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Falstaff Music by Giuseppe Verdi

Libretto by Arrigo Boito

Supertitles by Stephen Karr

Conducted by Stephen Karr

Directed and Designed by Josh Shaw

Costumes by Maggie Green Stage Manager Kaitrin Kinnare

Lighting by Ryan Shull Assistant Conductor Charlie Kim

Production Assistant Kyleene Johnson

Starring

Zeffin Quinn Hollis as Sir John Falstaff Rebecca Sjöwall as Alice Ford

Daniel Scofield as Ford Sharmay Musacchio as Mistress Quickly

Annie Sherman as Nannetta Nadav Hart as Fenton

Clay Hilley as Dr. Caius Jessica Mirshak as Meg Page Kyle Patterson as Bardolfo

Phil Meyer as Pistola

Chorus

Soprano Alto Tenor Baritone Joy Axelrod Alyssa Brode

Natalia Ferreiro Betsi Freeman

Jenna Friedman Lena Marandi Jennifer Weiss

Devi Bhatti Kelci Hahn

Jennifer Gold- Grappone

Jessie Massoudi Gabrielle Shulman

Daniel Charleston John Elliott Todd Szabo

David Fetterman Colin Gibson

Kyril Kasimoff

Children Dominique Bhatti, Francesca Christensen, Emma Sternfeld

Anne Postlewaite, Renay Sherrill, *Jonah Tully

* Starring as Robin, the Pageboy

Orchestra Flute/Piccolo Eve Bañuelos

Horn Brian Shetland Mark Ghiassi

Harp Jacqueline Marshall

Oboe/English Horn April Cap

Trumpet Meghan Turner

Violin Boryana Papova

Leila Nassar-Fredell

Clarinet Virginia Figueiredo

Trombone Robert Soto

Viola Alison Spieth

Bassoon/Contrabassoon

Sumner Arano Timpani/Percussion

Joseph Muskat Cello

Hillary Smith

Contrabass Benjamin Pendergrass

This orchestration of Falstaff by Jonathan Dove is by arrangement of Birmingham Opera

Company.

POP Board of Directors

Phil Meyer, Chairman

Stacey Oziel, Secretary Stephen Karr

Josh Shaw Judy Townsend

Kelsey Shaw, Treasurer Hannah Waldman

Paul Gurian Kathy Crandall

William Kennedy

Major Donors

Penny Donnelly Los Angeles County Arts Commission

Maurer Family Foundation Brabson Library and Educational

Foundation International Festival Society

Capital Group Companies Charitable Foundation Phil Meyer

Kelsey Shaw Kristen Rosiar

Eric Futterer

William Kennedy Sharon and Rick Ellington

Robert Robinson Paul Gurian

Los Angeles Philanthropic Committee

The Metropolitan Associates Kasimoff-Blüthner Piano Co.

Randall Silverston Kyle Patterson

Silverio and Wendy Arano

Jeanne Waldman Tom Chang

Christine Schindler Bruce Merritt

Georgette Gantner Bruce Anderson Robert Khoury

Bob Kieft Joann Zajac

Mike Tomasulo

Special Thanks

David Kasunic and Occidental College The Ebell Club of Highland Park

Martha Benedict Photography Dr. Harry Lieberman and Mike Tomasulo for housing our visiting artists

Synopsis

In a plot to procure their fortunes, Sir John Falstaff sends identical love letters to Alice Ford and Meg Page. After learning of Falstaff’s trickery, the two women along with Alice's daughter Nannetta and her godmother Mistress Quickly plot to punish him and dispatch Quickly to the Garter Inn to tell Falstaff that Alice's husband is out of the house between two and three o'clock. Meanwhile, Bardolfo and Pistola, Falstaff's partners in crime, confess Falstaff's intentions to Mr. Ford, who disguises himself as Master Brook. Mr. Ford then visits Falstaff to ask for his help in procuring Alice for himself. However, after their interaction, Mr. Ford suspects his wife of cheating and leaves in a fury. In a secondary vein, Mr. Ford has been plotting to marry off his daughter Nannetta, who is in love with the young Fenton (Mr. Ford's employee), to Dr. Caius. The rest of the opera is the tale of how the Merry Wives get their revenge on Falstaff and, at the same time, thwart Ford's plans for Nanetta. In the end, no character escapes unscathed by jest: As the opera concludes, "Tutto nel monda è burla'—All the world is a joke!

