Opera Parallèle2024 | 2025 Season

OPERA PARALLÈLE PRESENTS

Everest: Opera in the Planetarium

Nov 8-17, 2024
Morrison Planetarium, California Academy of Sciences

Composer Joby Talbot | Librettist Gene Scheer

Based on the true story of a 1996 ill-fated expedition to the world’s highest mountain, this evocative production scaffolds a breathtaking experience using intricate graphic novel imagery and a soaring sound world. Presented at the wildly immersive environment of the California Academy of Sciences Morrison Planetarium, Opera Parallèle guides you on an operatic adventure fusing vivid imagery with the visceral power of voice for a truly unique experience, even beyond previous award-winning productions.

*Everest: Opera in the Planetarium is an immersive film experience; cast and conductor are not appearing live.

OPERA PARALLÈLE PRESENTS

The Pigeon Keeper

March 7-9, 2025
Cowell Theater, Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture, San Francisco
Composer David Hanlon | Librettist Stephanie Fleischmann
WORLD PREMIERE
In a seaside village, young Orsia seeks a home for a refugee boy. In her search she finds unexpected compassion through the outcast pigeon keeper. A magical-realism world premiere exploring otherness, belonging, and the meaning of family.

OPERA PARALLÈLE PRESENTS

Harvey Milk: Reimagined

May 31-June 7, 2025
Blue Shield of California Theater, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts

Composer Stewart Wallace | Librettist Michael Korie

A new adaptation of the acclaimed opera, capturing Milk’s transformative journey from a NY Jewish boy during World War II, to a closeted Wall Street businessman, to a beloved and heroic outspoken community leader who is tragically martyred at a pinnacle moment in Queer civil rights history.

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