Orfeo

Composer

Claudio Monteverdi

Librettist

Alessandro Striggio

Company

Spring Opera Theater

Location

San Francisco, CA

Venue

Curran Theatre

Season

1972

Language

Italian

Creative/Crew

Conductor

Byron Dean Ryan

Production

Gerald Freedman

Designer

John Conklin

Chorus Director

Dewey Camp

Musical Preparation

Susan Webb

Costumes

Goldstein & Co.

Cast

Spirit of Music

Robert Calvert

Second shepherd

Joseph Porello

Nymph

Carolyn Lewis

First shepherd

John Ferrante

Orfeo

William Justus

Euridice

Gwendolyn Jones

Third shepherd

Stephen Janzen

Fourth shepherd

David Cumberland

Messenger

Joy Blackett

Hope

Joy Blackett

Charon

William Powers

Proserpina

Carolyn Lewis

Pluto

Philip Booth

First Spirit

John Ferrante

Second Spirit

Stephen Janzen

Third Spirit

David Cumberland

Echo

Peter Van Derick

Apollo

Joseph Porello

Show Dates

Sat, Feb 12 1972, 8:30pm

Sun, Feb 20 1972, 2:30pm

Fri, Feb 25 1972, 8:30pm

Time and Place

Antiquity -- Greece, Hades

Scenes

Performed without intermission

Media

Acknowledgements

This project is supported by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts in Washington, D.C., a Federal agency.

Legacy Commission

Denis Stevens edition

Notes

Regal courtesy of John West, organ builder Allen organ furnished by Stevens Music Center, San Jose