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Goat Hall Productions

San Francisco Cabaret Opera

2008—2009 Season

  • NOVEMBER 2008
    Opera Apocalypse!
    Tickets can be purchased online at www.wehavemet.org or over the phone at 415-289-6877

    West Coast Premieres of 3 One-Acts:
    . Amy Beth Kirsten’s Ophelia Forever (three faces of Ophelia – a nonlinear probe into the multiple personalities of Hamlet’s girlfriend, contemplating suicide on the banks of a ravaged river.) Text from Shakespeare, Baudelaire, Rimbaud, and Christina Rossetti.
    . John G. Bilotta/John F. McGrew’s Quantum Mechanic – A Stringy Fable from the Future (featuring the Quark Sisters – a Greek Chorus trio from a parallel universe – beyond post-apocalyptic; quantum physics rediscovered in the bowels of a broken refrigerator.
    . Mark Alburger’s Antigone (“I must bury my brother”) – from Sophocles (righteousness gone mad in a post-apocalyptic world; Mad Max meets Brunnhilde; world leaders hanging by threads – in the hands of the Greek Chorus!

    AMAZING POST-APOCALYPTIC CONCEPT THAT WILL KNOCK YOUR SOCKS OFF (IF YOU’RE WEARING ANY). THIS IS A MUST-SEE SHOW!

    Six Performance Dates
    . Friday, Nov 7 with Eliza O'Malley (Antigone) @ 8 pm @ The Next Stage @ Trinity Church, 1620 Gough St @ Bush, SF
    . Saturday, Nov 8 with Leticia Page (Antigone) at 8 pm @ The Next Stage @ Trinity Church, 1620 Gough St @ Bush, SF
    . Sunday, Nov 9 with Eliza O'Malley (Antigone) at 8 pm @ The Next Stage @ Trinity Church, 1620 Gough St @ Bush, SF
    . Friday, Nov 14 with Leticia Page (Antigone) at 8 pm @ Chapel of the Chimes, 4499 Piedmont Ave, Oakland 
    . Saturday, Nov 15 with Leticia Page (Antigone) at 7:30 pm @ Temple United Methodist Church, 1111 Junipero Serra Blvd. @ 19th Ave, SF
    . Sunday, Nov 16 with Eliza O'Malley (Antigone) at 7 pm @ Chapel of the Chimes, 4499 Piedmont Ave, Oakland 
    Chapel of the Chimes productions are sponsored in part by

  • MARCH 2009
    Mozart’s Marriage of Figaro (erotic adventures in Italian, double cast)

    We’ve thrown caution to the wind to facilitate the desire of our best opera singers to perform these marvelous roles in the original language. It’s time to get Grand again!

    . Fri, March 6 @ 7:30 pm; Sun, March 8 @ 4 pm
    Community Music Center, 544 Capp St., SF
    . Fri, March 13 @ 8 pm; Sun, March 15 @ 2 pm
    Hillside Club, 2286 Cedar St., Berkeley

  • APRIL 2009
    Fresh Voices IX Festival of New and Used Operas – Part I

    Henry Purcell’s Dioclesian (used)
    Mark Alburger’s Diocletian (new)
    Purcell’s fantastical history and masque depicting the rise of the Emperor Diocles is paired with Alburger’s relentlessly real history which involves Diocles throwing his wife to the lions (or not).

    . April 17, 18, 19, 24, 25, 26
    NOHspace, 2840 Mariposa St., @ Theatre Artaud, Potrero Hill, SF

  • MAY 2009
    Fresh Voices IX Festival of New and Used Operas – Part II

    Call for composers deadline November 30, 2008; works to be performed will be announced in January 2009)
    Performances May 15, 16, 17, venue in San Francisco TBA

  • JUNE 2009
    Fresh Voices IX Festival of New and Used Operas – Part III

    Gian Carlo Menotti’s The Old Maid and the Thief (used) + new TBA (A)
    Peter Josheff/Jaime Robles’ Inferno (new) + used TBA (B)

    . June 12, 13, 14 (A)
    . June 18, 19, 21 (B)
    Live Oak Theater, 1301 Shattuck Ave., Berkeley

Meghan Dibble
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