Composer Richard Strauss Librettist Hugo von Hofmannsthal Company San Francisco Opera Association Location San Francisco, CA Venue War Memorial Opera House Season 1965 Language German, English Creative/Crew Conductor Horst Stein Stage Director(s) Paul Hager Designer George Jenkins Costumers Goldstein & Co. Cast Music Master Chester Ludgin Majordomo Scott Beach Lackey David Giosso Officer James Eitze Composer Helen Vanni Tenor (Bacchus) Jess Thomas Wigmaker Howard Fried Zerbinetta Reri Grist Prima Donna (Ariadne) Hildegard Hillebrecht Dancing Master William Whitesides Naiad Jolanda Meneguzzer Dryad Annamaria Bessel Echo Gwen Curatilo Arlecchino Richard Fredricks Brighella Alexander Young Truffaldino John West Scaramuccio Raymond Manton Show Dates Sat, Oct 23 1965, 8pm Tue, Oct 26 1965, 8:30pm Time and Place (see below) Scenes PROLOGUE: The Viennese home of a nouveau riche gentleman; eighteenth century THE OPERA: Ariadne's cave on the Island of Naxos; antiquity Media Image Ariadne auf Naxos, Richard Strauss. San Francisco Opera, 1965. Photographer: Pete Peters/San Francisco Opera. Raymond Manton (Scaramuccio), John West (Truffaldino), Reri Grist (Zerbinetta), Alexander Young (Brighella) Credit Pete Peters Image Ariadne auf Naxos, Richard Strauss. San Francisco Opera, 1965. Photographer: Pete Peters/San Francisco Opera. Reri Grist (Zerbinetta) Credit Pete Peters Image Ariadne auf Naxos, Richard Strauss. San Francisco Opera, 1965. Photographer: Pete Peters/San Francisco Opera. Raymond Manton (Scaramuccio) Credit Pete Peters Image Ariadne auf Naxos, Richard Strauss. San Francisco Opera, 1965. Photographer: Pete Peters/San Francisco Opera. Reri Grist (Zerbinetta), Alexander Young (Brighella) Credit Pete Peters Notes The prologue is performed in English; the opera in German English translation of the prologue by Leopold Sachse
Image Ariadne auf Naxos, Richard Strauss. San Francisco Opera, 1965. Photographer: Pete Peters/San Francisco Opera. Raymond Manton (Scaramuccio), John West (Truffaldino), Reri Grist (Zerbinetta), Alexander Young (Brighella) Credit Pete Peters
Image Ariadne auf Naxos, Richard Strauss. San Francisco Opera, 1965. Photographer: Pete Peters/San Francisco Opera. Reri Grist (Zerbinetta) Credit Pete Peters
Image Ariadne auf Naxos, Richard Strauss. San Francisco Opera, 1965. Photographer: Pete Peters/San Francisco Opera. Raymond Manton (Scaramuccio) Credit Pete Peters
Image Ariadne auf Naxos, Richard Strauss. San Francisco Opera, 1965. Photographer: Pete Peters/San Francisco Opera. Reri Grist (Zerbinetta), Alexander Young (Brighella) Credit Pete Peters