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San Francisco Opera Premiere
Librettist
Based On

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

Company
San Francisco Opera Association
Location
San Francisco, CA
Venue
Orpheum Theatre
Season
1996-1997
Language
English
Commission

Commissioned by San Francisco Opera, Houston Grand Opera, and New York City Opera

Creative/Crew

Conductor
Production
Set Designer(s)
Costume Designer(s)
Lighting Designer
Sound Designer
Chorus Director
Choreographer
Realized by
Musical Preparation
Synthesizer Programmer
Supertitles
Assistant Stage Director(s)
Stage Manager(s)
Fight Consultant

Cast

Harvey Milk
Messenger
Young Harvey
Dan White
Man in a trench coat/Cop
Central Park cop
Horst Brauer
Scott Smith
Dyke
First arrival in San Francisco
Second arrival
Empress
Third arrival
Vietnam veteran
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
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

Show Dates

Time and Place

(not specified)

Scenes

Act I -- The Closet
Act II -- The Castro
Act III -- City Hall

Media

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.