EUN SUN KIM CONDUCTS VERDI
San Francisco Opera House, June 30 , 2022
San Francisco Opera House
Concluding the Company’s 99th Season, Eun Sun Kim Conducts Verdi is a one-night-only concert honoring the work of Italian composer Giuseppe Verdi. Caroline H. Hume Music Director Eun Sun Kim closes her first season as leader of San Francisco Opera’s artistic forces, conducting the San Francisco Opera Orchestra, Chorus and soloists soprano Nicole Car, tenor Arturo Chacón-Cruz, baritone Etienne Dupuis, bass Soloman Howard and members of San Francisco Opera’s Adler Fellowship Program (soprano Mikayla Sager, tenorEdward Graves, bass Stefan Egerstrom). San Francisco Opera’s Chorus Director John Keene prepares the Chorus.
The evening will spotlight extended scenes from three of the composer’s masterpieces from different periods of his momentous career: Verdi’s early and middle periods with selections from Luisa Miller (1849) and Il Trovatore (1853) and Verdi’s late-period masterwork Don Carlo (1867), including its dramatic Auto-Da-Fé Scene and rarely performed ballet music.