San Diego Opera | ROLE: Slave

Salome tells the biblical story of Princess Salome, who becomes infatuated with John the Baptist, a prisoner in her step-father King Herod’s court. When she is promised anything she wants by King Herod, Salome demands the head of John the Baptist, which Herod delivers to her – at a price.

Strauss’s ground-breaking score reflects the dark and unsettling themes of the story and every role makes extraordinary vocal and dramatic demands on the artists.

These performances will feature Marcy Stonikas as Salome (March 21 & 23), Kirsten Chambers as Salome (March 22), Dennis Petersen as Herod, Kyle Albertson as Jochanaan,  Nina Warren as Herodias, and Ben Werley as Narraboth. San Diego Opera’s Principal Conductor Yves Abel returns to lead the San Diego Symphony with Jose Maria Condemi returning to direct after his critically acclaimed Madama Butterfly last season.

LANGUAGE – Sung in German with English and Spanish text projected above the stage

San Diego Opera | ROLE: Slave

Salome tells the biblical story of Princess Salome, who becomes infatuated with John the Baptist, a prisoner in her step-father King Herod’s court. When she is promised anything she wants by King Herod, Salome demands the head of John the Baptist, which Herod delivers to her – at a price.

Strauss’s ground-breaking score reflects the dark and unsettling themes of the story and every role makes extraordinary vocal and dramatic demands on the artists.

These performances will feature Marcy Stonikas as Salome (March 21 & 23), Kirsten Chambers as Salome (March 22), Dennis Petersen as Herod, Kyle Albertson as Jochanaan,  Nina Warren as Herodias, and Ben Werley as Narraboth. San Diego Opera’s Principal Conductor Yves Abel returns to lead the San Diego Symphony with Jose Maria Condemi returning to direct after his critically acclaimed Madama Butterfly last season.

LANGUAGE – Sung in German with English and Spanish text projected above the stage

San Diego Opera | ROLE: Slave

Salome tells the biblical story of Princess Salome, who becomes infatuated with John the Baptist, a prisoner in her step-father King Herod’s court. When she is promised anything she wants by King Herod, Salome demands the head of John the Baptist, which Herod delivers to her – at a price.

Strauss’s ground-breaking score reflects the dark and unsettling themes of the story and every role makes extraordinary vocal and dramatic demands on the artists.

These performances will feature Marcy Stonikas as Salome (March 21 & 23), Kirsten Chambers as Salome (March 22), Dennis Petersen as Herod, Kyle Albertson as Jochanaan,  Nina Warren as Herodias, and Ben Werley as Narraboth. San Diego Opera’s Principal Conductor Yves Abel returns to lead the San Diego Symphony with Jose Maria Condemi returning to direct after his critically acclaimed Madama Butterfly last season.

LANGUAGE – Sung in German with English and Spanish text projected above the stage

Project [BLANK] | ROLE: Producer

WORKING TITLE is Project [ BLANK ]’s fourth-annual exhibition of experimental art and music, featuring dozens of visual artists, filmmakers, sound and performance artists, composers, and musicians. This three-day, community-based event will include new works, world premieres, and thought-provoking performances featuring some of the most exciting creative voices in Southern California, Tijuana, and Baja California curated by Diana Benavidez and Leslie Ann Leytham. Join us on a pilgrimage of ideas, with bold new works that offer invocations and intercessions of sacred and profane inspiration.

Project [BLANK] | ROLE: Producer

WORKING TITLE is Project [ BLANK ]’s fourth-annual exhibition of experimental art and music, featuring dozens of visual artists, filmmakers, sound and performance artists, composers, and musicians. This three-day, community-based event will include new works, world premieres, and thought-provoking performances featuring some of the most exciting creative voices in Southern California, Tijuana, and Baja California curated by Diana Benavidez and Leslie Ann Leytham. Join us on a pilgrimage of ideas, with bold new works that offer invocations and intercessions of sacred and profane inspiration.

Project [BLANK] | ROLE: Producer

WORKING TITLE is Project [ BLANK ]’s fourth-annual exhibition of experimental art and music, featuring dozens of visual artists, filmmakers, sound and performance artists, composers, and musicians. This three-day, community-based event will include new works, world premieres, and thought-provoking performances featuring some of the most exciting creative voices in Southern California, Tijuana, and Baja California curated by Diana Benavidez and Leslie Ann Leytham. Join us on a pilgrimage of ideas, with bold new works that offer invocations and intercessions of sacred and profane inspiration.

