GRAND VOICES

*Filstrup Resident Artist

+Laven Sowell Artist

*Principal

**Associate Principal

Lyndon Meyer, Conductor and Chorus Director

Carson Decker, Lighting Designer

Cathy Venable, Cover Conductor and Rehearsal Pianist

Buddy Wilson, Head of Carpentry

Caity Murphy, Head of Props

Justice Bigler, Production Audio

Robert Coughlin, Production Electrician

Hannah Schumacher, Production Stage Manager

Brooke Rochford, Assistant Stage Manager

Riley Wilson, Production Assistant

Aaron Beck, Supertitle Translations and Preparation

Whitney Hollis, Supertitle Caller

Overture
from Die Fledermaus
Johann Strauss II

Qual nuovo terrore and Corriamo, fuggiamo
from Idomeneo
W. A. Mozart, Giambattista Varesco

Entrance of the Guests
from Tannhäuser
Richard Wagner

O pastorelle, addio
from Andrea Chénier
Umberto Giordano, Luigi Illica

Soldiers’ Chorus
from Faust
Charles Gounod, Jules Barbier, Michel Carré

Polovtsian Dances
from Prince Igor
Alexander Borodin

Intermezzo
from Cavalleria rusticana
Pietro Mascagni, Giovanni Targioni-Tozzetti, Guido Menasci

Easter Hymn
from Cavalleria rusticana
Pietro Mascagni, Giovanni Targioni-Tozzetti, Guido Menasci

Intermission
(20 minutes)

Overture
from Candide
Leonard Bernstein

Les voici! Voici la quadrille!
from Carmen
Georges Bizet, Ludovic Halévy, Henri Meilhac

Va, pensiero
from Nabucco
Giuseppe Verdi, Temistocle Solera

Le jardin féerique
from Ma mère l’Oye
Maurice Ravel

Il est bon, l’enfant, il est sage
from L’enfant et les sortilèges
Maurice Ravel, Colette

Sleep
from Silent Night*
Kevin Puts, Mark Campbell

One Day More
from Les Misérables**
Claude-Michel Schönberg, Alain Boubli, Jean-Marc Natel

Sunday
from Sunday in the Park with George***
Stephen Sondheim

Make Our Garden Grow
from Candide*
Leonard Bernstein
Richard Wilbur (primary), John La Touche, Dorothy Parker, Lillian Hellman, Stephen Sondheim

*”Sleep” and “Make Our Garden Grow” are presented under license from Boosey & Hawkes Inc. and associated music publishers, copyright owners.

** “One Day More” is presented under license from G. Schirmer Inc. and associated music publishers, copyright owners.

*** “Sunday” is presented under license from Musical Theatre International and associated music publishers, copyright owners.

Kyle Bloomer – Featured Soloist
Chorus, The Barber of Seville (Tulsa Opera); Chorus, Carmen (Tulsa Opera); Chorus, The Italian Girl (Tulsa Opera)

Maddie Breedlove – Featured Soloist
Carmen Cover, The Tragedy of Carmen (Tulsa Opera); Mrs. Nolan, The Medium (Tulsa Opera); Cinderella’s Stepmother, Into the Woods (Tulsa Opera); Filstrup Resident Artist

Sam Briggs – Featured Soloist
Lillas Pastia, The Tragedy of Carmen (Tulsa Opera); Robert, I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change (Tulsa Opera); Jack, Into the Woods (Tulsa Opera); Filstrup Resident Artist

Matt Corcoran – Featured Soloist
Don José Cover, The Tragedy of Carmen (Tulsa Opera); Sam, Susannah (OU Opera Theatre); Mortimer Cover, Lessons in Love and Violence (Tanglewood Festival)

Carson Decker – Lighting Designer (TO Debut)
Lighting Designer: Fiddler on the Roof (TPAC Produces); The Flying Dutchman (Painted Sky Opera); Rent (Southern Plains Productions)

Paige Grilliot Dickey – Featured Soloist
Soloist, Dvořák Stabat Mater (Tulsa Opera); Jennifer, I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change (Tulsa Opera); Mother, Amahl and the Night Visitors (Tulsa Youth Opera); Mrs. Gobineau, The Medium (Tulsa Opera); Filstrup Resident Artist – Laven Sowell Artist

Gered High – Featured Soloist
Tenor Soloist, Handel’s Messiah (Lawton Schubert Music Club); Chorus, Madama Butterfly (Tulsa Opera)

Christopher Jenkins – Featured Soloist
Pinellino/Guccio, Gianni Schicchi (Tulsa Opera); Sarastro, The Magic Flute (Oklahoma City University)

Alexandra Johnson – Featured Soloist
Lucinda, Into the Woods (Tulsa Opera); Sandra, Hegemony (Music on the Edge); Filstrup Resident Artist

Justin Kroll – Featured Soloist
Soloist, Dvořák Stabat Mater (Tulsa Opera); Nemorino, L’elisir d’amore (Landlocked Opera); Larry, The Face on the Barroom Floor (Tulsa Opera); Hajný, Rusalka (Opera Idaho); Filstrup Resident Artist – Laven Sowell Artist

Todd Maxwell – Featured Soloist
Chorus, La bohème (Tulsa Opera); Chorus, Carmen (Tulsa Opera); Chorus, Dead Man Walking (Tulsa Opera)

Jeffrey McCollum – Featured Soloist
Esperanto, insomuch… (New York New Music Ensemble); Dulcamara, The Elixir of Love (Oklahoma State University Opera); Ambrogio, The Barber of Seville (Tulsa Opera)

Lyndon Meyer – Conductor and Chorus Director
Chorus Director (Tulsa Opera); Conductor, La bohème (Heartland Opera); Staff Accompanist (Lotte Lenya Competition)

Karlena Riggs – Featured Soloist
Eva Peron, Evita (Theatre Tulsa); The Witch, Into the Woods (Theatre Tulsa); Dot/Marie, Sunday in the Park with George (American Theatre Company); Filstrup Resident Artist

Lindsey Rollins – Featured Soloist
Cassandra Austen, Jane Austen’s Christmas Cracker (Oklahoma Shakespeare in the Park); Prince Escalus, Romeo and Juliet (Oklahoma Shakespeare in the Park)

Jeremy Sheets – Featured Soloist
Beast, Beauty and the Beast (Upstage Theatre); Chorus, La bohème (Tulsa Opera)

Mary Ann Stewart – Featured Soloist
Soloist, Dvořák Stabat Mater (Tulsa Opera); Baker’s Wife, Into the Woods (Tulsa Opera); Madame Flora, The Medium (Tulsa Opera); Thérèse Raquin, Thérèse Raquin (Long Beach Opera & Chicago Opera Theater)

Cathy Venable – Lecturer and Cover Conductor
Associate Conductor/Pianist for the national tours of The Sound of Music, The Phantom of the Opera, and Disney’s Frozen; Conductor/Music Director, Into the Woods (Tulsa Opera)

Stephanie Washington – Featured Soloist
Micaëla, The Tragedy of Carmen (Tulsa Opera); Madeline, The Face on the Barroom Floor (Tulsa Opera); Kate Pinkerton, Madama Butterfly (Tulsa Opera); Sister Catherine, Dead Man Walking (Tulsa Opera); Filstrup Resident Artist

Robert Allen Young – Featured Soloist
The Steward, Into the Woods (Tulsa Opera); The Baker, Into the Woods (Theatre Tulsa); McDoon, The Trail to Oregon (Samuel Briggs Presents/Theatre Tulsa)