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✨ Dead Man Walking at 25. In 2000, San Francisco Opera premiered Jake Heggie and Terrence McNally’s Dead Man Walking—an opera that went on to become the most-performed American opera of our time.
🎶 Coming soon to Streaming the First Century.
🔗 Get your tickets https://bit.ly/3QzDAFq
🎼 Join an evening of truth, faith, and music with Sister Helen Prejean hosting a powerful program exploring the death penalty through the voices of faith leaders, exonerees, legal experts, and artists.
✨ Free admission, RSVP required. https://bit.ly/3Jw2FRv
For 50 years, Opera in the Park has filled Golden Gate Park with music, joy, and community. Our new blog celebrates this beloved tradition and the love stories at its heart—like Bob Meyer and Dianne Boate, whose 40+ years together are forever part of the ritual. Read more at bit.ly/3HDD2Ob
🃏 Rigoletto lives by scandal. As jester to a womanizing duke, his biting wit makes enemies, but his heart belongs to his daughter Gilda. When a curse falls on him, his world unravels in ways he could never imagine.
🔗 Get your tickets https://bit.ly/4mnAYZa 📷 @staufferstudio #verdi
✨ This September, join Sister Helen Prejean & composer Jake Heggie for public events around Dead Man Walking. Explore themes of justice, redemption & the death penalty, plus an art installation by incarcerated artists at the Opera House.
Follow the link for details https://bit.ly/419l38U
🧺50 years of Opera in the Park calls for the ultimate picnic! 🍇Bring your boldest, most over-the-top spread for our picnic contest. Celebrity judges will be scouting, prizes await. Claim your grassy spot, go big, go bold! 🧺 Info: https://bit.ly/419l38U
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Chinatown’s Hungry Ghost Festival returns with parades and performances of remembrance. SF Opera will be there with the Chinese Culture Center, sharing the world premiere of The Monkey King. Stop by our table, face the demons, and meet the trickster here.
https://bit.ly/4ozQza6 📸 1.Washburn
🏅 The Finalists Are Here: You nominated your favorite performers, performances, venues, and festivals from the 2024–2025 season— and the response was remarkable.
🔗 Check out the finalists at the link and cast your votes in the final round SFCV’s 2025 Audience Choice Awards: bit.ly/41bx8uc
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“If Ricard Wagner knew what an electric guitar was he would have played metal.”
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👑 A baritone built for Verdi. Amartuvshin Enkhbat returns to San Francisco Opera to sing the title role in Rigoletto under the baton of Eun Sun Kim.
🎼 Listen to Enkhbat's breathtaking performance of “Eri tu” in Verdi’s Un Ballo in Maschera (2024).
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