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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
1985-1986
Language
Italian

Creative/Crew

Conductor
Production
Set and costume designer
Lighting Designer
Chorus Director
Musical Preparation
Prompter
Assistant Stage Director(s)
Stage Manager(s)
Choreographer
Supertitles

Cast

Mandarin
Liù, Timur's slave girl
Timur, dethroned Tartar King
Calaf, son of Timur
Prince of Persia
Ping, grand chancellor of China
Pang, supreme lord of provisions
Pong, supreme lord of the imperial kitchen
Emperor Altoum
Princess Turandot, daughter of the Emperor
Eva Marton(9/26,29;10/2,5)
Linda Kelm(10/9,12,15,18)

Show Dates

Time and Place

Legendary Peking, China

Scenes

Act I -- At the gates of Peking
Act II, Scene 1 -- Pavilion in the palace
Scene 2 -- Outside the palace
Act III, Scene 1 -- Gardens of the palace
Scene 2 -- Outside the palace

Media

Sponsors

Supertitles underwritten through a generous grant from American Express via the San Francisco Opera Guild

Acknowledgements

The revival of this production is made possible, in part, through a much appreciated grant from the Koret Foundation

Legacy Commission

Last duet and finale by FRANCO ALFANO

Notes

Produced in cooperation with the opera companies of Dallas, Houston and Miami

San Francisco Boys Chorus
Louis Magor, Director
Mark Bemesderfer
Jim Dobson
Jacob Donham
Matthew Donham
Jason Duty
Jaime Fink
David Greenbaum
Michael Greenbaum
David La May
Sirr Less
Conor Massey
Darren Massey
Ryan Massey
Ian McCullough
Daniel Raznick
Michael Raznick
Jeff Rice
Jesse Schwartzburg
Caen Thomason-Redus
Erik Yosten
Alexi Zemsky
Tony Zwerdling

Girls Chorus San Francisco
Elizabeth Appling, Director
Caren Anderson
Jennifer Bemesderfer
Liza Cohen
Jocelyn Enriquez
Gretchen Ernster
Karla Haeberle
Heather Harris
Heidi Hernandez
Kristin Kane
Hillary Keegin
Shannon Kuhns
Rachel Plotinsky

CORPS DE BALLET
Hally Bellah
Diane Casou
Peggy Davis
Anne Foote
Suzanne Gallo
Marina Hotchkiss
Carolyn Houser
Robin Peluso
Debra Rose
Kathryn Roszak
Ursula B. Sapien
Dorothee Vandewalle
Katherine Warner

Bobby Aames
Tony Cirella
Gregory Taylor
Kyle Tucker

SUPERNUMERARIES
Gertraud Albert
Susan Anderson
Patricia Angell
Devi Baptiste
Irene Bechtel
Phyllis Blair
Nora Brandstadter
Katherine Brazaitis
Dorothy C. Brown
Barbara Bruser
Madeline Chase
Phoebe Ciaffi
Huguette Combs
Renée DeJarnatt
Courtney Fowler
Linda Hardgrove-Teets
Jeanne Harvey
Jennifer Heglar
Alianna Jaqua
Esther Jennings
Mary Joyce
Jackie Kaagen
Candace Kahn
Francesca Leo
Betty MacDonald
Patricia Medicina
Edith Modie
Jacquelynn Modl-Inglese
Liska Janelle Moody
Suzette Morales
Thelma Morris
Holly Morrison
Janet Morse
Gabrielle Motarjemi
Dorothy Papo
Nancy Petrisko
Miriam Preece
Camille Reich
Francesca Roveda
Louise Russo
Ellen Sanchez
Burgess Shiu
Stella Tatro
Beverly Terry
Sally Warren
Lisa Waters
Carolyn Waugh
Susan Weiss
Susan Wendt-Bogear

Zoltan Andahazy
Gene Angell
Richard Ares
Aaron Baca
James Baca
Nathan Baca
Sean Baca
Stephen Bartlett-Re
Franklin Bauer
Steve Bauman
Todd Beauchamp
Don Bechtel
Noah Berry
Jonah Blechman
Ryan Boyd
Brandon
Bruce Brown
Vincent Brooks
Richard Campbell
Tom Carlisle
Roy Castellini
Gene Cikota
Stewart Clark
David Clover
Rudy Cook
Burton Covel
Jared Danielson
Roger Davidson
Daniel DeJarnatt
Alan Dettmering
Marc Dettmering
Scott Dettmering
Robert Donnelly
Kermit DuVal
William Easley
David Elkind
Rick Emmons
Joel Fort
Kurt Neal Frank
Mickey Frettoloso
Peter Garadis
Tom Garadis
Phillip Gibson
Albert Goodwyn
Benjamin Haas
Louis Handler