Tenor Ashley Faatoalia and Soprano Marina Harris star in a Crossover Concert “Duets: Songs from Around the World” featuring Opera, Musical Theater, American and More.Doors Open at 6:00pm Concert 6:30pm
Our Signature Salon “Welcome” on July 14 will star Ibidunni Ojikutu. Born in Bellingham, Washington, Ms. Ojikutu is a frequent performer around the Pacific Northwest and will be especially familiar to our Seattle Opera goers. Her program highlights her lilting soprano voice offering a combination of popular opera, gospel and musical theater. A special guest will join her for a couple songs, our newly graduated scholarship recipient, Raine Filbert. We are very proud of Raine for graduating from the University of Puget Sound and being accepted to the Manhattan School of Music for graduate school. The Garden Reception is paired with a tour of the on-site studio of artist Judith Kindler.
On August 29 Sun Valley Opera will present a “home-grown” vocal artist, Andrew Garratt at our Diva Party & Concert “Keep it local. Raised in the Wood River Valley, Mr. Garratt will be well-known to our guests from his appearances with the Sun Valley Music Festival over the years. He is a recent graduate of Western Washington University and will be headed to Northwestern University for their graduate program. He will be accompanied by one of his musical mentors, R. L. Rowsey, and together they have put together an entertaining program featuring opera, musical theater and jazz. At the Diva Party, we will be honoring retiring board members Dennis Dunn and Anita Weissberg for their contributions to the program committee and Co-Founder & President Emerita Marsha Ingham for her guidance and support over the past 20 years. We wouldn’t be Sun Valley Opera without our volunteers, concert goers, donors and sponsors and the amazing board members. Private Garden, Valet Parking Diva Party - 6:30pm, Concert 7:30pm
The 2023-2024 Season of The Metropolitan Opera’s Live Simulcast Opera Performances begins on Saturday, October 21, 2023 with "Dead Man Walking". Sun Valley Opera and Broadway will present its MET HD Live Simulcast Operas at the Magic Lantern Theater in Ketchum. "Dead Man Walkin"g is based on Sister Helen Prejean’s memoir about her fight for the soul of a condemned murderer. "Dead Man Walking" matches the high drama of its subject with Heggie’s beautiful and poignant music and a brilliant libretto by Terrence McNally. Met Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin takes the podium, with mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato starring as Sister Helen. The outstanding cast also features bass-baritone Ryan McKinny as the death-row inmate Joseph De Rocher, soprano Latonia Moore as Sister Rose, and legendary mezzo-soprano Susan Graham—who sang Helen Prejean in the opera’s 2000 premiere—as De Rocher’s mother. Content Advisory: "Dead Man Walking" contains a depiction of a rape and murder, as well as other adult themes and strong language.
The next presentation by Sun Valley Opera and Broadway’s Live Simulcast Opera Performances is X: The Life and Times of Malcom X on Saturday, November 18, 2023. More information can be found at www.sunvalleyopera.com. Anthony Davis’s groundbreaking and influential opera premiered in 1986. Theater luminary and Tony-nominated director of Slave Play Robert O’Hara oversees a potent new staging that imagines Malcolm as an Everyman whose story transcends time and space. An exceptional cast of breakout artists and young Met stars enliven the operatic retelling of the civil rights leader’s life. Baritone Will Liverman, who triumphed in the Met premiere of Fire Shut Up in My Bones, sings Malcolm X, alongside soprano Leah Hawkins as his mother, Louise; mezzo-soprano Raehann Bryce-Davis as his sister Ella; bass-baritone Michael Sumuel as his brother Reginald; and tenor Victor Ryan Robertson as Nation of Islam leader Elijah Muhammad. Kazem Abdullah conducts the newly revised score, which provides a layered, jazz-inflected setting for the esteemed writer Thulani Davis’s libretto. Doors open at 10:30am. The concession counter will be open. The production begins at 10:55am. The Magic Lantern is located at 100 East 2nd Street in Ketchum and tickets can be purchased at the door. Magic Lantern ...
The next presentation by Sun Valley Opera and Broadway’s Live Simulcast Opera Performances is Florencia en el Amazones on Saturday, December 9, 2023. More information can be found at www.sunvalleyopera.com. Inspired by the magical realism of Gabriel García Márquez, Daniel Catán’s Florencia en el Amazonas tells the enthralling story of an opera diva who returns to her native South America to search for her lost lover, who has vanished into the jungle. Ailyn Pérez stars as Florencia Grimaldi, with Yannick Nézet-Séguin on the podium to lead a spellbinding new production by Mary Zimmerman. Fluidity—of time, place, emotion, and even of identity—is at the core of Florencia en el Amazonas. It is ostensibly the tale of passengers traveling down the Amazon River aboard the steamship El Dorado; the real drama, though, lies in the psychological journeys that each character undertakes. The libretto, by Marcela Fuentes-Berain, is an original story rich in allusion to other tales that skirt the border between drama and fantasy. Fuentes-Berain was a student of Gabriel García Márquez, whose style of magical informs the plot. Doors open at 10:30am. The concession counter will be open. The production begins at 10:55am. The Magic Lantern is located at 100 East ...
