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KELSEY
POLENZANI
FEOLA
RIGOLETTO
Quinn Kelsey†
GILDA
Rosa Feola*
DUKE
Matthew Polenzani†
SPARAFUCILE
Alexander Tsymbalyuk*
MADDALENA
Zanda Švēde*
CONDUCTOR
Marco Armiliato
DIRECTOR
E. Loren Meeker
SET DESIGNER
Michael Yeargan
COSTUME DESIGNER
Constance Hoffman
LIGHTING DESIGNER
Chris Maravich
CHORUS MASTER
Michael Black
* Lyric Opera debut
† Ryan Opera Center alumni
Production owned by San Francisco Opera.
PRODUCTION SPONSORS
Photo: Cory Weaver/San Francisco Opera
“[It’s] not just the size of his voice or the finish of his technique,
although both are impressive. It’s his heart. You hear the pain
behind the anger…vulnerability is evident in every phrase.”
- Opera News
on Quinn Kelsey’s Rigoletto
JULIE
AND
ROGER
BASKES
HOWARD L. GOTTLIEB
AND
BARBARA GREIS
ROBERTA L.
AND
ROBERT J. WASHLOW