09 Jul 2008

How SFO Closed Its Season

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121547549707834097.html?mod=opinion_journal_leisure_art

(Photo by Terrence McCarthy courtesy of San Francisco Opera)
By DAVID LITTLEJOHN [Wall Street Journal, 8 July 2008]

From early last September to early December, the San Francisco Opera presented eight operas in rotating repertory. It then handed over the War Memorial Opera House to the San Francisco Ballet until early May. The company returned to the opera house for three more productions this summer.