If you thought that opera was the final bastion against technicolor illumination and drag, first of all Why? Second of all San Francisco Opera begs to differ, and they’re sending in the heavy artillery for Pride Weekend on June 27th. Yes, the War Memorial Opera House will be aglow. Tal Rosner’s projections and Justin A. Partier’s lighting will ensure all surfaces are bathed in effluvium—digital, of course.

Eun Sun Kim and Robert Mollicone, will cross batons in musical co-parenting duty. And lest the place get too serious, Monét X Change—RuPaul’s Drag’s Race’s All’s Stars’s winner and someone who can reference Verdi and Voguing in the same sentence—will be your hostexx.

Who are the actual singers, you ask? One gets Barton (Jamie, she of hurricane mezzo), Brian Mulligan (baritone, less hurricane, more rolling fog), and Nikola Printz (mezzo, but whose first musical homes were in jazz and cabaret clubs). If you detect more than a whiff of festival, congratulations: subtlety will not be the guest of honor.

The Pride parade itself lumbers along on June 29, the Company marching—in a sensible character shoe—with the city’s other institutions, all equally determined to prove they own the rights to Judy Garland’s ghost.

As for the programming: an amuse-bouche of Leonard Bernstein (one assumes not the subtle bits), a soupçon of Jake Heggie for modernists, flashes of Tchaikovsky for the mild and mannered, and select moments from A Star Is Born, Mame, and La Cage aux Folles for the subset of the audience who’ve seen all three and quote them constantly to the ??? of their gen-Z text tormentors.

Add disco, folk, pop, and jazz from the likes of Freddie Mercury, Melissa Etheridge, and the Indigo Girls.

Tasteful? No. But tasteful is for February.