10/11/14 – Die Frau Onhe Schatten – 1:00pm

San Francisco Opera

OPERA: Die Frau ohne Schatten (in German)
COMPOSER: Richard Strauss

CAST:
The Empress’s Nurse Ruth Hesse
Spirit Messenger James Johnson
The Emperor Matti Kastu †
The Empress Leonie Rysanek
Voice of the Falcon Linda Roark
One-Armed man Lorenzo Alvary
One-Eyed man Joshua Hecht
Hunchback John Duykers
Barak’s wife Ursula Schröder-Feinen
Barak Walter Berry
First Servant Claudia Cummings
Second Servant Pamela South
Third Servant Shirley Lee Harned
Apparition of a Youth James Hoback
First Watchman Paul Geiger
Second Watchman Samuel Byrd
Third Watchman Wayne Turnage
Children’s Voice Claudia Cummings
Pamela South
Linda Roark
Gwendolyn Jones
Donna Petersen
Alto Voice Gwendolyn Jones
Guardian of the
Temple Gates Claudia Cummings
Solo Voice Gwendolyn Jones
Claudia Cummings
Pamela South
Linda Roark
Shirley Lee Harned
Donna Petersen

CONDUCTOR: Karl Böhm
STAGE DIRECTOR: Nikolaus Lehnhoff

San Francisco Opera Orchestra and Chorus
CHORUS DIRECTOR: Robert Jones

Recorded October 15, 1976, War Memorial Opera House.

 

Photo: Peterson.