| SFO 2005-2006 Season L'Italiana in Algeri -Doctor Atomic - Fidelio - Madama Butterfly - The Maid of Orleans |
| SFO 2004-2005 Billy Budd - Tosca - The Flying Dutchman - Queen of Spades |
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| His association with San Francisco Opera began in 1990, when Mr. Runnicles made a spectacular debut conducting Wagner's Ring cycle of operas. He became Music Director in 1992. |
| Runnicles has made his reputation primarily as an opera conductor. This experience was on display in a lithe, nicely proportioned performance of the Overture to Rossini's L'Italiana in Algeri (with a piquant oboe solo by Melanie Feld)(Review) |
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| Donald Runnicles Conductor |
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| Conductor Donald Runnicles will not continue as music director of the San Francisco Opera after his contract expires in 2009, . . . Read Story |
| SFO 2006-2007 Season Die Fledermaus - Tristan und Isolde - Manon Lescaut Don Giovanni - Der Rosenkavalier |
| Nicola Luisotti, the Italian conductor who made a dynamic San Francisco Opera debut in 2005 leading Verdi's "La Forza del Destino," has been named the company's new music director. He will succeed Donald Runnicles at the beginning of the 2009-10 season./ Story |