4 tickets, loge level, June 9, 2006, 8pm, for:

James Conlon conducts A Florentine Tragedy

Conlon returns after 24 years with a festival that extols the Romantic imagination. Here is music that defines extremes. Salome takes listeners to sensual realms no previous composer had dared explore. In A Florentine Tragedy (after Oscar Wilde), Zemlinsky fuses orchestral magic, Wagnerian vocal writing, and unleashed passion into a tale of illicit love and ecstatic awakening. www.sfsymphony.org