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San Francisco Opera will showcase the 2026 Adler Fellows and chorus in upcoming concerts.

On Nov. 20, the Adlers will perform scenes and arias from operatic works by Richard Strauss, Leoncavallo, Donizetti, Bizet, Cilea, Verdi, Korngold, Menotti, and Wagner. Elio Bucky, a director with previous engagements with Palm Beach Opera, Cincinnati Opera and Wolf Trap Opera and a 2025 graduate of the Merola Opera Program, stages the Adler Fellows for this concert that caps the end of their season.

The artists concluding their fellowships with this concert are third-year Adler Fellow Thomas Kinch and second-year Adler Fellows Mary Hoskins, Ji Youn Lee and Olivier Zerouali. Continuing in the program in 2027 as second-year Adler Fellows are Alexa Frankian, Sofia Gotch, Sadie Cheslak, Gabriel Natal-Báez and Brian Cho.

Later that week, on Nov. 22, San Francisco Opera presents the San Francisco Opera Chorus in concert at the Dianne and Tad Taube Atrium Theate. Chorus Director John Keene conducts, and Associate Chorus Master Fabrizio Corona is the pianist for this afternoon of accompanied and a cappella choral works.

The 90-minute program features the Act I finale of “Simon Boccanegra” in its original 1857 version, songs by Amy Beach, choral repertoire by Randall Thompson and Henryk Górecki, and excerpts from “Requiems” by Brahms, Mozart, Fauré, and Dvořák.

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