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Il Trovatore
Verdi's Il Trovatore at San Francisco Opera is a dramatic, romantic grand opera in Italian with powerful arias and full orchestral score, staged at San Francisco's premier opera house.
Dialogues of the Carmelites
San Francisco Opera stages Francis Poulenc's Dialogues of the Carmelites, a powerful French-language opera about faith, fear and martyrdom presented with dramatic staging and surtitles.
Carmen
Bizet's Carmen at the San Francisco Opera — a dramatic, passionate opera of love and fate featuring famous arias like the Habanera and Toreador; a classic evening of grand staging and powerful vocals.
Dead Man Walking
Dead Man Walking at San Francisco Opera is a powerful contemporary opera (in English) exploring crime, punishment, redemption and grief, based on Sister Helen Prejean's book.
La Bohème
Puccini’s La Bohème at San Francisco Opera: a classic Romantic opera production—sung in Italian with projected English translations, full of music, love and tragedy.
Parsifal
Wagner's Parsifal at the San Francisco Opera is a grand, dramatic German-language opera production exploring themes of redemption and the Holy Grail.
2024–25
San Francisco Opera's 2024–25 season at the War Memorial Opera House presents a lineup of classic and contemporary operas in multiple languages, featuring world-class singers and full orchestral productions.
El Ultimo Suenode Frida y Diego
A contemporary opera at San Francisco Opera dramatizing the lives and relationship of artists Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera with theatrical music and visual spectacle.
Orpheus and Eurydice
San Francisco Opera presents Gluck's Orpheus and Eurydice — a timeless myth brought to life with luminous classical music, full orchestra and theatrical staging.
Partenope
Handel's baroque opera Partenope presented by San Francisco Opera — a staged, vocally virtuosic evening of classical music and theatrical drama in San Francisco.
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San Francisco Opera presents Wagner's Tristan und Isolde, a sweeping tragic opera of doomed love promoted with artwork of the lovers embracing inside a droplet, performed in German with English supertitles.
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Donizetti’s comic opera The Elixir of Love at San Francisco Opera — a romantic, witty production with seaside-themed visuals, sung in Italian with surtitles for an evening of classical theatre.
2022–23
San Francisco Opera's 2022–23 season presents a lineup of staged operas at the company's home venue, featuring classic and contemporary works in multiple languages for opera lovers and visitors.
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2023–24
San Francisco Opera's 2023–24 season presents a lineup of full-scale operas and productions featuring classic and contemporary works, inviting audiences in San Francisco to attend staged performances across the company's season.
2025-26
San Francisco Opera announces its 2025–26 season of staged operas featuring new productions and revivals with leading singers and full orchestral productions.
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San Francisco Opera presents Innocence, a visually striking contemporary opera exploring love, loss and memory with evocative staging and dramatic imagery.
Antony and Cleopatra
San Francisco Opera presents Antony and Cleopatra, a grand operatic staging of Shakespeare's tragic story with dramatic music and lavish production values.
BUNT. in the San Francisco Round
BUNT. performs a melodic electronic/indie-dance DJ set at the San Francisco Round — a ticketed night of danceable live electronic music ($64.75).
Die Frau ohne Schatten
Richard Strauss’s Die Frau ohne Schatten at San Francisco Opera is a lavish, German-language epic opera of mythic drama and rich orchestration presented in a major staged production.
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The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs at San Francisco Opera is a contemporary, biographical opera exploring the life and legacy of Steve Jobs through music and drama.
Elektra
A powerful staging of Richard Strauss's Elektra at the San Francisco Opera — an intense, expressionist one-act opera driven by a fierce orchestral score and dramatic vocal performances.
Eugene Onegin
Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin at San Francisco Opera is a classic Russian opera of love, regret and social tension, presented with full orchestration and likely English supertitles for an elegant, dramatic evening.
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San Francisco Opera stages Bizet's Carmen, a passionate, dramatic opera with an iconic score and striking visuals at the San Francisco Opera house.
Idomeneo
A staging of Mozart's Idomeneo at the San Francisco Opera, presenting the classic opera with full orchestration, drama and vocal virtuosity.
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San Francisco Opera presents Mozart's Idomeneo — a grand, dramatic opera production with heroic visuals and the classic score, typically sung in Italian with English surtitles at the War Memorial venue.
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Puccini's La Bohème at San Francisco Opera promises a romantic, visually striking production—imagery of candlelight and smoke forming a woman's silhouette—presented in the original language with surtitles for a classic operatic experience.
La Traviata
Verdi's La Traviata at the San Francisco Opera — a classic Italian opera of love and sacrifice presented at SF's premiere opera house.
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San Francisco Opera presents Wagner's Lohengrin, a dramatic Romantic opera centered on the swan motif with soaring orchestral and vocal writing—see the SF Opera page for production details and ticketing.
Madame Butterfly
Puccini’s Madame Butterfly at San Francisco Opera — a fully staged production of the classic tragic opera with soaring arias and dramatic storytelling; see SF Opera for dates, cast, and tickets.
Rigoletto
Verdi's Rigoletto at San Francisco Opera: a dramatic Italian opera (typically performed with English surtitles) presenting tragedy, memorable arias and high-stakes drama in a formal staged production in San Francisco.
The Barber of Seville
Rossini's comic masterpiece The Barber of Seville at the San Francisco Opera — a lively bel-canto show in Italian with English supertitles, full of memorable arias, wit and theatrical charm.
The Monkey King
San Francisco Opera presents The Monkey King, an operatic retelling of the classic Journey to the West tale offering musical spectacle and dramatic storytelling for opera fans and families.
Tristan and Isolde
Wagner's Tristan und Isolde at San Francisco Opera — a monumental, tragic romantic opera in German; check the SF Opera site for performance dates, cast and tickets.
Un Ballo in Maschera
Verdi's Un Ballo in Maschera at San Francisco Opera: a dramatic, masked-opera production blending political intrigue and romance, typically sung in Italian with surtitles.
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Verdi's Un Ballo in Maschera at San Francisco Opera: a dramatic, romantic masked‑ball opera featuring full orchestral forces and theatrical staging exploring love and political intrigue.
The Handmaid's Tale
San Francisco Opera stages The Handmaid's Tale, a contemporary opera adaptation of Margaret Atwood's dystopian novel combining striking music and theatrical storytelling.
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A dramatic operatic adaptation of The Handmaid’s Tale presented by San Francisco Opera, combining contemporary score and striking visual design to bring Margaret Atwood’s dystopia to the stage.
The Magic Flute
Mozart's The Magic Flute at San Francisco Opera is a majestic, family-accessible opera known for its memorable arias, fantastical staging, and dramatic vocal performances.
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San Francisco Opera presents Omar, a contemporary opera with striking visual staging and powerful vocal performance exploring themes of faith, identity and history.