SALON SERIES
With the return of autumn, Festival Opera will offer its annual Salon Series, a highly popular
trio of concerts September through November, featuring innovative programming and arAsts
presented at the intimate Piedmont Center for the Arts, 801 Magnolia Avenue, Piedmont. Each
Salon includes a convivial post-performance reception with the artists. Tickets are $40 per
concert or $95 for a subscription to all three: www.fesAvalopera.org/salon-series.
Sunday, Sept. 27, 2026 at 7.30 p.m. The new Salon Series will begin with the inaugural class of
Festival Opera’s Resident Artists including soprano Marielle Leiboff; soprano Rachel Nelson;
mezzo-soprano Phoebe Dinga; tenor Spencer Greene; and baritone Liam Daley with pianist
Daniel Lockert. The program will feature these young artists singing cherished opera arias,
scenes and contemporary works.
Sunday, Oct. 25, 2026 at 4 p.m. “Operatic Mad Scenes” with sopranos Aura Veruni and Lila
Khazoum with pianist Daniel Lockert, performing musical excerpts from Idomeneo, Macbeth,
The Magic Flute, Anna Bolena, Hamlet, and Lucia di Lammermoor with costumes by
designer Marina Polakoff—who recently designed the extraordinary costumes for Alcina—and
props to help with the storytelling. This concert will lean into the macabre and unhinged mad
scenes of opera, just in Ame for Halloween.
Sunday, Nov. 22, 2026 at 4 p.m. Praised for his "theatrical charisma and musical
bravado," baritone Efraín Solís recently made his Metropolitan Opera debut as Salvador Dalí in
the world premiere of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Mason Bates. A graduate
of San Francisco Opera's Merola Program and Adler Fellowship, and now performing with opera
companies nation, Solís will be joined by “virtuosic” San Francisco Opera pianist Marika
Yusada, for a performance of favorites from the opera and art song repertoire.
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