Not-quite-so-instant replay: If you were not in the audience when incoming music director Esa-Pekka Salonen opened his first full season as conductor of the San Francisco Symphony at Davies Hall on Oct. (Photo courtesy Drew Altizer Photography/San Francisco Symphony) Music director Esa-Pekka Salonen led the San Francisco Symphony in the Re-Opening Night concert featuring bassist and singer Esperanza Spalding (pictured), a jazz trio and dancers from Alonzo King LINES Ballet on Oct. Vaccination proof and face masks are required, but there will also be $25 tickets available for online viewing of Sunday’s performance and those at 7:30 p.m. Hungarian conductor Henrik Nánási, who conducted the first of the trilogy, “The Marriage of Figaro,” in 2019, returns to take his place in the pit. The commanding Italian bass Ferruccio Furlanetto, practically a fixture at SF Opera, is Don Alfonso, the guy who gets all the trouble rolling. Soprano Nicole Cabell and mezzo-soprano Irene Roberts sing as the sisters, with tenor Ben Bliss and baritone John Brancy filling in as their rather duplicitous suitors. (A production of “Don Giovanni” next summer will complete the project.) The story revolves around the sisters Fiordiligi and Dorabella and their respective betrotheds, Ferrando and Guglielmo, who take up a bet proposed by Don Alfonso to test the women’s fidelity by each, in disguise, trying to seduce the other’s fiance. Sunday, as San Francisco Opera hits the middle of its traversal of the trilogy. Oh, they’re all alike, those fickle women! That’s the bit of dismissive cynicism expressed in the title of Mozart’s “Cosi fan tutte,” one of the composer’s three celebrated collaborations with the librettist Lorenzo Da Ponte, which opens a five-performance run at War Memorial Opera House at 2 p.m.

Italian bass Ferruccio Furlanetto sings the role of Don Alfonso in the San Francisco Opera’s production of Mozart’ “Cosi fan tutte.” (Photo courtesy Sakharov/San Francisco Opera) The Bay Area is a hub of artistic expression, attracting artists, writers and musicians from around the globe to live, work and create.

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