Experience the thrills and chills of the ultimate operatic melodrama during Sir David McVicar's production of Verdi's Il Trovatore, performed by San Francisco Opera. A veritable rollercoaster ride of heightened emotions, lust, jealousy and revenge, as well as some Verdi's most masterful and memorable solo moments, the sweeping epic is brought to life by lavish costumes, elaborate set pieces and a stellar cast including Angel Blue, Anita Rachvelishvili, Arturo Chacon-Cruz and George Petean.

His tale started in his parent's garage in the tech haven that is San Francisco, and now returns home with the San Francisco Opera. The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs is inspired by the life and work of tech legend Steve Jobs and has been created by Pulitzer Prize-winning librettist Mark Campbell and composed by Mason Bates. Playing the lead role of Steve Jobs is baritone John Moore, and his Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak will be played by tenor Bille Bruley.

Under the watchful eye of music director Eun Sun Kim, San Francisco Opera bring Wagner's medieval romance Lohengrin to the War Memorial Opera House this fall, starring Simon O'Neill and Julie Adams in the lead roles. A highly influential piece which includes the now ubiquitous 'Bridal Chorus' Lohengrin was created between the composer's Tannhauser and the Ring Cycle, marking his maturity and the future direction that his operatic works would take.

San Francisco Opera presents a poignant and compelling true-story opera by Grammy winner Rhiannon Gidden and Michael Abels, directed by Kaneza Schaal. Based on the autobiography of Omar Ibn Said, the only surviving slave narrative written in Arabic from the era, Omar tells the story of how the Muslim scholar was ripped from his peaceful life in West Africa and sold into slavery in South Carolina in 1807.

David Sedaris is a Grammy Award-nominated humorist, writer, comedian, bestselling author, and radio contributor. Much of his humor is drawn from his unconventional North Carolina upbringing, his varied stream of odd-jobs (Christmas elf at Macy's, anyone?) and plays to his self-deprecating strengths, and now often concerns his life today in France with his partner.