San Francisco’s Merola Opera Program Announces 2026 Artists

San Francisco’s Merola Opera Program has announced the artist cohort for its 2026 season, selecting 28 participants from more than 1,500 international applicants. The 2026 ensemble includes sopranos Shannon Crowley, Adia Evans, Charlotte Kelso, Abigail Raiford, Jennifer Robinson, Emilie Kealani, and Anna Thompson; mezzo-sopranos Theo Claveles, Katherine Dobbs, Stella FitzGerald, and Ariana Maubach; tenors Chester Seungyup Han, Ryan Bryce Johnson, {…}

Nov 21, 2025

San Francisco Opera Earns Major Multi-Year Gift from Jensen & Lori Huang

San Francisco Opera has received a major multi-year donation. The company revealed that during a special “Monkey King” event hosted by the Jensen and Lori Huang in the Green Room at the War Memorial Veterans Building, the Huangs, who serve as Co-Chairs of The Monkey King Honorary Committee, announced that they will contribute $5 million annually to support the Company’s {…}

Nov 20, 2025

San Francisco Opera 2025-26 Review: The Monkey King

The beloved Chinese hero, Monkey, landed in San Francisco Friday night, complete with an entourage of dancers, singers, acrobats, and antics that came from an ancient story revisited, along with video-games and comics, among others. In the Lobby, before the performance, a group of young drummers from Grant High School, Sacramento and dancers from the Chinese American International School with {…}

Nov 9, 2025

San Francisco Opera 2025-26 Review: Parsifal

(Photo Credit: Cory Weaver) From the magic of those first ascending B flat minor motifs, to the shimmering chromatic closure, Wagner’s final masterwork “Parsifal” casts a spell of unspeakable radiance. A spell that can fail to materialize when directorial concept goes awry. The Nov. 2nd performance of the San Francisco Opera’s new production of “Parsifal” was an orchestral triumph, and {…}

Nov 4, 2025

San Francisco Opera Announces Adler Fellowship Recipients

San Francisco Opera Center Artistic Director Carrie-Ann Matheson and General Manager Markus Beam have announced the nine recipients of the 2026 San Francisco Opera Adler Fellowship. The young musicians begin the 2026 Fellowship in January, receiving individually tailored musical and performance training and a wide range of professional and personal development instruction. The artists selected as 2026 Adler Fellows are {…}

Oct 23, 2025

San Francisco Opera to World Premiere ‘The Monkey King’ with Kang Wang & Konu Kim

The San Francisco Opera is set to present the world premiere of The Monkey King by composer Huang Ruo and librettist David Henry Hwang. The opera will be performed on Nov. 14 through 30 at the War Memorial Opera House. The opera centers around the mythical Monkey King, a perennial favorite in Chinese culture for over four hundred years, whose popularity {…}

Oct 8, 2025

Eun Sun Kim & Daniela Mack Lead Beethoven & Falla Concert

Caroline H. Hume Music Director, Eun Sun Kim is set to lead the San Francisco Opera Orchestra in a Beethoven and Falla program. Kim will be joined by mezzo-soprano Daniela Mack in a one-night-only concert on Nov. 1, 2025 at the War Memorial Opera House. Mack will perform Manuel de Falla’s songs “Siete Canciones Populares Españolas.” The concert will also feature {…}

Sep 17, 2025

San Francisco Opera Bestows Major Honor on Jake Heggie

(Photo: Matthew Washburn/San Francisco Opera) San Francisco Opera honored composer Jake Heggie with the San Francisco Opera Medal on Sept. 14, 2025. The presentation took place following the 25th anniversary premiere performance of “Dead Man Walking.” Matthew Shivlock, the company’s Tad and Dianne Taube General Director, bestowed the famed composer with the award. “Thank you for welcoming me in and {…}

Sep 17, 2025

San Francisco Opera 2025-26 Review: Rigoletto

(Photo: Another grand Opening Night at San Francisco Opera Fall 2025 Season, its 103rd. Glamor in sequins and sparkly platform heels, green and mauve brocaded would-be pashas, feathery boas and head-dresses – and this was just the lobby – on the tail of the Annual Opera Ball. Inside, magenta and rose heart-shaped flower-masks adorned the parterre, while colored lights oscillated {…}

Sep 9, 2025

San Francisco Opera Signs Two-Year Agreement with AGMA

San Francisco Opera and the American Guild of Musical Artists (AGMA) have announced a two-year agreement. The new agreement was ratified on August 25, 2025 and is retroactively effective from March 1, 2025 and runs through Feb. 28, 2027. It includes pay increases, equitable pay adjustments, enhanced work-life protections, new benefits, and improvements to scheduling and the audition process. “This {…}

Sep 2, 2025

Adela Zaharia, Susan Graham, Jamie Barton & Amartuvshin Enkhbat Headline San Francisco Opera’s ‘Opera in the Park’

The San Francisco Opera is set to present “Opera in the Park” on Sept. 7, 2025. Caroline H. Hume Music Director Eun Sun Kim will conduct the San Francisco Opera Orchestra and stars of the Company’s fall season at Robin Williams Meadow in Golden Gate Park. Among the soloists will be sopranos Brittany Renee, Olivia Smith, and Adela Zaharia; mezzo-sopranos {…}