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By Charles Gounod
September 6 - October 1, 2019
Despite the senseless, bloody conflict between their warring families, two young lovers from opposite sides of the tracks commit to each other in life and death.
Conductor: Michel Plasson
November 1987
Beginning of Act 4
“Va! Je t’ai pardonné!”: Ruth Ann Swenson, Alfredo Kraus
“Ah! Je veux vivre”: Ruth Ann Swenson
“Madrigal”: Ruth Ann Swenson, Alfredo Kraus
“O nuit divine!”: Ruth Ann Swenson, Alfredo Kraus
“C’est là! Salut tombeau”: Ruth An
n Swenson, Alfredo Kraus
By Giuseppe Verdi
June 7 – July 2, 2020
In 16th - century Spain, Ernani is a deposed nobleman living on the run as a bandit. When two powerful men seek to make a prize of his lover, Ernani hatches a plot to rescue her — and free the country in the process. But in a world...
Published 08/19/19
By George Frideric Handel
June 12 – 27, 2020
Complete with an elegant heroine, misbehaving men, pure romance, and good old-fashioned cross-dressing, Partenope is a romantic comedy about what happens when the battle of the sexes stops being conventional and starts getting...
Published 08/19/19
Music by Mason
Bates / Libretto by Mark Campbell
June 20 – July 3, 2020
Commissioned by San Francisco Opera, the Santa Fe Opera and Seattle Opera with support from Cal
Performances and co-produced with Indiana University Jacobs School of Music.
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Published 08/19/19