San Francisco Opera Tad and Dianne Taube General Director Matthew Shilvock and Caroline H. Hume Music Director Eun Sun Kim recently announced repertory and casting for the Company’s 104th season.
This will open September 12 with Giuseppe Verdi’s Simon Boccanegra under Kim’s baton.
Highlights of the season include a new co-production with English National Opera of Thea Musgrave’s Mary, Queen of Scots and Richard Wagner’s Das Rheingold, the prologue of his four-opera epic, The Ring of the Nibelung. Works by Jules Massenet, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Giacomo Puccini return to the stage along with a variety of concerts.
Opening weekend begins with the annual Opera Ball benefit, co-presented with San Francisco Opera Guild, at City Hall and the War Memorial Opera House on Saturday, September 12, featuring Verdi’s political drama Simon Boccanegra (September 12–27). Eun Sun Kim leads a new-to-SanFrancisco-Opera production by Claus Guth, one of opera’s foremost directors. The following day, Kim, the San Francisco Opera Orchestra and vocal soloists from the fall season head to Robin Williams Meadow in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park for the free, annual Opera in the Park concert (Sunday, September 13).