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World Premiere
Company
San Francisco Opera Association
Location
San Francisco, CA
Venue
War Memorial Opera House
Season
2007-2008
Language
English
Commission

Commissioned by San Francisco Opera

Creative/Crew

Conductor
Director
Set Designer(s)
Costume Designer(s)
Lighting Designer
Chorus Director
Musical Preparation
Prompter
Assistant Stage Director(s)
Fight Choreographer
Wig and Makeup Designer
Stage Manager(s)
Costume Supervisor
Production Super Captain

Cast

Julia Dent Grant
Mary Custis Lee
Julia Agnes Lee
Mary Todd Lincoln
Elizabeth Keckley
Abraham Lincoln
Ulysses S. Grant
Brigadier General John A. Rawlins
Colonel Eli Parker
Robert E. Lee
General Howell Cobb
Brigadier General Edward Alexander
T. Morris Chester
Young Man
Naval Officer
Wilmer McLean
Confederate Soldier
Brigadier General
Edgar Ray Killen

Show Dates

Broadcast

9/20/2008 delayed broadcast, WFMT.

Time and Place

Virginia, 1865, and later times

Scenes

One intermission

Media

Acknowledgements

This production is made possible by John A. and Cynthia Fry Gunn Additional support provided, in part, by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts

Legacy Commission

Commissioned by San Francisco Opera

Notes

WORLD PREMIERE

Commissioned by San Francisco Opera

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9/20/2008 delayed broadcast, WFMT.

Sung in English with English supertitles

Costumes, props, wigs, and scenic elements constructed
in the San Francisco Opera workshops