War Memorial Opera House
Opera house in San Francisco, CaliforniaWikipedia
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Oct 18, 2026
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In 1916, Julius Bittner's Das höllische Gold premiered in Harmstad.
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In 1932, it was the first performance at the War Memorial House in San Francisco.
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It was Tosca, apparently, and that is the first municipally-owned opera house, thank you very much.
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And in 1938, it was the first performance of Richard Strauss' Daphne in Dresden.
Franco FinnHOST
Oh, wow.
Kate SofisGUEST
And, uh, and, and it began when our first two buildings were constructed, uh, the Veterans Building and then the War Memorial Opera House.
Kate SofisGUEST
They're sort of twins.
Kate SofisGUEST
They were constructed very close to the same time.
Kate SofisGUEST
So the totality of who we are now-
Franco FinnHOST
Yeah
Kate SofisGUEST
... from a space perspective includes Davies, the War Memorial Opera House, which is the home to the ballet-
Franco FinnHOST
Yeah
Kimberly FordHOST
And then on page seven, um, just two pages later, we have this.
Kimberly FordHOST
"But I guess I should begin at the end, or at least the beginning of the end, which means San Francisco's War Memorial Opera House, officialdom incarnate, the full treatment, marble, red carpets, polished brass, everything academically symmetrical, twinkle twinkle of bright light reflected off cut crystal.
Kimberly FordHOST
'Oh, shit,' had been my reaction when Marsha announced that we were going to see yet another farewell tour by Martha Graham, the old bag still dragging around the stage." I love everything about this so much.
Kimberly FordHOST
I mean, here is where I think we see Judd Perl, and this happens again and again, really using prose that I find so incredibly, like, inventive and interesting and delicious and colorful.