Zoe Keating & More Set for Napa Valley Opera House in July

The Napa Valley Opera House today announced the following schedule of performances taking place throughout the month of July. Tickets are available for all shows and can be purchased online at NVOH.org or by calling the box office at (707) 226-7372.

July Performances:

Café Cabaret: Richard Glazier
Sunday, July 7, 2013, 4 p.m.
Tickets are available for $20 per person.
Pianist Richard Glazier, a leading authority on the music of George Gershwin and the star of two award-winning PBS television specials, brings his new concert program, "Great Movies, Great Music" to the Napa Valley Opera House. Musical selections include the theme from "Auntie Mame", two themes from Alfred Hitchcock's "Vertigo", a "My Fair Lady" medley, "So In Love" by Cole Porter, and Gershwin's "An American in Paris". Known as a master storyteller, Glazier combines fascinating movie history and backstage stories, rare audio/video presentations and brilliant piano performances all in one show.

Opera Film: WA Mozart's "Cosi fan Tutte"
Sunday, July 14, 2013, 4 p.m.
Tickets are available for $7 per person.
"The music says it all. Mozart is cool." So said the self-confessed "opera ignoramus" Doris Dorrie before she grabbed hold of one of the sacred cows of the operatic repertoire and transformed it into a "hippie musical." Mozart's Cosi fan Tutte ("Thus Do They All") was first staged in Vienna in 1790; it is a timeless opera, one that in fact became increasingly popular in the twentieth century as accusations of its triviality were replaced by greater recognition of its depths. Mozart's delight in juggling the comic and the serious is on full display here, and the opera's adaptability is proof of its strength. Under the motto "To cheat on your partner or not, that is the question," Dorrie stamped an originality on the work which impressed even the skeptical critics. Film is In Italian with English Subtitles.
Running Time: 203 minutes including 15 minute intermission

Yemen Blues
Thursday, July 18, 2013, 8 p.m.
Tickets are available starting at $25 per person.
Conceived from vocalist Ravid Kahalani's vision, Yemen Blues mixes music of Yemen and West Africa with contemporary grooves from funk to mambo and the deep soul of old chants. Conjuring up a rich and diverse aural palette with the use of percussion, oud, horns, and strings, Yemen Blues coexists in both the past and present, at once timeless and modern.

Zoe Keating
Friday, July 19, 2013, 8 p.m.
Tickets are available starting at $25 per person.
Zoë Keating is a one-woman orchestra. She uses a cello and a foot-controlled laptop to record layer upon layer of cello, creating intricate, haunting and compelling music. Zoë is known for both her use of technology - which she uses to sample her cello onstage - and for her DIY ethic which has resulted in the sale of over 60,000 copies of her self-released albums and a devoted social media following.

Hapa
Thursday, July 25, 2013, 8 p.m.
Tickets are available starting at $25 per person.
Called the Simon & Garfunkel of Hawaii, HAPA returns to the Opera House! One of the most successful Hawaiian music groups in recent history, HAPA is an acoustic duo consisting of the guitarist-singers Barry Flanagan and Nathan Aweau.

John Pizzarelli Quartet with Jessica Molaskey
Friday, July 26, 2013, 8 p.m.
Tickets are available starting at $35 per person.
John Pizzarelli has had a multi-faceted career as a jazz guitarist, vocalist, and bandleader. Brother Martin Pizzarelli on bass, Larry Fuller on piano, and Anthony Tedesco on drums will comprise the quartet on-stage for an evening of the great America songbook. This time around, he'll be joined by his wife; the dynamic vocalist Jessica Molaskey.

Cherish the Ladies
Saturday, July 27, 2013, 8 p.m.
Tickets are available starting at $25 per person.
When describing Cherish the Ladies, the critics say it best - "It is simply impossible to imagine an audience that wouldn't enjoy what they do," The Boston Globe, "An astonishing array of virtuosity," The Washington Post, "Expands the annals of Irish music in America...the music is passionate, tender and rambunctious," The New York Times - and for the past twenty five years, Cherish the Ladies have proven themselves worthy to live up to these accolades and in doing so have become one of the most engaging ensembles in the history of Irish music.

Tuesday Night Flicks: Strangers on a Train (1951)
Tuesday, July 30, 2013, 7 p.m.
Tickets are available for $7 per person.
From its cleverly choreographed opening sequence to its heart-stopping climax on a rampant carousel, this 1951 Hitchcock classic readily earns its reputation as one of the director's finest examples of timeless cinematic suspense. It's not just a ripping-good thriller but a film student's delight and a perversely enjoyable battle of wits between tennis pro Guy (Farley Granger) and his mysterious, sycophantic admirer, Bruno (RoBert Walker), who proposes a "criss-cross" scheme of traded murders. Bruno agrees to kill Guy's unfaithful wife, in return for which Guy will (or so it seems) kill Bruno's spiteful father. With an emphasis on narrative and visual strategy, Hitchcock controls the escalating tension with a master's flair for cinematic design, and the plot (co-scripted by Raymond Chandler) is so tightly constructed that you'll be white-knuckled even after multiple viewings. Strangers on a Train remains one of Hitchcock's crowning achievements and a suspenseful classic that never loses its capacity to thrill and delight.
Running Time: 103 minutes

The Napa Valley Opera House is located in the heart of Downtown Napa and is one the city's only event venues. The Opera House originally opened its doors in 1880 and remains one of Napa's most important cultural icons. During the 1980's and 1990's the Opera House experienced a multi-million dollar renovation and reopened for performances in 2003. Since the reopening, the Opera House has recaptured its original grandeur and then some. Drawing the biggest names in music, the venue has welcome talents such as Shawn Colvin, Chris Botti, Wynston Marsalis and the renowned Emerson String Quartet. For more information about the Napa Valley Opera House or to purchase tickets to a show, visit www.NVOH.org. You can also "like" the Opera House on Facebook at www.Facebook.com/NapaValleyOperaHouse and follow the event venue on Twitter at @NVOH.

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