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Donald Runnicles 50th Birthday Concert

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Company
San Francisco Opera Association
Location
San Francisco, CA
Venue
War Memorial Opera House
Season
2004-2005

Creative/Crew

Conductor

Show Dates

Acknowledgements

This event is sponsored, in part, by Athena Troxel Blackburn and Timothy C. Blackburn The corporate sponsor for this event is Deutsche Bank Private Wealth Management

Notes

San Francisco Opera Orchestra
Donald Runnicles, conductor

Christine Brewer, soprano
Nina Stemme, soprano
Carol Vaness, soprano
Frederica von Stade, mezzo-soprano
Christopher Ventris, tenor
Juha Uusitalo, baritone

Wagner

Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg -- Overture

Tannhäuser -- O du mein holder Abendstern
Juha Uusitalo

Götterdämmerung -- Siegfried's Rhine Journey and Funeral March

Tristan und Isolde -- Prelude and Liebestod
Christine Brewer

INTERMISSION

Wagner

Die Walküre -- Final Scene of Act I
Nina Stemme
Christopher Ventris

Die Walküre -- Final Scene of Act III
Christine Brewer
Juha Uusitalo

Mozart, Idomeneo -- D'Oreste, d'Aiace
Carol Vaness

Offenbach, La Périchole -- Tu n'es pas beau, tu n'es pas riche
Frederica von Stade

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The insignia of an OBE were presented to Donald Runnicles
by the British Consul General Martin Uden on behalf of
Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II