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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
2017-2018
Language
French

Creative/Crew

Conductor
Director
Associate Director
Set Designer(s)
Costume Designer(s)
Lighting Designer
Chorus Director
Dance Master
Fight Director
Assistant Director(s)
Assistant Conductor
Musical Preparation
Prompter
Supertitles
Stage Manager(s)
Assistant Stage Manager(s)
Costume Supervisor
Head of Wig and Makeup

Cast

Guillot de Morfontaine
De Brétigny
Poussette
Javotte
Rosette
Innkeeper
Lescaut
First Guard
Second Guard
Old Lady
Female Traveler
Another female traveler
Yet another female traveler
Male Traveler
Another male traveler
Yet another male traveler
Alex Taite((not 11/10/17))
Chester Pidduck((only 11/10/17))
Manon Lescaut
Chevalier des Grieux
Maidservant
Comte des Grieux
Prostitute

Show Dates

Scenes

Act I: The courtyard of an inn at Amiens
Act II: The apartment of Des Grieux and Manon, Paris
Intermission
Act III, Scene 1: Cours-la-Reine, Paris
Act III, Scene 2: The seminary of Saint-Sulpice
Intermission
Act IV: A gambling salon, the Hôtel de Transylvanie
Act V: The road to Le Havre

Media

Sponsors

This production is made possible, in part, by John A. & Cynthia Fry Gunn.

This production is made possible, in part, by Jan Shrem & Maria Manetti Shrem.

Ms. Dehn and Mr. Pershall's appearances are made possible by the Jan Shrem & Maria Shrem Emerging Stars Fund.

Mr. Fabiano's appearance is made possible by a gift to the Great Singers Fund by Joan & David Traitel.

Additional funding is provided by Mr. & Mrs. Burton McMurtry.

The November 10 performance is sponsored by Kaiser Permanente.

Legacy Commission

Sung in French with English supertitles

Notes

A co-production of San Francisco Opera, Lithuanian National Opera and Ballet Theatre, and the Israeli Opera.

Citizens, cooks, travelers, nobles, soldiers, guards, gamblers, prostitutes.

SUPERNUMERARIES:
Aleksandra Belousova
James Crow
Maria Dulmage
Charles Lewis III
Lynn Meinhardt
Heidi Munzinger
Jennifer Rost
Pablo Sanfrancisco
Doug Spradlin