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SF Opera announces Rigoletto; three English titles; three world premieres

San Francisco Opera announced yesterday the new season opens with a gala on September 7, 2012 and Verdi's Rigoletto. Opera tickets cost up to ...

Werther, Massenet’s non-love story opened last night at the San Francisco Opera with French conductor Emmanuel Villaume and director Negrin,...

The Metropolitan Opera offers many of it's operas over the internet and has a free seven day trial. I find this helpful in checking out opera...

Lucia di Lammermoor bel canto Angela Cadelago in Berkeley last June, pictured with tenor Andy Truett, an SF Opera chorister. Photo: Cindy...

Greer Grimsley in SFO's Salome. Photo: John F. MartinBass-baritone Greer Grimsley, who sang Jokanaan in San Francisco's hit last summer...

Renée Fleming stars in the Met premiere of Rossini’s ArmidaThe new production by Mary Zimmerman, conducted by Riccardo Frizza,features...

Hamlet, not seen for 113 years at the Met, was seen around the world on six continents broadcast live from the Met Saturday and indeed should be...

Berkeley Opera’s 2010 gala at the Julia Morgan designed Chapel of the Chimes last Sunday had an intimate and friendly tone making the event...

Simon Keenlyside and Marlis Petersen star in Thomas’s Hamlet, which returns to the Met for the first time in more than a century.Louis Langr...

Mozart's Don Giovanni opened at Berkeley Opera in the new performing arts center at El Cerrito High School with some clever innovations in staging...