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Merola Opera Program Unveils All Female-Directed 2024 Season by Chloe Rabinowitz - March 26, 2024

San Francisco’s Merola Opera Program has unveiled its 2024 season. See full programming and learn how to purchase tickets....

Opera San José Unveils 24-25 Season Featuring a Local Premiere & More by Chloe Rabinowitz - March 13, 2024

Opera San José has revealed the programming for the company’s 41st season. See the productions and learn how to purchase tickets....

San Francisco Opera Partners With San Francisco Public Library On Storytelling Workshops by A.A. Cristi - March 08, 2024

Join the San Francisco Opera and San Francisco Public Library for 'The Opera in You' Storytelling Workshops running from March to May. ...

San Francisco Opera Announces 2024–25 Season Including CARMEN, LA BOHÈME and More by A.A. Cristi - February 20, 2024

The 2024–25 Season includes six mainstage opera productions along with concert presentations including a one-night-only performance of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony on October 26, honoring the work's 200th anniversary and, in the summer of 2025, a special Pride Concert celebrating San Francisco's LGBTQ...

Opera San José Appoints Tech Leader Nilab Hessabi to Board of Trustees by Chloe Rabinowitz - February 20, 2024

Tech leader Nilab Hessabi has joined the Board of Trustees of Opera San José. Learn more about Hessabi!...

Opera Parallèle Secures Three Major Grants, Announces Update To Senior Administration Staff And More by A.A. Cristi - January 31, 2024

Opera Parallèle, the nationally renowned contemporary opera company based in San Francisco, has announced a series of significant achievements during its 14th anniversary season. The company has been awarded three prestigious grants, reaffirming its commitment to artistic innovation and community en...

Photos: First Look At Verid's RIGOLETTO At Opera San José by A.A. Cristi - January 30, 2024

Opera San José’s 40th anniversary season continues with a thrilling production of Verdi’s Rigoletto. See photos from the production....

San Francisco Opera's 101st Season Continues With The 2024 Summer Season May 30-June 30 by A.A. Cristi - January 25, 2024

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....

Opera San José to Receive $22,000 Grant From National Endowment for the Arts by Chloe Rabinowitz - January 24, 2024

Opera San José has been approved by the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) for a Grants for Arts Projects award of $22,000....

Vengeance, Murder, More On Stage As Opera San José Presents RIGOLETTO, February 17- March 3 by A.A. Cristi - January 12, 2024

Opera San José's 40th anniversary season continues with a thrilling production of Verdi's Rigoletto. Boasting some of opera's most memorable music, including the signature aria “La donna è mobile,” this gripping work follows the jester Rigoletto, his innocent daughter Gilda, and the corrupt Duke of ...

Opera San José to Present Bay Area Premiere of FLORENCIA EN EL AMAZONAS in Spring 2024 by Chloe Rabinowitz - January 05, 2024

Opera San José will conclude its 40th Anniversary season with the Bay Area premiere of Florencia en el Amazonas....

San Francisco Opera Presents Gordon Getty With The Spirit Of The Opera Award by A.A. Cristi - December 20, 2023

At the conclusion of San Francisco Opera's December 9 fall season final performance of The Elixir of Love, the Company honored composer and philanthropist Gordon Getty in an onstage ceremony. ...

Photos: Opera San José Continues Its 40th Anniversary Season with THE BARBER OF SEVILLE by A.A. Cristi - November 09, 2023

Opera San José will continue its 40th anniversary season with an upbeat comedy for operagoers of all ages with Gioachino Rossini’s The Barber of Seville, in a new production by internationally acclaimed director Stephen Lawless, making his Opera San José debut. See photos from the production. ...

Photos: First Look At THE BARBER OF SEVILLE At Opera San José by A.A. Cristi - October 25, 2023

Opera San José will continue its 40th anniversary season with an upbeat comedy for operagoers of all ages with Gioachino Rossini’s The Barber of Seville, in a new production by internationally acclaimed director Stephen Lawless, making his Opera San José debut. See photos from the production below. ...

