Joshua Hopkins as Harry Bailey, Rod Gilfry as Mr. Potter, Andriana Chuchman as Mary Hatch, William Burden as George Bailey, Golda Schultz as Clara, Keith Jameson as Uncle Billy Bailey, Catherine Cook as Mother Bailey, (front) Joshua Partlow, Violet Pasmoo Photo

From: Photo Flash: First Look at San Francisco Opera's IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE

San Francisco Opera presents the West Coast premiere of It's a Wonderful Life by composer Jake Heggie and librettist Gene Scheer in nine holiday-season performances from November 17 through December 9. The two-act work, a co-commission and co-production between San Francisco Opera, Houston Grand Opera and the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, is based in part on Frank Capra's 1946 film It's a Wonderful Life and The Greatest Gift, a story by Philip Van Doren Stern.