Drawn from original sources.
Co-commission and co-production with San Francisco Opera, Dallas Opera and Dutch National Opera, Amsterdam.
Creative/Crew
Conductor
Director
Set Designer(s)
Costume Designer(s)
Lighting Designer
Choreographer
Sound Designer
Associate Set Designer
Chorus Director
Dance Master
Fight Director
Assistant Director(s)
Assistant Conductor
Musical Preparation
Prompter
Stage Manager(s)
Assistant Stage Manager(s)
Costume Supervisor
Head of Wig and Makeup
Cast
Clarence
Dame Shirley
Fayette
Ned Peters
Joe Cannon
Ah Sing
Ramón
Josefa Segovia
Lola Montez
Show Dates
Scenes
Media
Sponsors
This production is made possible, in part, by John A. & Cynthia Fry Gunn.
This production is made possible, in part, by Bertie Bialek Elliott.
This production is made possible, in part, by Jane Bernstein & Bob Ellis.
This production is made possible, in part, by Leslie & George Hume.
This production is made possible, in part, by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
This production is made possible, in part, by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts.
Ms. Bullock, Mr. Tines, Mr. Appleby, Ms. Lee, Mr. McKinny, Ms. Bridges, and Mr. Madore's appearances are made possible by the Jan Shrem & Maria Manetti Shrem Emerging Stars Fund.
Additional funding is provided by Stephen & Choongja Kahng.
Additional funding is provided by Gladyne Kenderdine Mitchell.
Additional funding is provided by Norby Anderson.
The November 29 performance is sponsored by United Airlines.
The December 5 performance is sponsored by Meyer Sound.
Legacy Commission
Sung in English with English supertitles.
Notes
WORLD PREMIERE
A San Francisco Opera co-commission and co-production with the Dallas Opera and Dutch National Opera, Amsterdam.
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Presented by arrangement with Hendon Music, Inc., a Boosey & Hawkes company, publisher, and copyright owner.
In a special ceremony immediately following the 11/21/2017 performance, composer John Adams was awarded with the San Francisco Opera Medal, the highest honor awarded by the Company to an artistic professional and the first time it has been awarded to a composer.
Prostitutes; dancing girls; cowboys; Chinese, Chilean, and Mexican miners
SUPERNUMERARIES: Gilbert Martinez, Ely Orquiza, Anthony Prickett, Anthony Sabedra, Fernando Sanchez-Riera,, Derrick Scott, Carlos Suarez, Miles Walls, Irving Wiltshire, Frank Zepeda.
Special thanks to Sierra Nevada Brewing Company for consent to use its logo and sign; and to the Library of Congress for permission to use photographs in the Edward S. Curtis Collection and "San Francisco / S.F. Marryat, delt," (M.& N. Hanhart Chromo Lith, and Frank Marryat; London: M.& N. Hanhart Chromo Lith. Impt., ca. 1850, item #92522389), visible on Ah Sing's bedspread in Act I, Scene 5.