Thursday, September 15, 2011

SF Symphony & Opera Opening Night Galas

It has been so hectic lately that I can’t even post on my blog..Shame on me! But in this craziness I made it to two very big events in the city last week. I attended SF Symphony 100th year Opening Night Gala on Wednesday and SF Opera Opening Night Gala on Friday! Yesss and I managed to do it all with one day apart with a full time job. Both nights were full of style, elegance, glamour, music and good food. At the Symphony concert it was amazing to listen to Lang Lang's piano performance. On friday's opening I loved loved SF Opera’s new season opening production, Puccini’s masterpiece, “Turandot”, it was very dramatic and carried me away with its story, costumes, décor and beautiful music.

And the fashion...SF ladies did it again, spotted so many fabulous gowns on both nights. Red and pink were the popular colors as well as shades of purple and emerald green. A line gowns with big skirts, mermaid train gowns and tiered dresses were chosen by many fashionable ladies for this posh social scene.
Fairy tale glam summarizes these opening nights perfectly and most of us took our place in this colorful & dreamy act happily ever after..

All the pictures are from Drew Altizer Photography.

Joy Bianchi

Deepa Pakianathan

Jennifer Siebel Newsom in Prabal Gurung

Paula Carano in Oscar de la Renta

Kelly Murphy in Verrieres & Sako

Myself in a dark green vintage dress

with my beautiful friend Marie Carr at the Symphony opening night

Paula Carano in Ricky Serbin

Google's Marissa Mayer in a custom designed Alexander McQueen

Afsaneh Akhtari in Christian Siriano

myself in Tadashi Shoji
with my friend Ileana Facchini in her stunning Paola Girardi dress

with my gorgeous girls Marie Carr & Sara Pirami 
I have to mention about my earrings, gift from my mom! love u mom!!