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Company
San Francisco Opera Association
Location
San Francisco, CA
Venue
War Memorial Opera House
Season
1977
Language
Italian

Creative/Crew

Conductor
Stage Director(s)
Scenery designed by
Costumes designed by
Chorus Director
Choreographer
Lighting Designer
Musical Preparation
Second cast rehearsed by

Cast

Ramfis
Radames
Amneris
Aida
King of Egypt
Messenger
Priestess
Amonasro

Show Dates

Broadcast

10/21/1977, live broadcast, KKHI and NPR.

Time and Place

Memphis and Thebes in the time of the pharaohs

Scenes

Act I, Scene 1 -- The king's palace at Memphis
Scene 2 -- The temple of Vulcan
Act II, Scene 1 -- Amneris's apartment in the palace
Scene 2 -- A public square in Thebes
Act III -- The banks of the Nile, outside the temple of Isis
Act IV, Scene 1 -- The Judgment hall
Scene 2 -- A tomb below the temple

Media

Notes

10/21/1977, live broadcast, KKHI and NPR. Intermission interviews: #1  first performance of Aida In Cairo, David Littlejohn (guest); #2, James McCracken (guest);  #3 Richard Bradshaw (guest).

Scenery and costumes owned by the Metropolitan Opera Association and made possible through a gift to the Metropolitan Opera from the Gramma Fisher Foundation of Marshalltown, Iowa.

Corps de Ballet

The Little Lomo Dancers

Auxiliary chorus in the Triumphal Scene composed of members of the Community Music Center's San Francisco Community Chorus