San Francisco Ballet dispelled any lingering gloom from the damp, chilly evening with a gala opening on Thursday night at the War Memorial Opera House that deftly showcased the company's notable versatility.In a program that ran the emotional gamut from dark and brooding to fiendishly nimble, modernity and drama took center stage, with not a Petipa tutu in sight. The oldest ballet excerpt on what felt like a briefer gala program than usual was Vasily Vainonen's 1932 Soviet-era chestnut "The Flames of Paris," and the most recent, Christopher Wheeldon's sleek, candy-colored "Number Nine," was created in April for the Ballet. That's a span of 79 years and, it just so happens, almost traces the life span of San Francisco Ballet itself.
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