-- Adapted from the ‘Falstaff’ entry in The Oxford Dictionary of Opera

This performance is supported, in part, by the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors through the Los Angeles County Arts Commission.

Zeffin Quinn Hollis (Sir John Falstaff) Zeffin Quinn Hollis is uncommonly at ease in both contemporary and traditional repertoire. Mr. Hollisheaded the cast of The Crucible as John Proctor for the inaugural International Opera Competition and Festival with Mezzo Television. This showing, presided over by the composer himself, won the top award for “Best Opera Performance”. Artistic Director of the

Hungarian National Theatre and European luminary, Robert Alföldi, directed the production that was broadcast by Mezzo Television to over 40 countries. Mr. Hollis has breathed life into roles such as the four Villains in Les contes d’Hoffman, conducted by Julius Rudel; Eddie Carbone in William Bolcom’s AView from the Bridge; Laurent in the New York premiere of Tobias Picker’s Thérèse Raquin; the title role in Bartók’s Bluebeard’s Castle; Scarpia in Tosca; and the cunning and suave Nick Shadow in Stravinsky’s The Rake’s Progress. While chillingly comfortable in the skin of even the darkest scoundrel, the baritone’s empathetic portrayals as compassionate leading men have also brought him acclaim. Some of his most performed roles include Escamillo (Carmen), Marcello in La bohème, Giorgio Germont in La traviata, and Jack Rance in La fanciulla del West. A recent season’s highlight was Mr. Hollis’s return to Dallas Opera debut, where he was part of the cast of the world premiere production of Moby Dick. As Mr. Hollis’s career has taken dramatic shape, his musical work has spanned coast to coast and beyond; he has appeared at many significant opera houses including Dallas Opera, Santa Fe Opera, New York City Opera, Opera Pacific, Opera Theatre of Pittsburgh, El Paso Opera, Palm Beach Opera, Opera Delaware, Opera Providence, Long Beach Opera, Toledo Opera, New Orleans Opera Association, Dicapo Opera Theater, and the Pécs and Szeged National Theaters in Hungary.

Rebecca Sjöwall (Alice Ford) Rebecca Sjöwall has been lauded for her dramatic power as an actress ("astonishing," "striking," "a joy to watch") with a voice described as "luscious,""beautifully crisp," and "amazingly clear". Of her recent role debut as Mrs. P in Nyman's The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat with Nashville Opera, ArtsNash declared, "Her climactic singing scream of

'Philistine!' at Dr. S is one of the most electrifying moments I've experienced in more than 40 years of attending live opera and theater performances." Sjöwall made her company debut with Pacific Opera Project as the Governess in Britten's The Turn of the Screw, about which Stage and Cinema wrote, "Her dramatic expression and stunning voice exhibit great beauty and power." After spending two seasons as a Studio Artist with Arizona Opera, where she performed and covered twelve roles, she made her Nashville debut as the Williamson girl (David Lang’s The Difficulty of Crossing a Field). She has appeared as soloist with Phoenix Symphony in Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 and with Symphony Irvine in Verdi's Messa da Requiem and is a two-time District Winner of the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, as well as Winner of the American Jenny Lind Competition, the Redlands Bowl Young Artist Auditions, and the Long Beach Mozart Festival Vocal Competition. On record, Sjöwall sings the "Rapture Anthem" for the award-winning video games BioShock and BioShock 2. She has collaborated with many composers, including Garry Schyman, Craig Bohmler, Patrick Kirst, Christina Thomas, and Andrea Morricone. She also voiced the sassy Hollywood Starlet on The Seduction of Ingmar Bergman by Sparks, a role that she reprised for a sold-out live performance at the Ford Amphitheatre in Hollywood.

