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Review: DOS MUJERES at San Francisco Ballet

April 07, 2024

What did our critic think of DOS MUJERES at San Francisco Ballet? BroadwayWorld reviews this pairing of two very different ballets by Latina choreographers running through April 14th at the War Memorial Opera House.

DOS MUJERES Double Bill Comes to San Francisco Ballet Next Month

March 06, 2024

San Francisco Ballet has announced casting and creative details for Dos Mujeres, the company’s first-ever double bill of works by Latina choreographers.

San Francisco Opera Announces 2024–25 Season Including CARMEN, LA BOHÈME and More

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 LGBTQIA+ community.

Photos: First Look at THE ELIXIR OF LOVE at San Francisco Opera

November 19, 2023

The final production of San Francisco Opera’s 2023 Fall Season marks the return Gaetano Donizetti’s The Elixir of Love (L’Elisir d’Amore) for a six-performance run at the War Memorial Opera House opening tonight, November 19. Check out production photos here!

San Francisco Opera Center Announces The 2024 Adler Fellows

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.

San Francisco Ballet Reveals Lineup For the First Season Under The Direction Of Tamara Rojo

April 21, 2023

San Francisco Ballet (SF Ballet) has announced its 2024 season filled with premieres, company firsts, and works rarely seen in the United States. Learn more about the full lineup here!

Premieres, Rare Works & More Set for San Francisco Ballet 2023-24 Season

April 20, 2023

San Francisco Ballet has announced its 2024 season filled with premieres, company firsts, and works rarely seen in the United States.

San Francisco Opera Center and Merola Opera Program Announce 2023 Schwabacher Recital Series

February 03, 2023

Now in its 39th year, the Schwabacher Recital Series, presented by San Francisco Opera Center and the Merola Opera Program, returns this spring with a series of four recitals (March 1, March 22, April 12 and May 18) at San Francisco's Dianne and Tad Taube Atrium Theater and San Francisco Conservatory of Music's Barbro Osher Recital Hall.

San Francisco Opera Medals Awarded To Catherine Cook, Philip Skinner, and Dale Travis

November 01, 2022

An onstage award presentation immediately following the October 30 matinee performance of Poulenc's Dialogues of the Carmelites honored three cherished artists whose careers with San Francisco Opera each span over three decades. Mezzo-soprano Catherine Cook, who was Mother Jeanne in the afternoon's performance, and bass-baritone Dale Travis, who portrayed Marquis de la Force, were joined onstage by bass-baritone Philip Skinner to each receive the San Francisco Opera Medal.

Merola Opera Program's Summer Festival to Conclude With Merola Grand Finale in August

July 19, 2022

Merola Opera Program’s Summer Festival ends on a high note with the Merola Grand Finale, a concert featuring the 31 young artists of the 2022 program performing some of opera’s most thrilling arias and ensembles.

Cast Change Announced for ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA at San Francisco Opera

May 20, 2022

San Francisco Opera today announced a cast change for the world premiere of John Adams’ Antony and Cleopatra, opening on September 10, 2022 as the first operatic presentation of the Company’s 2022–23 Centennial Season.

San Francisco Opera's New Production Of DON GIOVANNI Opens 2022 Summer Season, June 4

May 06, 2022

San Francisco Opera opens its 2022 Summer Season with Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Don Giovanni from June 4–July 2 at the War Memorial Opera House. Director Michael Cavanagh's new production is the third and final chapter of San Francisco Opera's multi-year Mozart-Da Ponte Trilogy, presenting all three operatic collaborations by Mozart and poet Lorenzo Da Ponte within the same American house setting at different points over a 300-year span.

San Francisco Opera Presents New Production Of Mozart's COSI FAN TUTTE Next Month

October 28, 2021

Director Michael Cavanagh's new production, part two of the Company's Mozart-Da Ponte Trilogy, sets the opera's amorous deceptions and confusions in a 1930s American country club.

San Francisco Opera Announces 2021–22 Season Including Repertory, Casting and Reopening Plans for 99th Season

June 22, 2021

San Francisco Opera announced today repertory, casting and reopening plans for its 99th season. Commencing with a performance of Giacomo Puccini’s Tosca on Saturday, August 21, the 2021–22 Season marks the inauguration of Eun Sun Kim’s tenure as Caroline H. Hume Music Director and a reemergence of opera at the War Memorial Opera House.