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San Francisco Opera to Present ‘El último sueño de Frida y Diego’

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(Credit: Karli Cadel/San Diego Opera) The San Francisco Opera is set to present the Bay Area premiere of “El último sueño de Frida y Diego” by Gabriela Lena Frank and Nilo Cruz. The opera, which is a San Francisco Opera co-commission and the Company’s first Spanish-language opera, will be presented from June 13 to 30 at the War Memorial Opera {…}

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San Francisco Opera to Showcase ‘Rise Up and Resist: A Commemorative Concert’

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San Francisco Opera is set to present “Rise Up and Resist: A Commemorative Concert” on April 28, 2023 at the Dianne and Tad Taube Atrium Theater. Per an official press statement issued by San Francisco Opera, the showcase, “will span solemn musical remembrance; outlawed music performed in the Warsaw Ghetto in defiance of the Nazi regime; music performed by the {…}

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San Francisco Opera Announces 11 Adler Fellows for 2023

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The San Francisco Opera has announced the 2023 Adler Fellows. The participants include sopranos Mikayla Sager, Arianna Rodriguez, and Olivia Smith; mezzo-sopranos Gabrielle Beteag and Nikola Prinz; tenors Victor Cardamone, Edward Graves, and Moisés Salazar; and bass-baritone Jongwan Han. Of these artists, Beteag, Cardamone, Graves, and Sager are second-year fellows. Artists selected as pianist coaches includ Yang Lin and Marika {…}

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Merola Opera Program Concludes Summer Program with Gala Concert

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The Merola Opera Program’s Summer Festival ends with the Merola Grand Finale, a concert featuring the 31 young artists of the 2022 program. The program will see the artists performing some of opera’s most thrilling arias and ensembles. Directed by 2022 Merola Stage Director Matthew J. Schulz, this performance will be conducted by Patrick Furrer, a Metropolitan Opera staff member {…}

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Merola Opera Program to Stage ‘Die Zauberflöte’

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Merola Opera Program is set to present a fully staged production of Mozart’s “Die Zauberflöte.” The production will be conducted by Kelly Kuo, Associate Director of American Lyric Theatre and Music Director of the Reno Chamber Orchestra. Director Gina Lapinski directs this production, bringing the work’s colorful characters to life and will feature costumes created by Dame Zandra Rhodes for {…}

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Merola Opera Program Announces 2022 Slate

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The Merola Opera Program has announced the artists and performances for its 2022 season. The season kicks off with “A Celebration of American Song” featuring music by Frederick Loewe, Harold Arlen, Leonard Bernstein, Rodgers and Hammerstein, and others. Performance Dates: July 9, 2022 Schwabacher Summer Concert, which will feature music by such Latin American and Spanish composers as Manuel de {…}

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Pittsburgh Festival Opera Unveils Semifinalists, Judges For Mildred Miller International Vocal Competition

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The Pittsburgh Festival Opera is set to present the ninth annual Mildred Miller International Vocal Competition on Oct. 26 and 27, 2019. The showcase will be hosted by Kip Soteres, the host of Aria 412’s “Opera for Everyone” series. The semifinals are set for Saturday the 26th with the grand finals set for the following day. Eight singers will be {…}