program notes {
Marin Alsop
For Marin Alsop’s bio., please see pg. 7.
Garnett Bruce
Dale H eise
Director
Garnett Bruce has
directed with opera
companies across the
country— including the Lyric Opera
of Chicago, San Francisco Opera and
Houston Grand Opera. His European
opera debut was staging Turandot for
the Teatro di San Carlo in Naples. He
was the artistic adviser and principal
stage director for Opera Omaha from
2008 to 2011, where he led a cycle of
the Mozart-Da Ponte operas. This season he directed Madama Butterfly for
the Utah Symphony and Opera, where
he will return next season for Aida. He
returns to the Lyric Opera of Kansas
City for Tosca, and recently returned to
the Lyric Opera of Chicago for revivals
of Tannhäuser and Porgy & Bess.
Garnett Bruce is making his debut with
the BSO.
Peter Sagal
(Narrator)
Before becoming
host of the public
radio quiz show Wait
Wait…Don’t Tell Me in 1998, Peter
Sagal’s varied career included stints as a
playwright, screenwriter, stage director,
actor, extra in a Michael Jackson video,
travel writer, essayist, ghostwriter and
staff writer for a motorcycle magazine.
Since then, Wait Wait has grown to reach
an audience of more than five million
listeners, and won the prestigious Peabody Award for Excellence in Broadcasting. Mr. Sagal’s book, The Book of Vice:
Naughty Things and How to Do Them,
essays about bad behavior, came out in
2007. In 2013, he hosted Constitution
USA with Peter Sagal on PBS. A columnist for Runner’s World, he has no musical
ability whatsoever, although did once
accompany Yo-Yo Ma on the trumpet as
he played “Happy Birthday.”
Peter Sagal is making his debut
with the BSO.
Keith Jameson
(Candide)
Keith Jameson,
a native of South
Carolina, recently appeared as Bardolfo in Robert Carsen’s new
production of Falstaff at the Metropolitan
Opera, conducted by James Levine and
seen “Live from The Met in HD” around
the world. He sang the Novice in Britten’s
Billy Budd at the Metropolitan Opera,
and Osman in Handel’s Almira with
NYC’s operamission at the historic Gershwin Hotel. He performed Sancho Panza
in Man of La Mancha in his hometown of
Greenwood, S.C. in June 2012, and sang
Grandpa Joe in The Golden Ticket with
Atlanta Opera, released on CD in 2012.
He recently made his debut with Arizona
Opera as Goro in Madama Butterfly.
Last summer he debuted with the New
York Philharmonic as the Mosquito and
Schoolmaster in the critically acclaimed
production of The Cunning Little Vixen.
Keith Jameson is making his debut with
the BSO.
Lauren Snouffer
(Cunégonde)
Lauren Snouffer is
a recent graduate of
the Houston Grand
Opera Studio and winner of a 2013 Sara
Tucker Study Grant from the Richard
Tucker Music Foundation and a Richard F. Gold Career Grant bestowed by
Houston Grand Opera. The 2014–2015
season, Ms. Snouffer debuts with Parnassus Arts Productions as Arasse in Hasse’s
Siroe at the Opéra Royal de Versailles,
and with the Atlanta Opera as Susanna in
Le nozze di Figaro. On the concert stage,
Ms. Snouffer debuts with the Portland
Baroque Orchestra in Handel’s Messiah
conducted by John Butt, and joins Franz
Welser-Möst and the Cleveland Orchestra for concert performances of Strauss’
Daphne. Appearances of the season
include Fauré’s Requiem and a New Year’s
concert with the Florida Orchestra.
Lauren Snouffer last appeared with the
BSO in January 2014 with conductor Andrew Grams on a New Year's Day program.
Judy Kaye
(The Old Lady)
Judy Kaye recently
appeared on Broadway in Cinderella.
She also appeared on Broadway in Nice
Work If You Can Get It, winning Tony,
Drama Desk, and Outer Critics Circle
awards. She won her first Tony for The
Phantom of the Opera. Other highlights
include Souvenir (Tony nomination,
Theatre LA Ovation Award), Mamma
Mia (Tony, Drama Desk nominations),
Ragtime (Theatre LA Ovation Award)
and On the Twentieth Century (Theatre
World Award, Drama Desk nomination).
Ms. Kaye has played Mrs. Lovett in a
number of productions of Sweeney Todd,
and has appeared in Annie Get Your Gun,
Gypsy, Follies, and Tales of the City. She has
performed Souvenir around the country
(including in Baltimore).
Judy Kaye was part of a cast of vocalists
who performed the music of Kurt Weill
with the BSO in June 1994 under the
baton of David Zinman.
Joshua Hopkins
(Dr. Pangloss)
Chosen by Opera
News as one of 25
artists poised to become a major force in the coming decade,
Canadian baritone Joshua Hopkins has
been hailed as “ … an outstanding young
baritone with a virile, vigorous yet velvety
sound and … dramatic authority.” Mr.
Hopkins recently made his Lyric Opera of
Chicago debut as Tadeusz in The Passenger
conducted by Sir Andrew Davis. His season also includes the title role of Il barbiere
di Siviglia at the Canadian Opera Company and Count Almaviva in Le nozze di
Figaro with the Dallas Opera. He can also
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