(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 {…}
San Francisco Opera Center has announced the 11 Adler Fellows for 2024. First-year participants of the 2024 San Francisco Opera Adler Fellowship are sopranos Georgiana Adams (Chicago, Illinois), Caroline Corrales (St. Louis, Missouri), tenor Thomas Kinch (Cardiff, Wales), baritone Samuel Kidd (Ann Arbor, Michigan), bass-baritone James McCarthy (Pleasantville, New York), and coach/pianist Julian Grabarek (Acton, Massachusetts). They are joined by returning {…}
Photo Credit: Kristen Loken Merola Opera Program presents Benjamin Britten’s “The Rape of Lucretia” on July 13th and 15th at the Herbst Theatre in San Francisco, with director Jan Essinger, conductor Judith Yan, and a creative team including intimacy coordinator Maya Herbsman. Merola will also host a special conversational forum, post-performance on Saturday, July 15th with the creative team and {…}
San Francisco Opera Tad and Dianne Taube General Director Matthew Shilvock has announced the appointment of Carrie-Ann Matheson as Artistic Director of the San Francisco Opera Center (SFOC) and Markus Beam in the newly created role of SFOC General Manager. Matheson and Beam will join the Company in January 2021. Matheson will succeed Sheri Greenawald, whose distinguished tenure as Director {…}
The San Francisco Opera Center is set to present “The Future is Now: Adler Fellows Concert” on Friday, Dec. 6, 2019. The event will feature sopranos Mary Evelyn Hangley and Natalie Image; mezzo-sprans Ashley Dixon and Simone McIntosh; countertenor Aryeh Nussbaum Cohen; tenors SoekJohn Baek Zhengyi Bai, Christopher Colmenero, and Christopher Oglesby; and bass-baritone Christian Pursell. This will be the final performance as {…}