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 {…}

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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 {…}

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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 {…}

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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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San Francisco Opera to Present ‘Opera in the Park’ This Weekend

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(Credit: Devlin Shand for Drew Altizer Photography) San Francisco Opera is set to celebrate the opening of its 102nd season with San Francisco Chronicle Presents Opera in the Park. The concert will be held on Sept. 8 at 1:30 p.m. and will be free to the general public. The concert is an annual Bay Area tradition established in 1971 and {…}

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Michael Fabiano Lead San Francisco Opera’s ‘Un Ballo in Maschera’

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The San Francisco Opera is set to open its 102nd season on Sept. 6 with Verdi’s “Un Ballo in Maschera” and Opera Ball, the opening night benefit co-hosted with the San Francisco Opera Guild. Caroline H. Hume Music Director Eun Sun Kim leads the production by Italian director Leo Muscato. The international cast will led by Michael Fabiano as Gustavus {…}

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Thomas Kinch Joins Askonas Holt for European Management

Johanna Malangré Joins Askonas Holt

Leah Crocetto, Michael John Butler, Olivier Zerouali, Georgiana Adams, Caroline Corrales Among Headliners of 2025 Schwabacher Recital Series

San Francisco Opera to Present Two November Concerts

San Francisco Opera 2024-25 Review: Tristan und Isolde

Simon O’Neill & Anja Kampe Lead San Francisco Opera’s ‘Tristan und Isolde’

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

San Francisco Opera to Present ‘Opera in the Park’ This Weekend

Michael Fabiano Lead San Francisco Opera’s ‘Un Ballo in Maschera’