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Opera Parallèle’s Graphic Opera Project
Gesualdo – Prince of Madness
The Opera Parallèle GraphicOpera Project is a lab in its first installment that has melded the genres of the Graphic Novel with Opera to create GraphicOpera. The music and text of Gesualdo, Prince of Madness has been interpreted by concept designer Brian Staufenbiel, illustrator Mark Simmons…
Support Opera Parallèle’s Raffle Drive 2013
Win a Trip for 2 to Montreal…and more. The drawing will be held on June 7 at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music when Opera Parallèle presents a public workshop reading of the company’s first commission, Dante De Silva’sGesualdo, Prince of Madness.
The Reviews Are In!
“Trouble in Tahiti” Review: Bravo Bernstein
On Friday night, in a vivacious and beautifully rendered performance by Opera Parallèle, that tale seemed as timeless as ever…. Long before “Mad Men” there was “Trouble in Tahiti,” Leonard Bernstein’s witty and haunting one-act opera about the alienation lurking…
Opera Parallèle wins again with “Trouble in Tahiti” and “A Hand of Bridge”
The edgy intensity that Brancoveanu brought to Orphée two years ago has grown exponentially with the passage of time, bursting forth to bring an explosive Sam, priapically strutting the stage.
Bernstein’s Trouble Is Our Joy (Review)
Opera Parallèle’s WONDERFUL new production, is that it piles cliché upon cliché…. Opera Parallèle’s wife-husband team of Conductor/Artistic Director Nicole Paiement and Stage Director Brian Staufenbiel, and brought to life by an excellent cast and fine instrumental ensemble, Trouble in Tahiti shines…
Riveting Reverie: Opera Parallèle’s Ainadamar
Staufenbiel’s staging was powerfully focused in every scene. The director introduced an atmosphere of mourning even before the opera began, as chorus members, dressed in bloodstained gowns as brides, widows, and children, wandered through the lobby looking like lost souls.
Ainadamar Review: Uncommonly vivacious
The remarkable thing about the latest offering from the ever-venturesome Opera Parallèle – a sumptuous and vividly sung production of Osvaldo Golijov’s “Ainadamar” that had a three-performance run over the weekend at…
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