Opera Parallele Presents World Premiere of THE EMISSARY October 27-28 At ODC Theater by A.A. Cristi - October 09, 2023

For its seventh iteration of the company's “Hands-On-Opera” initiative, Opera Parallèle has commissioned multi-faceted Japanese composer Kenji Oh* for his very first opera along with prolific librettist Kelley Rourke* to create an adaptation of The Emissary, a new family opera based on the award-win...

Opera San José to Present New Production of THE BARBER OF SEVILLE in November by Chloe Rabinowitz - October 06, 2023

Opera San José will present a rollicking new production of Gioachino Rossini's comedy 'The Barber of Seville.' Join Figaro, Count Almaviva, and Rosina in this entertaining opera filled with matchmaking, mistaken identities, and love at first sight. Get your tickets now!...

San Francisco Opera Center Announces The 2024 Adler Fellows by A.A. Cristi - October 04, 2023

San Francisco Opera Center Artistic Director Carrie-Ann Matheson and General Manager Markus Beam announced today the 11 recipients of the 2024 San Francisco Opera Adler Fellowship. ...

Photos: First Look at THE (R)EVOLUTION OF STEVE JOBS at San Francisco Opera by Blair Ingenthron - September 24, 2023

San Francisco Opera’s 101st season continues with the highly anticipated Bay Area premiere of The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs. Check out production photos here!...

American Modern Opera Company Announces The US Tour Of EL NIÑO: NATIVITY RECONSIDERED By John Adams by A.A. Cristi - September 06, 2023

American Modern Opera Company (AMOC*) celebrates Latin American poets and the voices of women with its production of John Adams' El Niño: Nativity Reconsidered, a chamber-music arrangement that will tour around the United States before returning for its second annual presentation by The Cathedral of...

San Francisco Opera Reveals Georgi Kelly as Chief Philanthropy Officer by Stephi Wild - August 29, 2023

Matthew Shilvock, Tad and Dianne Taube General Director of San Francisco Opera, have announced the appointment of Georgi Kelly as Chief Philanthropy Officer....

Soprano Yaritza Véliz Wins The 2023 Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Emerging Stars Competition by Blair Ingenthron - August 12, 2023

Yaritza Véliz is named 2023 Emerging Star of the Year based on a popular vote conducted online at sfopera.com from July 11 to August 4, 2023. As the winner of the competition, now in its fifth year, Véliz receives a $10,000 cash prize....

Opera San José Launches Season With All-New ROMEO & JULIET by Blair Ingenthron - August 05, 2023

Opera San José will launch its 40th anniversary season with an all-new production of Charles Gounod's Romeo and Juliet, directed by OSJ General Director/CEO Shawna Lucey, in her first production since taking the helm of the company. Romeo and Juliet follows on the heels of Lucey's critically acclaim...

Opera San José to Present Family-Friendly BARBER OF SEVILLE in November by Blair Ingenthron - July 29, 2023

Rossini's rollicking The Barber of Seville will return to Opera San José this fall, offering an upbeat comedy for operagoers of all ages. Subtitled “The Useless Precaution,” this opera buffa introduces the rapscallion barber Figaro, who uses all his wiles to assist the love-struck Count Almaviva in ...

VIDEO: San Francisco's IN SONG with Daniela Mack by Alan Henry - July 26, 2023

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....

Opera San José Unveils 2023-24 Resident Company, To Be Featured In Virtual Showcase On August 13 by A.A. Cristi - July 19, 2023

General Director Shawna Lucey has announced Opera San José’s 2023-24 Artists-in-Residence, a cohort of brilliant opera talent who will star in this season’s four California Theatre mainstage productions. They will be introduced to audiences in a free live-streamed concert at 4:00pm, Sunday, August 1...

Merola Opera Program to Present Schwabacher Summer Concert in August by Chloe Rabinowitz - June 29, 2023

Bay Area audiences are invited to revel in the high drama and opulent melodies of classic opera as artists from the 2023 Merola Opera Program perform extended scenes from works by Donizetti, Handel, Verdi, and others in the Schwabacher Summer Concert....




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