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Sophie's Choice-16 December 2002 Evening

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Opera: Performance details

Company: The Royal Opera
Venue: Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London
Performance status: Original season
Conductor Simon Rattle
Chorus Director Terry Edwards
Concert Master Peter Manning
Cast
Narrator Dale Duesing
Stingo Gordon Gietz
Sophie Angelika Kirchschlager
Nathan Rodney Gilfry
Librarian Adrian Clarke
Yetta Zimmerman Frances McCafferty
Yetta Zimmerman Elizabeth Sikora
Zbigniew Bieganski Stafford Dean
Wanda Stephanie Friede
Eva Abigail Browne
Jan Billy Clerkin
Old woman on train Gillian Knight
Young man on train Neil Gillespie
Rudolph Franz Höss Jorma Silvasti
Doctor Alan Opie
Bartender Darren Jeffery
Larry Landau Quentin Hayes
A human cargo bound to Auschwitz; customers in a bar; people of Brooklyn, Coney Island and Auschwitz The Royal Opera Chorus
Actors
Children from Stagecoach
Children from Sandra Patmore School of Dance
ROH Education - Chance to Dance
The Orchestra of the Royal Opera House
Notes: Commissioned by BBC Radio 3 in association with the Royal Opera House. Because of a throat infection, Frances McCafferty walked the role of Yetta Zimmerman, and Elizabeth Sikora sang the role from the wings.
Language: English
Surtitled by: Jonathan Burton
Durations: Act I: 53 minutes, Pause: , Act II: 45 minutes, Interval: 30 minutes, Act III: 57 minutes, Pause: , Act IV: 54 minutes
Information source: Royal Opera House cast sheet for 16 December 2002 (in Royal Opera House Collections)