San Francisco Cabaret Opera

March 2010
WORLD PREMIERE
SEX AND THE BIBLE: THE OPERA - a 75-minute cabaret opera based on the Old Testament by way of Las Vegas. Mark Alburger, composer/librettist.

Two Weekends: March 5, 6 ,7, 12, 13, and 14, 2010
Fridays and Saturdays at 8pm
Sunday at 7pm

Location
Community Music Center, 544 Capp Street, San Francisco
Parking is available at the Mission-Bartlett Garage, 3255 21st Street, between Mission and Valencia.

About the show
Composer Mark Alburger and director Harriet March Page have retooled these Biblical scenarios into a contemporary Sin City of Las Vegas, featuring Heavenly Emcee and a cast of familiar Satanic Lounge Lizards, suspicious Godfather Patriarchs, alluring Femmes Fatales, and Trailer Trash Hangers-On.

From the Stonewall Ashes of Sodom and Gomorrah through the Action Hero Governor of Samson and Delilah, other allusions are brought into the mix, via Alburger's eclectic, postminimal, style-appropriating score and Page's creative staging in this WORLD PREMIERE production featuring sextets of singers and instrumentalists in a minimum-clothing-optional environment reflecting the iconography of millennia.

“Alburger’s music blows the dust out of the ears of opera-goers….superior to several far more elaborate and expensive modern operas.” -- Jeff Kaliss, Commuter Times

The Cast

Tickets
$25 cabaret table per person (Must be purchased in advanced)
$15 general admission
$10 seniors, students and TBA
Reserve your tickets online ($1.50 processing fee included per ticket) or by calling 415-289-6877 or email.

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June 2010
FESTIVAL X - 10TH ANNUAL FRESH VOICES FESTIVAL OF NEW WORKS
Festival X consists of two separate programs featuring X: The X Factor; X Marks the Spot; Generation X; X-Rated.

Featuring nine composers, five from the Bay Area, two from New York, one from Pennsylvania and one from Oklahoma.

Come with us as we XPLORE: an erotic transformation in Hungary; starving artists in a sideshow in Czechoslovakia; a pioneer woman in Nebraska driven mad by loneliness; an Xpresident disintegrating in America. And more!

Program A
X at the Heart of America: Featuring the WORLD PREMIERE of Trifles music by John G. Bilotta and text by John F. McGrew. Also: George Bush, Chris Whittaker; Life is Fine, Edward Knight/Langston Hughes
X in the Soul of Europe and Beyond: The Bloody Chamber, Daniel Felsenfeld/Elizabeth Gold

Program B
X in the Soul of Europe and Beyond: The Hunger Art, Jeff Myers/Royce Vavrek; Medea Alone, David Garner; Theresa Kren, Mark Narins
X at the Heart of America: Letter from Linda, Alden Jenks/Frank Polite; Sutter Creek, Robert Denham

One Weekend Only: June 17-20, 2010
Thursday, June 17 – 8 PM (Program A)
Friday, June 18 – 8 PM (Program B)
Saturday, June 19 – 8 PM (Program A)
Sunday, June 20 – 7 PM (Program B)

Live Oak Theater, 1301 Shattuck Ave., Berkeley
Sorry no cabaret tables available at this location.

Tickets
Tickets available February 2010
Advance tickets sales: $20 general admission/$15 seniors/students/TBA
Tickets at door: $25 general admission/$20 seniors/students

Reserve your tickets online or by calling 415-289-6877 or email

“Living up to its name, the Fresh Voices Festival presented a truly amazing selection of new works by San Francisco Bay Area composers and librettists.... Not only is the concept great but so is the quality of musicianship in both the vocal and ensemble performance. Artistic director Harriet March Page and musical director Mark Alburger, tireless champions of new music, demonstrated an energy and vision that was truly astounding. . . .Goat Hall Productions with its innovative programs is proving to be an essential part of the music scene of San Francisco.” -- William Susman, 20th-Century Music

“. . . .I hope that such enjoyable musical theater will eventually find its way even further throughout the region. I’m sure I speak for all the audience when I say I didn’t want it to end!” -- Allan Crossman