SF Opera's One-Night Strauss Concert Nov. 6 Brings a U.S. Premiere 'Rosenkavalier' Suite
San Francisco Opera Music Director Eun Sun Kim moves the orchestra from the pit to the stage on Friday, Nov. 6, for a one-night all-Strauss program with soprano Adela Zaharia. Tickets start at $30.
By the Bay Area Brief staff · Edited by Seamus McKenna · · 3 min read
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San Francisco Opera's annual fall orchestra concert is an all-Richard Strauss evening on Friday, Nov. 6 at 7:30 p.m. on the stage of the War Memorial Opera House, 301 Van Ness Ave. Music Director Eun Sun Kim conducts, and tickets start at $30.
The program
Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks, Op. 28, Strauss' tone poem about a medieval trickster
Sechs Lieder (Brentano Lieder), Op. 68, sung by Romanian soprano Adela Zaharia, who sang in the company's Rigoletto last season
Der Rosenkavalier Suite, in a new arrangement by Philippe Jordan and Tomáš Ille, getting its U.S. debut
The company says the evening runs about 1 hour 33 minutes with one intermission, and that its previous two fall concerts sold out.
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Two smaller San Francisco Opera concerts in November give a closer look at the company: the Adler Fellows' annual showcase on Nov. 20 and an Opera Chorus concert on Nov. 22.
Phoebe Bridgers plays Chase Center in San Francisco on Oct. 27 and Oct. 28, with Alex G as the special guest. The second night was added after the first was announced.
