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Our Company

Founded in 1965, San Diego Opera is a highly regarded member of the international opera community and an invaluable cultural resource to the San Diego region.

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Mission

The mission of San Diego Opera is to deliver exceptional performances and exciting, accessible programs to diverse audiences, focusing on community partnerships, and the transformative and expressive power of the human voice.

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Vision

San Diego Opera will be recognized globally as a leading example of adaptability, innovation and sustainability, promoting diversity on stage, in our repertoire, and in our staff and leadership, with a commitment to world-class and emerging talent, and innovative use of technology.

Core Values

Through excellence in innovative programming and education and a commitment to equity, San Diego Opera provides a lasting cultural service to our diverse community.

  • Our tradition of exceptional productions of grand opera is augmented with new expressions of opera in diverse settings.
  • Our deep commitment to our community propels us to embrace inclusivity, accessibility and affordability.
  • Through fiscal responsibility and nimble adaptation to changing environments, we ensure the future of San Diego Opera for our community.

News and Reviews

Apr
28

2025

David Bennett Announces San Diego Opera’s 2025-2026 Season

- San Diego Story

Apr
28

2025

Review: San Diego Opera’s ‘La Traviata’ was a triumphant visual and musical feast

- Times of San Diego

Apr
28

2025

PAGLIACCI and More Set for San Diego Opera 2025-26 Season

- Broadway World

Apr
27

2025

San Diego Opera embracing the classics for 2025-26 season

- The San Diego Union-Tribune

Apr
26

2025

Review: San Diego Opera closes season with richly sung ‘La traviata’

- The San Diego Union-Tribune

Apr
26

2025

San Diego Opera Opens a Stylish Production of Verdi’s ‘La traviata’ at Civic Theatre

- San Diego Story

Apr
20

2025

Canadian soprano playing dream role in San Diego Opera's La traviata (subscription required to view)

- The San Diego Union-Tribune

Apr
18

2025

Soprano Andriana Chuchman is Right on Track for Verdi’s ‘La Traviata’ with San Diego Opera

- San Diego Story

Mar
31

2025

Review: San Diego Opera Presents Strauss's SALOME at the San Diego Civic Theatre

- Broadway World

Our History

San Diego Opera is a widely respected member of the international opera community and an invaluable cultural resource to the San Diego region. San Diego Opera Guild was founded in 1950 to present San Francisco Opera productions in the San Diego community. San Diego Opera Association was incorporated in 1965 as a producing company and presented its first staging of La bohème in the newly opened San Diego Civic Theatre.

San Diego Opera’s acclaimed productions regularly brought internationally renowned artists to perform in San Diego throughout the Company’s season. The Company’s education program is one of the most extensive and diverse opera education and outreach programs in North America, bringing music and arts to 100,000 school children annually in San Diego County and Northern Mexico.

San Diego Opera is committed to creating a future for opera and the vocal arts by presenting exciting and exceptional performances to diverse audiences through the transformative power of live performance, innovative programming, accessibility and community relevance.

Performance History

2024-25 Season

La bohème | Making Merry: A Choral Holiday Celebration | Salome | La traviata

2023-24 Season

GRAMMY® Greats Unite: Latonia Moore & J’Nai Bridges in Concert |El Milagro del Recuerdo (The Miracle of Remembering) | Don Giovanni | Madama Butterfly | Joshua Guerrero & Andrea Carroll in Concert

2022-23 Season

El Último Sueño de Frida y Diego (The Last Dream of Frida and Diego) | Isabel Leonard and Pablo Sáinz-Villegas in Concert | The Puccini Duo (Suor Angelica/Gianni Schicchi) | Tosca | Ghosts (Eden, Dormir, House)

2021-22 Season

Stephanie Blythe in Concert - Johnny Mercer: America’s Lyricist | Michelle Bradley in Concert | Arturo Chacón-Cruz in Concert | Così fan tutte | Roméo et Juliette | Ascension | Aging Magician

2020-21 Season

La bohème | All is Calm: The Christmas Truce of 1914 (Holiday Sing-Along) | One Amazing Night: When I See Your Face Again | The Barber of Seville

2019-20 Season

Aida | One Amazing Night 2019 | Hansel and Gretel | The Bel Canto Trio

2018-19 Season

The Marriage of Figaro | All is Calm: The Christmas Truce of 1914 | Rigoletto | Three Decembers | Carmen | One Amazing Night

