Rent is overdue, and the poet Rodolfo’s manuscript is reduced to kindling. But as the fire in the hearth dwindles, passion burns brightly amongst a group of young friends.

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La Bohème

War Memorial Opera House

Amidst a terrible storm, Idomeneo promises the god Neptune that he will sacrifice the first person he sees if he and his crew survive the tempestuous waters. Arriving to shore, his relief at safe passage quickly transforms into horror as the first person he lays eyes upon is his own son, Idamante.

Idomeneo

San Francisco Opera has been a proud participant in San Francisco Pride since its beginnings in the 1970s. We are delighted to celebrate our LGBTQIA+ community with a very special evening of music, immersive projections, and much more. Details to follow, including an extra special host for the evening.


Pride Concert

Enjoy a night of classical and contemporary ballet and witness the astounding talent of Dayton Ballet’s dancers. Pointes of View showcases choreography from one of the most influential choreographers of the 20th Century, George Balanchine, to up-and-coming choreographers making their mark in today’s ever-evolving ballet stages.

Pointes of View

Victoria Theatre

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

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

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The Artelize Podcast: A love letter that was never sent

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

Immerse yourself in the enchanting world of Magic Mirror, a captivating story ballet inspired by the Brothers Grimm fairytale, Snow White. The beautiful princess and her lovable forest friends embark on a magical journey in a story of love, friendship, and the struggle between good and evil. This performance is a celebratory capstone for the talented dancers of the Dayton Ballet School.

Dayton Ballet School Concert: Magic Mirror

Ladies and gentlemen, prepare for the greatest sensation in recent musical theatre history – and one that will most likely continue to run and sell out for decades to come. The Orpheum Theater San Fransisco is proud to present the incredible Hamilton!! Tickets are limited and in high demand, so we advise purchasing yours early to be sure of your place.

Hamilton

UN Plaza

Originally conceived as a grand multimedia extravaganza—more theatrical spectacle than solely an opera—Handel’s Alceste is as lavish musically as it was meant to be visually. Sensual, alluring, and dramatic, it’s a hedonistic delight from start to finish and is accompanied here by one of the composer’s most popular orchestral works.

Handel's Alceste

First Congregational Church of Berkeley

War Memorial and Performing Arts Center

Stanford University

Join us for a night of Baroque dance classics! After Jean-Féry Rebel’s “characters of the dance” teaches us the full emotional range of Baroque dance, the concert dives into some of the era’s most unforgettable music by Bach (including his ‘Air on a G String’), and Handel. Then, we’re back to the theater with more rousing dance and dramatic music by Rameau, full of rhythm and verve.

Tout de Suite

First United Methodist Church-Palo

Conductor James Gaffigan and violinist Ray Chen return on a thrilling program that combines lyricism and athleticism, fireworks and finesse. Samuel Barber wrote only one Violin Concerto, but it’s such a dazzling doozy that you can’t blame him for quitting while he was ahead. Prokofiev’s Fifth Symphony was composed at the height of the Second World War but its appeal is universal. As conductor Serge Koussevitzky effused: “It is magnificent! It is yesterday, it is today, it is tomorrow.

James Gaffigan & Ray Chen

Davies Symphony Hall

Orff’s profane and profound pseudo-medieval cantata Carmina burana is the banger of all choral bangers: No one who has heard the opening movement “O Fortuna” even once, whether live or on a film soundtrack, could question its eternal-earworm status. Also on the program: A new piano concerto by John Adams, featuring pianist Víkingur Ólafsson and conductor David Robertson, a responsive and nuanced interpreter of Adams’s eclectic soundscapes.

Carmina Burana & Adams’ Piano Concerto

Share the joy of music with all your loved ones in captivating performances created with your entire family in mind. Recommended for ages 5–12.

Music For Families

Decades after his death, Richard Strauss enjoyed a posthumous comeback thanks to his searing and cerebral tone poem Also sprach Zarathustra. The indelible opening trumpet fanfare is instantly recognizable from its use in films like 2001: A Space Odyssey and Barbie. Equally colorful works by Hector Berlioz and Claude Debussy add Gallic flair before the program hurtles to its heart-racing conclusion with John Adams’ Short Ride in a Fast Machine

Also Sprach Zarathustra

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

Chamber Music At Davies Symphony Hall

Conductor Laureate Herbert Blomstedt brings his eloquent exactitude to two treasures of the German symphonic tradition, both indebted to earlier masters. In a diary entry that Schubert wrote around the time he composed his Fifth Symphony, he raved about the “haunting” influence of Mozart. Brahms worked on his First Symphony for more than 20 years, in fitful bursts, followed by bouts of recrimination and revision. Like Schubert, he fretted obsessively about living up to Beethoven’s example.

Blomstedt Conducts Schubert & Brahms 

Expect the Unexpected: Step into adventure as the Symphony brings extraordinary, multisensory experiences to the underground club atmosphere of the SoundBox space.

Courtney Bryan

Estonian-American conductor Paavo Järvi’s return to Davies Symphony Hall delivers passion and pyrotechnics aplenty with Shostakovich's Piano Concerto No. 2, which showcases the Berlin-based Russian-American pianist Kirill Gerstein. Mahler's Seventh Symphony opens with a slow and shadowy first movement and closes with a euphoric, tempo-switching, Mozart-quoting rondo finale that has always been hater bait, but who cares? Let the boring killjoys blabber on about incoherence while the rest of us bask in its brilliant sunshine.

Järvi Conducts Mahler 7

Welcome the Year of the Snake with the San Francisco Symphony! Our annual Lunar New Year event draws upon Asian traditions, past and present, in a celebration of music and community.

Lunar New Year

Settle in as the world’s most electrifying artists and ensembles converge at Davies Symphony Hall. In this recital, Seong-Jin Cho takes on the complete piano solo works of Maurice Ravel in a single evening—an astounding feat.

Seong-jin Cho Piano Recital

The overlapping sound worlds of Stravinsky and Debussy outline a vivid realm of rhythm, revelry, and rip-roaring fun. The two composers shared a love for ancient dances, sun-splashed Spanish ballads, intoxicating orchestral colors, and the human body in motion. The endlessly inventive Yuja Wang brings her dramatic flair and interpretive finesse to this unusual program, ingeniously designed by Music Director Esa-Pekka Salonen to flow as seamlessly as a ballet.

Esa-pekka Salonen & Yuja Wang

“When the time comes, Bernstein clicks an invisible switch and the band pops into semi-flawless unison. At that point, you might imagine yourself in Harlem in 1929,” says the Village Voice about trumpeter Steven Bernstein’s expansive Millennial Territory Orchestra, an ensemble inspired by the pre-swing era territory bands that crisscrossed the country in the 1920s and 1930s.



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