Operas & Arias: Gilbert & Sullivan!

featuring UBC OPERA ENSEMBLE& members of the VANCOUVER OPERA ORCHESTRA

featuring UBC OPERA ENSEMBLE& members of the VANCOUVER OPERA ORCHESTRA

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OPERA & ARIASAUGUST 24 & AUGUST 31, 2015

Gilbert & Sullivan!

Gilbert & Sullivan! AUGUST 24, 2 P.M. AUGUST 24, 7:30 P.M. AUGUST 31, 7:30 P.M. AUGUST 31, 2 P.M.

HMS PINAFORE

Overture – We Sail the Ocean Blue UBC Opera Ensemble – Male Chorus

I’m Called Little ButtercupMrs. Kripps Shante van Horlick Yeeun Lee

When I Was a LadSir Joseph Porter Christopher Gaze Christopher Gaze UBC Opera Ensemble

Fair Moon to Thee I Sing Captain Corcoran Cameron Killick Geoffrey Schellenberg

The Hours Creep on ApaceJosephine Gwendolyn Yearwood Elizabeth Harris

Never Mind the Why and Wherefore Captain Corcoran Justin Chen Jason KlippensteinSir Joseph Porter Jack Foster Matthew McLellanJosephine Gwendolyn Yearwood Elizabeth Harris

Programme and performers subject to change.Photo by David Blue

AUGUST 24, 2 P.M. AUGUST 24, 7:30 P.M. AUGUST 31, 7:30 P.M. AUGUST 31, 2 P.M.

THE MIKADO

A Wandering Minstrel Nanki-Poo Brent MacKenzie Spencer Britten

Three Little Maids Yum-Yum Zoe Mix Tamar SimonPeep-Bo Caitlin Hill Melodie CorbettPitti-Sing Shante van Horlick Yeeun Lee

The Sun Whose Rays Yum-Yum Colleen Donnelly Tamar Simon

Brightly Dawns Our Wedding Day Yum-Yum Zoe Mix Sawyer CraigPitti-Sing Shante van Horlick Yeeun LeeNanki-Poo Jeremiah Carag Ian McCloyPish-Tush Duncan Watts-Grant Jason Klippenstein

Here’s a How-De-Do Yum-Yum Melody Corbett Sawyer CraigNanki-Poo Jeremiah Carag Ian McCloyKo-Ko Jack Foster Matthew McLellan

On a Tree by a River Ko-Ko Geoffrey Schellenberg Cameron Killick

Finale – For He’s Gone and Married Yum-YumUBC Opera Ensemble

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PIRATES OF PENZANCE

Oh Better Far to Live and Die Pirate King Duncan Watts-Grant Cameron Killick

Climbing Over Rocky Mountain / Stop, Ladies Pray / Oh, Is There Not One Maiden / Poor Wandering One Mabel Elizabeth Harris Keira ChapmanFrederic Alireza Mojibian Spencer BrittenEdith Gwendolyn Yearwood Caitlin HillKate Melodie Corbett Colleen Donnelly Ladies’ Chorus

I am the very Model of a Modern Major General Major General Christopher Gaze Christopher GazeUBC Opera Ensemble

Programme and performers subject to change.

AUGUST 24, 2 P.M. AUGUST 24, 7:30 P.M. AUGUST 31, 7:30 P.M. AUGUST 31, 2 P.M.

When You Had Left our Pirate FoldRuth Yeeun Lee Yeeun LeeFrederic Ian McCloy Spencer BrittenPirate King Cameron Killick Geoffrey Schellenberg

Stay, Frederic, StayMabel Keira Chapman Tamar SimonFrederic Thomas Lamont Alireza Mojibian

When a Felon’s Not EngagedSergeant Matthew McLellan Duncan Watts-GrantMen’s Chorus

THE GONDOLIERS

We’re Called GondolieriMarco William Grossman Spencer BrittenGiuseppe Geoffrey Schellenberg Jason Klippenstein

In Enterprise of Martial KindCasilda Mariah Mueller Isabella HalladayDuchess Gwendolyn Yearwood Shante van HorlickLuiz Ian McCloy William GrossmanDuke Jack Foster Cameron Killick

I Stole the PrinceDon Alhambra Duncan Watts-Grant Jason KlippensteinCasilda Mariah Mueller Melodie CorbettLuiz William Grossman Ian McCloyDuke Jack Foster Cameron Killick Duchess Isabella Halladay Elizabeth Harris

Then One of UsGianetta Mariah Mueller Melodie CorbettTessa Isabella Halladay Caitlin HillMarco Ian McCloy Jeremiah CaragGiuseppe Justin Chen Alireza Mojibian

Dance a CachuchaGianetta Zoe Mix Keira ChapmanTessa Sawyer Craig Colleen DonnellyMarco William Grossman Spencer BrittenGiuseppe Jason Klippenstein Geoffrey SchellenbergUBC Opera Chorus

Please turn off all cell phones and electronic devices.The use of cameras or recording devices in the theatre

during the performance is strictly prohibited.Programme and performers subject to change.

