This will be the last season for the SFO in the War Memorial Opera House before it undergoes a long awaited year and a half renovation (the '96 season will be elsewhere, but the house should reopen in time for the '97 season, SFO's 75th anniversary.)

Ticket prices vary between $21 and $135 (Soap: the per ticket production costs would probably come out to double those prices.) Check with the War Memorial Opera House Box Office: (415) 864-3330

• Donizetti: Anna Bolena

  (Sung in Italian)

• Cast:
  • Anne Boleyn: Carol Vaness
  • Jane Seymour: Susanne Mentzer
  • Henry VIII: Roberto Scandiuzzi
  • Lord Richard Percy: Giuseppe Sabbatini
  • Harvey: Dennis Petersen

• Production:
  • Conductor: Roberto Abbado
  • Director: John Copley
  • Set Designer: John Pascoe
  • Costume Designer: Michael Stennett

• Dates: Sept. 8, 12, 15, 24(M), 27, 30

• Glinka:Ruslan and Lyudmila

  (Sung in Russian)

• Cast:
  • Lyudmila: Anna Netrebko
  • Ratmir: Elena Zaremba
  • Gorislava: Valentina Tsedipova
  • Naina: Catherine Cook
  • Ruslan: Jeffrey Wells/Vladimir Ognovenko
  • Finn: Vladimir Atlantov
  • Farlaf: Vladimir Ognovenko

• Production:
  • Conductor: Valery Gergiev
  • Production: Lofti Mansouri
  • Designers: Alexander Golovin/ Konstantin Korovin
  • Realized by Thierry Bosquet
  • Lighting Designer: Thomas J. Munn

• Dates: Sept. 9, 14, 17(M), 19, 22, 26, 29

• Verdi:La Traviata

  (Sung in Italian)

• Cast:
  • Violetta: Verónica Villarroel
  • Flora: Elizabeth Bishop
  • Alfredo: Roberto Aronica
  • Germont: Gregory Yurisich
  • Baron Douphol: Eduardo del Campo
  • Gastone: Alfredo Portilla

• Production:
  • Conductor: Steven Mercurio
  • Production: John Copley
  • Designer: John Conklin
  • Costume Designer: David Walker
  • Lighting Designer: Thomas J. Munn

• Dates: Sept. 16, 20, 23, 28, Oct. 1(M), 4, 7, 12

• Puccini:Madama Butterfly

  (Sung in Italian)

• Cast:
  • Cio-Cio-San: Catherine Malfitano/Yoko Watanabe (Dec.)
  • Suzuki: Catherine Keen
  • B. F. Pinkerton: Richard Leech/Richard Margison (Dec.)
  • Sharpless: Victor Ledbetter/Theodore Berg (Dec.)
  • Goro: Dennis Petersen/Michel Sénéchal (Dec.)
  • Bonze: Philip Skinner

• Production:
  • Conductor: Donald Runnicles
  • Director: Sandra Bernhard
  • Designer: Toni Businger

• Dates: Oct. 3, 6, 8(M), 11, 14, 17, 20, 22(M), Dec. 2(M), 4, 9

• Rossini:La Cenerentola

  (Sung in Italian)

• Cast:
  • Angelina: Olga Borodina
  • Don Ramiro: Kurt Streit
  • Don Magnifico: Simone Alaimo
  • Dandini: Lucio Gallo
  • Clorinda: Kristin Clayton
  • Tisbe: Elizabeth Bishop
  • Alidoro: Dale Travis

• Production:
  • Conductor: Carlo Rizzi
  • Production: Jean-Perre Ponnelle
  • Director: Chrisopher Alden
  • Lighting Designer: Thomas J. Munn

• Dates: Oct. 13, 15(M), 18, 21, 25, 28, Nov. 2

• Gounod:Faust

  (Sung in French)

• Cast:
  • Marguerite: Nancy Gustafson
  • Siebel: Susan Quittmeyer
  • Marthe Schwerlein: Catherine Cook
  • Faust: Richard Leech
  • Méphistophélès: Samuel Ramey
  • Valentin: Rodney Gilfry
  • Wagner: Philip Skinner

• Production:
  • Conductor: Patrick Summers
  • Director:
  • Designer: Gerard Howland
  • Lighting Designer: Thomas J. Munn

• Dates: Oct. 26, 29(M), 31 Nov. 3, 8, 11, 16

• Wagner:Die Walküre

  (Sung in German)

• Cast:
  • Brünnhilde: Gabriele Schnaut
  • Sieglinde: Anne Evans
  • Fricka: Marjana Lipovsek
  • Faust: Richard Leech
  • Siegmund: Paul Elming
  • Wotan: James Morris/Willard White
  • Hunding: Victor von Halem

• Production:
  • Conductor: Donald Runnicles
  • Production: Nikolaus Lenhoff
  • Stage Director: Laurie Feldman
  • Designer: John Conklin
  • Lighting Designer: Thomas J. Munn

• Dates: Nov. 4, 7, 12(M), 15, 21, 25, 29

• Mozart:Don Giovanni

  (Sung in Italian)

• Cast:
  • Donna Anna: Deborah Riedel
  • Donna Elvira: Daniela Dessi
  • Zerlina: Rebecca Evans
  • Don Giovanni: Samuel Ramey (Nov. 14, 18, 20)/William Shimell
  • Don Ottavio: John Mark Ainsley/Stanford Olsen (Dec. 1, 3, 7)
  • Leporello: Alfonso Antoniozzi
  • Masetto: Earle Patriarco

• Production:
  • Conductor: Donald Runnicles
  • Director: Lofti Mansouri
  • Designer:Gerard Howland

• Dates: Nov. 14, 18, 20, 24, 28, Dec. 1, 3(M), 7

• Dvorák:Rusalka

  (Sung in Czech)

• Cast:
  • Rusalka: Renée Fleming
  • The Foreign Princess: Stephanie Sundine
  • Jezibaba: Felicity Palmer
  • The Prince: Sergei Larin
  • The Water Sprite: Philip Skinner
  • The Gamekeeper: Michel Sénéchal
  • Masetto: Earle Patriarco

• Production:
  • Conductor: Charles Mackerras
  • Director: Laurie Feldman
  • Designer :Günther Schneider-Siemssen
  • Costume Designer: Dietmar Solt
  • Lighting Designer: Joan Arhelger

• Dates: Nov. 26, 30 Dec. 2, 6, 8, 10(M)