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Librettist
Based On

the play "Angelo, Tyran de Padoue" by Victor Hugo

Company
San Francisco Opera Association
Location
San Francisco, CA
Venue
War Memorial Opera House
Season
1988-1989
Language
Italian

Creative/Crew

Conductor
Stage Director(s)
Designer
Lighting Designer
Chorus Director
Choreographer
Musical Preparation
Prompter
Sound Designer
Assistant Stage Director(s)
Supertitles
Stage Manager(s)

Cast

Barnaba
La Gioconda
La Cieca
Enzo Grimaldo
Alvise Badoero
Steersman
Street Singer
Prima ballerina
Court Jester

Show Dates

Time and Place

17th-century Venice

Scenes

Act I -- Piazzetta of San Marco
Act II -- Aboard the Dalmatian ship Hecate
Act III, Scene 1 -- A room in Alvise's palace
Scene 2 -- A great hall in the Cà d'Oro
Act IV -- A ruined palace on the island of Giudecca

Media

Acknowledgements

This production was originally made possible by a friend of the San Francisco Opera and the San Francisco Opera Guild

Supertitles provided by a generous and most appreciated gift from William and Eloise Rollnick.

Notes

Scenery constructed in San Francisco Opera Scenic Studios

Costumes executed by Barbara Matera Ltd., and San Francisco Opera Costume Shop

Organ provided courtesy of Baldwin Piano & Organ Center, Santa Clara, California

San Francisco Girls Chorus
Elizabeth Appling, Director
Julie Ancheta
Hannah Appel
Victoria Barrett
Danielle Bush
Pauline Chew
Rachel Goldsmith
Amy Harris
Misuzu Ito
Lee Menzies
Abigail Ramsden
Elaine Robertson
Mirabai Weismehl

San Francisco Boys Chorus -- Singing Boys of San Francisco Bay
Philip Hahn, Director
Catherine Doyle, Associate Director
David Alderman
Kevin Angstenterger
Frederick Balcomb
Roderick Ballelos
Roberto Barrueto
Bernard Bowen
Adriel Brito
Jen Chang
Weldon Cheung
Jason Cortez
Michael Davis
Francisco Dias
Michael Dobson
Nathan Emge
Iain Fry
Joseph Glauberman
Michel Gulick
Matthew Hammond
Ryle Hetzel
David Hu
Marc Hutchinson
Gene Jackson
Ross Jensen
Scott Kronmiller
Jared Mariconi
Kirk McCutcheon
Norman Moy
Colin Nichoilas
Gregory North
Grael Norton
Joseph Penrod
Shange Petrini
Gabriel Pinkerton
Eric Quijano
Patrick Robertson
Paul Ryan
Jaime Schmiechen
Toby Stewart
Michael Stith
Neil Sugay
Stephen Sugay
Peter Tebault
Colin Trevorrow
John Wheeler-Rappe

DANCERS
Jill Albertson
Nora Heiber
Marina Hotchkiss
Carolyn Houser
Marilyn Miller
Debra Rose
Kathryn Roszak
Ursula Sapien
Katherine Warner

Bobby Aames
Gregory Dawson
Frank Dellapolla
Geoffrey Hipps
Daniel Ray
Richard Redlefsen
Keith Schaeffer
Ryan Brooke Taylor