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Thomas Kinch Joins Askonas Holt for European Management

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Thomas Kinch has joined Askonas Holt for management in Europe. Kinch will be managed at Askonas Holt by Angelica Conner and Charlotte Bateman, in collaboration with Trevor Newman at Opus 3 Artists in North America. Kinch is a Welsh tenor currently at the Adler Fellow at San Francisco Opera, appearing this season as Don José in “Carmen” and Melot in {…}
News, Season Announcement

Dean Murphy, Jonathan Burton, Stephanie Doche & Guadalupe Paz Lead San Diego Opera’s 2025-26 Season

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The San Diego Opera has announced its 2025-26 season. The season opens with Leoncavallo’s “Pagliacci. ” Yves Abel conducts a cast that includes Jonathan Burton, Hailey Clark, and Kidon Choi. Christopher Mattaliano directs. Performance Dates: Oct. 31-Nov. 2, 2025 Rossini’s “The Barber of Seville” will star Dean Murphy, Minghao Liu, Stephanie Doche, Patrick Carfizzi, and Craig Colclough. Yves Abel conducts the production by {…}
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Leah Crocetto & Carrie-Ann Matheson to Perform in Schwabacher Recital Series

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(Photo credit: Jiyang Chen) The Schwabacher Recital Series, presented by Merola Opera Program and San Francisco Opera Center, concludes its 41st season with a performance by Leah Crocetto and pianist Carrie-Ann Matheson. The third and final concert of the series showcases music by Clara Schumann, Richard Strauss, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Giuseppe Verdi, Stephen Sondheim, and others. Baritone Lester Lynch will join {…}
Business, News

Johanna Malangré Joins Askonas Holt

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Johanna Malangré has joined the roster of Askonas Holt for general management. She will be managed by Daniel Lebon and Doris Franze. Malangré is a German conductor who has been Music Director of the Orchestre de Picardie since 2022. This season she makes her Japanese debut with the Nagoya Symphony Orchestra and debuts with the Münchner Philharmoniker. She is a former Fellow of the {…}
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Leah Crocetto, Michael John Butler, Olivier Zerouali, Georgiana Adams, Caroline Corrales Among Headliners of 2025 Schwabacher Recital Series

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Merola Opera Program and San Francisco Opera Center have announced the 2025 Schwabacher Recital Series. First up is a concert starring Georgiana Adams, Caroline Corrales, Thomas Kinch, Samuel Kidd, and pianist Julian Grabarek as they present works by Amy Beach, Vítězslava Kaprálová, Rebecca Clarke, Richard Strauss, George Butterworth, Alma Mahler, Claude Debussy and Kurt Weill. Nicholas Phan curates the program. {…}
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San Francisco Opera to Present Two November Concerts

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San Francisco Opera’s 2024-25 season will continue in November with two annual, year-end concerts showcasing the Company’s resident artists, orchestra, and chorus. On Nov. 15, the company will present a concert “The Future is Now” at the Herbst Theatre. The evening will feature 2024 Adler Fellows: sopranos Georgiana Adams, Caroline Corrales, Arianna Rodriguez and Olivia Smith; mezzo-soprano Nikola Printz; tenor {…}
Reviews, Stage Reviews

San Francisco Opera 2024-25 Review: Tristan und Isolde

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(Credit: Cory Weaver) Whether you view Richard Wagner’s opera, “Tristan und Isolde,” as an expressive tale of universal human redemption or simply a unique take on the many medieval romances of love and death, there is no question it casts a spell. In the opening of San Francisco’s new production by Paul Curran, conducted by San Francisco’s own Eun Sun {…}
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Simon O’Neill & Anja Kampe Lead San Francisco Opera’s ‘Tristan und Isolde’

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San Francisco Opera is set to present Richard Wagner’s “Tristan und Isolde.” The opera is set to be presented between Oct. 19 and Nov. 5 for five performances under the baton of Caroline H. Hume Music Director Eun Sun Kim. Paul Curran makes his company debut directing a cast that will be led by Wagnerian interpreters Simon O’Neill and Anja {…}
Reviews, Stage Reviews

San Francisco Opera 2024-25 Review: Un Ballo in Maschera

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(Photo by Cory Weaver) Festivities galore flooded the San Francisco’s Civic Center Friday night – Opera Ball, Opera Dinner, and the opera itself, Verdi’s, “Un Ballo in Maschera.” Opening night at San Francisco Opera sparkled with taffeta gowns and tux, platform heels and feathers, jewelry glittering up and down arms and nifty bowties. In honor of the entitled opera and {…}

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