The HBSA/NC and San Francisco Opera invite you to The Girl of the Golden West on Friday, June 18, 2010. San Francisco Opera is pleased to offer Harvard alumni a very special 30% off regular ticket prices.

In its centennial celebration, Puccini's romantic tale of the California Gold Rush features an all-star cast led by the incomparable Deborah Voigt.

A crafty criminal. A suspicious sheriff. A frontier woman with a tender heart who knows how to shoot a gun. If they sound like characters from a classic Western, they are-except their gunfights and poker games are set to a brilliant, blazing score. With this love triangle set in California's Gold Country, the work Puccini considered "the best of my operas" returns home for the first time in three decades.

Music Director Nicola Luisotti conducts a rip-snortin' cast with Deborah Voigt, "a soprano of penetrating power and clarity" (The New York Times), tenor Salvatore Licitra as her outlaw lover Dick Johnson and baritone Roberto Frontali as the Sheriff.

Join your fellow grads for a look into the inner workings of the opera as an organization.   Susan McConkey, Chief Information Officer at SF Opera, will give a short talk at 7:30 as part of the pre-opera no-host cocktail party.  Beginning at 7 p.m., the location of this unique networking event is the North Box Bar in the Opera building.   The opera curtain rises at 8 p.m.   The courtesy of an RSVP for the speaker event please, to bkeck@mba1976.hbs.edu

We strongly suggest that you order early as performances often sell out. Seating is assigned at the time of purchase and is not reserved in advance of this offer. Discount is available through this special web page only, not by phone or in person, and expires at midnight on June 17, 2010. To purchase tickets, go to www.sfopera.com/offer and enter code: SUMMERSALE10