Libretto by the composer
NEW PRODUCTION
In the backwoods of Tennessee, a beautiful young woman is accused of indecent behavior after she is discovered bathing naked in a stream. Will the charismatic traveling preacher who sets his sights on her soul be her salvation, or her downfall? Carlisle Floyd’s all-American score, which beautifully evokes the work’s rural Appalachian setting, “is unabashedly neo-Romantic” (The New York Times). The radiant Patricia Racette sings the title role, with Brandon Jovanovich as her brother and Raymond Aceto as the hell-raising itinerant preacher. Conductor Karen Kamensek makes her San Francisco Opera debut in this eagerly awaited Company premiere directed by Michael Cavanagh (Nixon in China, 2012).
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Sung in English with English supertitles
Approximate running time: 2 hours including one intermission
Pre-Opera Talks are free to ticketholders and take place in the Opera House in the Orchestra section, 55 minutes prior to curtain.
San Francisco Opera production
Costumes owned by Lyric Opera of Chicago and Houston Grand Opera. The costumes in Susannah are made possible by a generous gift from Abbott Laboratories to the Lyric Opera of Chicago and from Philip Morris Companies, Inc. to Houston Grand Opera as sponsor to its Opera New World program.
Audio excerpts ©Virgin Classics 1994 (724354503924) / performed by Orchestre de l’Opèra de Lyon; Kent Nagano, conductor
“Ain’t it a pretty night?”/Cheryl Studer (Susannah); “The Trees on the mountain”/Cheryl Studer; “Hear me, O Lord, I beseech Thee”/Samuel Ramey (Olin Blitch)
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