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Die Frau ohne Schatten

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Woman Without a Shadow
Company
San Francisco Opera Association
Location
San Francisco, CA
Venue
War Memorial Opera House
Season
1976-1977
Language
German

Creative/Crew

Conductor
Production
Designer
Chorus Director
Lighting Designer
Musical Preparation

Cast

Empress's Nurse
Spirit Messenger
Emperor
Empress
Voice of the Falcon
One-armed Man
One-eyed Man
Hunchback
Barak
First Servant
Second Servant
Third Servant
Apparition of a youth
First Watchman
Second Watchman
Third Watchman
Alto Voice
Guardian of the Temple Gates

Show Dates

Broadcast

10/15/1976, live broadcast, KKHI.

Time and Place

Legendary

Scenes

Act I, Scene 1 -- In the garden of the Imperial palace
Scene 2 -- Barak's hovel, under a city wall
Act II, Scene 1 -- Barak's hovel, the next day
Scene 2 -- Outside the Emperor's falcon house
Scene 3 -- Barak's hovel
Scene 4 -- Inside the falcon house
Scene 5 -- Barak's hovel
Act III, Scene 1 -- Mystic caverns near Keikobad's realm
Scene 2 -- At the entrance to Keikobad's temple
Scene 3 -- In the temple
Scene 4 -- Near a sun-flooded landscape
Scene 5 -- The golden city

Media

Acknowledgements

New production made possible by a generous gift from Cynthia Wood

Notes

10/15/1976, live broadcast, KKHI. Intermission interviews:  #1 Dr Karl Boehm by Alfred Frankenstein (guests).  #2 Libretto for Die Frau Ohne Schatten, Professor Heinz Politzer (guest).

Scenery built in San Francisco Opera Scenic Shop

Costumes courtesy of the Paris Opera

Properties courtesy of The Royal Opera, Stockholm

For the first time, two front rows of seats were removed in order to accommodate a full Strauss orchestra (91 players in this instance).

San Francisco Boys Chorus
William Ballard, Director
James Baker
Eric Brudos
Jon Cockerline
Laramie Crocker
John Doxey
James Dreer
George Fernandez
Douglas Fields
Scott Flemming
Brian Gordon
Ben Harrison
Steven Heffelfinger
Ethan Kaplan
Martin Kovach
Martin LaPlaca
Mark Louden
Stephen Myers
Christopher Nomura
Andrew Podell
Peter Reilly
Marco Remedios
Stephen Rumph
Jeffrey Silver
John Smalley
Dan Tadmor
Clement Ulrichs
James Urquhart
Peter Vizcaino
Bradley White
Douglas Wing