Harvey Milk Reimagined
Join your fellow alumni on opening night to celebrate the gay rights icon and activist Harvey Milk, in an Opera Parallèle production
Saturday, May 31, 2025
7:30 PM
Blue Shield of California Theater, YBCA
700 Howard Street, San Francisco 94103
HLSA will host a private pre-show champagne toast to the composer/librettist on the theater terrace at 6:30 PM
The powerful and tragic opera celebrates Milk's enduring legacy and contributions to the nascent LGBTQ+ movement, his early life in New York and relocation to San Francisco, later becoming the first openly gay man in 1978 to be elected to public office in California. Milk served on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors for 11 months before being assassinated, along with then-Mayor George Moscone, at San Francisco City Hall.
In a fitting tribute to gay rights icon and activist Harvey Milk, Opera Parallèle will produce a completely new and eagerly anticipated production of Harvey Milk by composer Stewart Wallace and librettist Michael Korie. Newly revised into two acts instead of three, with new music and a tighter cast from its sprawling original Houston Grand Opera premiere in 1995 and San Francisco Opera debut in 1996, this reimagined version of Harvey Milk was originally intended for an earlier Opera Parallèle season, but was delayed by the pandemic and subsequently presented in St. Louis in 2022.
We have reserved a block of tickets for HLSA alumni
Please RSVP by emailing info@northerncalifornia.hlsa.org.
Attendance is limited so please RSVP as soon as possible. If you do not receive an email response confirming your ticket, we have reached maximum capacity and will keep your name on our wait list. If you have a confirmed ticket but can no longer attend, please do let us know so we can offer your seat to our wait list.
Look forward to enjoying this beautiful event with you!