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The Clowns
Company
San Francisco Opera Association
Location
San Francisco, CA
Venue
War Memorial Opera House
Season
1980-1981
Language
Italian

Creative/Crew

Conductor
Production designed by
Stage Director(s)
Chorus Director
Lighting Designer
Musical Preparation
Prompter

Cast

Tonio (Taddeo)
Canio (Pagliaccio)
Nedda (Columbine)
Beppe (Arlecchino)

Show Dates

Broadcast

11/28/1980, live broadcast, KQED and NPR. 

Time and Place

The Feast of the Assumption, around 1930. A village in southern Italy

Media

Acknowledgements

Production made possible, in part, by a generous gift from James D. Robertson

Notes

11/28/1980, live broadcast, KQED and NPR. Intermission interview: Development of Verismo Opera.

Part II of a double bill, with "Cavalleria Rusticana"

Scenery built in San Francisco Opera Scenic Shop

Costumes executed by Günter Berger, Director, and Sylvia Strahammer, Costume Department Bavarian State Opera

San Francisco Boys Chorus
William Ballard, Director
John Aalberg
Jeffery Cox
Brian Darby
Rufino DeLeon
Kenyan Hopkins
Scott Hutchinson
Thomas Johnson
Christopher Lev
David Martin
Peter McKean
Gregory Naeger
Ronald Ponce
Michael Yasko
Ian Luce (alternate)

San Francisco Girls Chorus
Elizabeth Appling, Director
Deirdre Atkinson
Teresa Davis
Avi Downes
Lara Downes
Shana Downes
Kristin Genis
Angela Harrison
Kirsten Mayer
Anna Savant
Elizabeth Warden

SUPERNUMERARIES
Betty Davis
Renée DeJarnatt
Sally Eberle
Sally Kennelly
Nancy Kraus
Edith Moody
Suga Moriwaki
Ellen Nelson
Miriam Preece
Karen Topp

Eugene Angell
Jack Barnich
Steve Bauman
Doug Beardslee
Tom Carlisle
Roy Castellini
Richard Collins
Bill Coppock
Don Crawford
Tom Curran
Daniel DeJarnatt
Jo Glasgow
Joe Hay
Mark Huelsman
Steve Jacobs
Bill Joyce
Julius Karoblis
Terry Kyle
David Litchfield
Rodney McCoy
Ken McDonald
James Muth
Neil Nevesny
Paul Newman
Raul Piccardo
Nick Pliam
Joel Posner
James Pricco
David Reed
Paul Ricks
Robert Schmidt
Kent Speirs
Jeffrey Stevens
Allen Tusting
David Watts
Brett Weil
Arthur Zigas