The Black Feminist Guide to the Human Body is a National Performance Network (NPN) Creation & Development Fund Project co-commissioned by SEW Productions Inc, Lorraine Hansberry Theatre.  VORTEX Repertory Company, FUSEBOX AUSTIN, Pyramid Theatre Company, and NPN. The Creation & Development Fund is supported by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts (a federal agency).

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Black Feminist Guide to the Human Body

Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture

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Richard II

Based on the smash hit movie, Legally Blonde: The Musical follows the transformation of Elle Woods from a pink-loving SoCal sorority girl to a Harvard law student, all on her own terms. In this new production of the fabulously fun, award-winning Broadway musical, our blonde heroine tackles all obstacles, and educates us all on staying true to our dreams through rousing songs and dynamic show-stopping dance numbers. This feel-good musical comedy will be the most fashionable ticket in town and is so much fun, it should be illegal!

Legally Blonde: The Musical

Victoria Theatre

PC Morning Recital

San Francisco Conservatory of Music

Podcast link: https://youtu.be/4hagYvrYbuM

The Artelize Podcast and Kasper Holten - Pedefining Opera for the modern world

Podcast link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d36M5Hi6O80

The Artelize Podcast - A legacy of innovation in Opera: Celebrating Marc A. Scorca

Podcast link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59E40S_EQSY

The Artelize Podcast: A love letter that was never sent

Podcast link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THv6htilWtI

The Artelize Podcast and Adolfo Corrado: Mediterranean flavors, opera and social media

King Gustav III secretly harbors a love for Amelia, the wife of his closest advisor and friend. When a visit to a fortune teller confirms that his love is reciprocated and reveals a plot against his life, the seeds of his undoing take root.

Lavish costumes adorn masked courtiers as they gossip through the political machinations of eighteenth-century Sweden. Leo Muscato’s direction makes this new-to-San Francisco Opera production a must-see return to Verdi’s thrilling drama.

Un Ballo in Maschera

War Memorial Opera House

In a dystopian future, women are forced into childbearing servitude by an extremist theocratic regime. Escape is nearly impossible—but Offred, a handmaid, is determined to find a way back to her child, no matter the cost.

Based on the landmark novel by Margaret Atwood, this intense operatic drama gives voice to a terrifying, fictional world that is becoming increasingly prescient.

The Handmaid's Tale

It’s time to start planning your picnic menu because Opera in the Park is back!

Music Director Eun Sun Kim leads the San Francisco Opera Orchestra in an afternoon of arias and ensembles, performed by stars from San Francisco Opera’s 2024–25 Season.

Free and open to all! Don’t miss this time-honored Bay Area tradition.

Opera in the Park 2024

Robin Williams Meadow, Golden Gate Park

Mike Birbiglia is a comedian, writer, director, and actor who has performed his award-winning solo shows worldwide—from the Sydney Opera House to the West End of London to Broadway. His five solo shows Sleepwalk With Me, My Girlfriend’s Boyfriend, Thank God For Jokes, The New One, and The Old Man & The Pool enjoyed successful runs on and off Broadway and became hit Netflix comedy specials. The shows merge storytelling and comedy in a way that The New York Times has called “Birbiglian.” Birbiglia also wrote, directed, and starred in the films Sleepwalk with Me and Don’t Think Twice. As an actor, Birbiglia has appeared in the films Trainwreck, The Fault in Our Stars, Popstar, A Man Called Otto as well as TV roles in Orange Is the New Black and Billions. He hosts the podcast Mike Birbiglia's Working It Out.

Mike Birbiglia: Please Stop The Ride

The Curran Theatre

Lights, Camera, Music!: Watch favorite films on the big screen at Davies Symphony Hall as the scores are performed live by the SF Symphony. Composer Joe Hisaishi conducts his music from Studio Ghibli films by Hayao Miyazaki live-to-picture, accompanied by favorite scenes. Rated PG-1

Music From Studio Ghibli

Davies Symphony Hall

Crude as a gut punch, tender as a kiss, Verdi’s Requiem translates the ancient Latin mass for the dead into the vivid and visceral idiom of Italian opera, bringing divine scripture to the streets, and vice versa. The conductor Hans von Bülow dismissed the Requiem as Verdi’s “latest opera, in ecclesiastical vestments,” but his friend Johannes Brahms disagreed: “Only a genius could have written such a work.

