Up-coming: Opera Parallèle

Ainadamar (Photographer: Steve Di Bartolomeo)

Ensemble Parallèle, the small yet ambitious local opera company, has renamed itself to Opera Parallèle & announced its new season, featuring Golijov's Ainadamar, Bernstein's Trouble in Tahiti, Barber's A Hand of Bridge, & a commissioned work by Dante De Silva about the composer Gesualdo.

§ Opera Parallèle Season at a Glance

• Friday Nights at the de Young
  An Evening of Contemporary Opera Arias
  Music by Bernstein, Harbison, Britten, Floyd, Golijov, Ravel and Weill
  The de Young Museum
  October 26, 2012,  6:30-7:15 pm and 7:30-8:15 pm
• Hands-on Opera Program
  The Araboolies of Liberty Street
  Drew School
  November 2 & 3, 2012 at 7 pm
• Sneak preview of Ainadamar
  Sol Joseph Recital Hall, San Francisco Conservatory of Music
  January 30, 2013 at 6pm
• Ainadamar; Osvaldo Golijov
  Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
  February 15 & 16, 2013 at 8p
  February 17, 2013 at 2p
• Sneak Preview of Trouble in Tahiti and A Hand of Bridge
  Sol Joseph Recital Hall, San Francisco Conservatory of Music
  April 11, 2013 at 6pm
• Trouble in Tahiti; Leonard Bernstein  (Garth Sunderland re-orchestration)
  A Hand of Bridge; Samuel Barber
  ZSpace
  April 26 & 27, 2013 at 8pm
  April 28, 2013 at 2pm
• Prince of Madness; Dante De Silva
  Workshop reading
  San Francisco Conservatory of Music
  June 7, 2013 at 7pm