He lives in Amsterdam, and as Holland is far behind with vaccinations, he just had his first shot two weeks ago. Music Director Richard Egarr is unlikely to conduct the concerts as originally scheduled. June 11 is open to the public for ticket purchase.” (At the moment, the allowance is 50 percent.)Īctually, the orchestra will also perform on June 10, but by invitation only to those, says Beck, “who joined our Balance Forward program - folks who allowed us to keep their subscription money and roll into the next year. Executive Director Courtney Beck says only 223 will be seated in the 916-seat hall, reflecting the city’s previous 25 percent audience allowance. If and when live opera returns to the War Memorial, new seats will welcome the audience | Credit: Brandon Patocįor Herbst’s reopening, SFCV has learned, Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra & Chorale will do the honors on June 11. Its managing director, John Caldon, told SF Classical Voice: Still, SF Opera is silent on its plans: The best information we could get was “SF Opera will be making a determination and announcement in the coming weeks about the fall season.” Of the two major tenants of the Opera House, SF Ballet has already announced its plans.Īwkward both as a name in full and as an acronym, the historic San Francisco War Memorial and Performing Arts Center (SFWMPAC) is in charge of the War Memorial Opera House, Davies Symphony Hall, Herbst Theater, and other facilities in the Veterans Building. San Francisco’s March 2020 pandemic closure of performance facilities is over for now, Davies Hall, the War Memorial, Herbst Theater, and others can be used with restrictions. Germany’s 80 opera houses open and close with disturbing regularity. Just yesterday, one of the world’s most pandemic-defiant countries, Finland - where Esa-Pekka Salonen led a live performance of Covid fan tutte last August - surprised artists and audiences by calling off the entire Savonlinna Opera festival, even against low COVID-19 rates in the country, and the festival’s mostly outdoor location.
Hard times, with uncertainty the only constant. formerly virus-free Taiwan being shut down by the pandemic the prospect of the Olympics in Japan being canceled the last minute European opera houses opening and closing, and so on. June is about to bust out all over, with renewal and retreat concert halls opening and closing the enormous tragedy in India, with the COVID-19 variant from there spreading around the world CDC confusion about masks in the U.S. SF Opera Music Director Eun Sun Kim was set to conduct opening night in 2020, may yet do it this fall | Credit: Marc Olivier Le Blanc
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