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)
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)
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)