La Traviata

Composer

Giuseppe Verdi

Librettist

Francesco Maria Piave

Based On

the play La Dame aux Camélias by Alexandre Dumas fils

Company

San Francisco Opera Association

Location

San Francisco, CA

Venue

War Memorial Opera House

Season

1973

Language

Italian

Creative/Crew

Conductor

Kurt Herbert Adler

Stage Director(s)

Tito Capobianco

Designer

Toni Businger

Costumes executed by

Goldstein & Co.

Chorus Director

Byron Dean Ryan

Musical Preparation

Calvin Simmons

Miss Sills's costumes by

Grace Costumes, Inc., New York

Cast

Violetta Valéry

Beverly Sills

Flora

Ariel Bybee

Marquis d'Obigny

Steven Kimbrough

Baron Douphol

Daniel Sullivan

Doctor Grenvil

Philip Steele

Gastone

James Atherton

Alfredo Germont

Wieslaw Ochman

Annina

Donna Petersen

Giuseppe

Gary Burgess

Elder Germont

Gian Piero Mastromei(11/2)

Guillermo Sarabia(11/7,20,22,25)

Norman Mittelmann(11/10)

Messenger

John Miller

Majordomo

Robert Klang

Spanish dancer

Rosa Montoya

Nemesio Paredes

Show Dates

Fri, Nov 2 1973, 8pm

Wed, Nov 7 1973, 8pm

Sat, Nov 10 1973, 8pm

Tue, Nov 20 1973, 8pm

Thu, Nov 22 1973, 8pm

Sun, Nov 25 1973, 2pm

Broadcast

Fri, Nov 2 1973, 7am

11/2/1973, live broadcast, KKHI.

Time and Place

Paris and environs in the mid-nineenth century

Scenes

Act I -- Violetta's house

Act II -- A villa near Paris

Act III -- Flora's house

Act IV -- Violetta's house

Media

Acknowledgements

The production of "La Traviata" was made possible in part through a donation from the Charles E. Merrill Trust in 1969

Notes

11/2/1973, live broadcast, KKHI. Intermission interviews, #1 Nancy Adler (guest), #2 Beverly Sills (guest), #3 Roundtable, WOT, Jacquelyn Benson, Ariel Bybee, Philip Booth, Timothy Nolen (guests).