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2007–08 Season Please click to expand category
- Summer-Fall 2008 Season of San Francisco Opera's Radio Broadcasts on Classical 102.1 KDFC Continues July 6
- San Francisco Opera Director of Music Administration Dr. Clifford Cranna to Recieve San Francisco Opera Medal June 20
- Matthew Shilvock Appointed Assistant General Director of San Francisco Opera As Part Of A Reorganization Of The Company's Artistic And Music Divisions
- San Francisco Opera Appoints Beth Sinclair as Director of Human Resources
- Merola Opera Program Announces Participants for its 51st Season
- San Francisco Opera Guild Announces Opera Arts Summer Conservatory, June 16-July 3, 2008
- San Francisco Opera Appoints Gregory Henkel As Director Of Artistic Administration
- San Francisco Opera and Cal Performances Present Rachel Portman's The Little Prince, May 2-11 at UC Berkeley's Zellerbach Hall
- San Francisco Opera Guild and Nordstrom Present Designer Fête 2008 on May 13 at the Westin St. Francis Hotel
- Schwabacher Debut Recital Series Continues with Mezzo-Soprano Daniela Mack on April 6
- San Francisco Opera Holds Public Auditions for Chinese-Style Percussionists and Suona Player to Perform in The Bonesetter's Daughter - ENGLISH
- San Francisco Opera Holds Public Auditions for Chinese-Style Percussionists and Suona Player to Perform in The Bonesetter's Daughter - CHINESE
- 2008 Schwabacher Debut Recital Series Continues with Baritone Lucas Meachem on February 24
- San Francisco Opera Appoints Michael Simpson as Director of Finance and Administration and Chief Financial Officer
- 2008 Schwabacher Debut Recital Series Opens with Tenor Philippe Castagner on February 3
- San Francisco Opera Appoints Ruth Nott as Director of Education
- San Francisco Opera Guild Winter-Spring 2008 Calendar of Events
- Spring 2008 Season of San Francisco Opera Radio Broadcasts on Classical 102.1 KDFC Begins January 6
- San Francisco Opera Guild Announces A Winter Night's Ball on February 29 at the Four Seasons Hotel
- Merola Opera Program to Present Annual Spring Gala, Une Soirée Française, on March 15 at the Four Seasons Hotel
- San Francisco Opera Announces Audited Financial Results for Fiscal Year 2006-07
- San Francisco Opera Center Presents the 2008 Schwabacher Debut Recital Series
- San Francisco Opera Center Announces 2008 Adler Fellows
- San Francisco Opera Guild and Neiman Marcus to Host 'Tis the Season holiday fundraiser, December 6
- Franklin P. Johnson To End Term As Chairman of San Francisco Opera Association Board of Directors, John Gunn Named as Chairman-Elect
- San Francisco Opera Appoints Jessica Koplos as Director of Electronic Media
- San Francisco Opera Holds Public Casting Call for Supernumeraries for Stewart Wallace and Amy Tan's The Bonesetter's Daughter on Dec. 5
- Tenor James Valenti to Make his San Francisco Opera Debut in Puccini's Madama Butterfly at the War Memorial Opera House
- San Francisco Opera Presents Puccini's Madama Butterfly, December 1-8 at the War Memorial Opera House
- San Francisco Opera Presents Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress, November 23-December 9 at the War Memorial Opera House
- San Francisco Opera Presents Verdi's Macbeth, November 14-December 2 at the War Memorial Opera House
- San Francisco Opera presents Puccini's La Rondine, November 7 - November 29 at the War Memorial Opera House
- San Francisco Opera presents The Magic Flute for Families, October 27 and November 3 at the War Memorial Opera House
- San Francisco Opera presents the world premiere of Philip Glass's Appomattox, October 5 - October 24 at the War Memorial Opera House
- San Francisco Opera presents Mozart's The Magic Flute, October 13 - November 3 at the War Memorial Opera House
- San Francisco Opera Guild presents the "Opera à la Carte" production of Mozart's The Magic Flute at 135 schools through December 1
- San Francisco Opera and the San Francisco Giants present Opera at the Ballpark, Friday, September 28 at AT&T Park
- San Francisco Opera presents Wagner's Tannhäuser, September 18 - October 12 at the War Memorial Opera House
- San Francisco Opera dedicates the 2007 Opera in the Park concert to the memory of Luciano Pavarotti
- San Francisco Opera presents Saint-Saëns' Samson and Delilah, September 7-28 at the War Memorial Opera House
- San Francisco Chronicle Presents San Francisco Opera in the Park, September 9 at Golden Gate Park
- Ticket Registration for San Francisco Opera at the Ballpark Begins August 15
- San Francisco Opera Announces 2007-08 Opening Weekend Festivities
2006–07 Season Please click to expand category
- San Francisco Opera Closes 70th Annual Stern Grove Festival, August 19, 2007
