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	San Francisco Opera (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		San Francisco, a city forged in the California Gold Rush, had always been an opera town -- the first opera was La Sonnambula performed in February 1851.
		Currently the SFO is performing nine operas in a Fall season starting in early September and running into the second week of December.
		The opera house was closed for two years for a complete renovation, reopening for the 97-98 season.
	www.fsz.bme.hu /opera/sfo.html (357 words)

	Boston.com / A&E / Music / San Francisco Opera under fire from union
		The union representing the San Francisco Opera's singers, dancers and production members is accusing the company of violating its hard-won labor contract.
		SAN FRANCISCO -- The union representing the San Francisco Opera's singers, dancers and production members is accusing the company of violating its hard-won labor contract.
		Contract talks between the opera and the American Guild of Musical Artists dragged on for nearly a year before an agreement was ratified in June.
	www.boston.com /ae/music/articles/2004/12/02/san_francisco_opera_under_fire_from_union (321 words)

	KQED \| Public TV: Spark: San Francisco Opera
		Producing an opera means thousands of hours of hard work and ingenuity, and many of the people that make it happen are not those in the spotlight.
		The opera tells the story of a man, whose life is shattered after he makes a deal with the devil, and Viebrock wanted the scenery to emphasize the harsh reality of Faust's plight.
		The War Memorial Opera House has been the home of the SF Opera since 1932, when it was inaugurated with a performance of "Tosca." All of their productions include supertitles -- English translations of the libretto projected over the proscenium simultaneously with the action on stage.
	www.kqed.org /spark/artists-orgs/sfopera.jsp (649 words)

	San Francisco Opera Reviews
		In any event, the last scene of this "Un Ballo" is especially impressive in its replication of an opera house interior (viewed on the bias), complete with proscenium stage and two rows of boxes.
		The opera's obscure status today may have something to do with the total absence of a major role for a soprano.
		The Opera is in four acts, sung in French with English Supertitles.
	www.sandiego-online.com /opera/sfreviews.stm (1994 words)

	Inn At The Opera San Francisco California CA
		Ovation At The Opera is a popular gathering place of artists, patrons, political and civic leaders, business professionals and friends who join together to enjoy their favorite cocktails and fine cuisine in an intimate atmosphere.
		Inn At the Opera is one block away from San *Franciscos Memorial Opera** House and Davies Symphony Hall.
		San *Franciscos** world renown Fisherman*s Wharf, Ghiradelli Square, Pier 39, North Beach, and Chinatown are all approximately 10-15 minutes away either by Bus or Cable Car.
	www.sanpedro.com /hotelinfo/22438.html (551 words)

	MetroActive Stage \| San Francisco Opera's Bravo! Club
		The San Francisco Opera, like most other American opera companies of its size and stature, long ago realized that its core audience and sustaining patrons were rapidly aging--and thus its main sources of funding was, pardon the expression, dying off.
		The world premiere of Streetcar is the showpiece around which this year's opera season is built, and it was chosen in part for its ability to attract younger audiences.
		Targeting youth with the theme "young bohemians in love," the opera sold more than 40,000 thousand tickets, 65 percent of which were purchased by first-time opera-goers whose average age hovered in the mid-30s.
	metroactive.com /papers/sfmetro/10.05.98/opera1-9838.html (1015 words)

	The New York Times > Arts > Music > San Francisco Opera Names a New Director
		He also was an innovator, introducing supertitles (San Francisco uses them) and OperaVision - screens that bring close-ups of the stage and orchestra to people in the upper reaches of the theater - and outdoor simulcasts.
		Working in San Francisco, where the opera was incorporated in 1923, would give him the chance to do works that Houston might not be ready for, like operas by Wagner and Strauss and early Verdi pieces.
		San Francisco has a bigger season, too, including 9 productions and 80 performances, and its $54 million budget is more than twice Houston's.
	www.nytimes.com /2005/02/08/arts/music/08oper.html?ex=1265605200&en=bb5912aca83d6b87&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland (1065 words)

