel Peace Prize laureate and former president of Finland

Bitter SweetAn operetta by Noël CowardDirected by Michael GieletaConducted by James Bagwell

Theater TwoAugust 4, 6, and 11 at 8 pmAugust 7 at 7 pmAugust 5, 10, and 12–14 at 3 pm

Running time for this performance is approximately 2 hours and 30 minutes, includingone 20-minute intermission.

Bitter Sweet ©1929. This version of Bitter Sweet has been prepared by Michael Gieletawith permission of the Noël Coward Estate. ©N.C. Aventales 2011 as successor in title to The Noël Coward Estate. Copyright Agent Alan Brodie Representation Ltd. www.alanbrodie.com

Bitter Sweet is produced by arrangement with tams-witmark music library, inc.,560 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY 10022.

The use of recording equipment or the taking of photographs during the performance isstrictly prohibited.

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Bitter Sweet

Cast (in order of appearance)

Lady Shayne Siân PhillipsDolly Marianne RendonVincent Joel JohnstoneHenry Brian MaxsweenSarah/Sari Sarah MillerCarl William FergusonLord Shayne Ryan Speakman Hugh/Tranisch Justin RandolphSir Arthur/Captain Lutte Joshua JeremiahMrs. Millick Claire SimardManon Amanda SquittieriHerr Schlick David SchnellLondon Girls Faylotte Crayton, Elana Gleason,

Meredith Hudak, Claire Simard London Boys Grant Clarke, David Schnell, Eric StephensonVienna Girls Jennifer Feinstein, Amanda Yachechak,

Amanda Joy LothFour Footmen Alex Kasser, James Lombardino,

Mike Longo, Brian Maxsween

Music Arranger and Preparer Jack Parton Choreographer Christopher Caines Set Designer Adrian W. Jones Costume Designer Gregory Gale Lighting Designer Christopher AkerlindHair and Makeup Designer Ashley Ryan Fight Director Ron PirettiAssistant Director Jack Furness Music Codirector James Bassi Dialect Coach Elizabeth SmithStage Manager Jason Kaiser Assistant Stage Manager Kevin Robert FitzpatrickPianist Ming Aldrich-Gan ’10

Student Production Assistants Thomas Cunningham, Eva Steinmetz ’11

Casting Director Holly Buczek

Makeup provided by MAC

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The 2011 SummerScape season is made possible in part through grants from theNational Endowment for the Arts, the New York State Council on the Arts, the ConsulateGeneral of Finland in New York and the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland.

Additional support has been provided by the Jane and Aatos Erkko Foundation, and TheBarbro Osher Pro Suecia Foundation.

This season is also presented thanks to the generous support of the Boards of theRichard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College and the Bard MusicFestival, and the Friends of the Fisher Center.

The producers wish to thank the Noël Coward Estate and Barry Day, Tom Carroll Scenery,4Wall Entertainment, GoodSpeed Muscials Costume Collection, Western Costume Co.,Oregon Shakespeare Festival, and tdf Costume Collection for their assistance with thisproduction. Special thanks to Will Pomerantz.

Orchestra

Flute/Piccolo Sato MoughalianReed One Kenneth DybiszReed Two Julie FerraraReed Three Jay HasslerTrumpet/Fleugelhorn Dominic DerasseFrench Horn Sara Della PostaTrombone Bruce EidemViolin Roy LewisCello Andrew KimBass/Personnel Manager/

Contractor Jeffrey LevineDrums/Percussion Glenn RhianPiano James Bassi

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Scenes

Act I, Scene 1London, 1969: an evening reception at Lady Shayne’s house in Grosvenor Square Entangled in a love triangle and soon to be married, Dolly discovers a role model in thedefiant Lady Shayne, who relates the story of her unorthodox adventures in love andmusic.

Act I, Scene 2London, 1920: afternoon at the Millick family home in Belgrave Square A youthful Sarah Millick—the future Lady Shayne—has to learn rapidly that love andmarriage are two distinct phenomena. Her secret love for music (and her music teacher,Carl) cannot be reconciled with the fate preordained for her by her family.

Act I, Scene 3London, 1920: evening at the Millick family homeSarah, increasingly resentful of her present life, takes charge of her future and abandonsLondon for Vienna to pursue a singing career and the man she loves.

Act II, Scene 1Vienna, 1923: a morning rehearsal at Herr Schlick’s Café CabaretSarah and Carl, now married, confront the daunting reality of a bohemian existence:working for a down-at-heels cabaret, their ongoing concerns about money force them tocompromise both their music and their ethics.

INTERMISSION

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Act II, Scene 2Vienna, 1923: an evening of entertainment at Herr Schlick’s Café CabaretSarah and Carl’s last evening at Schlick’s before their longed-for move to Budapest.

Act III, Scene 1London, 1938: an afternoon gathering at Lord Shayne’s house in Grosvenor SquareSarah’s triumphant return to London and her first encounter with her native milieu innearly 20 years. Lord Shayne’s warm affection shields Sarah from the flood of questionsand speculation about her past.

Act III, Scene 2London, 1969: the continuation of the evening reception at Lady Shayne’s house inGrosvenor SquareAs Lady Shayne concludes the story of her insubordinate life, Dolly and her friends areleft to make their own decisions concerning life, love, and music.

Notes on the Program

Noël Coward: Bitter Sweetby Richard Aldous

No doubt many in the audience today will at some time or another have endured thetedium of a New York City traffic jam. Few of us, however, will have put the experience tosuch good use as Noël Coward did in 1929.

Trapped in a taxi during rush hour after a matinee performance, Coward had the melodyto “I’ll See You Again”—the hit song of Bitter Sweet—pop straight into his head. “How cana theme come to me complete like that?” he asked years later. “How can it be accountedfor? Where does it come from?” The song turned out to be one of the smash hits of hiscareer. “Brass bands have blared it, string orchestras have swooned it, Palm Court quar-tets have murdered it, barrel organs have ground it out in London squares and swingbands have tortured it beyond recognition,” he wrote. “And I am still very fond of it andvery proud of it.”

Coward was in New York performing in the Broadway production of his hugely success-ful revue, This Year of Grace! The idea for Bitter Sweet had come to him the previous sum-mer while staying with friends in Surrey, England. Listening to a new gramophonerecording of Johann Strauss’s Die Fledermaus, he had been captivated by the sounds ofold Vienna. Driving back to London after his weekend in the country, he stopped off withhis costume designer, Gladys Calthrop, at Wimbledon Common, where the two sat undera tree to sketch out the entire plot of what would become Bitter Sweet.

The romantic operetta opened on July 12, 1929, at His Majesty’s Theatre, London (after apreview in Manchester), and ran for 697 performances. It subsequently opened onBroadway at the Ziegfeld Theatre on November 5, 1929, and ran for 159 performances.“Success, huge success,” wrote Coward’s producer, C. B. Cochran, after the London open-ing. “I will make money at last.”

Among the many admirers of the London production of Bitter Sweet was the Britishmatinee idol Ivor Novello, who found it a “sheer joy from beginning to end.” The artistMax Beerbohm enjoyed the show so much that he made a series of drawings of the prin-cipal characters, which he sent to Coward with annotations.

With a triumph secured in London, Coward returned to New York in the late summer of1929 to prepare the Broadway production. There he found the famous impresario FlorenzZiegfeld waiting with concerns and, worse, ideas of his own. The show was too ”low-key”for Broadway. How about adding some Ziegfeld Girls from the Follies revue to brighten

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things up a bit? Coward, exhibiting his steelier side, refused point-blank—leading to ahuge row and threats of withdrawal.

Bitter Sweet ultimately opened to rave reviews and full houses. “THE THEATRE CANNOT DIE

AS LONG AS IT HAS A GENIUS LIKE YOU,” cabled Ziegfeld. “They wanted me to alter every-thing and I wouldn’t,” Coward reflected wearily. ”Now of course they’re delighted and saythey knew it was a success all along.”

Coward would be less fortunate in preventing others from ruining his ideas when itcame to the 1940 MGM film version of Bitter Sweet, which he thought, “on all counts, farand away the worst picture I have ever seen.” The lead actors “sing relentlessly frombeginning to end looking like a rawhide suit case and a rocking horse respectively.” Theresult was something that “no human tongue could ever describe.”

Part of the Broadway success of Bitter Sweet lay in its timing. The show’s irreverent cyn-icism, mixed with emotional if guarded sentimentality, seemed as good a response asany to the Wall Street Crash, which had taken place just weeks before the opening night.“I’ve caused more of a sensation in America this time than ever before,” Coward wroteto his mother. “Bittersweet [sic] is the only show playing to capacity during this appallingStock Market crash.” In fact, Bitter Sweet would mark a new direction in Coward’s work—more sentimental and escapist for an age when most people had more than enough toworry about in their real lives to want any unpleasantness in the theater.

