War Memorial Opera House
Gilded Beaux-Arts opera house where the United Nations Charter was adopted by vote in nineteen forty-five.
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This guide to the War Memorial Opera House in San Francisco moves between two moments under its gilded dome: the June 1945 session when delegates from fifty nations gathered here to vote on the newly drafted United Nations Charter, and October 1932, when soprano Claudia Muzio opened the house singing Tosca while NBC carried the broadcast live across the country. Listen for how the same gilded ceiling frames both an aria and a vote meant to keep the peace.
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