Final Dress Rehearsals

Bring your group to experience live opera in the War Memorial Opera House.

DEC invites community groups to watch final dress rehearsals--the last run-through of a production, with full costumes, makeup, lightning, and sound, before it opens to the public.

San Francisco Opera Guild enables school groups to attend final dress rehearsal performances through their Student Dress Rehearsals program.

War Memorial Opera House interior house right with production onstage and a live audience.

WHO IT'S FOR

Community groups as such as K-12 public school groups, homeschool groups, university groups, seniors, culturally affiliated community groups, and local arts organizations, et cetera.

HOW TO ATTEND

Contact San Francisco Opera Department of Diversity, Equity and Community at DEC@sfopera.com to inquire about attending dress rehearsals.

Contact San Francisco Opera Guild at guildeducation@sfopera.com to learn more about bringing student groups to final dress rehearsal performances. To reserve final dress rehearsal seats for your students, please complete the application below.

Student Dress RehearsalS Application

Tue, Sep 3 at 6pm

Un Ballo in Maschera

King Gustav III secretly harbors a love for Amelia, the wife of his closest advisor and friend. When a visit to a fortune teller confirms that his love is reciprocated and reveals a plot against his life, the seeds of his undoing take root.

Thu, Sep 12 at 6pm

The Handmaid's Tale

In a dystopian future, women are forced into childbearing servitude by an extremist theocratic regime. Escape is nearly impossible—but Offred, a handmaid, is determined to find a way back to her child, no matter the cost.

Based on the landmark novel by Margaret Atwood, this intense operatic drama gives voice to a terrifying, fictional world.

Tue, Oct 15 at 2pm

Tristan and Isolde

Isolde has been captured by Tristan, who is delivering her as a trophy to his uncle, King Marke. She seeks death for them both, but when her maid swaps out the intended poison with a love potion, so begins an epic romance.

Sun, Nov 10 at 2pm

Carmen

As free as a rebellious bird, it is hard to escape the magnetic allure of Carmen. Entranced by her passionate seguidilla, the soldier Don José descends into a dangerous spiral of desire.