The apparent effortlessness surrounding the creation of Bitter Sweet seems quintessen-tially Noël Coward. Of course beautiful tunes and witty lyrics were conjured withoutmuch in the way of perspiration. Anything else would have been inelegant. It was all ofa piece with the immaculate image he cultivated, illustrated by the jib of his Savile Rowsuits, the cigarette in its holder held at a jaunty angle, and a poised, amused demeanorthat always gave the appearance of another witticism about to be delivered.

It should hardly be surprising that Coward’s relaxed charm masked the prodigious effortthat went into his success. Born in the last weeks of the 19th century, Coward was thelatest of late Victorians, and he inherited the characteristic work ethic of that age.Moreover, for all his upper-class mannerisms, he was a lower-middle-class boy from sub-urban Teddington, in the outer boroughs of West London. Escape came not through con-nections but from talent married to discipline. Over the course of his long career, Cowardwould write more than 50 plays and shows, and hundreds of songs. The fact that hisindustry manifested itself as breezy and effortless made the achievement all the moreremarkable.

Bitter Sweet gave that nonchalant demeanor its best line. In the song “If Love Were All,”the café singer Manon observes: “But I believe that since my life began, / The most I’vehad is just, / A talent to amuse.” This assessment soon became something of a signature

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line for Coward himself. In 1972, “If Love Were All” would be the last song he ever per-formed in public. The line “A talent to amuse” was later engraved on his memorial stonein the Poet’s Corner at Westminster Abbey. Even in death, there was no need to take lifetoo seriously.

Yet in Bitter Sweet itself, as for Coward, “If Love Were All” was only half the story. Manon’sworld-weariness is perfectly balanced by the sentimental romanticism of the heroine,Sarah/Sari. She asks the show’s key question, in the song “What Is Love?” Manon providesone answer: “The more you give your trust, / The more you’re bound to lose.” Whateverlove may or may not be, it is not enough.

However, in the end it is Sari who provides the answer to her own question, that lovealways endures. Moreover, in “I’ll See You Again,” she has the song to prove it.

Sari is a classic romantic heroine, but there is also another love—that which dare notspeak its name—surreptitiously on display in Bitter Sweet. Three years earlier, in 1926,Coward had written a play, Semi-Monde, that included characters who were explicitlyhomosexual. The play was too controversial to stage in either London or New York (it wasfinally produced in Glasgow in 1977), but Coward returned to the theme more carefullyin Bitter Sweet. The song “Green Carnation” paraded the “Pretty boys, witty boys . . .Haughty boys, naughty boys . . . Faded boys, jaded boys” who so perplexed the “bulldognation.” It was daring of Coward in the context of Britain in the 1920s, when homosexu-ality was still an imprisonable offense, to hint at his own sexuality by putting such overt“camp” on stage. (“I thought men like that shot themselves,” King George V onceobserved.) He got away with it because the song was an obvious parody of Oscar Wilde,who had worn the flower in question. “So that was alright, then,” remarks Barry Day, theleading Coward scholar. It was another example of how the talent to amuse allowedCoward to hide in plain sight.

Such deft lightness of touch exhibited over half a century of writing and performingresulted in a body of work that, in addition to its critical and commercial success, wasremarkable for its breadth and ambition. Lord Mountbatten—the last Viceroy of Indiaand the naval hero on whom Coward based his patriotic film In Which We Serve—ele-gantly made this point at Coward’s 70th birthday party, in 1969. “There are probablygreater painters than Noël, greater novelists than Noël,” he said, “greater librettists,greater composers of music, greater singers, greater dancers, greater comedians, greatertragedians, greater stage producers, greater film directors, greater cabaret artists, greaterTV stars. . . . If there are, they are 14 different people. Only one man combined all these dif-ferent talents—The Master. Noël Coward.”

Richard Aldous, the author of The Lion and the Unicorn, is Eugene Meyer Professor ofBritish History and Literature at Bard College.

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Who’s Who

Michael Gieleta DirectorMichael Gieleta is the artistic director of the Cherub Company London. Most recently, hedirected the premiere of Peter Nichols’s Lingua Franca in New York and London, as wellas the acclaimed production of Bedr̆ich Smetana’s The Kiss at Wexford Festival Opera. HisLondon theater productions include works by Tom Stoppard, Stephen Sondheim, NiloCruz, Glyn Maxwell, and Peter Quilter, among others. As an assistant, he has worked withFranco Zeffirelli, Francesca Zambello, David McVicar, and Michael Boyd (the West End,Covent Garden, Glyndebourne, and the Royal Shakespeare Company, respectively).Gieleta’s opera credits include productions at the State Theatre (Pretoria), Cape TownOpera, Opera Integra, Opera Brava, and the Royal College of Music. He also directs at theRoyal Academy of Dramatic Art in London. His production of Roman Statkowski’s Mariawill open at Wexford this fall, and he looks forward to the American premiere of The Kissat the Opera Theatre of Saint Louis in 2012. Gieleta trained at the University of Oxfordand the National Theatre Studio. www.michaelgieleta.com

James Bagwell ConductorJames Bagwell maintains an active schedule as a conductor of orchestral, choral, musi-cal theater, and operatic repertoire. He has been director of choruses for the Bard MusicFestival since 2003, conducting and preparing a wide variety of choral works. In additionto his work as conductor for Bitter Sweet, he is chorus master of the SummerScape pro-duction Die Liebe der Danae. In 2009, he was appointed music director of The CollegiateChorale and principal guest conductor of the American Symphony Orchestra. He has pre-pared The Concert Chorale of New York for a number of appearances, most notably, theMostly Mozart Festival. In addition to his work in New York, he is music director of theMay Festival Youth Chorus in Cincinnati, and was for 10 seasons music director of LightOpera Oklahoma, where he conducted some 25 productions. He has taught at BardCollege since 2000, where he is director of the Music Program and codirector of itsGraduate Conducting Program.

William Ferguson CarlWilliam Ferguson made his debut with the Santa Fe Opera in 2006, as Caliban in theNorth American premiere of Thomas Adès’s The Tempest. He is a regular artist at the NewYork City Opera, where his performances have included the title role in Candide, Nanki-Poo in The Mikado, and the Funeral Director in A Quiet Place, among many others. For TheMetropolitan Opera, he has performed Beppe in I pagliacci as well as roles in Le nozze diFigaro and The Magic Flute (under the baton of James Levine). Other selected creditsinclude Andres in Wozzeck (Opera Festival of New Jersey), Ferrando in Così fan tutte (The

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Aspen Music Festival), Pang in Turandot (Opera Company of Philadelphia), the Sailor inDido and Aeneas (Gotham Chamber Opera), and the title role in Albert Herring (MusicAcademy of the West). He has also performed at Carnegie Hall with The Opera Orchestraof New York, as Nick in La fanciulla del West and as Laërte in Mignon. A compelling inter-preter of new music, Ferguson sang Bentley Drummle in Dominick Argento’s MissHavisham’s Fire at Opera Theatre of Saint Louis and performed in the world premieres ofAnthony Davis’s Wakonda’s Dream (Opera Omaha) and Robert Aldridge’s Elmer Gantry(Peak Performances at Montclair). While in St. Louis, he performed the role of Hippolytein Rameau’s Hippolyte et Aricie as a last-minute replacement, singing “with grace, andstriking self-possession” (Opera News).

Ferguson is a passionate concert and recital performer, with a repertoire that rangesfrom the baroque masters to Schubert, Schumann, and Rorem. He has appeared with(among others) The American Symphony Orchestra, BBC Orchestra, Boston SymphonyOrchestra, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra (England), Los AngelesPhilharmonic, Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra, Musica Sacra New York, Orchestra of St.Luke’s, and Radio Filharmonisch Orkest (Netherlands). He has performed extensivelywith The Marilyn Horne Foundation and The New York Festival of Song, and has beenshowcased in chamber programs and recitals across the United States—including, in2007, at the Bard Music Festival. Among the numerous grants and awards Ferguson hasreceived was the 2003 Alice Tully Vocal Arts Debut Recital Award granting him a NewYork recital debut in Alice Tully Hall. A native of Richmond, Virginia, he holds both B.M.and M.M. degrees from The Juilliard School.

