an earlier libretto by Giacomo Francesco Bussani
Creative/Crew
Conductor
Production
Set Designer(s)
Costume Designer(s)
Lighting Designer
Chorus Director
Musical Preparation
Prompter
Harpsichord continuo
Cello continuo
Assistant Stage Director(s)
Stage Manager(s)
Cast
Julius Caesar
Curio, a tribune
Cornelia, widow of Pompey
Sextus, son of Pompey and Cornelia
Caesar's bodyguard
Cleopatra
Ptolemy, Cleopatra's brother
Achillas, his general
Nirenus, Cleopatra's eunuch
Pothinus, Ptolemy's chief minister
Melpomene (muse of tragedy)
Erato (muse of erotic poetry and mime)
Clio (muse of history)
Urania (muse of atronomy)
Polyhymnia (muse of sacred music)
Terpsichore (muse of dance and choral song)
Calliope (muse of epic poetry)
Thalia (muse of comedy and idyllic poetry)
Euterpe (muse of lyric poetry)
Show Dates
Broadcast
9/3/1982 delayed broadcast, KQED and NPR. Repeated 9/4/1982. 9/4/2016 archival broadcast, KDFC.
Time and Place
1st century B.C.; in and around Alexandria, Egypt
Scenes
Media
Acknowledgements
The use of this production of "Julius Caesar" was made possible by a much-appreciated grant from the San Francisco Foundation
Legacy Commission
Edition by NOEL DAVIES and CHARLES MACKERRAS; English translation by BRIAN TROWELL
Notes
9/3/1982 delayed broadcast, KQED and NPR. Repeated 9/4/1982. Intermission interviews: #1 Opera Guild Insight, Sir Charles Mackerras, John Copley & Christopher Hunt (guests), #2 interview, Terry McEwen (guest). 9/4/2016 archival broadcast, KDFC.
1982 Summer Season
Production from the English National Opera
DANCERS
Johanna Baer
Peggy Davis
Anne Elizabeth Egan
Anne Foote
Sarah Gale
Page Perry
Kathryn Roszak
Dana Sapiro
Katherine Warner
Peter Childers
Pete J. Shoemaker
MIMES
Bob Aames
Robert Atchison
Bill Bissell
Mickey Frettoloso
Peter Gambito
Michael Jerome
Malchom McFarland
Christopher Nicholson-Parashis
Rick Nixon
Gregory Lane Pace
Larry R. Paul
Fabio Quintero
Marc Sabin
Demetrios Tryforos
Michael Vasquez
Robert Wilemon
SUPERNUMERARIES
Candace Kahn
Holly Morrison
Sally Scott
Steve Bauman
Fred K. Beeson II
William Burns
Rudy Cook
Don Correira
Don Crawford
Chas Dargis
Robert Esformes
G. Charles Fahrenbach
Jerome Gengler
Gene Gerhardt
Cliff Gold
Michael Grimage
Paul Grosvenor
John Hampton
Joe Hay
Gary Hill
Mark Huelsman
Donald Jack
John R. Janonis
Dean Jones
Stuart Kane
Julius Karoblis
David A. Kockinis
Murray E. Lawrence
Roger Marquardt
Donald Martin
David H. Miller
Gary Morgret
Berri McBride
Kenneth J. McDonald
Lawrence McGrail
E.T. McMahon
Thomas McMahon
Neil Nevesny
Paul Newman
Robert Noble
Michael Pitkin
Joel Posner
Kevin H. Scarlata
Solitaire Seidl
Chris Sheffield
Chris Sibilla
James Sizemore
Richard Skarolid
Ray Souza
Kent Speirs
Richard Thomas
Marshall Tuttle
Ken Wagovich
Joe Willis
Art Zigas