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Based On

the novel L'histoire du chevalier des Grieux et de Manon Lescaut by Abbé Prévost

Company
San Francisco Opera Association
Location
San Francisco, CA
Venue
War Memorial Opera House
Season
1981-1982
Language
French

Creative/Crew

Conductor
Stage Director(s)
Set Designer(s)
Costume Designer(s)
Lighting Designer
Chorus Director
Choreographer
Musical Preparation
Prompter
Assistant Stage Director(s)
Stage Manager(s)
Costumes by

Cast

Guillot de Morfontaine
De Brétigny
Poussette
Javotte
Innkeeper
Lescaut, Manon's cousin
First Guard
Second Guard
Manon Lescaut
Chevalier des Grieux
Maid
Comte des Grieux, the Chevalier's father
Attendant at St. Sulpice
Sergeant

Show Dates

Broadcast

10/10/1981, delayed broadcast, KQED and NPR. 

Time and Place

1721; Amiens, Paris, Le Havre

Scenes

Act I, Scene 1 -- Courtyard of an inn at Amiens
Scene 2 -- Apartment of Des Grieux and Manon in Paris
Act II, Scene 1 -- Cours-la-Reine, Paris
Scene 2 -- Seminary of Saint-Sulpice
Act !!!, Scene 1 -- Gambling salon, Hôtel Transylvanie
Scene 2 -- The road to Le Havre

Media

Acknowledgements

This production of "Manon" was made poaaible, in 1971, through the sponsorship of the Metroplitan Life Insurance Company and a gift from James D. Robertson

Notes

10/10/1981, delayed broadcast, KQED and NPR. Intermission interviews: #1  Reri Grist (guest), #2 Reflections on Opera, singers: Kurt Herbert Adler (guest).

Scenery constructed in San Francisco Opera Scenic Studios

Organ courtesy of Baldwin Organs

CORPS DE BALLET
Peggy Davis
Anne Elizabeth Egan
Marti Kennedy
Cathy Pruzan
Kathryn Roszak
Katherine Warner

Peter Childers
Greg Gibble
William Sanner Ramsdell
Pete J. Shoemaker
John Sullivan
Charlie West

SUPERNUMERARIES
Dorothy Baune
Sarah Castellini
Renée DeJarnatt
Diane Graham
Liza Groen
Jennifer Heglar
Jennifer Holmes
Heather Horsefield
Candace Kahn
Donna Martin
Leslie McCorkle
Jan Moody
Tricia O'Brien
Jessica Poli
Katherine Prongos
Gwen Reynolds
Louise Russo
Ellen Sanchez
Janet Weil
Mary Angela Whooley

Sky Bamford
Jason Baron-Pinder
Gil Bates
William Burns
Roy Castellini
Dave Clover
Chas Dargis
Daniel DeJarnatt
Julio Dorijoni
W.J. Drummond
Andrew Einkauf
George Freiday
Mickey Frettoloso
Michael Grinnage
Joe Hay
Donald Jack
Stephen Jacobs
Clinton Jennings
Julius Karoblis
Joseph Kelley
John Kovacs
Lamont Lee
Al Luchini
Gregory Marks
Wendell Maunula
Berri McBride
Larry Millner
Greg Moawad
Steven Moawad
Neil Nevesny
Philip Pena
Stephen Pinson
Michael Pitkin
Dan Prezioso
Paul Price
Paul Ricks
Robert Schmidt
Rick Skarolid
John Vassalo
Lachland Waterbury
Brett Weil
Joseph Willis