Past Performances
Wagner’s The Flying Dutchman
Saturday, Sep. 24, 2016, 7:30 Sunday, Sep. 25, 2016, 2pm Saturday, Oct. 1, 2016, 7:30 Sunday, Oct. 2, 2016, 2pm Livermore Valley Opera Bankhead Theater 2400 First Street Livermore The Dutchman, a ghostly sailor condemned to wander for all eternity, sets foot on land every seven years to search for a bride who can end the curse and bring him peace. In a small Norwegian fishing village he encounters Senta, a young woman betrothed to a young man in the village. She is obsessed with the Dutchman’s legend. Can this finally be his chance for redemption? Can the power of true love break the curse and end his suffering?
Read MoreQL performs in Maryland
Sunday, October 9, 2016, 3pm The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center 8270 Alumni Drive University of Maryland College Park, MD QL performs at The University of Maryland. Program: Paquito d’Rivera (Cuba): Wapango Arturo Marquez (Mexico): Danza de Mediodía Paul Desenne(Venezuela): El Recreo, La Cumbia, Los Vikingos, y Otras Miniaturas, Op. 74 José Luis Hurtado (Mexico): Son de la Bruja Paquito d´Rivera (Cuba): Aires Tropicales Roberto Sierra (Puerto Rico): Concierto de Camara (performed with University of Maryland School of Music...
Read MoreLa Vie Parisienne
Sunday, July 10, 2pm Hillside Club 2286 Cedar Street Berkeley Sundays, July 17 & 24, 2pm Legion of Honor, Florence Gould Theater 100 34th Avenue San Francisco A joyous paean to the City of Lights. Tourists and natives alike on a madcap pleasure binge as the high and the lowly switch places. A wild ride on a merry-go-round sparked by Offenbach’s wickedly intoxicating melodies. “Voila! Donald Pippin, bless him, has done it again. A parody that is really thrilling in effect! Tunes flow by with the sparkle of a mountain stream in this delicious spoof.” — Marilyn Tucker, SF...
Read MoresfSound Summer Festival
JULY 8 – 10, 2016 Gray Area Grand Theater 2665 Mission Street San Francisco sfSound presents sfSoundFestival: a three-concert celebration of 20th and 21st century music covering a wide range of graphical notation performed by some of the best interpreters of such music in the Bay Area. Unlike most music in the classical tradition, works with extended notational elements often require performers to decide aspects of the music usually left to the composer. This year the festival pays tribute to Pierre Boulez, who passed away in January, with two large works for soloists – one for violin with electronics and one for clarinet with chamber orchestra. Both pieces...
Read MoreRigoletto
Sunday, June 5, 2pm Hillside Club 2286 Cedar Street Berkeley Sundays, June 12 & 26, 2pm Legion of Honor, Florence Gould Theater 100 34th Avenue San Francisco Pocket Opera performs Verdi’s heartrending story of an angry, misanthropic, sharp-tonged jester whose bitterness and spite destroy the one thing in his life that is precious and beautiful.
Read MoreI Pagliacci & My Fair Galatea
Sunday, May 15, 2pm Hillside Club 2286 Cedar Street Berkeley Sunday, May 22, 2pm Legion of Honor, Florence Gould Theater 100 34th Avenue San Francisco A double bill performed by Pocket Opera!I Pagliacci: Real life intrudes upon the stage play, overtaking and bringing it to a searing end, while the audience looks on, flabbergasted.My Fair Galatea: The story of Pygmalion’s ravishingly beautiful statue which, when brought to life, turns out to be a handful when she falls in love with the other man. The composer, incidentally, is reputed to be the “Father of Viennese Operetta,” a well-deserved title....
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Diane Grubbe has appeared as a soloist with the Siena Music Festival in Italy, the San Francisco Concerto Orchestra, L’Orchestre de Notre Dame in San Francisco and the Calabasas Chamber Orchestra in Southern California, with whom she recorded the Vivaldi Piccolo Concerto for their CD The Baroque Concerto.