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Parsifal (Los Angeles)

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Librettist
Company
San Francisco Opera Association Touring
Location
Los Angeles, CA
Venue
Shrine Auditorium
Season
1950
Language
German

Creative/Crew

Conductor
Stage Director(s)
Chorus Director
Setting designed by

Cast

Titurel, a Holy Knight
Amfortas, his Son, Keeper of the Holy Grail
Gurnemanz, a Veteran Knight of the Grail
Parsifal, a "Guileless Fool"
Klingsor, an Evil Magician
Kundry, an Enchantress
Voice
First Knight
Second Knight
First Esquire
Second Esquire
Third Esquire
Fourth Esquire
First Flower Maiden
Second Flower Maiden
Third Flower Maiden
Fourth Flower Maiden
Fifth Flower Maiden
Sixth Flower Maiden

Show Dates

Time and Place

Middle Ages; Montsalvat, Spain

Scenes

Act I, Scene 1 -- A Forest near Montsalvat
Scene 2 -- Hall in Temple of Holy Grail
Act II, Scene 1 -- Court of Klingsor's Castle
Scene 2 -- Enchanted Garden of Klingsor's Castle
Act III, Scene 1 -- Grounds of Montsalvat
Scene 2 -- Same as Act I, Scene 2

Acknowledgements

(see notes)

Notes

The curtain time is a guess. Records preserved everything but curtain times.

Large framed note on the cast page:

The San Francisco Opera Association is ever mindful of the great assistance the San Francisco Opera Guild
has rendered during its thirteen years. Not only have they made it possible for many thousands of students
to hear opera at their low prices, but have taken on the further responsibility of assisting the Opera
Association in paying for new productions whenever possible. Their gift to the Association this year of
the "Parsifal" production by funds they have raised from their myriad activities is indeed deeply appreciated.

Settings painted by Eugene Dunkel and constructed in the Studios of the San Francisco Opera Association.

Boys selected from San Francisco Boys Chorus