Daniel Scofield (Ford) In 2014-2015, Daniel Scofield returns to Opera Santa Barbara as Ben in Menotti’s The Telephone, following his performances in Falstaff as Pistola, and cover of SirJohn Falstaff during the 2013-2014 season. In the fall, he travels to Opera Columbus as Tonio in the Opera on the Edge performance of Pagliacci and again in February to perform Count Almaviva in the spring

production of Le nozze di Figaro on the stage of the Southern Theater. Other important debuts during the 2014-2015 season include the title role in Rigoletto with Opera in the Heights. This summer he performed Enrico in Lucia di Lammermoor for the Southern Illinois Music Festival before joining the ensemble of Fidelio at Santa Fe Opera. In 2013-2014 he made several new house and role debuts. In the fall and winter, he played Danilo in Opera Columbus’ Opera on the Edge production of The Merry Widow. Afterward, he performed Masetto in Don Giovanni for his debut with Opera San Jose. In December, Daniel joined the Annapolis Opera in their season opening, “Celebrate Opera” concert, and made his Carnegie Hall debut in Strauss’s Feuersnot with the American Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Leon Botstein. In past seasons, Daniel Scofield performed Sharpless in Madama Butterfly with the Loon Opera, Sonora in La fanciulla del West and Falke in Die Fledermaus with Knoxville Opera, Joseph de Rocher in Dead Man Walking with Opera Fayetteville, and Tonio in Pagliacci in his debut with Opera Idaho. Daniel sang his first Count Almaviva in Le nozze di Figaro with Pacific Opera Project in Los Angeles, garnering emphatic reviews stating, “it is Scofield’s powerful baritone that drives the action”. Daniel was seen onstage at the Arizona Opera in the premier of Bernard Uzan’s new production of Faust, as Wagner, as well as Prince Yamadori in Madama Butterfly, for which he also covered Sharpless. A native of Binghamton, NY, Daniel Scofield has studied at the Cleveland Institute of Music with Dean Southern, as well as Indiana University, under the instruction of Timothy Noble. Mr. Scofield is winner of several prizes, including the District and Regional Encouragement Awards from the Metropolitan Opera Council, and the Albert Rees Davis Scholarship from the Cleveland Singers Club.

Sharmay Musacchio (Mistress Quickly) American contralto Sharmay Musacchio recently made her debut with the New York City Opera as Mrs.Grose in their production of The Turn of the Screw. Of her performance, Anthony Tommasini wrote “The rich-voiced contralto, Sharmay Musacchio is wonderful asthe well-meaning, baffled and finally desperate housekeeper, Mrs.Grose.” Ms.Musacchio made her Los Angeles Opera debut as a Maiden in The Rise and Fall of

the City of Mahagonny the commercial recording of which won 2 Grammys. Ms. Musacchio has performed as a Soloist with New York City Opera, Los AngelesOpera, Sarasota Opera, Portland Opera, Opera Southwest, Fresno Grand Opera, Townsend Opera, San Diego Chamber Orchestra, New England Symphonic Ensemble, and San Francisco Conservatory Opera Theatre in conjunction with San Francisco Opera. Ms. Musacchio’s concert work includes her Carnegie Hall debut as the alto soloist in Vivaldi’s Gloria, and the alto soloist in ten performances of Handel’s Messiah with the San Francisco Conservatory Orchestra at Davies Symphony Hall, San Diego Chamber Orchestra and the San Diego City Ballet. Ms. Musacchio’s upcoming engagements include: debuting the role of the Mother in Martin!’s The Tears of the Knife with the San Diego International Fringe Festival.

Annie Sherman (Nannetta) Lauded for her musicality and stage presence, Annie was recognized as a Finalist in the 2015 Lotte Lenya Competition and a Winner of the 2015 UCLA All-Star Concerto Competition, performing Samuel Barber’sKnoxville: Summer of 1915 with the UCLA Philharmonia, conducted by Neal Stulberg. Equally at home in operatic, contemporary, and musical theater repertoire, some

of Annie’s recent roles include Inez in the West Coast premiere of Mercadante's I due Figaro, conducted by Joseph Colaneri (UCLA), Frenchie in Cabaret (Crown City Theatre, Eddon Award for "The Best in LA Theatre for 2014"), Maxine in the world premiere of Oxford Companions by Giancarlo Aquilanti (Bing Concert Hall), Angela in Henry Cowell's The Commission (Stanford University), the title role in L’incoronazione di Poppea (Opera NEO), Luisa in The Fantasticks (Stanford), and Cathy in The Last Five Years (Stanford). Annie is passionate about increasing public engagement with the arts and wants to shake up the field of opera in order to reach wider audiences. This spring, Annie created the role of Lena in The Discord Altar, a musically improvised play about homelessness that served as the first installment of OperaWorks’s Arts for Social Awareness Project. In addition to her stage endeavors, Annie is

a commercial and film actress living in Los Angeles. Having graduated with honors from Stanford University, Annie is currently pursuing a Masters of Music in Vocal Performance at UCLA.

