Wait, you say those are not exactly rare? They're not the Barber and Boheme that you expect. Instead, it's their Doppelgangers:
Paisiello’s Barber of Seville
Sunday, February 7, 3 pm
Lisser Theater at Mills College
Tuesday, February 9. 8 pm
Freight and Salvage 2020 Addison Street, Berkeley
Sara Duchovnay, soprano
Jonathan Smucker, tenor
Nikolas Nackley, baritone
Carl King, bass
Jonathan Khuner, conductor
Leoncavallo's La bohème
Sunday, March 20, 3 pm
Lisser Theater at Mills College
Tuesday, March 22, 8 pm
Freight and Salvage 2020 Addison Street, Berkeley
Carrie Hennessey, soprano
Buffy Baggott, mezzo-soprano
Alex Boyer, tenor
Anders Froehlich, baritone
Ryan Bradford, bass
Jonathan Khuner, conductor
Lisser Theater, a 250-seat proscenium theater, is on the Mills College campus in Oakland and Freight and Salvage is at 2020 Addison Street in downtown Berkeley’s arts district. Tickets are $22 for general seating with a $20 senior discount price. Premium seats are $40.00. Tickets for all performances are available online at www.westedgeopera.org. Lisser Theater tickets can be purchased by phone on the West Edge Ticketline, 510-841-1903, and Freight and Salvage tickets by phone are purchased by calling 510-644-2020 extension120. For more information, go to West Edge Opera’s website at www.westedgeopera.org.
(If they do a second round of these, let me get in line to suggest Manon Lescaut by Daniel Auber and Turandot by Ferrucio Busoni.)
2 comments:
Very interesting. Who else would do these operas in the Bay Area? Could be the only opportunity for many here to ever see them. I don't know if these are as good as their more famous doppelgängers, but at these prices, they'll be worth the gamble.
Yes, exactly! Nobody else around here does this stuff - it's what you'd expect to see programmed at Wexford. I saw two of the three operas in the series this year and I'm so glad that I did.
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