Project [BLANK] | ROLE: Producer

Project [BLANK] presents the west-coast premiere of RESERVOIR 2 by groundbreaking American composer Sarah Hennies. This evening-length work for choir and flute blurs the lines between performance and installation, and is based on the idea that the unconscious mind can act as a deep “reservoir” or repository for our most profound memories. Our new staging will activate and transform the vaulted spaces of St. Paul’s Cathedral, enveloping the listener in a constellation of voices calling out from the depths.

Featuring a new light and video installation designed by Allison O. Evans, and performed by the San Diego New Verbal Workshop.

Project [BLANK] | ROLE: Producer

Project [BLANK] presents the west-coast premiere of RESERVOIR 2 by groundbreaking American composer Sarah Hennies. This evening-length work for choir and flute blurs the lines between performance and installation, and is based on the idea that the unconscious mind can act as a deep “reservoir” or repository for our most profound memories. Our new staging will activate and transform the vaulted spaces of St. Paul’s Cathedral, enveloping the listener in a constellation of voices calling out from the depths.

Featuring a new light and video installation designed by Allison O. Evans, and performed by the San Diego New Verbal Workshop.

Project [BLANK] | ROLE: Producer

Project [BLANK] presents the west-coast premiere of RESERVOIR 2 by groundbreaking American composer Sarah Hennies. This evening-length work for choir and flute blurs the lines between performance and installation, and is based on the idea that the unconscious mind can act as a deep “reservoir” or repository for our most profound memories. Our new staging will activate and transform the vaulted spaces of St. Paul’s Cathedral, enveloping the listener in a constellation of voices calling out from the depths.

Featuring a new light and video installation designed by Allison O. Evans, and performed by the San Diego New Verbal Workshop.

San Diego Opera | ROLE: Chorus

Young love…nothing is more all-consuming, turbulent, passionate, and heartbreaking.

The first opera San Diego Opera produced, this beloved masterwork follows the lives of a group of struggling artists, including the poet Rodolfo and the seamstress Mimì, as they navigate love, friendship, and hardship in 19th-century Paris. Full of some of the greatest melodies and arias Puccini ever composed, the production is inspired by San Diego Opera’s acclaimed 2020 drive-in La bohème centered in Rodolfo’s memory of an unforgettable romance.

These performances feature thrilling debuts and the exciting return of many SDO favorites. With Kathleen O’Mara as Mimì (Nov. 1 & 3), Sarah Tucker as Mimì (Nov. 2),  Joshua Blue as Rodolfo (Nov. 1 & 3), César Delgado as Rodolfo (Nov. 2), Latonia Moore as Musetta, Leroy Davis as Marcello, Harold Wilson as Colline, and Søren Pedersen as Schaunard.

Lidiya Yankovskaya will also make her first appearance with San Diego Opera, conducting the San Diego Symphony Orchestra. She has conducted more than 40 world premieres, including 17 operas. Keturah Stickann – a visionary director whose work has appeared with opera companies around the world – will reprise her role as director of La bohème after having directed San Diego Opera’s innovative drive-in production in 2020.

LANGUAGE – Sung in Italian with English and Spanish text projected above the stage

San Diego Opera | ROLE: Chorus

Young love…nothing is more all-consuming, turbulent, passionate, and heartbreaking.

The first opera San Diego Opera produced, this beloved masterwork follows the lives of a group of struggling artists, including the poet Rodolfo and the seamstress Mimì, as they navigate love, friendship, and hardship in 19th-century Paris. Full of some of the greatest melodies and arias Puccini ever composed, the production is inspired by San Diego Opera’s acclaimed 2020 drive-in La bohème centered in Rodolfo’s memory of an unforgettable romance.

These performances feature thrilling debuts and the exciting return of many SDO favorites. With Kathleen O’Mara as Mimì (Nov. 1 & 3), Sarah Tucker as Mimì (Nov. 2),  Joshua Blue as Rodolfo (Nov. 1 & 3), César Delgado as Rodolfo (Nov. 2), Latonia Moore as Musetta, Leroy Davis as Marcello, Harold Wilson as Colline, and Søren Pedersen as Schaunard.

Lidiya Yankovskaya will also make her first appearance with San Diego Opera, conducting the San Diego Symphony Orchestra. She has conducted more than 40 world premieres, including 17 operas. Keturah Stickann – a visionary director whose work has appeared with opera companies around the world – will reprise her role as director of La bohème after having directed San Diego Opera’s innovative drive-in production in 2020.

LANGUAGE – Sung in Italian with English and Spanish text projected above the stage

San Diego Opera | ROLE: Chorus

Young love…nothing is more all-consuming, turbulent, passionate, and heartbreaking.

