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The Rake's Progress

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Company
San Francisco Opera Association
Location
San Francisco, CA
Venue
War Memorial Opera House
Season
1981-1982
Language
English

Creative/Crew

Conductor
Production
Set and costume designer
Lighting Designer
Chorus Director
Musical Preparation
Prompter
Harpsichord accompaniment
Assistant Stage Director(s)
Stage Manager(s)
Technical Adviser

Cast

Tom Rakewell, beloved of Anne
Anne Trulove, Trulove's daughter
Trulove, a country squire
Nick Shadow
Mother Goose, keeper of a brothel
Baba the Turk, a circus bearded lady
Sellem, an auctioneer
Keeper of the Madhouse

Show Dates

Broadcast

11/5/1982 delayed broadcast, KQED and NPR. Repeated 11/6/1982.

Time and Place

18th-century England

Scenes

Act I, Scene 1 -- The garden of Trulove's country house
Scene 2 -- Mother Goose's brothel in London
Scene 3 -- Trulove's garden
Act II, Scene 1 -- A room in Tom's house in London
Scene 2 -- The street in front of Tom's house
Scene 3 -- Tom's room
Act III, Scene 1 -- Tom's room
Scene 2 -- A graveyard
Scene 3 -- Bedlam -- the madhouse

Media

Acknowledgements

The generosity of the L.J. Skaggs and Mary C. Skaggs Foundation has made possible this production, originally created for the Glyndebourne Festival Opera and Teatro alla Scala, Milan,

Notes

11/5/1982 delayed broadcast, KQED and NPR. Repeated 11/6/1982.  Intermission interviews: #1: Stravinsky's theater music: Barry Hyams (guest), #2: Opera Guild Insight; John Cox, David Hockney & Christopher Hunt (guests).

1982 Summer Season

SUPERNUMERARIES
Renée DeJarnatt
Candace Kahn
Holly Morrison
Sally Scott

Steve Bauman
Fred K. Beeson II
William Burns
Rudy Cook
Don Correira
Don Crawford
Chas Dargis
Robert Esformes
G. Charles Fahrenbach
Jerome Gengler
Gene Gerhardt
Cliff Gold
Michael Grimage
Paul Grosvenor
John Hampton
Joe Hay
Gary Hill
Mark Huelsman
Donald Jack
John R. Janonis
Dean Jones
Stuart Kane
Julius Karoblis
David A. Kockinis
Murray E. Lawrence
Gregory Marks
Roger Marquardt
Donald Martin
David H. Miller
Gary Morgret
Berri McBride
Kenneth J. McDonald
Lawrence McGrail
E.T. McMahon
Thomas McMahon
Neil Nevesny
Paul Newman
Robert Noble
Michael Pitkin
Joel Posner
Kevin H. Scarlata
Solitaire Seidl
Chris Sheffield
Chris Sibilla
James Sizemore
Richard Skarolid
Ray Souza
Kent Speirs
Richard Thomas
Marshall Tuttle
Ken Wagovich
Joe Willis
Art Zigas