Few fine artists in our time have put their imprint on opera more surely than David Hockney, whose designs for the Hogarth-inspired The Rake’s Progress and a storybook Tristan und Isolde have settled into intermittent immortality. Cropping up from time to time in far-scattered revivals, they have yet to show their age. Now, San Francisco dusts off Hockney’s décor for realization of Die Frau ohne Schatten, an Orientalist fable its creators Hugo von Hofmannsthal and Richard Strauss envisioned as a latter-day Magic Flute. (Musically, it has much more in common with Wagner than Mozart.) Sir Donald Runnicles conducts a distinguished cast headed by Camilla Nyland as the Empress from Fairyland, David Butt Philip as the human Emperor who is turning to stone, Johan Reuter as the good-hearted dyer Barak, and Nina Stemme as his discontented wife. The Dyer’s Wife—a woman with everyday problems—was a role beloved of the down-to-earth Birgit Nilsson, who took it on at a similar point in her career, with the Elektras and Brünnhildes and Isoldes in her rear-view mirror. Note: the performance of June 20 will stream live; an instant replay goes live on June 21 at 10am (Pacific Time) and remains available for 48 hours. —Matthew Gurewitsch