Nobody at the San Francisco Opera ever loved an audience quite the way Lotfi Mansouri did. Like any operatic general director, Mansouri - who died at home in San Francisco on Aug. 30 at age 84 - led ...

Lotfi Mansouri, the energetic operatic showman whose 13 years as general director brought the San Francisco Opera to new heights of creative innovation, died Friday at his Pacific Heights home at age ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Lotfi Mansouri, a former general director of the San Francisco Opera for 13 years, has died. He was 84. The San Francisco Opera said Mansouri died Friday after a brief illness with ...

Lotfi Mansouri, the spirited former general director of the San Francisco Opera whose desire to democratize the operatic experience for a modern audience spurred the use of projected translations in ...

This is in response to Robert Cook's denigrating remarks ("Letters," Aug. 29) about Lotfi Mansouri, former general director of San Francisco Opera. My husband sang with the Opera for many years. He ...

In addition to great voices, the War Memorial Opera House now has a new face among its inhabitants. A bas relief of former San Francisco Opera General Director Lotfi Mansouri was installed in the ...

During a 40-year career as an opera director and administrator, Lotfi Mansouri has surely attended more than his share of parties in honor of this diva or that. This week, he's helping to organize one ...

Lotfi Mansouri still has a few more weeks before he hands the keys to his War Memorial office to the Opera's new general director, Pamela Rosenberg, but Bay Area opera fans had a chance to say goodbye ...

(CBS SF/AP) - Lotfi Mansouri, a former general director of the San Francisco Opera for 13 years, has died. He was 84. In a press release, the San Francisco Opera said Mansouri died Friday after a ...

There are few stories in opera as colorful and improbable as the life of Lotfi Mansouri, who died Friday of pancreatic cancer. He was 84. Mansouri became general manager of the San Francisco Opera ...