La Forza del Destino

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Force of Destiny
Composer
Giuseppe Verdi
Librettist
Francesco Maria Piave
Based On

the play "Don Álvaro, o La Fuerza del Sino" by Angel de Saavedra, Duke of Rivas

Company
San Francisco Opera Association
Location
San Francisco, CA
Venue
War Memorial Opera House
Season
1976-1977
Language
Italian

Creative/Crew

Conductor
Kurt Herbert Adler
Production
Alberto Fassini
Designer
Pierluigi Samaritani
Chorus Director
Robert Jones
Choreographer
Ronn Guidi
Lighting Designer
Thomas J. Munn
Musical Preparation
Randall Behr (b. Bare)

Cast

Marchese di Calatrava
Alexander Malta
Leonora di Vargas
Anna Tomowa-Sintow
Curra
Gwendolyn Jones
Don Alvaro
Barry Morell
Bruno Prevedi(9/29;10/3)
Alcalde
Paul Geiger
Don Carlo di Vargas
Renato Bruson
Trabuco
Joseph Frank
Preziosilla
Susanne Marsee
Fra Melitone
Domenico Trimarchi
Padre Guardiano
Paul Plishka
Surgeon
John Davies
Mother
Linda Roark

Show Dates

Broadcast

9/24/1976, live broadcast, KKHI.

Time and Place

Mid-nineteenth century; Italy

Scenes

Act I, Scene 1 -- A room in the house of the Marchese
Scene 2 -- A hillside near an inn
Scene 3 -- In front of a monastery
Scene 4 -- In the church of the monastery
INTERMISSION
Act II, Scene 1 -- Ruins of a church near Velletri, Italy
Scene 2 -- Officers' quarters
Scene 3 -- A wheat field near Velletri
INTERMISSION
Act III, Scene 1 -- Cloister of a monastery
Scene 2 -- A solitary spot near the monastery

Media

Acknowledgements

New production made possible, in part, by generous gifts from a number of arts patrons and the William H. Noble Estate

Notes

9/24/1976, live broadcast, KKHI. Intermission interviews: #1 discussion of La Forza del Destino, Joseph Kerman (guest), #2 Discussion of proposed SF Performing Arts Center, San Stewart, Philip Boone and Richard Le Blond (guests).

(Randall Bare later changed his last name to Behr)

Scenery Built by Ercole Sormani, Milan, and Scenopam, Rome

Costumes executed by Gabriel Pacchia, Costumi GP 11, Rome

CORPS DE BALLET
Margaret DeWitt
Jean Harris
Wendy Holt
Sherri Parks
Angie Smith
Maria Angela Villa

Ric "E" Abel
Isom Buenavista
Jeffry Judson
Randall Krivonic
Jeffrey Smith
Sulpicio Wagner

Richard Browne, Ballet Captain

SUPERNUMERARIES (for the first group of season's operas)
Dorothy Brown
Madeline Chase
Barbara Clifford
Joanne Dickson
Gina Farruggio
Janice Fillip
Nancy Kennally
Marilyn Mathers
Cynthia Milina
Edith Modie
Louise Russo
Ellen Sanchez
Shelley Seitz
Laurie Thompson

Jesse Alexander
Stewve Bauman
Thomas Carlisle
Ronald Cavin
Rudolph Cook
Burton Covel
Donald Crawford
Herbert Harvey
Martin Izquierdo
Kenneth Jakobs
Janusz
Julius Karoblis
Rodney McCoy
Gregorio Mendoza
Lawrence Millner
Paul Newman
James Preovolos
Noble Edward Reynolds
Paul Ricks
Raymond Salazar
Thomas Simrock
Jonathan Spieler
Kent Spiers
Colin Warner
David Williams
Joseph Williams
Gerald Wood

SUPER CHILDREN
Michelle Brown
Lilo Campeau
Steven Cohen
Hardy Crawford
Martha Crawford
Gregory Gillbergh
Anthony Gonzalez
Claudia Heyneman
Jennifer Heyneman
Gregory Moreci
Daniel O'Connor
April Sack
Celia Sack