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Mission Statement<br />
Manitoba Opera is a non-profit arts<br />
organization dedicated to changing<br />
people’s lives through the glory of opera.<br />
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Claudia Alvares<br />
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Assistant Music Director/Chorus Master<br />
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Co m m u n ic at i o n s Co o r d i n at o r<br />
& Pat r o n Services Representative<br />
Sheldon Johnson<br />
Director o f Pr o d u c t i o n<br />
Brendan McKeen<br />
Interim Development Assistant<br />
Tyrone Paterson<br />
Music Ad v i s o r & Principal Conductor<br />
Darlene Ronald<br />
Director o f Marketing<br />
Dale Sulymka<br />
Chief Financial Officer<br />
Sophie Waldman<br />
Interim Education & Outreach Co o r d i n at o r<br />
Monica Wood<br />
Director o f Development<br />
Manitoba Opera gratefully acknowledges<br />
the encouragement and financial support<br />
given by the following:<br />
Program design by <strong>Raquelle</strong> Lafond, Panama Design
2015/16 Board of Trustees<br />
Wayne Benson,<br />
Vice-Chair<br />
Co-owner, Buhle Painting<br />
& Decorating<br />
Abbie Grieder<br />
Owner, G & L Sales Ltd.<br />
Dr. Anthony Iacopino,<br />
Secretary; Co m m u n i t y<br />
Support Committee Chair<br />
Dean, College of Dentistry,<br />
University of Manitoba<br />
Dr. Robert Biscontri,<br />
Treasurer<br />
Finance Committee Chair<br />
Assistant Professor, Asper School<br />
of Business, University of Manitoba<br />
Elba Haid,<br />
Ca m e r ata Committee Chair<br />
President and CEO, Realcare Inc.<br />
Sue Jurkovic Bracken,<br />
Br av o Gala Co-Chair<br />
Owner, DSM Enterprises<br />
Brent Bottomley<br />
Partner, Osprey Capital Partners<br />
Leona Herzog,<br />
Audience Engagement Chair<br />
Visual Arts Management<br />
Consultant<br />
Dr. Hermann Lee<br />
Orthodontist<br />
Peter George<br />
President & CEO,<br />
McKim Communications<br />
Group Ltd.<br />
Dr. Amanda Huminicki<br />
Pediatric Dentist<br />
Children’s Dental World<br />
Luisa Matheson<br />
Br av o Gala Co-Chair<br />
President and CEO,<br />
Rockwell Group
Dr. Bill Pope<br />
Dr. Jeffrey Sisler<br />
Vice-Dean, Faculty of Health<br />
Sciences, University of Manitoba<br />
Robert Vineberg,<br />
Chair, Board of Trustees<br />
Executive Committee Chair<br />
Historian and Policy Consultant<br />
Kimberley Puhach<br />
Consultant, Leaders & Co.<br />
Jennifer Snyder,<br />
Governance Committee Chair<br />
Portfolio Manager, Harbourfront<br />
Wealth Management<br />
David White<br />
Retired District Vice President,<br />
TD Canada Trust<br />
Under the distinguished patronage of<br />
The Honourable Janice C. Filmon, C.M., O.M.<br />
Lieutenant-Go v e r n o r o f Manitoba<br />
His Worship Brian Bowman,<br />
May o r o f the City o f Winnipeg<br />
Heather Sarna<br />
Principal, HSA Design Inc.<br />
Directors Emeriti<br />
James W. Astwood<br />
Thos. F. Copeland*<br />
Rosalind Dick<br />
D. Chris Finnbogason*<br />
Peter George<br />
H.E. Harland<br />
Mrs. Kenneth R. Howell<br />
Founding President<br />
The Honourable A. Kerr Twaddle*<br />
Artistic Director Emeritus<br />
Dr. Irving Guttman, C.M., O.B.C.*<br />
Founding Director Emeritus<br />
Dr. Robert H. Thorlakson, O.C.*<br />
A. Rolph Huband<br />
Richard Irish<br />
Bruce H. Lang<br />
Mrs. Sinclair A. Levack*<br />
Allan M. Moore*<br />
Dr. Robert N. Morris<br />
Dr. M.M. Pierce*<br />
Dr. Elmer E. Reimer<br />
Louis R. (Bud) Sherman*<br />
Eleanor Siddall<br />
Dr. Lawrence Soloway*<br />
J.F. Reeh Taylor*<br />
Leigh Taylor<br />
* deceased<br />
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Manitoba Opera<br />
gratefully acknowledges the generosity of our<br />
2015/16 Season Supporters<br />
Season Funders<br />
Season Sponsors<br />
Production & Performance Sponsors<br />
Projected Translations Sponsor<br />
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Education, Outreach & Audience Engagement Sponsors<br />
Student Night at the Opera<br />
Official Sponsors<br />
Hotel Sponsor<br />
IT Sponsor<br />
Catering Sponsor<br />
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Message<br />
from the Chair,<br />
Board of Trustees<br />
As the end of my second year as chair<br />
approaches, I am amazed at how fast the<br />
time has passed. The board and I, along<br />
with our staff, have been involved in<br />
community engagement activities as never<br />
before. We began with our production of<br />
Fidelio in the fall of 2014, when we related<br />
the issue of political prisoners, as Beethoven<br />
perceived it 200 years ago, to the present<br />
day and the continuing abuse of human<br />
rights in many countries.<br />
As with the thousands of Syrians who are<br />
finding refuge in Canada right now,<br />
Winnipeg has a long tradition of welcoming<br />
refugees and prisoners of conscience. Fifty<br />
of Winnipeg’s own refugees joined the<br />
performers on stage for the moving finale<br />
of Fidelio and hundreds more attended the<br />
opera on subsidized tickets, thanks to many<br />
generous companies and foundations.<br />
This evening you will see the operatic<br />
version of John Steinbeck’s iconic story,<br />
Of Mice and Men. Many of you will have<br />
already read the novella or seen a movie<br />
version of this literary classic. However,<br />
as is unique to opera, I am sure you will<br />
find that Carlisle Floyd’s Of Mice and Men<br />
will envelope all your emotions as this<br />
heartrending story unfolds before you<br />
in a live performance.<br />
We are all well aware that issues concerning<br />
the respect, care, and nurture of persons<br />
labelled with intellectual disabilities continue<br />
to challenge our society. Inspired by the<br />
character of Lennie, this season Manitoba<br />
Opera has been working with an advisory<br />
committee made up of professionals from<br />
People First of Canada, Community Living<br />
Winnipeg, St. Amant Centre, and Red River<br />
College’s Disability and Community Support<br />
Program. As a result of this partnership, a<br />
number of initiatives have been developed<br />
including the “We All Have Dreams” videos;<br />
a panel discussion on stereotypes as<br />
portrayed in the arts, our culture and the<br />
media; and opportunities for those with<br />
intellectual disabilities to volunteer at,<br />
and attend the opera.<br />
Our intent is to continue to relate the<br />
themes of our productions to present day<br />
and our own community. Next season, in<br />
conjunction with Massenet’s Werther, we<br />
will examine issues around mental health<br />
and depression.<br />
Enjoy this evening’s performance, and<br />
I look forward to seeing you next season.<br />
Robert Vineberg<br />
Chair<br />
Pre-Show Chat<br />
Saturday, April 23 x Piano Nobile x 7:00 pm<br />
Presenter: Carlisle Floyd<br />
Tuesday, April 26 x Piano Nobile x 6:30 pm<br />
Presenter: Donna Fletcher<br />
Friday, April 29 x Piano Nobile x 7:00 pm<br />
Presenter: Donna Fletcher<br />
Carlisle Floyd<br />
Donna Fletcher<br />
An informative 20-minute presentation that will add to your enjoyment of the production.<br />
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Message from the<br />
General Director<br />
& CEO<br />
John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men is<br />
solidly of its time and place: America in<br />
the Depression. First as a novella, then a<br />
play, with several film versions following,<br />
the story of the two drifters, George and his<br />
intellectually challenged friend, Lennie, is,<br />
as the New York Times put it in a 2014<br />
review, a story you seem to know, with the<br />
characters as entrenched as any in American<br />
life. In fact, they are so entrenched that<br />
Of Mice and Men was open to parody in<br />
a Bugs Bunny cartoon soon after the<br />
original film version opened in 1939 and<br />
more recently, by the South Park cartoon<br />
series. The Times review also noted that the<br />
story remains strong in our memory, but<br />
since 1938, has become somewhat old hat.<br />
That’s where the opera comes in.<br />
Fashion in opera may come and go; opera<br />
companies do much more Baroque opera<br />
than they did even a generation ago, but<br />
the latent power of the composer/librettist’s<br />
vision is always immediate. This is especially<br />
the case with Carlisle Floyd. Now about to<br />
begin his 90th year this June, he is a rarity<br />
in opera: a librettist as well as a composer.<br />
He is one of a handful of American<br />
composers who built an operatic literature<br />
in the latter part of the 20th century. Floyd,<br />
along with Aaron Copland, was a leader<br />
in what has been called the American<br />
folk-opera movement: an attempt to create<br />
American verismo. As one commentator<br />
noted, Floyd was, with others, creating a<br />
realism in opera stretching back to Verdi.<br />
But why Of Mice and Men? The appeal to<br />
Floyd was simple. All his operas, from his<br />
first triumph, Susanna, a Southern version<br />
