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The upper floors of the Veterans Building housed the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (formerly the San Francisco Museum of Art) from 1935 to 1994. [2] In 1980 the new Louise M. Davies Symphony Hall opened, on a site on Van Ness across the sidestreet from the Opera House, as part of the SFWMPAC complex.
The War Memorial Opera House is an opera house in San Francisco, California, located on the western side of Van Ness Avenue across from the west side/rear facade of the San Francisco City Hall. It is part of the San Francisco War Memorial and Performing Arts Center. It has been the home of the San Francisco Opera since opening night in 1932.
Also, she was artistic advisor to the San Francisco Opera from 2006 until 2011. Between 2011 and 2022, she was artistic and general director of the Glimmerglass Festival in Cooperstown, [4] and she is currently the artistic director of Washington National Opera, a post that she has held since 2012. [5]
In June 2019, she returned to San Francisco for the title role in Bizet's Carmen. [11] She made her Metropolitan Opera debut reprising her role in Akhnaten in November 2019, and her Washington National Opera debut as Delilah in Samson and Delilah by Saint-Saëns in March 2020. [12] [13]
Opera in Washington, DC had become established after World War I and it did flourish for a time as the Washington National Opera Association [1] until the Depression and World War Two years, and into the 1960s in various outdoor opera venues. However, with the establishment of the Opera Society of Washington in 1956–57, the way was laid for a ...
During the nine years following the opening season, the San Francisco War Memorial Opera House was designed by Arthur Brown Jr. San Francisco Opera programs, 1934–36. On October 15, 1932, the company inaugurated the new opera house with a performance of Tosca on with Claudia Muzio in the titular role. Characteristic of Merola's years as ...
Mulligan has garnered much critical acclaim in his career, particularly for his performances of Sweeney Todd and Richard Nixon in Nixon in China, both with San Francisco Opera, Enrico in the David Alden production of Lucia di Lammermoor at Canadian Opera Company, English National Opera, and Washington National Opera, the title role of Hamlet at ...
Arturo Chacón-Cruz. Arturo Chacón Cruz (August 20, 1977) is a Mexican American operatic tenor.A winner of the Operalia competition in 2005, he went on to sing leading roles at many North American opera theatres, including Los Angeles Opera, Washington National Opera, San Francisco Opera, Carnegie Hall, and Houston Grand Opera.