Everest – A Graphic Novel Opera, July 16, 2021 – January 16, 2022
Everest, Joby Talbot’s intimate epic, expands its already considerable reach as the world’s first (we think) graphic-novel opera – Matthew Gurewitsch, Air Mail Opera Pick of the Week
Opera Parallèle Summits With Everest – Michael Zwiebach, San Francisco Classical Voice
‘Everest – A Graphic Novel Opera’ Review: Drawn From Life and Death – By Heidi Waleson, The Wall Street Journal
Opera Parallèle’s ‘Everest – A Graphic Novel Opera’ takes the form into unexplored territory – by Amelia Williams, Bay City News Foundation
Today It Rains (world premiere), March 2019
‘Today It Rains’ a powerful operatic journey with Georgia O’Keeffe – Joshua Kosman, San Francisco Chronicle
‘Today It Rains’, a Compelling Biographical Opera of Georgia O’Keeffe – Elsa Tranter, Classical Voice
Opera Parallèle brings Visual Art to the Stage – Lois Silverstein, Opera Wire
Striking Out for Santa Fe – Phillip Campbell, Bay Area Reporter
The Little Prince, December 2018
‘Little Prince’ in operatic form makes a perfect holiday treat – Joshua Kosman, San Francisco Chronicle
Opera Parallèle’s The Little Prince – Opera Tattler
In the Penal Colony, September 2018
Opera Parallèle’s In the Penal Colony – Opera Tattler
Opera Parallèle’s In the Penal Colony Highlights Philip Glass’s Days and Nights Festival – San Francisco Classical Voice
One Story Two Operas: At the Statue of Venus/Trouble in Tahiti, February 2018
Two operatic tales of love and disappointment – Joshua Kosman, San Francisco Chronicle
All That SFJazz And Operatic Double-Bill – Elsa Tranter, Classical Voice
Trouble in Tahiti and At the Statue of Venus – Victor Cordell, ForAllEvents
Les Enfants Terribles (May 2017)
Opera Parallèle Mounts a Vivid, Multifold “Enfants” – Joshua Kosman, San Francisco Chronicle
Les Enfants Terribles – Georgia Rowe – Opera News
Opera Parallèle’s Les Enfants Terribles Triumphs – Lisa Hirsch, San Francisco Classical Voice
Les Enfants Terribles Aren’t So Terrible After All – Lois Silverstein, OperaWire
Les Enfants Terribles – Opera By Philip Glass – Victor Cordell, For All Events
Opera Parallèle Presents Glass/Cocteau Les Enfants Terribles – Michael McDonagh – Sequenza 21
Flight (February 2017)
Repeat Performances, Jaime Robles, “Flight unfastens your musical seatbelt”
For All Performances, Victor Cordell, “Flight – an Opera”
The Opera Tattler, Charliese Tiee, “Opera Parallèle’s Flight“
The Lighthouse (May 2016)
San Francisco Classical Voice, “Thrills and Chills at The Lighthouse”
Stark Insider, “Wrapped fog lighthouse makes perfect music review”
Champion (February 2016)
San Francisco Chronicle, “Champion Fuses Jazz and Opera in Boxing”
San Francisco Classical Voice, “Champion Delivers Emotional TKO”
The Bay Area Reporter, “Inspired Portrayal of a gay Champion”
Heart of Darkness (May 2015)
San Francisco Chronicle, “A Shadowy Plunge into Heart of Darkness”
San Francisco Classical Voice, “Opera Parallèle Shines a Light on Heart of Darkness”
Bachtrack, “Singing the Heart of Darkness: Tarik O’Regan’s opera premieres in America”
Dead Man Walking (Feb 2015)
San Francisco Chronicle, “‘Dead Man Walking’ Review: Spare and Moving New Staging of Opera”
Bachtrack: “Dead Man Walking returns to the Bay Area”
The Opera Tattler: “Opera Parallèle’s Dead Man Walking“
Anya17 (June 2014)
Mahagonny Songspiel and Les mamelles de Tirésias (April 2014)
San Francisco Chronicle, “Weill/Poulenc Pairing a winning combo”
San Francisco Classical Voice, “A Theater of Parallels at Opera Parallèle”
San Francisco Examiner, “Opera Parallèle Synthesizes Weill and Poulenc into an Uber-Narrative”
Trouble in Tahiti (April 2013)
San Francisco Chronicle, “Trouble in Tahiti” Review: Bravo Bernstein
Stark Insider, Opera Paralléle wins again with “Trouble in Tahiti”
San Francisco Classical Voice, Bernstein’s Trouble Is Our Joy (Review)
Ainadamar (February 2013)
San Francisco Chronicle, ‘Ainadamar’ review: Uncommonly vivacious
Mercury News, “Ainadamar … Confidently Executed, Classy“
San Francisco Classical Voice, Riveting Reverie: Opera Parallèle’s Ainadamar
New Music Box, Opera Parallèle Presents Golijov’s Ainadamar
The Great Gatsby (February 2012)
Opera Tattler, Ensemble Parallèle’s The Great Gatsby
San Francisco Civic Center, Ensemble Parallele’s The Great Gatsby
High Score New Music, Harbison’s “The Great Gatsby” with Ensemble Parallèle
New Music Box, Ensemble Parallèle Tackles Harbison’s Great Gatsby
Opera Magazine’s review of Ensemble Parallele’s The Great Gatbsy
Orphée (March 2011)
San Francisco Chronicle, ‘Orphée’ by Philip Glass review: triumphant
San Francisco Bay Times, Orphée: Spellbinding!
Stark Insider, Ensemble Parallèle wows the opera community
San Francisco Weekly, Ensemble Parallèle: Small Company Stages Big Production
Opera Tattler, Ensemble Parallèle’s Orphée
Civic Center, The Triumph of Ensemble Parallèle’s Orphée
The Eastside View, Two operas: Orphée, Nixon in China
Wozzeck (January 2010)
San Francisco Classical Voice: Operatic Heaven From Hell
San Francisco Chronicle : Opera review: Ensemble Parallèle’s ‘Wozzeck’
San Francisco Examiner: Wozzeck opera as film noir from San Francisco Conservatory of Music
Opera Tattler: Review of Ensemble Parallèle’s Wozzeck
The Reverberate Hills; or The Apotheosis of the Narwhal