During Mansouri's tenure at San Francisco Opera, the San Francisco Opera Center has greatly enlarged its scope of education and artist training programs. In 1992, he introduced the Pacific Visions program, an ambitious project designed to maintain the vitality of opera through new commissions and the presentation of rarely performed and unusual operas. The program was launched with the presentation of John Adams's The Death of Klinghoffer in 1992 (co-commissioned by San Francisco Opera), and continued with The Dangerous Liaisons by composer Conrad Susa and librettist Philip Littell (solely commissioned by San Francisco Opera). Mansouri's Pacific Visions program continued during the fall of 1996 with the presentation of Harvey Milk, an opera by composer Stewart Wallace and librettist Michael Korie (a San Francisco Opera co-commission with New York City Opera and Houston Grand Opera).