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SFO Centennial Celebration display at SF International Airport

San Francisco Opera: A Centennial Celebration at San Francisco International Airport

Exhibition extended to October 29th, 2023!

SFO Museum at San Francisco International airport recently unveiled a new exhibition in connection with San Francisco Opera’s centennial titled San Francisco Opera: A Centennial Celebration. The curated installation in the Harvey Milk Terminal 1 (located post-security in Departures Level 2) showcases the Company’s rich history and the art of operatic stagecraft.

The exhibition captures one hundred years of San Francisco Opera through a curated selection of costumes, stage props, set models and archival photographs from the collections of San Francisco Opera, the Museum of Performance + Design and the Metropolitan Opera Archives.

SFO Museum is located post-security in Harvey Milk Terminal 1 (Departures Level 2) at San Francisco International Airport. The free exhibition can be seen by all travelers using San Francisco International Airport Terminal 1 or through appointment by emailing curator@flysfo.com.

For more information and to view the Exhibition Image Gallery, visit sfomuseum.org/exhibitions/san-francisco-opera-centennial.

Highlights from the exhibition include:

Romeo and Juliet costume

Roméo et Juliette, 1923

A cape and cap worn by famed Italian tenor Beniamino Gigli in Gounod’s Roméo et Juliette during San Francisco Opera’s inaugural 1923 season.

(Photos courtesy of SFO Museum.)

Die Walküre, 1935

Legendary Norwegian soprano Kirsten Flagstad’s Brünnhilde costume from Richard Wagner's Die Walküre the 1935 Company premiere of the composer's The Ring of the Nibelung.

 

(Photos courtesy of SFO Museum.)

Bruunhilde's costume
1940's French military outfit

La Fille du Régiment, c. 1940s

The military outfit worn by French soprano Lily Pons in Donizetti’s La Fille du Régiment during the 1940s.


(Photos courtesy of SFO Museum.)

Manon, 1954

A dress from Massenet’s Manon worn by soprano and inaugural recipient of the Company’s Opera Medal, Dorothy Kirsten.


(Photo courtesy of SFO Museum.)

Dress from Manon

San Francisco Opera: A Centennial Celebration will be on view through October 29, 2023. SFO Museum is located post-security in Harvey Milk Terminal 1 (Departures Level 2) at San Francisco International Airport. The free exhibition can be seen by all travelers using San Francisco International Airport Terminal 1, or through appointment by emailing curator@flysfo.com.

For more information and to view the Exhibition Image Gallery, visit sfomuseum.org/exhibitions/san-francisco-opera-centennial.