Opera - The Monkey King This image released by the San Francisco Opera shows tenor Kang Wang, center, rehearsing for the new opera "The Monkey King," on Nov. 6, 2025 in San Francisco. (Cory Weaver/San ...

SAN FRANCISCO - The San Francisco Opera is turning up the volume on Pride this year with its inaugural Pride Concert. It will be a visually immersive and emotionally charged celebration of LGBTQ ...

San Francisco Opera has three big productions in store for the summer — including two works you may have seen, and one you probably haven’t. Two are enduring classics — Mozart’s “The Magic Flute,” and ...

To Raise the Curtain on San Francisco Opera’s 103rd season, San Francisco Opera and San Francisco Opera Guild will present Opera Ball on Friday, September 5, 2025. The festive evening includes a ...

San Francisco's cultural elite ascended to new heights on August 20, as the Grand Penthouse at 181 Fremont -- the highest residence west of Chicago—hosted an exclusive preview of San Francisco Opera's ...

San Francisco Opera General Director Emeritus David Gockley was honored on August 20 with a bas-relief unveiled in the lobby of the War Memorial Opera House. A crowd of 100 invited guests attended the ...

San Francisco company the Parallel Opera is producing a special show entitled "Expansive" which celebrates the talents of gender nonconforming opera artists. Wilford Kelly, a bass baritone with the ...

When it comes to the public imagination, opera is a genre built on contradiction: exclusive yet ubiquitous. No member of that esteemed canon encapsulates this contradiction better than Georges Bizet’s ...