Month: September 2018
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San Francisco Playhouse opens new season with Sandbox Series World Premiere
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The 2018-19 season at San Francisco Playhouse opens this week, with a play which had its World Premiere last season in the Playhouse Sandbox Series – its new works program. Christopher Chen’s You Mean To Do Me Harm proved during this run that it had what it takes to move to Mainstage at the Playhouse,…
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San Francisco Opera’s Fall Season continues with Donizetti’s ‘Roberto Devereux’
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San Francisco Opera goes back to Tudor times for the second production of the Fall Season – Gaetano Donizetti’s Roberto Devereux. The opera opened on Saturday evening, and continues its run on Tuesday, September 11th. Roberto Devereux is the third in what’s known as Donizetti’s ‘Tudor Trilogy’ – preceded by Anna Bolena and Maria Stuarda …
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San Francisco Opera’s Weekend of Celebrations
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The launch of the San Francisco Opera Season is always a grand affair – three consecutive days of festivities starting with the annual Opera Ball and the opening production of the Fall Season on Friday, another first night on Saturday, and the annual free Opera in the Park on Sunday, featuring some of the conductors…
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SFJAZZ launches 2018-19 Season with Cécile McLorin Salvant & Sullivan Fortner
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At SFJAZZ they don’t do anything by halves, and to prove the point, the opening performance of their 2018-19 Season features the fabulous artistry of Cécile McLorin Salvant – lauded as one of the most distinctive and gifted jazz vocalists of her time – and piano virtuoso Sullivan Fortner, considered one of the top jazz…