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Don Carlo
Based On

the dramatic poem by Friedrich von Schiller

Company
San Francisco Opera Association
Location
San Francisco, CA
Venue
War Memorial Opera House
Season
2015-2016
Language
Italian

Creative/Crew

Conductor
Director
Production Designer
Lighting Designer
Chorus Director
Fight Director
Assistant Conductor
Musical Preparation
Prompter
Diction
Supertitles
Assistant Director(s)
Stage Manager(s)
Dance Master
Costume Supervisor
Wig and Makeup

Cast

Don Carlo
Elizabeth (Elisabetta) of Valois
Tebaldo
Count Lerma
Countess of Aremberg
Rodrigo, Marquis of Posa
Philip II
Princess Eboli
Heavenly voice
Grand Inquisitor

Show Dates

Broadcast

11/6/2016 delayed broadcast, KDFC;  10/15/2016 WFMT.

Time and Place

1559-1568; France and Spain

Scenes

Act I: The forest of Fontainebleau in France
Act II, Scene 1: The monastery of Yuste in Extremadura
Act II, Scene 2: The garden of the royal palace
Intermission
Act III, Scene 1: The Queen's gardens in Madrid
Act III, Scene 2: The square before the Cathedral of Our Lady of Atocha in Madrid
Intermission
Act IV, Scene 1: The King's study in Madrid
Act IV, Scene 2: A prison
Act V: The tomb of Charles V in the monastery of Yuste in Extremadura

Media

Sponsors

Don Carlo is made possible, in part, by John A. & Cynthia Fry Gunn, the Edmund W. & Jeannik Méquet Littlefield Fund, Leslie & George Hume, Thomas* & Barbara Wolfe, Dianne & Tad Taube, and Keith & Priscilla Geeslin.

Major support is also provided by the Great Interpreters of Italian Opera Fund established by Jan Shrem & Maria Manetti Shrem.

Maestro Luisotti's appearance is made possible by the Jan Shrem & Maria Manetti Shrem Conductors Fund.

Ms. Martinez's and Mr. Kwiecień's appearances are made possible by a gift to the Great Singers Fund from Joan & David Traitel.

Additional funding is provided by Helen Berggruen, the Carol Franc Buck Foundation, Jerome L. & Thao N. Dodson, Lisa Erdberg & Dennis Gibbons, Stephen & Diane Heiman, Anne & Tim Kahn, Marie & Palmer Hotz, Karen J. Kubin, Bernice & John Lindstrom, Mr. & Mrs. Burton J. McMurtry, Peggy and Boyce Nute, and the Patricia Yakutis Endowment Fund.

*deceased

Legacy Commission

Sung in Italian with English supertitles

Notes

11/6/2016 delayed broadcast, KDFC;  10/15/2016 WFMT.

Italian translation by Achille de Lauzières and Angelo Zanardini.

Additional text translated by Piero Faggioni.

Assistant stage managers: Gina Hays; Jayme O'Hara; Thea Railey; Sarah Bingel.

Supernumeraries: Susan Anderson-Norby; Steve Bauman; Jason Benson; Dieter Bluhm; Tatiana Bookbinder; Christine Boulanger; Jim Bowes; Mark Burstein; Richard Casse; James Crow; Eric Dew; Maria Dulmage; Joe Friedman; Nancy Huie; Andrew Korniej; Don Langley; Steve Lavezzoli; Charles Lewis III; Frank Masson; Matt Miller; Steve Mullin; Heidi Munzinger; Scott Pearson; Vince Ryan; Larry Severino; Raymon Smith; Stanley Strosser; Carlos Suarez; Adam Thier; Jim Troup; Bethel Watt; Bill Watt; Irving Wiltshire; Rob Wonder; Paul Zemlin; Frank Zepeda.