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Harvey Milk - Stewart Wallace, Michael Korie, San Francisco Opera, Donald Runnicles / TELDEC 2x Audio CD 1998 / 0630-15856-2
UPC 0706301585627
Harvey Milk is an American opera in three acts, with music by Stewart Wallace to a libretto by Michael Korie. The opera was a joint commission by Houston Grand Opera, New York City Opera, and San Francisco Opera, and received its premiere on 21 January 1995 by Houston Grand Opera. The opera is based on the life and death of the American gay activist and politician Harvey Milk, who was assassinated along with San Francisco mayor George Moscone on 27 November 1978.
- Label: TELDEC – 0630-15856-2
- Format: 2 x CD,
- Country: US
- Released: Jul 1998
- Genre: Classical
- Style: Opera
Tracklist:
| Act One: The Closet | |||
| Part 1 | |||
| 1-1 | Prologue: November 27, 1978 |
6:42 | |
| 1-2 | Standing Room At The Old Met. New York City - The 1940's |
3:35 | |
| 1-3 | Central Park At Midnight, The War Years |
4:23 | |
| 1-4 | "An Angel Will Go Before You" |
1:47 | |
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Part 2 |
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| 1-5 | Harvey's Walk-In Closet. New York City - The 1960's |
1:35 | |
| 1-6 | "Closets Are A Necessary Fact Of Life" |
1:50 | |
| 1-7 | "Poor Dear Is Beside Himself" |
2:58 | |
| 1-8 | "You Don't Have To Stand There" |
3:16 | |
| 1-9 | Standing Room At The New Met |
6:47 | |
| 1-10 | "From Dust We Come" |
1:20 | |
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Part 3 |
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| 1-11 | Christopher Street. The 1969 Stonewall Uprising |
3:25 | |
| 1-12 | "We Are The Stonewall Girls!" |
0:48 | |
| 1-13 | "Out Of The Closets And Into The Streets!" |
0:58 | |
| 1-14 | "Out Of The Closets" ... "Remember This Moment" |
2:45 | |
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Act Two: The Castro |
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| Part 1 | |||
| 1-15 | Castro Street. San Francisco - Early 1970's |
1:45 | |
| 1-16 | "This Used To Be An Old Irish Neighborhood" |
3:59 | |
| 1-17 | "Macho!" |
2:48 | |
| 1-18 | "I Come From Woodmere, Long Island" |
2:17 | |
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Part 2 |
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| 1-19 | A Street Campaign |
6:22 | |
| 1-20 | "The Milk Train!" |
1:32 | |
| 2-1 | Harvey And Scott's Bed |
6:21 | |
| 2-2 | The Haircut |
2:25 | |
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Part 3 |
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| 2-3 | Gay Bashing (The Hillsborough Murder) |
1:10 | |
| 2-4 | "What We Have Here Is Not What It Seems" |
5:08 | |
| 2-5 | "Thank You, San Francisco" |
2:29 | |
| 2-6 | The Parade | 2:41 | |
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Act Three: City Hall |
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| Part 1 | |||
| 2-7 | The Corridors Of Power |
2:14 | |
| 2-8 | "These Are The Corridors Of Power" |
3:42 | |
| 2-9 | "The Issue Of The Floor Is" ... "Not In My Backyard" |
2:25 | |
| 2-10 | The Gay Rights' Bil l | 1:03 | |
| 2-11 | "All In Favor?" ... "Aye!" |
1:09 | |
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Part 2 |
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| 2-12 | November 10, 1978 |
3:13 | |
| 2-13 | "Dan, You Idiot" ... "Easy Harvey - Don't Push" |
1:03 | |
| 2-14 | Novemeber 14, 1978 |
2:02 | |
| 2-15 | "Time Out! Did I Just Hear What I Heard?" |
4:50 | |
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Part 3 |
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| 2-16 | The San Francisco Opera; Dan White's Barcalounger |
2:43 | |
| 2-17 | "Harvey. Come Right Home" ... "Mama. There Are Things" |
3:44 | |
| 2-18 | November 27, 1978 |
4:08 | |
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Kaddish |
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| 2-19 | "When I Heard, I Was In A State Of Shock" |
11:43 |
- Chorus – San Francisco Opera Chorus
- Conductor – Donald Runnicles
- Edited By – Geoff Miles
- Engineer – Mike Hatch
- Executive-Producer – Renate Kupfer
- Libretto By – Michael Korie
- Music By – Stewart Wallace
- Orchestra – San Francisco Opera Orchestra
- Producer – James Mallinson
- Producer [Coordinating Producer] – Kate Gaitley
| Role | Voice type | Premiere cast, 21 January 1995 Conductor: Ward Holmquist |
|---|---|---|
| Harvey Milk, gay activist and member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors | baritone | Robert Orth |
| Dan White, member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors and Milk's assassin | tenor | Raymond Very |
| George Moscone, Mayor of San Francisco | bass | Gidon Saks |
| Dianne Feinstein, member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors | mezzo-soprano or soprano | Juliana Gondek |
| Scott Smith, Milk's lover | tenor | Bradley Williams |
| Henry Wong, Milk's associate | countertenor | Randall Wong |
| Messenger | baritone | James Maddalena |
| Anne Kronenberg, Milk's campaign manager | mezzo-soprano | Jill Grove |
| Medora Payne, an 11-year old supporter of Milk | child soprano | Lilly Akseth |
| Harvey Milk as a boy | boy soprano | Matthew Cavenaugh |
| Harvey Milk's mother ('Mama'), concentration camp inmates, San Francisco supervisors, men at the opera, closet lovers, reporters, people of San Francisco | ||
In addition to the ten principal roles, the opera has over 70 smaller singing roles. Except for the singer of the title role, the principal cast members also sang multiple smaller roles.
