The latest news on performances of Opera in San Francisco / Bay Area.
by A.A. Cristi - January 21, 2022
Opera San José will close its 2021–2022 season with West Side Story, Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim's classic American tale of two star-crossed lovers and the prejudices that keep them apart. ...
by Chloe Rabinowitz - January 19, 2022
As only the third American opera company in history to reach this centennial milestone, the Company’s 2022–23 Season will honor San Francisco Opera’s glorious past while inviting the public into an exciting new era of musical excellence under Kim’s music directorship and a renewed commitment...
by Nicole Rosky - December 19, 2021
Opera Parallèle today announced details for the company’s upcoming Benefit Celebration Over the Rainbow, scheduled for Wednesday, February 2, 2022 at Saint Joseph’s Arts Society, 1401 Howard Street. Special to the evening will be the San Francisco debut performance of critically acclaimed oper...
by A.A. Cristi - December 09, 2021
San Francisco Opera Center will showcase the talents of the 2021 class of Adler Fellows in The Future Is Now: Adler Fellows Concert on Friday, December 10. ...
by A.A. Cristi - November 10, 2021
The San Francisco Opera Chorus will command the spotlight in the intimate Dianne and Tad Taube Atrium Theater for San Francisco Opera Chorus In Concert: Celebrating Ian Robertson on Saturday, December 11 at 7:30 pm and Sunday, December 12 at 2 pm. ...
by A.A. Cristi - October 29, 2021
San Francisco Opera's Department of Diversity, Equity and Community has announced new Opera Aficionado online discussions in November on the topic of composers who, perhaps to the surprise of music fans, did not compose an opera. ...
by A.A. Cristi - October 26, 2021
Matthew Shilvock, Tad and Dianne Taube General Director of San Francisco Opera, today announced the appointment of Lisa Bury as Chief Philanthropy Officer, following a national search led by Anne Johnson at the Aspen Leadership Group. Bury joins San Francisco Opera from The Dallas Opera, where she c...
by Chloe Rabinowitz - October 20, 2021
San Francisco's acclaimed Merola Opera Program is bringing back the Virtual Recital Series this Fall with An Autumn Afternoon with Raehann Bryce-Davis featuring mezzo-soprano Raehann Bryce-Davis, a 2015 alumna of Merola Opera Program, with pianist Jeanne-Minette Cilliers....
by A.A. Cristi - October 05, 2021
Virtual tickets for San Francisco Opera's livestreams of its new production of Ludwig van Beethoven's Fidelio—a brand-new online offering by the Company—go on sale today, October 5 at 1pm PT....
by Jim Munson - September 23, 2021
It would appear that acclaimed baritone Sidney Outlaw is having the busiest year of his career. In addition to starring as composer Antonio Salieri in Opera San José’s new virtual production of Rimsky-Korsakov’s 'Mozart and Salieri,' Outlaw will be performing 'Barber of Seville,' 'Porgy and Bes...
by A.A. Cristi - September 22, 2021
Opera San José will make its much-anticipated return to the historic California Theatre with Purcell's baroque masterpiece, Dido and Aeneas....
by A.A. Cristi - September 03, 2021
San Francisco Opera presents a one-night-only celebration, Live and In Concert: The Homecoming, on Friday, September 10 at 7 pm. Caroline H. Hume Music Director Eun Sun Kim, now in her first season as leader of San Francisco Opera's artistic forces, leads the San Francisco Opera Orchestra and solois...
by A.A. Cristi - August 26, 2021
After more than a year of offering virtual performances during the pandemic, California Symphony returns to live concerts next month, launching its 2021-22 season with Emperor, a program that presents music of comfort to Bay Area audiences....
by Stephi Wild - August 12, 2021
Adding to today's exciting administrative news, the company wishes to belatedly announce the decision by Opera Parallèle's Board of Directors in late 2020, to expand company founder, conductor and Artistic Director Nicole Paiement's position to include General Director....
by A.A. Cristi - July 21, 2021
San Francisco Opera's Tad and Dianne Taube General Director Matthew Shilvock announced today that Chorus Director Ian Robertson will retire at the close of 2021, capping a distinguished career with the Company. Robertson joined as Chorus Director in 1987 and throughout the ensuing 35 seasons establi...
by A.A. Cristi - July 20, 2021
Based on an abundance of caution the acclaimed Merola Opera Program has announced a programming update for its Merola Grand Finale, to be presented live July 31 atthe Golden Gate Park Bandshell. ...
by A.A. Cristi - July 20, 2021
Opera San José launches the season in a reimagined format, bringing Rimsky-Korsakov's rarely-seen opera, Mozart and Salieri, virtually to opera lovers throughout the Bay Area and beyond. Vienna's leading composer is seething over the upstart Mozart – a brash newcomer whose genius is undeniable....
