San Francisco Opera To Present ‘The Future Is Now: Adler Fellows Concert’

By Francisco Salazar

San Francisco Opera Center is set to present the 2018 class of Adler Fellows in their final concert of the year, entitled “The Future Is Now: Adler Fellows Concert.”

The concert, scheduled for Dec. 8 at the Herbst Theatre, will be conducted by Christopher Franklin and will feature eight Adler Fellow singers in opera scenes, arias, and duets with stage direction by Adler Fellow director Aria Umezawa and musical preparation by Adler Fellow apprentice coaches John Elam and César Cañón.

Among the Adler Fellows will be sopranos Sarah Cambidge and Natalie Image, mezzo-soprano Ashley Dixon, countertenor Aryeh Nussbaum Cohen, tenors Amitai Pati and Kyle van Schoonhoven, baritone Andrew Manea, and bass-baritone Christian Pursell.

The program will also include music from Bellini’s “I Puritani,” Donizetti’s “Lucia di Lammermoor” and “L’Assedio di Calais,” Rossini’s “Tancredi,” Richard Strauss’ “Die Ägyptische Helena,” Verdi’s “Attila” and Wagner’s “Parsifal” and “Tristan und Isolde.”

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