of the book of the Bible, to Steinbeck’s play,<br />
deal with society’s outcasts. In shaping the<br />
libretto, he transformed the story using all<br />
the operatic devices: the small chorus, the<br />
ballad singer, the expanded arias and duets.<br />
The chorus and ballad singer, for example,<br />
can voice directly what is only mentioned<br />
in the play. What might have seemed<br />
intractable material in text and dialogue<br />
finds greater life in song.<br />
Floyd’s music is immediate and recognizable,<br />
so much so that Mark Adamo, an opera<br />
composer of this generation, has labelled<br />
Floyd “The Father of Us All.” When he<br />
wrote Of Mice and Men, new operas were<br />
rare in America and certainly a second<br />
production seemed unlikely. Floyd, however,<br />
kept the faith, composing works of<br />
importance, only to see their recognition<br />
in the great outburst of productions at<br />
major companies in the U.S. and elsewhere,<br />
starting in the 1990s and continuing today.<br />
Floyd needed to express the troubles of the<br />
American outsider in a European-created<br />
art form. Of Mice and Men sings of that<br />
outsider in music that we can all relate to<br />
and absorb, and in doing so makes Floyd’s<br />
opera as much of our time, as Steinbeck’s<br />
novella/play was of his.<br />
Larry Desrochers<br />
General Director & CEO<br />
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Dorothea Lange Exhibit<br />
As part of the initiatives around Of Mice<br />
and Men, Manitoba Opera secured the<br />
rights from the Oakland Museum of<br />
California to display select works of one<br />
of America’s most revered documentary<br />
photographers, Dorothea Lange.<br />
The exhibit has been featured on the<br />
Piano Nobile since April 10 and will remain<br />
until May 15.<br />
Dorothea Lange is best known for her<br />
Depression-era work for the Farm Security<br />
Administration. She documented everyday<br />
life in California during this difficult period<br />
of American history. Her photographs<br />
recorded the plight of Dust Bowl migrants<br />
with intimacy and deep personal empathy.<br />
The works on display<br />
range from the familiar<br />
and heartbreaking<br />
Migrant Mother,<br />
Migrant Mother,<br />
Nipomo, CA, 1936<br />
Nipomo, California,<br />
1936, to less familiar, but equally haunting<br />
images that were instrumental in galvanizing<br />
public support for programs to aid those<br />
affected by the Great Depression.<br />
The framed images in the exhibit are<br />
available for sale. If you are interested<br />
in making a purchase, contact Sophie<br />
Waldman at 204-942-7470 or by email,<br />
swaldman@manitobaopera.mb.ca<br />
Funding for this exhibit provided by the<br />
U.S. Consulate – Winnipeg.<br />
Titles Cuer Retires<br />
For the past 19 seasons, Kim Lavilla has<br />
sat in the booth at the back of the<br />
second balcony during performances<br />
and ensured that the English translation<br />
slides were projected above the stage.<br />
Now after 42 productions, Kim has signed off<br />
as Manitoba Opera’s titles cuer so that she<br />
can focus on her full-time position as a<br />
program coordinator with DASCH, a local<br />
non-profit organization that addresses<br />
residential, day program, respite, and foster<br />
care needs of youth and adults.<br />
Kim became a part of the Manitoba Opera<br />
team in November 1996 after graduating<br />
from the University of Manitoba with a<br />
degree in music. Her final show as cuer was<br />
The Marriage of Figaro last November.<br />
“The projected titles have become such<br />
an important part of the opera-going<br />
experience, and the role of the titles cuer<br />
cannot be underestimated,” explains Sheldon<br />
Johnson, Director of Production. “Kim was<br />
a valuable member of the production team<br />
and she remains a great friend to Manitoba<br />
Opera. We will miss her presence backstage.”<br />
“My time with the<br />
company has been<br />
thrilling, gratifying,<br />
and of course, at times,<br />
stressful,” comments Kim.<br />
“I will miss being a part<br />
of a live performance<br />
and will always look<br />
Kim Lavilla<br />
back at my 20 years with<br />
great fondness.”<br />
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Perspectives<br />
Dreams Shattered<br />
by Rory Runnells<br />
It is a tribute to composer Carlisle<br />
Floyd’s ability as a librettist that he<br />
was able to take John Steinbeck’s<br />
taut tale of the forgotten men and,<br />
significantly, one woman, in Of Mice<br />
and Men and exert even more focus on<br />
the failure of their frustrated dreams.<br />
Although Steinbeck’s theme of loneliness<br />
was set in the despair of the Great<br />
Depression, Floyd’s opera makes that<br />
theme universal and timeless.<br />
Innocence, hard to describe, but instinctive<br />
to feel, is at the heart of the story’s<br />
characters, with perhaps the exception<br />
of the boss, Curley. The gentle, slow, and<br />
sometimes dangerous Lennie, and his<br />
caretaker, the restless George, have a quiet,<br />
small dream of a farm. Curley’s wife has<br />
grandiose dreams of Hollywood fame.<br />
Around them swirl the frustrations of the<br />
ranch hands, both cruel and kind. They<br />
provide a chorus to the inevitable, tragic<br />
clash the odd couple of George and Lennie<br />
will have with Curley’s wife.<br />
Steinbeck’s Curley’s wife can be played<br />
against his text as more vulnerable than<br />
what is laid down. She is the snake in the<br />
rough-edged Eden of the all-male ranch<br />
world. With the transforming power of the<br />
operatic form and his astute text, Floyd<br />
makes her as innocent as Lennie in her wish<br />
for elusive stardom. The men may see her<br />
unsympathetically, but they too are as stuck<br />
as she in their illusions. Her death in the<br />
opera has more poignancy than in the play<br />
(or films); that too is a tribute to the power<br />
of Floyd’s music. Just as an old dog is shot<br />
earlier in the piece and just as Lennie will<br />
be killed by George at the end, her death,<br />
which is the catalyst for that tragic finale,<br />
is one of innocence. Her death leads to<br />
Lennie’s last cry, “I can see it, George.”<br />
It is the cry of all illusions shattered.<br />
Throughout his career, Floyd has written<br />
operas about the outsider. Some are<br />
society’s castoffs, while others are society’s<br />
enemies. The oppressed and the wrongly<br />
accused are given their due in his operas.<br />
Like Verdi, he is on the side of those on the<br />
outside of power or riches. The dreams in<br />
Of Mice and Men, if we go back to the<br />
Robbie Burns poem, indeed go awry.<br />
However, in his opera Floyd has made it<br />
clear they came from the soul where<br />
innocence resides.<br />
Rory Runnells is Artistic Director of the Manitoba<br />
Association of Playwrights, Drama Editor for<br />
Prairie Fire magazine, and writes book reviews<br />
for the Winnipeg Free Press.<br />
Special Thanks to our Season and Of Mice and Men Production and Performance Sponsors:<br />
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In Memorium x Stano Spina<br />
One of Manitoba Opera’s biggest fans<br />
and passionate supporters, Stano Spina,<br />
passed away on February 9 at St.<br />
Boniface Hospital after a long,<br />
hard-fought battle with liver disease.<br />
Stano had a deep love for opera and for<br />
Manitoba Opera. He had been involved with<br />
the company, serving in many capacities,<br />
since 1972. He appeared in 55 operas as a<br />
supernumerary (extra), served on the Board<br />
of Directors, served on the Guild as president<br />
for two years, was a member of the Auxiliary,<br />
and chaired many fundraisers. In recent<br />
seasons, he assisted with the operation of<br />
the Boutique.<br />
River Heights residents will also recognize<br />
Stano as the owner of Stano’s Coiffures,<br />
which he operated on Academy Road for<br />
50 years.<br />
Besides Manitoba Opera, he also gave of his<br />
time to the Khartum Shrine, Vintage Cars,<br />
played drums in the Pipes and Drums, and<br />
was a member of the<br />
Order of the Eastern Star<br />
working his way<br />
up to many senior levels<br />
in the organization.<br />
Numerous plays produced<br />
as fundraisers over the<br />
years were also written,<br />
directed and produced<br />
by Stano.<br />
Stano as a super in<br />
Cavalleria Rusticana/<br />
I Pagliacci, 1984<br />
Born in southern Italy in 1943, Stano<br />
immigrated to Canada in 1960 with his<br />
parents and brother, coming to Winnipeg<br />
where they already had some family.<br />
“Stano was one of the first volunteers I met<br />
upon coming to Manitoba Opera in 2000,”<br />
comments Darlene Ronald, Director of<br />
Marketing. “I will forever remember his<br />
enthusiasm for the art form, his concern that<br />
the company continue to be a bright spot<br />
in our community, and his commitment to<br />
giving back. He was an inspiration and<br />
will be greatly missed.”
