Upcoming 2023 Performances:
3/25/23 Prospero's Island, a world premiere opera production with Ninth Planet, at Herbst Theater in San Francisco.
Created by composer Allen Shearer and librettist Claudia Stevens, Prospero's Island reinvisions Shakespeare's The Tempest, setting it in the Falklands in the 1950s. With his shadowed past now cast in the light of the second World War, Prospero must reckon with his own inevitable downfall while protecting the innocent family and bizarre creatures in his care. Ninth Planet's twelve-player chamber orchestra joins an outstanding cast for the production.
Recent 2019 performances:
6/15, 6/21 The Pressure, a world premiere by Brian Baumbusch
A neo-expressionist narrated horror story with narration and accompanying projected drawings, The Pressure is scored for a unique combination of narrator, string quartet, vocal quartet, Indonesian and Western percussion instruments, and keyboards. This evening-length work was commissioned by the Other Minds festival.
6/15 8pm Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Theater, SF
6/21 4pm Chapel of the Chimes Garden of Memory, Oakland