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Lucia Lucas, Aviva Fortunata, Aude Extrémo, Andrew Love Headline Pacific Opera Victoria’s 2022 Season

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Canada’s Pacific Opera Victoria has announced its 2022 season. The season kicks off with Bizet’s “Carmen” starring Aude Extrémo, Adam Luther, and Lauren Margison. Brenna Corner directs the production. Timothy Vernon conducts. “This will be the company’s 5th Carmen,” Timothy Vernon, the company’s artistic directors said in a press statement. “It is always exciting, and this production will be vital, {…}

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Pacific Opera Project to Present ‘Hansel and Gretel’

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Pacific Opera Project continues its 2021-22 fairytale-themed opera season with an outdoor presentation of Humperdinck’s “Hansel and Gretel.” The production will be performed at Forest Lawn Glendale, California, and will be sung in English. The cast will include Kara Morgan as Hansel, Emily Rosenberg as Gretel, Erin Theodorakis as Mother, Daniel Scofield as Father, Melanie Ashkar as the Witch, Anastasia {…}

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Pacific Opera Project Announces Fairy Tale-Themed 2021-22 Season

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Pacific Opera Project in California has announced its 2021-22 season, which will showcase four fairy-tale based operas. First up will be a production of Rossini’s “La Cenerentola,” which stars Stephanie Doche in the lead role alongside E. Scott Levin, Arnold Livingston, Joel Balzun, Andrew Allan Hiers, Meagan Martin, and Chelsea Lehnea. Josh Shaw directs a production conducted by Kristin Roach. {…}

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Pacific Opera Victoria to Present ‘Bon Appétit’ & ‘The Italian Lesson’

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Canadian company Pacific Opera Victoria is set to perform a double bill of “The Italian Lesson” and “Bon Appétit” available to stream until June 21, 2021. The double bill, which will be streamed for free via the company’s official website, will star Megan Latham as Julia Child and will be directed by Glynis Leyshon. Giuseppe Pietraroia conducts the production. Latham {…}

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Pacific Opera Project Announces In-Person Performances of Bizet’s ‘Don Procopio’

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Pacific Opera Project is set to present a series of live, in-person productions this June. The company unveiled that it would be performing Bizet’s “Don Procopio” between June 4-6, 2021 at the Heritage Square Museum in Los Angeles, California. All three showcases will feature socially-distanced audiences. The showcase will feature Ben Lowe in the title role alongside Rachel Policar, Jon {…}

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Pacific Opera Project to Present ‘Trouble in Tahiti’

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Pacific Opera Project has announced its next installment of revolutionary, pandemic-safe productions with Leonard Bernstein’s “Trouble in Tahiti.” The work will be performed live outdoors at the Heritage Square Museum in Los Angeles. The four, socially-distanced performances will be held on April 24 and 25, 2021 and audiences will be able to picnic and enjoy a bottle of wine in {…}

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Pacific Opera Project to Stream ‘COVID fan tutte’

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On March 26, 2021, Pacific Opera Project will launch an encore presentation of its acclaimed “COVID fan tutte,” which ran last year in a drive-in format in Camarillo, California. With a new English libretto by Artistic Director Josh Shaw, the work is set at a SoCal golf resort, and features three real-life couples who quarantined together to reduce the risk {…}

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Pacific Opera Announces ‘ Live from the Baumann’ Concert Series

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Pacific Opera in Victoria, Canada has announced the “Live from the Baumann” concert series. The live in-person performances invites audiences for a socially-distanced showcase at the Baumann Center where they can see some of opera’s rising stars. First up will be Bass-baritone Daniel Okulitch and soprano Lara Secord-Haid as they take on music by  Osvaldo Golijov, Carlos Guastavino, André Previn, {…}