2026-27 Season Preview

August 26-27, 2026

Explore the 2026-27 Season in a 90-minute in-person presentation by Kip Cranna.

Clifford (“Kip”) Cranna is Dramaturg (Scholar in Residence) Emeritus of San Francisco Opera, where he served on the staff for over forty years, more than thirty of them as Director of Music Administration. In 2008 he was awarded the San Francisco Opera Medal, the company’s highest honor, and in 2012 he received the Bernard Osher Cultural Award for distinguished efforts to bring excellence to a cultural institution. In 2014 he received the Star of Excellence Award for outstanding service to the programs of the San Francisco Opera Guild. He holds a Ph.D. in musicology from Stanford University. He lectures regularly on opera appreciation at the Fromm Institute at USF, Stanford Continuing Studies, and the OLLI Lifelong Learning Institutes (OLLI) at UC Berkeley, San Francisco State, and Dominican University. He loves going on bike trips internationally and has a world-class collection of martini shakers.