The first opera San Diego Opera produced, this beloved masterwork follows the lives of a group of struggling artists, including the poet Rodolfo and the seamstress Mimì, as they navigate love, friendship, and hardship in 19th-century Paris. Full of some of the greatest melodies and arias Puccini ever composed, the production is inspired by San Diego Opera’s acclaimed 2020 drive-in La bohème centered in Rodolfo’s memory of an unforgettable romance.

These performances feature thrilling debuts and the exciting return of many SDO favorites. With Kathleen O’Mara as Mimì (Nov. 1 & 3), Sarah Tucker as Mimì (Nov. 2),  Joshua Blue as Rodolfo (Nov. 1 & 3), César Delgado as Rodolfo (Nov. 2), Latonia Moore as Musetta, Leroy Davis as Marcello, Harold Wilson as Colline, and Søren Pedersen as Schaunard.

Lidiya Yankovskaya will also make her first appearance with San Diego Opera, conducting the San Diego Symphony Orchestra. She has conducted more than 40 world premieres, including 17 operas. Keturah Stickann – a visionary director whose work has appeared with opera companies around the world – will reprise her role as director of La bohème after having directed San Diego Opera’s innovative drive-in production in 2020.

LANGUAGE – Sung in Italian with English and Spanish text projected above the stage

San Diego Opera | ROLE: Geisha Chorus

Amidst the cherry blossoms of Nagasaki, a young woman makes a stand to support herself as a geisha after her disgraced father takes his life. Fate intervenes and brings her an American Naval Officer and she falls desperately in love. Unaware she is just a distraction to him, she believes they are married and renounces her religion as he sails away promising to return. And he does return, ready to take their child and raise him with his American wife.  With her broken heart, she must choose to live with dishonor or die with honor.

These performances star soprano Corinne Winters (last heard as Violetta in 2017’s La traviata) and tenor Adam Smith as Pinkerton in his Company debut. San Diego Opera’s Principal Conductor Yves Abel returns to lead the San Diego Symphony with Jose Maria Condemi directing these performances.

LANGUAGE – Sung in Italian with English and Spanish text projected above the stage

RUN TIME – 2 hours and 30 minutes, including one intermission.

San Diego Opera | ROLE: Geisha Chorus

Amidst the cherry blossoms of Nagasaki, a young woman makes a stand to support herself as a geisha after her disgraced father takes his life. Fate intervenes and brings her an American Naval Officer and she falls desperately in love. Unaware she is just a distraction to him, she believes they are married and renounces her religion as he sails away promising to return. And he does return, ready to take their child and raise him with his American wife.  With her broken heart, she must choose to live with dishonor or die with honor.

These performances star soprano Corinne Winters (last heard as Violetta in 2017’s La traviata) and tenor Adam Smith as Pinkerton in his Company debut. San Diego Opera’s Principal Conductor Yves Abel returns to lead the San Diego Symphony with Jose Maria Condemi directing these performances.

LANGUAGE – Sung in Italian with English and Spanish text projected above the stage

RUN TIME – 2 hours and 30 minutes, including one intermission.

@ PROJECT [BLANK]

Role: Inez Serrano

Three self-absorbed people who don't know each other and don't like each other trapped together in one room for eternity—literally. Perhaps not most people's idea of a naturally operatic plot, but Sartre's play is full of drama and sly comedy set in a tiny space packed with vast consequences. No Exit shows the first hour of their damnation; we see the veneer of civilized self-justification crack to reveal fear, spite, vanity, self-delusion. Imagine this same room in ten thousand years, twenty thousand, thirty thousand . . .

@ PROJECT [BLANK]

Role: Inez Serrano

Three self-absorbed people who don't know each other and don't like each other trapped together in one room for eternity—literally. Perhaps not most people's idea of a naturally operatic plot, but Sartre's play is full of drama and sly comedy set in a tiny space packed with vast consequences. No Exit shows the first hour of their damnation; we see the veneer of civilized self-justification crack to reveal fear, spite, vanity, self-delusion. Imagine this same room in ten thousand years, twenty thousand, thirty thousand . . .

@ PROJECT [BLANK]

Role: Inez Serrano

Three self-absorbed people who don't know each other and don't like each other trapped together in one room for eternity—literally. Perhaps not most people's idea of a naturally operatic plot, but Sartre's play is full of drama and sly comedy set in a tiny space packed with vast consequences. No Exit shows the first hour of their damnation; we see the veneer of civilized self-justification crack to reveal fear, spite, vanity, self-delusion. Imagine this same room in ten thousand years, twenty thousand, thirty thousand . . .

@ PROJECT [BLANK]

Role: Producer/Performer

Project [BLANK] presents a semi-monthly series of experimental concerts in collaboration with Bread & Salt Gallery’s Second Tuesday openings. Come for the visual art, stay for the concert!

