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Based On

Friedrich Schiller's version of a play by Carlo Gozzi

Company
San Francisco Opera Association
Location
San Francisco, CA
Venue
War Memorial Opera House
Season
1977
Language
Italian

Creative/Crew

Conductor
Production
Rehearsed by
Scenery designed by
Costumes designed by
Chorus Director
Lighting Director
Prompter
Musical Preparation

Cast

Mandarin
Unknown Prince (Calaf)
Prince of Persia
First princess
Second princess
Third princess
Emperor Altoum
Princess Turandot
Executioner
Executioner's assistant

Show Dates

Broadcast

11/4/1977, live broadcast, KKHI and NPR.

Time and Place

Peking in legendary times

Scenes

There will be two intermissions

Media

Acknowledgements

Much appreciated gifts from a number of opera patrons made possible the presentation of this production of "Turandot"

Notes

11/4/1977, live broadcast, KKHI and NPR. Intermission interviews: #1  Caballe and Luciano Pavarotti (guests), #2 interview Ricardo Chailly (guest).

Production owned by Opéra du Rhin, Strasbourg

Last duet and finale by FRANCO ALFANO

San Francisco Boys Chorus
William Ballard, Director
James Baker
Eric Brudos
Jon Cockerline
Laramie Crocker
John Doxey
James Dreer
George Fernandez
Douglas Fields
Scott Flemming
Brian Gordon
Ben Harrison
Steven Heffelfinger
Ethan Kaplan
Martin Kovach
Martin LaPlaca
Mark Louden
Stephen Myers
Christopher Nomura
Andrew Podell
Peter Reilly
Marco Remedios
Stephen Rumph
Jeffrey Silver
John Smalley
Dan Tadmor
Clement Ulrichs
James Urquhart
Peter Vizcaino
Bradley White
Douglas Wing