the play "Angelo, Tyran de Padoue" by Victor Hugo
Creative/Crew
Conductor
Production
Designer
Lighting Designer
Choreographer
Chorus Director
Musical Preparation
Prompter
Costumes executed by
Cast
Barnaba
La Gioconda
La Cieca
Zuàne
Isèpo
Enzo Grimaldo
Laura Adorno
Alvise Badoero
Monk
Steersman
Singer
Voice
Harlequin, first act
Venus
Lord of Night
Harlequin
Attendant of Venus
Show Dates
Broadcast
11/30/1979, delayed broadcast, KKHI and NPR. 9/2/2017 archival broadcast, WFMT.
Telecast
9/16/1979, live telecast.
Time and Place
Seventeenth-century Venice
Scenes
Media
Acknowledgements
The new production of "La Gioconda" was made possible through the generosity of a friend of the San Francisco Opera and a gift from the San Francisco Opera Guild
Notes
Season Opening performance
9/16/1979, live telecast.
11/30/1979, delayed broadcast, KKHI and NPR. Intermission interviews: #1 and #2 Roundtable with Conductors Bruno Bartoletti, Julius Rudel and Silvio Varviso (guests), #3 James Beard (guest).
(San Francisco broadcast -- October 27)
9/2/2017 archival broadcast, WFMT.
Opening Night flowers courtesy of Tiffany & Co. and through the services of The Greenery.
Organ by Baldwin
SAN FRANCISCO BOYS CHORUS
William Ballard, Director
John Aalberg
Lawson Bader
Sean Barry
Mark Burford
Anthony Chu
Alex Clemens
Victor Fernandez
Robyn Fladen-Kamm
Timothy Genis
Lionel Godolphin
Daniel Howard
Andrew Johnson
David Kersnar
Christopher Kula
Staphen Martin
Gregory Naeger
Ronald Ponce
Daniel Potasz
David Roberts
Steven Rothblatt
Eric Savant
Jordan Silber
Mark Swope
Eric Van Genderen
Pierre-Guy White
CORPS DE BALLET
Danna Cordova
Carolyn Houser
Janne Jackson
Lesa Martin
Cathy Pruzan
Kathryn Roszak
Nell Stewart
Katherine Warner
Charles Butts
James Fitzgerald
Peter Gambito
Dan Gardner
Jay Lehman
William S. 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