Huang Ruo’s “The Monkey King,” based on an episode from the 16th century Chinese novel “Journey to the West” in which a ...

San Francisco Opera has announced details for the Company's 2025–26 Season. The Company's 103rd season, which marks Shilvock's tenth as general director, kicks off September 5.

The Monkey King composer, Huang Ruo, was inspired to write the opera to give his children a superhero figure from Asia to look up to.

Composer Huang Ruo's latest work, The Monkey King, will have its world premiere at the San Francisco Opera on November 14.

A native of Krasnodar, she studied at the St. Petersburg Conservatory and joined the Kirov Opera in 1994. Her U.S. debut the following year at San Francisco Opera in Glinka’s “Ruslan and ...

On Friday night, the Houston Grand Opera brought back its zestful and poignant staging of "La Bohème" – a joint production with San Francisco Opera and the Canadian Opera Company seen in 2018 ...

That was definitely in the beginning. You know, I was only 17 when I did that. Just joking. I was at that point an assistant director at the San Francisco Opera. I worked for a lot of different ...

Playwright James Ijames turns William Shakespeare’s Hamlet on its head in this piping hot play that transports the drama to a modern-day barbecue in the American South.