Friday, June 18, 2010
San Francisco Opera
301 Van Ness Ave, San Francisco  Map

30% off regular ticket prices
To purchase tickets, go to www.sfopera.com/offer and enter code: SUMMERSALE10

The Harvard Club of San Francisco and San Francisco Opera invite you to The Girl of the Golden West on Friday, June 18, 2010. San Francisco Opera is pleased to offer Harvard alumni a very special 30% off regular ticket prices.

In its centennial celebration, Puccini's romantic tale of the California Gold Rush features an all-star cast led by the incomparable Deborah Voigt.

A crafty criminal. A suspicious sheriff. A frontier woman with a tender heart who knows how to shoot a gun. If they sound like characters from a classic Western, they are-except their gunfights and poker games are set to a brilliant, blazing score. With this love triangle set in California's Gold Country, the work Puccini considered "the best of my operas" returns home for the first time in three decades.

Music Director Nicola Luisotti conducts a rip-snortin' cast with Deborah Voigt, "a soprano of penetrating power and clarity" (The New York Times), tenor Salvatore Licitra as her outlaw lover Dick Johnson and baritone Roberto Frontali as the Sheriff.

Prior to the performance, please join Harvard alums for a casual no-host reception and short talk by Opera management at the War Memorial Opera House. Participants will be sent reception details the week of the event. Please let Steven Rahman steven.rahman@alumni.ksg.harvard.edu know if you plan to attend the reception so we can have your name tag ready for Club meet-and-greet purposes.

We strongly suggest that you order early as performances often sell out. Seating is assigned at the time of purchase and is not reserved in advance of this offer. Discount is available through this special web page only, not by phone or in person, and expires at midnight on June 17, 2010. To purchase tickets, go to www.sfopera.com/offer and enter code: SUMMERSALE10