San Francisco Opera presented the Opera Medal, the Company's highest honor, to Michael Cavanagh shortly before his death last month. The acclaimed Canadian opera director, who passed away on March 13 from leptomeningeal cancer at the age of 62, was a guiding, creative force behind a number of important new productions for San Francisco Opera over the past decade.
Cavanagh’s production of John Adams’s Nixon In China, part of the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics Cultural Olympiad, opened doors for him, leading to work with the San Francisco Opera and Royal Swedish Opera
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