SF Opera's "Sweeney Todd"

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Sweeney Todd (Brian Mulligan), top, dispatches Beadle Bamford (AJ Glueckert), in a scene from the San Francisco Opera production of Stephen Sondheim's "Sweeney Todd," Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2015, at the War Memorial Opera House in San Francisco, Calif. (D. Ross Cameron/Bay Area News Group)

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Brian Mulligan, left, as Sweeney Todd, and Elliot Madore as Anthony Hope, in a scene from the San Francisco Opera production of Stephen Sondheim's "Sweeney Todd," Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2015, at the War Memorial Opera House in San Francisco, Calif. (D. Ross Cameron/Bay Area News Group)

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Stephanie Blythe as Mrs. Lovett, in a scene from the San Francisco Opera production of Stephen Sondheim's "Sweeney Todd," Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2015, at the War Memorial Opera House in San Francisco, Calif. (D. Ross Cameron/Bay Area News Group)

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Brian Mulligan is the eponymous demon barber of Fleet Street, in the San Francisco Opera production of Stephen Sondheim's "Sweeney Todd," Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2015, at the War Memorial Opera House in San Francisco, Calif. (D. Ross Cameron/Bay Area News Group)

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Elizabeth Futral plays the beggar woman with a secret, in a scene from the San Francisco Opera production of Stephen Sondheim's "Sweeney Todd," Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2015, at the War Memorial Opera House in San Francisco, Calif. (D. Ross Cameron/Bay Area News Group)

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Johanna (Heidi Stober) is held a virtual prisoner by her adoptive father, Judge Turpin, in a scene from the San Francisco Opera production of Stephen Sondheim's "Sweeney Todd," Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2015, at the War Memorial Opera House in San Francisco, Calif. (D. Ross Cameron/Bay Area News Group)

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Pseudo-Italian dentist Adolfo Pirelli (David Curry), top, pulls the tooth of his shill, Tobias Ragg (Matthew Grills) in a scene from the San Francisco Opera production of Stephen Sondheim's "Sweeney Todd," Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2015, at the War Memorial Opera House in San Francisco, Calif. (D. Ross Cameron/Bay Area News Group)

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Judge Turpin (Wayne Tigges), right, tells his adopted daughter Johanna (Heidi Stober) that he intends to marry her, in a scene from the San Francisco Opera production of Stephen Sondheim's "Sweeney Todd," Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2015, at the War Memorial Opera House in San Francisco, Calif. (D. Ross Cameron/Bay Area News Group)

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Anthony Hope (Elliot Madore), left, and Johanna (Heidi Stober) kiss as they scheme to elope, in a scene from the San Francisco Opera production of Stephen Sondheim's "Sweeney Todd," Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2015, at the War Memorial Opera House in San Francisco, Calif. (D. Ross Cameron/Bay Area News Group)

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Judge Turpin (Wayne Tigges), left, and his henchman Bamford Beadle (AJ Glueckert), in a scene from the San Francisco Opera production of Stephen Sondheim's "Sweeney Todd," Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2015, at the War Memorial Opera House in San Francisco, Calif. (D. Ross Cameron/Bay Area News Group)

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Brian Mulligan as Sweeney Todd, top, and Wayne Tigges as Judge Turpin, in a scene from the San Francisco Opera production of Stephen Sondheim's "Sweeney Todd," Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2015, at the War Memorial Opera House in San Francisco, Calif. (D. Ross Cameron/Bay Area News Group)

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Brian Mulligan is the eponymous demon barber of Fleet Street, in the San Francisco Opera production of Stephen Sondheim's "Sweeney Todd," Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2015, at the War Memorial Opera House in San Francisco, Calif. (D. Ross Cameron/Bay Area News Group)

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Brian Mulligan is the eponymous demon barber of Fleet Street, in the San Francisco Opera production of Stephen Sondheim's "Sweeney Todd," Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2015, at the War Memorial Opera House in San Francisco, Calif. (D. Ross Cameron/Bay Area News Group)

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Sweeney Todd (Brian Mulligan), left, and Mrs. Lovett (Stephanie Blythe) arrive at an unusual business arrangement, in a scene from the San Francisco Opera production of Stephen Sondheim's "Sweeney Todd," Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2015, at the War Memorial Opera House in San Francisco, Calif. (D. Ross Cameron/Bay Area News Group)

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Sweeney Todd (Brian Mulligan), left, and Mrs. Lovett (Stephanie Blythe) arrive at an unusual business arrangement, in a scene from the San Francisco Opera production of Stephen Sondheim's "Sweeney Todd," Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2015, at the War Memorial Opera House in San Francisco, Calif. (D. Ross Cameron/Bay Area News Group)

