the play "Don Álvaro, o La Fuerza del Sino" by Angel de Saavedra, Duke of Rivas
Creative/Crew
Conductor
Stage Director(s)
Designer
Choreographer
Lighting Designer
Chorus Director
Musical Preparation
Prompter
Cast
Marchese di Calatrava
Leonora di Vargas
Curra
Don Alvaro
Alcalde
Don Carlo di Vargas
Trabuco
Preziosilla
Fra Melitone
Padre Guardiano
Officer
Surgeon
Soldier
Show Dates
Broadcast
11/9/1979, live broadcast, KKHI and NPR.
Time and Place
Mid-nineenth-century Spain and Italy
Scenes
Media
Acknowledgements
The performance of "La Forza del Destino" on Saturday, November 3, is dedicated to the memory of Otto Guth, for twenty-five years musical supervisor of the San Francisco Opera and personal friend to many of the evening's artists.
This production of "La Forza del Destino" was made possible, in part, in 1976, by generous gifts from a number of arts patrons and the William H. Noble Estate.
Notes
11/9/1979, live broadcast, KKHI and NPR. Intermission interviews: #1 Tribute to Otto Guth by James Schwabacher (guest), #2 Verdi Letters: Marrian Walters and William Patterson (guests).
Scenery built by Ercole Sormani, Milan, and Scenopam, Rome
Costumes executed by Gabriel Pacchia. Costumi GP11, Rome
Organ by Baldwin
San Francisco Girls Choristers
Elizabeth Appling, Director
Lara Downes
Shana Downes
Anne Foster
Amy Sharp
Monika Zemsky
San Francisco Boys Choristers
William Ballard. Director
Anthony Chu
Peter Hicks
Christopher Kula
Stephen Martin
Eric Marty
Jason Parke
Ronald Ponce
Steven Rothblatt
Val Smalley
CORPS DE BALLET
Carolyn Houser
Janne Jackson
Lesa Martin
Cathy Pruzan
Kathryn Roszak
Aimee Tsao
Peter Gambito
Joel Harrison
Jay Lehman
William Sanner Ramsdell
John Sullivan
Sulpicio Wagner
SUPERNUMERARIES
Patricia Angell
Joan Bacharach
Dorothy Baune
Dottie Brown
Barbara Bruser
Barbara Clifford
Janet Dahlsten
Renéd DeJarnatt
Mary Joyce
Hedi Langford
Francesca Leo
Gindy Milina
Edith Modie
Ellen Nelson
Virginia Persson
Miriam Preece
Louise Russo
Ellen Sanchez
Sally Scott
Carolyn Waugh
Steve Bauman
Jack Barnich
Douglas Beardslee
Allerton Blake
William Burns
Thomas Carlisle
Ray Castellini
Bruce Cates
Rudy Cook
Don Crawford
Tom Curran
Dick Duker
Everett Evans
Jimmy Exon
George Freiday
Albert Frettoloso
Cliff Gold
Mark Huelsmann
Stephen Jacobs
Ken Jakobs
David James
Janusz
Paul Jenkins
Andrew Jones
Bill Joyce
Julius Karoblis
John Kovacs
Terrance J. Kyle
Jay Lenahan
Rodney McCoy
Francisco Medina
Lawrence Milner
James Muth
Neil Nevesny
Paul Newman
Nick Pliam
Steven Polen
Paul Ricks
Gil Rieben
Robert Schmidt
Thomas Simrock
Kent Speirs
Jon Spieler
David Watts
Richard Weil
Frank Willis
Sam Ziegler