Salonen Conducts Verdi’s Requiem

Any concert with Lang Lang is an event. The superstar pianist takes the stage with Esa-Pekka Salonen and the San Francisco Symphony in a celebratory program featuring Saint-Saëns’s Piano Concerto No. 2 and Carnival of the Animals (with Lang Lang playing alongside his wife, pianist Gina Alice), together with selections from Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet

Opening Gala With Lang Lang

The world premiere of Nico Muhly’s new Baroque-inspired Piano Concerto is surrounded by three other unmissable and underrated works of time-hopping, genre-swapping proto-postmodernism: the cerebral mischief of Paul Hindemith’s raucous Ragtime, based on a theme by J.S. Bach; Edward Elgar’s inventive transcription of Bach’s Fantasia & Fugue in C minor; and Hindemith’s Symphony Mathis der Maler. The last takes a 16th-century artist’s struggles against repression as the basis for a majestic symphonic triptych.

Salonen Conducts Nico Muhly

Experience intimate chamber music programs curated and performed by small ensembles of SF Symphony musicians

Chamber Music At Davies Symphony Hall

**Ride the Cyclone at New Conservatory Theatre Center**

**Dates:** September 20 - October 20, 2024  
**Location:** Decker Theatre, New Conservatory Theatre Center, 25 Van Ness Avenue at Market Street, San Francisco  
**Book, Music, and Lyrics:** Jacob Richmond & Brooke Maxwell  
**Status:** Regional Premiere

**About the Show:**  
"Ride the Cyclone" brings a thrilling and introspective journey to the stage, as six members of a Canadian chamber choir find themselves in limbo after a tragic rollercoaster accident. Presented with a unique opportunity by a mechanical fortune teller, each member tells their story in the hope of winning the ultimate prize: a chance to return to life. This award-winning musical is a blend of hilarity and reflection, posing deep questions about life and its worth.

**Performance Schedule:**  
- **Full Run:** September 20 - October 20, 2024  
- **Previews:** September 20 - 27  
- **Opening Night:** September 28  
- **Enhanced Safety Performance:** October 3  
- **Post-Show Discussion:** October 6

**Reviews:**  
- "Delightfully weird and just plain delightful" - The New York Times  
- "Chillingly dark and wittily funny" - Playbill  
- "Zany, zingy and macabre musical" - The Seattle Times  
- "Quirky, bizarre, creepy, clearly commercial, emotionally hefty and generally rather tantalizing musical" - The Chicago Tribune  
- "A musical that is unexpectedly charming and entertaining" - Curtain Up

**Ticket Information:**  
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**About the Playwright and Composer:**  
Jacob Richmond and Brooke Maxwell, both celebrated for their contributions to theater and music, bring this captivating story to life. Richmond, known for his award-winning plays and co-founding the Atomic Vaudeville cabaret theater series, teams up with Maxwell, a freelance musician, composer, and educator with a rich portfolio of scored and sound-designed works.

**Contact Information:**  
Box Office: 415.861.8972 or boxoffice@nctcsf.org

Join us for a mesmerizing experience that explores the essence of life and the power of storytelling, all set against the backdrop of a fantastical limbo that challenges the imagination. Don't miss your chance to witness this regional premiere at the New Conservatory Theatre Center.

Ride the Cyclone

New Conservatory Theatre Center

### Event Description: SFBC Sings National Anthem at SF Giants Game

**Event:** SFBC Sings National Anthem at SF Giants Game  
**Date:** September 5, 2024  
**Time:** 12:30 PM (Game Time: 12:45 PM)  
**Location:** Oracle Park, 24 Willie Mays Plaza, San Francisco, California, 94107, United States

Join the San Francisco Boys Chorus (SFBC) as they perform the National Anthem at the San Francisco Giants game against the Arizona Diamondbacks. This special event will take place at Oracle Park, the iconic home of the San Francisco Giants.