	OpinionJournal - Leisure & Arts
		Responding to complaints from San Francisco Opera singers and the American Guild of Musical Artists, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors held a hearing on whether to ban the use of fake fog in performances.
		A few years later, the city issued a "Sustainability Plan," part of which urged citizens to reduce their "personal impact on the shared indoor environment by limiting the use of scented personal-care products." So this is a city where the quality of fake fog would be a hot agenda item.
		But the San Francisco Opera has said that, even though it considers its fog perfectly safe, it will allow singers to opt out of any production that uses it.
	www.opinionjournal.com /la/?id=110002758 (910 words)

	classical music - andante - san francisco opera center ends tours
		This release in the "Vienna State Opera Live" series presents two outstanding productions of the opera: the October 1953 performance conducted by Wilhelm Furtwängler and with the February 1944 staging conducted by Karl Böhm.
		San Francisco Opera Center, the training component of the San Francisco Opera, has decided to close down its touring arm, known as Western Opera Theater, the San Francisco Chronicle reports.
		As she looks toward the beginning of the first season she planned at the house, the Intendantin of the San Francisco Opera talks about bringing German-style "director's opera" to California and what she really thinks about bel canto.
	www.andante.com /article/article.cfm?id=20141 (308 words)

	San Diego Magazine - covering San Diego entertainment, fashion, events and news.
		Childs' choreography for the cast and the chorus is fine, but her use of hard-working dancers seems strangely out of place - it belongs neither in the 1940s nor in our time, but rather, stuck in the 1970s, dancers intermingling with the chorus and executing straight-armed leaps and half-turns in the air.
		At the very end of the opera, instead of the expected stunned silence to follow the explosion, a brief recording is heard, of a woman, speaking in Japanese.
		The San Francisco production comes from Munich, directed by David Alden, on Paul Steinberg's spectacular sets, conducted to perfection by Roy Goodman (with stunning continuo performances from the orchestra principals and John Churchwell's harpsichord), and featuring a cast that will be talked about for years.
	www.sandiego-online.com /opera/opera.shtml (4107 words)

	KQED \| Public TV: Spark: San Francisco Ballet with Mark Morris
		In addition to his long-standing relationship with the San Francisco Ballet, Morris recently announced a partnership with Berkeley's Cal Performances that will bring the Mark Morris Dance Group to the University of California campus for two seasons a year.
		In 1999, San Francisco Ballet artistic director Helgi Tomasson approached Morris to do a full-length ballet, a rare event given the deep investment of time, money and resources required for such a production -- and a great show of confidence in Morris's skill and talent.
		San Francisco Ballet was founded as San Francisco Opera Ballet in 1933.
	www.kqed.org /spark/artists-orgs/markmorris.jsp (644 words)

	French Culture \| Music \| Messiaen: Saint Francois d'Assise at San Francisco Opera (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The cast was strong and the orchestra played the formidably intricate score with passion and aplomb.[] conductor Donald Runnicles rendered faithfully the glorious extremes of melodic flow and rhythmic violence, seraphic joy and earthy pain.
		The San Francisco Opera presents the American stage premiere of French composer Olivier Messiaen's opera Saint François d'Assise.
		San Francisco Symphony musicians; Laura Claycomb, soprano; Peter Grunberg, piano present Quartet for the End of Time and Chants de terre et de ciel (Songs of Earth and Heaven)
	www.frenchculture.org /music/events/02messiaenstfrancoissfop.html (918 words)

	classical music - andante - san francisco opera's symbol-laden trovatore
		It's hardly a coincidence that, in the hilarious final scene of A Night at the Opera, the Marx Brothers trained their sights on Il trovatore as the perfect candidate for spoofing.
		San Francisco Opera's final offering of the 2002–03 season (reviving a production created in 1989 by Seattle Opera) managed only sporadically to tap into the disturbing elements beneath the surface of the melodrama, the elements that elicited one of Verdi's most indelible scores.
		Her opening scene of waiting through the night carried a hint of Wagner's Senta — with a good deal more passion than Jane Eaglen was summoning across the street in the San Francisco Symphony's otherwise electrifying concert presentation of The Flying Dutchman.
	www.andante.com /article/article.cfm?id=21339 (880 words)