Nadav Hart (Fenton) Tenor Nadav Hart grew up in Israel and now lives in Southern California. Past roles include Cassio (Otello), Nemorino (L’elisir d’amore), Ferrando (Così fan tutte), Don Ottavio (Don Giovanni), Chevalier de la Force (Dialogues des Carmelites), Leicester (Elisabetta, Regina d’Inghilterra), Nanki-Poo (The Mikado), Fernando (Goyescas), and Kaspar (Amahl and the Night Visitors). He has performed with LA Opera

Outreach, West Bay Opera in Palo Alto, Festival Opera in Walnut Creek, West Edge Opera in Berkeley, Opera in the Ozarks in Arkansas, Riverside Lyric Opera, and Redlands Opera Theater. Mr. Hart has also appeared as a regular church soloist and section leader. He continues to work as a classical soloist while completing his pre-medical studies at UCLA and working as a research intern at Cedar-Sinai Medical Center.

Jessica Mirshak (Meg Page) Los Angeles based mezzo-soprano Jessica Mirshak has performed contemporary and traditional operatic roles with many companies in Southern California and beyond. Recent roles performed include Lyubasha (The Tsar’s Bride), Lola (Cavalleria rusticana), Cherubino (Le nozze di Figaro), Flora (La traviata), Female Doctor in the premiere of Sylvia at BargeMusic! Brooklyn by Julia

Adolphe; Mother Jeanne of the Baby Jesus in Dialogues des Carmelies and Third Lady in Die Zauberflöte with USC Thornton Opera. As a concert soloist in the 2014-2015 season, Ms. Mirshak has been seen as alto soloist in Vivaldi’s Gloria, alto soloist in Mendelssohn’s Elijah, and alto soloist in Bach’s Cantata 106. In April, Ms. Mirshak was the recipient of the Lisa & Bernie Kalvelage Award in the Maria & Henry Holt Competition. Upcoming performances include Jameson in Hopscotch, an exciting new project with The Industry. Ms. Mirshak is a graduate of USC Thornton School of Music and Loyola University New Orleans.

Clay Hilley (Dr. Caius) With a clarion sound and compelling stage presence, tenor Clay Hilley has established himself as an artist on the rise in the dramatic and heldentenor repertoire. InAugust of 2014 critics lauded his triumphant appearance in the title role of Wagner’s Siegfried (Jonathan Dove’s reduction) with Union Avenue Opera. Other recent successes include Radames in Aïda

as guest artist with the Bob Jones University Opera Association, the title role in Faust with Winter Opera St. Louis, a return engagement with American Symphony Orchestra as Gundelfingen in Strauss’s Feuersnot, Father Grenville in Dead Man Walking with Madison Opera, and a cover of Cavaradossi in Tosca with Atlanta Opera. The 2014-15 season brought his return to Madison Opera as Florestan in Fidelio, several appearances with the Columbus Symphony in the fall, a role debut as Canio in Pagliacci with Opera Columbus, and Siegfried in Götterdämmerung (J. Dove Reduction) with Union Ave Opera. The 2012-13 season featured Clay's American Symphony Orchestra debut at Carnegie Hall as the tenor soloist in Mahler’s Symphony No. 8, as well as his Lincoln Center debut at the Rose Theater in the Verdi’s Messa da Requiem. He sang Siegmund in Act I of Die Walküre in concert with North Carolina Opera, under the baton of Timothy Myers. He also sang the Steuermann in Der fliegende Holländer with Indianapolis Opera, and covered Manrico in Il trovatore for Arizona Opera. Additionally he performed the role of Ewart Dunlop in The Music Man at the Royal Opera House in Muscat, Oman. Other career highlights include Don José in La tragedie de Carmen and Froh in Das Rheingold with Indianapolis Opera; and Don José in Carmen and Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly with Opera Western Reserve. In the summer of 2013 Clay returned to the Glimmerglass Festival, covering Erik in Der fliegende Holländer, and performing Sir Dinadan in Camelot. As a member of the Opera Institute at Boston University, Clay performed the roles of Roméo in Roméo et Juliette, Anatol in Barber’s Vanessa, and Rinuccio in Gianni Schicchi. Also during that time Mr. Hilley had the good fortune to sing the role of Sam Polk in Susannah while Carlisle Floyd was Comoposer-in-Residence at the University. With Arizona Opera Hilley sang Beppe in Pagliacci and covered both Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly, and the title role in Faust. He performed his first Verdi Requiem as tenor soloist at Boston Symphony Hall in 2011.

