Pocket Opera Unveils 2025 Season

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San Francisco’s Pocket Opera has unveiled its 2025 season. The season opens with “The Marriage of Figaro,” with three performances at Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts, Hillside Club, and the Legion of Honor in San Francisco. The opera stars Morgan Balfour as Susanna, Andrew Pardini as Figaro, Julia Mulholland as the Countess, Spencer Dodd as the Count, and {…}

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Pocket Opera 2024 Review: The Cunning Little Vixen

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(Photo credit: Pocket Opera) More than earning its cult following, San Francisco Bay’s Pocket Opera continues to enchant music-lovers of all ages and varying attention spans. Armed with the mission embraced by its founder Donald Pippin, the Pocket Opera breathes life into rare, under-appreciated, and flat out delightful operas. Sculpting them within a chamber setting—the final performance of Leoš Janáček’s {…}

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Pocket Opera Announces 2023 Season

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San Francisco Opera’s Pocket Opera has announced its 2023 season. All four fully-staged productions will be sung in English and produced on a small, audience-friendly scale. First up is Johann Strauss’s “Die Fledermaus” featuring Cheryl Cain in her Pocket Opera debut as Rosalinde. Patrick Hagen will sing the role of Eisenstein, and Leandra Ramm as Prince Orlofsky. Adele is sung {…}

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Michelle Drever, Nika Printz, Leslie Sandefue Headlines Pocket Opera’s 2022 Season

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Pocket Opera has announced its 2022 season. The season will open with “The Merry Widow” starring Jennifer Ashworth and Orson Van Gay. Performance Dates: March 27 – April 10, 2022 Next up is Wagner’s rarely performed “Das Liebesverbot.” The opera will star soprano Leslie Sandefur and Patrick Hagen. Nicolas A. Garcia directs with Jonathan Khuner conducts. Performance Date: May 15 {…}

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Obituary: Pocket Opera Founder Donald Pippin Dies at 95

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Donald Pippin, founder of Pocket Opera, passed away on July 7, 2021 in San Francisco. He was 95. He was born on Dec. 8, 1925 in Zebulon, North Carolina, and spent his early youth in Richmond, Virginia. He became a pianist and by 14, he was soloing with the National Symphony Orchestra. At 17, he went to Harvard on a {…}

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Pocket Opera Announces 3 Concerts, Virtual Gala

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Pocket Opera has announced the transmission of Pocket Watch, a three-song concert miniseries, as well as its Virtual Gala 2021, “Offenbachanalia,” commemorating the 44th year of its founding by its Artistic Director Emeritus, Donald Pippin. All performances will be streamed on the company’s official YouTube Channel and Facebook. The first concert, entitled “Songs of Concealment,” will be opened by baritone {…}

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Pocket Opera 2020 Review: Don Giovanni

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(Photo Provided by Pocket Opera) Pocket Opera, the San Francisco Bay Area’s flagship chamber opera company, opened its 2020 season on March 1, 2020 with the Mozart/Da Ponte masterpiece, “Don Giovanni.” The production was the first under the leadership of the company’s recently installed artistic director, Nicolas A. Garcia. Garcia previously served as the assistant artistic director under Pocket Opera’s {…}

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Pocket Opera Unveils 2020 Season

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California-based Pocket Opera has announced its 2020 season which will feature five operas throughout the year, including a unique double bill. The season opens with Mozart’s “Don Giovanni” with Anders Froehlich in the title role. Chris Filipowicz, Kevin Gino, Mitchell Jones, Sara LeMesh, Jaime Korkos, and Rabihah Dunn will take on the other major roles in the opera. César Cañon {…}

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Chelsea Lehnea, Anna Bonitatibus, Jeanine De Bique, Stéphane Degout, Samuel Hasselhorn & Lea Desandre Lead Opéra de Rouen’s 2025-26 Season

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The Opéra de Rouen Normandie has announced its 2025-26 season. Opera Chelsea Lehnea, Leonardo Sanchez, and Anthony Clark Evans lead Verdi’s “La Traviata.” Dayner Tafur-Diaz conducts the production by Jean-François Sivadier. The opera will be livestreamed on Oct. 4, 2025. Performance Dates: Sept. 26-Oct. 7, 2025 Elsa Benoit and Samuel Hasselhorn lead Brahms’ Deutsche Requiem. Laurence Equilbey conducts the production {…}

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