Fashion’s Night Out: Fine retailers — including Macy’s, Saks Fifth Avenue, Neiman-Marcus and Gump’s — participated in the international event, which was established in 2009 to boost the fashion industry during the recession. Giveaways and celebrity appearances were part of the fun across The City on Thursday.
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"Heart of a Soldier" is a mighty effort to do the impossible.The new San Francisco Opera production has been dubbed the "9/11 opera," but the team creating it did its best to focus on characters against the background of the destruction of the World Trade Center instead of producing a musical documentary or homage.Circumstances surrounding Saturday's world premiere at the War Memorial Opera House, on the eve of the event's tenth anniversary, didn’t mitigate difficulties arisin
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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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“Here he comes again with another CNN opera,” San Francisco Opera General Director David Gockley joked about himself at a press event about the fast-approaching world premiere of “Heart of a Soldier.”
The opera about 9/11, opening in the War Memorial Opera House on Sept. 10, follows a long line of contemporary works produced by Gockley among 33 premieres during his 33 years at the head of the Houston Grand Opera, John Adams’ 1987 “Nixon in China” among them.
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In yet another of many acclaimed homecomings, world-renowned baritone Thomas Hampson has returned to The City to prepare for an important world premiere.
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On Tuesday, Pearl Harbor Day, San Francisco Opera announced commissioning “Heart of a Soldier,” an opera commemorating 9/11.
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