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This program evolved with the creation of San Francisco Opera Center and the Adler Fellowship Program for the further professional development of young singers, coach-pianists and stage directors. In keeping with its namesake’s mission to cultivate new talent, the Merola Opera Program has fostered the careers of a number of today’s superstars, including Anna Netrebko, Deborah Voigt, Joyce DiDonato, Susan Graham, Thomas Hampson and Patrick Summers. In 1957 Adler founded the Merola Opera Program, a training program for young artists that was the first of its kind in America. debuts of Leontyne Price, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Birgit Nilsson and Mario del Monaco-furthering San Francisco’s reputation as a place to hear outstanding singers. The Company became known for presenting newly discovered talent-including the U.S. With Adler at the helm San Francisco Opera’s repertoire expanded, with bold new productions from directors like Jean-Pierre Ponnelle, known for his ability to tread the delicate line between vanguard innovation and traditionalism. Adler was quickly named San Francisco Opera’s artistic director, and was appointed the Company’s next general director in 1957. Merola had invited the Viennese conductor to join San Francisco Opera as chorus director in 1943. The man who rushed to Merola’s side that fateful day was Kurt Herbert Adler. As the soprano performing “Un bel di” from Madama Butterfly sang the word morire (to die), Merola fell-suffering a fatal heart attack. On August 30, 1953, Merola was conducting a performance at Stern Grove.
Wagner’s complete cycle, Der Ring des Nibelungen, presented in 1935, solidified the Company’s standing as an important American center for opera. In the following years, the Company grew larger, seasons grew longer and renowned artists continued to delight San Francisco audiences under Merola’s leadership. On October 15, 1932, the War Memorial Opera House was inaugurated with a performance of Puccini’s Tosca. Through the efforts of a small group of private citizens who brought the fundraising effort to the community, the War Memorial became the first opera house in America built entirely through community donations. Built during the Great Depression, it was constructed as a memorial to San Franciscans who served in World War I. The greatest achievement of the Company’s early days was the construction of the War Memorial Opera House.
From San Diego to Seattle, San Francisco Opera established itself as the opera company of the West Coast and paved the way for other permanent companies in California, Oregon and Washington. Because of their popularity, the Company presented consecutive Los Angeles seasons through 1965 and expanded the tours to other cities. Merola built relationships with the City’s philanthropic and Italian communities and worked to secure funding from San Francisco’s business community to establish the San Francisco Opera Association-the oldest surviving opera company on the West Coast.įrom 1924 to 1937, Merola and a small group of artists made short tours to Los Angeles. He also knew of plans for a grand hall for music and opera, which would eventually become the War Memorial Opera House, and thought it should be inaugurated by a local group. He saw that the money San Franciscans paid to see various touring companies could easily support a permanent opera company. Sung in Italian with projected English translations.The City’s resident company was established in 1923, thanks to a young Neapolitan conductor named Gaetano Merola (1881–1953) who came to San Francisco in 1906. Soaring and sensuous, filled with such beautiful arias as Tosca's "Vissi d'arte", Cavaradossi's "Recondita armonia" and the powerful choral piece "Te Deum", Tosca has some of opera's most beloved music, and one of opera's most gripping plots. But Tosca has a plan of her own, all of which unfolds with tragic consequences from which no one can escape.
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After arresting Cavaradossi for harboring Angelotti, Scarpia plays with Tosca's emotions, promising to free Cavaradossi if Tosca will succumb to Scarpia's desires. Tosca is in love with Cavaradossi, an artist and sympathizer of Angelotti. Scarpia, the chief of police, wants only two things: to recapture the escaped prisoner Angelotti and to seduce Tosca, an opera singer of incredible voice and beauty. Tosca is Giacomo Puccini's gripping drama filled with torture, treachery, lust, execution, and suicide.
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