SF Opera Announces 100th Anniversary Season

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Published: 1/19/2022

SAN FRANCISCO OPERA 2022–23 CENTENNIAL SEASON HONORS

THE COMPANY’S FIRST 100 YEARS WHILE ENVISIONING A BOLD FUTURE

September 9–11 Opening Weekend Features Gala Concert and Opera Ball,

World Premiere of Antony and Cleopatra by John Adams and Free Opera in the Park,

All Conducted by Music Director Eun Sun Kim

Eight Mainstage Productions Include:

  • World Premiere of Antony and Cleopatra, John Adams’ New Opera Based on Shakespeare and Classical Sources, Directed by Elkhanah Pulitzer

  • Premiere of Co-Commissioned El último sueño de Frida y Diego by Bay Area Composer Gabriela Lena Frank and Pulitzer Prize-Winning Playwright Nilo Cruz

  • New San Francisco Opera Productions of Verdi’s La Traviata and Gluck’s Orpheus and Eurydice

  • New Co-Production of Puccini’s Madame Butterfly with Tokyo, Dresden, Copenhagen

  • Twentieth-Century Masterpieces Poulenc’s Dialogues of the Carmelites and Strauss’ Die Frau ohne Schatten Return to the Stage Where They Had Their U.S. Premieres

  • Bay Area Premiere of Celebrated Staging of Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin Marks the Return of Russian Repertoire After 14 years

Centennial Celebrations Include 100th Anniversary Concert, Bohème Out of the Box,

The Traviata Encounter, Open House, Historic Recordings Project, Community Stories

and Exhibitions