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There is still time to sign up for our monthly post-security Opera tours. Every first Tuesday of the month at 10am, we will lead a group of visitors behind security to see “San Francisco Opera: A Centennial Celebration!” Sign up here: https://t.co/BTtcSXdt9g #SFOperaCentennial https://t.co/W6cL7aXEYqThis tweet was posted on June 28, 2023.
Learn more about San Francisco Opera’s history in our exhibition “San Francisco Opera: A Centennial Celebration” on display, post-security, in Harvey Milk Terminal 1 and online at: https://t.co/IfqCjTrTVx
#SFOperaCentennial @SFOpera#SFOpera#OperaThis tweet was posted on June 28, 2023.
The extravagant costumes in the 2014 rendition of 𝘉𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘰, including the opulent gown worn by Di Giacomo were originally designed by American designer John Conklin (b. 1937) for a San Francisco Opera production in 1977. #SFOperaCentennial @SFOpera#SFOpera#OperaThis tweet was posted on June 28, 2023.
Julianna Di Giacomo (b. 1975) made her San Francisco Opera debut as Amelia Anckarström, a character that Verdi created as the third point in a fictional, ill-fated relationship between King Gustavus III and Swedish military officer Jacob Johan Anckarström. #SFOperaCentennialThis tweet was posted on June 28, 2023.
In 1857, Italian composer Giuseppe Verdi adapted 𝘜𝘯 𝘉𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘰 𝘪𝘯 𝘔𝘢𝘴𝘤𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘢 from 𝘎𝘶𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘐𝘐𝘐; 𝘰𝘶, 𝘓𝘦 𝘉𝘢𝘭 𝘔𝘢𝘴𝘲𝘶é, an opera by French composer Daniel-François-Esprit Auber and French librettist Augustin-Eugène Scribe. #SFOperaCentennial@SFOperaThis tweet was posted on June 28, 2023.
Learn more about San Francisco Opera’s history in our exhibition “San Francisco Opera: A Centennial Celebration,” which is on display, post-security, in Harvey Milk Terminal 1. https://t.co/IfqCjTrTVx
#SFOperaCentennial @SFOpera#SFOpera#OperaThis tweet was posted on April 14, 2023.
Dorothy Kirsten celebrated her twenty-fifth anniversary with San Francisco Opera on November 28, 1970, with a live broadcast of Italian composer Giacomo Puccini’s 𝘛𝘰𝘴𝘤𝘢, the first radio transmission from the company in twenty-four years. #SFOperaCentennialThis tweet was posted on April 14, 2023.
During San Francisco Opera’s 1954 season, Kirsten sang as Manon Lescaut in Massenet’s 𝘔𝘢𝘯𝘰𝘯 on September 28 and in Los Angeles on October 24, followed by a Metropolitan Opera production on February 2, 1955. #SFOperaCentennialThis tweet was posted on April 14, 2023.
American soprano Dorothy Kirsten started her performing arts career as a radio singer at WINS-New York. In October 1947, Kirsten debuted in a leading role at San Francisco Opera in French composer Gustave Charpentier’s 𝘓𝘰𝘶𝘪𝘴𝘦. #SFOperaCentennialThis tweet was posted on April 14, 2023.
There is still time to sign up for our monthly post-security Opera tours. Every first Tuesday of the month at 10am, we will lead a group of visitors past security to see “San Francisco Opera: A Centennial Celebration!” Sign up here: https://t.co/BTtcSXdt9g #SFOperaCentennial https://t.co/CrGERmr1rwThis tweet was posted on April 11, 2023.
Learn more about San Francisco Opera’s history in our exhibition “San Francisco Opera: A Centennial Celebration” on display, post-security, in Harvey Milk Terminal 1 and online at: https://t.co/IfqCjTrTVx #SFOperaCentennial @SFOpera#SFOpera#OperaThis tweet was posted on March 30, 2023.
That week in November, Flagstad sang as Brünnhilde in "Siegfried" and "Götterdämmerung," the final two parts of "Der Ring des Nibelungen," and was applauded by The Chronicle as “a kind of Nordic Winged Victory.” #SFOperaCentennial@SFOperaThis tweet was posted on March 30, 2023.