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JANICE
FELTY (Woman)
makes her Court Theatre debut. A leading interpreter of contemporary
music, she has premiered, performed, and recorded works by Glass,
John Adams, John Harbison, Lee Hoiby, Tod Machover, Judith Weir,
and Ellen Taffe Zwillich. Her opera credits include Così
fan tutte and The Death of Klinghoffer (directed by
Peter Sellars), Street Scene (directed by Francesca Zambello;
presented at Houston Grand Opera and filmed at the Theater des Westens
in Berlin), Glass's The White Raven and La Belle et
la Bête. She has sung with the National Symphony, the
Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Seattle Symphony, Aspen Music Festival,
Théâtre de la Monnaie, Teatro San Carlo, San Francisco
Opera, Santa Fe Opera, and Washington Opera, among many others.
She has recorded on the Nonesuch, New World, Bridge, Decca, and
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SUZAN
HANSON (Hanako) makes her Court Theatre debut with this production. Credits: San Francisco Opera (The Mother of Us All), Globe Theatre (Enter the Guardsman); Connecticut Opera (Die Fledermaus, Susannah); Opera San Jose (Tale of the Nutcracker); Virginia Opera (The Tender Land). Philip Glass productions: Fall of the House of Usher, Hydrogen Jukebox, White Raven at companies: Kentucky Opera, Maggio Musicale Festiva -Firenze, Lincoln Center Festival, Spoleto Festival (USA & Italy), Expo ‘98 Lisbon, Teatro Real-Madrid. National Company tour as Sharon-Master Class.
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EUGENE
PERRY
(Kenji Yamamoto) previously appeared at Court Theatre in
In The Penal Colony. He sang the title role in the world
premiere Philip Glass opera, Orphée. He recently
premiered Glass's Galileo Galilei at the Goodman Theatre
and reprised the role at the Brooklyn Academy of Music and the Barbican
Center in London. His recent engagements include the role of Porgy
in the European tour of Porgy and Bess, the world premiere
of Amistad at Lyric Opera of Chicago, the world premiere
of Hugo Weisgall's Esther, the American premiere of Zimmerman's
Die Soldaten at New York City Opera, and the world premiere
of Adams's The Death of Klinghoffer in Brussels (subsequently
performed in Europe and the U.S.), Peter Sellars' Don Giovanni
(Europe and the U.S., televised by National Public Television).
He has appeared with numerous American and European opera companies
and has recorded The Life and Times of Malcolm X and The
Death of Klinghoffer. |
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HERBERT
PERRY (Man) Credits: the world premiere of Philip Glass’s opera The White Raven (Vasco da Gama), World premiere of Philip Glass’s In the Penal Colony (Officer, Chicago, Seattle, and New York), Le Nozze di Figaro (Figaro, Metropolitan Opera), Don Giovanni (Leporello, Vienna, Paris, National Public Television telecast and Metropolitan Opera), Oedipus Rex (Salzburg Festival), Bluebeard’s Castle (Pittsburgh Theatre), John Adams’ El Nino (Tokyo), La Boheme (Colline, Metropolitan), I Puritani di Scozia (Lord Walter, Chicago Lyric), Die Burgschaft (Spoleto Festival, USA), The Seven Deadly Sins (Opera de Lyon), Seraphin (Stuttgart State Theatre, Staatsoper Vienna). Other: Opera de Nice, Canadian Opera, Edmonton Opera, New York City Opera, Santa Fe Opera, Cincinnati Opera, Connecticut Opera, Miami Opera, Opera Theatre of Saint Louis among others. |
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LAXMI
KUMARAN (Production Stage Manager) has
worked as a stage manager in Chicago for the past seven years. A
selection of shows she has stage managed at The Court Theatre include
Phèdre, Life’s a Dream, Mary
Stuart, Piano, Little Foxes, Learned
Ladies, The Invention of Love, and Gross Indecency
with such directors as JoAnne Akalaitis, Charles Newell and Gary
Griffin. She has also stage managed A Christmas Carol,
Long Days Journey Into Night, and Galileo Galilei
at the Goodman Theatre working with such directors as Robert Falls
and Mary Zimmerman. Other theatres include the Royal George, Apple
Tree Theatre, First Folio Shakespeare Festival and Next Theatre.