Additional roles include the Messenger in Aïda, Molqi in John Adam’s The Death of Klinghoffer, Edgardo in Lucia di Lammermoor, and Alfredo in La traviata. A native of Georgia, he received the Bachelor of Music degree in Music Education at the University of Georgia, and the Master of Music degree inVocal Performance from Georgia State University.

Kyle Patterson (Bardolfo) Tenor Kyle Patterson is thrilled to be returning to Pacific Opera Project for his sixth production with the company. He debuted with POP as Ferrando in Così fan tutte and later that season, sang the role of Tobias in Sweeney Todd. He has also performed the roles of Nanki-Poo in The Mikado and covered the roles of Count Almaviva in the POP-Up production of Il

barbiere di Siviglia, as well as El Remendado in Carmen. Kyle is also a regular performer on the roster of Repertory Opera Company (ROC), where he has performed the following roles: Ernesto (Don Pasquale), Tamino (Die Zauberflöte), and Count Almaviva (Il barbiere di Siviglia). He has spent two consecutive summers as an Apprentice Artist with Opera in the Ozarks (OIO), where he performed the roles of Henrik (A Little Night Music), Monostatos (Die Zauberflöte), and Frederic (The Pirates of Penzance), and covered the role of Nemorino (L’elisir d’amore). Kyle is also an alumnus of Chapman University’s Opera Chapman Ensemble where he performed Tamino (Die Zauberflöte), and covered the role of Camille (The Merry Widow). In addition to expanding his opera repertoire, Kyle has performed several concert engagements in his young career, most recently appearing as Tobias Ragg in a concert of Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd in collaboration with the Golden State Pops Orchestra. In 2013, Kyle was a finalist in the Coeur d’Alene Symphony Young Artist Vocal Competition and he is also an alumnus of the prestigious OperaWorks Emerging Artist Program. Kyle has two degrees in Civil Engineering from the University of Southern California (USC) and is a licensed Professional Engineer in the State of California. His professional track record was just highlighted by OC Metro Magazine’s “40 Under 40” series, profiling the success of 40 influential professionals under the age of 40 in Orange County.

Phil Meyer (Pistola) Phil Meyer is a founding member of the Pacific Opera Project, playing the self-obsessed Sam in its opening production of Trouble in Tahiti. Also withPOP, Phil has sung the Demon Barber himself in Sweeney Todd; the drug addled Basilio in Il barbiere di Siviglia; a multiple-personality prone Poo-Bah in The Mikado; and most recently, Sylvano, God of the Woods, in La Calisto.

Other leading roles in the Los Angeles area include Mephistopheles, in the Center Stage Opera production of Faust; Osmin in The Abduction from the Seraglio, Kecal in The Bartered Bride and Achilla in Giulio Cesare with the Celestial Opera Company; and Leporello in Don Giovanni, Olin Blitch in Susannah and the title role in Verdi’s Falstaff with Los Angeles Metropolitan Opera.

Josh Shaw, Art ist i c Director Josh Shaw is the co-founder and Artistic Director of Pacific Opera Project. Since turning his attentions to directing in 2011, he has directed and designed over 30 operas and musicals. Highlights include sold-out and critically acclaimed productions of Tosca: A moving production, La bohème AKA “The Hipsters”, La Calisto, The Turn of the Screw, and Ariadne