Joshua Jeremiah Sir Arthur/Captain LutteBaritone Joshua Jeremiah was born in Reading, Pennsylvania. His career highlightsinclude Billy Bigelow in Carousel (Carnegie Visual and Performing Arts Center), Junior(cover) in A Quiet Place (New York City Opera; VOX Contemporary American Opera Lab),Young Man in The Last Romance (Old Globe Theater), Alidoro in La cenerentola(Glimmerglass Opera), Harlequin in Ariadne auf Naxos, La Rocca in Un giorno di regno andthe title role in the world premiere of John Musto’s Valpone (Wolf Trap Opera Company),Silvio in I Pagliacci (Spokane Opera), and Guglielmo in Così fan tutte (Cincinnati ChamberOrchestra). Jeremiah has performed in concert with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra,The Little Orchestra Society of New York, the Yakima Symphony Orchestra, and theCincinnati Baroque Music Ensemble. He trained at the Shenandoah Conservatory andreceived an M.M. in vocal studies and an Artist Diploma from the University of CincinnatiCollege-Conservatory of Music. The Wolf Trap Opera Company recording of Valpone, withJeremiah in the title role, was nominated for a Grammy Award in 2010.

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Joel Johnstone VincentJoel Johnstone is proud to be making his debut at the Fisher Center. His theater creditsinclude Garry Marshall’s Everybody Say Cheese (Falcon Theatre, Los Angeles), Rules of theUniverse (Outstanding Play of the Year, New York Innovative Theatre Awards), LanfordWilson’s A Sense of Place (New York premiere), Fall Forward (Rising Phoenix Rep), Romeoand Juliet, King Lear, and Twelfth Night (London). Johnstone graduated with a degree intheater from Fordham University at Lincoln Center and spent the better part of a yearstudying abroad at the British American Drama Academy, in both Oxford and London. Heresides and works on both coasts. Recent television and film credits include Spinning intoButter, Criminal Minds, Urban Gothic (UK/Bravo), and Magritte Moment. He also just com-pleted writing, directing, and starring in his own short film, The Pilgrim & The Private Eye,out late this year. www.joeljohnstone.com

Sarah Miller Sarah/SariSarah Miller recently appeared as Verena in the Center for Contemporary Opera’s worldpremiere of The Secret Agent, conducted by Sara Jobin and directed by Sam Helfrich; asOlga in Eugene Onegin; and in the title role in Carmen, under the baton of RichardBarrett. Other roles include Xenia in the Florida Grand Opera production of BorisGodunov opposite James Morris, Tisbe in La cenerentola, Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni,Despina in Così fan tutte, Charlotte in A Little Night Music, and, with the New YorkChamber Opera, Serafina in Il campanello and the 2nd Woman / Attendant in Dido andAeneas, both conducted by Lucy Arner. Additional conductors with whom she has per-formed leading and featured roles include Julius Rudel, Richard Bonynge, StewartRobertson, and Glen Cortese. Miller has received two Metropolitan Opera NationalCouncil Auditions Encouragement Awards. She holds a B.A. in art history from ColumbiaCollege, Columbia University, and in 2011 will complete her M.M. at the Brooklyn CollegeConservatory of Music.

Siân Phillips Lady ShayneSiân Phillips trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts, where she was awarded theBankcroft Gold Medal. On stage, she has appeared in A Little Night Music (Opera Theatreof Saint Louis), Juliet and Her Romeo (Bristol Old Vic), Calendar Girls (Chichester FestivalTheatre, tour, and the West End), Les liaison dangereuses (American Airlines Theater), PaulRudnick’s Regrets Only (Manhattan Theatre Club), Rockaby (Gate Theatre, Dublin;Barbican Centre), Great Expectations (Royal Shakespeare Company), “Divas at theDonmar” (cabaret), Pam Gems’s Marlene (Olivier, Tony, and Drama Desk Award nomina-tions), House of America, A Little Night Music (Olivier Award nomination), and Gems’sadaptation of Henrik Ibsen’s Ghosts (Artist of the Year Award nomination). She hasappeared on Broadway in An Inspector Calls, Marlene, and My Old Lady. Her West End

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credits include Maxibules, Eccentricities of a Nightingale, Hedda Gabler, Jacques Brel IsAlive and Well and Living in Paris, Man and Superman and The Night of the Iguana(Evening Standard Award nominations), Pal Joey (SWET Award nomination), MajorBarbara, The Manchurian Candidate, The Nightingale in Bloomsbury Square, Gigi, andPainting Churches. Phillips has won many awards for her work on television—including,of course, her BAFTA-winning performance as Livia in I, Claudius. She has appeared inLewis, Missing, Poirot, Midsomer Murders, Aristocrats, The Murder Room, Ivanhoe, TheScold’s Bride, Ballykissangel, and the International Emmy Award–winning The Magician’sHouse, among others. Her films include House of America, Alice Through the LookingGlass, My Old Lady, The Borrowers, Becket, Under Milk Wood, Dune, Valmont, The Age ofInnocence, and Murphy’s Law.

Phillips is a graduate of the University of Wales and a Commander of the Order of theBritish Empire (C.B.E.). Her acclaimed autobiography, Public Places, has been publishedin the United States by Faber & Faber.

Justin Randolph Hugh/TranischJustin Randolph is a New York City–based actor and singer who recently appeared inSondheim’s Assassins with Fifth Floor Productions. Favorite NYC credits include Into theWoods (Cinderella’s Prince; The Wolf), Romeo and Juliet (Romeo), Invader? I Hardly KnowHer (Botsworth) with the 2010 New York International Fringe Festival, and Off-Broadwayin A Christmas Carol (Topper). Favorite regional credits include Equus (Alan), Camelot(Mordred), and Closer (Dan). Randolph was a member of the critically acclaimed vocalensemble Choral Chameleon for three years. He has an M.M. in voice performance fromBowling Green State University, and his training includes opera performances with theOberlin Conservatory at the Centro Studi Italiani Opera Festival and a one-year Meisneracting intensive with TGA Studios. www.justinrandolph.com

Marianne Rendon DollyMarianne Rendon is currently studying theater at Bard College and will graduate in thespring of 2012. She has appeared in the student productions Fefu and Her Friends (Fefu),directed by Jean Wagner; Heart’s Desire (Alice), directed by JoAnne Akalaitis; and Blue Kettle(Enid), directed by Daniel Fish. As an actress, dancer, and musician, she has also appeared inmany student-run collaborations. Rendon attended The British American Drama Academyin the fall of 2010, where she played Regan in King Lear, directed by Ian Wooldridge.

Ryan Speakman Lord ShayneRyan Speakman recently graduated from New York University’s Steinhardt School with adegree in vocal performance (music theater). He currently resides in New York City, wherehis credits include Pinkalicious, The Musical (Vineyard Theatre); Alive at Ten (currently Mrs.

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Sharp), Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program, NYU; With Glee (winner, BestEnsemble Performance, 2007 New York Musical Theatre Festival); Violet; and The Boysfrom Syracuse. Regional favorites include Camelot (Olney Theatre Center), Oklahoma!(TriArts), and The Sound of Music (Nantucket Dreamland). His opera credits includeTrouble in Tahiti and The Corps of Discovery (Opera Memphis). Speakman can also be seenas Carter in the upcoming webseries Girlhattan, on Karmaloop TV. www.ryanspeakman.net

Amanda Squittieri ManonFor the 2010–11 season, Amanda Squitieri returned to LA Opera as Beatrice Russo in theworld premiere of Daniel Catan’s Il postino with Plácido Domingo. She also premiered Ilpostino in Vienna at the Theater an der Wien and in Paris at the Théâtre du Châtelet;debuted at the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma as Catherine in William Bolcolm’s A View fromthe Bridge; and covered the role of Alice in Le Comte Ory in the new Metropolitan Operaproduction directed by Bartlett Sher. Other recent engagements include Esmeralda inThe Bartered Bride (Opéra National de Paris), Anne in the Isaac Mizrahi production of ALittle Night Music (Opera Theatre of Saint Louis), Papagena in Die Zauberflöte (LA Opera),Lisette in La rondine (LA Opera), and Zerlina in Don Giovanni (Washington NationalOpera). Next season, Squittieri will premiere Il postino in Mexico and make her debut atthe Teatro Municipal de Santiago.

Jack Parton Music Arranger and PreparerJack Parton studied composition at the Peabody Conservatory of Music in Baltimore, withadditional studies in voice and tuba and particular concentrations in preclassical andavant-garde music. After working for more than a decade in the New York City musicworld—as performer, editor, copyist, music preparation specialist, orchestra librarian, andcomposer—he has recently moved to Chicago to find more studio space and creativetime. Parton’s previous involvement with SummerScape has included assisting with thereduction of the orchestration for Gershwin’s Of Thee I Sing in 2008 and producing anentirely new orchestration for last year’s operetta, Straus’s The Chocolate Soldier.