She has taught stage management classes at Northern Illinois, DePaul,
and Northwestern Universities. |
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LESLEY
ANNE STONE (Assistant Stage Manager) is
happy to be back at Court Theatre, having last been here for JoAnne
Akalaitis’ Phèdre. Since then, she has worked
at New Orleans Opera, The Dallas Opera, Chicago Opera Theater, and
the new Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts in Red
Hook, NY. At the new Fisher Center, Lesley was proud to stage manage
the remount of Phèdre for its Gala opening this
spring, and the Janácek opera Osud, directed by
JoAnne Akalaitis, for their Summerscape festival. |
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MUSICIANS |
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SUSAN
GALL (Flute) received her B.M. from the
Eastman School of Music and her M.M. from New England Conservatory,
studying with Bonita Boyd, Fenwick Smith, and John Heiss. She has
performed at the Graz (Austria), Aspen, Norfolk, Warebrook, Round
Top, Sandpoint, Bowdoin, and Heidelberg Castle festivals as well
as the American Conservatory in Fontainebleau, France. In addition
to performing with and directing the Auros Group for New Music (a
Boston-based mixed instrument, contemporary chamber ensemble she
founded in 1992), she has appeared with Dinosaur Annex, Harvard
Group for New Music, Composers in Red Sneakers, Alea III, Chameleon
Arts Ensemble, Emmanuel Music, the National Lyric Opera, and has
recorded for CRI. In 2001, she was a semi-finalist in the Concert
Artists Guild and Myrna Brown Competitions. Susan is an instructor
at Brandeis University, University of Massachusetts, Boston, and
University of Massachusetts, Lowell.
CHASE PAMELA MORRISON (Cello) has been studying cello, piano, conducting and composing since the age of four. She attended Wellesley College where she received her B.A. in Music. Other music studies were completed at The New England Conservatory and Boston University with Albert Bernard, Benjamin Zander, Leonard Shure & Eugene Lehner. As a classical cellist, she has performed under Leonard Bernstein, Leopold Stokowski, Colin Davis, Michael Tilson-Thomas, with the Melbourne & Tasmanian Symphonies in Australia as a principal player, and the Tallahassee Symphony. As a non-traditional performer, she has appeared and recorded with Ron Carter, Barbra Streisand, Joni Mitchell, and Paula Cole. She has been featured on NPR’s All Things Considered in her rendition of Stars and Stripes Forever for many cellos, all parts played by her, has recorded for JVC Japan, Warner, Sony, Dreyfus, and EMI Australia, and has been an annual guest conductor of the Cello Big Band at The New Directions Cello Festival. She can be heard on Ron Carter’s new CD, Eight Plus. She is currently on the faculty of the Western Springs School of Talent Education.
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TINA
KEITEL (Percussion) was born in Elgin,
Illinois and attended high school at the Interlochen Arts Academy
in Michigan. She received both her bachelor's and master's degrees
in percussion performance with a minor in art history from DePaul
University. Her training also includes eight years with the Civic
Orchestra of Chicago, where she performed under the direction of
Daniel Barenboim, Zubin Mehta, Pierre Boulez and Sir Georg Solti.
As a freelance artist, Ms. Keitel performs with many orchestras
in the Chicagoland area including the Chicago Lyric Opera Orchestra,
Grant Park Orchestra, the Chicago Sinfonietta and the Elgin Symphony.
She is a strong advocate of new music and appears regularly on the
New Music DePaul concert series as well as with the Contemporary
Chamber Players. In 2000, Ms. Keitel joined the chamber ensemble
Fulcrum Point which is "dedicated to presenting thematically
inspired programs that reinvigorate the concert experience through
the presentation of works influenced by jazz, Latin, rock, literature,
film and theater". She is also a founding member of her own
new music ensemble, Chicago Chamber Works. |
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MIN
XIAO-FEN
(Pipa) is a founder of Blue Pipa, Inc. Internationally
known for her virtuosity and fluid style, Min has received high
acclaim for her classical, new music and jazz performances. She
was featured soloist with the New York City Opera, the Brooklyn
Philharmonic, the vocal ensemble Chanticleer, the San Diego Symphony
and the BBC Concert Orchestra. Min has played solo concerts at the
Vienna Music Festival, the Brussels Lute Festival, the Berlin Chinese
Music Festival, and the New York Guitar Festival for WNYC-FM’s
New Sounds hosted by John Schaefer. She recorded Khepera
(Verve) with pianist Randy Weston and performances at Lincoln Center,
also recorded Shaolin Ulysses and The Port of Last
Resort movie soundtracks composed by John Zorn (Tzadik). She
also premiered composer Tan Dun's Pavilion (Sony),
an opera with director Peter Sellars. Min's solo recording, The
Moon Rising (Cala), was hailed by BBC Music Magazine as Aone
of the best CDs of 1998. Her recording Viper (Avant), improvisations
with Derek Bailey, was one of The Wire magazine's 1999
Albums of the Year. She has been invited to play the music of Thelonius
Monk in a solo concert at Lincoln Center Jazz festival on December
4 - 6, 2003. |
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