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Dead Man Walking: Jake Heggie, Terrence McNally, Patrick Summers and Joe Mantello

Also during Mansouri's tenure, San Francisco Opera made its first official commercial recording for Sony Classical: live performances of the 1994 production of Massenet's Hérodiade with Dolora Zajick, Renée Fleming and Plácido Domingo, conducted by Valery Gergiev. The recording was released in December of 1995. The Company's first studio recording-Gluck's Orphée et Eurydice with Jennifer Larmore, Dawn Upshaw and Alison Hagley, conducted by Donald Runnicles-was made for Teldec in May of 1995 and released in 1996. In January of 1997, Orphée was nominated for a Grammy Award, making San Francisco Opera the only American opera company to be so honored that year. Harvey Milk, also conducted by Runnicles, was released by Teldec in March of 1998. The audio recording of A Streetcar Named Desire was released in December of 1998 and the recording of Dead Man Walking is slated for release in September of 2001.

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