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Company
San Francisco Opera Association
Location
San Francisco, CA
Venue
War Memorial Opera House
Season
1989-1990
Language
Italian

Creative/Crew

Conductor
Stage Director(s)
Set Designer(s)
Costume Designer(s)
Lighting Designer
Chorus Director
Choreographer
Musical Preparation
Prompter
Assistant Stage Director(s)
Supertitles
Stage Manager(s)

Cast

Show Dates

Time and Place

Epoch of the Pharaohs; Memphis and Thebes

Scenes

Act !, Scene 1 -- The King's palace at Memphis
Scene 2 -- The Temple of Fthà
Scene 3 -- Amneris's apartment in the palace, Thebes
Scene 4 -- A public square in Thebes
INTERMISSION
Act II -- The banks of the Nile, outside the Temple of Isis
INTERMISSION
Act III, Scene 1 -- The Judgment hall
Scene 2 -- A tomb below the Temple

Media

Acknowledgements

This revival of "Aida" has been made possible by a generous gift from Mr. & Mrs. G. William Jamieson.

The production was originally made possible by a gift from an anonymous donor.

Supertitles provided by a generous and most appreciated gift from William and Eloise Rollnick.

Legacy Commission

(See note regarding performance venue, 10/21)

Notes

"Aida" opened at Masonic Auditorium on October 21, resulting from the Oct. 17 Loma Prieta earthquake.
Subsequent performances took place at the War Memorial Opera House.
The opening performance went on in "modified concert form," i.e. in costume and makeup,
with some props and lights, but without supernumeraries and dancers.

(There is a separate listing for the opening performance of October 21
because it took place in a different venue.)

Scenery constructed in San Francisco Opera Scenic Studios

Costumes executed by San Francisco Opera Costume Shop and by Michael-Jon Costumes, New York

DANCERS
Elizabeth Cooper
Nora Heiber
Marina Hotchkiss
Carolyn Houser
Debra Rose
Laurie Skophammer
Katherine Warner

Gregory Dawson
Michael Denham
Danny Furlong
Geoffrey Hipps
Steve Kirby
Winthrop Marcirak
Thomas Segal

SUPERNUMERARIES (second group of three operas)

Traudi Albert
Pat Angell
Elayne Ashman
Phyllis Blair
Dorothy Brown
Regina Bustillos
Sue Cammack
Madeline Chase
Kay Cheatham
Phoebe Ciaffi
Huguette Combes
Jamie Daniels
Renée DeJarnatt
Ann Fitzgerald
Debra Girard
Karen Topp Goodwyn
Diane Graham
Joan Imbeau
Candace Kahn
Valarie Klingenberg
Andrea Kohlruss
Dorothy Papo
Ann Paras
Stephanie Salter
Ellen Sanchez
Stella Tatro
Beverly Terry
Sally Warren
Carolyn Waugh
Marianne Welmers
Susan Wendt-Bogear
Laurel Winzler

Bob Acker
Joseph Alietti
David Altman
Gene Angell
Phillip Barber
Stephen Bartlett-Re
Steve Bauman
Jeff Beaudoin
Don Bechtel
Austin Bergin
Mike Berkowitz
John Bleyle
John Boldrick
Vincent Brooks
Al Carter
Peter Chrisler
Stewart Clark
David Clover
David Cook
Rudy Cook
Copley Crosby
Gil Deane
Gary Demyen
Kermit Duval
Lawrence Ewing
Rodney Felix
Peter Felleman
Tom Ferguson
Joe Fiorentino
John Gilbert
Tom Giuliano
Albert Goodwyn
Karl Grimm
Bill Higgins
Willard Holden
Eric Janovsky
Cecil Johnson
Mitch Johnson
Frank Jorgensen
Joe Kelley
Andrew Korniej
Dan Kyte
Greg Lawrance
Neil Larson
Mike Lee
Timothy Locke
Peter Loubal
Nelson Luesse
Oscar Manzanares
Ray Mark
Dennis Markunas
Robert McKibbon
Ed Meyers
Dan Melia
Jim Miller
Matt Miller
Edward Milhausen
Ian Mishkin
Brent Mitchell
Bob Nathanson
Noah Nelson
Barry Nielsen
Anthony O'Brien
Gerald O'Dwyer
Eric Oliver
Dick Pallowick
Les Partridge
Christopher Patnoe
Jay Perlman
Mike Pesavento
Scott Petry
John Plotz
Kirk Poole
Karl Przibram
Tom Purcell
Paul Price
Steve Rades
Paul Ric