San Francisco Opera and San Francisco Public Library celebrate the art of storytelling with The Opera in You, a free writing and storytelling workshop series inviting the public to discover their own operatic tales. The workshops will be held at public library branches throughout San Francisco from March through May 2024. Free, live online workshops are also offered. The workshops will culminate in a free public storytelling event on June 15 at San Francisco Public Library’s Main Library Koret Auditoriu

San Franciscans love a good costume party.  In fact dressing up, having a couple cocktails and doing something artsy is a San Francisco tradition as old as the gold rush.  It warmed my cold, foggy heart when I saw our Opera House’s doors open again. Inside the gowns flowed, the

As 2024 winds down, we’re reflecting on another incredible year of sharing the stories, art, culture, and nightlife that make the Bay Area so unique. BrokeAssStuart.com wouldn’t be what it is without you—our community of readers, supporters, and believers in independent media. This year, instead of asking you to join Patreon

Since we’ve been such good little citizens during the pandemic, our Covid infection rates are putting us into ‘Red Tier’ by next week.  What is ‘Red Tier’ you might ask?  It means we can join NYC in indoor dinning and indoor museums at 25% capacity!  So check your favorite restaurants,

A unique San Francisco tradition returns this weekend, but it’s not going to resemble any previous version of the event. The SF Examiner reports that the San Francisco Opera Costume Sale is coming back this weekend (Nov. 13-15), resurrecting a cult-hit bazaar where multiple-thousand dollar extravagant costumes are available on

SF Opera Baritone talks upcoming Opera season and sings a bit of ACDC for us

he has been compared to Luciano Pavarotti, performed at leading opera houses around the world (including the Metropolitan Opera, Teatro Real, Opéra National de Paris, and La Scala), and in 2014, he was the first person to win both the Richard Tucker and the Beverly Sills Artist awards in the same year.

There’s a bunch of fun, interesting, artsy extravaganzas happening all over San Francisco this July. The next couple weeks are garden parties, world class workshops, world records, opera auditions, and of course music, dancing & costumes all over the place. It’s time to get out there and mix it up with thousands of other beautiful bay area weirdos.

The San Francisco Opera is performing three separate AMAZING operas this month! And we are giving away orchestra tickets to ALL THREE! La Boheme on Sunday, June 25 at 2:00pm Rigoletto on Tuesday, June 27 at 7:30pm Don Giovanni on Friday, June 30 at 7:30pm Check out our awesome behind