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Der Rosenkavalier

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Based On

loosely, adapted from Louvet de Couvrai's novel Les amours du chevalier de Faublas and Molière's comedy Monsieur de Pourceaugnac

Company
San Francisco Opera Association
Location
San Francisco, CA
Venue
War Memorial Opera House
Season
1985-1986
Language
German

Creative/Crew

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

Cast

Marschallin
Mohamed
Marschallin's Majordomo
Baron Ochs of Lerchenau
First noble orphan
Third noble orphan
Second noble orphan
Milliner
Animal Vendor
Valzacchi
Annina
Italian Singer
Notary
Leopold
Faninal
Faninal's Majordomo
Innkeeper
Police Commissioner

Show Dates

Time and Place

Vienna, during the early years of the reign of the Empress Maria Theresia

Scenes

Act I -- The Marschallin's bedroom, early morning
Act II -- Faninal's house, two days later
Act III -- A run-down inn on the outskirts of Vienna, the following evening

Media

Sponsors

Supertitles underwritten through a generous grant from American Express via the San Francisco Opera Guild

Acknowledgements

This production of "Der Rosenkavalier" is owned by the Lyric Opera of Chicago
and is a generous and deeply appreciated gift of Mr. and Mrs. B. Edward Bensinger

Notes

Sets from the Lyric Opera of Chicago

Costumes from the Royal Opera, Copenhagen

San Francisco Boys Chorus
Louis Magor, Director
Mark Bemesderfer
Pascual Benito
Adam Brown
Gabriel Brown
Conal Byrne
Jim Dobson
Jacob Donham
Matthew Donham
Jason Duty
Jaime Fink
David Greenbaum
David La May
Sirr Less
Conor Massey
Darren Massey
Ryan Massey
Ian McCullough
Jeff Pulley
Michael Raznick
Jeffrey Rice
Jesse Schwartzburg
Thai Low
Caen Thomason-Redus
Sam Yen
Eric Yosten
Alexi Zemsky
Tony Zwerdling

San Francisco Girls Chorus
Elizabeth Appling, Director
Irma de los Santos
Michiko Ito
Maren Montalbano
Nicole Ranadive
Tanna Thompson

SUPERNUMERARIES (selected from the following list)
Gertraud Albert
Patricia Angell
Phyllis Blair
Dorothy C. Brown
Barbara Bruser
Bridget Chiasson
Renée DeJarnatt
Erin Edmunds
Jennifer Heglar
Susan Holzkamp
Alianna Jaqua
Candace Kahn
Andrea Massey
Patricia Medicina
Suzette Morales
Holly Morrison
Sharon Papo
Francesca Roveda
Ellen Sanchez
Burgess Shiu
Stella Tatro
Beverly Terry
Lisa Waters
Carolyn Waugh
Susan Weiss
Susan Wendt-Bogear

Gene Angell
Richard Ares
Aaron Baca
James Baca
Nathan Baca
Sean Baca
Stephen Bartlett-Re
Franklin Bauer
Steve Bauman
Todd Beauchamp
Donald Bechtel
Robert Belt
Noah Berry
Ryan Boyd
Brandon
Vincent Brooks
Gene Cikota
Stewart Clark
David Clover
Rudy Cook
Burton Covel
Jared Danielson
Daniel DeJarnatt
Alan Dettmering
Marc Dettmering
Scott Dettmering
Kermit DuVal
William Easley
David Elkind
Peter Felleman
Peter Fodor
Raymond Franke
Mickey Frettoloso
Peter Garadis
Tom Garadis
Albert Goodwyn
Paul Grosvenor
Steve Harper
Rodger Heglar
William Higgins
Mark Huelsmann
Donavan Hughes
John Janonis
Chris Judge
Julius Karoblis
Joe Kelley
Patrick Kelson
Elliot Koppel
Ken Korpi
Michael Kurtz
George LaLumiere
Ramon Martinez
Eugene Masciarelli
Conor Massey
Darren Massey
Berri McBride
Richard McGeary
Arnold McGilbray
Alan Miller
Matt Miller
Larry Millner
John Howard Moore
John L. Moore
Edwin Morse
Malcolm Mosher
Paul Newman
Chris Noll
Robert Peel
Harrison Pierce
Michael Pitkin
Jonathan Poli
Thaddeus Przybranowski
Ian Reddoch
Alex Reich
Marc Reich
Christopher Rice
Paul Ricks
Steven Rosen
Ken Schlobohm
Arthur B. Simon
James Sizemore
Geoff Skidmore
Bill Sommer
Ray Souza
Jerry Steimle
Don Studebaker
Tom Taffel
Karl Thon
John Varvarousis
Carter Weeman
Brett Weil
Rick Weil