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Tristan und Isolde
10/19 - 11/5/2024


San Francisco Opera presents Richard Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde from October 19 to November 5, featuring conductor Eun Sun Kim and director Paul Curran in ...


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San Francisco Opera to Present Two Concerts in November


by Chloe Rabinowitz - October 29, 2024

San Francisco Opera's 102nd season will continue in November with a variety of performances and events. Along with Georges Bizet’s Carmen (November 13–December 1) and the Carmen Encounter (November 21), November brings two annual, year-end concerts. Learn how to purchase tickets....

CARMEN Comes to San Francisco Opera Next Month


by Stephi Wild - October 29, 2024

San Francisco Opera’s 2024 Fall Season will conclude with the return of Georges Bizet’s Carmen from November 13–December 1 at the War Memorial Opera House....

Photos: BEETHOVEN'S NINTH SYMPHONY at San Francisco Opera


by Blair Ingenthron - October 27, 2024

Check out photos from San Francisco Opera's October 26th performance of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, conducted by Eun Sun Kim, here!...

Photos: TRISTAN UND ISOLDE at San Francisco Opera


by Blair Ingenthron - October 20, 2024

Check out photos from San Francisco Opera's production of Wagner's Tristan und Isolde here!...

San Francisco Opera Extends Contract Through 2031 with Music Director Eun Sun Kim


by Stephi Wild - October 18, 2024

San Francisco Opera Tad and Dianne Taube General Director Matthew Shilvock has announced the contract extension of Caroline H. Hume Music Director Eun Sun Kim....

San Francisco Opera Releases New Film EUN SUN KIM: A JOURNEY INTO LOHENGRIN


by Josh Sharpe - October 14, 2024

San Francisco Opera has announced the release of Eun Sun Kim: A Journey Into Lohengrin, an hour-long film by San Francisco Opera and Lumahai Productions, the partners behind the Company’s award-winning In Song video portrait series. ...

Video: First Look at The San Francisco Opera's THE HANDMAID'S TALE


by Joshua Wright - September 25, 2024

Get a first look at San Francisco Opera's West Coast premiere of composer Poul Ruders and librettist Paul Bentley’s opera The Handmaid’s Tale, based on the bestselling novel by Margaret Atwood. Check out the video!...

San Francisco Opera Presents Wagner's TRISTAN UND ISOLDE


by A.A. Cristi - September 24, 2024

San Francisco Opera will present Richard Wagner's Tristan und Isolde (Tristan and Isolde) from October 19–November 5 under the baton of Caroline H. Hume Music Director Eun Sun Kim who leads this monumental work for the first time. ...

Photos: THE HANDMAID'S TALE at San Francisco Opera


by Blair Ingenthron - September 15, 2024

San Francisco Opera is presenting the West Coast premiere of composer Poul Ruders and librettist Paul Bentley’s opera The Handmaid’s Tale, based on the bestselling novel by Margaret Atwood. Check out production photos here!...

Photos: UN BALLO IN MASCHERA at San Francisco Opera


by Blair Ingenthron - September 08, 2024

San Francisco Opera opened its 102nd season on Friday, September 6 with Giuseppe Verdi’s Un Ballo in Maschera. Check out production photos here!...

Past Shows


San Francisco Opera honors former General Director David Gockley with the unveiling of a bas-relief in the War Memorial Opera House on August 20, 2024. ...

Partenope
8/8


Carlo Vistoli makes his American stage debut as Arsace in Handel's Partenope, showcased in San Francisco Opera's revival of Christopher Alden's acclaimed production. Vistoli's performance, ...

FALSTAFF
2/27 - 2/28/2021


Welsh bass-baritone Bryn Terfel, "one of the great Falstaffs of this or any age" (San Francisco Classical Voice) owns Giuseppe Verdi's title role in a ...

LA RONDINE
2/20 - 2/21/2021


Set in Paris during the 1920s, this sumptuous, Art Deco-inspired production of Giacomo Puccini's La Rondine stars the "radiant" (Contra Costa Times) Romanian soprano Angela ...

COSÌ FAN TUTTE
2/13 - 2/14/2021


San Francisco Opera's 2013 presentation of Mozart's Così fan tutte features staging by Jose Maria Condemi of John Cox's concept which reimagines the comedic opera ...

LOHENGRIN
2/6 - 2/7/2021


In a co-production with Houston Grand Opera and Grand Théâtre de Genève, Richard Wagner's Lohengrin arrives at the War Memorial Opera House in David Slater's ...

LA TRAVIATA
1/30 - 1/31/2021


Friday, JANUARY 29 at 1 pm PST: Tenor Stephen Costello and soprano Nicole Cabell in dialogue with La Traviata assistant stage director Shawna Lucey Free ...

La Boheme
12/12 - 12/13/2020


From DECEMBER 12-13, San Francisco Opera streams one of the most popular works in the operatic repertoire, Giacomo Puccini's La Bohème. The 2014 production, conducted ...


The 90-minute program features newly recorded performances by some of opera's greatest singers and instrumentalists along with conversations about pivotal works slated for future San ...


The 90-minute program features newly recorded performances by some of opera's greatest singers and instrumentalists along with conversations about pivotal works slated for future San ...


Bowing for the first time on the War Memorial Opera House stage, Italian tenor Francesco Demuro is the rakish Duke of Mantua, who pretends to ...

Rigoletto
11/21 - 11/22/2020


Directed by Harry Silverstein, San Francisco Opera's 2012 production of Giuseppe Verdi's suspenseful tragedy Rigoletto showcases the creative collaboration of set designer Michael Yeargan, whose ...

Boris Godunov
11/14 - 11/15/2020


Originally a production from Grand Théâtre de Genève, San Francisco Opera's 2008 presentation of Modest Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov is the Company's first staging of the ...


Full of vocal lyricism, San Francisco Opera's 2014 production of Giuseppe Verdi's Un Ballo in Maschera (A Masked Ball) features the "spectacular" (San Francisco Chronicle) ...


San Francisco Opera's 2008 presentation of Gaetano Donizetti's 1835 Bel Canto masterpiece Lucia di Lammermoor includes the Company debut of French soprano Natalie Dessay, a ...

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