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Category: San Francisco Opera

  • SF Opera Audited Financial Results 2012-2013

    San Francisco Opera’s 90th season started on September 7, 2012 and finished on July 7, 2013. Eight operas were held at the War Memorial Opera House in 67 performances. The Company concluded Fiscal Year 2012-13 (FY 13) with a deficit of $811,915 on an operating budget of $68,707,049. Total operating revenue for FY 13 grew…

  • Michael Todd Simpson Replaces Nathan Gunn

    Baritone Michael Todd Simpson (pictured left) will replace Nathan Gunn as Gaylord Ravenal in Show Boat at San Francisco Opera. Gunn has withdrawn from the the production. Other casting updates include Bill Irwin as Cap'n Andy Hawks and Harriet Harris as Parthy Ann Hawks. Production Web Site | San Francisco Opera Press Release

  • SF Opera’s 2014-2015 Season

    September 5-30 2014: NormaSeptember 6-21 2014: SusannahOctober 4-22 2014: Un Ballo in MascheraOctober 15- November 2 2014: PartenopeOctober 23- November 8 2014: ToscaNovember 9-26 2014: CenerentolaNovember 14- December 7 2014: La BohèmeJune 7- July 1 2015: Les TroyensJune 13-30 2015: La CiociaraJune 14- July 5 2015: Le Nozze di Figaro David Gockley announced San Francisco…

  • SF Opera’s Barbiere (Shrader, Muraro, Iversen, Mack)

    * Notes * San Francisco Opera gave a second performance of Il barbiere di Siviglia (Finale of Act II pictured left, photograph by Cory Weaver) this season with four different principal singers yesterday night. Emilio Sagi’s direction is funny but has som much going on at all times. There is an incredible amount of choreography and…

  • SF Opera’s Barbiere (Camarena, Corbelli, Meachem, Leonard)

    * Notes *  Last night a co-production of Il barbiere di Siviglia (Act II pictured left, photograph by Cory Weaver) with Lithuanian National Opera opened at San Francisco Opera. Llorenc Corbella's set includes few walls on a raised platform meant to look like either the outside of Bartolo's house, or an interior courtyard, or the…

  • Luisotti Conducts Verdi’s Requiem

    * Notes * Last night Nicola Luisotti conducted Verdi's Messa da Requiem at the War Memorial Opera House with the combined orchestras and choruses of Real Teatro di San Carlo and San Francisco Opera. The volume was occasionally deafening, especially the repeated part when the chorus sings "Dies irae" and the trumpets play. The piece felt…

  • SF Opera’s Holländer Media Round-Up

    Production Web Site | SF Opera’s Blog Reviewers agree that the chorus is strong in San Francisco Opera’s Der fliegende Holländer (Act II pictured left, photograph by Cory Weaver). Performance Reviews: San Francisco Chronicle | San Francisco Classical Voice | San Jose Mercury News

  • SF Opera’s Der Fliegende Holländer

    * Notes * A co-production of Der fliegende Holländer (Greer Grimsley as the Dutchman and Lise Lindstrom as Senta pictured left, photograph by Cory Weaver) with Opéra Royal de Wallonie opened yesterday at San Francisco Opera. Petrika Ionesco designed the set and was to have directed as well, but it seems that he was asked to…

  • Lisette Oropesa Replaces Heidi Stober

    Soprano Lisette Oropesa (pictured left, photograph by Matthew Murphy) will replace Heidi Stober as Nannetta in Falstaff on October 15, 2013. Stober is ill but expects to recover by the October 20 performance. Production Web Site | San Francisco Opera Press Releases

  • SF Opera’s Falstaff Media Round-Up

    Production Web Site | SF Opera's Blog So far, the reviews of San Francisco Opera's Falstaff (Act II pictured left photograph by Cory Weaver) are positive. Performance Reviews: San Francisco Chronicle | San Francisco Classical Voice | San Francisco Examiner | San Jose Mercury News