San Francisco Opera has introduced its upcoming season, with Music Director Eun Solar Kim on the middle of the repertory—and a protracted Wagner arc now formally underway.
Kim conducts Verdi’s Simon Boccanegra, Massenet’s Manon, and Wagner’s Das Rheingold, the latter marking the primary formal step towards a whole Ring of the Nibelung, deliberate for 2028.
The season opens September 12–13 with a full weekend slate: the Opera Ball gala, performances of Simon Boccanegra, and the corporate’s annual free Opera within the Park live performance.
Among the many season’s notable returns is Thea Musgrave’s Mary, Queen of Scots (1977), hardly ever staged and now coming again to San Francisco in a brand new co-production, starring soprano Heidi Stober.
Customary repertory revivals embrace Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro in Michael Cavanagh’s manufacturing and Puccini’s Tosca, with Rachel Willis-Sørensen singing the title function for the primary time.
Kim additionally leads the San Francisco Opera Orchestra and soprano Adela Zaharia in an all–Richard Strauss live performance program. The corporate’s PRIDE CONCERT returns in summer time 2027.
Full forged lists beneath.
San Francisco Opera 2026–27 Season
Simon Boccanegra (Verdi) September 12–27, 2026
Amartuvshin Enkhbat (Simon Boccanegra), Eleonora Buratto*/Toni Marie Palmertree (Amelia/Maria), Christian Van Horn (Jacopo Fiesco), Joshua Guerrero* (Gabriele Adorno), Aleksey Bogdanov (Paolo Albiani) Eun Solar Kim, conductor Claus Guth*, unique director; Katherine M. Carter, revival director
Mary, Queen of Scots (Musgrave) September 20–October 4, 2026
Heidi Stober (Mary, Queen of Scots), Thomas Mole* (James Stewart, Earl of Moray), Thomas Kinch (Earl of Bothwell), Christopher Sokolowski* (Lord Darnley), Hadleigh Adams (David Riccio), Philip Skinner (Lord Gordon), David Soar (Cardinal Beaton) Clelia Cafiero*, conductor Stewart Laing*, director
Manon (Massenet) October 15–November 1, 2026
Amina Edris (Manon), Pene Pati (Chevalier des Grieux), Vitor Bispo* (Lescaut), James Creswell (Comte des Grieux), Steven Cole (Guillot de Morfontaine), Taylor Raven (Rosette) Eun Solar Kim, conductor Vincent Boussard, director
Le nozze di Figaro (Mozart) October 31–November 29, 2026
Peter Kellner* (Figaro), Slávka Zámečníková (Susanna), Thomas Mole (Rely Almaviva), Olivia Smith (Countess Almaviva), Simone McIntosh (Cherubino), Maurizio Mararo (Physician Bartolo), Catherine Cook dinner (Marcellina), Alek Shrader (Don Basilio), Likelihood Jonas-O’Toole (Don Curzio) Sebastian Weigle*, conductor Shawna Lucey, director; Michael Cavanagh, unique director
Das Rheingold (Wagner) Might 29–June 22, 2027
Brian Mulligan (Wotan), Falk Struckmann (Alberich), Brenton Ryan (Loge), Judit Kutasi (Fricka), Zhengyi Bai (Mime), Sadie Cheslak (Erda), Patrick Guetti (Fafner), Kwangchul Youn (Fasolt), Sofia Gotch (Woglinde), Laura Krumm (Wellgunde), Taylor Raven (Flosshilde), conductor Eun Solar Kim, director Francesca Zambello
Tosca (Puccini) June 4–July 2, 2027
Rachel Willis-Sørensen (Floria Tosca), Riccardo Massi* (Mario Cavaradossi), Quinn Kelsey (Baron Scarpia), Dale Travis (Sacristan) Clelia Cafiero, conductor Shawna Lucey, director
*San Francisco Opera debut