auf Naxos. Mr. Shaw’s Star Trek-themed Abduction from the Seraglio, for which he wrote a new English book and libretto, is gaining national attention, following successful runs in Los Angeles, Tennessee, and Illinois this season. Mr. Shaw is the Resident Director for Chamber Opera Players of Los Angeles and has directed productions of Il segreto di Susanna, A Hand of Bridge, Gallantry, A Sunday Excursion, The Man on the Bearskin Rug, Three Sisters who are not Sisters, and The Last Silent Voice (World Premiere) for the up and coming company. Other recent directorial projects include Il barbiere di Siviglia, Le nozze di Figaro, The Mikado, Così fan tutte, Trouble in Tahiti, Sweeney Todd, and Don Giovanni with POP; Carmen, Lucia di Lammermoor, and Abduction from the Seraglio at the Southern Illinois Music Festival; The Medium for Redlands Opera Theatre; Into the Woods and Annie at Burbank Community Theater; and Cavalleria rusticana and Pagliacci with the Celestial Opera Company. Upcoming projects include Madama Butterfly with Salt Marsh Opera, Guilluame Tell with The Southern Illinois Music Festival, and productions of Abduction from the Seraglio at Opera Piccola in San Antonio, Festival Opera in Walnut Creek, CA, and Salt Marsh Opera in CT. In his former life as a tenor, Mr. Shaw sang leading roles with Opera Fairbanks, Capital Opera of Sacramento, High Desert Opera, Opera Las Vegas, Center Stage Opera, Lyric Opera of Los Angeles, The Celestial Opera Company, and Opera Pasadena. He has toured the United States with the Pasadena-based Gilbert & Sullivan troupe, Opera a la Carte for multiple seasons. He has also worked and recorded albums with LA Operetta Project, a foundation dedicated to recording lost early American operetta and music theatre. Mr. Shaw’s most celebrated roles include Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly, Cavaradossi in Tosca, Rodolfo in La bohème, Alfredo in La traviata, Edgardo in Lucia di Lammermoor, Don José in Carmen, and the title role in Faust. Mr. Shaw is a graduate of Ouachita Baptist University and Southern Illinois University, with a master’s degree in Opera/Music Theater.

Stephen Karr, Music Director Born in Greenville, South Carolina, Stephen Karr is a young conductor and keyboardist establishing himself as a compelling interpreter of a wide variety of orchestral and operatic works. In 2011, Stephen co-founded Pacific Opera Project, for which he serves as music director and has led highly successful productions of Trouble in Tahiti, Don Giovanni, Così fan tutte, Sweeney Todd, La bohème, Il barbiere di Siviglia, Le nozze di Figaro The Mikado, The Turn of the Screw, Carmen, La Calisto (LA premiere), Tosca, Abduction

from the Seraglio and Ariadne auf Naxos as either conductor or from the keyboard. In his review of the Britten, Mark Swed of the LA Times made special note of the orchestra, "expertly conducted by Stephen Karr." In addition to his work with POP, Stephen has been on the music staff of opera companies and universities across the US, including Des Moines Metro Opera’s OPERA Iowa tour, the Glimmerglass Festival, Michigan State University, Opera New Jersey, Opera Santa Barbara, Palm Beach Opera and UCLA as a pianist/coach and assistant conductor. His international appearances include the Royal Opera House in Muscat, Oman as assistant conductor and principal keyboardist with the Glimmerglass Festival’s production of The Music Man and an appointment as Cultural Envoy from the United States Department of State leading the Rotterdam Youth Symphony and the brass ensemble from Rotterdam's Codarts Conservatory of Music in a concert for the annual World Harbor Days festival. Stephen’s operatic repertoire includes over thirty separate productions, spanning nearly the entire history of the art form, from Cavalli’s Il Giasone and Lully’s Armide to world or regional premieres of recent works, notably Kenneth Wells’s The First Lady in 2010 in a co-production between the UCLA Semel Institute for Neuropsychology and need theater. He has served as a guest artist or faculty member at Chapman University, California State University Northridge, Michigan State University, USC, Westminster Choir College and UCLA, where he will serve as principal pianist for the Spring 2016 production of Così fan tutte. Stephen's schooling includes degrees in organ performance from Westminster Choir College and Mercer University, as well as a master's degree in orchestral conducting from UCLA, where he studied with Neal Stulberg and led a wide variety of repertoire. He is also a co-founder of the school's resident new music ensemble, contempo flux.

