Mezzo-Soprano
Saturday, November 1, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Beethoven 5 & Falla
Overview
Run Time
1 hour 33 minutes with one intermission
Following last season's sold out concert of Beethoven 9, Eun Sun Kim returns to conduct the San Francisco Opera Orchestra onstage with Beethoven's glorious, fate-propelled Fifth Symphony, acclaimed by E.M. Forster as "the most sublime noise that has ever penetrated into the human ear." The concert also features Spanish composer Manuel de Falla's evocative Seven Popular Songs (Siete Canciones Populares Españolas), featuring beloved San Francisco Opera artist, Daniela Mack, who recently portrayed Frida Kahlo, and his fiery The Three-Cornered Hat (El Sombrero de Tres Picos). One night only!
Program
| MANUEL DE FALLA | Siete canciones populares españolas (Seven Popular Songs) |
| MANUEL DE FALLA | El sombrero de tres picos (The Three-Cornered Hat) SUITE NO. 2 |
| LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN | Symphony No. 5 in C Minor, Op. 67 |
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SAT, NOV 1, 2025
7:30 PM
Cast
Creative Team
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Beethoven & Falla is made possible, in part, by Jan Shrem & Maria Manetti Shrem and Jerome & Thao Dodson.
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