Christopher Caines ChoreographerChristopher Caines was born in Canada, earned an A.B. in literature from HarvardUniversity, and founded Christopher Caines Dance in 2000. He has been called “the mostmusically sophisticated choreographer under 45 in the United States” (Dance ViewTimes) and “one of the most musically erudite and articulate dance-makers around” (TheNew Yorker). Caines’s commissions include works created as a visiting artist at Harvardand as a visiting faculty member at Princeton University and Swarthmore College; TheHuman Countdown, commissioned by Oxfam and a global coalition of NGOs, performedby 1,200 volunteers in New York City’s Central Park in 2009; and a ballet for the closing

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ceremonies of the USA International Ballet Competition in Jackson, Mississippi, in 2010.He has made dances for the Actors Shakespeare Company of New Jersey annually since2005. Caines has received grants from Meet the Composer, The Field, the Ernst TochSociety, and the Astral, Puffin, and Putnam Foundations. He was a 2006 GuggenheimFoundation Fellow in Choreography.

Adrian W. Jones Set Designer Adrian W. Jones is a graduate of the Yale School of Drama and Occidental College. Hisrecent work includes the set designs for Cutman, a new Goodspeed Musicals production;Sufjan Stevens’s U.S. and European concert tours; and Vision Disturbance, directed byRichard Maxwell (Under the Radar Festival). In 2010, he was set designer on theBroadway production of Looped with Valerie Harper. Jones has worked with BaltimoreCenter Stage, Arena Stage, Pasadena Playhouse, The Repertory Theater of St. Louis, NewYork Stage and Film, LAByrinth Theater Company, New York City Players, The New Group,People’s Light & Theater, the Coconut Grove Playhouse, Bloomsburg Theatre Ensemble,Barrington Stage Company, Boise Contemporary Theater, and Capital Repertory Theater.He has designed nine productions for the Obie Award–winning Synapse Productions inNew York and 11 shows for Theaterworks in Hartford, Connecticut. He is the recipient ofa Carbonell Award (Miami), a Connecticut Critics Circle Award (Hartford), and a KevinKline Award (St. Louis), and his work has been published in Surface and Dwell Magazines.www.adrianwjones.com

Gregory Gale Costume DesignerGregory Gale has designed the costumes for numerous Broadway productions, includingCyrano de Bergerac (Tony and Henry Hewes Design Award nominations), Rock of Ages(Tony and Hewes Award nominations) Arcadia, The Wedding Singer (Drama Desk Awardnomination), Urinetown (Lucille Lortel Award nomination), and Band in Berlin. His Off-Broadway credits include The Voysey Inheritance, Atlantic Theater Company (Lucille LortelAward; Hewes Award nomination); The Milliner, Classic Stage Company (Lucille LortelAward nomination); Rock of Ages, New World Stages; The Third Story, Manhattan TheatreClub (Hewes Award nomination); Pig Farm and The Dazzle, Roundabout Theatre; Rope,The Zipper Factory; Country Club (Drama Desk nomination), The Torch-Bearers, UncleTom’s Cabin, and As Thousands Cheer, Drama Dept.; and Mary Stuart, The InfernalMachine, and Night of the Tribades, Jean Cocteau Repertory. Gale was costume designerfor the U.S. tours of Rock of Ages (plus Toronto, London, and Australia), Urinetown (plusToronto), and the National Theatre of the Deaf’s production of Oh, Figaro! His regionaltheater credits include The Man Who Came to Dinner (Alley Theatre), Rich and Famous(A.C.T.), A Flea in Her Ear (Williamstown Theatre Festival), Bombshells (MilwaukeeRepertory Theater), and How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, High Button

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Shoes, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, and The Pajama Game (Goodspeed Opera House).He is the recipient of an Irene Sharaff Young Master Award. www.gregorygale.com

Christopher Akerlind Lighting Designer Christopher Akerlind is a lighting and sometime set designer who has designed morethan 600 productions at theater, opera, and dance companies across the country andaround the world. Recent work includes Franco Dragone’s KDO! (Forest Nationale,Brussels), Orpheus X (Theatre for a New Audience; Hong Kong and Edinburgh Festivals),Tamerlano (LA Opera), Gruesome Playground Injuries (Alley Theatre), Die Entführung ausdem Serail and Appomattox (San Francisco Opera), Superior Donuts and Top Girls(Broadway), Twelfth Night (McCarter Theatre), Martha Clarke’s Garden of Earthly Delights(Minetta Lane Theatre), and Kafeneion (Athens & Epidaurus Festival). He is the recipient ofan Obie Award for Sustained Excellence; the Michael Merritt Award for Design andCollaboration; and the Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle, and Henry Hewes DesignAwards for the Broadway production of The Light in the Piazza, as well as numerous nom-inations for the Drama Desk, Lucile Lortel, NAACP, Outer Critics Circle, and Tony Awards.

Jack Furness Assistant Director Jack Furness graduated with a double first in music from Cambridge University last sum-mer. While at Cambridge, Furness founded Shadwell Opera, for which he has directedCosì fan tutte, The Magic Flute, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and Johnathan Dove’s SirenSong. In May, he directed Jasper Rees and Jonathan Guy Lewis’s I Found My Horn at theADC Theatre in Cambridge. His production of Albert Herring for Shadwell Opera is cur-rently touring the UK, including a performance at Opera Holland Park. Furness hasassisted Michael Gieleta on Bedr̆ich Smetana’s The Kiss at Wexford Festival Opera andJohn Ramster on the Royal Academy of Music’s Opera Scenes program. Future plansinclude assisting Gieleta on Roman Statkowski’s Maria at Wexford and an observershipat the Royal Opera House in November and December for Die Meistersinger vonNürnberg. Other plans include a staging of Britten’s The Turn of the Screw for ShadwellOpera in 2012.

James Bassi Music CodirectorJames Bassi’s previous SummerScape productions include Of Thee I Sing and  TheChocolate Soldier. New York City music direction credits include James Lapine’s TwelveDreams (Lincoln Center Theater), The Pirates of Penzance (AMD, South Street Seaport),and I and Albert and The Grand Tour (The York Theatre Company). His regional theatercredits include Side by Side, A Day in Hollywood / A Night in the Ukraine, and As ThousandsCheer (New Harmony Theatre); Edwin Drood (River Rep); and A Little Night Music,Ragtime, Camelot, and How To Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (White PlainsPerforming Arts Center). As pianist, Bassi has accompanied Deborah Voigt, Ute Lemper,

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Judy Kaye, and Jessye Norman in concert. He is a versatile composer, with works per-formed at Lincoln Center and Carnegie Hall. His Petrarch Dances was commissioned andpremiered by the Orchestra of St. Luke’s. Bassi has received composition grants from theNational Endowment for the Arts, Meet the Composer, and the New York Foundation forthe Arts. His music publisher is Oxford University Press.

Elizabeth Smith Dialect CoachElizabeth Smith’s extensive Broadway credits include Arcadia, The Importance of BeingEarnest, Top Girls, The Homecoming, Julius Caesar, Cymbeline, The Coast of Utopia, TheRivals, Henry IV, The Invention of Love, Twelfth Night, Ivanov, Racing Demon, Sight Unseen,The Retreat from Moscow, Tartuffe, Uncle Vanya, Night Must Fall, London Assurance,Tommy, My Fair Lady, Beauty and the Beast, Me and My Girl, Piaf, Rose, and Dracula. HerOff-Broadway credits include Humble Boy, House and Garden, One Flea Spare, The Skriker,Hamlet, Fen, Moonlight, The Entertainer, The Importance of Being Earnest, No Man’s Land,The Road to Mecca, and Cloud Nine. Regionally, she has worked with Arena Stage,Hartford Stage, the Long Wharf Theatre, Guthrie Theater, Huntington Theatre Company,Berkshire Theatre Festival, Williamstown Theatre Festival, and Shakespeare TheatreCompany.

Holly Buczek Casting Director Holly Buczek is resident casting director for the Vital Theatre Company, where she has castPinkalicious, The Musical; Uncle Pirate; Velma Gratch and the Way Cool Butterfly; AngelinaBallerina: The Musical; Awesome Allie: First Kid Astronaut; and other shows. Other favoriteprojects include Caroline, or Change (in the role of Caroline) for Cyrano’s Theatre Company,Perfect Wedding for Vital SummerStage, R U Nobody 2? (staged reading) at the DramatistsGuild, and New Shoe’s reading of The Ballad of Rom and Julz. At Vital, Buczek also facili-tates the development process for new works. In addition, she assists the casting forTheatre 167 in Jackson Heights. She is an honor graduate of the Tisch School of the Arts atNew York University. For more information, visit www.hdbcasting.com.