NANCY HERMISTON, Director and SopranoCanadian-born lyric coloratura soprano Nancy Hermiston has performed throughout Europe and North America. Parallel to her extensive singing career, Miss Hermiston worked as a voice teacher, stage director, and Co-coordinator with the University of Toronto’s Opera and Performance Divisions. In 1995, she joined the University of British Columbia’s School of Music as the Head of the Voice and Opera Divisions, where she established the UBC Opera Ensemble. In 2004, Miss Hermiston was named the UBC University Marshal, and in 2008, UBC awarded her the Dorothy

Somerset Award for Performance and Development in the Visual and Performing Arts. She was also honoured with a Killam Teaching Prize in 2010. In October 2011, she received an Opera Canada Rubie Award for her contributions to opera in Canada. Miss Hermiston is also a favourite guest for master classes throughout Canada, the United States, China and Germany. Her UBC Opera Ensemble regularly tours to the Czech Republic, Germany, Ontario, and throughout British Columbia. The Opera Ensemble gave their first performances in Beijing and Chengdu in May of 2009 and returned to Shanghai in 2010 for concerts at the Shanghai Conservatory and the Shanghai Normal University. In May 2011, the Ensemble returned to the Shanghai Conservatory for a production of Giulio Cesare. Most recently, Miss Hermiston appeared with the VOA as Stage Director for their 2012/13 Season’s Opening production of La Bohème and returned in 2015 to direct their production of Die Fledermaus. She will open the Vancouver Opera season in September, directing their production of Verdi’s Rigoletto, starring UBC Alumna, Simone Osborne. On December 30, 2013, Miss Hermiston was honoured with the Order of Canada.

LESLIE DALA, ConductorLeslie Dala is Music Director of the Vancouver Bach Choir, the Associate Conductor and Chorus Director for Vancouver Opera, and Music Director of the Vancouver Academy of Music Symphony Orchestra. He has worked at the Banff Centre for the Arts, the Canadian Opera Company, the Santa Fe Opera and l’Opera National du Rhin and is a frequent guest conductor with the UBC Opera Ensemble, the COSI Program in Sulmona Italy, and Soundstreams Canada. This past season Leslie conducted Vancouver Opera’s world premiere production of Stickboy by Neil Weisensel and Shane Koyczan; The Magic Flute for Edmonton Opera; Madama Butterfly for Saskatoon

Opera and Domenic Argento’s Postcards from Morocco for the University of Toronto Opera Division. This upcoming season includes a concert in Toronto with soprano Adrianne Pieczonka featuring George Crumb’s Ancient Voices of Children; an 80th birthday gala concert celebrating iconic composer Steve Reich with the composer in attendance; the North American premiere of Philippe Boesmans’ opera Julie with Soundstreams and Canadian Stage Theatre; Carmina Burana, Messiah and St. Matthew Passion with the Vancouver Bach Choir; Madama Butterfly with Vancouver Opera and A Midsummer Night’s Dream with the UBC Opera Ensemble.

UBC OPERA ENSEMBLE SINGERSMEN: Spencer Britten, Jeremiah Carag, Justin Chen, Jack Foster, William Grossman, Cameron Killick, Jason Klippenstein, Thomas Lamont, Brent MacKenzie, Ian McCloy, Matthew McLellan, Alireza Mojibian, Geoff Schellenberg, Duncan Watts-Grant

WOMEN: Keira Chapman, Melodie Corbett, Sawyer Craig, Colleen Donnelly, Isabella Halladay, Elizabeth Harris, Caitlin Hill, Yeeun Lee, Zoe Mix, Mariah Mueller, Tamar Simon, Shante van Horlick, Gwen Yearwood

CHRISTOPHER GAZE, HostChristopher is best known as the Founding Artistic Director of Bard on the Beach Shakespeare Festival. Born in England, he has appeared in dozens of film, TV and theatre productions during his multi-decade career in Great Britain and North America. He hosts the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra’s ever popular Tea & Trumpets series and has hosted their annual Christmas concerts for over 20 years. His many honours include Canada’s Meritorious Service

