Huang Ruo’s “The Monkey King,” based on an episode from the 16th century Chinese novel “Journey to the West” in which a ...

San Francisco Opera has announced details for the Company's 2025–26 Season. The Company's 103rd season, which marks Shilvock's tenth as general director, kicks off September 5.

Composer Huang Ruo's latest work, The Monkey King, will have its world premiere at the San Francisco Opera on November 14.

Schumann was one of the prime figures in musical romanticism, and his songs set words of poets similarly concerned with ...

With music director Fabio Luisi back on the podium after a two-month break, the program comprised two Austro-German classics ...

1802: The first leopard in captivity is exhibited in Boston, US. 1823: Gioachina Rossini’s opera “Semiramide” premieres in ...

1845 – Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven” was published for the first time in the “New York Evening Mirror.” 1848 – Greenwich Mean ...

Mathematician John Napier predicts end of the world in 1688 or 1700. 1728: John Gay’s “The Beggar’s Opera” premieres ...

Tenor Pene Pati says it was such a far-fetched dream to be able to make this debut. He's proud to represent Samoa and ...

Works & Process at the Guggenheim will present San Francisco Opera’s “The Monkey King” by Huang Ruo and David Henry Hwang with Diane Paulus. The event will be held on March 9, 2025, at the Peter B.

While working in the kitchen more than full time, I also made time to play a major role in an indie rock opera in San Francisco called Abigail. It was a really cool Tim Burton-esque rock opera ...