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Friday Nights at the de Young: Contemporary Opera | Golden Gate Park

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Friday, October 26, 2012 - 5:00 pm to 8:45 pm | Cost: FREE*
*Programs are free and open to the public, but does not include admission to the museum's galleries

de Young Museum | 50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Drive, San Francisco, CA

Event Details

Friday Nights at the de Young | Fall 2018

One of San Francisco’s most celebrated after-hours museum events returns for a fall season of 2018.

These nine Friday Nights feature free admission to the main-level galleries highlighted by a reinterpretation of contemporary art in their permanent collection and new acquisitions called Specters of Disruption. In addition, Friday Nights will offer reduced-price tickets of $14 to the exhibition Contemporary Muslim Fashions from 6–8:30 pm.

Through social-media moments and in-person dialogue, visitors can engage and commune with the art and with one another in a warm and welcoming setting. Enjoy specialty drinks and mocktails, coffees, teas, and snacks. Bring your friends. Strike a pose at the selfie wall. Listen to music. Make art. Activities take place from 6–8:30 pm.

October 26, 2012

6:30pm – Wilsey Court – Ensemble Parallele: Maya Kherani and J. Raymond Myers, Four Saints in Three Acts

Join sopranos Maya Kherani and Kelly Rubinsohn, mezzo-soprano Erin Neff, bass-baritone John Bischoff, and pianist Keisuke Nakagoshi as they perform selected arias and ensembles from operas by Britten, Adamo, Weill, Golijov, Harbison, Floyd, Barber, Ravel, Previn, and Perla. Enjoy the open space of the de Young’s Wilsey Court, where the music will resonate among the museum’s thought-provoking permanent collection works.

7:00pm – Koret Auditorium – Kathan Brown, founding director, Crown Point Press

Kathan Brown is an artist, writer, printer, and entrepreneur and the founder in 1962 of Crown Point Press, a Bay Area publishers of artists’ etchings. Brown’s initial publishing program focused on local artists—etchings by Richard Diebenkorn and Wayne Thiebaud were the first two projects she published. Artists began coming to Crown Point from New York in the early 1970s, and by the end of the decade Brown was inviting artists from around the world.

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Cost: FREE*
*Programs are free and open to the public, but does not include admission to the museum's galleries
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Address: 50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Drive, San Francisco, CA