Creative/Crew
Conductor
Cast
Mezzo-soprano
Soprano
Tenor
Baritone
Bass-baritone
Show Dates
Acknowledgements
Tonight's concert is made possible by the generous support of the Renaissance Vineyard and Winery. The William Bolcom commission has been made possible, in part, by the support of the G.H.C. Meyer Family Fund.
Legacy Commission
(see notes)
Notes
The concert featured:
Adler Fellows of the San Francisco Opera Center
1995 Merola Opera Program Singers
San Francisco Opera Orchestra
San Francisco Opera Chorus
Program:
Benjamin Britten, Four Sea Interludes from "Peter Grimes"
William Bolcom, A Whitman Triptych (WORLD PREMIERE)
Commissioned by San Francisco Opera
Come Up from the Fields, Father
Scented Herbage of My Breast
Years of the Modern
Marilyn Horne
INTERMISSION
Aaron Copland, Fanfare for the Common Man
Aaron Copland, At the River (from "Old American Songs")
Marilyn Horne
Leonard Bernstein, Selections from "Songfest"
To the Poem
Music I Heard With You
(Zheng Cao, soloist)
Israfel
Adler Fellows:
Kristin Clayton, Elizabeth Bishop, Zheng Cao, Alfredo Portilla, David Okerlund, Bojan Knezevic
Ludwig van Beethoven, Finale from Symphony No. 9
Claudia Waite
Elisabeth Bishop
Alfredo Portilla
Chester Patton
Members of the 1995 Merola Opera Program
San Francisco Opera Chorus