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Many say this is the period when Ms. Wilsey essentially assumed the museum director role herself and overstepped traditional boundaries by firing several longtime staffers. Around that time, Ms. Leaked emails documented her personal favors for Ms. The recipient was the city engineer Bill Huggins, Ms. Huggins could not be reached for comment, and Ms. Chen died this year. In April Mr. Johnson resigned from his trustee post alongside Louise Renne, a former city attorney.

Johnson said last week. On any given day, the artisans of the costume shop are surrounded by quilted petticoats, hoop skirts, huge turbans, jeweled crowns, armor, mud and blood—all in the service of grand illusion. Check out more behind-the-scenes content. Visit the Online Archives. Enter search query.

Diane B. After six auspicious decades as the first home of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art—which boasted early shows by Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo, Henri Matisse and others—the fourth floor of the War Memorial Veterans Building sat for many years as a law library and then, most recently, dormant for a seismic retrofit.

Its handsome galleries were abandoned, its skylights shuttered. Enter San Francisco Opera stage right, across the courtyard with its cadre of architects, directors and donors with a dream. And now, when visitors in hard hats step off the elevator on the fourth floor, they experience the exhilaration of a space in the middle of a stunning transformation.

Instead of darkness, light floods in from refurbished glass ceilings, elegant columns that had been walled off now stand tall and gleaming and abandoned SFMOMA galleries now await new installations of archival photography from the Opera, which has gutted and reinvented this space in the last two years. And soon, music will ring through its hallways for the first time since it was built almost a century ago.

Welcome to the Diane B. Equipped with a state-of-the-art Constellation Acoustic System by Meyer Sound, the Atrium Theater will also accommodate film screenings, lectures, panel discussions, business meetings, and receptions.

Other important spaces within the center will include the John M. And downstairs in the basement, the Opera will have an additional 10,square-foot space for costume storage and fitting rooms. For General Director David Gockley, the Wilsey Center for Opera is nothing short of a dream come true—if one born of absolute necessity. The lack of efficiency and the expense were staggering. Being that spread out made it very difficult to promote a sense of family.

In addition, altering a historic structure in any way would require years of planning and hearings.