The San Francisco Opera has hit another fundraising home run, announcing a record donation of $40 million from its chairman, stock fund manager John A. Gunn, and his wife, Cynthia Fry Gunn. That tops the $35 million that longtime supporter Jeannik Mequet Littlefield gave two years ago.
Both big donations have followed the arrival of General Director David Gockley, who came from the Houston Grand Opera at the start of 2006 to succeed Pamela Rosenberg.