The Composer<br />
& Librettist<br />
Carlisle<br />
Floyd<br />
(1926 – )<br />
Carlisle Floyd is one of America’s most<br />
celebrated composers of opera, with a<br />
career spanning 67 years. In terms of opera<br />
creation, he has even surpassed the great<br />
Italian composer, Giuseppe Verdi by more<br />
than a decade.<br />
Born in 1926 in Latta, South Carolina,<br />
the son of a Methodist minister, Floyd<br />
earned both a bachelor and master of<br />
music degree in piano and composition at<br />
Syracuse University. He began his teaching<br />
career in 1947 as part of the piano faculty<br />
at Florida State University (FSU), eventually<br />
becoming a professor of composition.<br />
It was at FSU that he wrote his first nine<br />
operas, including Of Mice and Men (1969)<br />
and his most popular, Susannah (1953–54).<br />
In 1976, he was appointed Professor of<br />
Music at the University of Houston and<br />
also co-founded the Houston Opera Studio,<br />
a training program for young professional<br />
singers and repertory coaches. He retired<br />
from the university in 1996.<br />
As he celebrated his 80th birthday in<br />
2006, he told the Houston Chronicle he<br />
considered the acclaimed Cold Sassy Tree,<br />
which premiered in 2000, his professional<br />
finale. However, he went on to write<br />
another opera, Prince of Players, which<br />
just received its premiere at Houston<br />
Grand Opera in March.<br />
Aside from composing, Floyd is also his<br />
own librettist, having written the libretto<br />
for all 12 of his operas. His works are<br />
among the most performed operas by<br />
American composers.<br />
Photo of Carlisle Floyd by Daniel Tchetchik.<br />
The Author<br />
John Ernst<br />
Steinbeck, Jr.<br />
(1902 – 1968)<br />
John Steinbeck was an American author<br />
of 27 books, including 16 novels, six<br />
non-fiction books, and five collections<br />
of short stories. He is widely known for<br />
the comic novels Tortilla Flat (1935) and<br />
Cannery Row (1945), the multi-generation<br />
epic East of Eden (1952), and the novellas<br />
Of Mice and Men (1937) and The Red Pony<br />
(1937). He is said to have referred to Of<br />
Mice and Men as “a little study in humility.”<br />
Steinbeck received the Pulitzer Prize for<br />
The Grapes of Wrath (1939), which is<br />
generally considered to be part of the<br />
American literary canon. It is claimed to<br />
be his masterpiece and sold 14 million<br />
copies in its first 75 years of publication.<br />
The winner of the 1962 Nobel Prize in<br />
Literature, Steinbeck has been called<br />
“a giant of American letters.” His works<br />
are still widely read throughout the world<br />
today and many of them are considered<br />
classics of Western literature.<br />
Most of Steinbeck’s work is set in southern<br />
and central California, particularly in the<br />
Salinas Valley and the California Coast<br />
Ranges region. His works frequently<br />
explored the themes of fate and injustice,<br />
especially as applied to downtrodden or<br />
everyman protagonists.<br />
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Synopsis<br />
Of Mice and Men<br />
first performance: Seattle, Washington, January 22, 1970<br />
place: A ranch in California x t i m e: 1930’s x language: English<br />
Act One<br />
Scene 1: A clearing in the woods.<br />
Two migrant ranch workers: George and<br />
Lennie, are running from the police. Lennie,<br />
who has the strength and physique of a<br />
giant and a child’s mind, cannot stay out of<br />
trouble. George laments about how much<br />
better his life would be without Lennie, but<br />
he doesn’t really mean it, any more than<br />
Lennie means his offer to leave.<br />
Lennie has a mouse with him which he has<br />
killed by petting it. After throwing the dead<br />
mouse away, George cheers up Lennie by<br />
reciting their long-standing dream: to get<br />
a farm of their own.<br />
Scene 2: The bunkhouse.<br />
Curley, the ranch boss, is complaining to<br />
Candy, an old ranch hand, about George<br />
and Lennie’s late arrival. Curley’s wife comes<br />
in to plead for attention. Curley orders her<br />
out and forbids her to return.<br />
George and Lennie arrive as the ranch hands<br />
return from the fields. Slim offers his dog’s<br />
new litter of puppies to the men. Lennie<br />
asks George if he can have one.<br />
Curley’s wife arrives again. She discovers<br />
Lennie, but she leaves before anyone does<br />
anything they regret. After she leaves, the<br />
hands make coarse jokes at her and Curley’s<br />
expense.<br />
Carlson complains about how Candy’s old<br />
dog stinks up the bunkhouse. Slim suggests<br />
that they shoot Candy’s dog and replace it<br />
with one of Slim’s puppies. Candy resists,<br />
but ultimately concedes. Carlson takes the<br />
dog outside. For a long moment tension<br />
rises in the bunkhouse as everyone waits for<br />
the shot. Finally, the shot rings out. Night<br />
falls as the hands sing of their longing for<br />
a home.<br />
Act Two<br />
The bunkhouse.<br />
As the hands play horseshoes, George is<br />
looking in the newspaper for farms for sale.<br />
Suddenly, he spots an ad and calls Lennie in.<br />
Lennie arrives, cradling his new puppy.<br />
Candy offers to go in with them. After some<br />
figuring, George sees it will work. George,<br />
Lennie, and Candy celebrate.<br />
Curley’s wife arrives. As George tries to<br />
throw her out, Curley walks in. Curley tries<br />
to pick a fight with George, but then Lennie<br />
giggles, and Curley’s rage turns to Lennie.<br />
Lennie grasps Curley’s fist in his big hand<br />
and crushes it. Slim blackmails Curley into<br />
not firing Lennie and George by threatening<br />
to reveal how Curley hurt his hand.<br />
Candy asks George to read about their farm<br />
again. The scene ends with Candy, George,<br />
and Lennie imagining the farm.<br />
Act Three<br />
Scene 1: The barn.<br />
Lennie is in the barn mourning his now-dead<br />
puppy. Curley’s wife enters, looking to<br />
escape from Curley. Each sings of their<br />
dream: Lennie of a farm with animals he can<br />
pet, and Curley’s wife of the stardom that<br />
awaits her in Hollywood.<br />
Curley’s wife tempts Lennie to stroke her<br />
soft hair. When Lennie won’t stop, she<br />
screams. Lennie panics and accidentally kills<br />
her. Aware that he has done something<br />
wrong, he flees.<br />
Candy comes in and discovers the body.<br />
He calls in George and Slim who both<br />
realize immediately what has happened.<br />
Slim convinces George to take a pistol and<br />
shoot Lennie, rather than let Curley and<br />
Carlson lynch him. George sets off<br />
after Lennie.<br />
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Plain Language Synopsis<br />
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people with disabilities, plain language makes information easier to understand<br />
for people with intellectual disabilities. It can also help seniors, new Canadians,<br />
and others who may have barriers to language and printed information.<br />
This plain language synopsis was prepared by People First of Canada, the<br />
national organization representing people labelled with an intellectual disability.<br />
Act One<br />
Scene 1: A clearing in the woods.<br />
Two travelling ranch workers are running<br />
from the police. They are going to a new<br />
ranch to work for awhile. Their names are<br />
George and Lennie.<br />
George is a short, smart man. Lennie is a<br />
really big and tall man, but he is not very<br />
smart. George and Lennie are kind of like<br />
friends, but Lennie gets into trouble a lot<br />
and George has to help him. George says his<br />
life would be easier without Lennie, but he<br />
doesn’t really mean it.<br />
Lennie has a dead mouse with him. He killed<br />
it by petting it too hard. George throws the<br />
dead mouse away. George tries to cheer<br />
Lennie up by talking about their dream of<br />
owning a farm together.<br />
Scene 2: The bunkhouse.<br />
Curley is the boss at the new ranch. He is<br />
mad that George and Lennie are late getting<br />
there. He is complaining about this to an old<br />
ranch worker named Candy. Curley’s wife<br />
comes into the bunkhouse and tries to get<br />
the men to notice her. Curley tells her to get<br />
out and never come back to the bunkhouse.<br />
George and Lennie finally get to the ranch at<br />
the end of the work day. The other workers<br />
are coming back from the fields. They meet<br />
a ranch worker named Slim. Slim’s dog just<br />
had puppies. He asks if they want a puppy.<br />
Lennie asks George if he can have one.<br />
Curley’s wife comes into the bunkhouse<br />
again. She is interested in Lennie. After she<br />
leaves, the ranch workers make rude jokes<br />
about her and Curley.<br />
Another ranch worker named Carlson<br />
complains about the smell from Candy’s old<br />
dog. Slim says they should shoot it and give<br />
Candy one of Slim’s puppies. Candy doesn’t<br />
want to do that but after a time he agrees.<br />
Carlson takes the old dog outside.<br />
Everyone in the bunkhouse waits to hear<br />
the shot. Finally they hear it. As it gets dark,<br />
the ranch workers sing songs about home.<br />
Act Two<br />
The bunkhouse.<br />
The ranch workers are playing horseshoes<br />
outside the bunkhouse. George is inside<br />
looking at the newspaper for farms for sale.<br />
George finds an ad with a farm for sale. He<br />
calls Lennie into the bunkhouse. Lennie<br />
comes in with his new puppy. Candy offers<br />
to go in on the farm with them. George<br />
thinks this will work. They all celebrate.<br />
Curley’s wife comes into the bunkhouse.<br />
George tries to throw her out just as Curley<br />
