(Photo credit: Matthew Washburn) The Schwabacher Recital Series presented by Merola Opera Program and San Francisco Opera Center returns with a series of three recitals. The series opens on April 1 with three of the 2024 Merola alumni and second-year San Francisco Opera Adler Fellows, soprano Mary Hoskins, baritone Olivier Zerouali, and pianist Ji Youn Lee. The evening’s program, curated {…}
Merola Opera Program and San Francisco Opera Center have announced the 2025 Schwabacher Recital Series. First up is a concert starring Georgiana Adams, Caroline Corrales, Thomas Kinch, Samuel Kidd, and pianist Julian Grabarek as they present works by Amy Beach, Vítězslava Kaprálová, Rebecca Clarke, Richard Strauss, George Butterworth, Alma Mahler, Claude Debussy and Kurt Weill. Nicholas Phan curates the program. {…}
San Francisco Opera and Merola Opera Program has announced the 2024 Schwabacher Recital Series. First up is Simona Genga and Hyemin Jeong present “Two Laurels,” which includes both classical art songs and new compositions, “bringing the audience on a journey through the intimate moments of a queer love story.” Performance Date: Feb. 21, 2024 Then comes a program curated by Nicholas {…}
San Francisco Opera and the Merola Opera Program have announced the 2023 Schwabacher Recital Series. The series opens with a concert featuring soprano Meigui Zhang and pianist John Churchill as they present music in German, French, and Chinese. Performance Date: March 1, 2023 That will be followed up by a concert featuring the San Francisco Opera Adler Fellows and Merola {…}
The Schwabacher Recital Series is set to present baritone Sidney Outlaw and pianist Warren Jones in the final concert of the 2022 showcase. The recital will be held on July 28 in the Caroline H. Hume Concert Hall at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and will focus on the two artists’ recent recorded collaboration, “Lament,” which pays homage to {…}
