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| Great Performances: Othello: Press Release |
San Francisco Ballet and KQED Partner to Broadcast San Francisco Ballet Performance of Lar Lubovitch's OTHELLO
Performance to Air Nationally in Fall 2002
Concert is Fourth National Showcase for San Francisco Arts Scene Produced by KQED in Last Year
San Francisco, California, Wednesday, January 30, 2002 -- Thirteen/WNET's Great Performances and KQED Public Broadcasting will present a telecast of Lar Lubovitch's Othello, with the original score by Elliot B. Goldenthal, to be performed by San Francisco Ballet. The production opens Tuesday, February 26 at the War Memorial Opera House. Two performances -- March 2 and 3 (both matinees) -- will be taped in high-definition television (HDTV) by KQED/San Francisco, Thirteen/WNET New York, and San Francisco Ballet for a telecast to air nationally during Great Performances' 2002-03 season. The program will be directed by Matthew Diamond.
Conducted by Emil de Cou, the broadcast performance will include Desmond Richardson (creator of role) as Othello, and San Francisco Ballet's Yuan Yuan Tan as Desdemona, Parrish Maynard as Iago, Katita Waldo as Emilia, Gonzalo Garcia as Cassio, and Lorena Feijoo as Bianca. The production's scenic design is by George Tsypin, with costumes by Ann Hould-Ward, lighting by Pat Collins, projections by Wendall K. Harrington, and choreography by Lar Lubovitch. Lubovitch's Othello, co-produced by San Francisco Ballet and American Ballet Theatre (ABT), had its world premiere in New York with ABT in 1997 and its West Coast premiere with San Francisco Ballet in 1998.
This production of Othello is being produced by San Francisco Ballet (staging and performance), KQED/San Francisco (lead producer of the television program) and Thirteen/WNET New York (national presenter and distributor). It will be broadcast as a "Dance In America" special on PBS by Thirteen/WNET New York's performing arts series Great Performances.
Great Performances is funded by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the National Endowment for the Arts, public television viewers and PBS. Corporate funding is provided by Ernst & Young.
KQED operates KQED Public Television 9, the nation's most-watched public television station (in prime-time), and Digital Television 9, Northern California's only public television digital signal; KQED Public Radio 88.5 FM, the most-listened-to public radio station in the nation; the KQED Education Network, which brings the impact of KQED to thousands of teachers, students, parents and media professionals through workshops, seminars and resources; and kqed.org, which harnesses the power of the Internet to bring KQED to communities across the Web.
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