2017-18 Season

The Pirates of Penzance | As One | Maria de Buenos Aires | Turandot | Florencia en el Amazonas | One Amazing Night

2016-17 Season

Piotr Beczala in recital | Cenerentola (Cinderella) | Soldier Songs | Falstaff | La tragédie de Carmen (The Tragedy of Carmen) | La Traviata

2015-16 Season

Tosca | Madama Butterfly | Great Scott | René Barbera in Recital | Patricia Racette: Diva on Detour | Ferruccio Furlanetto in Concert

2014-15 Season

La bohème | We’ll meet again: The Songs of Kate Smith - Stephanie Blythe and Craig Terry | Ailyn Pérez and Stephen Costello In Recital | El Pasado Nunca Se Termina (The Past is Never Finished) | 50th Anniversary Celebration Concert | Nixon in China | Don Giovanni

2013-14 Season

Don Quixote | Verdi Requiem | A Masked Ball | The Elixir of Love | Pagliacci

2012-13 Season

The Daughter of the Regiment | Samson and Delilah | Cruzar la Cara de la Luna (To Cross the Face of the Moon) | Murder in the Cathedral | Aida

2011-12 Season

Salome | Moby-Dick | Don Pasquale | Renée Fleming in Concert | The Barber of Seville

2010-11 Season

Turandot | Der Rosenkavalier | Faust | Carmen

2009-10 Season

La bohème | Nabucco | Romeo and Juliet | La traviata

2008-09 Season

Tosca | Don Quixote (Don Quichotte) | Rigoletto | Peter Grimes | Madama Butterfly

2007-08 Season

Tannhäuser | Mary, Queen of Scots (Maria Stuarda) | Cavalleria rusticana | Pagliacci | Aida | The Pearl Fishers

2006-07 Season

Boris Godunov | Samson and Delilah | Il trovatore | Wozzeck | The Marriage of Figaro

2005-06 Season

The Barber of Seville | Lucia di Lammermoor | Carmen | Julius Caesar in Egypt | The Magic Flute

2004-05 Season

Die Fledermaus | Così fan tutte | Simon Boccanegra | Vanessa | La bohème

2003-04 Season

Recital | Turandot | The Pearl Fishers | Don Carlo | Katya Kabanova | La Traviata | Recital | Recital

2002-03 Season

Recital | Recital | Fidelio | Norma | Thérèse Raquin | Otello | Madama Butterfly

2001-02 Season

Rigoletto | Ariodante | Recital | Tosca | Don Pasquale | The Flying Dutchman

2000-01 Season

The Magic Flute | Faust | Cold Sassy Tree | Idomeneo: King of Crete | Aida | Concert: The Requiem | Concert: Luciano Pavarotti, tenor and Cynthia Lawrence, soprano

1999-00 Season

Recital: Sylvia McNair, soprano | Il trovatore | Lohengrin | Recital | Don Giovanni | A Streetcar Named Desire | La bohème | Recital

1998-99 Season

Recital | Falstaff | Of Mice and Men | The Great Richard Wagner Concert | Così fan tutte | Hansel and Gretel | A Masked Ball

1997-98 Season

Recital | The Barber of Seville | Salome | Madama Butterfly | Romeo and Juliet | The Marriage of Figaro | Concert | Recital

1996-97 Season

Carmen | The Italian Girl in Algiers | The Conquistador | La Traviata | Concert | Turandot

1995-96 Season

Recital | Tosca | The Elixir of Love | The Passion of Jonathan Wade | Cinderella | Aida

1994-95 Season

Rusalka | Lucia di Lammermoor | Porgy and Bess | Recital | Macbeth | La bohème

1993-94 Season

Recital | Eugene Onegin | Rigoletto | Rappaccini's Daughter | La sonnambula | The Tales of Hoffmann

1992-93 Season

Concert | The Barber of Seville | Madama Butterfly | Don Giovanni | The Pearl Fishers | Werther

1991-92 Season

Der Rosenkavalier | The Marriage of Figaro | Recital | Recital | The Rape of Lucretia | The Merry Widow | Carmen

1990-91 Season

Recital | Recital | Così fan tutte | Albert Herring | Die Fledermaus | The Passion of Jonathan Wade | La traviata

1989-90 Season

Boris Godunov | Recital | La bohème | Dialogues of the Carmelites | The Daughter of the Regiment | The Great Richard Wagner Concert | The Magic Flute

