Saturday, November 30, 2024

SF Opera Pride Concert

 

A large neo-classical building, the War Memorial Opera HOuse, lit in rainbow colors.

War Memorial Opera House
 (photo: Reneff-Olsen Productions, courtesy of San Francisco Opera)


For the 2024-25 season, San Francisco Opera cut back to six operas and two concerts. The first concert, Eun Sun Kim conducting Beethoven's 9th Symphony, has taken place already. The second concert is next year, on Friday, June 27, 2025, on Pride Weekend, which is appropriate because it's a Pride Concert.

SFO announced the performers the other week, though the repertory has not yet been announced. Here's the press release, which is brief:

SAN FRANCISCO, CA (November 15, 2024) — Monét X Change, the multi-hyphenate performer most well known for her appearances on RuPaul’s Drag Race, will emcee San Francisco Opera’s Pride Concert on Friday, June 27, 2025 at the War Memorial Opera House. Classically trained in opera and winner of the fourth season of RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars, Monét X Change is among the artists headlining this celebration of the LGBTQIA+ community. Expanding upon the Company’s annual Pride celebrations, the evening includes a special concert, immersive projections and more.

 

Mezzo-sopranos Jamie Barton and Nikola Printz and baritone Brian Mulligan will share the stage with the San Francisco Opera Orchestra conducted by Caroline H. Hume Music Director Eun Sun Kim for a genre- and era-spanning program mixing classical arias with queer anthems and music showcasing LGBTQIA+ composers, librettists, songwriters and themes. The high-octane evening will be enhanced by digital artist Tal Rosner’s video projections. Complete program and event information will be announced at a later date.

 

SAN FRANCISCO OPERA PRIDE CONCERT

Friday, June 27, 2025 at 7:30 p.m.

War Memorial Opera House, 301 Van Ness Avenue, San Francisco, 94102

 

Monét X Change, emcee

Eun Sun Kim, conductor

Soloists: mezzo-sopranos Jamie Barton and Nikola Printz; baritone Brian Mulligan

San Francisco Opera Orchestra

 

Tal Rosner, video concept and direction

 

Complete program and event information will be announced at a later date. For information, visit sfopera.com/pride-concert.

 

Tickets are priced from $30–$225 and are available at sfopera.com, the San Francisco Opera Box Office at (415) 864-3330 and in-person at 301 Van Ness Avenue in San Francisco.


I've never seen Monét X Change, but Barton, Printz, and Mulligan are all great artists and I think I will have to go, genre mixing or not. I wonder if there will be a trapeze for Printz.

3 comments:

CruzSF said...

I hope we have many years ahead of us with Nikola Printz returning for local performances. I've been impressed with everything I've seen/heard them do and now regret not catching them as Carmen at Festival Opera.

Lisa Hirsch said...

Same here! Their Schwabacher concert in 2022 was so personal, so different, so gorgeously presented.

Lisa Hirsch said...

They're singing the mezzo solo in Das Lied von der Erde with the Vallejo Symphony on January 19. I may be out of town (the Carthage-only Troyens in Seattle!) but if I'm around, I'll be going.