Opera Parallèle and Presidio Theatre are set to present the West Coast premiere of “Fellow Travelers” by Gregory Spears.

The company will salute LGBTQ+ Pride Month with the opera which will be performed three times between June 21 and 23 at the Presidio Theatre.

The opera is based on award-winning author Thomas Mallon’s novel, which was recently adapted into a limited TV series featuring Jonathan Bailey and Matt Bomer.

“The concept design for Fellow Travelers was inspired by the cruel ‘double-life’ the gay community was forced to live during the McCarthy era and the many tragic stories that this caused,” Opera Parallèle Stage & Creative Director Brian Staufenbiel said in an official press release. “This notion juxtaposes the idea that how people are forced to present themselves, is not necessarily how people truly identify, and most importantly, how they want to live their lives. The set design is sleek and modular, moving seamlessly from scene to scene using succinct silhouettes and projected paintings from the period. OP’s creative team will use the design element of silhouettes, as an overarching metaphor, or shell, that people live in, and more specifically, the shell that the LGBTQ were–and continue here and around the world–to be forced to live in.”

“Fellow Travelers” will star Jonathan Pierce Rhodes, Joseph Lattanzi, Victoria Lawal, Kurt Winterhalter, Elena Galván, Cara Gabrielson, Daniel Cilli, Matthew Worth, and Matthew Lovell.