1988-89 Season

Lucia di Lammermoor | The Peking Opera Company | Fidelio | Recital | Don Pasquale | Recital | Madama Butterfly

1987-88 Season

Rigoletto | The Elixir of Love | Recital | Recital | Recital | Faust | Il trovatore | Concert: Verdi Requiem

1986-87 Season

Tosca | Norma | Recital | Concert | Recital | The Flying Dutchman | The Barber of Seville | Recital | Porgy and Bess | The Telephone | The Medium

1985-86 Season

The Tales of Hoffmann | Eugene Onegin | The Marriage of Figaro | Otello | The Lighthouse | Recital

1984-85 Season

Peter Grimes | La Traviata | Hansel and Gretel | The Merry Widow | La bohème | Oberto | Concert

1983-84 Season

Lohengrin | Hamlet | Cinderella | Anna Bolena | Don Giovanni | Carmen | I Masnadieri | Simon Boccanegra

1982-83 Season

Gwendoline | Madama Butterfly | La Périchole | Henry VIII | Aida | Adriana Lecouvreur

1981-82 Season

Andréa Chenier | Susannah | Faust | Concert | Giulietta e Romeo | The Barber of Seville | Turandot | Il Corsaro | A Masked Ball | Verdi 1982 Jubilee V

1980-81 Season

Elektra | Die Fledermaus | Werther | Tosca | Lucia di Lammermoor | The Love for Three Oranges | Nabucco | Un Giorno Di Regno | Concert: Verdi Requiem

1979-80 Season

Don Carlo | The Abduction from the Seraglio | The Tales of Hoffmann | Mefistofele | Don Pasquale | La bohème | Giovanna d'Arco | Il trovatore | Concert

1978-79 Season

Hamlet | Rigoletto | Così fan tutte | Manon Lescaut | Cavalleria Rusticana | Pagliacci | La Loca | I Lombardi | La traviata | Concert: Gala Verdi Concert

1977-78 Season

The Merry Widow | Don Giovanni | Carmen | Falstaff | Madama Butterfly | The Love for Three Oranges | Aida | Concert: Requiem

1976-77 Season

Otello | The Saint of Bleecker Street | Die Fledermaus | Gátterdämmerung | La traviata

1975-76 Season

Concert | Il trovatore | Rusalka | Siegfried | Der Rosenkavalier | Norma

1974-75 Season

Manon | Lucia di Lammermoor | A Village Romeo and Juliet | The Valkyrie | La bohème

1973-74 Season

Mefistofele | Carmen | The Marriage of Figaro | The Rhinegold | Tosca | The Daughter of the Regiment

1972-73 Season

Aida | Medea | Romeo and Juliet | The Daughter of the Regiment

1971-72 Season

Turandot | The Barber of Seville | Boris Godunov | Gianni Schicchi | Help, Help, the Globolinks!

1970-71 Season

La Traviata | Madama Butterfly

1969-70 Season

Pagliacci | The Moon | Tannhäuser | Faust | The Tales of Hoffmann

1968-69 Season

Rigoletto | La bohème | Don Quixote

1967-68 Season

Salome | Carmen | The Magic Flute

1966-67 Season

Aida | The Young Lord | Tosca

1965-66 Season

Faust | The Barber of Seville

1964-65 Season

La bohème

Financials and Governance

Annual Reports

2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2016 | 2015

San Diego Opera Association

Association Bylaws
[Amended June, 2021]

Governance Guidelines
[Amended June, 2021]

Form 990s

2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020

Audited Financial Statements

2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020

Board of Directors’ Charters

Finance Committee Charter
[Last Amended January, 2020]

Audit Committee Charter
[Last Amended May, 2019]

Development Committee Charter
[Last Amended September, 2019]

Strategic Planning Committee Charter
View PDF

Governance Committee Charter
View PDF

Board Code of Conduct
View PDF

San Diego Opera locations

San Diego Opera

San Diego Opera
233 A Street, Suite 500
San Diego, CA 92101

Administrative Office

Hours: Mon-Fri, 8:30am to 4:30pm
Telephone: 619-232-7636
Fax: 619-231-6915
Email: info@sdopera.org

Patron Services Office

Hours: Mon-Fri, 8:30am to 4:30pm
Telephone: 619-533-7000
Email: tickets@sdopera.org

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