The San Francisco Opera has announced that it has received a gift of $6 million from Tad and Dianne Taube to support the company’s general director position. As such, the position will now be known as the Tad and Dianne Taube General Director. Matthew Shivlock, who has been the company’s seventh general director is now the first to hold that {…}
The San Francisco Opera has a announced a cast change for its upcoming production of Verdi and Piave’s “Ernani.” The company announced that the Caroline H. Hume Music Director Designate Eun Sun Kim will conduct Verdi’s “Ernani,” replacing James Gaffigan who has withdrawn from the production due to family reasons. Sun Kim, who was appointed San Francisco Opera’s Caroline H. {…}
(Credit: Courtesy of San Francisco Opera) The San Francisco Opera has announced its 2020-21 season featuring a number of new productions and stars. Here is a look. Productions The first production of the season will be Beethoven’s “Fidelio” celebrating the composer’s 250th anniversary. The new production will be directed by Matthew Ozawa with Music Director Designate Eun Sun Kim conducting {…}
(Credit: Brandon Patoc) The San Francisco Ballet and San Francisco Opera, in collaboration with the San Francisco War Memorial and Performing Arts Center, has shared plans for the final phase of seat replacements within the War Memorial Opera House. The organization announced that over the spring and summer of 2021, all seats in the Orchestra, Grand Tier and Dress Circle {…}
The San Francisco Opera Center and Merola Opera Program have announced their 37th annual Schwabacher Recital Series for 2020. The performances, which are scheduled at San Francisco’s Dianne and Tad Taube Atrium Theater, will feature emerging artists from around the globe. The first concert will showcase a set of performers recently seen as part of the Merola Opera Program. Mezzo-soprano {…}
The San Francisco Opera has announced that Eun Sun Kim has been appointed to be its next music director starting on August 1, 2021. Kim will be the fourth music director in the company’s history and will work with other members of the company’s leadership to shaping the San Francisco Opera’s artistic direction and developing its young artist programs. She {…}
(Credit: Cory Weaver/San Francisco Opera) The San Francisco Opera Guild is set to present “An Evening on the Stage” on Dec. 4, 2019. The event, which is set to honor philanthropists Carol and Dixon Doll, will allow 300 guests an opportunity to dine on the War Memorial Opera House’s stage surrounded by sets from “Hansel and Gretel.” Proceeds from the {…}
We will apologize beforehand because you are going to be hearing a few opera titles repeatedly quite a bit over the next few weeks. You know which ones and they comprise a major part of our recommendations for the first major holiday weekend of the season. The Magic Flute – LA Opera Barrie Kosky and Suzanne Andrade’s immersive “Magic Flute” {…}
(Credit: Cory Weaver/San Francisco Opera) Humperdinck’s “Hansel and Gretel” opened at the San Francisco War Memorial Opera House to round out the fall season repertoire. Composed in the 1890s, Humperdinck based the opera on Grimm Brothers’ fairy tale, hinting at some of the darker ideas resplendent in the original tale. But alas, none of that seems to have permeated the modern {…}
“Manon Lescaut” opened at the San Francisco Opera in a revival of Olivier Tambosi and Frank Philipp Schlossmann’s production. It was a reminder of many of the opera’s riches: lush musical textures with various orchestral harmonies; the rich exploration of human drama; and the insolence of fate. When Puccini set out to compose his opera on Manon, people chided him {…}
With the 2019-20 season fully underway, we have found this challenge of selecting a choice few operas every weekend increasingly challenging as there is really a lot of special work going on around North America. Nonetheless, as per usual, we have whittled it down to five works that we think will bring a balanced operatic diet for those who want {…}
