Best Performances of 2025 (Bay Area)

San Francisco Classical Voice
December 2025

Twenty-five years after its premiere, composer Jake Heggie and librettist Terrence McNally’s empathic opera about a Death Row inmate and the Catholic nun who becomes his spiritual adviser felt more dramatically intense than ever in its return to SF Opera. Director Leonard Foglia’s assured production was filled with wrenching performances.

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