Organizations Filed Purposes:
As the artist-training branch of Lyric Opera of Chicago, the Ryan Opera Center offers year-round education and performance opportunities to some of the nation's most talented young singers and pianists, facilitating their transition from academic training to a successful career in opera. Under the inspired leadership of Director Daniel Novak, the program aims to produce a new generation of opera artists at the highest level of performance and creativity. The mission of the Ryan Opera Center is to: 1. Provide comprehensive instruction by world-renowned faculty to nurture the superb talents and skills of its ensemble; 2. Offer significant performance experiences, mentorship by master artists, and career guidance to benefit the artists-in-training; 3. Produce cultural-outreach presentations that enhance the artists' performance skills and increase public access to Ryan Opera Center programming.
1. Provide comprehensive instruction by world-renowned faculty to nurture superb vocal skills & dramatic capabilities. 2. Offer significant performance experiences, mentorship by master artists, career guidance. 3. Produce cultural-outreach presentations that enhance the artists' performance skills and increase public access to Ryan Opera Center programming.
The Patrick G and Shirley W Ryan Opera Center offered year-round training and performance opportunities to its 12 singers and 1 pianist. This included instruction in voice (average 3-4 private lessons per month and 5-10 hours of coaching per week), acting and language, as well as Master Classes, all provided by 51 artists, faculty and staff. The Ryan Opera Center artists also participated in 86 performances on the Lyric Opera mainstage and in community outreach concerts, and 12 WFMT Recital Series radio performances. In total they were seen by more than 145,000 people, and heard on the radio by an estimated 620,000 people. As of 6/30/2019, The Patrick G and Shirley W Ryan Opera Center transferred its operations and formally merged with the Lyric Opera of Chicago.
Executives Listed on Filing
Total Salary includes financial earnings, benefits, and all related organization earnings listed on tax filing
| Name | Title | Hours Per Week | Total Salary |
|---|
| Craig Terry | Music Director | 40 | $138,808 |
| Dan Novak | Vice-President&Director | 40 | $120,792 |
| Roberta Lane | Assistant Treasurer, CFO | 1 | $0 |
| Jeanne Malkin | Trustee/ Partial Year to 6/26/19 | 1 | $0 |
| Mrs Thomas D Heath | Trustee/ Partial Year to 6/26/19 | 1 | $0 |
| Billie Jean Smith | Trustee/Partial year to 9/10/18 | 1 | $0 |
| Marcus Boggs | Trustee/Partial year to 12/3/18 | 1 | $0 |
| Mrs Richard H Wehman | Trustee | 1 | $0 |
| Harriet Weinstein | Trustee/Beginning 6/26/19 | 1 | $0 |
| David Fox | Trustee/Beginning 9/13/18 | 1 | $0 |
| Cynthia Vahlkamp | Trustee/Beginning 9/13/18 | 1 | $0 |
| Jack Weiss | Trustee | 1 | $0 |
| Donna Van Eekeren | Trustee | 1 | $0 |
| Nasrin Thierer | Trustee | 1 | $0 |
| Salme Steinberg | Trustee | 1 | $0 |
| Richard W Shepro | Trustee | 1 | $0 |
| Richard O Ryan | Trustee | 1 | $0 |
| Ted Reichardt | Trustee | 1 | $0 |
| Gregory O'Leary | Trustee | 1 | $0 |
| Michael A Oberman | Trustee | 1 | $0 |
| Susan Noel | Trustee | 1 | $0 |
| Phyllis Neiman | Trustee | 1 | $0 |
| Frank B Modruson | Trustee | 1 | $0 |
| Helen Melchoir | Trustee | 1 | $0 |
| Erma S Medgyesy | Trustee | 1 | $0 |
| Robert Marks | Trustee | 1 | $0 |
| Loretta Julian | Trustee | 1 | $0 |
| Martha A Hesse | Trustee | 1 | $0 |
| Mary Ellen Hennessy | Trustee | 1 | $0 |
| Melvin Gray | Trustee | 1 | $0 |
| Mary Patricia Gannon | Trustee | 1 | $0 |
| Mira Frohnmayer | Trustee | 1 | $0 |
| Anthony Freud | Trustee | 1 | $0 |
| Jack Forsythe | Trustee | 1 | $0 |
| Erika Erich | Trustee | 1 | $0 |
| Nancy Dehmlow | Trustee | 1 | $0 |
| Allan Drebin | Trustee | 1 | $0 |
| Lawrence O Corry | Trustee | 1 | $0 |
| Tamara Conway | Trustee | 1 | $0 |
| Tanja Chevalier | Trustee | 1 | $0 |
| Heidi Bohn | Trustee | 1 | $0 |
| Nicole M Arnold | Trustee | 1 | $0 |
| Chester T Kamin | Secretary | 2 | $0 |
| Debbie K Wright | Treasurer | 2 | $0 |
| Susan Kiphart | Vice-President | 2 | $0 |
| Sally Feder | Vice-President | 2 | $0 |
| Julie Baskes | Vice-President | 1 | $0 |
| Juliana Chyu | Vice-President | 2 | $0 |
| Joan Zajtchuk | Vice-President | 2 | $0 |
| Janet Burch | Vice-President | 1 | $0 |
| Philip G Lumpkin | Vice-President | 2 | $0 |
| Jane Pigott | Vice-President | 2 | $0 |
| John Nitschke | President | 2 | $0 |
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