(Photo: Camilla Winther/Royal Danish Opera) San Francisco Opera is set to present the West Coast premiere of Poul Ruders and Paul Bentley’s “The Handmaid’s Tale.” The work based on Margaret Atwood’s novel was originally scheduled for the 2020–21 Season and was delayed by the pandemic. The work will be conducted by Karen Kamensek and will be directed by John Fulljames, {…}
(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 {…}
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 {…}
The San Francisco Opera has announced the 2024-25 livestream season. The season opens with a production of Verdi’s “Un Ballo in Maschera.” The opera will star Michael Fabiano, Lianna Haroutounian, Amartuvshin Enkhbat, Mei Gui Zhang, and Judit Kutasi. Livestream Date: Sept. 15, 2024 at 2pm Poul Ruder’s “The Handmaid’s Tale“ will be the second stream and will star Irene Roberts, Lindsay Ammann, Sarah Cambidge, and John Relyea. Livestream {…}
(Photo: Kristen Loken/San Francisco Opera) San Francisco Opera has revealed the David Gockley bas-relief at the War Memorial Opera House. The bas-relief was unveiled during a ceremony honoring the General Director Emeritus on August 20, 2024 to a crowd of 100 attendees. The event was hosted by San Francisco Opera’s Tad and Dianne Taube General Director Matthew Shilvock and featured {…}
San Francisco Opera has announced that Italian countertenor Carlo Vistoli has won the 2023–24 Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Emerging Stars Competition for his American stage and role debut in Händel’s “Partenope.” Vistoli was named 2024 Emerging Star of the Year based on a popular vote conducted online at sfopera.com from July 11 to August 2, 2024. As the {…}
The San Francisco Opera has announced the 2023-24 Emerging Stars Competition. The Emerging Stars Competition, made possible by Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem, is a fund for opera singers who have made their mark on the grand stage. The company added, that through the Emerging Stars Fund, Jan and Maria help bring some of opera’s most exciting rising talents {…}
San Francisco Opera has announced the election of Barbara A. Wolfe to the position of Chair of the Board. She takes over for John Gunn this August and becomes the first new person to hold the chair in 16 years; Wolfe is also just the seventh person to hold the position in the San Francisco Opera’s 101-year history. “It is {…}
(Photo: Cory Weaver) French soprano Julie Fuchs is the current toast of her operatic genre, as much as the character she portrays in the San Francisco Opera production of George Frideric Handel’s “Partenope.” Last weekend’s audience cheered, screamed, applauded, and thrilled to Fuchs’s electrifying dispatch of the daunting role—her final aria even stopped the show in its tracks! With glamorous costuming {…}
The San Francisco Opera is set to celebrate Pride month. The company will celebrate on June 26 as all ticket holders for that evening’s performance of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s “The Magic Flute” are welcome to enjoy Pride Night at the Opera which includes a pre-performance Pride exhibit hosted by the Opera’s Department of Diversity, Equity and Community and a Best Pride {…}
(Photo credit: Kristen Loken) The season finale of “The Opera in You,” San Francisco Opera’s free storytelling workshop series presented in partnership with San Francisco Public Library is set for June 15 at 3 p.m. Twelve selected participants from “The Opera in You” workshops will share their five-minute stories at this public storytelling celebration. During the event, three additional workshop {…}