The San Francisco Opera will also be presenting the American premiere of a double bill based on Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Fall of the House of Usher,” which includes Gordon Getty’s opera “Usher Staged by the provocative Catalan theater and opera director Calixto Bieito. Soprano Diana Damrau as Donizetti’s “Lucia di Lammermoor” Wagner’s “Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg” in a production by David McVicar, and Bizet’s “Carmen” The season’s 10 large-scale works will include Stephen Sondheim’s “Sweeney Todd,” starring the bass-baritone Gerald Finley and the mezzo-soprano Stephanie Blythe the 11 with Verdi’s “Luisa Miller,” starring Michael Fabiano, an in-demand young tenor, Leah Crocetto and Thomas Hampson, conducted by Nicola Luisotti, the company’s To its main stage, the War Memorial Opera House. Wilsey Center for Opera’s 299-seat Atrium Theater, in a building adjacent In early 2016 the company plans to present a season of “intimate and innovative operatic works” in its new Diane B. Gockley, who plans to retire after the season after a decade with the company, said in a statement that he had “stacked my final season at the helm of this great company with some of my most cherished works.” Rising young singers, a mix of old and new works, star directors and a new, intimate theater will all be features of the San Francisco Opera’s 2015-16 season, the last under its transformative general director,ĭavid Gockley, the company announced Wednesday.
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