Livermore Valley Opera has unveiled its 2026-27 season First up is “Suor Angelica” with soprano Ann Toomey in the title role. She is joined by contralto Sara Couden as the Principessa, Saori DeBruyn as Suor Genovieffa, Alexandra Jerinic as La Badessa, Mariya Kaganskaya as La Suora Zelatrice, Leandra Ramm as La Maestra delle Novizie, Valérie Filloux as La Suora Infermiera, {…}
Livermore Valley Opera has shared a slew of major updates. First up, the company revealed that it returns to Garré Vineyard & Winery in Livermore, California for early evening outdoor concerts on Sunday, June 28 and Sunday, August 16, 2026. Each concert will feature a distinct program mixing Broadway favorites, operatic highlights, and popular standards in one of the Livermore {…}
Livermore Valley Opera has announced its 2025-26 season. First up is “Behind the Scenes with Erie Mills.” Performance Date: Sept. 19, 2025 Then comes an opening night dinner. Performance Date: Sept. 27, 2025 The company’s fall opera will be “La Traviata.” Performance Date: Sept. 27 – Oct. 5, 2025 Then comes “An Evening with the Phantom” to close out 2025. Performance Date: Dec. 5, {…}
Livermore Valley Opera Artistic Director Erie Mills is the recipient of a Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Opera Association. Mills, who commenced her tenure as the head of Livermore Valley Opera in 2016, is a soprano who has performed with such organizations as the Metropolitan Opera, Teatro alla Scala, Wiener Staatsoper, English National Opera, San Francisco Opera, Santa Fe {…}
(Photo credit: Artist website) The Livermore Valley Opera has announced its 2024-25 season lineup. Donizetti’s “The Daughter of the Regiment” stars Véronique Filloux, Lisa Chaves, Chris Mosz, and Eugene Brancoveanu. Marc Jacobs directs. Performance Dates: September 28 – Oct. 6, 2024 Titus Muzi III takes on the title role in Mozart’s “Don Giovanni.” Murrella Parton, David Walton, Cara Gabrielson, and Kirk {…}
Livermore Valley Opera will present “The Magic Flute” at The Bankhead Theater this March. The famed Mozart opera will star Phoebe Chee, Victor Cardamone, Shawnette Sulker, Alex DeSocio, and Kirk Eichelberger. Yefim Maizel directs. “The Artistic Team of LVO chose ‘The Magic Flute’ because it’s a great opera, and it’s never been performed in the Bankhead Theater,” said Erie Mills, {…}
California-based Livermore Valley Opera has unveiled its 2022-23 season which will present two opera productions and numerous concerts. Opening the season will be “L’Elisir d’Amore.” The opera will star Christopher Bozeka, Elena Galván, Sam Weiser, Alba Franco-Cancél, and Andrew W. Potter. Robert Herriot directs. Performance Dates: Oct 1 – 9, 2022 The company will present “The Italian Affair,” an evening {…}
Livermore Valley Opera will present Tchaikovsky’s “Eugene Onegin” at the Bankhead in Livermore, California starting on Sept. 28, 2019. The performance will feature Morgan Smith in the title role with Ukrainian-born soprano Antonina Chehovska as Tatiana. Kyle van Schoonhoven will round out the cast as Lensky. It will be directed by Candace Evans with the company’s music director Alex Katsman {…}
For this week’s recommendations, we have two modern works coupled with three classic masterworks (or more like four with two in a double bill). Throw in a combination of small and big-name companies and this weekend’s recommendations run a wide and diverse gamut. Un Ballo In Maschera – Livermore Valley Opera First up on our list is the independent company’s {…}
The busy weekend in the US continues throughout with a number of companies continuing previously unveiled productions. Before we look at continued runs, let’s look at some of the first-timers this weekend. Among those is LA Opera’s production of “The Pearl Fishers,” which opens on Saturday with a cast that includes Nino Machaidze, Javier Camarena, and Alfredo Daza. Over in {…}
The fall opera season continues growing with more and more opera companies opening their doors. This will be the first weekend of the Metropolitan Opera’s 2017-18 season. While the company has no shows scheduled for Friday, it will have a double header of “Les Contes d’Hoffmann” on Saturday during the afternoon and “Die Zauberflöte” in the evening. The former stars {…}