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's Wife
Barak
First Servant
Second Servant
Third Servant
Apparition of a youth
First Watchman
Second Watchman
Third Watchman
Children's Voice(s)
Alto Voice
Guardian of the Temple Gates
Show Dates
Broadcast
10/15/1976, live broadcast, KKHI.
Time and Place
Legendary
Scenes
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