San Francisco-based Merola Opera continues its summer season with “Back Home: Through The Stage Door,” a digital production that had been lost due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

This work, which was directed by David Paul, will feature music by Dominick Argento, Vicenzo Bellini, Carlisle Floyd, Francis Poulenc, Anton Webern, Handel, Mozart and others

The film will feature all Merola 2021 contestants, as they celebrate a “homecoming” at the Herbst Theater in San Francisco.

Paul is a Brooklyn-based German director whose work includes “Dichterliebe: POETLOVE.” He has collaborated with several major companies including the LA Opera, Shakespeare Theatre Company (Washington, DC), the Metropolitan Opera/Juilliard, Washington National Opera, Arizona Opera, Pittsburgh Opera, North Carolina Opera, and Wolf Trap Opera

The on-demand streaming production will be available to Merola members on August 13 and to the public on August 27, 2021.