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Eugene Onegin

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Based On

the novel in verse by Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin

Company
San Francisco Opera Association
Location
San Francisco, CA
Venue
War Memorial Opera House
Season
1986-1987
Language
Russian

Creative/Crew

Conductor
Production
Associate Stage Director
Set Designer(s)
Costume Designer(s)
Lighting Designer
Chorus Preparation
Choreographer
Musical Preparation
Prompter
Assistant Stage Director(s)
Supertitles
Stage Manager(s)

Cast

Tatyana
Madame Larina
Filipyevna
Eugene Onegin
Captain
Monsieur Triquet
Zaretsky
Guillot
Prince Gremin

Show Dates

Broadcast

10/31/1987 archival broadcast, locally on KKHI; also on KQED and WFMT.

Time and Place

Early 19th-century St. Petersburg and environs

Scenes

Act I, Scene 1 -- The garden of Madame Larina's country house
Scene 2 -- Tatiana's bedroom
Scene 3 -- Another part of the garden
Act II, Scene 1 -- A ballroom in Madame Larina's house
Scene 2 -- Early morning on the bank of a stream
Act III, Scene 1 -- A fashionable house in St. Petersburg, four years later
Scene 2 -- Outside Gremin's mansion

Media

Acknowledgements

This presentation of "Eugene Onegin" is made possible by Mrs. Paul L. Wattis, John and Elinor McGuire, Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Tilton, Diane Lynn Morris and an Anonymous Friend of the San Francisco Opera.

Supertitles provided by a generous and most appreciated gift from William and Eloise Rollnick.

Notes

This production is owned by the National Arts Centre of Canada and was originally produced for Festival Ottawa 1983.

10/31/1987 archival broadcast, locally on KKHI; also on KQED and WFMT. Intermission interviews:  #1 Musical highlights of Eugene Onegin: Sir John Pritchard (guest), #2 Thomas Allen (guest). (A year later, Mr. McEwen selected a number of operas from various seasons for broadcasts, including Eugene Onegin.)

DANCERS
Jill Albertson
Marina Hotchkiss
Robin Peluso
Debra Rose
Kathryn Roszak
Katherine Warner

Bobby Aames
Peter Childers
Jon Konetski
Gregory Lara
Alfredo Marenco
Daniel Ray

SUPERNUMERARIES (listed for the entire season)
Gertraud Albert
Hetty Alvarez
Susan Anderson
Pat Angell
Karen Bailey
Joyce Barnett
Dorothy Baune
Irene Bechtel
Janet Birnie
Phyllis Blair
Layeh Bock
Katherine Brazaitis
Lorna Bridges
Dorothy C. Brown
Barbara Bruser
Madeline Chase
Phoebe Ciaffi
Annette Clark
Huguette Combs
Renée DeJarnatt
Carol Dunlap
Carolyn Ekstedt
Linda L. Hargrove-Teets
Jennifer Hayasaka
Pamela E. Hughes
Joan Imbeau
Pierrette Jeanmonod
Esther Jennings
Mary Joyce
Candace Kahn
Valerie Klingenberg
Michelle Priest Kotschnig
Joan Kwansa
Hedy Anita Langford
Francesca Leo
Betty MacDonald
Sandra Marsh
Donna L. Martin
Patrizia R. Medicina
Edith Modie
Alta Moody
Liska Janelle Moody
Thelma Morris
Holly Morrison
Janet Morse
Gabrielle Motarjemi
Ellen Nelson
Claire Nice
Marta Osterloh
Dorothy Papo
Virginia M. Persson
Nancy Petrisko
Marianne Petroni
Miriam Preece
Camille Reich
Julia Reisz
Gwen Reynolds
Francesca Roveda
Louise Russo
Ellen Sanchez
Suzanne Scott
Burgess Shiu
Stella Tatro
Beverly Terry
Karen Topp
Marcia Tusting
Sally Warren
Elisabeth Waters
Carolyn Waugh
Susan Weiss
Susan Wendt-Bogear
Ann Williamson
Layrel Ann Winzler

Andrew Vincent Alder
Zoltan Andahazy
Gene Angell
Richard Ares
Sky Bamford
Victor Banis
Stephen Bartlett-Re
Mark Bathke
Franklin Bauer
Steve Bauman
Douglas Beardslee
Donald Bechtel
Vincent Brooks
Bruce Brown
William Burns
Richard Campbell
Tom Carlisle
Roy Castellini
Gene Cikota
Stewart Clark
Derek Claudius
David Clover
William Colligan
Rudy Cook
Burton Covel
Roger Davidson
Daniel DeJarnatt
Alan Dettmering
Dick Duker
David Duncan
Hilbert Duperroir
Kermit duVal
Bill Easley
Pedro Echeandia
David Elkind
Rick Emmons
Peter Felleman
Peter Fodor
Joel Fort
Ted Foster
Kurt Frank
Raymond C. Franke
Mickey Frettoloso
Phillip Gibson
Albert Goodwyn
Paul Grosvenor
Louis Handler
Kent Harvey
Joe Hay
Ron Hazen
Philippe Henry