The Trojans Composer Hector Berlioz Librettist Hector Berlioz Based On Virgil's Aeneid Company San Francisco Opera Association Location San Francisco, CA Venue War Memorial Opera House Season 1968 Language French Creative/Crew Conductor Jean Périsson Production Louis Erlo Designer Wolfram Skalicki Davis L. West Chorus Director Dietrich Erbelding Choreographer Nancy Johnson Costumers Goldstein & Co. Cast Cassandre Régine Crespin King Priam Allan Monk Queen Hecuba Sheila Nadler Ascanius Sylvia Anderson Pantheas Richard J. Clark Aeneas Guy Chauvet Didon Régine Crespin Anna Margarita Lilova Iopas Rico Serbo Narbal Ara Berberian Hylas Vahan Khanzadian Ghost of Priam Allan Monk Ghost of Cassandre Sheila Nadler Ghost of Hector Stephen Janzen Show Dates Sun, Sep 15 1968, 2pm Sat, Sep 21 1968, 8pm Tue, Sep 24 1968, 8pm Time and Place (not indicated) Scenes THE CAPTURE OF TROY Scene 1 -- Outside the walls of Troy Scene 2 -- The entrance of the horse into Troy Scene 3 -- The temple of Vesta THE TROJANS AT CARTHAGE Act I, Scene 1 -- A courtyard in Dido's palace Scene 2 -- A terrace in Dido's palace INTERMISSION INTERLUDE: The royal hunt and storm Act II, Scene 1 -- The port at Carthage Scene 2 -- An ante-chamber in the temple of Pluto Scene 3 -- The sacrificial altar Media Image Les Troyens, Hector Berlioz. San Francisco Opera, 1968. Photographer: Carolyn Mason Jones/San Francisco Opera. Regina Crespin (Didon) Credit Mason Jones Image Les Troyens, Hector Berlioz. San Francisco Opera, 1968. Photographer: Margaret Norton/San Francisco Opera. Regine Crespin (Cassandra) Credit Norton Image Les Troyens, Hector Berlioz. San Francisco Opera, 1968. Photographer: Margaret Norton/San Francisco Opera. Unknown, Unknown, Regine Crespin (Didon), Unknown, Guy Chauvet (Aeneas) Credit Norton Image Les Troyens, Hector Berlioz. San Francisco Opera, 1968. Photographer: Margaret Norton/San Francisco Opera. Regina Crespin (Didon) Credit Norton Image Les Troyens, Hector Berlioz. San Francisco Opera, 1968. Photographer: Margaret Norton/San Francisco Opera. Jean Perisson (Conductor), Kurt Herbert Adler (General Director), Regine Crespin (Cassandre and Didon), Louis Erlo (Director), Guy Chauvet (Aeneas) Credit Norton Document SFO_PUB_01_SFO_1968_12_compressed.pdf (15.41 MB) Notes To access the full production program, click the PDF link above. --------------------- Dancers San Francisco Opera Corps de Ballet
Image Les Troyens, Hector Berlioz. San Francisco Opera, 1968. Photographer: Carolyn Mason Jones/San Francisco Opera. Regina Crespin (Didon) Credit Mason Jones
Image Les Troyens, Hector Berlioz. San Francisco Opera, 1968. Photographer: Margaret Norton/San Francisco Opera. Regine Crespin (Cassandra) Credit Norton
Image Les Troyens, Hector Berlioz. San Francisco Opera, 1968. Photographer: Margaret Norton/San Francisco Opera. Unknown, Unknown, Regine Crespin (Didon), Unknown, Guy Chauvet (Aeneas) Credit Norton
Image Les Troyens, Hector Berlioz. San Francisco Opera, 1968. Photographer: Margaret Norton/San Francisco Opera. Regina Crespin (Didon) Credit Norton
Image Les Troyens, Hector Berlioz. San Francisco Opera, 1968. Photographer: Margaret Norton/San Francisco Opera. Jean Perisson (Conductor), Kurt Herbert Adler (General Director), Regine Crespin (Cassandre and Didon), Louis Erlo (Director), Guy Chauvet (Aeneas) Credit Norton