The young apprentices in San Francisco Opera’s prestigious and highly competitive Merola Opera Program present “A Celebration of American Song” to kick off their 2022 Summer Festival at 3 p.m.
(Photo courtesy Kristen Loken)Īn American sing-out: Some of them come from as far away as China, South Korea and Uzbekistan, but Saturday afternoon at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, this year’s crop of 31 Merolini will be performing proudly from the all-American repertoire of Broadway and Hollywood hits. The entire class of 2022’s Merolini will participate in “A Celebration of American Song” at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. Bryan Nies conducts the Festival Opera and Chorus as the organization opens its 31st season with this production, directed by Mark Foehringer. Bass Kevin Thompson is Norma’s father Oroveso, king of the Gauls, and mezzo-soprano Ashley Dixon is Adalgisa, the younger Druid priestess who is also in love with Pollione. Soprano Shana Blake Hill stars in the title role, opposite tenor Dane Suarez as her faithless lover, the Roman proconsul Pollione. Friday in the Lesher Center’s Hofmann Theatre, 1601 Civic Drive. Soprano Shana Blake Hill stars in the title role in Festival Opera’s production of Vincenzo Bellini’s “Norma.” (Photo courtesy Michael Calas)ĭoom, gloom and some great tunes: A Druid high priestess in love with the totally wrong guy (first, he is two-timing her second, he is a Roman commander and the arch-enemy of her occupied people and third, she shouldn’t be cuddling with anybody, because she has sworn a vow of chastity) gets tangled up in her own machinations with disastrous results in Vincenzo Bellini’s “Norma.” Walnut Creek-based Festival Opera undertakes an ambitious production of the two-act tragedy at 7:30 p.m.
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