**Ticket Information:**
- **Purchase Deadline:** August 6, 2024, 11:59 PM PDT
- **Note:** Everyone, including all choristers (whether singing or not), must have a ticket to enter.

**Additional Details:**
- For choristers, please refer to ChorusConnection and the Performance Memo for call times and meeting area information.

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Don't miss this opportunity to support the SFBC and enjoy a thrilling baseball game. Buy your tickets now and be part of this memorable event!

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SFBC Sings National Anthem - SF Giants

Oakland Coliseum / RingCentral Coliseum

Oracle Park

Music of the Baroque + Dame Jane Glover with Anthony McGill

The Marsh San Francisco

### Event Description: Festival Finale - Cycles of Life

**Event:** Festival Finale: Cycles of Life  
**Date:** Sunday, September 1, 2024  
**Time:** 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM  
**Location:** Old First Concerts, 1751 Sacramento Street, San Francisco, CA, 94109, United States

**Overview:**
Join us for the grand finale of the San Francisco International Piano Festival, a celebration that brings the festival full circle with a special program of musical cycles that mirror those in nature. This event, presented in collaboration with Lieder Alive, will unite the glory of the voice with the wonders of the piano.

**Program Highlights:**

- **Claude Debussy's Six épigraphes antiques for piano duet:** This piece invokes the god Pan, gives voice to an anonymous tomb, conjures a mysterious Egyptian woman, and offers thanks for the morning rain before reprising Pan's invocation.
  
- **Gabriel Fauré's La Bonne Chanson Op.61:** Inspired by Emma Bardac, a celebrated French singer who later became Madame Claude Debussy, this passionate and life-affirming work weaves nine songs with subtly recurring motifs, creating an atmosphere of improvisation. The final song, "L'hiver a cessé," is one of Fauré's most inspired and ecstatic creations.
  
- **Florent Schmitt's Trois Rhapsodies Op.53 for two pianos:** A student of Fauré, Schmitt achieved a masterful blend of wit, infectious charm, and virtuosity in this work. Each rhapsody presents a larger-than-life tableau of national styles of the period: Française, Polonaise, and Viennoise.

**Performers:**
- **Kindra Scharich, mezzo-soprano**
- **Gwendolyn Mok, piano**
- **Jeffrey LaDeur, piano**

Celebrate the unity and joy of these wonderful compositions as we close out the seventh season of the San Francisco International Piano Festival. 

**Tickets and Livestream:**
Tickets are available for purchase, and the event will also be livestreamed for those who cannot attend in person.

**Additional Information:**
For more details, visit the festival's official website or contact the organizers directly. Don't miss this enchanting evening of music that promises to be a fitting conclusion to a remarkable festival season.

Festival Finale: Cycles of Life

Old First Presbyterian Church

Richard II is Shakespeare’s examination of the destructive powers of privilege. In the second half of the Iizuka Repertory at The Magic, the company from the world premiere of Garuda’s Wing will perform a new, lean production of Iizuka’s Richard II shaped for this company. This will be the first Shakespeare produced by The Magic Theatre in decades and will feature POC, women, and queer folx throughout.

Based on the best-selling graphic novel series by Dav Pilkey, the creator of Dog Man. Flippy, Molly, Li’l Petey, and twenty-one baby frogs each have something to say. Naomi and Melvin don’t see eye to eye and Poppy perceives the world differently than her siblings. Will the baby frogs figure out how to work together and appreciate one another’s point of view — both inside and outside the classroom?

Cat Kid Comic Club: The Musical

Evita charts the young and ambitious Eva Peron’s meteoric rise to sainthood. Set in Argentina between 1934-1952, the Tony-winning musical follows Eva Duarte on her journey from poor illegitimate child to ambitious actress to, as wife of military leader-turned-president Juan Peron, the most powerful woman in Latin America, before her death from cancer at age 33.

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