Maggie Green came late to professional costume design, though she has been making costumes for family and friends since she was a teenager. It was only after coming to Los Angeles a decade ago that she realized it could be a career. Maggie has a certificate in costume design from Los Angeles City College Theatre Academy, but finds that motherhood was also great training for dressing performers. By far her favorite work has been with Pacific Opera Project, for whom

she's been doing costumes since 2012 when they did their first big production with a chorus, Sweeney Todd. She has costumed every show since, making Falstaff her twelfth show with POP!

Kaitrin Kinnare graduated with a degree in Film Production from Emerson College in 2010 and has worked at NBC Universal Television Studios and Warner Bros. Pictures. She is the Company Manager for Pacific Opera Project and has been stage manager for several of their productions, including Ariadne auf Naxos, Abduction from the Seraglio, La bohème and Tosca. She has also managed productions for the Celestial Opera Company, Opera Neo and Opera UCLA, including

their recent West Coast premiere of I due Figaro. In October she will be stage manager for Madama Butterfly at Salt Marsh Opera in Connecticut.

Ryan Shull has been involved with POP from the start and has designed lights for several productions including Tosca, The Turn of the Screw, Trouble in Tahiti, Così fan tutte, Le nozze di Figaro, and Don Giovanni. A bay area native Ryan has designed in venues stretching all across California. In LA he is a proud member of IATSE Local 33 and spends the majority of his time working as an industry electrician and carpenter at the Pasadena Playhouse, The State Theatre of California.

Maggie Green came late to professional costume design, though she has been making costumes for family and friends since she was a teenager. It was only after coming to Los Angeles a decade ago that she realized it could be a career. Maggie has a certificate in costume design from Los Angeles City College Theatre Academy, but finds that motherhood was also great training for dressing performers. By far her favorite work has been with Pacific Opera Project, for whom she's been doing costumes since 2012 when they did their first big production with a chorus, Sweeney

Todd. She has costumed every show since, making Abduction her tenth show with POP!

Kaitrin Kinnare graduated with a degree in Film Production from Emerson College in 2010 and has worked at NBC Universal Television Studios and Warner Bros. Film Production. For POP she has stage-managed Carmen, La Calisto, Tosca, and La bohéme. She has also stage-managed productions for Opera UCLA, including their recent West Coast premiere of I Due Figaro. In addition  to  POP’s  next  three  productions  she  will  be working on I pagliacci and Cavalleria Rusticana for The Celestial Opera Company, Madama Butterfly for Salt Marsh Opera, and at

Opera  Neo’s  2015  Summer  Festival.

Ryan Shull has been involved with POP from the start and has designed lights for several productions including The Turn of the Screw, Tosca, Trouble in Tahiti, Cosi fan tutte, Le nozze di Figaro, and Don Giovanni. A bay area native Ryan has designed in venues stretching all across California. In LA he is a proud member of IATSE Local 33 and spends the majority of his time working as an industry electrician and carpenter at the Pasadena Playhouse, The State Theatre of California.

Maggie Green came late to professional costume design, though she has been making costumes for family and friends since she was a teenager. It was only after coming to Los Angeles a decade ago that she realized it could be a career. Maggie has a certificate in costume design from Los Angeles City College Theatre Academy, but finds that motherhood was also great training for dressing performers. By far her favorite work has been with Pacific Opera Project, for whom she's been doing costumes since 2012 when they did their first big production with a chorus, Sweeney

Todd. She has costumed every show since, making Abduction her tenth show with POP!

Kaitrin Kinnare graduated with a degree in Film Production from Emerson College in 2010 and has worked at NBC Universal Television Studios and Warner Bros. Film Production. For POP she has stage-managed Carmen, La Calisto, Tosca, and La bohéme. She has also stage-managed productions for Opera UCLA, including their recent West Coast premiere of I Due Figaro. In addition  to  POP’s  next  three  productions  she  will  be working on I pagliacci and Cavalleria Rusticana for The Celestial Opera Company, Madama Butterfly for Salt Marsh Opera, and at

Opera  Neo’s  2015  Summer  Festival.

Ryan Shull has been involved with POP from the start and has designed lights for several productions including The Turn of the Screw, Tosca, Trouble in Tahiti, Cosi fan tutte, Le nozze di Figaro, and Don Giovanni. A bay area native Ryan has designed in venues stretching all across California. In LA he is a proud member of IATSE Local 33 and spends the majority of his time working as an industry electrician and carpenter at the Pasadena Playhouse, The State Theatre of California.