The Merola Opera Program will continue its 2024 season with the Schwabacher Summer Concert. The concert will include extended scenes from Donizetti’s “Lucrezia Borgia,” Gounod’s “Faust,” Leoncavallo’s “Pagliacci,” Massenet’s “Cendrillon,” Puccini’s “La bohème,” and Richard Strauss’ “Ariadne auf Naxos.” The concert will be performed with a full orchestra and will be conducted by the internationally renowned Maestro Louis Lohraseb, with direction {…}

San Francisco’s Merola Opera Program begins its 2024 Summer Festival with “The Song as Drama.” The vocal chamber recital explores the narrative arc of the song and will feature ten artists from the 2024 Merola program and additional chamber musicians. Each piece will offer audiences a deeply compelling story, summarized in just a few minutes. They will perform music from a diverse range of eras and styles. Merola {…}

The Merola Opera Program has announced the 29 artists that will be part of its 2024 roster. Here is the rundown of the artists: Moriah Berry, Atlanta, Georgia Hannah Cho, Seoul, South Korea Alexa Frankian, Oakville, Ontario, Canada Viviana Aurelia Goodwin, Tulsa, Oklahoma Lydia Grindatto, Tijeras, New Mexico Elizabeth “Hanje” Hanje, Vestavia Hills, Alabama Mary Hoskins, Saratoga Springs, New York {…}

The San Francisco Merola Opera Program is set to open its 2023 Summer Festival with “Metamorphosis: Recovery, Renewal, and Rebirth.” The uplifting vocal and piano recital will feature a rich array of songs that explore the many facets of transformation. The program will feature songs from Alma Mahler, Samuel Barber, Aaron Copland, Robert Owens, Florence Price, and many other notable {…}