Bard Music Festival Presents BERLIOZ & HIS WORLD In August
by A.A. Cristi - May 2, 2024
This August, the Bard Music Festival returns for its 34th season with an intensive two-week exploration of “Berlioz and His World.” In eleven themed concert programs, the festival examines the life and times of visionary French composer Hector Berlioz, whose grand-scale works, startling sonorities, and advanced literary leanings helped redefine musical Romanticism.
HAMLET Comes to Purchase Opera This Spring
by Stephi Wild - Mar 22, 2024
This spring season, the multi-award winning Purchase Opera will present a reimagined version of Ambroise Thomas’ Hamlet, in French with English surtitles.
Merola Opera Program to Present Schwabacher Summer Concert in August
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Jun 29, 2023
Bay Area audiences are invited to revel in the high drama and opulent melodies of classic opera as artists from the 2023 Merola Opera Program perform extended scenes from works by Donizetti, Handel, Verdi, and others in the Schwabacher Summer Concert.
The Academy Of Vocal Arts to Present A CELEBRATION OF OPERA!
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Oct 20, 2021
AVA will present A Celebration of Opera! - an opera concert of exciting opera moments. Since the Academy of Vocal Arts' (AVA) last live opera performance in February 2020, we felt the most appropriate way to kick off our new season would be with a concert of opera favorites!
2021/22 AVA Season Announced
by Stephi Wild - Aug 10, 2021
In the winter, audiences can look forward to Eugene Onegin by Tchaikovsky and Mignon by Thomas, which has not been seen at AVA in 50 years. The season will conclude with Puccini's beloved La bohème.
BWW Feature: ONLINE OPERA VIRTUAL TOUR OCT. 24-31 at Home Computer Screens
by Maria Nockin - Oct 23, 2020
We start at the L A Opera website with a ”Living Room Recital.” Michael J. Hawk, baritone, sings a program entitled “Shakespeare in France and on Broadway.” He performs “Mab! la reine des mensonges” (“Mab, Queen of Lies”) from Roméo et Juliette by Charles Gounod and three arias from Ambroise Thomas’s Hamlet.