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Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg

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Die Meistersinger
Librettist
Company
San Francisco Opera Association
Location
San Francisco, CA
Venue
War Memorial Opera House
Season
1980-1981
Language
German

Creative/Crew

Conductor
Stage Director(s)
Designer
Lighting Designer
Chorus Director
Choreographer
Musical Preparation
Prompter
Assistant Stage Director(s)
Stage Manager(s)

Cast

Hans Sachs, shoemaker
Veit Pogner, goldsmith
Kunz Vogelgesang, furrier
Konrad Nachtigall, tinsmith
Sixtus Beckmesser, town clerk
Fritz Kothner, baker
Balthazar Zorn, pewterer
Ulrich Eisslinger, Grocer
Augustin Moser, tailor
Hermann Ortel, soap-maker
Hans Schwarz, stocking-weaver
Hans Foltz, coppersmith
Walther von Stolzing, Franconian Knight
David, apprentice to Hans Sachs
Eva, Pogner's daughter
Magdalene, Eva's companion
Night Watchman

Show Dates

Broadcast

9/12/1981, delayed broadcast, KQED and NPR.

Time and Place

Nürnberg in the sixteenth century

Scenes

Act I -- St. Katherine's church
Act II -- The street with houses of Sachs and Pogner
Act III, Scene 1 -- Workshop of Hans Sachs
Scene 2 -- Festival site

Media

Acknowledgements

The San Francisco Opera Association extends its thanks to the contributors to the Robert Watt Miller Memorial Fund, who, in 1971, made the production of "Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg" possible

Notes

9/12/1981, delayed broadcast, KQED and NPR. Intermission interviews: #1 Reflections: Opera, singers, Kurt Herbert Adler (guest), #2 Wagner's relationship with Eduard Hanslick, (writer) George Movshon (guest).

Scenery constructed in San Francisco Opera Scenic Studios

Costumes by Goldstein & Co.

Organ courtesy of Baldwin

SUPERNUMERARIES
Vicky Bauman
Dorothy Baune
Dottie Brown
Barbara Clifford
Janet Dahlsten
Betty Davis
Diane Graham
Leslie Landberg
Francesca Leo
Holly Morrison
Katherine Prongos
Karen Topp
Laurel Travesaro
Carolyn Waugh

Paul Allerton
Gene Angell
Jack Barnich
Steve Bauman
Richard Bechtold
Peter Bray
Robert Chase
Rudy Cook
Don Crawford
Tom Curran
Chas Dargis
Alex Demac
Julio Dorigoni
Hilbert Duperroir
Mickey Frettoloso
Joe Hay
Gary Hill
Mark Huelsmann
Donald Jack
Steve Jacobs
Julius Karoblis
Joseph Kelley
Ted Langlais
Gary Lea
Russell Lombard
Roger Marquardt
Wendell Maunula
Barry McBride
Lawrence Millner
Roberto Moreiras
Gary Morgret
Neil Nevesny
Paul Newman
Michael Pitkin
Paul Price
Paul Ricks
Chris Sheffield
Robert Schmidt
Ronald Sickman
Kent Speirs
Paul Sullivan
Marshall Tuttle

CORPS DE BALLET
Peggy Davis
Anne Elizabeth Egan
Anne Foote
Patricia Johnson
Marti Kennedy
Sherri Parks
Susan Parsons
Kathryn Roszak
Diane Rothenberg

Peter Childers
Greg Gibble
Alonzo King
Rick Nixon
Fabio Quintero
William Sanner Ramsdell
Pete J. Shoemaker
John Sullivan
Charlie West

ACROBATS
Gare Schmalle
Joral Schmalle
Loren Schmalle
Meeka Schmalle