. Crider .. The Festival Company presents Spurll .. Fricke SIMON Slabaugh · ... '·'1 Horney Ruppeck, May Worth BOCCANEGRA ...... Lawrence Thompson by Women's Hair Stvles bv Alaxine Zimmer of Ricksha Hair Fashions Text by , Revised and augmented by English Adaptation by Walter Dueloux THE UNIVERSITY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA :., THE CAST 1st Violin Cello Clarinet Prologue: Wesley Fisk Juliet Lehwalder Russell Waite . A Corsair. ... Howard Nelson Dorothy Metzler joyce Nordvik Jacopo Fiesco .. .. A Genovese noble. . .. Leon Lishner Carol Gray She rill Noe Bassoon Paolo Albiani .. A Goldsmith ...... Lara Cheryl Stray Charlotte Albright Gary Echols Jim Marshall Pietro .. A Genovese politician ....John Duykers Mark Sokol Jean Merewether Margaret Pressley Sylvia Spengler John Knoll The Drama: Marcia Keene Laurie Tuttle Horn Simon Boccanegra .First Doge of Howard Nelson Marilee Cole joyce Hazelrigg Joanne Sorenson Carol Rockafield Richard Hine Maria Boccanegra. His daughter, known only as Sandra Gantar Connie Smith Roger Crook Amelia Grimaldi. . .. Frances Lowe Yuko Honda Susan Smith Richard Berthelsdorf J acopo Fiesco...... Disguised as Andrea. . .. Leon Lishner Jim deCocq Carol Olding Gabriele Adorno ... A young Genovese 2nd Violin Double Bass jim Lofthus noble...... Robert McGrath Ellen Dawson David Andre Paolo Albiani . A courtier, favorite of Veronica Milton Stephen Smith Trumpet the Doge ...... Aroldo Lara Terry Anderson Merran McFarland Richard Kemp Pietro...... Another courtier...... John Duykers Brent Straughan Marie Elverum John McCormick Captain of the Guard ...... Robert Shiesle ) ) Phil Wilkinson Flute Trombone Maidservant to Amelia. ...Judith Ann Curtis Bruce Leishmar judy Wall MongPil Kim Richard Roblee Soldiers, mariners, townspeople, senators, courtiers: Karen Andersen Pamela Butler Robert Dary Marcy Tretsven Sally Ashford Kippy Lou Brinkman LeaAnna Longley Ginger Panter Tuba Patricia Barta Eleanor Feetham Kathy Thornton Linda Charouhas Piccolo Donald R. Nelson Catherine Carlson Jan Curtis Joan Shippy Karen johnson Carole Cloud Jody johnston Judy Wall Claudia Johnson Harp Doris Crandall Ora Lee Knapp Kippy Brinkman Terry Bakken Dale Gleason Philip Kuretski Viola Oboe Robert Bingham Rodney Godshall Douglas Miller William Humphreys Curt Dechert Tympani Robert jones Robert Myers John Bradfield Lynne McConnell Robin Gallagher Garry Nakayama Lyman Coppess Lawrence Meece Robert Shiesley Connie Whelan David Hueston James Butler Larry Feetham Ed Keever Carol Richmond Percussion Ed Miller Don Strom 'Mary Neddermeyer Clarinet Basil Foster Andy Erickson John Gaborit Patty Underhill Joan Morris Kathryn Ramm Understudies: Kathy Dawson Glen Newcomb Rodney GodshalL.. ...Fiesco John Duykers ...... Simon Boccanegra Ellen Weston Bob Buckley Libratian Robert Shiesley ...... Paolo Dave Evans Mike Davenport Stephen Smith -., ., ~he action is laid in and around Genoa during the Fourteenth urges the old man to assassinate Boccanegro; next he incites Ga~ .r (. ;ntury. riele to fury with insinuations about the Doge's relationship wit~:, J Amelia. When the youth is left to his thoughts, Amelia enters, but PROLOGUE: before she can explain to Gabriele that the Doge is her father, In a square before the palace of Fiesco, Paolo and Pietro, leaders Boccanegra follows. Gabriele quickly hides in an alcove. Amelia of the People's Party, plot to gain the hereditary power of the asks her father to pardon her lover; he agrees on condition that the aristocracy by electing the popular corsair Simon Boccanegra as young man promise to desert the conspirators. Left alone, the weary