Gala Chair Melanie Peña and Board Vice President Mark Perry invite you to a historic celebration unlike any other as we honor our Music Director Nicholas McGegan’s farewell season and celebrate the opening night spectacle of Handel’s Aci, Galatea e Polifemo! You won’t want to miss this evening of riveting drama, culinary delights and a jubilant celebration with opera stars and dear friends.
The evening includes:
- Cocktail reception and an exquisite three-course dining experience
- Intimate seating for the opening night performance of Aci… with opera stars Lauren Snouffer, Anthony Roth Costanzo, and Davóne Tines.
- Festive after-party with a robust scotch tasting and strolling desserts
“Mr. Alden wrings every bit of unsettling darkness from this curious work in an excitingly contemporary production that employs inventive videos and even electronic tweaks of the instruments in the orchestra.”
— The New York Times
“A riveting seventy-five-minute chamber opera that had the slow-action inevitability of an underwater ballet.”
—The New Yorker
Official Gala Sponsors
Melanie Peña & Mark Perry
Gala Benefactors
David Low & Dominique Lahaussois
Gala Dinner Sponsor
Kay Sprinkel Grace
Cocktail Reception Sponsor
Marie Bertillion Collins
The Aci, Galatea e Polifemo production is generously sponsored by Anne & Jeffrey Katz
Wine Sponsor
Guarantors
The Estate of Dr. Ross E. Armstrong
Anne & Jeffrey Katz
Didier LeGall
Frederick Matteson & Anne Davidson Barr
Carol & Douglas Tanner
Benefactors
Martin & Kathleen Cohn
Charlotte Gaylord & Barrie Cowan
Peter & Cynthia Hibbard
Brian M. Kincaid & Elisabeth C. Theil
Sondra Schlesinger
Susan & Paul Sugarman
2020 Gala Committee
Melanie P. Peña, Gala Chair
Steve John
Anne Katz
Brian Kincaid
Bill Lueth, President KDFC
Rik Malone, KDFC
Robert B. Mison
Rebecca Moyle
Rachael Myrow, KQED
Jason Snyder
Produced by Anthony Roth Costanzo and Cath Brittan
A co-production of National Sawdust and Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra & Chorale
