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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
1988-1989
Language
English

Creative/Crew

Conductor
Production
Designer
Lighting Designer
Chorus Director
Musical Preparation
Prompter
Harpsichord accompaniment
Assistant Stage Director(s)
Stage Manager(s)

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
Auction buyer
Keeper of the Madhouse

Show Dates

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
EPILOGUE

Media

Acknowledgements

Thie revival of "The Rake's Progress" has been made possible by a
generous gift from Mr. & Mrs. Marshall Naify.

The production was originally made possible by a gift from the L.J. and Mary C. Skaggs Foundation.

Supertitles provided by a generous and most appreciated gift from William and Eloise Rollnick

Notes

Supertitles were taken from the original libretto

Scenery and costumes owned by San Francisco Opera; production originally created for the Glyndebourne Festival Opera and Teatro alla Scala, Milan.

Costumes executed by San Francisco Opera Costume Shop and by Teatro alla Scala, Milan.

SUPERNUMERARIES (first group of three operas)

Susan Anderson
Phoebe Ciaffi
Renée DeJarnatt
Beverly Terry
Carolyn Waugh
Sally Warren
Susan Weiss

Philip Barber
Stephen Bartlett-Re
John Bogan
Bruce Brown
David Clover
Rudy Cook
Don Correira
Robert Corrick
Copley Crosby
Roger Davidson
Kermit Duval
Pedro Echeandia
Mickey Frettoloso
Eugenio Gamez
Tom Giuliano
Albert Goodwyn
Bill Higgins
Mark Huelsman
John Janonis
Joseph Kelley
Michael Kossman
Ken Korpi
Dan Kyte
Greg Lawrance
Tim McDonald
Oren McEwen
Arnold McGilbray
Matt Miller
Ian Mishkin
John Moore
Davis Musser
Paul Newman
Barry Nielsen
Tom Purcell
Steve Rades
Bill Randol
Steven Rosen
Chris Sheffield
Steve Siegelman
Jonathan Spieler
Max Subervi
Alvin Taylor
Steven Thorne
Allen Tusting
Michael Temlin
Alex Weibezahn
Tony Welch
Bruce Woodward