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A wonderfully realized production at San Francisco Opera of Jake Heggie's operatic version of a holiday classic. 

Andrea Chénier returns to San Francisco Opera after a long absence, in Sir David McVicar's realistic production. 

This production proves that even Mozart’s best-laid plans can be undone.

After Life, a new opera by Tom Cipullo and David Mason that was commissioned by Seattle-based Music of Remembrance, imagines a posthumous confrontation between Gertrude Stein and Pablo Picasso and poses meaningful and moving questions about the power of art.

Opera Parallèle’s superb production of Heggie's Dead Man Walking reveals a prism of anger and forgiveness. 

San Francisco Opera's thoughtful version of the 1955 opera Susannah, one of the most performed American operas, placing the story of Susannah and the Elders in the Appalachian hills of the 1930s.