The San Francisco Opera announced Tuesday that it has canceled its fall 2020 season because of the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic.
The fall season for the opera was scheduled to open on Sept. 11 with an opening night celebration concert, but organizers said current public health information about the virus and state and local guidelines made it impossible to move forward with the season.
There were to be 37 performances of five operas in the season, which was set to run through Dec. 6 at the War Memorial Opera House.
Officials with the San Francisco Operas said they are exploring virtual ways to celebrate the traditional opening weekend of the season.
The opera plans to return to the stage for the spring 2021 season as planned on April 25.
Ticketholders for the fall season will be contacted with options, including receiving a full refund, receiving a gift certificate for the value of their tickets, or donating the value of their tickets to the opera. People can also visit https://sfopera.com/fall2020 to select their preferred option.
I hadn’t planned on going to the opera anyway, but when will this hysteria stop? Are we going to cower-in-place forever? Wear masks forever? I suspect that once the November elections are over we won’t see anyone wearing a mask again…until they need to scare the hell out of us or try and gain more control. I call BS.
Opera done??? Finally something that will shake seedy Gavin to the core. He should take 19 year old Brittany Mountz once more and drown her in Pelosi party booze as he did a decade ago. Newscum, old scrot!
Opera – what’s all the screaming about?
Thanks for the smile, KBB! I do attend the opera and sometimes ask myself the same question!
Did someone say Oprah was cancelled? What, another one of those beefs with the cattle industry?
Gittyup – Thanks for a little humor here. It’s dismaying that those who aren’t even interested in opera find the announcement yet another trigger to spray rage indiscriminately.
Oh, Bwunhilda,
They killed the Wabbit!
😀🤣🤣🤣
Also…In the ongoing effort to erase history, the War Memorial Theatre must be demolished immediately.
Hope Coit Tower or the Golden Gate Bridge do not evoke any un-woke sentiment. At one point, there was labor unrest surrounding the longshoremen at the Embarcadero. There go the Piers.
Historians agree Mission Dolores was built with some Native American workers, who, by some accounts, were not treated fairly. Not to mention, the Christian/Catholic heritage of Mission fathers that might be considered unfashionable today. That would mean that the 21 California Missions might be symbols of something, anything. Perhaps the name change suggested for Stanford University will not be sufficient to continue to justify its existence, considering who funded it.
It’s easy to cancel the season when the majority of patrons have season tickets.
Looking at the demographics of opera and musical patrons anecdotally, it appears once White Boomers die off, that industry will fold. They need to attract young people or they are doomed. I would have loved to have gone when I was a young dude, but ticket prices made that an impossibility. I don’t think young people of today have any interest in that stuff at all.
@anonymous Our entire sixth grade Loma Vista class was bussed to a matinee of La Boheme in San Francisco back in the 1950s. The ticket prices were “adjusted” so that the cost was not bad. Several parents accompanied the group. It’s one of the few things I actually remember about the sixth grade because it was quite impressive. I guess they are not still doing that sort of “cultural exposure” then?
@Gittyup I have no idea. I do know when I was in college and would have gone, the prices were too steep. The symphony was cheaper, but as a poor student, the best deal to be had was at the First Unitarian on Franklin. They had a great chamber series with a steep student discount.
Why is nobody reacting to the removal of Columbus’ statue. What an insult to the Bay Area’s Italian heritage. Slippery Sloap. He was financed by Spain, so the Hispanics are next.
Was going to add Columbus statue to my previous post above but figured no one would give a s**t about Italians, their heritage, accomplishments, contributions, at least that has been my life long experience. Yes, Columbus was funded by the Spanish but they fall into one of the protected groups and not so for Italians. Most of us are very pale.
I like the “JG Wentworth 877-Cash Now” opera.