

Sierra is a two-time canceler (Carmen and Manon) and Hymel has maybe a 50% chance of singing. Maybe they'll try pairing him with Sierra for this one, since Manon didn't work out? Maybe Pretty Yende or Golda Schultz or Andriana Chuchman? It's Bryan Hymel and Nadine Sierra. Romeo & Juliette, Gounod, to open the season.50% here: yes, Burden as Vere, no sign of Fabiano. I don't see any other opera here where he fits, unless he has been learning Vere, but I'd bet on William Burden for that. I mean, considering that Antony and Cleopatra was commissioned for the centennial season even before GGW was on staged.Īt the Adler Fellow concert, Michael Fabiano told me he'd be singing in SF next year, so yeah, perhaps my guess on Romeo was good. Let me go out on a limb and guess that we'll have another opera from John Adams around his 80th birthday, so 2027.I asked SFO about it and the response was "San Francisco Opera has not made any announcement about this." Well, I knew that, and would bet that the composer's agent broke the usual restrictions on premature announcements and also that various people at SFO are now banging the walls or have their heads in their hands. A friend spotted "this will be done at SFO in 2023" in the composer's bio in a San Francisco Symphony program.

Given when I heard about this, maybe in 2023-24 or the season after.

Verdi: Eun Sun Kim to conduct one Verdi opera annually.Announced from the stage at the centennial season opening concert by Matthew Shilvock, so this one's for real.
