San Francisco Opera is ready for fall, with new works, classics, special events, in-person concerts and live-streams on the calendar.
Those attractions and more highlight the company’s 2024-25 season, announced recently by company general director Matthew Shilvock and music director Eun Sun Kim.
The 2024-25 season — the company’s 102nd — runs Sept. 6 through June 27, 2025, with six mainstage productions, the company’s first-ever performance of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, and a special “Pride Concert,” celebrating San Francisco’s LGBTQIA community, scheduled to close the season with details to be announced.
The six featured operas begin with Verdi’s “Un Ballo In Maschera,” opening the mainstage season on Sept. 6 with Kim conducting, and a cast that features soprano Lianna Haroutounian as Amelia, tenor Michael Fabiano as Gustav III, and baritone Amartuvshin Enkhbat as Renato.
September also brings the West Coast premiere of “The Handmaid’s Tale,” inspired by Margaret Atwood’s 1985 novel and created by esteemed Danish composer Poul Ruders and librettist Paul Bentley; mezzo-soprano Irene Roberts will sing the leading role of Offred, and Karen Kamensek conducts (Sept. 14-Oct. 1). Wagner’s “Tristan und Isolde” returns, conducted by Kim (Oct. 19-Nov. 5), followed by Bizet’s “Carmen,” with Swiss mezzo-soprano Eve-Maud Hubeaux in the title role (Nov. 13-Dec. 1). Other featured singers for the season include mezzo-soprano Daniela Mack, and tenors Simon O’Neill and Matthew Polenzani.
Additional 2024 events include the annual “Opera Ball” (Sept. 6), “Opera In the Park” (Sept. 8, Golden Gate Park), Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony (Oct. 26), “Adler Fellows in Concert” (Nov. 15), “A Carmen Encounter” (Nov. 21), and “San Francisco Opera Chorus in Concert” (Nov. 17).
The season also features Puccini’s “La Bohème” (June 3-21, 2025) and Mozart’s “Idomeneo” (June 14-25, 2025). The company will revive its popular “Bohème Out of the Box,” designed to offer outdoor performances throughout the Bay Area. Looking forward, the company also announced “The Monkey King,” a new commission by composer Huang Ruo and librettist David Henry Hwang; the opera will make its world premiere in fall 2025, with dates to be announced.
San Francisco Opera is offering live-streams for each mainstage opera and the “Pride Concert,” the latter still to be scheduled with a date in 2025.
Season tickets are now available: $120-$2,530 (half series $526-$1,619); as are individual tickets, $28-$438. Additional ticket options and more information are available at sfopera.com.
