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Arabella
Company
San Francisco Opera Association
Location
San Francisco, CA
Venue
War Memorial Opera House
Season
2018-2019
Language
German

Creative/Crew

Conductor
Director
Production Designer
Lighting Designer
Chorus Director
Assistant Conductor
Musical Preparation
Prompter
Diction
Supertitles
Assistant Director(s)
Stage Manager(s)
Assistant Stage Manager(s)
Costume Supervisor
Head of Wig and Makeup

Cast

Fortune Teller
Countess Adelaide Waldner
Zdenka, Arabella's sister
Matteo, a young officer
Arabella, elder daughter of the Waldners
Count Elemer, one of Arabella's suitors
Count Theodor Waldner, a retired cavalry officer
Mandryka, A Croatian landowner
Welko, Mandryka's servant
Djura, Mandryda's servant
Count Dominik, one of Arabella's suitors
Count Lamoral, one of Arabella's suitors
Fiakermilli, a Cabaret Singer
Jankel, a waiter

Show Dates

Broadcast

The opera was broadcast locally over KDFC on November 2, 2018; also nationally on the WFMT syndicated opera series.

Time and Place

PLACE AND TIME: Vienna; Shrove Tuesday, 1910

Scenes

Act I: The Waldners' hotel suite, morning
Intermission
Act II: The Coachman's Ball, evening
Intermission
Act III: The hotel lobby, night

Media

Sponsors

This production is made possible, in part, by Bertie Bialek Elliott.

This production is made possible, in part, by Bernard and Barbro Osher.

Mr. Johansson's appearance is made possible by the Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Emerging Stars Fund.

Additional funding is provided by: Anne and Timothy Kahn.

Additional funding is provided by: Anne and Jeff Katz.

Additional funding is provided by: Gladyne Kenderdine Mitchell.

Additional funding is provided by: Neil and Elsa Pering.

Legacy Commission

Sung in German with English supertitles

Notes

The opera was broadcast locally over KDFC on November 2, 2018; also nationally on the WFMT syndicated opera series.

A co-production of the Santa Fe Opera, Minnesota Opera, and Canadian Opera Company.

Supernumeraries: Guest and staff at the ball and hotel.