	Meyer Sound : Experience the San Francisco Opera Tour
		After two years and $84.5 million worth of renovation, the San Francisco Opera House is open again with an all-new Meyer Self-Powered loudspeaker system.
		Join Opera House sound designer Roger Gans for an intimate guided tour of this beaux arts landmark, one of the most technically advanced performance spaces in the world.
		Home to the San Francisco Ballet and Opera companies since 1932, the House is designed in the grand European style, replete with 3,176 seats, a massive 625-lamp chandelier, and an orchestra pit on hydraulic lifts.
	www.meyersound.com /events/aes/1998/us/sfoperatour.htm (135 words)

	San Francisco Opera :: Welcome (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Beethoven, in his only opera, responds with the story of a courageous woman who takes on the system and wins.
		This fun, interactive concert is the perfect way to introduce children to opera.
		War Memorial Opera House – 301 Van Ness Ave.
	www.sfopera.com (99 words)

	ABC News: San Francisco Opera Tackles Nuclear Age (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		San Francisco Opera Tackles Dawn of the Nuclear Age With 'Doctor Atomic'
		This is "Doctor Atomic," the San Francisco Opera's ambitious new work that captures the inner struggle of those who raised the curtain on the nuclear age.
		For much of the opera, the 460-pound bomb replica big, round and festooned with tubing is suspended over the stage, a palpable presence.
	abcnews.go.com /Entertainment/wireStory?id=1173922&CMP=OTC-RSSFeeds0312 (463 words)

	San Francisco Opera Survey
		The opera, of course, is derived from the non-fiction book by Sister Helen Prejean, CSJ,, which is also the basis for director Tim Robbins' powerful film starring Sean Penn and Susan Sarandon.
		This is certainly the case with the Heggie/McNally opera as well, although the seductive power of the music does much to place our sympathies where they might not ordinarily lie.
		If the music of the opera is not in the same league with that of Berg, Britten, Bartok, or Richard Strauss, Dead Man Walking is nonetheless enormously effective musical theater.
	www.sandiego-online.com /opera/sfosurvey.stm (714 words)

	French culture \| Music \| San Francisco Opera 2002-2003 season (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		San Francisco Opera’s 80th Season includes two major French operas: the U. stage premiere of Olivier Messiaen’s Saint François d'Assise and the San Francisco Opera premiere of Berlioz’s La Damnation de Faust.
		San Francisco Opera’s all-new production, designed by SFO debuting designer Hans Dieter Schaal, will be the first San Francisco Opera production overseen by dramaturg Wolfgang Willaschek.
		The complex musical work will require the largest musical ensemble in San Francisco Opera’s history, including 97 orchestra members and 110 choristers who will sing up to 27 separate vocal lines in the span of the eight tableaux about Saint Francis of Assisi.
	www.frenchculture.org /music/events/0203sfopera.html (277 words)

	Viva Domingo at the San Francisco Opera (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		San Francisco Opera General Director Lotfi Mansouri was so relieved the concert came off that he couldn't stay in his seat at the gala.
		"I've never seen so many people who are fascinated with the world of opera in one room," said Catherine Keen, who also performed in "Otello." It was her first gala, and she was as impressed with the patrons at her table as they were with her.
		A mostly fl-tie audience paid up to $2,500 a seat to hear the Spanish-born artist sing one act each of three works with which he is indelibly associated and then mingle with the guest of honor at a post-concert dinner reception in the City Hall rotunda.
	www.tenorissimo.com /domingo/Articles/sfe060300.htm (2263 words)

	San Francisco's Pocket Opera performs Two Verdi Operas
		To that end, not only does he create his own English translations of virtually every opera the company has performed, but he also provides a narration that is at once thoroughly informative and delightfully droll.
		While Verdi's score admittedly lacks the grace and polish of his predecessor's comic operas, King for a Day includes several delightful and tuneful numbers and is well worth the occasional performance.
		Rick Dougherty's refreshing stage direction kept the action clean and allowed the humor in the opera to be derived from the characters and situations.
	www.frugalfun.com /verdi.html (1670 words)

