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EARLY ACCESS TICKET EVENT
On June 17, tickets for the hottest opera of the 2019/20 season—HANDEL’S Aci, Galatea e Polifemo will be on sale for ONLY 3 days.
This exclusive Early Access ticket event is only available to PBO email subscribers.
Become an email subscriber and look for your Early Access email on Monday, June 17 to get tickets to this critically-acclaimed event before they go on sale to the public on August 1.
Early Access tickets will be on sale from June 17 through June 19 at midnight and are only available through email invitation.
Sign up before June 14 to make sure you get your email invitation on June 17!
When you sign up using the form below, you will be automatically entered to win a pair of free tickets to this event!
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HANDEL’S Aci, Galatea e Polifemo
The gender- and genre-bending operatic event that took New York City by storm in the summer of 2017 now makes landfall in San Francisco. Anthony Tommasini of The New York Times describes it as “an excitingly contemporary production thatemploys inventive videos and even electronic tweaks of the instruments in the orchestra.” Co-produced with National Sawdust, this harrowingly intimate re-imagination stars original cast members Anthony Roth Costanzo as Galatea and Davóne Tines as Polifemo, with Lauren Snouffer joining as Aci.
The original production met with critical acclaim when it premiered in New York City in 2017. Now you can see it with Nicholas McGegan and the Philharmonia Baroque Chamber Players at the Opening Night Gala or one of six stunning performances at ODC Theater.
HANDEL Aci, Galatea e Polifemo
Nicholas McGegan, conductor
Lauren Snouffer, soprano (Aci)
Anthony Roth Costanzo, countertenor (Galatea)
Davóne Tines, bass-baritone (Polifemo)
Philharmonia Baroque Chamber Players
Christopher Alden, stage direction
Mark Grey, sound & video design
Seth Reiser, lighting design
Terese Wadden, costume design
Paul Tate dePoo III, set design
Produced By Anthony Roth Costanzo and Cath Brittan
A co-production of National Sawdust and Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra & Chorale
PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE
OPENING NIGHT GALA PERFORMANCE
Wednesday, January 22 @ 8 pm | Diane Wilsey Center for Opera, San Francisco
Friday January 24 @ 8 pm | ODC Theater, San Francisco
Saturday January 25 @ 8 pm | ODC Theater, San Francisco
Sunday January 26 @ 3 pm | ODC Theater, San Francisco
Wednesday January 29 @ 8 pm | ODC Theater, San Francisco
Friday January 31 @ 8 pm | ODC Theater, San Francisco
Saturday February 1 @ 8 pm | ODC Theater, San Francisco
These performances are not part of the regular subscription season and must be purchased separately.
ANTHONY ROTH COSTANZO – countertenor
Following his First Prize win Placido Domingo’s international Operalia competition, Anthony Roth Costanzo’s star continues to rise with a busy diary of operatic and concert appearances in an extensive range of repertoire, encompassing the Baroque to world premieres. The American countertenor’s stand-out debut performances as Philip Glass’ Akhnaten at both English National Opera and LA Opera earned him high acclaim for his “touchingly vulnerable” portrayal (Telegraph) and he reprises the role at ENOthis season. Further recent role debuts include as Giulio Cesare for Houston Grand Opera, Nerone (L’incoronazione di Poppea) for Cincinnati Opera, and Boy / First Angel in George Benjamin’s Written on Skin.
On the concert platform this season, Anthony sings Messiah with the New York Philharmonic, Bach’s Magnificat with the Mercury Chamber Ensemble, joins Boston Baroque in concert performances of Poppea as Nerone, and joins Anne Sofie von Otter and Philharmonia Baroque in a programme of Handel.
Anthony is an exclusive recording artist with Decca Gold and his first album Glass Handel, with Les Violons du Roy and Jonathan Cohen, released in September 2018, has subsequently been nominated for a Grammy. The programme’s first live performances opened at Opera Philadelphia, followed by a North American tour.
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DAVÓNE TINES – bass-baritone
“In a just world, one in which fame was proportionate to talent, Davóne Tines would be as big a name as Kanye West” proclaimed KQEDfollowing concerts given with the San Francisco Symphony. Breakout performances were given on both sides of the Atlantic in 2015-16 when Davóne Tines made a Dutch National Opera debut in the premiere of Kaija Saariaho’s Only the Sound Remains directed by Peter Sellars. The bass-baritone was exalted by The Los Angeles Times as “the find of the season,” for performances of works by Caroline Shaw and Kaija Saariaho with the Calder Quartet and with members of ICE at the Ojai Music Festival.
Performances of 2018-19 include the world premiere of The Black Clown by composer Michael Schachter with a libretto adapted from the Langston Hughes poem by Davóne Tines and Michael Schachter; presented by the American Repertory Theater, The Black Clown– in a production directed by Zack Winokur – is a music theater experience that animates a black man’s resilience against America’s legacy of oppression by fusing vaudeville, opera, jazz, and spirituals to bring Hughes’ verse to life onstage. Kaija Saariaho’s Only the Sound Remains returns to Davóne Tines’ calendar in performances at the Teatro Real and Lincoln Center and John Adams’ El Niño serves his debut with Vladimir Jurowski conducting the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin. The artist reprises his acclaimed portrayal of Ned Peters in the European premiere of John Adams and Peter Sellars’ Girls of the Golden West at Dutch National Opera and he assays the title role of Henze’s El Cimarrón in a new production by Zack Winokur at the Metropolitan Museum of Arts in collaboration with the American Modern Opera Company. Davóne Tines makes a debut at Opera Theatre of Saint Louis in the world premiere of Fire Shut Up In My Bones by the creative team of Terence Blanchard and Kasi Lemmons and symphonic appearances of the season include concerts with Esa-Pekka Salonen and the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Michael Tilson Thomas and the San Francisco Symphony, and Aram Demirjian leading the Kansas City Symphony.
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LAUREN SNOUFFER – soprano
Recognized for her unique artistic curiosity in world-class performances spanning the music of Claudio Monteverdi and Johann Adolph Hasse through to György Ligeti and George Benjamin, American Lauren Snouffer is celebrated as one of the most versatile and respected sopranos on the international stage.
Opera performances of the current season fortify the soprano’s place as one of the eminent interpreters of contemporary music. Lauren Snouffer assays the title role of Berg’s Lulu in a new production at the Teatro Municipal de Santiago conducted by Pedro-Pablo Prudencio and directed by Mariame Clément, and she returns to Houston Grand Opera for the world premiere of The Phoenix by composer Tarik O’Regan and librettist John Caird. Other appearances on the international operatic stage include a new production of Handel’s Serse for the Internationale Händel-Festspiele Karlsruhe directed by Max Emanuel Cencic and conducted by Georg Petrou and the role of Magnolia Hawks in Francesca Zambello’s production of Show Boat for The Glimmerglass Festival. Highlights of the concert stage include Bernstein’s Candide with the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra, a program of Haydn and Mozart with Bernard Labadie and the Orchestra of St. Luke’s at Carnegie Hall, Messiah with the Cleveland Orchestra, National Arts Centre Orchestra, and New York Philharmonic, and a program of Bach and Couperin with Ars Lyrica Houston.
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“A radical production of a Handel rarity” that “wrings every bit of unsettling darkness from this curious work.” — The New York Times
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