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World Premiere
Librettist
Based On

the novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett

Company
San Francisco Opera Association
Venue
Zellerbach Hall, University of California, Berkeley
Season
2012-2013
Language
English
Commission

Commissioned by San Francisco Opera

Creative/Crew

Conductor
Director
Visual Designer
Costume Designer(s)
Lighting Designer
Projection Coordinator
Projection Programmer
Projection Systems Administrator
Projectionist
Musical Preparation
Assistant Stage Director(s)
Stage Manager(s)
Assistant Stage Manager(s)
Orchestra Manager/Librarian
Dialect Coach

Cast

Mary Lennox
Ayah / Mrs. Medlock
Mrs. Lennox / Susan Sowerby
Mr. Lennox / Archibald Craven
Officer's Wife / Martha Sowerby
Indian Gardener / Ben Weatherstaff
Rajah / Colin
Porter / Dickon Sowerby

Show Dates

Scenes

Prologue - Late 19th-Century India
ACT I
INTERMISSION
ACT II

Media

Sponsors

Major funding for The Secret Garden is provided by the Edmund and Jeannik Littlefield Foundation, Mr. and Mrs. J. Patterson McBaine, Soo and Raj Venkatesan, and Mr. and Mrs. Clark Winslow.

These performances are made possible, in part, by Patron Sponsors Ms. Annette Campbell-White and Dr. Ruediger Naumann-Etienne.

Notes

WORLD PREMIERE

Commissioned by San Francisco Opera

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A co-production of San Francisco Opera, Cal Performances, and Houston Grand Opera. 

SUPERNUMERARIES
Dieter Bluhm
Steve Lavezzoli
Mare Skipper
Carlos Suarez
Laurel Winzler

SECRET GARDEN ORCHESTRA
Members of the San Francisco Opera Orchestra
Laura Albers, Concertmaster
Patricia Heller, viola
Emil Miland, cello
Joseph Lescher, bass
Stacey Pelinka, flute & piccolo
Janet Popesco Archibald, oboe & english horn
Susan Vollmer, french horn
William Harvey, trumpet
Patricia Niemi, percussion
Sun Ha Yoon, piano