by A.A. Cristi - July 19, 2021
In anticipation of San Francisco Opera's return to the War Memorial Opera House stage for the opening of its 99th season, beginning with Puccini's Tosca on August 21, the Company has added two weekly, free opera streams for the month of August: Richard Wagner's Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (Augus...
by A.A. Cristi - July 09, 2021
The public will have the opportunity to enjoy live performances by the opera stars of tomorrow in a free outdoor performance, when the acclaimed Merola Opera Program presents its 2021 Summer Festival Merola Grand Finale at the Golden Gate Park Bandshell. ...
by A.A. Cristi - June 30, 2021
San Francisco Opera's Department of Diversity, Equity and Community announced new Opera Aficionado virtual conversations in July centered on Opera in Latin America....
by A.A. Cristi - June 17, 2021
San Francisco Opera's weekly, free opera streams continue in July with Janáček's intense family drama Jenůfa (July 10–11), Berlioz's massive epic Les Troyens (The Trojans) (July 17–18), Strauss' emotional thriller Elektra (July 24–25) and Verdi's Tyrolean tragedy Luisa Miller (July 31–Aug...
by A.A. Cristi - June 15, 2021
Oakland University's School of Music, Theatre and Dance will present Patience — a comic opera in two acts with music and libretto by Gilbert and Sullivan — from June 24-27 on the Varner Hall Courtyard Outdoor Stage as part of the “OU Outside the Box” performing arts festival....
by A.A. Cristi - June 04, 2021
Experience opera in PianoFight's virtual 8-bit world with San Francisco Opera's BRAVO! Club on Thursday, June 10 at 6 pm. Customize your avatar and step into the digital event space of PianoFight, the community-driven, live and local indie arts venue that has transformed into an online venue during ...
by A.A. Cristi - May 28, 2021
Festival Napa Valley announces the launch of the Manetti Shrem Opera Program, a major new initiative designed to nurture the creative careers of gifted singers. ...
by A.A. Cristi - May 27, 2021
San Francisco Opera's new short-form song and storytelling video portrait series, In Song, continues with the premiere of In Song: Pene Pati....
by A.A. Cristi - May 24, 2021
Due to popular demand, Opera San José has announced the extension of its critically acclaimed digital offering, Love & Secrets: A Domestic Trilogy, tales of passion and yearning in which three couples contend with the tumult, joy, and heartache of love. ...
by Chloe Rabinowitz - May 05, 2021
The San Francisco Opera and San Francisco Symphony have returned to live, in-person performances, presenting drive-in shows as well as indoor concerts. The indoor concerts will be presented with with modifications including intermissionless shows and social distancing. ...
by A.A. Cristi - May 04, 2021
The Merola Opera Program, one of the most prestigious and selective opera training programs in the world, has announced its 2021 season, presenting performances by the rising opera stars of tomorrow....
by A.A. Cristi - April 29, 2021
San Francisco Opera presents The Adlers: Live at the Drive-In on the outdoor stage at the Marin Center on April 29, May 6 and May 13. ...
by A.A. Cristi - April 27, 2021
San Francisco Opera presents The Adlers: Live at the Drive-In on the outdoor stage at the Marin Center on April 29, May 6 and May 13. ...
by A.A. Cristi - April 23, 2021
Opening on April 23, the eleven performances running through May 15 are the Company’s first live performances in 16 months since the onset of the global pandemic, which caused the cancellation of the Company’s Summer and Fall 2020 seasons....
by A.A. Cristi - April 21, 2021
San Francisco Opera Guild will present a complimentary virtual livestream event Life. Changing. An Evening with Frederica von Stade & Jake Heggie on Wednesday, April 28 at 6 pm Pacific. ...
by A.A. Cristi - April 20, 2021
Opera San José is offering Spanish and Vietnamese subtitles (in addition to English) for its latest virtual production, Love & Secrets: A Domestic Trilogy, welcoming two of San Jose's largest communities to experience this local art....
by A.A. Cristi - April 19, 2021
San Francisco Opera stages its first live opera performances with a new, specially adapted production of Gioachino Rossini's The Barber of Seville offered in a drive-in setting on the bucolic grounds of San Rafael's Marin Center....
by Jim Munson - April 09, 2021
You may not be aware of World Voice Day, but it’s celebrated every April 16th to demonstrate the enormous importance of the voice in the daily lives of all people. I can’t imagine a better person to observe it with than Candace Johnson, who leads CJ’s FitnesSing!™ on the MarshStream platform...
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