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San Francisco Opera Announces Complete Programs for Three Schwabacher Recital Series Concerts

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The Schwabacher Recital Series, presented by San Francisco Opera Center and Merola Opera Program, will continue on April 6 and Wednesday, April 27 at San Francisco’s Dianne and Tad Taube Atrium Theater. The April 6 recital will feature American mezzo-soprano Ashley Dixon, a 2018–19 Adler Fellow and 2015/2017 Merola Opera Program participant alongside Kseniia Polstiankina Barrad. Dixon and Barrad will {…}

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San Francisco Opera Center & Merola Opera Program Announce 2022 Schwabacher Recital Series

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The San Francisco Opera Center and Merola Opera Program have announced the Schwabacher Recital Series. Kicking things off will be a showcase featuring mezzo-soprano Nikola Printz and pianist Erica Xiaoyan Guo as they perform works by such composers as Barbara Strozzi, Rossini, Alma Mahler, Lang, Schubert, and Ranchera pieces inspired by Chavela Vargas. They will be joined by guitarist Tatiana {…}

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Eun Sun Kim to Lead San Francisco Opera’s ‘The Future is Now: Adler Fellows Concert’

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San Francisco Opera is set to present “The Future is Now: Adler Fellows Concert” on Dec. 10, 2021. The showcase, which marks the culmination of the 2021 Adler Fellows will feature Anne-Marie MacIntosh, Elisa Sunshine and Esther Tonea; mezzo-soprano Simone McIntosh; tenors Zhengyi Bai, Christopher Colmenero and Christopher Oglesby; baritone Timothy Murray; bass Stefan Egerstrom and pianists Kseniia Polstiankina Barrad and Andrew King. Audiences will hear a wide array of opera scenes, arias, {…}

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San Francisco Opera Center Announces 2022 Adler Fellows

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(Credit: San Francisco Opera official website) The San Francisco Opera Center Artistic Director Carrie-Ann Matheson and General Manager Markus Beam announced the 11 recipients of the 2022 San Francisco Opera Adler Fellowship. The selected singers to be Adler Fellows in 2022 are sopranos Anne-Marie MacIntosh, Mikayla Sager, Elisa Sunshine, and Esther Tonea; mezzo-soprano Gabrielle Beteag; tenors Victor Cardamone and Edward {…}

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Ailyn Pérez Headlines San Francisco Opera’s Opening Night ‘Tosca’

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(Credit: Walter Hill/Chris Singer/Jiyang Chen) San Francisco Opera is set to inaugurate its 99th season and first under the baton of Caroline H. Hume Music Director Eun Sun Kim, with “Tosca.” The company will present five performances of Giacomo Puccini’s masterpiece and it will represent the first opera staged in the War Memorial Opera House since the pandemic shutdown. The {…}

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San Francisco Opera Announces ‘The Adlers: Live at the Drive-In’

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San Francisco Opera is set to present “The Adlers: Live at the Drive-In” starting on April 29. The outdoor concert will feature the company’s Adler Fellows in a 70-minute performance staged by Jose Maria Condemi. The performers include sopranos Anne-Marie MacIntosh, Elisa Sunshine, Esther Tonea, mezzo-soprano Simone McIntosh, tenors Zhengyi Bai, Christopher Colmenero, Christopher Oglesby, baritone Timothy Murray, bass, Stefan {…}

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San Francisco Opera to Present ‘The Barber of Seville’ in a Drive-In

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(Credit: Stefan Cohen/San Francisco Opera) San Francisco Opera stages its first live opera performances with Gioachino Rossini’s “The Barber of Seville.” The opera will be offered in a drive-in setting at San Rafael’s Marin Center and will open on April 23 and showcased for eleven performances running through May 15. Director Matthew Ozawa adapted the opera into a 90-minute version {…}

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San Francisco Opera Announces Live Performances in 2021, Digital Premieres & Virtual Ring Cycle Festival

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San Francisco Opera has announced that it will be returning to live performances starting in the Spring 2021. The company will present a 90-minute drive-in version of “Il Barbiere di Siviglia,” directed by Matthew Ozawa starring Daniela Mack, Alek Shrader, Lucas Meachem, Laura Krumm, Philip Skinner, Kenneth Kellogg, and Catherine Cook. Roderick Cox makes his company debut at the podium. {…}

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San Francisco Opera Center Announces 2020 Adler Fellows

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The San Francisco Opera Center has announced the 2020 Adler Fellows. This year’s group includes 10 singers and two pianists / apprentice coaches who will begin their fellows in January of 2020. They include soprano Anne-Marie MacIntosh, soprano Elisa Sunshine, soprano Esther Tonea, mezzo-soprano Simone McIntosh, tenor Zhengyi Bai, tenor Christopher Colmenero, tenor Christopher Oglesby, and tenor Victor Starsky. Baritone {…}