Doug Fitch, director and stage designer for David Bruce’s opera, “A Bird in Your Ear,” composed for singers in Dawn Upshaw’s Graduate Program in Vocal Arts in the Bard College Conservatory of Music, ...

In preparation for the debut of Birds & Balls, Opera Parallèle today announced its popular Bullhorn Community Programs, the company’s ancillary events and opportunities for the public to delve deeper ...

Birds in the Moon explores themes of freedom, migration and borders, and when the pandemic suddenly restricted all movement, the opera’s message became even more potent. Now a year and a half after ...

Later in the season, Opera Parallèle will salute LGBTQ Pride Month with the West Coast debut of the nationally acclaimed (“heart wrenching”) opera, Fellow Travelers, by composer Gregory Spears* and ...

SARASOTA -- Some might say the measure of great art is that it touches the heart, teaches a lesson and shifts one's perspective on life. I confess that at the world premiere of "The Language of Birds, ...

Opera Parallele, the Bay Area's distinguished producer and champion of contemporary opera, and SF JAZZ present the world premiere of Birds & Balls, a novel pairing of two witty operas examining the ...

"Birds & Balls" is lighter in tone, but there are layers of meaning in both of the upcoming shorter pieces. Grammy Award-nominated composer David T. Little and Pulitzer Prize-winning librettist Royce ...

The carny rolled into Santa Monica on Wednesday. OK, not exactly a carny, this modern shipping container hauled by a semi truck down the 5 from Berkeley to a parking lot across the street from the old ...

Mona Webster had two passions: birds and music. The Scottish widow, who died in August at the age of 96, traveled the world well into old age in pursuit of both. In her will, she left the bulk of her ...

The carny rolled into Santa Monica on Wednesday. OK, not exactly a carny, this modern shipping container hauled by a semi truck down the 5 from Berkeley to a parking lot across the street from the old ...