West Bay Opera
A taste of grand opera
in the heart of Silicon Valley
68th Season | 2023 - 2024
José Luis Moscovich - General Director
See
Video Samples
at the bottom of this page!
Madama Butterfly
by Giacomo Puccini
Oct 13, 15, 21 & 22, 2023
In the early 1900s, the USS Abraham Lincoln sails into Nagasaki. A young naval officer marries a Japanese girl, then leaves her, pregnant with his son, and returns years later with a "real" American wife, to take away the child. Puccini's most moving and beautiful score.
José Luis Moscovich - conductor
Richard Harrell - stage director
Corpus Evita
by Carlos Franzetti
Feb 16, 18, 24 & 25, 2024
Already a cult figure during her brief life, when Eva Perón died in 1952, she became something akin to a goddess. Evita's myth still fuels devotion and division. In the 1970's, Perón's thrid wife, Isabel, tried to embody the myth, with terrible consequences.
José Luis Moscovich - conductor
José María Condemi - staging dramaturg
"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
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
