Creative/Crew
Conductor
Original production by
Stage Director(s)
Original production designed by
Revised by
Revised costume designs by
Lighting Designer and Special Effects
Projections
Sound Designer
Musical Preparation
Prompter
Supertitles
Assistant Stage Director(s)
Stage Manager(s)
Cast
Mime
Siegfried
Wanderer (Wotan)
Alberich
Fafner
Forest Bird
Erda
Brünnhilde
Show Dates
Time and Place
(not specified)
Scenes
Media
Sponsors
(see additional sponsor information in Notes)
Acknowledgements
San Francisco Opera's 1999 Ring Festival is made possible, in part, by the support of the Ann and Gordon Getty Foundation, and Mr. & Mrs. Franklin P. Johnson, Jr. Additional major support is provided by the Chevron Corporation, Mr. & Mrs. Reid W. Dennis, Mr. & Mrs. Charlton H. Buckley, Mr. & Mrs. Reuben W. Hills III, Mrs. Paul L. Wattis, and two anonymous friends of San Francisco Opera.
San Francisco Opera's 1999 Ring Festival is dedicated to the memory of the late Terence A. McEwen, Company general director from 1982 to 1988.
Notes
1999 Ring Festival
Scenery constructed in San Francisco Opera Scenic Studios
Costumes executed by San Francisco Opera Costume Shop
SAN FRANCISCO OPERA'S 1999 RING FESTIVAL SUPPORT
(in addition to those listed on the cast page)
The original 1985 Ring production was made possible by the
BankAmerica Foundation, the Carol Franc Buck Foundation,
the Ann and Gordon Getty Foundation,
and the L.J. and Mary C. Skaggs Foundation.
Premier Ring Sponsors
San Francisco Opera extends its thanks and appreciation to the followingindividuals whose
generosity helped underwrite the 1999 Ring Festival:
G.H.C. Meyer Family Foundation, and Mr. & Mrs. Alfred S. Wilsey
Mr. & Mrs. John M. Bryan, Edgar Foster Daniels Foundation,
Mr. & Mrs. David Traitel, and Thomas & Barbara Wolfe
Mr. & Mrs. J.P. Barger, Mr. & Mrs. Richard M. Bastoni, Fritzi & Ernest A. Benesch,
Mrs. John Pershing Boswell, Alan W. Buch, Ted Buttner, Mr. & Mrs. David M. Chamberlain,
Carl T. Childs, Jayne & Peter Davis, Mr. & Mrs. Paul M. Dorfman, Dr. & Mrs. Robert B. Fenwick,
Mr. & Mrs. Carlo S. Fowler, William W. Godward, Larry & Donna Gorrell, Robert Gumerlock,
Mr. & Mrs. Alfred E. Heller, John & Sara Hendrickson, Mr. & Mrs. Peter R. Johnson, Hedi & Hal Kaufman,
Lawrence A. Kern, Dr. & Mrs. Ralph Landau, Cathy MacNaughton, Edmund R. Manwell,
Nicola Mary Miner & Robert Anderson, Mr. & Mrs. Robert W. Morey, Nancy S. Mueller,
Dr. Walter A. Nelson-Rees & Mr. James L. Coran, Mr. & Mrs. Eric Peniston, Louise & Claude Rosenberg,
Erik Schwartz, Dr. A. Jess Shenson in honor of Mr. & Mrs. Reid W. Dennis, Cynthia Tamer,
Mr. & Mrs. Harry Wetzel, Glenn Williams & Clare von Frasunkiewicz, Bruce & Linda Wolfe,
Dr. & Mrs. John Zderic, Mr. & Mrs. Peter M. Zuber, and an anonymous Friend of the Company.
Additional Ring Support:
Honoring Donald Runnicles -- Mrs. Paul L. Wattis
Honoring Deborah Voigt -- Mr. & Mrs. Reid W. Dennis
Supertitles provided by a generous grant from
The Stanley S. Langendorf Foundation in memory of Paul J. Mundie.
Mimes
Michael Kruzich
Gareth Scott