Alek Shrader

San Francisco Opera Opens 102nd Season With Opera in the Park

San Francisco Opera will celebrate the opening of its 102nd season with San Francisco Chronicle Presents Opera in the Park on Sunday, September 8 at 1:30 p.m. The free concert—a beloved annual Bay Area tradition now in its 49th year—takes place at Robin Williams Meadow in Golden Gate Park.

Photos: First Look at PARTENOPE at San Francisco Opera

San Francisco Opera’s 2024 Summer Season continues with George Frideric Handel’s Partenope in director Christopher Alden’s award-winning production. Check out photos here!

PARTENOPE Comes to San Francisco Opera This June

San Francisco Opera’s 2024 Summer Season will continue June 15 with George Frideric Handel’s Partenope in director Christopher Alden’s award-winning production.

San Francisco Opera's 101st Season Continues With The 2024 Summer Season May 30-June 30

San Francisco Opera's 101st season continues May 30–June 30 at the War Memorial Opera House with the highly anticipated American premiere of Kaija Saariaho's final opera, INNOCENCE, along with Mozart's THE MAGIC FLUTE (DIE ZAUBERFLÖTE) and Handel's PARTENOPE, presented in award-winning productions.

VIDEO: San Francisco's IN SONG with Daniela Mack

In a moving journey of discovery, re-connection, and riveting music, this new episode of In Song unfolds on the streets of Buenos Aires, as mezzo-soprano Daniela Mack returns to the homeland she left at age 6.

COMPOSING THE FUTURE Is Now Streaming on The Opera Philadelphia Channel

 In Composing the Future, a documentary now streaming for free on the Opera Philadelphia Channel, the company looks back on how that reputation was earned through the company's unique Composer in Residence program, which launched in 2011 as the nation's first comprehensive training program for artists wanting to learn how to write an opera. 

Eight Resident Composers Reunite For March 18 Opera Philadelphia Concert

Over the past decade, Opera Philadelphia has garnered a reputation as one of the nation's most innovative opera companies and a proponent of new opera written by a fresh generation of American composers.

San Francisco Opera Announces 2023�"24 Season, Featuring OMAR, THE MAGIC FLUTE & More

San Francisco Opera has announced details for the Company’s 101st season, which opens September 8, 2023. See production details, how to purchase tickets and more!

Review: A Singular Sensation Returns to Philadelphia Opera with the O22 Festival

O22, as Opera Philadelphia's festival was called this year, wasn’t exactly “something old, something new” but more like big fat sandwich cookie. On one side, there was a kind of “traditional” contemporary opera, Hosokawa’s THE RAVEN , a big filling of Rossini’s OTELLO opera seria in the middle, and finished with the Little-Waldman BLACK LODGE, a rock opera that was half ear-blasting concert performed live, half film.

Single Tickets To Opera Philadelphia's Entire 2022-2023 Season Go On Sale This Tuesday, July 19

Single tickets for Opera Philadelphia's 2022–2023 Season go on sale Tuesday, July 19, when opera fans can curate their experience with a wide array of options, starting with the much-anticipated return of the company's season-opening Festival O22, which takes the stage after a two-year hiatus, expanding into new spaces and genres.

BWW Review: A Revised, Dream-Haunted HARVEY MILK at Opera Theatre Of Saint Louis

A marvelously theatrical, dream-haunted evening tells of gay-rights activist Harvey Milk’s life and death.

Opera Philadelphia 2022-2023 Season Launches In September With The Return Of Festival O

Following a two-year, pandemic-induced hiatus, the annual 12-day gathering for opera lovers returns in September with its fourth iteration, O22, featuring live opera performances at multiple venues in Philadelphia as well as a series of film screenings and a panel discussion that explores whether the industry's recent foray into cinematic production was a temporary blip or a game-changer for the art form.

Opera Philadelphia's 2022-2023 Season Launches in September with the Return of Festival O

Debuting in 2017,  Opera Philadelphia’s annual, season-opening Festival O immediately garnered audience and  critical acclaim, proving to be “a hotbed of operatic innovation” (New York Times) and  “one of the most enjoyable additions to the fall calendar in years” (Washington Post).  Following a two-year, pandemic-induced hiatus, the annual 12-day gathering for opera lovers returns in September with its fourth iteration, O22, featuring live opera performances at  multiple venues in Philadelphia as well as a series of film screenings and a panel discussion that  explores whether the industry’s recent foray into cinematic production was a temporary blip or a  game-changer for the art form. 

Caramoor Announces 2022 Summer Season

Building on its long history of presenting adventurous music from across the genre spectrum, Caramoor’s 2022 summer season celebrates music’s power to unite people, heal divisions, and inspire discovery.

Des Moines Metro Opera Names Allen Perriello as Director of Artistic Administration

Des Moines Metro Opera announced today that Allen Perriello has been named to the position of Director of Artistic Administration for the company beginning February 16. He returns to DMMO having previously worked on the Company's music staff from 2011 to 2016.

BWW Feature: Streaming Opera For The Week Of 10/22

Opera Phila streams La Traviata with Lisette Oropesa in her role debut as Violetta for $20.00. This 2015 production from director Paul Curran also stars Alek Shrader and Stephen Powell. Corrado Rovaris conducts, Gary McCann is the set and costume designer, Paul Hackenmueller is the lighting designer.

Opera In The Park Presents A Free Screening Of LA TRAVIATA

An extension of this summer's popular Arts on Center Stage series, this one-night-only “Opera in the Park” presentation will be shown on the big screen at Dilworth Park. Admission is free for guests of all ages.

San Francisco Opera Presents Free Opera Streams In August

In anticipation of San Francisco Opera's return to the War Memorial Opera House stage for the opening of its 99th season, beginning with Puccini's Tosca on August 21, the Company has added two weekly, free opera streams for the month of August: Richard Wagner's Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (August 7–8) and Gaetano Donizetti's Roberto Devereux (August 14–15).

Virtual Theatre This Week: June 7-13, 2021- with Matthew Morrison, Kelli O'Hara, Aaron Tveit and More!

This week (June 7-13) in live streaming: Matthew Morrison visits Backstage Live, the Next on Stage Season 3 finale, Show of Titles premieres, and so much more!

The Met Announces TURANDOT, SAMSON ET DALILA & More for Nightly Met Opera Streams

The Met has announced themed lineups for two weeks of its Nightly Met Opera Streams, the company’s ongoing series of encore Live in HD presentations and classic telecasts streamed on its website during the Covid-19 closure.