the play by Tennessee Williams
Commissioned by San Francisco Opera
Creative/Crew
Conductor
Production
Designer
Lighting and Projection Designer
Musical Preparation
Prompter
Supertitles
Assistant Stage Director(s)
Stage Manager(s)
Assistant to Maestro Previn
Cast
Blanche DuBois
Eunice Hubbell
Stella Kowalski
Stanley Kowalski
Steve Hubbell
Harold Mitchell (Mitch)
Pablo Gonzales
Young Collector
Mexican Woman
Doctor
Nurse
Show Dates
Telecast
This production is being produced for telecast by San Francisco Opera, Thirteen/WNET in New York, RM Associates and Deutsche Grammophon. It will be broadcast on December 30, 1998, on the "Great Performances" public television performing arts series (check local listings).
Time and Place
New Orleans, late 1940s
Scenes
Media
Sponsors
The performance of September 19th is designated in honor of Karyl Lynn Kopelman Zietz in recognition of her joining the Conductors Circle of the Endowment Fund.
The performance of September 23rd is sponsored by The New York Times.
The performance of October 2nd is sponsored by Arthur Andersen.
Acknowledgements
This project has been funded, in part, by Mrs. Paul L. Wattis, the Carol Franc Buck Foundation, Arthur Andersen and the National Endowment for the Arts.
The commission for "A Streetcar Named Desire" has been assisted by a grant from Meet The Composer/Arts Endowment Commissioning Music/USA, with support from The Helen Whitaker Fund. The development of this opera was supported by Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Opera for a new America, a project of OPERA America.
Legacy Commission
Commissioned by San Francisco Opera
Notes
WORLD PREMIERE
Commissioned by San Francisco Opera
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Scenery constructed in San Francisco Opera Scenic Studios
Costumes executed by San Francisco Opera Costume Shop
Permission to adapt the play provided by John L. Eastman, Trustee under the Will of Tennessee Williams. Presented by special arrangement with the University of the South, Sewanee, Tennessee.
The performances of September 23, 26 and 29 are being taped for a future telecast. Lighting will be slightly augmented.
This production of "A Streetcar Named Desire" is being produced for telecast by San Francisco Opera, Thirteen/WNET in New York, RM Associates and Deutsche Grammophon. It will be broadcast on December 30, 1998, on the "Great Performances" public television performing arts series (check local listings).
"Great Performances" is funded by CPB, NEA, PBS, public television viewers, and The Chase Manhattan Corporation and the Chase Manhattan Private Bank.
The "Streetcar" telecast is also funded by the Irene Diamond Fund and the Ira and Leonore Gershwin Philanthropic Fund.
The opera will be performed with two intermissions. (Note: No scene breakdown was given.)
Supertitles are taken from the original libretto.
WORLD PREMIERE CELEBRATION SPONSORS
San Francisco Opera gratefully acknowledges the generous support for the World Premiere of "A Streetcar Named Desire" by the following sponsors:
Bank of America
Lead Sponsor
Cushman & Wakefield, Inc.
Compensation Resource Group, Inc.
Volvo Cars of North America
Arthur Andersen
The World Premiere Celebration is made possible, in part, by the generous contributions and support of the following corporations and individuals:
Beringer Wine Estates
McCall and Associates
Neiman Marcus
Renaissance Vineyard and Winery
Saintsbury Winery
San Pellegrino
Stuart Rental Company
Tiffany & Co.
Toni Wolfson/Daniels & Wolfson Jewelers
World Premiere Party Chair: Judith Renard