Posted May 29, 2015

Posted May 29, 2015

Forwarded by Eiko Kikawada

Merola Opera Program 2015 
Schwabacher Summer Concert
 
Merola’s young artists will perform excerpts from La traviata, Susannah, Die Walküre, and Don Carlo.  Two performances, one indoors (with admission) and another, a free concert outdoors.
 
Thursday, July 9, 7:30 pm
San Francisco Conservatory of Music
Schwabacher Summer Concert 
Tickets $40/$25/$15 Students with ID

Saturday, July 11, 2 pm
Yerba Buena Gardens Festival
Schwabacher Summer Concert (free admission) 

 
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It has been announced that there will be performances of Das Rheingold in Mexico in November of 2017, which will be directed by Ragnar Conde, a former Merola Apprentice Stage Director (2011) and a native of Mexico. Performance dates and cities to follow. Ragner has produced and directed over 70 performing arts projects in Mexico, the USA, France, Switzerland, Italy, and Colombia.  He also worked as stage director in the world premiere of Viva Verdi in 2013, the bicentennial celebration of Giuseppe Verdi’s birth, at the Hallenstadion in Zürich under the artistic guidance of Mr. Lotfi Mansouri.  He is currently the General Director of Escenia Ensamble, A.C., a performing arts company in Mexico City.