the life and death of the American gay activist and politician Harvey Milk, who was assassinated along with San Francisco mayor George Moscone on 27 November 1978
Commissioned by San Francisco Opera, Houston Grand Opera, and New York City Opera
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Harvey Milk
Messenger
Mama
Young Harvey
Dan White
Man at the opera
Man in a trench coat/Cop
Central Park cop
Joe
Jack
Craig
Beard
Mintz
Horst Brauer
Scott Smith
Concentration camp inmate
Stonewall girl
Dyke
Hooker
Castro clone
Lavender menace
First arrival in San Francisco
Second arrival
Politico
Empress
Third arrival
Vietnam veteran
Sadomasochist
Arrival from Cleveland
Fourth arrival
Fifth arrival
Anne Kronenberg
Gay doctor
NBC reporter
CBS reporter
ABC reporter
Henry Wong
Teamster
Medora
Mother of handicapped son
Old Lady
Mailman
Blue collar man
Mayor George Moscone
Supervisor Hutch
Supervisor Gonzales
Supervisor Silver
Supervisor Lau
Dianne Feinstein
Supervisor Dolson
Supervisor Kopp
Supervisor Molinari
Supervisor Pelosi
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Sponsors
The performance of November 16th is sponsored by Bain & Company
Acknowledgements
Production made possible by a generous grant from Madeleine Haas Russell.
The commission for "Harvey Milk" has been funded in substantial part by a generous gift from Drs. Dennis and Susan Carlyle and has been supported by major grants from the Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Opera for a New America, a project of OPERA America; the Caddell & Conwell Foundation for the Arts; as well as the National Endowment for the Arts.
Legacy Commission
Commissioned by S. F. Opera, Houston Grand Opera, and New York City Opera
Notes
WEST COAST PREMIERE
Newly revised version
Co-commissioned by San Francisco Opera, Houston Grand Opera, and New York City Opera
First performance: Houston Grand Opera, 1995.
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Multiple thanks and acknowledgements requested by the librettist are printed in the program
SUPERNUMERARIES
Mary Freeman
Andrea Kohlruss
Lisa Lorea
Jennifer Minore
Kimberly Thompson
John Atkinson
Emiliano Benevides
Jordan Berner
Milko Encinas
Eddy Gordillo
Jeff Kara
Albert Malkin
Louis Schilling
Thane Thomas
Tom Tillman
Dan Wilson
Kit Winkoop
Note in the program for November 27th:
In this evening's performance of "Harvey Milk," in conjunction with the eighteenth annual Candlelight March marking the anniversary of the assassination of Harvey Milk, some of his friends and associates will appear onstage as participants in the parade scene at the end of Act Two. They include:
Ken Bunch
Gwen Craig
Heidi Downard
Wayne Friday
Cleve Jones
Carole Migden
Jeff Sheehy
Howard Wallace
Allen White
The opera is dedicated to the memory of Paul S. Woerner.