Partenope
Final Performance Friday!
Partenope
By George Frideric Handel
"The production has all the great singing you could want...a remarkable cast." San Francisco Chronicle
Overview
Dates
June 15-28, 2024
Composer
George Frideric Handel
Price
Starting at $26
Run Time
3 hours, 24 minutes with two intermissions
Language
Italian
Roaring Twenties. Raging Love.
She’s the most eligible bachelorette in 1920s Paris. And she’s besieged by suitors.
Love is a battlefield in Christopher Alden’s Olivier award-winning production of Partenope, a laugh-out-loud comedy of romance and rejection, set to some of George Frideric Handel’s most masterful music.
A master of the Baroque repertoire, Christopher Moulds returns to the podium to lead Handel’s virtuosic score, a brisk confection full of high-flying virtuosity and emotionally stirring arias.
See a Performance
Learn more about Partenope during a 90-minute exploration of the music and history, led by dynamic opera experts and scholars. Click on the Opera Previews button below for more information.
Opera Previews
OperaVision, HD video projection screens featured in the Balcony level for the first three performances.
Synopsis
Partenope is the queen of the Paris social scene, her salon a magnet to the era’s surrealist artists as they vie for her hand in a laugh-out-loud comedy.
* San Francisco Opera Debut
PERFORMANCES
June 15, 19, 23, 25, 28, 2024
English National Opera and Opera Australia Co-Production
Made Possible By
This production is made possible, in part, by Barbara A. Wolfe; Bernard and Barbro Osher; Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem; and Denise Littlefield Sobel