Medal, Honorary Doctorates from UBC & SFU, the Mayor’s Arts Award for Theatre and the Order of British Columbia. Earlier this year, Christopher played Frosch in Die Fledermaus for Vancouver Opera, and he recently directed the world premiere of C.C. Humphreys’ Shakespeare’s Rebel, part of Bard’s 2015 season. Christopher plays a leading role in British Columbia as an advocate for the arts in general, and his passionate dedication to Bard on the Beach has fuelled its growth into the largest professional Shakespeare festival in Western Canada, with attendance of over 100,000.

BARD CREDITSPam Johnson – Scenery Designer

Special thanks to:Amy McDougall, Heidi Wilkinson, Richard Hansen, Chris Engleman, Katie Rainsley

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VANCOUVER OPERA ORCHESTRAis one of only two professional opera orchestras in Canada and has been recognized as a formidable musical force. Formed in 1977, the Orchestra’s first performance was for the production of Massenet’s Le Roi de Lahore, starring Joan Sutherland and

conducted by Richard Bonynge. Several players who were in the pit for Le Roi de Lahore are still members of the VO Orchestra today. Since it was formed, the VO Orchestra has played more than a hundred opera productions, numerous stage productions, and many concerts. This season, members of the orchestra will play for Goh Ballet’s The Nutcracker. The Orchestra has strong ties to the community: many of its players are professional educators and active freelance musicians in the Lower Mainland. Collectively, they make an important contribution to the cultural life of our city.

VANCOUVER OPERA ORCHESTRAAngela Cavadas, 1st Violin, ConcertmasterPatricia Armstrong, 2nd ViolinTawnya Popoff, ViolaRebecca Wenham, CelloBrian Arkell, BassBrenda Fedoruk, FluteErin Marks, OboeMary Backun, ClarinetIngrid Chiang, BassoonLaurel Spencer, French HornTom Shorthouse, TrumpetDavid Boothroyd, KeyboardJim Littleford, Orchestra Manager

PRODUCTION TEAMMusical Preparation of UBC Opera Ensemble: David BoothroydHair/Wigs: Elke EnglichtMakeup: Carmen GarciaUBC Tech Crew: William Grossman, Duncan Watts-Grant, Geoffrey Schellenberg, Matthew McLellan

SPECIAL THANKSThe David Spencer Endowment/Dr. Irving Guttman and Mr. Robert Dales/Theatre UBC/Vancouver Opera

THE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA OPERA ENSEMBLEwas founded by Canadian lyric coloratura Nancy Hermiston in 1995. Beginning with a core of seven performers, Miss Hermiston has built the program to a 90-member company, performing three main productions at UBC every season, six Opera Tea

Concerts, and several engagements with local community partners. New this year is an intimate event, in cooperation with the Peter Wall Institute and the UBC Centennial committee. In this series we explore how the magic happens on the concert and operatic stage. This is an opportunity to talk to singers, coaches, directors and conductors to see who the ‘Singer behind the Song’ really is and what goes in to making that ‘Song’ happen. The Ensemble’s mission is to educate young, gifted opera singers, preparing them for international careers. Past main stage productions have included Le Nozze di Figaro, Die Zauberflöte, Die Gärtnerin aus Liebe, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Suor Angelica, La Bohème, Dido and Aeneas, The Merry Widow, The Bartered Bride, Manon, Eugene Onegin, Florence: Lady with the Lamp, Dream Healer, Falstaff, Don Giovanni, Cendrillon, Albert Herring, the Western Canadian premiere of Harry Somers’ Louis Riel, The Crucible, Die Lustige Witwe (The Merry Widow), Rusalka, Così fan tutte, Dialogues des Carmélites, and Carmen. The 2013–2014 season presented Offenbach’s The Tales of Hoffmann as well as Janáček’s The Cunning Little Vixen in the Old Auditorium, and in the Chan Centre, Nino Rota’s The Florentine Straw Hat, The Bartered Bride, Le Nozze di Figaro and La Traviata. UBC will be 100 years old in 2015/2016. The Opera Ensemble celebrates these 100 years by presenting Jules Massenet’s Manon, Johann Strauss’ A Night in Venice and Benjamin Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. As well they will tour to the Okanagan, Beijing, China, Germany and the Czech Republic to celebrate UBC’s Centenary. We hope you will join us in these celebrations!

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