Holiday Hob Nob on the Hill: The annual fundraiser for St. Francis Memorial Hospital’s programs and services — including the facility’s new critical care unit — took place Dec. 2 at the Fairmont Hotel in The City. The progressive gala started with cocktails in the Venetian Room, and was followed by a three-course meal in the Gold Room and desserts and dancing back in the Venetian Room.
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Thousands of opera lovers are expected to head to AT&T Park Sunday afternoon for a live simulcast of a San Francisco Opera performance of Puccini's 'Turandot.'The production at the War Memorial Opera House will be transmitted to AT&T Park's Mitsubishi Electric Diamond Vision Scoreboard, which is approximately 103-feet wide, according to organizers.
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The San Francisco Opera kicked off its 2011-12 season Friday at the War Memorial Opera House with Puccini’s “Turandot” featuring Iréne Theorin in the title role and Music Director Nicola Luisotti conducting, as well as preparations for Saturday’s world premiere of Christopher Theofanidis’ “Heart of a Soldier.”
Click on the photo at right to see a slideshow of the San Francisco Opera gala opening.
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For almost a century and a half, opera audiences have flocked to any part of the globe where Richard Wagner’s “The Ring of the Nibelung” was being produced.
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There is a hard-fought election campaign, an unwed teenage pregnancy in the family of a candidate, general denunciation of the ruler to be replaced … and then there is Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi taking it all in, watching, not doing anything about it.
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