La Forza del Destino

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The 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
2005-2006
Language
Italian

Creative/Crew

Conductor
Nicola Luisotti
Stage Director(s)
Ron Daniels
Set Designer(s)
Roland Aeschlimann
Costume Designer(s)
Andrea Schmidt-Futterer
Lighting Designer
Manfred Voss
Sound Designer
Roger Gans
Choreographer
Robert Moses
Dramaturg
Wolfgang Willaschek
Assistant Set and costume designer
Daniela Juckel
Chorus Director
Ian Robertson
Musical Preparation
Carol Isaac
Bryndon Hassman
Donato Cabrera
Ernest Fredric Knell
Svetlana Gorzhevskaya
Prompter
Jonathan Khuner
Dance Master
Lawrence Pech
Fight Choreographer
Jonathan Rider
Supertitles
Gregg Tallman
Assistant Stage Director(s)
Brad Dalton
Kristin Johnson
Stage Manager(s)
Lisa Anderson
Costume Supervisor
Kathleen Lussier-West

Cast

Marchese di Calatrava
Philip Skinner
Donna Leonora di Vargas
Andrea Gruber
Curra
Catherine Cook
Don Alvaro
Vladimir Kuzmenko
The Alcalde of Hornachuelos
Peter Strummer
Don Carlo di Vargas
Zeljko Lučić
Trabuco
Dennis Petersen
Thomas Glenn(11/23,26)
Preziosilla
Jill Grove
Hostess
Mitzie Weiner
Melitone, a friar
Lucas Meachem
Padre Guardiano, Abbot of Hornachuelos
Orlin Anastassov
Surgeon
Jere Torkelsen
Soldier
Michael Rogers
Andrew Truett
Phillip Pickens
Maria
Dvora Djoraev

Show Dates

Time and Place

Mid-18th century Spain and Italy

Scenes

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(In the city of Seville and in the neighborhood of a mountain village in Spain.)
Act I, Scene 1 -- The household of the Marchese di Calatrava. A moonlit night.
Scene 2 -- In the village. A year and a half later.
Scene 3 -- Outside, and later within the monastery of the Madonna of the Angels.
INTERMISSION
Act II -- In the forest near Velletri, Italy. Several years later.
INTERMISSION
(In the neighborhood of the village in Spain. Several years later.)
Act III, Scene 1 -- In the monastery of the Madonna of the Angels.
Scene 2 -- On the mountainside.

Media

Sponsors

The performance of November 20th is sponsored by the Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati Foundation

Acknowledgements

This production is made possible, in part, by John and Cynthia Fry Gunn

Legacy Commission

1869 version; Critical edition by Philip Gossett

Notes

Production created by San Francisco Opera

SUPERNUMERARIES

Philippe Arbeit
Jim Bowes
Tom Carlisle
David Cash
Gary Cramer
Kat Danielson
Jim Diederich
Simon Elliott-Lehbohn
Eddy Gordillo
John Guglielmelli
Miguel Gutier
Bradly Hamilton
Mike Harvey (Production Super Captain)
Steve Lavezzoli
Charlie Lichtman
Jerome Locsin
Ron Mann
Frank Masson
Mort Raphael
Larry Severino
Ralph Stevenson
Michael Strickland
Stanley Strosser
Carlos Alberto Suárez
Paul Szczesiul
Walt Thorp
Grove Wiley
Carolyn Waugh
Laurel Winzler
Rob Wonder