Not exactly a contest, but my "25th SFO opening night" claim has been easily pre-empted by Bob Commanday's 35. The long-time former S.F. Chronicle music critic (and three-time president of the Music Critics Association [before they let Canadians in to make it MCANA]) has written a delightful account of all those tuxedo'd occasions, in his San Francisco Classical Voice Web 'zine, at http://www.sfcv.org/ Janos Gereben/SF [log in to unmask]