Date/Time
Saturday 10/14/2023
10:15 am - 3:45 pm
Location
Museo Italo Americano
Categories
Museo Italo Americano & Leonardo Da Vinci Society
In collaboration with Italian Cultural Institute of San Francisco
present
ITALIAN OPERA in SAN FRANCISCO
THEN & NOW
A ONE DAY SYMPOSIUM
This event is part of the Bravo Cultural Program
San Francisco was an “opera town” from the very beginning and remains so to this day. San Francisco Opera partners with the Museo Italo Americano to present a historical seminar highlighting some fascinating aspects of our city’s love affair with opera and the Italians who made it all happen, plus offering some insiders’ views into San Francisco Opera first’s century.
RSVP By October 8, 2023.
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PROGRAM
Ernani by the Bay: How Verdi’s Fifth Opera Became San Francisco’s First Love
The Importance of Italian Diva Claudia Muzio
Lunch break and entertainment
Light lunch included
Capturing the Present, Stewarding the Past
Panel Conversation/Q&A
Photo: Dino Borgioli (as Pinkerton), Maestro Gaetano Merola, and Alfredo Gandolfi (as Sharpless) on the set of Madama Butterfly, 1934. Historical Archive Collection of the Museo Italo
Americano. Gift of Alessandro Baccari
Bookings
Bookings are closed for this event.