	Opera Glass: San Francisco Opera 75th anniversary gala
		Although the Opera House itself was the top star of the evening, it had plenty of star voices to fill it, starting with Voigt and followed by the SFO Chorus, in full costume and on the set for the Act 2 party scene of Johann Strauss Jr.
		The concert was preceded by dinners in tents in the courtyard between the Opera House and Veterans Memorial Building and in the street between the Opera House and Davies Symphony Hall.
		That total included $49.5 million from a 1990 bond measure approved by San Francisco voters, $30 million in private funding raised by the Committee to Restore the Opera House and $9 million from the city's War Memorial Board of Trustees.
	opera.stanford.edu /opera/reviews/sfgala.html (1050 words)

	(Mostly) Bay Area Classical Music
		Magnificat voices and instruments of the early Baroque (San Francisco).
		San Francisco Classical Voice listings for the Peninsula and South Bay (and other parts of the Bay Area) and Event Submission form.
		Performances at the San Francisco Englander House (including the San Francisco Concerto Orchestra).
	kzsu.stanford.edu /~romain/mixed_links.html (751 words)

	San Francisco War Memorial & Performing Arts Center
		The War Memorial Opera House, built in 1932, is the 3,146-seat home of the San Francisco Opera and the San Francisco Ballet.
		Offices and meeting rooms for San Francisco Posts of the American Legion and other veteran organizations are also located in the Veterans Building along with administrative offices of the War Memorial, the Performing Arts Library and Museum and the San Francisco Art Commission Gallery.
		The War Memorial is a department of the City and County of San Francisco and is responsible for the administration, operation and maintenance of the War Memorial buildings and grounds.
	www.sfwmpac.org /topnav/general_info.html (437 words)

	San Francisco Opera (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		This dazzling trio of one-act operas is presented by San Francisco Opera Center at the intimate, 350-seat Cowell Theater, Fort Mason Center, Pier 2, San Francisco.
		Funding for Showcase 2005 is provided by the Merola Opera Program and the Arques Charitable Education Trust.
		Showcase 2005 is part of the In Performance Series at the Cowell Theater at Fort Mason Center which is supported by Grants for the Arts/San Francisco Hotel Tax Fund, The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation and the Fort Mason Foundation.
	www.sfopera.com /showcase (319 words)

	Tenor of the times: S.F. Opera cuts back / Performances to be slashed 25% over next 3 years to save money (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The San Francisco Opera will reduce the number of its performances by about 25 percent over the next three years in an attempt to restore financial stability to the deficit-ridden company.
		The Opera had a deficit of $7.6 million for the 2001-02 season and is predicting a $9.2 million shortfall this year.
		The Opera's financial problems are not the fault of the economic downturn, say Rosenberg and board President Karl O. Mills.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2003/01/28/MN187888.DTL (910 words)

	AGMA Slaps San Francisco Opera (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		According to the guild, the Western Opera Theater and other cancellations, coupled with recent statements by the Opera's general director about its fiscal problems, set the stage for difficult negotiations.
		Union President Linda Mays said in a prepared statement, "Although we are prepared to work with the San Francisco Opera in those negotiations to find ways in which to trim unnecessary costs, while maintaining the integrity of its productions, we will do everything within our power to protect the rights of the artists we represent.
		Although we tend to accept the Opera's claim that it must cut its operating expenses, subject to our review of its fiscal records, we think it's crucial to have direct representation on its board.
	www.backstage.com /backstage/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1850163 (947 words)

	San Francisco Opera: San Francisco, California (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The “City by the Bay” is home to the second largest opera company in North America, the San Francisco Opera.
		An international cast of prominent and emerging artists brings the elegant and historic War Memorial Opera House to life with world-class performances.
		Join San Francisco Opera’s musical administrator, Clifford “Kip” Cranna, for three operas, insightful lectures, and a true insider’s view of the opera.
	smithsonianjourneys.org /unitedstates/093004sanfranop.asp (223 words)

	Opera in San Francisco
		Opera is a peculiar genre, one that has been described as the form of art including all arts, since it involves literature (the words of the opera), music, theater (acting), design (scenes, costumes), and dancing (if not actual ballet certainly choreography).
		Operas always react to the context that they are born in, either by consciously rejecting it or by including elements of it in the plot, costumes, style etc.
		Participation in the class discussion, in which all of the issues raised by the course and the operas are discussed, constitutes a percentage of the total grade, and together with the required live performances with corresponding report, represents the core of the course.
	www.usfca.edu /vpa/music/Opera_in_san_francisco.html (3431 words)

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