Doge. Boccanegra accepts their proposal so that he may marry Doge drinks Paolo's potion and falls asleep. Gabriele who has Maria, daughter of the noble Jacopo Fiesco, who has imprisoned heard nothing emerges from hiding and draws his knife but her since she bore Boccanegra's child. After a mob of commoners, Amelia returns in time to stop him from murdering her father. At incited by Pietro, pledges support of the corsair's cause, Fiesco steps last Gabriele learns the truth and implores the Doge's forgiveness. from his palace mourning Maria's death. Unaware of the tragedy, As cries of rebellion are heard, the two men rush off to help defend Boccanegra asks his friendship, but the old man demands to be the palace. given his granddaughter. Boccanegra laments that the child has disappeared and despairing, rushes into the deserted palace to find ACT III Maria's casket. As he comes out, a mob hails him as Doge. Several hours later all Genoa celebrates Boccanegra's vic lory. Mag­ nanimously he has set most of the rebel leaders free, including ACT I-SCENE I Fiesco, but the traitorous Paolo is condemned to death. On his Twenty-five years pass. In the garden of the Grimaldi palace, where way to execution, the villain informs Fiesco that he has poisoned the embittered Fiesco now lives in hiding under the pseudonym the Doge. Boccanegra staggers in gravely ill; Fiesco, still bent on "Andrea," his ward Amelia awaits her lover, Gabriele Adorno, who revenge, reveals to the Doge his true identity, whereupon he learns has joined Fiesco in a plot to overthrow Boccanegra. When the who Amelia really is. Stunned, Fiesco tells Boccanegra that Paolo youth enters she tells him that the Doge wishes her to marry Paolo; has poisoned him. As the Doge dies, he blesses the newly married at once Gabriele seeks out Fiesco to obtain the old man's blessing Gabriele and Amelia, asking that the young man be proclaimed the for himself. Suddenly Boccanegra arrives and in an interview with new Doge. Fiesco, grief·stricken, announces Boccanegra's death to Amelia discovers that she is his long-lost daughter. Unknown to the people. Simon, Paolo and Pietro plot to kidnap Amelia. ACT I-SCENE II I"""f1 the Council chamber while negotiating a treaty between Genoa \.....hd , the Doge is interrupted by shouts in the streets. In ~~:ro:n~~~::U:~;~ O~~~..~t.~:." ..""".... "" .. ".".".Stanley chapPID answer he admits a loyal mob that has captured both Fiesco, who Stage n!___,- goes unrecognized, and Gabriele who defiantly charges Boccanegra with Amelia's abduction and tries to stab him. Amelia herself Clarke rushes in and throws herself between them. She pleads with the Backstage Conductor ...... " ...... " ...... Russell Waite Doge to forgive Gabriele, who suspects she is Boccanegra's mistress, Production assistants ...... "." ...... Eleanor Feetham and describes her abduction, hinting at Paolo's complicity. The Richard Sederholm Doge quiets the raging spectators and commands Paolo, as a state Roger Shell official, to curse the man who plotted this infamy. Sick with horror, Stephen Smith he does so and rushes from the hall, as the assembly repeats his Research assistant. ." .. " ...... Marietta Upton curse. Fiesco and Gabriele are sent to prison. Sound .... ,..... ,...... " ...... ,...... john Johnson INTERMISSION ACT II Festival Opera Production Staff: In a room adjoining the Doge's apartment, Paolo pours poison Art Director and Technical Supervisor ...... John A. Conway into Boccanegra's drink. Summoning Fiesco from his cell, he vainly Technical Director...... Joseph J. E. Poc I

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