CASTING: RAYMONDA MAR 4, 7:30 PM
CASTING:
Conductor: Martin West
ACT I
Raymonda's home in England
Raymonda: Sasha De Sola
John de Bryan: Harrison James*
Raymonda's Mother: Joanna Berman
Raymonda's Sister: Rebecca Blenkinsop
Raymonda's Aunt: Elizabeth Mateer
John's Mother: Katita Waldo
Photographer: Jakub Groot
*Denotes premiere in the role
A camp outside Sevastopol, Crimea
Abdur Rahman: Fernando Carratalá Coloma
Sister Clemence: Jasmine Jimison
Henriette: Katherine Barkman
Bernard and Beranger, Friends of John’s: Cavan Conley, Victor Prigent
Field Marshall Belasyse: Ricardo Bustamante
Nurses: Kamryn Baldwin, Jihyun Choi, Norika Matsuyama, Carmela Mayo, Hui-Wen Peng, Julia Rowe
Women in the camp, Nurses, Soldiers, Guards:
Sofia Albers, Rebecca Blenkinsop, Maya Chandrashekaran, Thamires Chuvas, Carlota Cruz, Jacey Gailliard, Gabriela Gonzalez, Katharine Lee, SunMin Lee, Swane Messaoudi, Pemberley Ann Olson, Leili Rackow, Tyla Steinbach, Angela Watson, Juliana Wilder, Seojeong Yun, Rubén Cítores Nieto, Benjamin Davidoff, Luca Ferrò, Lleyton Ho, Lucas López, Dylan Pierzina, Simone Pompignoli, Joshua Jack Price, Nathaniel Remez, Archie Sullivan, Alexis Francisco Valdes, Mingxuan Wang, Adrian Zeisel with Students of San Francisco Ballet School
–INTERMISSION–
ACT II
The party in Abdur Rahman’s tent
Ratchuli: Isabella DeVivo, Joshua Jack Price
Spanish Couples: Kamryn Baldwin, Sasha Mukhamedov, Rubén Cítores Nieto, Mingxuan Wang
Entertainers: Sofia Albers, Jacey Gailliard, Gabriela Gonzalez, Katharine Lee, Elizabeth Mateer, Leili Rackow, Tyla Steinbach, Angela Watson, Maggie Weirich, Benjamin Davidoff, Andris Kundzins, Lucas López, Justin-Cooper Meeks, Davide Occhipinti, Simone Pompignoli, Jasper True Stanford, Ben Taber, Adrian Zeisel
Abdur Rahman’s Guards: Luca Ferrò, Lleyton Ho, Dylan Pierzina, João Percilio da Silva, Archie Sullivan, Alexis Francisco Valdes
–INTERMISSION–
ACT III
In the grounds of Raymonda’s estate
Hungarian Workers: Sasha Mukhamedov, Nathaniel Remez
with: Sofia Albers, Gabriela Gonzalez, Swane Messaoudi, Pemberley Ann Olson, Hui-Wen Peng, Leili Rackow, Tyla Steinbach, Angela Watson, Rubén Cítores Nieto, Benjamin Davidoff, Lleyton Ho, Lucas López, João Percilio da Silva, Simone Pompignoli, Archie Sullivan, Jasper True Stanford
Bridesmaids: Kamryn Baldwin, Jihyun Choi, Thamires Chuvas, Carmela Mayo, Seojeong Yun
Soldiers: Luca Ferrò, Joshua Jack Price, Mingxuan Wang, Adrian Zeisel
Supervisors, Children: Students of San Francisco Ballet School
Musicians: Mariya Borozina, Chester Englander, Steve Sanchez
Raymonda (SF Ballet Premiere)
Direction and Choreography: Tamara Rojo, after Marius Petipa
Music: Alexander Glazunov, adapted and edited by Gavin Sutherland and Lars Payne
Staged by: Loipa Araújo, Daniel Kraus, Vadim Sirotin, and Hua Fang Zhang
Additional Principal Coaching: Julio Bocca
Sets and Costume Design: Antony McDonald
Lighting Design: Mark Henderson
Choreographic Assistant: Renato Paroni de Castro
Character Dances: Vadim Sirotin
Dramaturg: Lucinda Coxon
Choreographic Research and Stepanov Notation: Doug Fullington
Video Designer: Alexander Gunnarsson
World Premiere: January 2022—English National Ballet, London Coliseum; London, England
SF Ballet Premiere: March 1, 2025—War Memorial Opera House; San Francisco, California