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I had Das Rheingold, but that’s not a big surprise since I’d read about the Ring Cycle coming in 2028

But the others? Well, I might have guessed the Mozart because of the wedding cake, and I did wonder if the bloodied knife was Tosca. But since I didn’t guess publicly those don’t count, do the?!

Here are the operas that San Francisco Opera has now announced.

Giuseppe Verdi’s Simon Boccanegra, September 12-27, Conductor: Eun Sun Kim

Thea Musgrave’s Mary, Queen of Scots, September 20-October 4, Conductor: Clelia Cafiero

Jules Massenet’s Manon, October 15-November 1, Conductor: Eun Sun Kim

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro, October 31-November 29, Conductor: Sebastian Weigle

Richard Wagner’s Das Rheingold, May 29-June 22, Conductor: Eun Sun Kim

Giacomo Puccini’s Tosca, June 4-July 2, Conductor: Clelia Cafiero

Am I jazzed? Maybe by a few. Not by all. But so it goes. They didn’t ask me, so I didn’t tell.

San Francisco Opera sent out a teaser yesterday, with six images that hint toward the upcoming season.

Well, I could guess, but I’m not great at guessing, so I did what I really shouldn’t do: I tried AI. It gave me these:

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay

Lincoln in the Bardo

Silent Night

The Wedding Banquet

But really? Are those right? I did a new AI search and suddenly different titles appeared, and the new suggestions didn’t make any sense: some were just done recently, and two are the operas that are scheduled for this June.

So much for AI.

So using the images above, what do you predict? (The lower, middle image I would guess to be Das Rheingold.)