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Donors to the Fisher CenterLeadership SupportEmily H. Fisher and John AlexanderJeanne Donovan FisherMartin and Toni Sosnoff

FoundationRichard B. Fisher Endowment FundMartin T. and Toni SosnoffRobert W. Wilson

Golden CircleAnonymousThe Barbro Osher Pro Suecia

FoundationFalconwood Foundation, Inc.FMH FoundationLinda Hirshman and David ForkoshJane and Aatos Erkko FoundationMillbrook Tribute Garden, Inc.Thendara FoundationFelicitas S. ThorneTrue Love Productions

Friends of the Fisher CenterProducerFiona Angelini and Jamie WelchArtekArthur F. and Alice E. Adams

FoundationAssociation of Performing Arts

PresentersBioseutica USA, Inc.Carolyn Marks BlackwoodChartwells School and University

Dining ServicesConsulate General of Finland in

New YorkBarbara Ettinger and Sven HusebyThe Ettinger Foundation, Inc.Stefano Ferrari and Lilo ZinglersenAlexander Fisher MFA ’96

Catherine C. Fisher and Gregory A. Murphy

R. Britton and Melina FisherKey Bank FoundationHarvey and Phyllis LichtensteinChris Lipscomb and

Monique SegarraMansakenning LLCThe Marks Family Foundation

The Maurer Family Foundation, Inc.

Mid Atlantic Arts FoundationMillbrook Vineyards and WineryMinistry for Foreign Affairs

of FinlandNational Endowment for the Arts

(NEA)New York State Council on the Arts

(NYSCA)Mr. and Mrs. James H. Ottaway Jr.Drs. M. Susan and Irwin RichmanIngrid RockefellerDavid E. Schwab II ’52 and

Ruth Schwartz Schwab ’52

Bethany B. Winham

PatronHelen and Roger AlcalyAmerican-Scandinavian

FoundationKathleen and Roland AugustineMary I. Backlund and Virginia CorsiSandra and A. John Blair IIIAnne Donovan Bodnar and

James L. BodnarStuart Breslow and Anne MillerAnne and Harvey BrownBarbara and Richard DebsMr. and Mrs. Gonzalo de las HerasElizabeth de LimaTambra DillonDirt Road Realty, LLCInes Elskop and Christopher Scholz Elizabeth W. Ely ’65 and

Jonathan K. GreenburgFinlandia FoundationAlan and Judith FishmanSusan Fowler-GallagherGE FoundationGideon and Sarah Gartner

Foundation of the FidelityCharitable Gift Fund

Bryanne and Thomas Hamill The Harkness Foundation for

Dance, Inc.HSBC Philanthropic ProgramsJohn Cage TrustDr. Harriette Kaley ’06

Mr. and Mrs. George A. KellnerDr. Barbara KennerRuth Ketay and Rene SchnetzlerLaura Kuhn

Jane and Daniel LindauLow Road FoundationStephen Mazoh and Martin KlineElizabeth I. McCannW. Patrick McMullan and

Rachel McPhersonAlexandra OttawayPleasant Valley Animal HospitalQuality Printing CompanyDavid A. SchulzDenise S. Simon and

Paulo Vieira da Cunha Andrew Solomon and John HabichSarah and Howard SolomonDarcy StephensAllan and Ronnie StreichlerBarbara and Donald ToberIlliana van Meeteren and

Terence C. Boylan ’70

Margo and Anthony Viscusi Aida and Albert Wilder

SponsorSarah Botstein and Bryan DoerriesCaplan Family FoundationRichard D. CohenThe Eve Propp Family FoundationCarlos Gonzalez and

Katherine StewartEliot D. and Paula K. HawkinsRachel and Dr. Shalom Kalnicki Geraldine and

Lawrence LaybourneCynthia Hirsch Levy ’65

Barbara L. and Arthur MichaelsAndrea and Kenneth L. MironSamuel and Ellen PhelanCatherine M. and

Jonathan B. SmithTed SnowdonJohn TancockBeverley D. Zabriskie

SupporterHarriet Bloch and Evan SakellariosKay Brover and Arthur BennettAlfred M. Buff and Lenore Nemeth Dr. and Mrs. Bruce CuttlerLeslie and Doug DienelAmy K. and David DubinPatricia FalkMartha Jane FleischmanFrances A. and Rao Gaddipati

We honor the late Richard B. Fisher for his generosity and leadership in building and supporting this superb center that bears his name by offering outstanding arts experiences.We recognize and thank the following individuals, corporations, and foundations that shareDick’s and our belief in presenting and creating art for the enrichment of society. Help ussustain the Fisher Center and ensure that the performing arts are a part of our lives. Weencourage and need you to join our growing list of donors.

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Helena and Christopher GibbsGilberte Vansintejan Glaser and

William A. GlaserMiriam and Burton GoldNan and David GreenwoodAlexander Grey and David CabreraDr. Eva B. GrieppRosemary and Graham HansonDavid S. HartJanet and William HartLars Hedstrom and Barry JuddHedstrom and Judd, Inc.Mel and Phyllis HeikoDarren HenaultDr. Joan Hoffman and

Syd SilvermanSusan and Roger KennedyHarold KleinSeymour and Harriet KoenigRose and Josh KoplovitzDanielle Korwin and

Anthony DiGuiseppeJames KraftElissa Kramer and Jay H. NewmanRamone LascanoHelena LeeMimi LevittMr. and Mrs. David LondonerSusan LorenceCharles S. MaierMargrit and Albrecht PichlerTed Ruthizer and Jane DenkensohnWilliam SiegfriedElisabeth F. TurnauerSeymour Weingarten

FriendAnonymousJoshua J. AronsonJohn J. Austrian ’91 and

Laura M. AustrianSybil BaldwinAlvin and Arlene BeckerHoward and Mary BellFrederick BerlinerJeanne and Homer ByingtonMaryAnn and Thomas CaseDaniel Chu and Lenore SchiffMr. and Mrs. John CioffiJean T. CookAbby H. and John B. DuxDavid Ebony and Bruce MundtArthur FenaroliDr. Marta P. FlaumEdward ForlieAllan FreedmanMary and Harvey FreemanJoseph W. and Joyce GelbMarvin and Maxine GilbertNigel GillahLaurie GilmoreMr. and Mrs. Floyd GlinertG. Carson Glover and

Stephen MillikinJudy R. and Arthur Gold

Fayal Greene and David J. SharpeSheryl GriffithDavid A. HarrisElise and Carl HartmanSue HartshornJames HaydenDorothy and Leo HellermanDelmar D. HendricksSky Pape and Alan HoughtonDavid HurvitzNeil IsabelleMark R. JoelsonEleanor C. KaneLinda L. KaumeyerMr. and Mrs. John W. KellyMartha Klein and David HurvitzRobert J. KurillaJames LackRobert la PorteGerald F. LewisSara F. Luther and John J. NeumaierJohn P. MackenzieHerbert MayoDr. Naomi MendelsohnEdie Michelson and

Sumner MilenderJanet C. MillsDavid T. MintzRoy MosesJoanne and Richard MrstikMartha NickelsDouglas Okerson and

William WilliamsElizabeth J. and Sevgin OktayRobert M. OsborneDavid Pozorski and Anna RomanskiSusan PriceGeorge and Gail Hunt ReekeSusan RegisRhinebeck Department StorePeter and Linda RubensteinHeinz and Klara SauerBarbara and Dick SchreiberMr. and Mrs. Edward T. ScottJames E. ScottDr. Alan M. SilbertPeter SipperleyDr. Sanford B. SternliebFrancis E. Storer Jr.Mark SuttonTaconic Foundation, Inc.Janeth L. ThoronTiffany & Co.Dr. Siri von ReisJoan E. WebermanRobert WeissWendy and Michael WestermanWilliams Lumber and

Home CentersAlbert L. YarashusMike and Kathy ZdebRena Zurofsky

Current as of June 20, 2011

Donors to the Bard Music FestivalEvents in this year’s Bard MusicFestival were underwritten in partby special gifts fromHelen and Roger AlcalyBettina Baruch Foundation Michelle R. ClaymanJeanne Donovan FisherMimi LevittJames H. Ottaway Jr.Denise S. Simon and

Paulo Vieira da CunhaAllan and Ronnie StreichlerFelicitas S. ThorneFestival UnderwritersJames H. Ottaway Jr.Opening ConcertMimi LevittPreconcert TalksGuest ArtistsFilms Homeland FoundationBard Music Festival Preview

at WethersfieldHelen and Roger AlcalyFestival BookFestival ProgramMargo and Anthony ViscusiPreconcert TalksJoanna M. MigdalPanel DiscussionsPaula and Eliot HawkinsChristina A. Mohr and

Matthew GuerreiroBetween the Concerts SupperNational Endowment for the Arts

(NEA)

New York State Council on the Arts(NYSCA)

Leadership SupportMimi LevittThe Mortimer Levitt FoundationMr. and Mrs. James H. Ottaway Jr.

