Creative/Crew
Conductor
Production
Stage Director(s)
Designer
Lighting Designer
Sound Designer
Chorus Director
Musical Preparation
Harpsichord continuo
Organ continuo
Prompter
Assistant Stage Director(s)
Stage Manager(s)
Costumes by
Cast
Ottone (Otho), Poppea's former lover
Soldier of the Emperor's bodyguard
Second Soldier
Poppea
Nerone (Nero), Emperor of Rome
Arnalta, Poppea's old nurse
Ottavia (Octavia), Empress of Rome
Drusilla, Lady-in-waiting to Ottavia
Seneca, philosopher, Nero's former tutor
Valletto, a young attendant to Ottavia
Pallade (Pallas), goddess of wisdom
Liberto, captain of the guard
Damigella, a maid in Ottavia's service
Lucano, friend of Nerone
Amor, god of love
Littore, lector of the guards
Show Dates
Time and Place
Rome, 64 A.D.
Scenes
Media
Legacy Commission
Realized by Raymond Leppard
Notes
1981 Summer season
Scenery constructed in San Francisco Opera Scenic Studios
Baroque organ courtesy of
City College of San Francisco
Regal organ supplied by
Dr. Vernon Read and the
San Jose Collegium Musicum
Harpsichords supplied by
Bjarne B. Dahl, Harpsichords,
Sunnyvale, California
SUPERNUMERARIES
Katherine Brazaitis
Barbara Bruser
Barbara Clifford
Renée DeJarnatt
Jeanne Dollinger
Susan Holzkamp
Candace Kahn
Suga Moriwaki
Tricia O'Brien
Katherine Prongos
Margaret Smiddy
Renee Tashjian
Paul Allerton
Gene Angell
Jack Barnich
Steve Bauman
Richard Bechtold
Peter Bray
Roy Castellini
Robert Chase
Rudy Cook
Don Crawford
Tom Curran
Chas Dargis
Alex Demac
Julio Dorigoni
Hilbert Duperroir
Mickey Frettoloso
Joe Hay
Gary Hill
Mark Huelsmann
Donald Jack
Joseph Kelley
Ted Langlais
Gary Lea
Russell Lombard
Roger Marquardt
Wendell Maunula
Barry McBride
Lawrence Millner
Roberto Moreiras
Neil Nevesny
Paul Newman
Paul Price
Paul Ricks
Chris Sheffield
Robert Schmidt
Ronald Sickman
Kent Speirs
Paul Sullivan
Richard Thomas
Marshall Tuttle