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Rigoletto

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Based On

the play "Le Roi s'amuse" by Victor Hugo

Company
San Francisco Opera Association
Location
San Francisco, CA
Venue
War Memorial Opera House
Season
2012-2013
Language
Italian

Creative/Crew

Conductor
Director
Set Designer(s)
Costume Designer(s)
Lighting Designer
Chorus Director
Choreographer
Fight Director
Musical Preparation
Prompter
Supertitles
Assistant Stage Director(s)
Stage Manager(s)
Costume Supervisor

Cast

Duke of Mantua
Francesco Demuro(9/7, 11, 15, 18, 21, 23, 25, 30)
Arturo Chacón-Cruz(9/8, 12, 16, 19)
Matteo Borsa
Countess Ceprano
Count Ceprano
Rigoletto
Zeljko Lučić(9/7, 11, 15, 18, 21)
Marco Vratogna(9/8, 12, 16, 19, 23, 25, 30)
Marullo
Monterone
Sparafucile
Gilda
Aleksandra Kurzak(9/7, 11, 15, 18, 21, 25)
Albina Shagimuratova(9/8, 12, 16, 19, 23, 30)
Giovanna
Maddalena

Show Dates

Broadcast

8/29/2015 archival broadcast, WFMT.  

Simulcast

This production was simulcast to AT&T Park on September 15.

Time and Place

Sixteenth-century Mantua and vacinity

Scenes

ACT I
Scene 1: The Duke's palace
Scene 2: A street
Scene 3: Rigoletto's house
INTERMISSION
ACT II: A room in the ducal palace
ACT III: Sparafucile's inn

Media

Sponsors

Company Sponsors John A. & Cynthia Fry Gunn, and Mrs. Edmund Littlefield, are proud to support this production.

This production is made possible, in part, by Opening Weekend Grand Sponsor Diane B. Wilsey.

Major support for this production is also provided by the Great Interpreters of Italian Opera Fund established by Jan Shrem & Maria Manetti Shrem.

Nicola Luisotti's appearance made possible by Jan Shrem & Maria Manetti Shrem, Chairs, Amici di Nicola of Camerata.

Zeljko Lučić's appearance made possible by a gift to the Great Singers Fund by Joan & David Traitel.

Additional support for this production provided by Affiliate Sponsors Athena & Timothy Blackburn and Robert & Laura Cory.

Notes

8/29/2015 archival broadcast, WFMT.  

This production was simulcast to AT&T Park on September 15.

San Francisco Opera production.

SUPERNUMERARIES
Dieter Bluhm
Jim Bowes
Jimmy Featherstone
Joe Friedman
Steve Lavezzoli
Jason Mayo
Scott Pearson
Irving Wiltshire
Rob Wonder
Paul Zemlin