West Bay Opera

A taste of grand opera

in the heart of Silicon Valley




68th Season | 2023 - 2024

José Luis Moscovich - General Director

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Video Samples

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Video Samples
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"Un bel di," from the second act of Puccini's Madama Butterfly - 5-minute video - performed live on 10/22/23 at the Lucie Stern Theatre - Palo Alto, California - Cio Cio San: Toni Marie Palmertree; Suzuki: Mariya Kaganskaya.

Wagner's Der fliegende Holländer - 4-minute compilation - Opening night 5/26/23 - Lucie Stern Theatre - Palo Alto, California

Di Provenza, from Verdi's La traviata - Opening night 10/14/22 - Jason Duika, baritone, sings Giorgio Germont -  Lucie Stern Theatre - Palo Alto, California

Verdi's Macbeth - Act 2, Final Scene: Banquet. Sunday, 02/16/20 - Lucie Stern Theatre - Palo Alto, California

Verdi's Nabucco - Act 4, First Scene. Saturday, 10/26/19 - Lucie Stern Theatre - Palo Alto, California

Verdi's Nabuco - Act 3, Final Scene - Va pensiero chorus and Zaccaria's aria. Saturday, 10/26/19 - Lucie Stern Theatre - Palo Alto, California
Verdi's Nabuco - Act 2, Scene 1 - Saturday, 10/26/19 - Lucie Stern Theatre - Palo Alto
Verdi's Falstaff - Act 2, Scene 1 - Sunday, 5/26/19 - Lucie Stern Theatre - Palo Alto
Casta Diva
Bellini's Norma
Christina Major
October 2017 - 62nd Season
Church Scene
Gounod's Faust
Elizabeth Zharoff and Kevin Thompson
May 2015 - 59th Season
Il balen...
Verdi's Il trovatore
Krassen Karagiozov, baritone
Oct 2014 - 59th Season
Kuda, kuda...
Tchaikovsky's Yevgeny Onegin
Jorge Garza, tenor
Feb 2016 - 60th Season

Highlights

R. Strauss'  Salome

Heather Green, Isaiah Muzik-Ayala,

May 2017 - 61st Season

Quanto amore!
Donizetti's L'elisir d'amore
Maria Brea and Igor Vieira
Feb 2014 - 58th Season
Sommo giubilo
Puccini's Tosca
Carl King, Stacey Stofferahn, Philip Skinner
Oct 2013 - 58th Season
E lucevan le stelle...
Puccini's Tosca
David Gustafson, tenor
Oct 2013 - 58th Season

R. Wagner's Der Fliegende Holländer - The flying Dutchman


Dutchman-Senta Duet

Douglas Nagel

Paula Goodman

May 2008 - 52nd Season

G. Verdi's Otello




Ave Maria

Cynthia Clayton - Desdemona

Michelle Rice - Emilia

May 2013 - 57th Season

For more than 67 years, music lovers in Palo Alto and the Peninsula have enjoyed the unique experience of live opera, presented fully staged with orchestra, chorus, sets and costumes and fabulously talented casts, in the intimate setting of the Lucie Stern Theatre, a 400-seat hall that is ideally sized for opera.  All our productions include projected English titles, so you can follow the action onstage closely. We invite you to come and see for yourself why audiences and critics alike rave about our productions.

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We perform at the 

Lucie Stern Theatre
1305 Middlefield Rd.
Palo Alto, California 94306

Our Box office is located at
221 Lambert Ave.
Palo Alto, CA 94306

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