Harvard Business School and San Francisco Opera invite you to Aida on Thursday, December 2, 2010. San Francisco Opera is pleased to offer Harvard and HBS alumni a very special 30% off regular ticket prices.

To purchase tickets visit: www.sfopera.com/offer
Enter offer code: HBS

Aida
by Giuseppe Verdi

"Eye-popping...a fresh fanciful production" (Houston Chronicle) created by legendary British fashion designer Zandra Rhodes (The Pearl Fishers, 2005).

The grandest of grand operas, a brilliant balance of spectacular pageantry and emotional intimacy, returns to San Francisco Opera for the first time in nearly a decade. A bitter love triangle plays itself out against a backdrop of war and cultural oppression in this compelling tale of conflicting loyalties and forbidden passion.

The November cast is headed by Michele Capalbo, "a world-class Aida, passionate, subtle and vocally satisfying" (Opera News); tenor Carlo Ventre, a riveting performer who projects "unalloyed passion" (Washington Post); and baritone Quinn Kelsey, who "boosts a rare and welcome gift, an enormous vocal sound that he deploys with the lightness of an acrobat" (San Francisco Chronicle).

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 Steve 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 November 28, 2010.