- Merola Opera Program to present Merola Grand Finale Concert, August 18, 2007
- Merola Opera Program presents world premiere of Thomas Pasatieri's The Hotel Casablanca, August 3 and 6, 2007
- San Francisco Bay Area Arts Organizations Celebrate the work of Philip Glass
- San Francisco Opera 2007-08 Season Updates/Single Tickets Now On Sale
- Merola Opera Program presents Rossini's La Cenerentola, July 13 and 15, 2007
- Merola Opera Program Presents Free Schwabacher Summer Concert at Yerba Buena Gardens
- San Francisco Opera Holds Public Casting Call for Appomattox
- San Francisco Opera presents Gluck's Iphigénie en Tauride, June 14-29 at the War Memorial Opera House
- San Francisco Opera presents Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier, June 9-July 1 at the War Memorial Opera House
- Soprano Elza van den Heever Replaces Hope Briggs as Donna Anna in San Francisco Opera's Don Giovanni
- San Francisco Opera presents Mozart's Don Giovanni, June 2-30 at the War Memorial Opera House
- San Francisco Opera presents Gluck's Iphigenie en Tauride, June 14-29 at the War Memorial Opera House
- San Francisco Opera Announces First Permanent High-Definition Production Facility in Any American Opera House
- Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Joins June 22 Don Giovanni Simulcast Partnership
- San Francisco Opera and the San Francisco Giants Partner to Bring FREE Opera to AT&T Park on September 28
- San Francisco Opera Executive Director Keith Cerny to take New Position at Russell Reynolds Associates
- San Francisco Opera's Don Giovanni simulcast live to Berkeley, Davis, and Santa Rosa on June 22
- Additional Artists Announced for Free Outdoor Concert in Dolores Park on Sunday, May 27 at 2 pm
- San Francisco Opera Guild Announces Opera Arts Summer Conservatory, June 18-July 7, 2007
- San Francisco Opera Returns to Dolores Park Sunday, May 27 at 2 p.m.
- Merola Opera Program Announces Participants for its 50th Anniversary Season
- Merola Opera Program Celebrates 50th Season on May 19th with Gala Dinner and Concert
- 2007 Schwabacher Debut Recital Series Concludes with Soprano Melody Moore on April 22
- San Francisco Opera Returns to National and International Radio Airwaves This Fall
- San Francisco Opera Announces Additions to 2007-08 Season
- Robert Woodruff to Direct October 2007 World Premiere of Philip Glass’s Appomattox
- San Francisco Opera and Classical 102.1 KDFC Radio Announce Broadcast Partnership
- 2007 Schwabacher Debut Recital Series continues March 25 with soprano Laquita Mitchell
- San Francisco Opera Presents Its 2007 Summer Season June 2-July 1, 2007
- San Francisco Opera Guild and Nordstrom present Designer Fete 2007 - Ode to the Goddess, April 17
- San Francisco Opera Announces its 2007-08 Season
- 2007 Schwabacher Debut Recital Series Continues with Since the Seventies: A Generation of Song on February 18
- San Francisco Opera appoints Nicola Luisotti as Music Director beginning in 2009-10 season
- San Francisco Opera Guild Names New President and Managing Director
- San Francisco Opera Announces Audited Financial Results for Fiscal Year 2005-2006
- 2007 Schwabacher Debut Recital Series opens January 14 with tenor David Portillo
- San Francisco Opera Guild Announces The Valentine's Ball, February 10, 2007
- Merola Opera Program Celebrates 50th Anniversary in 2007
- Merola Opera Program 50th Anniversary Season Schedule
- Carmen casting update: Mezzo-sopranos Hadar Halévy and Kate Aldrich to share title role
- Mezzo-soprano Hadar Halévy to replace Marina Domashenko in title role of Carmen, November 21
- San Francisco Opera and American Guild of Musical Artists Agree to Five-Year Contract
- San Francisco Opera Guild and Neiman Marcus present 'Tis the Season
- Jeannik Méquet Littlefield Makes Historic Gift to San Francisco Opera
- Donald Runnicles/David Gockley Joint Announcement
- 2006-07 Season Announcement Materials Updates
- 2006-07 Season Announcement Materials
- 2006 Adler Fellows Gala Concert
- 2007 Adler Fellowship
- A Masked Ball
- The Barber of Seville
- The Barber of Seville for Families
- Carmen
- Deborah Voigt Receives Merola Opera Program's 2006 Distinguished Alumni Award
- Die Fledermaus
- Manon Lescaut
- Opera a la Carte 2006
- The Opera Dukes - San Francisco Opera at the 2006 Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival
- Opera in the Park
- Rigoletto
- Rigoletto Live Simulcast at Civic Center Plaza in San Francisco, October 6
- Rigoletto Live Simulcast at Stanford University's Frost Amphitheater, October 6
- San Francisco Opera and MobileCast Media Launch Podcasting Partnership
- San Francisco Opera announces "BRAVO! Tix"
- Tristan und Isolde
- San Francisco Opera in the Community
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