Lyric Opera 2024-2025 Issue 10 - Rising Stars in Concert

Lyric Opera of Chicago | 30 Ryan Opera Center Administration Dan Novak Director, The Ryan Opera Center Board Endowed Chair Craig Terry Music Director, The Jannotta Family Endowed Chair Julia Faulkner Director of Vocal Studies Renée Fleming Advisor at Large Susanna McNatt Manager Annika Donnen Managing Librarian Faculty Julia Faulkner Vocal Instruction, Robert and Ellen Marks Ryan Opera Center Vocal Studies Program Endowment Deborah Birnbaum Renée Fleming Mané Galoyan Elza van den Heever Enrique Mazzola Gerald Martin Moore Ailyn Pérez Sondra Radvanovsky Guest Master Artists William C. Billingham Alan Darling Brent Funderburk Laurann Gilley Jonathan Gmeinder Noah Lindquist Celeste Rue Eric Weimer Coaching Staff Isabelle Druc Julia Savoie Klein Derek Matson Alessandra Visconti Foreign Language Instruction Nicola Bowie Peter McClintock Evan Mills Julia Morales Nick Sandys Acting and Movement Instruction Orit Carpenter Beth Clayton Performance Psychology Katrina Bachus Rachel A. Tobias Production Mentors Artistic/Production Personnel Tiffany Chang Enrique Mazzola Conductors Paul Curran Mo Zhou Directors Katrina Bachus Peggy Stenger Stage Manager Program staff Board of Directors OFFICERS Patrick G. and Shirley Welsh Ryan Honorary Co-Chairs Nasrin Thierer President Amy Carbone President Elect John A. Nitschke * Vice President – Fundraising Salme Harju Steinberg Vice President – Fundraising, Co-Chair David S. Fox Vice President – Nominating Lafayette J. Ford Vice President – Nominating, Co-Chair Michael A. Oberman Vice President – Strategic Planning Gregory J. O’Leary Treasurer Julian A. Oettinger Secretary MEMBERS Queta Rodriguez Bauer Jonathan Becker Leslie Bertholdt Phoebe Boelter Heidi Heutel Bohn Tanja Chevalier Juliana Y. Chyu Pamela Crutchfield Nancy Dehmlow Fred L. Drucker Erika E. Erich Mary Ellen Hennessy Mary Lunz Houston Beatriz Iorgulescu Loretta Julian Chester T. Kamin Karen Kawashima Philip G. Lumpkin Frank B. Modruson Cherilyn Murer Phyllis Neiman Susan Noel Kenneth R. Norgan Jane DiRenzo Pigott Ted Reichardt Richard O. Ryan Richard Warren Shepro Ross Slotten Gay Stanek Virginia Tobiason Cynthia Vahlkamp Donna Van Eekeren * Roberta L. Washlow Harriet Weinstein Jack Weiss Debbie K. Wright Joan Zajtchuk LIFE MEMBERS Katherine A. Abelson * Julie Baskes * Janet V. Burch Lawrence O. Corry Mrs. James W. Cozad Melvin Gray Martha A. Hesse Susan R. Kiphart * Erma S. Medgyesy Keith A. Reed * Mrs. William D. Staley * Former President Administration Dan Novak Director, The Ryan Opera Center Board Endowed Chair Craig Terry Music Director, The Jannotta Family Endowed Chair Julia Faulkner Director of Vocal Studies Renée Fleming Advisor at Large Susanna McNatt Manager Annika Donnen Managing Librarian Faculty Julia Faulkner Vocal Instruction, Robert and Ellen Marks Ryan Opera Center Vocal Studies Program Endowment Deborah Birnbaum Renée Fleming Mané Galoyan Elza van den Heever Enrique Mazzola Gerald Martin Moore Ailyn Pérez Sondra Radvanovsky Guest Master Artists William C. Billingham Alan Darling Brent Funderburk Laurann Gilley Jonathan Gmeinder Noah Lindquist Celeste Rue Hugh Russell Eric eimer Coaching Staff Isabelle Druc Julia Savoie Klein Derek Matson Alessandra Visconti Foreign Language Instruction Nicola Bowie Peter McClintock Evan ills Julia Morales Nick Sandys Acting and Movement Instruction Orit Carpenter Beth Clayton Performance Psychology Katrina Bachus Rachel A. Tobias Production Mentors Artistic/Production Personnel Tiffany Chang Enrique Mazzola Conductors Paul Curran Mo Zhou Directors Katrina Bachus Peggy Stenger Stage Manager Program staff