Il Trovatore

Composer

Giuseppe Verdi

Librettists

Salvadore Cammarano

and

Leone Emanuele Bardare

Based On

the play by Antonio García Gutiérrez

Company

San Francisco Opera Association

Location

San Francisco, CA

Venue

War Memorial Opera House

Season

1981-1982

Language

Italian

Creative/Crew

Conductor

Pinchas Steinberg

Stage Director(s)

Lotfi Mansouri

Production designed by

Wolfram Skalicki

Davis L. West

Lighting Designer

Joan Sullivan

Sound Designer

Roger Gans

Chorus Director

Richard Bradshaw

Musical Preparation

Susanna Lemberskaya

Mark Haffner

Martha Gerhart

Prompter

Susan Webb

Fight Sequences

John Robert Beardsley

Assistant Stage Director(s)

Anne Ewers

Stage Manager(s)

Gretchen Mueller

Costumes by

Goldstein & Co.

Cast

Ferrando

Kyrt Rydl

Inez

Leslie Richards

Leonora

Leontyne Price

Il Conte di Luna

Wolfgang Brendel

Manrico

Giorgio Lamberti

Azucena

Fiorenza Cossotto

Gypsy

Gregory Stapp

Messenger

Colenton Freeman

Ruiz

Gary Lakes

Show Dates

Thu, Nov 26 1981, 8pm

Sun, Nov 29 1981, 2pm

Wed, Dec 2 1981, 7:30pm

Sat, Dec 5 1981, 8pm

Tue, Dec 8 1981, 8pm

Fri, Dec 11 1981, 8pm

Broadcast

Sat, Nov 28 1981, 7am

11/28/1981 delayed broadcast.

Time and Place

15th-century Spain

Scenes

Act I, Scene 1 -- The palace at Aliaferia

Scene 2 -- The palace gardens

Scene 3 -- A Gypsy camp in Biscay

Scene 4 -- The convent near Castellor

INTERMISSION

Act II, Scene 1 -- A military encampment

Scene 2 -- The fortress of Castellor

Scene 3 -- A tower in Aliaferia palace

Scene 4 -- A prison in Aliaferia Palace

Media

Notes

11/28/1981 delayed radio broadcast, 11 a.m.

Scenery constructed in San Francisco Opera Scenic Studios

Organ courtesy of Baldwin Organs

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