
San Francisco Opera to Present Pride Concert Featuring Jamie Barton & Nikola Printz
By Francisco SalazarSan Francisco Opera will celebrate Pride Weekend with a special Pride Concert featuring immersive projections and a post-show dance party on June 27 at the War Memorial Opera House.
RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars Season Four winner and classically trained singer Monét X Change will host the concert, which will be conducted by Music Director Eun Sun Kim and Robert Mollicone.
Soloists will include Jamie Barton, Brian Mulligan and Nikola Printz, and Tal Rosner’s video designs will fill the hall while Justin A. Partier is the night’s lighting designer.
The Pride weekend celebration will conclude on June 29, when the Company joins other local arts institutions to march in the 55th Annual San Francisco Pride Parade.
The musical programming for the Pride Concert will feature works by opera composers, including Leonard Bernstein, Jake Heggie, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky and Camille Saint-Saëns; songs from screen and stage, such as “A Star Is Born (1954),” “Mame and La Cage aux Folles,” and folk, pop, jazz and disco tunes by Indigo Girls, Freddie Mercury and Melissa Etheridge, among others.
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