The San Francisco Opera has again scheduled pared down offerings for its 2025-26 season, citing the ongoing challenges in the post-pandemic world that plague the company and other arts institutions.

The San Francisco Symphony won a Grammy Award for its world premiere recording of Kaija Saariaho’s “Adriana Mater.” The opera debuted at Paris’ Opéra Bastille in 2006, but the Symphony ...

The work, with singing in English and Mandarin, will be given its world premiere by the San Francisco Opera on Nov. 14, the company announced Tuesday. San Francisco Opera general director Matthew ...

Opera directors like to reimagine the classics. Take Georges Bizet’s “Carmen,” which San Francisco Opera opened on Wednesday. While there have been a Nazi-era Carmen, a 20th-century Brooklyn ...

Based on the Chinese classic novel Journey to the West, the opera production, The Monkey King, will have its world premiere at the San Francisco Opera House on Nov 14. As a major production for ...

San Francisco Opera’s general director, Matthew Shilvock, commissioned the work following the success of Bright Sheng’s Dream of the Red Chamber, which premiered in 2016.Both operas feature ...

San Francisco Chronicle subscribers can enter to win two free tickets to the SF Opera’s La Boheme by Giacomo Puccini. WHEN Thursday, June 12th 2025 Check-in time: 06:15 PM Event start time ...