Opera

San Francisco Opera's 94th season, for 2016-2017, will present nine productions in a total of 68 performances — in addition to concerts, recitals, and special events.

Opera Parallèle has commissioned a work about the iconic American artist, Georgia O'Keeffe.

Dream of the Red Chamber, adapted from the Qing Dynasty epic, will premiere at the War Memorial, Sept. 10-29, 2016.

Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, the longest opera in the standard repertoire, runs nearly six hours. How do the musicians get through that every night?.

Festival Opera puts Gustav Holst’s rare one-act Savitri together with Jack Perla’s River of Light, which premiered at Houston Grand Opera last year.

SFCV talks to the soprano about her roles, her time as an Adler Fellow, and her growth as a performer.

Russian soprano Albina Shagimuratova will replace Nadine Sierra as Lucia in the S.F. Opera production of Lucia di Lammermoor.

​For the first time in the nearly four-decade-long history of the San Francisco Opera's Adler Fellowship a couple has been selected for the program.

Robert Cahen, who died Monday in his Hillsborough home at age 86, captured iconic pictures of opera singers for six decades.

The San Francisco Opera announced on Tuesday, September 22, the appointment of Matthew Shilvock as the company's next general director.