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Ring: Twilight of the Gods
Composer
Richard Wagner
Librettist
Richard Wagner
Company
San Francisco Opera Association
Location
San Francisco, CA
Venue
War Memorial Opera House
Season
1989-1990
Language
German

Creative/Crew

Conductor
Peter Schneider(6/13, 19)
Donald Runnicles(6/26, 7/1)
Original production by
Nikolaus Lehnhoff
Stage Director(s)
Laurie Feldman
Designer and production consultant
John Conklin
Lighting Designer and Special Effects
Thomas J. Munn
Projections
Ron Scherl
Sound Designer
Roger Gans
Chorus Director
Ian Robertson
Musical Preparation
Robert Morrison
Kathryn Cathcart
Christopher Larkin
Susan Miller Hult
Ernest Fredric Knell
Jonathan Khuner
Philip Eisenberg
Prompter
Philip Eisenberg
Assistant Stage Director(s)
Barbara Donner
Paula Williams
Supertitles
Jerry Sherk
Francesca Zambello
Stage Manager(s)
Jerry Sherk

Cast

First Norn
Birgitta Svendén
Second Norn
Katherine Ciesinski
Third Norn
Kathryn Bouleyn Day
Brünnhilde
Gwyneth Jones(6/13,26)
Janis Martin(6/19)
Hildegard Behrens(7/1)
Siegfried
William Johns(6/13)
René Kollo(6/19,26;7/1)
Gunther
Michael Devlin
Hagen
Eric Halfvarson
Gutrune
Kathryn Bouleyn Day
Waltraute
Katherine Ciesinski
Alberich
Tom Fox(6/13,26)
Franz Mazura(6/19;7/1)
Woglinde
Ann Panagulias
Wellgunde
Mary Mills
Flosshilde
Sandra Walker

Show Dates

Time and Place

(not specified)

Scenes

Prologue, Part I -- Terrace of the gods
Prologue, Part 2 -- A remote mountaintop
Act I, Scene 1 -- The hall of the Gibichungs
Scene 2 -- A remote mountaintop
INTERMISSION
Act II -- Outside the hall of the Gibichungs
INTERMISSION
Act III -- A rocky slope on the banks of the Rhine
Scene 2 -- Outside the hall of the Gibichungs

Media

Acknowledgements

The 1990 presentation of the "Ring" is sponsored by Cynthia Wood, Mr. & Mrs. Reid W. Dennis and an anonymous friend of the San Francisco Opera. Additional support is provided by Lexus, Mr. & Mrs. John M. Bryan, Barbro and Bernard Osher, Mr. & Mrs. Evert B. Person, Mr. & Mrs. William D. Rollnick, and Mr. & Mrs. Alfred S. Wilsey. The original 1985 production was made possible by the BankAmerica Foundation, the Carol Franc Buck Foundation, the L.J. and Mary C. Skaggs Foundation, and an anonymous friend of the Company.

Notes

1990 Ring Festival

Part of the complete presentation of "Der Ring des Nibelungen."

Der Ring des Nibelungen -- Part III

Scenery constructed in San Francisco Opera Scenic Studios

Costumes executed by San Francisco Opera Costume Shop and Jean Lamprell

RING CONSULTANT
Hans Hotter



RING SUPERNUMERARIES (no individual opera-by-opera breakdown was published)

Traudi Albert
Susan Anderson
Pat Angell
Karen Bailey
Irene Bechtel
Phyllis Blair
Dottie Brown
Regina Bustillos
Renée DeJarnatt
Barbara Dukas
Carol Dunlap
Mary Freeman
Karen Goodwyn
Lisa Gordon
Diane Graham
Joan Hack
Leah Hall
Rosemarie Hardy
Joan Imbeau
Esther Jennings
Catherine Joseph
Rose Kendall
Andrea Kohlruss
Julianne Larsen
Sara Moser
Dorothy Papo
Ann Paras
Nancy Petrisko
Julia Reisz
Marian Reyes
Ellen Sanchez
Marr Simon
Kate Stephenson
Beverly Terry
Kimberly Thompson
Lucinda Toy
Marcia Tusting
Molly Underhill
Lisa Waters
Carolyn Waugh
Laurel Winzler

Stephen Bartlett-Re
Rick Campbell
David Clover
Rudy Cook
Pedro Echeandea
David Elkind
Eugenio Gamez
Tom Giuliano
Peter Felleman
Albert Goodwyn
Terry Gordon
Sean Greene
Bill Higgins
Mark Huelsman
Dean Johnson
Michael Josephson
Ron Kakiki
Dan Kyte
Greg Lawrance
Ed Meyers
Matt Miller
Ian Mishkin
John Moore
Barry Nielsen
Dick Pallowick
Christopher Patnoe
David Reed
Steven Rosen
Scott Runde
Louis Schilling
John Shea
Jonathan Spieler
Tom Taffel
Alvin Taylor
Allen Tusting
Paul Vuksich
Kurt Weaver
Si Wheaton