Goat Hall Productions
Goat Hall Productions (GHP) is an opera company and musical theatre company based in Potrero Hill in San Francisco, California, United States. Presenting programs under the names San Francisco Cabaret Opera, Fresh Voices Festival of New Works, and The Kurt Weill Project, it was co-founded in 1997 by Harriet March Page and Dave Hurlbert, and is dedicated to the performance of opera and song, with a special interest in contemporary music. They have presented works by Henry Purcell, John Pepusch, W.A. Mozart, Franz Schubert, Robert Schumann, Johann Strauss II, Gustav Mahler, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Igor Stravinsky, Francis Poulenc, Kurt Weill, Gian Carlo Menotti, Benjamin Britten, Leonard Bernstein, Stephen Sondheim, and living composers—particularly those of the San Francisco Bay Area. History Goat Hall was founded in the venue of that name, located at 400 Missouri Street in San Francisco's Potrero Hill district—the former home of the Pickle Family Circus. The group has presented world, U.S., and San Francisco premieres of works including those of Mark Alburger, Greg Bartholomew, John G. Bilotta, Daniel Felsenfeld, Steven Clark, Alden Jenks, Veronika Krausas, Lisa Scola Prosek, Mona Lyn Reese, Mary Watkins, and Cynthia Weyuker. Since 2001, GHP has also presented productions elsewhere in San Francisco