walks in. Then Curley tries to pick a fight<br />
with George and Lennie giggles at that.<br />
Curley turns his anger on Lennie for<br />
laughing. Lennie takes Curley’s fist in his<br />
big hand and crushes it. Curley is angrier<br />
now and wants to fire George and Lennie.<br />
Slim warns Curley that he will tell everybody<br />
what happened to his hand if he fires them.<br />
Curley doesn’t fire George and Lennie.<br />
After things settle down, Candy asks George<br />
to read aloud the ad about the farm again.<br />
Candy, George, and Lennie all imagine the<br />
farm.<br />
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Of Mice and Men Supporters<br />
Manitoba Opera gratefully acknowledges the following supporters for their<br />
dedicated gifts to Of Mice and Men.<br />
Edward J. Ransby<br />
Community Engagement Special Thanks<br />
Sincere thanks to the following for their guidance, time, expertise, and assistance:<br />
Advisory Panel:<br />
• Amanda Campbell, Senior Manager, St. Amant Centre<br />
• Shelley Fletcher, Executive Director, People First of Canada<br />
• Janet Forbes, Executive Director, Community Living Winnipeg<br />
• Karen Menkis, Board Member, Community Living Winnipeg<br />
• Tara Mullen, Instructor, Disability and Community Support, Red River College<br />
• Argyle Alternative<br />
High School<br />
• Thomas Asselin<br />
• John Barrett<br />
• Dave Baerg<br />
• Tadeusz Biernacki<br />
• Gregory Dahl<br />
• DASCH Inc.<br />
• Kory Earle<br />
• Nikki Einfeld<br />
• Dean Harder<br />
• Michael Robert<br />
Hendrick<br />
• Dr. Nancy Hansen<br />
• James Hiebert<br />
• Leona Herzog<br />
• Alicia Johnston<br />
• New Directions<br />
• People First of<br />
Canada<br />
• Sue Proctor<br />
• Red River College,<br />
Academic and<br />
Essential Skills<br />
Program<br />
• Dr. Colette Simonet<br />
• Peter Strummer<br />
• Dr. Lucas Tromly<br />
• Dr. Gene Walz<br />
• Winnipeg Public<br />
Library<br />
“We All Have Dreams” Video Series<br />
It is the human condition to dream. It is<br />
certainly the dream of owning a piece<br />
of land that keeps driving George and<br />
Lennie, the main characters in Of Mice<br />
and Men.<br />
As part of the community engagement<br />
initiatives for Of Mice and Men,<br />
Manitoba Opera, working with<br />
videographers James Hiebert and<br />
Thomas Asselin, produced the<br />
“We All Have Dreams” video series.<br />
Through this collection of 11 two-minute<br />
interviews, the dreams, hopes, and<br />
aspirations of some wonderful people<br />
in our community are shared.<br />
Samatha’s video shoot with interviewer Tom Asselin.<br />
A heartfelt thanks to everyone who<br />
agreed to be featured in this series:<br />
Brian, Dawn, Heather, Jeff, Mike, Ryan,<br />
Samantha, Tabitha, Nicholas, Ruth,<br />
and Roy.<br />
To view the videos, go to bit.do/mboperayoutube
Of Mice and Men<br />
A Musical Drama in Three Acts<br />
Music by Carlisle Floyd<br />
Libretto in English by the composer after the novella and play by John Steinbeck<br />
Conducted by Tyrone Paterson<br />
Directed by Michael Cavanagh<br />
PRINCIPAL Cast (In order of vocal appearance)<br />
LENNIE. ...................................Michael Robert Hendrick<br />
GEORGE .................................................Gregory Dahl<br />
CURLEY ................................................ Joel Sorensen<br />
CANDY ..............................................Peter Strummer<br />
CURLEY’S WIFE ..........................................Nikki Einfeld<br />
SLIM ...................................................David Watson<br />
CARLSON .............................................Terence Mierau<br />
BALLAD SINGER .............................Peter John (PJ) Buchan<br />
Also appearing<br />
CANDY’S DOG .................................................Cailean<br />
Set Designer ...................................................Vicki Davis<br />
Costume Designer ................................Susan Memmott Allred<br />
Lighting Designer. ...................................... Scott Henderson<br />
Stage Manager. ...............................................Robert Pel<br />
Assistant Stage ManagerS. .................................Kathryn Ball<br />
........................................................... Ali Fulmyk<br />
Scenery and Wardrobe provided by ........ Utah Symphony | Utah Opera<br />
....................................................(Salt Lake City, UT)<br />
Projected Titles by .................................... Sheldon Johnson<br />
This production of Of Mice and Men is a co-production of Utah Symphony | Utah Opera,<br />
Cleveland Opera, and Vancouver Opera. Scenery constructed in the Utah Symphony | Utah Opera<br />
Production Studio.<br />
Permission for the use of Grant Wood’s painting, Farm View (1932), in this production has been<br />
granted by Coe College (Cedar Rapids, Iowa). The original painting is owned by Coe College and<br />
resides in the Coe College Permanent Collection of Art.<br />
There will be one intermission following Act Two.<br />
Latecomers will not be seated until an appropriate break in the program. The use of cameras<br />
and recording devices is strictly forbidden. Please turn off paging devices, cell phones,<br />
and alarm watches. Cast subject to change.<br />
Manitoba Opera is a professional company operating within the jurisdiction of Canadian Actors’ Equity Association.<br />
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Michael Cavanagh<br />
Director<br />
Born and raised in Winnipeg,<br />
Michael Cavanagh has directed<br />
a number of productions for<br />
Manitoba Opera over the<br />
years, most recently, The<br />
Magic Flute in 2011.<br />
He is a former artistic director of Edmonton Opera<br />
and has directed over 100 productions throughout<br />
Canada, the U.S., and Europe including Opera<br />
Philadelphia, Boston Lyric Opera, L’Opéra de<br />
Montreal, Hawaii Opera Theatre, and Lyric Opera<br />
of Kansas City.<br />
Mr. Cavanagh made his San Francisco Opera debut<br />
in 2012 with Nixon in China (Adams), a production<br />
he developed for Vancouver Opera as part of the<br />
2010 Winter Olympic Games. Since then, he has<br />
returned to San Francisco Opera for new<br />
productions of Carlisle Floyd’s Susannah and<br />
Lucia di Lammermoor (Donizetti).<br />
In Europe, he made his Covent Garden debut<br />
directing a new chamber opera, The Midnight<br />
Court (Sokolovic) and remounted his Nixon in<br />
China production in Dublin, Ireland in 2014.<br />
Recent highlights include new productions of<br />
Carmen for Minnesota Opera, Madama Butterfly<br />
for Vancouver Opera, and Svadba/Wedding for<br />
San Francisco Opera. This fall, Mr. Cavanagh will<br />
make his debut at the Royal Swedish Opera with<br />
Nixon in China.<br />
Tyrone Paterson<br />
Conductor<br />
Tyrone Paterson is Manitoba<br />
Opera’s Music Advisor and<br />
Principal Conductor. He is<br />
one of Canada’s major opera<br />
conductors and has also led<br />
performances throughout<br />
Europe, the U.S., and Asia. Recent performances<br />
include Otello (Germany); Madama Butterfly and<br />
Tosca (Opera Lyra Ottawa); Rigoletto (Montreal<br />
Opera); Cavalleria Rusticana/Pagliacci (Edmonton<br />
Opera); concerts in San Remo, Italy; La Traviata<br />
(Hawaii Opera Theatre); Medea at Il Teatro Greco<br />
(Italy); concerts for Opera Cracow (Poland);<br />
Manon (Calgary Opera); Carmen (Opera Lyra<br />
Ottawa); Salome, Rigoletto, Aïda, Don Pasquale,<br />
Fidelio and Turandot (Manitoba Opera).<br />
Listed in order of Vocal Appearance<br />
* Manitoba Opera debut<br />
Other notable past engagements include Eugene<br />
Onegin featuring Russell Braun; Lucia di<br />
Lammermoor featuring Sumi Jo; Borodin’s Prince<br />
Igor (National Theater of Moravia-Silesia); La<br />
Traviata and Rigoletto for Opera Constanta<br />
(Romania); Tosca for the Opern Air Festival<br />
(Austria); Jenufa at the Hukvaldy Festival; Bartók’s<br />
Blue Beard’s Castle (Czech Republic); and The<br />
Magic Flute (Beijing).<br />
Mr. Paterson also teaches the stars of tomorrow<br />
and returns to the Canadian Operatic Arts<br />
Academy this spring. Next season he will conduct<br />
The Magic Flute for Western University, as well as<br />
Falstaff and Werther for Manitoba Opera.<br />
Michael Robert<br />
Hendrick*<br />
Lennie<br />
Lennie Small in Of Mice and<br />
Men (Washington National<br />
Opera, Arizona Opera, Utah<br />
Opera, Kentucky Opera,<br />
Sarasota Opera); Bacchus in<br />
Ariadne auf Naxos (Metropolitan Opera, L’Opera<br />
de Montréal, Seattle Opera, Pittsburgh Opera,<br />
and Brazil’s Amazonas Festival [also Enée in Les<br />
Troyens, Samson in Samson et Dalila and Parsifal<br />
in Parsifal, also at Lyric Opera of Chicago]);<br />
Menelas in Die Ägyptische Helena (Metropolitan<br />
Opera); Herodes in Salome (Wuppertal, Germany);<br />
Midas in Die Liebe der Danae (Amsterdam);<br />
Lohengrin in Lohengrin (Moscow); Paul in Die<br />
tote Stadt (Nancy, France); and the Stranger in<br />
Korngold’s Das Wunder der Heliane (London<br />
Philharmonic Orchestra).<br />
At Sarasota Opera, Canio in Pagliacci, Levko in<br />
Rimsky-Korsakov’s May Night, Florestan in Fidelio<br />
(also Palm Beach Opera), Laca in Jenufa (Málaga<br />
and Bilbao, Spain [also Aroldo in Verdi’s Aroldo])<br />
and Erik in Der fliegende Holländer (Bellas Artes<br />
in Mexico City); Don José in Carmen (La Coruña<br />
and Santander, Spain); Tito in La Clemenza di Tito<br />
(National Symphony Orchestra).<br />
Gregory Dahl<br />
George<br />
Former Winnipegger<br />
Gregory Dahl has attained<br />
a position of prominence<br />
among baritones of<br />
his generation with<br />
performances notable for<br />
richness of characterization and a remarkable<br />
vocal authority.