Golden CircleBettina Baruch FoundationJeanne Donovan FisherThe Andrew W. Mellon FoundationJane W. Nuhn Charitable TrustDenise S. Simon and

Paulo Vieira da CunhaFelicitas S. ThorneMillie and Robert Wise

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Friends of the Bard Music FestivalBenefactorAmerican-Scandinavian

FoundationThe Ann and Gordon Getty

FoundationBanco Santander S. A.Barclays Bank Leonie F. BatkinJoan K. DavidsonMr. and Mrs. Gonzalo de las HerasJohn A. Dierdorff Elizabeth W. Ely ’65 and

Jonathan K. Greenburg FMH Foundation Furthermore: A Program of the

J. M. Kaplan FundEliot D. and Paula K. HawkinsLinda Hirshman and David Forkosh Homeland Foundation, Inc. HSBC Philanthropic ProgramsAnne E. Impellizzeri The J. M. Kaplan Fund, Inc.Susan and Roger KennedyBarbara KennerAmy and Thomas O. MaggsMarstrand FoundationThe Mrs. Mortimer Levitt

Endowment Fund for thePerforming Arts

National Endowment for the Arts(NEA)

New York State Council on the Arts(NYSCA)

Dimitri B. and Rania PapadimitriouPeter Kenner Family Fund of the

Jewish Communal Fund Ralph E. Ogden Foundation, Inc.Dr. Gabrielle Reem** and Dr.

Herbert J. KaydenDrs. M. Susan and Irwin RichmanDavid E. Schwab II ’52 and

Ruth Schwartz Schwab ’52

H. Peter Stern and Helen Drutt English

Dr. Siri von ReisMerida Welles and

William Holman The Wise Family Charitable

Foundation Elaine and James WolfensohnBetsey and E. Lisk Wyckoff Jr.

PatronABC Foundation Constance Abrams and Ann VerberEdwin L. Artzt and

Marieluise HesselMr. and Mrs. Ronald AtkinsKathleen and Roland Augustine Gale and Sheldon Baim Elizabeth Phillips Bellin ’00 and

Marco M. S. Bellin

Dr. Miriam Roskin Berger ’56

Helen ’48 and Robert Bernstein Helen and Robert Bernstein

Philanthropic Fund of theJewish Communal Fund

Anne Donovan Bodnar and James L. Bodnar

Sarah Botstein and Bryan DoerriesLydia Chapin Constance and David C. Clapp J. T. Compton Jane Cottrell and Richard KortrightArnold J. ’44 and Seena Davis**Barbara and Richard DebsMichael Del Giudice and

Jaynne KeyesRt. Rev. Herbert A. and

Mary Donovan Amy Knoblauch Dubin and

David DubinRobert C. Edmonds ’68

Ines Elskop and Christopher Scholz John GellerHelena and Christopher Gibbs Kim Z. GoldenCarlos Gonzalez and

Katherine Stewart Barbara K. HoganJane and Robert HottensenFrederic K. and Elena Howard Joan and Julius JacobsonJasper JohnsDrs. Harriette and Gabor KaleyRachel and Dr. Shalom KalnickiHelene and Mark N. Kaplan Belinda and Stephen KayeMr. and Mrs. Thomas W. Keesee IIIMr. and Mrs. George A. Kellner Klavierhaus, Inc.Seymour and Harriet KoenigEdna and Gary LachmundAlison and John LankenauGlenda Fowler Law and Alfred LawBarbara and S Jay Levy Cynthia Hirsch Levy ’65

Patti and Murray LiebowitzMartin and Toni Sosnoff

FoundationStephen Mazoh and Martin KlineW. Patrick McMullan and

Rachel McPhersonDr. and Mrs. Arthur MenkenMetropolitan Life Foundation

Matching Gift ProgramAndrea and Kenneth L. MironChristina A. Mohr and

Matthew GuerreiroKen MortensonMartin L. Murray and

Lucy Miller Murray Alexandra OttawayEve ProppDrs. Morton and Shirley Rosenberg Blanche and Bruce Rubin

Andrew Solomon and John Habich Solomon

Sarah and Howard Solomon Martin T. and Toni Sosnoff Edwin A. SteinbergDr. S. B. Sternlieb Stewart’s ShopsElizabeth Farran Tozer and W.

James Tozer Jr. Tozer Family Fund of the New York

Community TrustIlliana van MeeterenAida and Albert WilderIrene ZedlacherWilliam C. Zifchak and

Margaret Evans

SponsorAnonymousAna AzevedoMargaret and Alec BancroftEverett and Karen CookPhillip S. Cooke Blythe Danner ’65

Dasein FoundationWillem F. De Vogel and

Marion Davidson Cornelia Z. and Timothy Eland Timothy and Cornelia Eland Fund

of the Fidelity Charitable GiftFund

Shepard and Jane Ellenberg Ellenberg Asset Management

Corp. Field-Bay FoundationFrancis Finlay and Olivia J. FussellLaura FlaxMartha Jane FleischmanDeborah and Thomas Flexner Donald C. FresneLaura GeneroSamuel L. Gordon Jr. and

Marylou TapallaMr. and Mrs. Jay M. GwynneMarjorie HartNancy and David HathawayMartin Holub and Karen KidderLucas Hoogduin and

Adriana OnstwedderPamela HowardJohn R. and Joyce Hupper I.B.M. Matching Grants Program Susan JonasEdith Hamilton KeanFernanda Kellogg and

Kirk HenckelsClara F. and David J. LondonerJames and Purcell Palmer Mr. and Mrs. Frederick P. PaytonEllen and Eric PetersenJohn and Claire ReidAlfred J. and Deirdre RossDr. Paul H. Schwartz and

Lisa Barne-Schwartz James and Sara Sheldon

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David and Sarah StackRichard C. Strain and Eva Van RijnBarbara and Donald ToberArete and William** Warren Jack and Jill WertheimRosalind Whitehead Serena H. WhitridgeJulia and Nigel WiddowsonPeter and Maria Wirth

SupporterMunir and Susan Abu-HaidarBarbara J. AgrenJames Akerberg and

Larry SimmonsLeora and Peter ArmstrongIrene and Jack BanningDidi and David Barrett Karen H. Bechtel Dr. Susan Krysiewicz and

Thomas Bell Carole and Gary Beller Mr. and Mrs. Andy BellinBeth and Jerry BierbaumMr. and Mrs. David Bova Mr. and Mrs. William B. BrannanKay Brover and Arthur Bennett Dan F. and Nancy BrownKate Buckley and Tony Pell Phyllis Busell and James KostellPeter Caldwell and Jane Waters Miriam and Philip CarrollFrederick and Jan CohenSeth Dubin and Barbara FieldJoan and Wolcott DunhamRuth EngIngrid and Gerald FieldsEmily Rutgers Fuller Donald Gellert and Elaine Koss Mims and Burton Gold Victoria and Max GoodwinJanine M. GordonMary and Kingdon Gould Jr. Nan and David GreenwoodMortimer and Penelope C. HallSally S. HamiltonJuliet HeyerSusan Hoehn and Allan BahrsWilliam HolmanDalya InhaberJay JollyKaren Bechtel Foundation of the

Advisor Charitable Gift FundRobert E. KausErica KiesewetterCharles and Katharine KingKaren KloppDr. and Mrs. Vincent KohLowell H. and Sandra A. LambDebra I. and Jonathan LanmanE. Deane and Judith S. LeonardWalter LippincottLynn Favrot Nolan Family Fund

Jeanette MacDonald and Charles Morgan

Philip and Tracey MactaggartCharles S. MaierClaire and Chris MannMarilyn MarinaccioElizabeth B. MavroleonCharles MelcherArthur and Barbara L. MichaelsSamuel C. MillerJohn E. Morrison IVMr. and Mrs. Alfred MudgeBernadette Murray and

Randy FertelKamilla and Donald NajdekJay H. Newman and Elissa KramerMr. and Mrs. William T. NolanMarta E. NottebohmElizabeth J. and Sergin OktayDr. Bernhard Fabricius and

