"Il Trovatore" at the ballpark and opera's summer/fall events (many free) in SF and East Bay

June 12, 11:05 AMSF Opera ExaminerCindy Warner

Summer Opera Events in San Francisco and the East Bay

If you enjoyed the warm summer night at the ballpark with the free simulcast of Tosca by SFO, the next one will be Il Trovatore for Opera in the Ballpark on September 19 at 8:00 pm.  

Have your cake and eat it too with free opera outdoors . . .

David Abad of Chaucer Theatre does the honors during Tosca

San Francisco Opera at Stern Grove (link)

Sunday, August 23, 2:00

Opera in the Park (link)

San Francisco Opera at Golden Gate Park on Sunday, September 13, 2009 at 1:30

Schwabacher/Merola from SFO (click link)
Schwabacher Summer Concert
War Memorial Veterans Building
Herbst Theatre
Friday, July 10, 2009, 7:30 pm
Yerba Buena Gardens
Sunday, July 12, 2009, 2 pm
FREE Concert

L'Amico Fritz
By Pietro Mascagni
Cowell Theater at Fort Mason Center
Friday, July 24, 2009, 8 pm
Sunday, July 26, 2009, 2 pm

Così fan tutte
By Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Cowell Theater at Fort Mason Center
Friday, August 7, 2009, 8 pm
Sunday, August 9, 2009, 2 pm

Merola Grand Finale
War Memorial Opera House
Saturday, August 22, at 7:30 pm

7/10/2009 Schwabacher Summer Concert
7/12/2009 Schwabacher Summer Concert
7/24/2009 L'Amico Fritz
7/26/2009 L'Amico Fritz
8/7/2009 Cosi fan tutte
8/9/2009 Cosi fan tutte
8/22/2009 Merola Grand Finale

Open Opera in Bay Area Parks

Livermore Valley Opera in the Vineyard
http://www.livermorevalleyopera.com/
Opera in the Vineyard
August 2, 2009
A Benefit Performance for Livermore Valley Opera
To be held at Retzlaff Winery, in Livermore, California courtesy the Taylor family. Stay tuned for performance and venue details. Silent auction, raffle prizes, food and wine are planned on a lovely summer's evening in August.

Berkeley Opera in the library
http://www.berkeleyopera.org/season.html#BabyDoe
• Noon Concert: Highlights from The Ballad of Baby Doe in the Art and Music Room, 5th floor. Thursday, June 25, 12:15 - 1:00 p.m.

The Berkeley Public Library is at 2090 Kittredge Street (at Shattuck) in downtown Berkeley.

Berkeley Opera Baby Doe
http://www.berkeleyopera.org/
Saturday, July 11, 8:00 p.m.
Wednesday, July 15, 7:30 p.m.
Friday, July 17, 8:00 p.m.
Sunday, July 19, 2:00 p.m.

Julia Morgan Center for the Arts,
2640 College Avenue, Berkeley

Tosca and the Summer of Love

Tosca at Opera in the Baseball Park, Summer fun

Pedro Rodelas tenor for all seasons

Brotherhood and sisterhood, love and peace forevermore

Handel's Wicked Queen comes to Berkeley, Palo Alto, SF:  Going for Baroque

Berkeley Opera celebrates with some jewels (part two of three)

Cinderella and Cinderfellas

Berkeley Opera celebrates with bubbly Ruth Ann Swenson and champagne (part one of three)

Porgy & Bess once controversial

More Fred and Porgy & Bess

Porgy & Bess in a new era

Porgy & Bess an American classic

Fred Matthews takes opera full circle producing Cavalcade of Stars

Lester Lynch sings womanizer Crown

Director Francesca Zambello

Siggy team player part I

Siggy part II

David Gockley's Summer of Love 2009 

Life should be a Mardi Gras again

New Orleans JazzFest tips from an opera god

Greer Grimsley Impressions, Passions, Stand by Me, Dreams

Anna Nicole Smith opera

Tosca featured in film Milk

Tosca and how opera's embattled stay in fighting shape

Tosca Cafe drinks to doomed lovers

The Tosca Project World Premiere at ACT