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World Premiere
La Ciociara
Based On

a script by Luca Rossi and Alberto Moravia's novel La Ciociara

Company
San Francisco Opera Association
Location
San Francisco, CA
Venue
War Memorial Opera House
Season
2014-2015
Language
Italian
Commission

Commissioned by San Francisco Opera

Creative/Crew

Conductor
Director
Set Designer(s)
Costume Designer(s)
Lighting Designer
Projection Designer
Chorus Director
Choreographer
Sound Designer
Fight Director
Assistant Conductor
Musical Preparation
Prompter
Assistant Stage Director(s)
Stage Manager(s)
Costume Supervisor
Wig and Makeup Designer

Cast

Country woman
Old Woman
Giovanni
Rosetta, Cesira's daughter
Michele, a young intellectual
Lena, a young mother
Distant voice
John Buckley, lieutenant of the U.S. Air Force
Fedor von Bock, field marshal of the Wehrmacht
Pasquale Sciortino, a lawyer
Maria, Sciortino's mother
Italian Singer

Show Dates

Broadcast

10/4/2015 delayed broadcast, KDFC; 10/24/2016 WFMT.

Time and Place

Summer of 1943 through 1944; Rome and surroundings

Scenes

ACT I Scene 1: Cesira's Shop in the Trastevere District of Rome
ACT I Scene 2: Sant'Eufemia
ACT I Scene 3: The Mountain
-INTERMISSION-
ACT II Scene 1: The lawyer's house in Fondi
ACT II Scene 2: A church in Sant-Eufemia
ACT II Scene 3: Sant'Eufemia

Media

Sponsors

This production is made possible by the Phyllis C. Wattis Fund for New Productions.

Company Sponsors John A. & Cynthia Fry Gunn are proud to support the commission of this new work.

The commission is also made possible, in part, by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Nicola Luisotti’s appearance made possible by Jan Shrem & Maria Manetti Shrem, Chairs, Amici di Nicola of Camerata.

Anna Caterina Antonacci’s appearance is made possible by a gift to the Great Singers Fund by Joan & David Traitel.

Additional support for this production provided by Affiliate Sponsors John & Romana Bracco, Lisa Erdberg & Dennis Gibbons, Dr. & Mrs. John Lavorgna, Ms. Sheila Wishek, and a generous anonymous grant.

Notes

WORLD PREMIERE

Commissioned by San Francisco Opera

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10/4/2015 delayed broadcast, KDFC; 10/24/2016 WFMT.

Opera in two acts by Marco Tutino
Text byMarco Tutino and Fabio Ceresa
Based on a script by Luca Rossi
Based on the novel La Ciociara by Alberto Moravia
By arrangement with Studio Legale Cau Morandi MinutilloTurtur
Copyright and publishing Casa Musicale Sonzogno, Milan (represented in U.S.A. by Theodore Presser Company)



ASSISTANT STAGE MANAGERS
Gina Hays
Jayme O辿ara
Thea Railey
Andrew Landis

SUPERNUMERARIES
Susan Anderson-Norby
Betsy Bayha
Henry Bayha
Elizabeth Beatty
Kai Brothers
James Crow
Capri Forte Rosedale
Cecilia Forte Rosedale
Orion Forte Rosedale
Dante Noto
Allie Kuntz
Isabella Kuntz
Oliver Kuntz
Larry Poole
Steve Lavezzoli
Alessandra Richardson-Beatty
Cole Richardson-Beatty
Paul Romito
Yvette Rosedale
Paul Szczesiul
Genoa Sperske
Miles Sperske
Piper Sperske
Doug Spradlin
Adam Their
Jim Troup
Paul Zemlin