San Francisco Opera stages live operas at a popular drive-in-theater 17/02/2021
San Francisco Opera is going to the drive-in-theater at Marin Center Marin in San Rafael, California, this spring, mounting a new live production of The Barber of Seville to be presented to audiences in vehicles in April and May. From April 23 to May 15, the company will stage 11 performances of a 90-minute of Rossini’s opera.
The live presentations are being done with safety protocols in place, with collaboration from doctors and health professionals.
Conductor Roderick Cox will lead a socially distanced ensemble of San Francisco Opera Orchestra musicians in a production with no chorus. The cast includes baritone Lucas Meachem as Figaro, mezzo-soprano Daniela Mack (alternating with Laura Krumm) as Rosina, tenor Alek Shrader as Almaviva, bass Philip Skinner as Dr. Bartolo, bass Kenneth Kellogg as Don Basilio and mezzo-soprano Catherine Cook as Berta.
1 pm ET: Wiener Staatsoper presents
Giselle. Conductor: Valery Ovsyanikov, choreography: Elena Tschernischova after Jean Coralli, Jules Perrot and Marius Petipa. With Nina Poláková, Masayu Kimoto, Rebecca Horner, Andrey Kaydanovskiy, Alice Firenze, Leonardo Basílio, and Soloists and Corps de ballet des Wiener Staatsballetts. Production from September 2017. Register for free and view here.
2:30 pm ET: Philharmonie de Paris presents Casadesus conducts Debussy, Ravel, Schumann & Beethoven. Jean-Claude Casadesus conducts the Orchestre du Conservatoire de Paris in a Franco-German program of Debussy’s
Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune, Ravel’s
Pavane pour une infante défunte Schumann’s Piano Concerto with soloist David Kadouch, and Beethoven’s Symphony No. 1. View here. LIVE
Mr. Wilson s second act: Virtuoso s progression from SF Opera to middle-school classroom
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Tim Wilson, music director at Lovonya DeJean Middle School, plays the trumpet during the Spring Concert.Lea Suzuki/The Chronicle
Tim Wilson steps onto the small stage platform, raises his baton and asks the 100 or so students seated before him to settle down. Music, he tells them, is painted on a canvas of silence a lovely metaphor that has no effect. The October dress rehearsal for the middle school band’s first concert of the year is not going well.
Wilson waits. The hum of conversation continues, punctuated by an occasional clarinet’s revolt or trumpet’s yawp. The canvas at Lovonya DeJean Middle School in Richmond is rarely silent. So the music teacher waits some more.
Vallejo Symphony offers streaming holiday concert
Bruce Chrisp, trombone. (Courtesy photo)
VALLEJO The Vallejo Symphony will stream a holiday performance at 6 p.m. Dec. 18 on the symphony’s YouTube channel.
This performance will be available for 48 hours.
Performers are Scott Macomber and Brad Hogarth, trumpets; Alex Camphouse, horns; Tim Carless, bass trombone; and Bruce Chrisp, tenor trombone.
Chrisp is the principal trombonist with the Marin, Santa Rosa, Fresno, Napa Valley, Santa Cruz County, Vallejo and Carmel Bach Festival orchestras.
He has been performing professionally in the San Francisco Bay Area since 1989 and records regularly at Skywalker Ranch in Marin County.