The Artists<br />
Career highlights include Tomsky in Queen of<br />
Spades (English National Opera); the title role in<br />
Macbeth (Opéra de Québec and Kentucky Opera);<br />
Sharpless in Madama Butterfly (Canadian Opera<br />
Company and Vancouver Opera); Golaud in<br />
Pelleas et Melisande (Opera Theater of St. Louis);<br />
and Grand Prêtre in Samson et Dalila (Opéra de<br />
Montréal). Mr. Dahl last performed with Manitoba<br />
Opera as Amonasro in Aïda in 2013. He has been<br />
featured with the orchestras of Montreal,<br />
Vancouver, Winnipeg, and Nova Scotia.<br />
This season’s schedule also includes Carmina<br />
Burana (Chorus Niagara), Shalimar, The Clown<br />
(OTSL), and Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 for<br />
Orchestre symphonique de Trois Rivieres.<br />
Joel Sorensen*<br />
Curley<br />
Joel Sorensen is recognized<br />
as one of the finest tenors<br />
to specialize in character<br />
repertoire, regularly praised<br />
for the clarion quality of<br />
his voice.<br />
This season, Mr. Sorensen returned to San<br />
Francisco Opera to sing Sciortino in La Ciociara,<br />
Zorn in Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, and Le<br />
médecin in Debussy’s La chute de la maison Usher;<br />
San Diego Opera for Spoletta in Tosca; and Toledo<br />
Opera for Goro in Madama Butterfly.<br />
Other notable engagements include Wilhelm in<br />
The Ghosts of Versailles at Los Angeles Opera;<br />
Andrès, Cochenille, Pitichinaccio, and Frantz in<br />
Les contes d’Hoffmann at the Metropolitan<br />
Opera; Herodes in Salome at Florentine Opera;<br />
Mime in Das Rheingold with Longborough<br />
Festival, UK; and Andres in Wozzeck with the<br />
Landestheater in Salzburg.<br />
Peter Strummer<br />
Candy<br />
One of America’s foremost<br />
character bass-baritones,<br />
Peter Strummer has earned<br />
a reputation for endowing<br />
his buffo characterizations<br />
with incredible depth and<br />
humanity. His signature portrayals have been<br />
described as “highly individual, each formidably<br />
different whether as Bartolo or Don Magnifico or<br />
Beckmesser or Pasquale.”<br />
Upcoming engagements include Benoit/Alcindoro<br />
in La Bohème at Syracuse Opera and a performance<br />
with Kentucky Opera.<br />
Roles in recent seasons have included the title<br />
role in Don Pasquale with Manitoba Opera in<br />
2013; Reverend Baines in Elmer Gantry and<br />
Sulpice in La fille du régiment with Tulsa Opera;<br />
and Quince in A Midsummer Night’s Dream at<br />
the Fondazione del Teatro dell’Opera di Roma.<br />
Nikki Einfeld<br />
Curley’s Wife<br />
Winnipeg-born soprano<br />
Nikki Einfeld has appeared<br />
with the San Francisco Opera<br />
as Nannetta in Falstaff;<br />
Vancouver Opera and New<br />
Orleans Opera as Susanna<br />
in Le Nozze di Figaro; Syracuse Opera and Green<br />
Mountain Opera Festival in the title role of Lucia<br />
di Lammermoor; Opera Francais of New York as<br />
Telaire in Casper et Pollux; Edmonton Opera as<br />
Nannetta in Falstaff and Mabel in The Pirates<br />
of Penzance; Opera Lyra Ottawa as Ophelia in<br />
Hamlet; Rosina with Saskatoon Opera; and<br />
Canadian Opera Company as Queen of the<br />
Night in The Magic Flute.<br />
With Manitoba Opera, she has sung the roles of<br />
Norina in Don Pasquale, Rosina in Il Barbiere di<br />
Siviglia, Marie in The Daughter of the Regiment,<br />
Zerlina in Don Giovanni Adina in L’Elisir d’Amore,<br />
and Adele in Die Fledermaus.<br />
She has appeared on the concert stages of the<br />
San Francisco Symphony, Calgary Philharmonic,<br />
Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra New Music<br />
Festival, Left Coast Chamber Orchestra, Montreal<br />
Chamber Orchestra, the Empyrean Ensemble,<br />
Stanford Orchestra, and the Winnipeg<br />
Philharmonic Choir.<br />
David Watson<br />
Slim<br />
Canadian bass-baritone<br />
David Watson made his<br />
operatic debut with<br />
Manitoba Opera in 1979<br />
and has since performed<br />
extensively with opera<br />
companies, choral groups, and orchestras<br />
across Canada. Notable roles with Manitoba<br />
Opera include Tomas (Nosferatu), Alidoro<br />
(La Cenerentola), the Marquis (Dialogues of<br />
the Carmelites), and Don Alfonso (Così fan<br />
tutte). Upcoming engagements include the<br />
role of Le Bailli in Werther next April with<br />
Manitoba Opera.<br />
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When not performing on the concert and<br />
operatic stage, Mr. Watson serves as an avionics<br />
technician with the Canadian Armed Forces<br />
at 402 Squadron in Winnipeg.<br />
Terence Mierau<br />
Carlson<br />
After completing a Bachelor<br />
of Theology and a Bachelor<br />
of Church Music at CMBC,<br />
Terry Mierau went on to<br />
earn a Master of Music<br />
(Vocal Performance) from<br />
McGill University in Montreal. His career then<br />
took him to Europe, where he sang on the opera<br />
stages and in the concert halls of cities such as<br />
Amsterdam, Lyon, Vienna, and Edinburgh.<br />
A young family, a move back to Canada, and<br />
a waning desire for travel all combined to<br />
awaken the long repressed dream to be a farmer.<br />
Mr. Mierau, together with his wife Monique,<br />
started a small, mixed farm in New Brunswick,<br />
and then moved family, home, and farm to<br />
southern Manitoba in 2012, where they are trying<br />
to balance their passions of music and farming.<br />
Peter John (PJ) Buchan<br />
Ballad Singer<br />
A native of Winnipeg,<br />
Peter John (PJ) Buchan has<br />
appeared as a chorister<br />
and soloist with many of<br />
the city’s foremost choirs<br />
including the Winnipeg<br />
Singers, Winnipeg Philharmonic Choir and<br />
Camerata Nova.<br />
Internationally, Mr. Buchan has performed<br />
as a soloist in London’s Millennium Centre and<br />
Prague’s St Vitus’ Cathedral, and was guest soloist<br />
at the Reykjavík Winter Festival and National Day<br />
Celebrations in Hrafnseyri, Iceland.<br />
Mr. Buchan has sung previously with Manitoba<br />
Opera (Fidelio, Salome, The Magic Flute and<br />
Candide in Concert), and has performed as a<br />
soloist with the Manitoba Chamber Orchestra<br />
and Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra.<br />
Cailean*<br />
Candy’s Dog<br />
Cailean was born in Rivers,<br />
Manitoba, on April 30, 2003,<br />
and has been entertaining<br />
his owner, Donna Basso,<br />
since he was seven weeks<br />
old. He started his training at<br />
10 months, and attended the Canada West Canine<br />
Centre with Donna where she obtained her<br />
Master Dog Trainer certification.<br />
Cailean has training in many different areas,<br />
