Opening Night Gala

San Francisco Ballet 2011 Opening Night Gala
Date: Wednesday, January 26, 2011
Venue: San Francisco City Hall and the War Memorial Opera House
Time: Cocktail Reception and Dinner in City Hall at 5pm. Ballet performance immediately following dinner at 8pm in the Opera House.

Please join the San Francisco Ballet Auxiliary on Wednesday, January 26, 2011, to launch San Francisco Ballet’s 2011 Repertory Season.  This year’s Opening Night Gala, La Belle Époque, begins in City Hall with an elegant cocktail reception and dinner. The performance follows in the War Memorial Opera House. And after the show, all dinner guests are invited to return to City Hall to continue the celebration at a post-performance party with live music, dancing, refreshments, and desserts.

To purchase tickets, download the RSVP form.

On this Year’s Gala Theme: La Belle Époque
This year’s Gala theme, La Belle Époque, was inspired by the innovation of the golden era, when science, technology and especially the arts, flourished all over the world. It was the height of Impressionism, the flowering of Art Noveau, and the birth of modernism and expressionism. The comedic full-length ballet Coppélia, which will have its San Francisco Ballet premiere in March 2011, originally debuted in Paris in 1870. This period marked a time of cultural transition, between tradition and the rise of the grandeur, creativity, and beauty known as La Belle Époque.