the novel by Wallace Stegner
Commissioned by San Francisco Opera
Creative/Crew
Conductor
Production
Scenic Designer
Costume Designer(s)
Choreographer
Chorus Director
Lighting Designer
Projection Art by
Musical Preparation
Cast
Ada Hawkes
Lyman Ward
Shelly Ward
Susan Burling Ward
Oliver Ward
Miners
Antonio
Dahl
Frank Sargent
Joaquin Miller
Financiers
Billy Daley
Agnes Ward
Ollie Ward
Ellen Ward
Show Dates
Broadcast
11/26/1976, live broadcast, KKHI.
Time and Place
Grass Valley, California, the present; California, Colorado and Idaho, 1876 to 1890
Scenes
Media
Acknowledgements
A City of San Francisco and United States of America twin bicentennial world premiere production made possible by generous gifts from the City of San Francisco, the San Francisco Foundation, the Wallace Alexander Gerbode Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Hearst Foundation, the National Opera Institute, an anonymous foundation, and numerous art patrons.
Notes
WORLD PREMIERE
Commissioned by San Francisco Opera
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11/26/1976, live broadcast, KKHI. Intermission interviews: #1 Andrew Imbrie, Oakley Hall and Gerald Freedman(guests); #2 Susanne Marsee, Nancy Shade, Dale Deusing and Chester Ludgin (guests).
Corps de Ballet
Photographs of New Almaden courtesy of California Historical Society
Scenery built in San Francisco Opera Scenic Shop
SUPERNUMERARIES
Dorothy Brown
Madeline Chase
Barbara Clifford
Joanne Dickson
Gina Farruggio
Janice Fillip
Nancy Kennally
Marilyn Mathers
Cynthia Milina
Edith Modie
Louise Russo
Ellen Sanchez
Shelley Seitz
Laurie Thompson
Jesse Alexander
Stewve Bauman
Thomas Carlisle
Ronald Cavin
Rudolph Cook
Burton Covel
Donald Crawford
Herbert Harvey
Martin Izquierdo
Kenneth Jakobs
Janusz
Julius Karoblis
Rodney McCoy
Gregorio Mendoza
Lawrence Millner
Paul Newman
James Preovolos
Noble Edward Reynolds
Paul Ricks
Raymond Salazar
Thomas Simrock
Jonathan Spieler
Kent Spiers
Colin Warner
David Williams
Joseph Williams
Gerald Wood