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Jonathan Khuner & Michael Senturia Unveil Digital Mini-Opera ‘The Deceiver of Citizens’

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Music and video director Jonathan Khuner and composer/librettist Michael Senturia have released their new opera “The Deceiver of Citizens” online. The work focuses on the titular Deceiver and his interactions with two Enablers and a young allegorical character known as “Innocence.” The opera, which lasts a little over 14 minutes, was filmed in five different locations and features Alex Boyer, {…}

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Kelly Guerra, Derek Chester, Aaron Sheehan, Hadleigh Adams Headline West Edge Opera’s 2025 Summer Festival

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West Edge Opera has announced its 2025 summer festival. First on the slate is Nicolás Lell Benavides and Marella Koch’s “Dolores,” which was developed through the company’s Aperture Program. It explores the journey of activist Dolores Huerta and her work with the United Farm Workers during the Delano Grape Strike, among other major events. The opera stars Kelly Guerra, Phillip {…}

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Composer Alyssa Weinberg Joins West Edge Opera’s ‘Claude & Marcel’

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West Edge Opera has announced that composer Alyssa Weinberg is teaming up with librettist Stephanie Fleischmann to create “Claude & Marcel,” a new opera about surrealist photographers and activists Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore. The opera is written for eight singers and 13 instruments and will premiere in August 2027 following three years of workshops and preview performances. West Edge {…}

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Pocket Opera 2024 Review: The Cunning Little Vixen

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(Photo credit: Pocket Opera) More than earning its cult following, San Francisco Bay’s Pocket Opera continues to enchant music-lovers of all ages and varying attention spans. Armed with the mission embraced by its founder Donald Pippin, the Pocket Opera breathes life into rare, under-appreciated, and flat out delightful operas. Sculpting them within a chamber setting—the final performance of Leoš Janáček’s {…}

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West Edge Opera Announces SNAPSHOT 2023 Lineup

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West Edge Opera has announced its SNAPSHOT 2023 lineup scheduled for March 18 and 19 at The Hillside Club in Berkeley and the Taube Atrium Theater in San Francisco, respectively. Among the works programmed are Luna Pearl Woolf’s and Andrea Michelle Stolowitz’s “The Limit of the Sun,” a work that portrays “the complex relationship among a kidnapped journalist, the journalist’s {…}

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Pocket Opera 2022 Review: No Love Allowed

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Comic? Sassy? Wagner? In English? That’s what’s on offer with Pocket Opera’s “No Love Allowed,” a bright, energetic revival of Richard Wagner’s second opera, “Das Liebesverbot.” The production features a translation by the company’s beloved founder, Donald Pippin,  as directed by Stage Director Nicholas A. Garcia, and with music conducted by Jonathan Khuner. In this work, the Sorcerer of Bayreuth {…}

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Michelle Drever, Nika Printz, Leslie Sandefue Headlines Pocket Opera’s 2022 Season

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Pocket Opera has announced its 2022 season. The season will open with “The Merry Widow” starring Jennifer Ashworth and Orson Van Gay. Performance Dates:  March 27 – April 10, 2022 Next up is Wagner’s rarely performed “Das Liebesverbot.” The opera will star soprano Leslie Sandefur and Patrick Hagen. Nicolas A. Garcia directs with Jonathan Khuner conducts. Performance Date: May 15 {…}

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Efraín Solis, Aryeh Nussbaum Cohen, Shawnette Sulker Headline West Edge Opera’s 2022 Festival

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West Edge Opera has announced its 2022 summer opera festival. The season kicks off with Händel’s “Julius Caesar” with Aryeh Nussbaum Cohen in the title role. He will be joined by Shawnette Sulker as Cleopatra. Other cast members include Cenk Karaferya, Katharine Pracht, Sarah Coit, Ashraf Sewailam, Glenn Healy, and Jasmine Johnson. Mark Streshinsky directs a production conducted by Christine {…}

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West Edge Opera Announces New Venue for 2022 Summer Festival

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West Edge Opera has announced that their 2022 summer festival will be held at The Scottish Rite Center in Oakland, California. The move will mark the company’s return to performances held at unconventional, historically-rich spaces. Designed in 1927 by Carl Werner, the building was remodeled in 1939 and is located across from Lake Chalet. The venue will allow the company {…}