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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
Language
Italian
Sung Language
Italian
Supertitles
English
Archive ID
SFO_2025_06

Creative/Crew

Conductor
Director
Set Designer(s)
Costume Designer(s)
Original Lighting Designer
Revival Lighting Designer
Chorus Director
Choreographer
Assistant Conductor
Prompter
Musical Preparation
Diction
Supertitles
Assistant Director(s)
Stage Manager(s)
Assistant Stage Manager(s)
Fight Director
Technical Supervisor
Costume Supervisor
Hair and Makeup

Cast

Duke of Mantua
Yongzhao Yu(SFO debut)
Matteo Borsa
Samuel White(2025 Adler Fellow)
Countess Ceprano
Caroline Corrales(2025 Adler Fellow)
Count Ceprano
Jongwon Han(2025 Adler Fellow)
Marullo
Olivier Zerouali(2025 Adler Fellow)
Count Monterone
Sparafucile
Peixin Chen(SFO debut)
Giovanna
Maddalena

Show Dates

Streaming Information

The 9/13 performance was livestreamed w/ the on demand period starts on 9/14 at 10am PT and ends 9/16 at 10am PT.

Time and Place

Sixteenth-century Mantua and vicinity

Scenes

Act I, Scene 1: The Duke's palace
Act I, Scene 2: A street
Intermission
Act II: A room in the ducal palace
Act III: Sparafucile's inn

Media

Sponsors

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

Additional support is provided by: Jerome & Thao Dodson, John A. & Cynthia Fry Gunn, San Francisco Opera Guild, Franklin & Catherine Johnson, Edmund W. & Jeannik Méquet Littlefield Fund, The Thomas Tilton Production Fund, Dianne & Tad Taube, Barbara Moller Ward, and Candace Zander Kahn.

Jan Shrem & Maria Manetti Shrem, through the Great Interpreters of Italian Opera Fund.

Acknowledgements

The September 9th performance is: In dedication to the loving memory of Catherine Holman Johnson (1929–2025)

The  September 21st performance is: In dedication to Elaine McKinley

Notes

To access the performance program, click the PDF link above.

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San Francisco Opera production

SUPERNUMERARIES: Courtiers, nobles, guards