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Pocket Opera's 2006 Season will open February 3 and run through July 9
with performances in San Francisco at
the Florence Gould Theater in the the Palace of the Legion of Honor,
the Napa Valley Opera House in Napa,
and the Ralston Ballroom, Notre Dame de Namur University in Belmont.
Click here for information to order tickets and to print
order form.
All operas will be sung in English with narration by Donald Pippin.
Donald Pippin's English libretti will be available for each of the season's operas.
They may be purchased at performances, or ordered in advance by mail from Pocket Opera.
Pocket Opera Premiere
Offenbach -- zany, unpredictable and irresistible as ever!
Scandal twelfth century style shakes the colorful,
heretofore placid little town of Ham-on-Rye and a heroine is born.
Meanwhile, the army has boarded the Orient Express for Palestine,
launching a crusade to bring light to the Middle East,
and somehow winds up at a lavish house party in an elegant chateau
not far from Paris. Else-where, the US Marines make a decidedly
unexpected appearance, in the form of two sleazy and slightly inebriated cops
on patrol duty: “To hell with halls of Montezuma!”
Debra Lambert, director. With
Rachel Michelberg, Michael Mendelsohn,
Tamra Paselk, Patricia Barboza, Ross Halper, Christopher Walkey, Wayne Wong,
Axel Van Chee, Sherrine Aubert, Julia Louise Hosack, Heidi Olson, Marilyn Pratt,
Elizabeth O'Neill, Alexandra Jeneric, Francesca Camus, Justin Taylor Nixon.
A blend of romance, folk tale, fantasy, horror, comedy and insightful,
all too relevant realism, enshrined in ravishingly beautiful music.
An opera whose spectacular success launched a new era.
Young Max is desperate to succeed, not only for the sake of his career,
but also in order to win the boss’ daughter. Yet the more the pressure is on him to prove
himself, the more he distrusts his own ability. The vicious circle is in full swing:
his fear brings about the very loss of ability that he fears so.
A prime target for an unscrupulous tempter, he succumbs to a diabolical offer:
seven magic bullets. Six free shots, six sure wins, power at your fingertips, instant
success. But the seventh shot we don’t talk about . . .
Set in the shadows of the deep forest, dare one mention a curious resem-blance
to the murky, modern world of sports?
Jane Hammett, director. With Marcelle Dronkers, Anja Strauss, Bernard Milan,
Martin Bell, John Minagro, Richard Mix, Eric Carter, Morgan Harrington,
Brad Kynard, Marisa Binder, Amy Brouchard, Axel Van chee, Alison Lopatin.
Spring has done it again, bursting out with irrepressible, intoxicating abandon.
Magic is in the air -- holiday time in Bohemia, but Marenka is in no mood to celebrate.
Years ago, faced with a financial crisis, her father was forced to borrow a substantial
sum of money. With an infant daughter who gives every indication of blossoming into a
beauty, why look further for collateral? In short, he signed a contract promising
her to the son of the prosperous farmer who came to his rescue. Unfortunately, the
time to pay up has now come at the very time that Marenka has displayed a perverse sense
of independence by falling in love herself ...
Olivia Stapp, director. With Carrie Ann Trevino, Brian Thorsett, Roger McCracken,
Michael Mendelsohn, Karen Carle, Richard Mix, Wayne Wong, Peter Shypertt,
Brad Kynard, Rosalee Szabo, Elizabeth Henry, Rebecca Brown, Jessica Wan,
Jeffrey Wang.
In the imperial palace of Ancient Rome,
Agrippina has just received the exciting new that her husband Claudio,
the emperor, has drowned at sea. Owing to the sudden,
unexpected nature of his demise, he was unable to name a successor:
the field is wide open. Agrippina, an alert mother,
sees this as a golden oppor-tunity for her own son by a previous marriage,
young Nero . . . The result – a lively chapter from the palmy days when the
path to power was seldom cluttered by scruple.
Cast includes Marcelle Dronkers, Sara Ganz, Elspeth Franks, Lisa Van Der Ploeg,
Matthew Trevino.
Offenbach’s one and only opera, the culmination of a dazzling career,
and his undisputed masterpiece. Young Hoffmann -- a poet, fervent,
prone to fantasize, dogged by an evil demon -- relives his three bizarre
misadventures in love even as their sequel is in the process of unfolding.
Debra Lambert, director. With Joseph Meyers, Katherine Growden,
Todd Donovan, Jane Hammett, Sara MacBride, Erina Newkirk,
Stephen Walsh, Andrew Morgan, Mark Hernandez.
The heartrending story of an angry, misanthropic, sharp tongued yet all
too human jester whose bitterness and spite boomerang upon him to destroy
the one thing in his life that is precious and beautiful.
Rod Gomez, director. With Shouvik Mondle, Pedro Betancourt, Heidi Moss,
Kathleen Moss,
Roger McCracken, Mel Leroy, Brad Kynard.
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