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Otello

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Librettist
Based On

the play by William Shakespeare

Company
San Francisco Opera Association
Location
San Francisco, CA
Venue
War Memorial Opera House
Season
2002-2003
Language
Italian

Creative/Crew

Conductor
Stage Director(s)
Designer
Lighting Designer
Associate Lighting Designer
Sound Designer
Chorus Director
Musical Preparation
Prompter
Supertitles
Assistant Stage Director(s)
Stage Manager(s)
Fight Director

Cast

Montano
Cassio
Roderigo
Otello
Jon Fredric West(10/9, 16, 19, 22, 26 [Act I])
Antonio Barasorda(10/26 [Acts II, III], 11/1)
Desdemona
Lodovico

Show Dates

Time and Place

Late 15th century; a seaport on Cyprus

Scenes

Act I -- Outside Otello's castle by the sea
Act II -- A hall and terrace of the castle
Act III -- The great hall of the castle
Act IV -- Desdemona's bedchamber

Media

Sponsors

The October 12 performance is sponsored by Torrefazione Italia.

The October 29 performance is sponsored by Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund,

Acknowledgements

This production is made possible, in part, by The Bernard Osher Endowment Fund.

Notes

Production owned by The Washington Opera

Patricia Racette sang in one previous concert performance of Otello.
In these performances, she was taking part in her first staged production of the opera.

Additional Performers

CHILDREN's CHORUSES

San Francisco Girls Chorus
Susan McMane, Artistic Director
Elisabeth Avakian, Chorus School Director

Randrea Acta
Lily Anderson
Jamelia Brown
Alison Cleary
Allison Cobley
Shannon Delany
Nora Downs
Katherine Goodrich-Visconti
Rachel Jansen
Bianca Joson
Grace Komarek-Meyer
Justine Mar
Kaurie Russell
Theresa Sims
Juliana Spector
Clare Stumpf
Elaine Sullivan
Adrianna Sung
Lilian Yuan
Jessica Zhang

Ragazzi Boys Chorus
Joyce Keil, Artistic Director

Grant Adams
Andrew Cohen
Andrew Colford
Thane Graham
Juan Carlos Gumucio
Aaron Kaswen
Jordan King
Collin Lee
Christopher McMillan
Jack Mosbacher
Gus Meuschke
Harrison Nida
Ian Rosenfield
Abram St. Amand Poliakoff
David Sedgwick
Jeremy Wells
Nathan Wilen
Andrew Winters
Michael Wu
Justin Yu

Supernumeraries

Sarah Alexander
Sharon Castle
Diane Knoll
Andrea Kohlruss
Melinda Martin
Susan Mead
Darlene Purcell
Patti Tsai

Philippe Arbeit
Steve Bauman
Mark Burstein
Tom Carlisle
David Clark
Gary Cramer
Marcel Delgado
J.D. Durst
Bjon Farber
Michael Harvey
Larry Hunnicutt
Terry Kildow
Keith King
Charlie Lichtman
Mickel London
Albert Malkin
Ron Mann
Ed Mitchell
Mort Raphael
Will Sanderson
Louis Schilling
Paul Sczesiul
Neal Troiano
Rich Vaughn
Griffin Whiting