This Week Only: Wednesday & Friday!
About Face -- an opera experience
Classic & Contemporary Opera Meet
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Sometimes asking the right questions is the point. Festival Opera is excited to bring a new opera experience to audiences with About Face - an opera experience.
Exciting artists Heidi Moss, Eugene Brancoveanu and Jorge Garza sing in the production, a new opera pastiche that asks: what does it mean to be judged by appearances? What is the impact of compassion and acceptance -- especially self-acceptance? The production features characters from opera and history such as Rigoletto (from Verdi's opera of the same name), Violetta from Verdi's La Traviata, and Joseph Merrick (the "Elephant Man") from a new opera in development called, "Mister Merrick."
Composer Henry Mollicone conducts and plays piano in his work, "The Face on the Barroom Floor" in the second act, and composer Kurt Erickson conducts and plays in act one. Click for More Information about the production.
THREE PERFORMANCES ONLY! Don't Miss it!
4pm and 8pm - Wednesday, December 5
Lesher Center for the Arts
1601 Civic Drive, Walnut Creek
Tickets: Click here $25 Students, $35 Premium, $45 Elite or call 925.943.SHOW
7 pm -
Friday, December 7
Oakland Technical High School Performing Arts Center
4351 Broadway at 42nd Street
Tickets: Click here or call 800.838.3006 $25 - Students with Student I.D. FREE!
Click for more Ticket Information.
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Students Experience Professional Opera
Interns Go Behind the Scenes for "About Face"
Festival Opera will open final dress rehearsal for the production About Face - an opera experience to 900 students at Oakland Technical High School on Friday, December 7 at 2pm. Select students will also have the opportunity to learn more directly in workshops by Festival Opera make up/wigs, costumes and props designer Denise Gutierrez and stage director Keith Nealy.
A few lucky students will get a working experience as backstage interns, selected to work in areas such as costumes, props, make up/wigs, and on the stage crew.
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Festival Opera
1630 North Main Street, #61
Walnut Creek, California 94596
925.944.9610
www.festivalopera.org
Michael Morgan - Artistic Director
Sara Nealy - Executive Director
Sunshine Deffner - Assistant Director
James Toland - Chorus Master
Bryan Nies - Principal Conductor
Dick Brundage, CBC - Marketing Director
Frederic Boulay - Director of Production
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Board of Directors - Officers
Susie Hanson, Chair
Karin Eames, Vice Chair
Peter Johnson, Vice Chair
David Kingsbury, Treasurer
Katherine Van Hagan, Secretary
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Calendar
Wednesday at 4pm and at 8pm
"About Face - an opera experience"
Margaret Lesher Theater
Lesher Center for the Arts
1600 Civic Drive, Walnut Creek, CA About Face December 7, 2012Friday at 7pm"About Face - an opera experience"Oakland Technical High School 4351 Broadway at 42nd Street Oakland, CA December 15, 2012 Annual Meeting
Time and location TBA
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