Sylvia OwenDavid B. and Jane L. ParshallSusan Heath and Rodney PatersonJohn and Claire ReidBarbara ReisSusan F. RogersRosalie Rossi, Ph.D.John RoyallDagni and Martin SenzelDenise and Lawrence ShapiroNadine Bertin StearnsMim and Leonard SteinCarole TindallJohn Tuke and Leslie FarhangiDr. Elisabeth F. TurnauerMonica WamboldTaki and Donald WiseJohn and Mary Young

FriendRev. Albert R. AhlstromLorraine D. AlexanderArthur A. AndersonAnonymousZelda Aronstein and

Norman EisnerArtscope, Inc.John K. AylingPhebe and George BantaJames M. BartonMr. and Mrs. Francis D. BartonSaida BaxtRegina and David BeckmanDr. Howard BellinRichard L. BensonDr. Marge and Edward BlaineEric and Irene BrocksDavid and Jeannette T. BrownMr. and Mrs. John C. D. BrunoAlfred M. Buff and Lenore NemethIsobel and Robert ClarkDonald CooneyMillicent O. McKinley CoxLinda and Richard DainesDana and Brian Dunn

Abby and John DuxPeter EdelmanPeter Elebash and Jane RobinsonJim and Laurie Niles ErwinPatricia FalkHarold FarbermanArthur L. FenaroliDavid and Tracy FinnLuisa E. FlynnPatricia and John ForelleMary Ann FreeSamantha FreeStephen and Jane GarmeyAnne C. GillisMr. and Mrs. Harrison J. GoldinDr. Joel and Ellen GoldinStanley L. GordonThurston GreeneBen-Ali and Mimi HagginDavid A. HarrisSy HeldermanSharon and David HendlerCarol HenkenNancy H. HenzeGary HermanDavid Hurvitz and Martha KleinDr. and Mrs. Gerald ImberPatricia H. KeeseeMr. and Mrs. John W. KellyJoan Kend Diana Niles KingThea KlirosSharon Daniel KroegerRobert J. KurillaJeffrey LangProf. Edward C. LauferWayne LawsonBeth LedyLaurence and Michael LevinLongy School of MusicRuthie and Lincoln LymanM Group, LLCJohn P. MacKenzieHermes Mallea and Carey MaloneyAnnette S. and Paul N. MarcusHarvey MarekThe McGraw-Hill Companies

Matching Gift ProgramMarcus Mello ’04

Dr. Naomi MendelsohnPhilip MessingMillbrook Real Estate, LLCDeborah D. MontgomeryKelly Morgan Debbie Ann and

Christopher MorleySusan and Robert MurphyAnna Neverova ’07

Nancy R. NewhouseHugh and Marilyn NissensonHarold J. and Helen C. NoahJames OlanderMarilyn and Peter OswaldGary S. Patrik

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Sarah Payden ’09

Peter and Sally V. PettusLucas Pipes ’08

Dr. Alice R. PisciottoDavid Pozorski and Anna RomanskiD. Miles PriceStanley A. Reichel ’65 and

Elaine ReichelDr. Naomi F. Rothfield ’50 and

Lawrence RothfieldHarriet and Bernard SadowAntonia SalvatoSheila SandersDr. Thomas B. SandersHeinz and Klara SauerMolly SchaeferFrederick W. Schwerin Jr.Mary ScottDanny P. Shanahan and

Janet E. Stetson ’81

J. Kevin SmithPolly and LeRoy SwindellJessica and Peter TcherepnineGladys R. ThomasJaneth L. ThoronCynthia M. Tripp ’01

Laurie TuzoOlivia van Melle KampRonald VanVoorhiesAndrea A. WaltonJacqueline E. WarrenPeter WarwickRenee K. Weiss ’51

Barbara Jean WeyantAnne WhiteheadVictoria and Conrad WicherMr. and Mrs. John WinklerAmy WoodsRobert and Lynda Youmans

Current as of June 20, 2011

Major support for theFisher Center’s programshas been provided by:Arthur F. and Alice E. Adams

FoundationHelen and Roger Alcaly American-Scandinavian

FoundationThe Andrew W. Mellon FoundationFiona Angelini and Jamie WelchThe Ann & Gordon Getty

FoundationAnonymousArtekThe Barbro Osher Pro Suecia

FoundationBarclays BankLeonie F. BatkinBettina Baruch FoundationBioseutica USA, Inc.

Carolyn Marks Blackwood andGregory Quinn

Chartwells School and UniversityDining Services

Michelle R. ClaymanConsulate General of Finland in

New YorkJoan K. DavidsonMr. and Mrs. Gonzalo de las HerasJohn A. DierdorffElizabeth W. Ely ’65 and

Jonathan K. GreenburgBarbara Ettinger and Sven HusebyThe Ettinger Foundation, Inc.Stefano Ferrari and Lilo ZinglersenFinlandia FoundationAlexander D. Fisher MFA ’96

Catherine C. Fisher and Gregory A. Murphy

Emily H. Fisher and John AlexanderJeanne Donovan FisherR. Britton and Melina FisherFMH FoundationEliot D. and Paula K. HawkinsLinda Hirshman and David ForkoshHomeland Foundation, Inc.HSBC Philanthropic ProgramsAnne E. ImpellizzeriJane and Aatos Erkko FoundationJane’s Ice CreamJane W. Nuhn Charitable TrustThe J. M. Kaplan Fund, Inc.Belinda and Stephen KayeSusan and Roger KennedyBarbara KennerMimi Levitt Chris Lipscomb and

Monique SegarraAmy and Thomas O. MaggsMansakenning LLCThe Marks Family FoundationMarstrand FoundationMartin and Toni Sosnoff

FoundationThe Maurer Family Foundation, Inc.Mid Atlantic Arts FoundationJoanna M. MigdalThe Millbrook Tribute GardenMillbrook Vineyards & WineryMinistry for Foreign Affairs in

FinlandThe Mortimer Levitt

Foundation Inc.Mrs. Mortimer Levitt Endowment

Fund for the Performing ArtsNational Dance Project of the

New England Foundation forthe Arts

National Endowment for the ArtsAmerican Masterpieces: Dance

National Endowment for the Arts(NEA)

New England Foundation for theArts (NEFA)

New York State Council on the Arts(NYSCA)

Ralph E. Ogden Foundation, Inc.Mr. and Mrs. James H. Ottaway Jr.Dimitri B. and Rania PapadimitriouPeter Kenner Family Fund of the

Jewish Communal FundDr. Gabrielle H. Reem** and Dr.

Herbert J. KaydenRichard B. Fisher Endowment FundDrs. M. Susan and Irwin RichmanIngrid RockefellerDavid E. Schwab II ’52 and

Ruth Schwartz Schwab ’52

The Schwab Charitable FundDenise S. Simon and

Paulo Vieira da CunhaMartin T. and Toni SosnoffH. Peter Stern and

Helen Drutt EnglishAllan and Ronnie StreichlerThendara FoundationFelicitas S. ThorneTrue Love ProductionsMargo and Anthony ViscusiDr. Siri von ReisBethany B. WinhamMillie and Robert WiseThe Wise Family Charitable

FoundationWolfensohn Family FoundationElizabeth and E. Lisk Wyckoff Jr.

** deceased

Current as of June 20, 2011

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Boards and Administration

Bard CollegeBoard of TrusteesDavid E. Schwab II ’52,

Chair EmeritusCharles P. Stevenson Jr., ChairEmily H. Fisher, Vice ChairElizabeth Ely ’65, SecretaryStanley A. Reichel ’65, TreasurerFiona AngeliniRoland J. AugustineLeon Botstein,

President of the College+David C. ClappMarcelle Clements ’69*Asher B. Edelman ’61

Robert S. Epstein ’63

Barbara S. Grossman ’73*Sally HambrechtGeorge F. Hamel Jr.Ernest F. Henderson III, Life TrusteeMarieluise HesselCharles S. Johnson III ’70

Mark N. KaplanGeorge A. KellnerCynthia Hirsch Levy ’65

Murray LiebowitzMarc S. LipschultzPeter H. Maguire ’88

James H. Ottaway Jr., Life Trustee

Martin PeretzStewart ResnickRoger N. Scotland ’93*The Rt. Rev. Mark S. Sisk,

Honorary TrusteeMartin T. SosnoffSusan WeberPatricia Ross Weis ’52

AdministrationLeon BotsteinPresidentDimitri B. Papadimitriou Executive Vice PresidentMichèle D. Dominy Vice President and Dean of the CollegeRobert Martin Vice President for Academic Affairs;Director, The Bard CollegeConservatory of MusicJames Brudvig Vice President for AdministrationDebra Pemstein Vice President for Development andAlumni/ae AffairsMary Backlund Vice President for Student Affairs;Director of Admission