including obedience, rally, tracking, drug search,<br />
tricks, and personal protection. He has titles in<br />
Obedience and Rally, and passed his Temperament<br />
Test. His most recent title was obtained in<br />
November, at the age of 12 1/2!<br />
He has a very definite sense of humour and loves<br />
to bring Donna presents, although he often gets<br />
them from places he shouldn’t, like the kitchen<br />
counter. He has travelled with Donna from<br />
Ontario to northern British Columbia and is a<br />
wonderful travelling companion. He lives with<br />
two younger dogs: a female German Shepherd<br />
who thinks she’s a drill sergeant and another<br />
Labrador who is a huge clown with no<br />
personal space. Life gets pretty interesting in<br />
the Basso house!<br />
Tadeusz Biernacki<br />
Assistant Music Director,<br />
Chorus Master<br />
This is Mr. Biernacki’s 33rd<br />
season with Manitoba Opera<br />
as Assistant Music Director,<br />
Chorus Master, and Rehearsal<br />
Pianist. He is also the Music<br />
Director and Conductor of Canada’s Royal<br />
Winnipeg Ballet.<br />
Mr. Biernacki has performed internationally as a<br />
piano soloist and has conducted orchestras across<br />
Canada and the U.S., as well as in Greece, Taiwan,<br />
and Hong Kong. Mr. Biernacki has also written<br />
orchestral arrangements for TSO, WSO, SSO, RWB,<br />
NAC Orchestra, Pittsburgh Ballet, Memphis Ballet<br />
and others.<br />
His most recent work as a conductor with<br />
Manitoba Opera includes The Marriage of<br />
Figaro, Così fan tutte, Candide, The Daughter<br />
of the Regiment, The Barber of Seville, and<br />
The Magic Flute.<br />
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He has conducted numerous productions for<br />
Saskatoon Opera including Die Fledermaus, L’Elisir<br />
d’Amore, Don Giovanni, Carmen, La Traviata,<br />
La Bohème, Rigoletto, The Marriage of Figaro,<br />
and Don Pasquale, as well as concert versions of<br />
Hamlet and Mignon for Opera Lyra Ottawa.<br />
Scott Henderson<br />
Lighting Designer<br />
Scott Henderson is excited to<br />
be back at Manitoba Opera<br />
designing Of Mice and Men.<br />
He has designed the lighting<br />
for nine Manitoba Opera<br />
productions since 2002,<br />
including Il Trovatore, La Traviata, and Aida.<br />
Most recently, he designed the lighting for the<br />
RMTC production of Billy Elliot and Marriage:<br />
A Demolition in Two Acts for Prairie Theatre<br />
Exchange.<br />
Mr. Henderson is a member of the Associated<br />
Designers of Canada and a graduate of Ryerson<br />
Theatre School.<br />
Robert Pel<br />
Stage Manager<br />
Favourite theatre credits include Mary Poppins,<br />
The Last Resort, The Drowsy Chaperone<br />
(Globe Theatre); The Hound of the Baskervilles,<br />
Armstrong’s War, Miracle on South Division<br />
Street, Dreamgirls, Steel Magnolias, The Melville<br />
Boys, Ed’s Garage (RMTC); A Closer Walk With<br />
Patsy Cline, The Full Monty (Rainbow Stage);<br />
The Brink (PTE); and The Nutcracker (RWB).<br />
Ali Fulmyk<br />
Assistant Stage Manager<br />
Ali Fulmyk is excited to be<br />
working with Manitoba<br />
Opera again this season.<br />
Select credits include<br />
Fidelio, La Bohème, Don<br />
Pasquale, (Manitoba Opera);<br />
Sister Act, The Little Mermaid, The Producers,<br />
Mary Poppins (Rainbow Stage); The Woman in<br />
Black, Private Lives, Jane Eyre, Other People’s<br />
Money (RMTC); Seminar (RMTC/Mirvish);<br />
Mission: Munschpossible (PTE); The Miser<br />
of Middlegate (zone41/TPM); A Man of No<br />
Importance (Dry Cold); and Ordinary Days<br />
(WST/Angelwalk Theatre).<br />
In the rearview mirror: The<br />
Marriage of Figaro, Turandot,<br />
Fidelio, La Bohème, and Aida<br />
for Manitoba Opera, The<br />
Ballad of Stompin Tom for<br />
Harbourfront Theatre in PEI,<br />
and Anne & Gilbert The Musical in Moose Jaw.<br />
In the headlights is Springworks Festival in<br />
Stratford, Ontario.<br />
Mr. Pel is looking forward to taking on a new<br />
role this summer, that of grandfather. An avid<br />
motorcyclist, he’s plotting another adventure ride<br />
in northern Ontario.<br />
Kathryn Ball<br />
Assistant Stage Manager<br />
Kathryn Ball is pleased to be<br />
back with Manitoba Opera<br />
for her 14th production.<br />
Past productions include<br />
The Marriage of Figaro,<br />
Turandot, La Bohème,<br />
Don Pasquale, Aida, Rigoletto, The Daughter<br />
of the Regiment, Salome, The Magic Flute,<br />
Tosca, The Barber of Seville, Madama Butterfly,<br />
and Il Trovatore.<br />
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Manitoba Opera Chorus<br />
Tenor<br />
Chris Donlevy<br />
Russ Foster<br />
Peter Klymkiw<br />
George Nytepchuk<br />
Lawrence Pauls<br />
Jonathan Stitt<br />
Bass<br />
John Anderson<br />
Chris Caslake<br />
Michal Kowalik<br />
Don Larsen<br />
Howard Rempel<br />
Devan Ryner<br />
Production Personnel<br />
Director of<br />
Production<br />
Sheldon Johnson<br />
Chorus Master/<br />
Répétiteur<br />
Tadeusz Biernacki<br />
Vocal Coach<br />
Valdine Anderson<br />
Chorus Rehearsal<br />
Pianist<br />
Cary Denby<br />
Apprentice Stage<br />
Manager<br />
Holly LaJambe<br />
Wardrobe<br />
Supervisors<br />
Barry Malenko<br />
Alena Zharska<br />
Wardrobe Alterations<br />
Canada’s Royal<br />
Winnipeg Ballet<br />
Hair/Wig Designer<br />
Lori Houston<br />
Hair/Wig Assistant<br />
Jill Buhr<br />
Make-Up Designer<br />
Christian Hadley<br />
Make-Up Assistant<br />
Jean-Marc Lafond<br />
Make-Up Crew<br />
Erin Kiazyk<br />
Stephanie Porrior<br />
Theresa Thomson<br />
Animal Wrangler<br />
Donna Basso<br />
Firearms Safety<br />
Co-ordinator<br />
Dave Brown<br />
Projected Titles<br />
Cueing<br />
Cary Denby<br />
This performance by arrangement with Boosey & Hawkes, Inc. publisher and copyright owner.<br />
Rehearsal piano provided by St John’s Music<br />
Production acknowledgements: Brent Letain, Chris Seida, Chris Thomson, Ben Ross,<br />
Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre<br />
Centennial Concert Hall<br />
Production Staff<br />
Stage Manager<br />
Dave Martin<br />
Light Board<br />
Operator<br />
Denis Crymble<br />
Sound Board<br />
Operator<br />
Glen Jonatchik<br />
Stage Crew/<br />
Wardrobe Dressers<br />
I.A.T.S.E. Local #63<br />
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A Taste of California<br />
Try California olive oil and<br />
Napa Valley wine, courtesy of<br />
Frescolio Fine Oil + Vinegar<br />
Tasting Bar and Ca’Momi Wines<br />
who will be providing samples<br />
of their products before curtain<br />
and during intermission.<br />
Stations are located on the<br />
Orchestra Levels.
Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra<br />
2015/16<br />
First Violin<br />
Viola<br />
Oboe<br />
Timpani<br />
Gwen Hoebig,<br />
Daniel Scholz,<br />
Beverly Wang,<br />
Mike Kemp,<br />
Concertmaster<br />
Principal<br />
Principal<br />
Principal<br />
Karl Stobbe,<br />
Associate<br />
Concertmaster<br />
Mary Lawton,<br />
Assistant<br />
Concertmaster<br />
Chris Anstey<br />
Jeremy Buzash**<br />
Mona Coarda<br />
Rodica Jeffrey<br />
Hong Tian Jia<br />
Meredith McCallum<br />
Julie Savard<br />
Jun Shao<br />
Karin Andreasen*<br />
Simon MacDonald*<br />
Second Violin<br />
Darryl Strain,<br />
Principal<br />
Elation Pauls,<br />
Assistant Principal<br />
Karen Bauch<br />
Kristina Bauch<br />
Calvin Cheng**<br />
Teodora Dimova**<br />
Elizabeth Dyer<br />
Jonathan<br />
Garabedian**<br />
Bokyung Hwang<br />
Takayo Noguchi<br />
Claudine St-Arnauld<br />
Jane Pulford*<br />
Susan McCallum*<br />
Anne Elise Lavallée,<br />
Assistant Principal<br />
Laszlo Baroczi<br />
Margaret Carey<br />
Richard Bauch<br />
Greg Hay<br />
Merrily Peters<br />
Michael Scholz<br />
Cello<br />
Yuri Hooker,<br />
Principal<br />
Leana Rutt,<br />
Assistant Principal<br />
Alex Adaman<br />
Arlene Dahl<br />
Carolyn Nagelberg<br />
Emma Quackenbush<br />
Sean Taubner<br />
Bass<br />
Meredith Johnson,<br />
Principal<br />
Andrew Goodlett,<br />
Assistant Principal<br />
Travis Harrison<br />
Paul Nagelberg<br />
Bruce Okrainec<br />
Daniel Perry<br />
Flute<br />
Jan Kocman,<br />
Principal<br />
Martha Durkin<br />
Piccolo<br />
Robin MacMillan<br />
English Horn<br />
Robin MacMillan<br />
Clarinet<br />
Micah Heilbrunn,<br />
Principal<br />
Michelle Goddard<br />
Bassoon<br />
Alex Eastley,<br />
Principal<br />
Kathryn Brooks<br />
Horn<br />
Patricia Evans,<br />
Principal<br />
Ken MacDonald,<br />
Associate Principal<br />
James Robertson<br />
Caroline Oberheu<br />
Michiko Singh<br />
Trumpet<br />
Isaac Pulford,<br />
Acting Principal<br />
Paul Jeffrey<br />
Brian Sykora<br />
Trombone<br />
Steven Dyer,<br />
Principal<br />
Keith Dyrda<br />
Bass Trombone<br />
Julia McIntyre,<br />
Principal<br />
Percussion<br />
Frederick Liessens,<br />
Principal<br />
Harp<br />
Richard Turner,<br />
Principal<br />
Extra Musicians<br />
Percussion<br />
Anthony Cyre<br />
Victoria Sparks<br />
Bassoon<br />
Jim Ewen<br />
Keyboard<br />
Tadeusz Biernacki<br />
Harmonica<br />
Todd Martin<br />
Orchestra Personnel<br />
Manager<br />
Chris Lee<br />
Principal Librarian<br />
Raymond Chrunyk<br />
Assistant Librarian<br />
Laura MacDougall<br />
* On Leave<br />
** One year contract<br />
Please note: Non-titled<br />
(tutti) string players are<br />
listed alphabetically and<br />
are seated accordingly<br />
to a rotational system.<br />
Martha Durkin<br />
Tuba<br />
Chris Lee,<br />
Principal<br />
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Synopsis<br />
Continued from page 16<br />
Scene 2: A clearing in the woods.<br />
Lennie waits for George in the clearing.<br />
After George arrives, he asks Lennie to look<br />
out across the river and imagine their little<br />
farm. As George recites the dream one last<br />
time and as Lennie delights in the vision,<br />
George pulls out the pistol and shoots<br />
Lennie. A posse arrives as George slumps<br />
to the ground in despair.<br />
Readability Comparison<br />
• Word count: original version -<br />
589 words; revised - 720 words<br />
(increase of 131 words)<br />
• Average grade level accessibility:<br />
original version - 6.93; revised<br />
version - 5.25 (decrease of 1.68<br />
grade levels)<br />
• Average reading ease: original<br />
document - 76.39; revised version<br />
- 84.17 (increase of 7.78 percent)<br />
Plain Language Synopsis<br />
Continued from page 17<br />
Act Three<br />
Scene 1: The barn.<br />
Lennie is in the barn. He is very sad because<br />
his puppy is dead. Curley’s wife comes into<br />
the barn. She is trying to get away from<br />
Curley. They both sing about their dreams.<br />
Lennie’s dream is of a farm with animals he<br />
can pet. Curley’s wife dreams of being a star<br />
in Hollywood.<br />
Curley’s wife talks Lennie into stroking her<br />
hair. But then she wants him to stop. Lennie<br />
won’t stop and she screams. Lennie panics<br />
and kills her by mistake. Lennie knows he<br />
has done something wrong and runs away.<br />
Candy comes into the barn and finds the<br />
body. He calls in George and Slim. They<br />
figure out what has happened right away.<br />
Slim talks George into taking a gun and<br />
shooting Lennie, otherwise Curley and<br />
Carlson will hang him. George goes off<br />
after Lennie.<br />
Scene 2: A clearing in the woods.<br />
Lennie waits for George in the clearing.<br />
When George gets there, he asks Lennie to<br />
look across the river and think about their<br />
little farm. George tells Lennie about<br />
their dream one last time. Lennie is happy<br />
thinking about the farm. George takes out<br />
the gun and shoots Lennie. A group from<br />
the ranch gets to the clearing as George<br />
falls to the ground in sadness.<br />
How Of Mice and Men Got Its Name<br />
John Steinbeck originally titled his novella Something That<br />
Happened (referring to the events of the book as “something<br />
that happened” since nobody could really be blamed for the<br />
unforeseen tragic events that unfold in the story), however,<br />
he changed the title after reading a poem by Scottish poet<br />
Robert Burns titled “To a Mouse.”<br />
Burns’ poem tells of the regret the narrator feels for having<br />
destroyed the home of a mouse while plowing his field.<br />
Written in 1785, in a Scottish dialect, the poem contains<br />
a famous line which translates as “The best-laid schemes<br />
of mice and men often go awry.”<br />
To A Mouse, The Robert Burns Gallery
Bravo Gala 2016<br />
On Saturday, March 5th, our 8th annual<br />
Bravo Gala was held at the Delta<br />
Winnipeg. The Gala, which was inspired<br />
by 1930s Hollywood glamour this year,<br />
raises funds for season productions and<br />
community programs. A highlight of<br />
the evening was a performance of three<br />
moving selections by Canadian tenor<br />
Christopher Enns, accompanied by<br />
Tadeusz Biernacki on piano.<br />
Doris Mae Oulton, Cam Mackie, Alex Robinson<br />
(in the back), Jared Rykiss, Jamie Toews, Elba Haid<br />
(MO Board of Trustees), Ross Ransby, Angie Zachary,<br />
Ted Ransby, Lara Secord-Haid, Dale Oughton<br />
Spirited bidding ensued throughout the<br />
evening for the many live and silent<br />
auctions that featured an impressive array<br />
of prizes, courtesy of many generous donors<br />
and sponsors. The Danny Kramer Event<br />
Band provided the tunes that got the<br />
dancers on the floor.<br />
It was a great evening and Manitoba Opera<br />
would like to thank the many guests,<br />
sponsors, donors, corporate supporters,<br />
and volunteers who helped to make this<br />
event one of the highlights of the season.<br />
Stephen Fast (West Jet), Cali Hitch & Garth Grieder Jr. (Raffle<br />
winners), Larry Desrochers (MO General Director & CEO)<br />
Kimberley (MO Board of Trustees)<br />
& Chris Puhach, Ronda Landygo<br />
Robert Vineberg<br />
(MO Board of Trustees<br />
Chair) & Lena Horne<br />
Frank & Palmira Bueti,<br />
Luisa (MO Board of Trustees)<br />
& Gerald Matheson<br />
Back Row (L to R): Leona Herzog<br />
(MO Board of Trustees);<br />
TD Bank Group: Filomena Silva,<br />
Karen Becker & Guests; Pat Bovey.<br />
Front Row (L to R): TD Bank Group:<br />
Nichola Douse-Marshall,<br />
Bernard Phanthavong,<br />
Brenda Blackler,<br />
Cherylee Kelly-Jones<br />
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Photos: Leif Norman & Josef Miglioranci
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Gift Program<br />
Kadri A. Irwin<br />
Jim & Margaret Jeffries<br />
J.H. Kaminsky<br />
Mr. Gordon C. Keatch<br />