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Crowds clamor for some of Mrs. Lovett's surprisingly tasty meat pies, in a scene from the San Francisco Opera production of Stephen Sondheim's "Sweeney Todd," Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2015, at the War Memorial Opera House in San Francisco, Calif. (D. Ross Cameron/Bay Area News Group)

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The sudden popularity Mrs. Lovett's (Stephanie Blythe) meat pies leave her happy, and her employee Tobias Ragg (Matthew Grills) perplexed, in a scene from the San Francisco Opera production of Stephen Sondheim's "Sweeney Todd," Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2015, at the War Memorial Opera House in San Francisco, Calif. (D. Ross Cameron/Bay Area News Group)

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Mrs. Lovett (Stephanie Blythe), left, tries to woo Sweeney Todd (Brian Mulligan), in a scene from the San Francisco Opera production of Stephen Sondheim's "Sweeney Todd," Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2015, at the War Memorial Opera House in San Francisco, Calif. (D. Ross Cameron/Bay Area News Group)

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Mrs. Lovett (Stephanie Blythe) tries to woo Sweeney Todd (Brian Mulligan), in a scene from the San Francisco Opera production of Stephen Sondheim's "Sweeney Todd," Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2015, at the War Memorial Opera House in San Francisco, Calif. (D. Ross Cameron/Bay Area News Group)

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Matthew Grills as Tobias Ragg, left, and Stephanie Blythe as Mrs. Lovett, in a scene from the San Francisco Opera production of Stephen Sondheim's "Sweeney Todd," Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2015, at the War Memorial Opera House in San Francisco, Calif. (D. Ross Cameron/Bay Area News Group)

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James Asher, left, plays Jonas Fogg, and Heidi Stober is Johanna, trapped in Fogg's insane asylum, in a scene from the San Francisco Opera production of Stephen Sondheim's "Sweeney Todd," Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2015, at the War Memorial Opera House in San Francisco, Calif. (D. Ross Cameron/Bay Area News Group)

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Anthony Hope (Elliot Madore), left, rescues his intended, Johanna (Heidi Stober) from the lunatic asylum where she has been falsely imprisoned, in a scene from the San Francisco Opera production of Stephen Sondheim's "Sweeney Todd," Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2015, at the War Memorial Opera House in San Francisco, Calif. (D. Ross Cameron/Bay Area News Group)

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With their jailer shot dead, the inmates at a lunatic asylum run wild, in a scene from the San Francisco Opera production of Stephen Sondheim's "Sweeney Todd," Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2015, at the War Memorial Opera House in San Francisco, Calif. (D. Ross Cameron/Bay Area News Group)

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Disguised as a sailor, Johanna (Heidi Stober), is accosted by her oblivious father, Sweeney Todd (Brian Mulligan), in a scene from the San Francisco Opera production of Stephen Sondheim's "Sweeney Todd," Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2015, at the War Memorial Opera House in San Francisco, Calif. (D. Ross Cameron/Bay Area News Group)

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Having failed to recognize her before slitting her throat, Sweeney Todd (Brian Mulligan), top mourns his long-lost wife, Lucy (Elizabeth Futral), in a scene from the San Francisco Opera production of Stephen Sondheim's "Sweeney Todd," Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2015, at the War Memorial Opera House in San Francisco, Calif. (D. Ross Cameron/Bay Area News Group)

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Realizing she's deceived him, Sweeney Todd (Brian Mulligan), right, pushes Mrs. Lovett (Stephanie Blythe) into her own baking oven, in a scene from the San Francisco Opera production of Stephen Sondheim's "Sweeney Todd," Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2015, at the War Memorial Opera House in San Francisco, Calif. (D. Ross Cameron/Bay Area News Group)

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Sweeney Todd (Brian Mulligan), mourns over the body of his wife Lucy (Elizabeth Futral), in a scene from the San Francisco Opera production of Stephen Sondheim's "Sweeney Todd," Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2015, at the War Memorial Opera House in San Francisco, Calif. (D. Ross Cameron/Bay Area News Group)

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Tobias Ragg (Matthew Grills) cuts the throat of Sweeney Todd (Brian Mulligan) as he mourns his dead wife Lucy (Elizabeth Futral), in the climactic scene from the San Francisco Opera production of Stephen Sondheim's "Sweeney Todd," Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2015, at the War Memorial Opera House in San Francisco, Calif. (D. Ross Cameron/Bay Area News Group)