Norton Batkin Vice President and Dean ofGraduate StudiesJonathan BeckerVice President and Dean forInternational Affairs and CivicEngagementSusan H. GillespieVice President for Special GlobalInitiativesMax Kenner ’01

Vice President for InstitutionalInitiativesErin CannanDean of Student AffairsPeter GadsbyAssociate Vice President forEnrollment; RegistrarMary SmithDirector of PublicationsGinger ShoreConsultant to PublicationsMark PrimoffDirector of CommunicationsKevin ParkerControllerJeffrey KatzDean of Information Services;Director of Libraries

The Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing ArtsAdvisory BoardJeanne Donovan Fisher, ChairLeon Botstein+Stefano FerrariHarvey LichtensteinRobert Martin+James H. Ottaway Jr.Dimitri B. Papadimitriou+Martin T. SosnoffToni SosnoffFelicitas S. Thorne

AdministrationSusana MeyerAssociate DirectorRobert AirhartProduction ManagerDebra PemsteinVice President for Development andAlumni/ae AffairsMark PrimoffDirector of CommunicationsMary SmithDirector of PublicationsGinger ShoreConsultant to Publications

Kimberly Keeley-HenschelBudget DirectorBonnie Kate AnthonyAssistant Production ManagerPaul LaBarberaSound and Video EngineerStephen DeanStage Operations ManagerVincent RocaTechnical DirectorMark CrittendenFacilities ManagerJeannie SchneiderBusiness ManagerAustin Miller ’06

Events ManagerClaire Weber ’08

Box Office ManagerRay StegnerBuilding Operations ManagerDoug PitcherBuilding Operations CoordinatorDaniel DeFrancisRobyn Charter

The Bard Music FestivalBoard of DirectorsDenise S. Simon, ChairRoger AlcalyLeon Botstein+Michelle R. ClaymanJohn A. DierdorffRobert C. Edmonds ’68Jeanne Donovan FisherChristopher H. Gibbs+Jonathan K. GreenburgPaula K. HawkinsLinda HirshmanBarbara KennerMimi LevittThomas O. MaggsRobert Martin+Joanna M. MigdalKenneth L. MironChristina A. MohrJames H. Ottaway Jr.Allan StreichlerTucker TaylorFelicitas S. ThorneSiri von ReisE. Lisk Wyckoff Jr.

Artistic DirectorsLeon BotsteinChristopher H. GibbsRobert Martin

Executive DirectorIrene Zedlacher

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Associate DirectorRaissa St. Pierre ’87

Scholar in Residence 2011

Daniel M. Grimley

Program Committee 2011

Byron AdamsLeon BotsteinChristopher H. GibbsDaniel M. GrimleyRobert MartinRichard WilsonIrene Zedlacher

DevelopmentDebra PemsteinAndrea GuidoStephen Millikin

PublicationsMary SmithGinger Shore, ConsultantPublic RelationsMark PrimoffEleanor Davis21C Media

Director of ChorusesJames Bagwell

Vocal Casting ConsultantSusana Meyer

Stage ManagersStephen DeanMatthew Waldron

+ ex officio * alumni/ae trustee

SummerScape StaffProductionErin AlbrechtSpiegeltent Venue DirectorGrace Schultz ’10

Production AssistantEmily Cuk ’11

Sarah SchultzMette Loulou Von Kohl ’10

Madeline Wise ’12

CarpentersMike ZallyAssistant Technical DirectorMatthew Waldron ’07

Stage Operations Supervisor,Theater Two / Stage Manager BMFRobert DicksonAssistant Stage OperationsSupervisor, Theater TwoCarley Matey Assistant to the Stage OperationsSupervisor, Sosnoff TheaterSarah Bessel ’11

Assistant to the Stage OperationsSupervisor, Theater TwoZachary CharterKatherine DaloKaycee Filson ’11

Charlotte GibbonsConnor GibbonsDale GibbonsDaniel GibbonsTrevor HendricksonBen JohnsonDerek PitcherTodd RenadetteAlexander Setzko ’13

Ashley L. Stegner ’12

Dave Toropov ’11

ElectricsJeremy LechtermanMaster Electrician, Sosnoff Theaterand SpiegeltentJoshua Foreman Master Electrician, Theater TwoEphraim SosnaLighting Programmer, Sosnoff TheaterVictoria Loye Programmer and Light BoardOperator, Theater TwoMichael Porter ’11

Light Board ProgrammerPatrick Bova ’11

Assistant to the Master Electrician,Sosnoff Theater and Spiegeltent

Hui Yi Chin ’14

Walter DanielsEszter Ficsor ’13

Samantha GribbenMichael Kauffman ’11

Robert KubisenBrian LindsayLiudmila Malyshava ’12

Jeremiah McClellandMike Porter ’11

Kara RamlowHannah ReillyNora Rubenstone ’11

Janos Sutyak ’13

Sound and VideoRichard Pearson Audio 1, Sosnoff TheaterThom Patzner Audio 1, Sosnoff Theater for BardMusic FestivalJeffrey Notti Audio 1, Theater TwoLouis Munroe Audio 2, Theater TwoJoshua Hahn ’11

Hsiao-Fang LinChris Rubeo ’10

John Schoonover ’12

CostumesBrie Furches-Howell Costume Shop ManagerMolly Farley Draper / WardrobeKatie Durkee Draper / WardrobeLindsay McWilliams First Hand / WardrobeMaria Juri Lead Wardrobe / StitcherErin Miskiewicz Lead Wardrobe / StitcherAlice Broughton Isabelle Coler April Hickman Samantha Kingsland Christina MarcantonioAlise Marie

Hair and MakeupJennifer Donovan Hair and Makeup SupervisorKatie M. CarlsonJohn DunnettEllen KinnallyJessica Olsen

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About Bard College

Founded in 1860, Bard is an independent, nonsectarian, residential, coeducational collegeoffering a four-year B.A. program in the liberal arts and sciences and a five-year B.S./B.A. degreein economics and finance. The Bard College Conservatory of Music offers a five-year programin which students pursue a dual degree, a B.Music and a B.A. in a field other than music, andoffers an M.Music in vocal arts and in conducting. Bard and its affiliated institutions also grantthe following degrees: A.A. at Bard High School Early College, a New York City public schoolwith two campuses; A.A. and B.A. at Bard College at Simon’s Rock: The Early College, in GreatBarrington, Massachusetts; M.A. in curatorial studies, and M.S. in environmental policy and inclimate science and policy at the Annandale campus; M.F.A. and M.A.T. at multiple campuses;and M.A., M.Phil., and Ph.D. in the decorative arts, design history, and material culture at theBard Graduate Center in Manhattan. Internationally, Bard confers dual B.A. degrees at theFaculty of Liberal Arts and Sciences (Smolny College), Saint Petersburg State University, Russia,and American University of Central Asia in Kyrgyzstan; and dual B.A. and M.A.T. degrees at Al-Quds University in East Jerusalem.

Bard offers academic programs in four divisions. Total enrollment for Bard College and its affil-iates is approximately 3,700 students. The undergraduate college has an enrollment of morethan 1,900 and a student-to-faculty ratio of 10:1. For more information about Bard College, visitwww.bard.edu.

PropertiesBrian Kafel Properties SupervisorEllie EngstronMorgan Green ’12

Olivia Madden ’13

SpiegelmaestroNik Quaife

Company ManagerKatrin Hall

Company Management AssistantsMaizy Broderick ScarpaAmy Cohen ’12

Azfar Kahn ’13

Harry Vincent

Front of HouseAustin Miller ’06

Events ManagerLesley DeMartin ’11

House Manager

Christina Reitemeyer ’07

Senior Assistant House ManagerPatrick King ’12

Assistant House ManagerCarley Gooley ’12

Assistant House ManagerLynne CzajkaSpiegeltent House Manager

Box Office TellersCaitlyn DeRosa Sarah Cuk ’14

Sean Colonna ’12

Melodie Stancato ’13

Anastasia Blank ’12

Jorin Dawidowicz ’12

Emily Cuk ’11

Nick Reilingh

John Boggs ’10

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HousekeepingDennis CohenAnna SimmonsMelissa Stickle

Assistants to the FacilitiesManagerDoug PitcherRay Stegner

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Cabaret, acrobats, musicians, and moreandTHE 22ND ANNUAL BARD MUSIC FESTIVALSibelius and His WorldAUGUST 12–14 and 19–21

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