Merola Program, 2015

Merola himself

San Francisco Opera's Merola program announced its 2015 participants and schedule today.

They'll have several concerts, including the always-fun grand finale, and they're presenting Donizetti's Don Pasquale and a double bill of The Medium (Menotti) and Gianni Schicchi (Puccini). should be fun!

Thursday, July 9 at 7:30 pm

San Francisco Conservatory of Music, 50 Oak St., San Francisco

Merola Opera Program: Schwabacher Summer Concert

Program to be announced

Saturday, July 11 at 2 pm

Yerba Buena Gardens, Mission St. between 3rd and 4th Streets, San Francisco

Merola Opera Program: Schwabacher Summer Concert

FREE outdoor concert

Program to be announced

Thursday, July 23 at 7:30 pm and Saturday, July 25 at 2 pm

Cowell Theater, Fort Mason Center, San Francisco

Merola Opera Program: The Medium (by Gian Carlo Menotti) and Gianni Schicchi (by Giacomo Puccini)

Double bill: Two one-hour operas, sung in English and Italian, respectively, with English supertitles. In The Medium, a séance goes terribly awry when a pseudo-seer and a mute boy get involved. The one-act comic opera Gianni Schicchi explores the grimly humorous and divisive greed that emerges on the death of a relative.

Thursday, August 6 at 7:30 pm and Saturday, August 8 at 2 pm

Cowell Theater, Fort Mason Center, San Francisco

Merola Opera Program: Don Pasquale by Gaetano Donizetti

(sung in Italian with English supertitles)

True love wins when the old skinflint Pasquale tries to force his nephew to marry for money -- and gets a lesson he’ll never forget.

Saturday, August 22 at 7:30 pm

War Memorial Opera House, 300 Van Ness Avenue, San Francisco

Merola Opera Program: Merola Grand Finale and Reception

Program to be announced

Post-performance reception (10 pm) with the artists, Opera House Lower Level Café. For reception tickets, please call the San Francisco Opera Box Office at (415) 864-3330.

Participants:

Sopranos

Kathryn Bowden, Glastonbury, Connecticut

Cree Carrico, Detroit, Michigan

Amina Edris, Christchurch, New Zealand

Madison Leonard, Coeur d’Alene, Idaho

Meredith Mecum, Hershey, Pennsylvania

Toni Marie Palmertree, Fleetwood, Pennsylvania

Mezzo-sopranos

Raehann Bryce-Davis, Keene, Texas

Tara Curtis, Kansas City, Missouri

Ashley Dixon, Peachtree City, Georgia

Nicole Woodward, Quincy, Florida

Tenors

Christopher Bozeka, Akron, Ohio

Alasdair Kent, Perth, Australia

Soonchan Kwon, Daejeon, South Korea

Michael Papincak, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Baritones

Alex DeSocio, Wichita, Kansas

Sol Jin, Seoul, South Korea

Kihun Yoon, Seoul, South Korea

Bass-baritones

Zachary Elmassian, East Lansing, Michigan

James Ioelu, Auckland, New Zealand

Austin Siebert, Shelbyville, Indiana

Brad Walker, Lake Zurich, Illinois

Basses

Scott Russell, Roanoke, Virginia

Ming Zhao, Kaifeng, China

Apprentice Coaches

Edoardo Barsotti, Lucca, Tuscany, Italy

Robert Bosworth, Fort Worth, Texas

Aaron Breid, Del Mar, California

Samuel Emanuel, New Rochelle, New York

Kirill Kuzmin, Moscow, Russia

Apprentice Stage Director

Mo Zhou, Nanjing, China