West Bay Opera
A taste of grand opera
in the heart of Silicon Valley
67th Season | 2022 - 2023
José Luis Moscovich - General Director
Consistent with current public health guidance, we no longer require proof of COVID vaccinations.
We do recommend wearing a mask while in the theater, but it is not a requirement.
We look forward to seeing you at the theater.
See
Video Samples
at the bottom of this page!
La traviata
by Giuseppe Verdi
Oct 14, 16, 22 & 23, 2022
The most prominent courtesan in Paris, Violetta renounces a life of pleasure and privilege for Alfredo's love. But her dream is short lived. Set in the original period, Paris in the 1830's. This is Verdi's most famous score.
José Luis Moscovich - conductor
Igor Vieira - stage director
Don Giovanni
by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Feb 17, 19, 25 & 26, 2023
Don Govanni, the ultimate libertine womanizer, counts his romantic conquests by the hundreds. Challenged to a duel by the father of one of his victims, the Commendatore, he handily kills the old man. Encountering the old man’s statue at the cemetery, he invites it to come to dinner at his palace. The statue accepts, and later turns up to carry the unrepentant Don Giovanni to hell for his misdeeds.
José Luis Moscovich - conductor
Richard Harrell - stage director
Der Fliegende Holländer
The Flying Dutchman
by Richard Wagner
May 26, 28, June 3 & 4, 2023
Condemned to roam the seas forever in his ghost ship, the Flying Dutchman comes ashore every seventh year seeking redemption through a woman who will be true to him. Could Captain Daland’s daughter, Senta, be that woman? This is Wagner’s take on the old legend, and his first major operatic success.
José Luis Moscovich, conductor
Ragnar Conde, stage director
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
Highlights
R. Strauss' Salome
Heather Green, Isaiah Muzik-Ayala,
May 2017 - 61st 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 Theatre1305 Middlefield Rd.Palo Alto, California 94306
Our Box office is located at221 Lambert Ave.Palo Alto, CA 94306
BOX OFFICE HOURS:
- Mon - Fri
- -
- Sat - Sun
- Closed