M.J. King<br />
Mr. Allen Kimelman<br />
Dr. Istvan Kinizsi<br />
Ms. Heather Kozubski<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Walter<br />
& Gisela Kunkel<br />
Philippe & Yolande<br />
Le Quere<br />
Katherine Lee<br />
Dr. Patricia L. Ling<br />
Richard Lobdell<br />
& Evelyn Forget<br />
Shirley Lynch<br />
Ms. Debbie MacKenzie<br />
Mr. Alvin Mackling<br />
Ms. Jane McBee<br />
Cam Mackie<br />
& Doris Mae Oulton<br />
L. W. McLeod<br />
Pat Trainor MacRae<br />
Dr. Francois Mai<br />
Elaine & Neil Margolis<br />
Gert & Katherine Martens<br />
David & Francesca<br />
McBean<br />
Barbara McCandless<br />
Donald & Martha<br />
McCarthy<br />
Dr. Thomas McKenzie<br />
Maria Stapleton<br />
& Michael Lea<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Walter<br />
Mildren<br />
Ms. Myrna Mitchell<br />
Charlotte Murrell<br />
Mrs. B. Nicolson<br />
Ms. Sunyung Oh<br />
Wayne & Linda Paquin<br />
E. & D. Paryzek<br />
Ingrid Peters-Fransen<br />
Ms. Beverly Phillips<br />
Mr. Rick Pinchin<br />
Ms. Marina Plett-Lyle<br />
Norman Pohl<br />
Mrs. E. Susan Popkes<br />
Susan Portelance<br />
Mrs. Anne Ratuski<br />
Fay & Max Reich<br />
Mr. Jason Regula<br />
Ricou-Manfreda<br />
Mrs. Helene Riesen<br />
Emery & Karen Ruff<br />
Mr. Johnny Rule<br />
& Ms. Pearly Salangad<br />
Dr. C. Michael Sampson<br />
Gail & Johann Schnabl<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Hans<br />
Schneider<br />
Shirley Schroeder<br />
Ms. Vivian Schubert<br />
Mr. Gunter Schupke<br />
M. Serafin<br />
Mr. T. David<br />
& Mrs. Lorraine Smith<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Dan Snidal<br />
Mrs. Rae Spear<br />
Ellen Spencer<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Stano Spina<br />
Brenda Keith St. Clair<br />
M. & H. Stinson<br />
Ms. Karen Sutton<br />
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Dr. Shelley Sweeney<br />
Dr. Meir Serfaty and<br />
Bonnie Talbot<br />
Nicola Spasoff<br />
& Erik Thomson<br />
J.F. Reeh Taylor †<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Robert<br />
& Catherine Thiessen<br />
Suzanne Ullyot<br />
Eve Vickar<br />
Dr. Robert D. Walker<br />
Mr. A.M.C. Waterman<br />
Dr. & Mrs. Michael West<br />
Dawn Bruch & Paul Wiens<br />
Kathy Gough<br />
& Tim Wildman<br />
Debbie Wilson<br />
Donn K. Yuen<br />
Dwayne Zaba<br />
Mr. Ivan Zimmer<br />
Fifteen Annonymous<br />
Donors<br />
CONTRIBUTOR<br />
$50 to $99<br />
Narendra Budhia<br />
Don Budlong<br />
Patricia Busca<br />
Dr. Teresa Cavett<br />
& Mr. Gary Goodwin<br />
Joseph H. MacPherson<br />
& Helen Gullivan<br />
Ms. Christine Beatty<br />
Jeanette Block<br />
Ms. Marilyn Boyd<br />
Carolyn Buckley<br />
Mrs. F. Buckmaster<br />
Mr. Kevin Cassidy<br />
Gina Chodirker<br />
Margaret Clayton<br />
Dan & Lorraine Coyle<br />
Bradley J. Curran<br />
Dr. Dorothy Easton<br />
Ms. Shirley Duckworth<br />
Mr. & Mrs. H.R Entz<br />
Mr. Gregory Fearn<br />
Ms. Marguerite Fredette<br />
Gitta Fricke<br />
& Andrea Cibinel<br />
Mr. George Gamvrelis<br />
Rob Giesbrecht &<br />
Shannon MacFarlane<br />
Ms. Deborah L. Ginther<br />
Lorraine Griffiths<br />
Esther Haluschak<br />
Ann Hanks<br />
Mr. John & Carrie Harder<br />
Dr. & Mrs. Earl S.<br />
Hershfield<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Stan<br />
& Eldith Hildebrand<br />
Ann Hodges<br />
Dr. & Mrs. Arno Jansen<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Reinhard †<br />
& Liesel Jansson<br />
David & Heather Jenkins<br />
Lucie Joyal<br />
H. Kilbrai<br />
Mr. Raymond Leslie<br />
Kohanik<br />
Doris Koroscil<br />
Jeri Kostyra<br />
Betty Laing<br />
Mr. Gilles Landry<br />
Denise Lariviere<br />
Mr. David La Rue<br />
Ms. Shirley Layne<br />
Mr. Camille Legare<br />
Ms. Sheila Levine<br />
H. & D. Majewski<br />
Mrs. Iris Maurstad<br />
Mrs. Keith McNamee<br />
Ms. Emily Mikolajewski<br />
Mr. Tony Mitousis<br />
Mr. Peter Morgan<br />
Lesia Peet<br />
Norman & Edna Pohl<br />
Clare Pollock<br />
Ms. Valerie Regan<br />
Hanna Rempel<br />
Mr. Arthur Rey<br />
Mrs. Waltraut<br />
Riedel-Baun<br />
Linda Ritchie<br />
John & Nerina Robson<br />
Ms. Jeannine Rozzi<br />
Beverly Ryman<br />
Mrs. Karn Sandy<br />
Danielle Saranchuk<br />
Rita Schroeder<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Douglas Scott<br />
Ms. Jan Seaman<br />
Ms. Hedy Senyskiw<br />
Ms. Linda Sexsmith<br />
Mrs. Marie Sichler<br />
Shelagh Sinclair Fund<br />
at the Winnipeg<br />
Foundation<br />
Mr. Grant Sims<br />
Ms. Evelyn R. Smith<br />
Erica Smith<br />
Robert Smith<br />
Robert E. Smith<br />
Mr. Peter Sribniak<br />
Ms. Helena Stelsovsky<br />
Herb Stew<br />
Bill & Billie Stewart<br />
Donald & Lorraine<br />
Swanson<br />
Ms. Bette Jayne Taylor<br />
Ross & BJ Taylor<br />
Marilyn Thompson<br />
Mr. Norman D. Toms<br />
Mrs. F.A. Trott<br />
Mrs. Shirley Tyderkie<br />
Jesse Vorst and Friends<br />
Anne Walli<br />
Edna Walpole<br />
Mr. Dave Wreford<br />
Dr. & Mrs. Graham<br />
& Vicki Young<br />
Penny Zahodnik<br />
Fourteen Annonymous<br />
Donors<br />
Many thanks to all of our<br />
donors who generously<br />
supported Manitoba<br />
Opera with donations<br />
under $50.<br />
TRIBUTES<br />
In Memory of…<br />
Jozef Biernacki<br />
Jeanie M. Dubberley<br />
Graham Dixon<br />
Faye Dixon<br />
Ross Houston and Leo<br />
& Margareth Mol<br />
Ms. Patricia Gartrell<br />
Max Kettner<br />
Ms. Ruth Kettner<br />
Harold Pollock<br />
Arnice Pollock<br />
Stano Spina<br />
Jeanie M. Dubberley<br />
Mr. Bruce H Lang<br />
Dennis Rogers<br />
J.F. Reeh Taylor<br />
Dave & Mary<br />
Akins-Peters<br />
Mr. Justice Philip<br />
Ashdown<br />
Jeanie M. Dubberley<br />
Jane Frain<br />
Robert B. Jackson<br />
Mr. Bruce Hill Lang<br />
Mrs. Donna Plant<br />
Winnipeg Adult<br />
Education Centre<br />
Pamela Taylor<br />
Mrs. Rosalind Dick<br />
Mrs. Deborah<br />
Thorlakson<br />
Mr. Justice A. Kerr<br />
Twaddle<br />
Mr. Alan A. Borger<br />
Mr. R Burley<br />
Mrs. Florence De Pauw<br />
Mrs. Rosalind Dick<br />
Jeanie M. Dubberley<br />
Maureen & Gary Hunter<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Ross<br />
& Betty Johnston<br />
Bryan Klein<br />
Mr. Bruce H. Lang<br />
Mr. Marc Monnin<br />
Ms. Patricia Skurnik<br />
Mrs. Deborah<br />
Thorlakson<br />
Dr. & Mrs. G. Yuill<br />
One Anonymous Donor<br />
Marylla van Ginkel<br />
Ramon Zelech<br />
In Honour of…<br />
Dr. Paul Adams’ 95th<br />
Birthday<br />
Ms. Marina Plett-Lyle<br />
Bette Jayne Taylor<br />
Rev. Ross Taylor<br />
Mr. Justice A. Kerr<br />
Twaddle<br />
Gail Asper Family<br />
Foundation<br />
Encore Circle<br />
Manitoba Opera’s<br />
Planned Giving Program<br />
Larry Desrochers u<br />
& Laurie Lam<br />
Elba # and Marshall Haid<br />
Donn K. Yuen<br />
Endowment Fund<br />
Gifts<br />
Dept. of Canadian<br />
Heritage - Arts Policy<br />
Branch<br />
In Honour of Dr.<br />
Elizabeth Tippett-Pope<br />
on a Special Birthday -<br />
Elba Haid #, Ted Ransby<br />
& Lara Secord-Haid<br />
In Memory of Marylla<br />
van Ginkel - Ramon<br />
Zelech<br />
In Memory of J.F. Reeh<br />
Taylor - Robert G. &<br />
Alison Darling<br />
In Memory of Mr. Justice<br />
A. Kerr Twaddle<br />
- Tracy Dahl<br />
Elba Haid #<br />
Mr. Fred Kisil<br />
Marion Lewis<br />
Christopher J. Mainella<br />
Grant & Janet Saunders<br />
Howie & Sue Simpson<br />
Barbara Scheuneman<br />
Strategic Charitable<br />
Giving Foundation on<br />
behalf of Richard Irish<br />
Terracon Development<br />
Ltd.<br />
Dr. & Mrs. Francisco C.<br />
& Estela Violago<br />
Mrs. Faye Warren<br />
MATCHING GIFTS<br />
Bequests<br />
The Estate of<br />
Mr. Gordon P. Linney<br />
Please consider making<br />
a gift to the Manitoba<br />
Opera Endowment Fund.<br />
Visit www.wpgfdn.org to<br />
make a donation today!<br />
Many companies encourage the financial generosity<br />
of their employees through a matching gift program.<br />
Check with your employer and make your donation<br />
to Manitoba Opera go even further!