She’s the most eligible bachelorette in 1920s Paris. And she’s besieged by suitors.
Love is a battlefield in Christopher Alden’s Olivier award-winning production of Partenope, a laugh-out-loud comedy of romance and rejection, set to some of George Frideric Handel’s most masterful music.
A master of the Baroque repertoire, Christopher Moulds returns to the podium to lead Handel’s virtuosic score, a brisk confection full of high-flying virtuosity and emotionally stirring arias.

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Partenope

War Memorial Opera House

The annual showcase for San Francisco Opera’s resident artists in opera scenes and arias with the San Francisco Opera Orchestra at the Herbst Theatre. Ramón Tebar, conductor for this fall's The Elixir of Love, takes the podium to conduct an evening of song, featuring arias and scenes performed by San Francisco Opera’s very own resident artists, the Adler Fellows. Discover the next great opera singer—in a unique concert event you can't see anywhere else.

The Future is Now: Adlers in Concert

War Memorial and Performing Arts Center

With no money, no confidence, and no hope of winning the hand of the alluring hotel owner Adina, the young waiter Nemorino entrusts his chance of romance to a quack salesman and a dubious bottle of. . . magic elixir.
Passions bubble to the surface in Gaetano Donizetti’s effervescent comedy The Elixir of Love, a quest for passion and romance on the sunny Mediterranean Riviera.
Director Daniel Slater and designer Robert Innes Hopkins create a sun-soaked world of pleasure where cocktails flow freely and hot-air balloons glide across the sky—a harkening back to Federico Fellini’s La Dolce Vita, brought to musical life under the baton of conductor Ramón Tebar in his company debut.

The Elixir of Love

He arrived from her dreams to save her from a nightmare. Trapped in a scheme to frame her for her brother’s disappearance, Elsa von Brabant prays for a savior to rescue her. And one appears: a knight conveyed by a beautiful swan. He has only one request: that Elsa must never ask his name.
Can Elsa trust her life and love to a stranger whose mysterious identity is eating away at her? Lohengrin marks the beginning of Music Director Eun Sun Kim’s journey through the works of Richard Wagner, creating a new generation of Wagnerian experiences that will speak to the soul of our collective humanity.

Lohengrin

Familial revenge runs deep in Giuseppe Verdi’s towering opera of grand passions stymied at every turn. Music Director Eun Sun Kim continues her Verdi cycle with Il Trovatore, a work of sublime arias, passionate ensembles, and the rousing Anvil Chorus.
Sir David McVicar’s incisive, visceral production, rooted in the haunting imagery of Spanish painter Francisco Goya and the power struggles of the Spanish War of Independence, returns to San Francisco.

Il Trovatore

Featuring the San Francisco Opera Orchestra and Chorus and opera stars of the past, present and future.
The concert is followed by a sumptuous and elegant Dinner with the Artists to close out the historic Centennial Season in style. (Cocktail Reception and Dinner reservations sold separately from the concert.)
Proceeds benefit San Francisco Opera's artistic excellence and innovation.

San Francisco Opera Orchestra

15 - 28 Jun, 2024

Partenope

Dec 2, 2023

The Future is Now: Adlers in Concert

San Francisco Opera Orchestra