(Credit: Kristen Loken / San Francisco Opera)

Head of Properties Lori Harrison has been awarded the San Francisco Opera Medal for her distinguished 32-year career with the company.

Harrison commenced her career with the company in 1985 as a production assistant and member of the stage crew before becoming Head of Properties in 1998 following a brief stint in film and television.

“For the last 26 years, Lori Harrison has led our props department with a passionate creativity that connects the stage traditions of the past with new technologies of the future, guiding and shaping the artistic integrity of our physical productions with an eye to detail,” said San Francisco Opera Dianne and Tad Taube General Director Matthew Shilvock, who presented Harrison with the Medal following the Nov. 29 performance of “Carmen.” “But Lori’s relationship with the Company goes back much further. It was in 1985 that she began at San Francisco Opera, and she has forged an extraordinary institutional memory that connects us in the here and now to the generations who shaped the San Francisco Opera stage.”

“We have a reputation in this house that we can do anything and that’s because you can do anything. Thank you,” Harrison said upon receiving the distinction. “It’s an honor and a privilege to be with this Company over all these years and to be a part of the opera community and that includes all of you.”