Steven Winn [SF Chronicle, 7 December 2005]
Late last month, with her five-year tenure as general director of the San Francisco Opera winding down to its final weeks, Pamela Rosenberg spent a night in the orchestra pit during a performance of “Fidelio” at the War Memorial Opera House. The experience, as she described it, was at once thrilling and disorienting, heady and viscerally real.