The San Francisco Opera (SFO) is an American opera company founded in 1923 by Gaetano Merola (1881–1953) based in San Francisco, California.
War Memorial Opera House at the San Francisco War Memorial and Performing Arts Center, home of the San Francisco Opera
Auditorium of the War Memorial Opera House at the War Memorial and Performing Arts Center
Stage, curtain, and proscenium corner ornamentation in the auditorium
San Francisco Opera programs, 1934–36
San Francisco, officially the City and County of San Francisco, is a commercial, financial, and cultural center in Northern California. With a population of 808,437 residents as of 2022, San Francisco is the fourth most populous city in the U.S. state of California. The city covers a land area of 46.9 square miles at the end of the San Francisco Peninsula, making it the second-most densely populated large U.S. city after New York City and the fifth-most densely populated U.S. county, behind only four New York City boroughs. Among the 92 U.S. cities proper with over 250,000 residents, San Francisco is ranked first by per capita income and sixth by aggregate income as of 2022.
Image: San Francisco from the Marin Headlands in August 2022
Image: Palace of Fine Arts (16794p)
Image: Alcatraz 2021
Image: The Embarcadero, San Francisco
