San Francisco Opera's Second Century Dawns with New Music and Fresh Explorations

Music Director Eun Sun Kim To Lead Annual Presentations of Works by Giuseppe Verdi and Richard Wagner Beginning with IL TROVATORE and LOHENGRIN

Company Premieres of Repertoire-Expanding Co-Commissions:
THE (R)EVOLUTION OF STEVE JOBS by Mason Bates and Mark Campbell
OMAR by Rhiannon Giddens and Michael Abels
INNOCENCE by Kaija Saariaho, Sofi Oksanen and Aleksi Barrière

Other 2023–24 Season Highlights Include:
New Co-Production of Gaetano Donizetti’s THE ELIXIR OF LOVE by Daniel Slater
Barrie Kosky and Suzanne Andrade’s Staging of Mozart’s THE MAGIC FLUTE
Return of Handel’s PARTENOPE in Christopher Alden’s Production
OPERA BALL Headlined by Roberto Alagna, Aleksandra Kurzak and Eun Sun Kim
Other Special Events Include Free Opera in the Park and The Elixir of Love Encounter
Third Performance of Each Mainstage Opera Will Be Livestreamed

2023-24 Season Announcement.Pdf

San Francisco Opera Tad and Dianne Taube General Director Matthew Shilvock and Caroline H. Hume Music Director Eun Sun Kim today announced details for the Company’s 101st season, which opens September 8, 2023. To begin the first season of its second century, San Francisco Opera will introduce a new, multi-season initiative where Kim will conduct works by both Giuseppe Verdi and Richard Wagner every season while the Company simultaneously reaffirmed its commitment to expanding the repertoire with three co-commissioned new works by leading composers of today.

Kim, who enters her third year as San Francisco Opera’s music director with the 2023–24 Season, continues the cycle of annual Verdi presentations begun in 2022 with La Traviata by leading another fervent 1853 work from the composer: Il Trovatore (opening September 12). A new-to-San Francisco Opera production of Lohengrin (opening October 15) marks the beginning of a parallel, annual artistic journey under Kim’s baton through the works of Richard Wagner.

Eun Sun Kim said: “The works of Wagner and Verdi are cornerstones of the operatic repertoire as we know it. Each composer blazed new trails in his day—and each changed the world of opera forever. As music director, part of my work is to set priorities for orchestral collaboration that will lead to the artistic growth of the Company. With this in mind, I will program operas from these two giants every year, enabling continuous development of these musical styles and our shared craft.”

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