San Francisco Opera’s 2023 Summer Season opens June 3 with Giacomo Puccini’s Madame Butterfly (Madama Butterfly) at the War Memorial Opera House. Caroline H. Hume … Read more
San Francisco Opera presents Richard Strauss and Hugo von Hofmannsthal’s fairy-tale opera Die Frau ohne Schatten (The Woman Without a Shadow) from June 4–28 at the War … Read more
Approximately a dozen selected storytellers, all of whom participated in at least one of the three 5-week sessions of the The Opera in You series, will read … Read more
San Francisco Opera is taking opera out of the Opera House and to outdoor locations throughout the Bay Area each weekend from Friday, March 10 … Read more
All of San Francisco Opera’s artistic forces will be on display December 1–4, the final week of the 2022 Fall Season. Along with closing performances … Read more
Ferry riders seeking a cultural diversion on their sojourns across the Bay will now be able to explore a new offering by the San Francisco … Read more
Not all ferry rides can be routine. Just ask the “Queen of the Nile” about her final fateful journey. San Francisco Opera presents the world … Read more
San Francisco Opera celebrates its first 100 years with a blockbuster 2022–23 opera season and an array of opportunities for deep engagement with the Company’s … Read more
As we have noted elsewhere in Cultural Currents, Mezzo-soprano Sasha Cooke has earned acclaim for a wide variety of roles with San Francisco Opera, and … Read more
Last seen on the War Memorial Opera House stage nearly two decades ago, the popular fairy-tale opera returns in an “enchanting” (The Times, UK) new … Read more