VOXVOXVOX is a night of works for unaccompanied voices curated by baritone Jonathan Nussman, featuring performances by Christopher Clarino, Leslie Ann Leytham, Mariana Flores-Bucio, and Miguel Zazueta Cervera.

@Bach Collegium San Diego

THE ORIGINAL GOLDEN OLDIES

Celebrating BCSD's twentieth anniversary season with a scorcher of a program featuring favorite and memorable repertoire performed over the last twenty seasons...how time flies!
Turn up the heat with excerpts from Bach's B minor Mass and Easter Oratorio, to arresting moments from Handel oratorios, by way of glorious Renaissance polyphony, to the sumptuousness of Rameau, plus much more!

@Bach Collegium San Diego

THE ORIGINAL GOLDEN OLDIES

Celebrating BCSD's twentieth anniversary season with a scorcher of a program featuring favorite and memorable repertoire performed over the last twenty seasons...how time flies!
Turn up the heat with excerpts from Bach's B minor Mass and Easter Oratorio, to arresting moments from Handel oratorios, by way of glorious Renaissance polyphony, to the sumptuousness of Rameau, plus much more!

@Bodhi Tree Concerts

Brahms & Beer, what could be better?

Join Bodhi Tree favorites Leslie Ann Leytham, (mezzo-soprano) Walter DuMelle, (bass) Bryan Verhoye, (piano) and Mark Danisovzky (accordion) in an evening of gorgeous art songs followed by rowdy drinking songs.

ACT 1 - BRAHMS

Opus 7 (Sechs Gesange) & Opus 121 (Four Serious Songs)

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Act 2 - DRINKING SONGS

Beer Barrel Polka , Margaritaville and Pour oh Pour the Pirate Sherry, Moon of Alabama, Brindisi, Red Red Wine...just to name a few

@ PROJECT [BLANK]

Role: Curator

Project [BLANK] presents a semi-monthly series of experimental concerts in collaboration with Bread & Salt Gallery’s Second Tuesday openings. Come for the visual art, stay for the concert!

LINGUA FRANCA is a concert of music that asks musical artists from a wide variety of genres, styles, and traditions to consider their relationship to pop music. Batya Macadam-Somer will weave her violin and voice together, presenting an improvised set inspired by songs from some of her favorite pop artists. Dom Cooper will perform recents works for voice, prepared tape, piano, and electronics. Sound artist Joe Cantrell will create soundscapes based on recorded vocal content including a reading of “The Winter of Ending," a poem by his mother, Anita Van Tellingen. These altered vocal sounds will be complimented by live performance on acoustic instruments and obsolete/broken electronics. Julien Cantelm (drums) and Lexi Pulido (voice) will present some of their collaborative explorations of genre-crossing music with influences in Brazilian jazz and popular styles.

WITH PERFORMANCES BY: Joe Cantrell, Dom Cooper, Batya MacAdam-Somer, and Lexi Pulido with Julien Cantelm

@ PROJECT [BLANK]

Role: Producer

Project [BLANK] presents a semi-monthly series of experimental concerts in collaboration with Bread & Salt Gallery’s Second Tuesday openings. Come for the visual art, stay for the concert!

SPACE TIME is pleased to present a program of “illuminated music,*” featuring various methods of real-time image and sound manipulation. The program will begin with a screening of Studies by video art pioneers Steina and Woody Vasulka. “The Vasulkas' investigations into analog and digital processes and their development of electronic imaging tools, which began in the early 1970s, place them among the primary architects of an expressive electronic vocabulary of image-making.**” In 1971, The Vasulkas founded The Kitchen in NYC, which has served as a model for multidisciplinary arts organizations, including Space Time and Project [BLANK].

*The term “illuminated music” is taken from another video synthesis pioneer, Stephen Beck.

**Text from Electronic Arts Intermix (NYC), www.eai.org

WITH PERFORMANCES BY: Helixhand and Kevin Schwenkler

@ PROJECT [BLANK]

Role: Producer/Curator

Project [BLANK] presents a semi-monthly series of experimental concerts in collaboration with Bread & Salt Gallery’s Second Tuesday openings. Come for the visual art, stay for the concert!

Francisco Eme’s Treatise of Violence: The Invention of Us is a powerful and immersive multimedia experience featuring operatic singing, instrumental and electronic music, sound installations, field recordings, sculptures, and photographs. The performance explores legalized violent practices in our modern society created in the name of civilization, highlighting the violent ways in which capitalist, misogynist, racist, and imperialist systems function.

WITH PERFORMANCES BY: Francisco Eme, Monica Camacho, Bonnie Lander, Leslie Ann Leytham, and Wilfrido Terrazas.