Pocket Opera 2027
World-Class Opera.
A More Intimate Stage.
Subscriptions on sale December 14.
Single tickets on sale December 28.
Elsewhere Society Pre-Sale begins November 9.
Pocket Opera’s 50th Anniversary Gala
A Golden Afternoon of Song, Celebration, and Community.
Sunday,
February 21, 2027
12:30pm-4:00pm
The University Club
800 Powell Street,
San Francisco
Together, we’ll celebrate our remarkable history and raise a glass to the next 50 years of music, laughter, and unforgettable performances!
Discover our 2027 season.
Four productions. Three Bay Area cities.
Madame Butterfly
Giacomo Puccini
Following its triumphant debut last season, Pocket Opera reprises its acclaimed Madama Butterfly—a story of longing, cultural collision, and devastating betrayal. Reimagined as it might actually have sounded in Nagasaki, where East meets West, this heart-wrenching masterpiece returns in our moving bilingual Japanese/English production.
Presented courtesy of Pacific Opera Project
Approximate runtime: 3 hours, including one 20-minute intermission.
Rigoletto
Giuseppe Verdi
Rigoletto is a father desperate to protect his innocent daughter from the ruthless world that surrounds them—a world where passion can be deadly. He is also the vicious-tongued jester in the court of the lascivious Duke of Mantua, where a fateful curse sets a deadly chain of events in motion.
Approximate runtime: 3 hours, including one 20-minute intermission.
The Soldier’s Tale & Scalia/Ginsburg
Stravinsky & Wang
The Soldier’s Tale — Stravinsky
A soldier makes a dangerous bargain with the Devil in Stravinsky’s genre-defying masterpiece. A dazzling fusion of music, theater, dance, and storytelling, this darkly comic, haunting, and exhilarating theatrical work asks what we are willing to sacrifice—and what we might lose in the bargain.
Scalia/Ginsburg — Wang
Two brilliant legal minds. Two very different philosophies. One extraordinary friendship. Derrick Wang’s delightful opera Scalia/Ginsburg brings Justices Antonin Scalia and Ruth Bader Ginsburg together in a witty, affectionate, and surprisingly moving celebration of disagreement, friendship, and the power of ideas.
Approximate runtime: 3 hours, including one 20-minute intermission.
The Magic Flute
W. A. Mozart
Mozart’s enchanting masterpiece returns to the Pocket stage in a dazzling co-production with Mercury Theater. Filled with soaring music, comic characters, magical creatures, and a quest for love and wisdom, The Magic Flute remains one of opera’s most irresistible journeys from darkness into light.
Approximate runtime: 3 hours, including one 20-minute intermission.
Some useful information.
All of our venues have assigned seating as of our 2027 season. Please see our seating charts for an overview.
Purchase your subscriptions & tickets online or call 415-972-8930, Monday–Friday, 12–4 PM.
Our 2027 Season Brochure is available as a PDF for download.
A Pocket Magic Flute
The NEA joins our Lead Production Sponsor, Ruth Reznikoff, along with Opera America, in helping to bring this project to life.
This first-of-its-kind project brings the wondrous world of Mozart’s The Magic Flute to life as never before, in Pocket Opera’s own English translation by Donald Pippin. We are so grateful to the NEA for seeing the merits in the project and supporting it!
