SOLO OPERA- PROGRAMS/SERVICES- PAST, PRESENT, FUTURE:
Solo Opera has achieved wonderful success producing nineteen high quality operas at the beautiful Lesher Center for the Arts and around the Bay Area including “The Telephone” (2000, 2003), “The Medium” (2000), “Amahl and the Night Visitors” (2001, 2002, 2003), “Riders to the Sea” (2003), “The Old Maid and the Thief” (2004), “A Hand of Bridge” (2004), “Bastien and Bastienna” (2004), “The Impresario” (2004), “Chip and His Dog” (2014), “Hansel and Gretel” (2014, 2015), “The Computer Kid’s Magic Night” (2016), “The Gift of the Magi” (2018), “Scalia/Ginsburg” (2021), “The Four Note Opera” (2022), and the West Coast premiere of the family friendly opera based on the Grimm’s fairy tale “The Three Feathers” (2023.) We here at Solo Opera have a special interest in fostering a new generation of opera lovers and enjoy producing shows that are accessible to children / families and involve youth in the cast. Our “Storybook Opera” series is a wonderful example of this. We also have an active outreach program to the community. Our traveling group, S.O.L.O. (Scenes from Opera and Light Opera), produces concerts and scenes taking opera to youth in the schools and elderly in retirement homes as well as performs at the “Concord 4th of July Parade” and our local Macy’s Department Store for “The Twelve Days of Christmas” event. In addition, we have collaborated the past four summers (2016, 2017, 2018, 2019) with the Orinda Rotary Club, producing a yearly free “Opera in the Park” at Orinda Community Park to help bring music to disabled seniors and newcomers to the art form. Lastly, we help sponsor our city’s Juneteenth celebration for our community. A look to our 2024-2025 Season brings outreach projects and a multicultural opera, “Lucinda y las Flores de la Nochebuena”.