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Tannhauser
Librettist
Company
San Francisco Opera Association
Location
San Francisco, CA
Venue
War Memorial Opera House
Season
2007-2008
Language
German

Creative/Crew

Conductor
Director
Production Designer
Lighting Designer
Chorus Director
Choreographer
Musical Preparation
Supertitles
Dance Master
Assistant Stage Director(s)
Stage Manager(s)
Wig and Makeup Designer
Costume Supervisor
Production Super Captain

Cast

The Doorkeeper
Venus
Tannhäuser
Shepherd
Landgraf Hermann
Walther von der Vogelweide
Biterolf
Heinrich der Schreiber
Reinmar von Zweter
Wolfram von Eschenbach

Show Dates

Broadcast

2/3/2008 delayed broadcast, KDFC; 8/30/2008 WFMT; 9/25/2010 archival broadcast WFMT.

Time and Place

Thuringia at the beginning of the 13th century

Scenes

There are two intermissions

Media

Acknowledgements

This production is made possible, in part, by Mr. and Mrs. Reid W. Dennis, Elizabeth and Burgess Jamieson, Mr. and Mrs. Robert W. Morey, and Thomas F. and Barbara A. Wolfe

Legacy Commission

Paris version

Notes

2/3/2008 delayed broadcast, KDFC; 8/30/2008 WFMT; 9/25/2010 archival broadcast WFMT.

Scenery, props, costumes and wigs constructed in the San Francisco Opera workshops.

A co-production with the Dallas Opera


SAN FRANCISCO BOYS CHORUS
Ian Robertson, Artistic Director
Clarens Caine
Toran Davenport
Jean-Christophe Denève
Gregory Foken
Robert Giambruno
Jack Gorlin
Ryan Hedrick
Brad Hughes
Brandon Johnson
Johann Joson
Kyle Miller
John Neveu
Hans Oberschelp
Zachary Pedersen
Raymond Porter
Vikram Prasad

SAN FRANCISCO GIRLS CHORUS
Susan McMane, Artistic Director
Elizabeth Avakian, Chorus School Director
Rachel Anderson
Amber Chan
Sofia Chandler-Freed
Sofia Colosimo
Josephine Cormier
Teresa Dayrit
Megan DeVecchi
Kieran Hughes
Andrea Kim
Aria Lee
Julia Murphy
Megan Pendleton
Blanca Peto
Flavia Purpura-Pontoniere
Marissa Rosenberg-Carlson
Catherine Scanlon
Elizabeth Stern
Ali Tamayo
Carla Tamayo
Orly Vovv de Bettancourt

SUPERNUMERARIES
Philippe Arbeit
James Barton
Jim Bowes
Tom Carlisle
Alex Cervantes
Ethan Durrant
George Freedland
Joe Giammarco
Alan Goes
Harold Hardin
Mike Harvey
Duncan Geisler
Myles Jones
John Kim
Charlie Lichtman
Christian Manning
Cezar Mendoza
Nicholas Okerlund
Paul Romito
Juan Saenz-Diez
Gary Sello
Doug Spradlin
Michael Strickland
Paul Szczesiul
Walt Thorp
Sally Warren
Grove Wiley

Special thanks to Gary Sello and the
Indian Valley Carriage Company for
providing Alloy, the white horse
appearing in this production.