Local News Matters-Bay Area, September, 2021
Solo Opera, a feisty and innovative little company based in the East Bay, will present “Scalia/Ginsburg”….
Opera Wire, June 1, 2021
Concord/Clayton Pioneer, May 1, 2021
The opera’s theme of “We are different, we are one” resonates a clear message of the importance of diversity and inclusiveness….
San Francisco Classical Voice, December 4, 2018
East Bay Times, November 29, 2018
In the ‘Gift of the Magi,’ poor, married Della and Jim can’t afford to buy each other Christmas gifts, so they secretly sell off….
The Concord Pioneer, November, 2018
Solo Opera unwraps its ‘The Gift of the Magi’ at the Lesher Center Nov 30-Dec 2….
The Daily News, November 23, 2018
The Rossmoor News, November 7, 2018
San Francisco Classical Voice, November, 2018
Concord Pioneer, October, 2018
Solo Opera unwraps ‘The Gift of the Magi’….
Solo Opera teams up again this year with the Orinda Rotary Club to present ‘Opera in the Park.’
Orinda Rotary Club will once again team up with Solo Opera to present the club’s ninth ‘Opera in the Park.’
Concord Pioneer, September 23, 2016
Sylvia Amorino and Jay Bedecarre have spent many years involved in the local arts and cultural scene, and each was honored this month by the Arts and Cultural Commission of Contra Costa County with an Arts Recognition award…
Lamorinda Weekly, July 13, 2016
Relax and enjoy Solo Opera’s “Opera in the Park” Returns to Orinda, July 24….
….’Without knowing it, they are being exposed to the art form in a way they can appreciate and understand”….
Ask Syvia Amorino about children and opera, and she’ll tell you its never too late to introduce one to the other….
Sylvia Gonzalez will never forget being a 12 year old and meeting opera singer Beverly Sills. “I’ve been a lover of the arts since I was a
child,” said Gonzalez. My mom introduced me to opera and took me to the San Francisco Opera…..
Those with a sweet tooth have quite a treat in store this December. Solo Opera will present Engelbert Humperdinck’s delectable confection, ”Hansel and Grete” ….
Solo Opera presents Engelbert Humperdinck’s ”Hansel and Gretel,” the second production in its 2014 Storybook Opera Series…..
It may not be visions of sugarplums dancing in their heads, but youngsters will find Solo Opera’s production of “Hansel and Gretel” just as sweet as the familiar Christmas poem……
Here’s a wonderful family event to put on the calendar now – who doesn’t love a fairytale adventure with a mystical forest, two lost children, an enticing gingerbread house, and a wicked witch?….
East Bay based Solo Opera begins its “Storybook Opera” season with a double bill this weekend in Walnut Creek’s Lesher Center for the Arts’ “Chip and His Dog,” a 30 minute delight Gian Carlo Menotti….
Solo Opera is back! This nonprofit chamber opera company ran successful productions in Walnut Creek from 2000-2005, then closed its doors for economic reasons.
Solo Opera, the Bay Area’s newly reopened chamber opera company, will be performing at Rossmoor for the fifth time with the concert Opera Obsession….
Solo Opera, the Bay Area’s newly reopened chamber opera company, will be performing at Rossmoor for the fifth time with the concert Opera Obsession….
Solo Opera, the Bay Area’s newly reopened chamber opera company, will be performing at Rossmoor for the fifth time with the concert Opera Obsession….
Leave grand opera for the big companies. Smaller was better over the weekend at the Dean Lesher Regional Center for the Arts in Walnut Creek, where Solo Opera scored a success with compact productions of two 20th century chamber works….
Sylvia Amorino loves American opera. As the founder and artistic director of Solo Opera, she’s spent the last five years staging quality productions that are short, accessible, and sung in English….
These young talents already have years of experience as they tackle the challenging title role in Menotti’s opera….
Its short, its easy to understand, and its performed in English,: “Amahl and the Night Visitors” is ideal holiday fare for the entire family….
Bigger isn’t always better. It’s a maxim we are all familiar with, and a sentiment on which on which artistic director Sylvia Amorino founded Concord’s Solo Opera three years ago….
Let’s face it: The holidays are tough. I have friends who avoid the entire season while the rest of us are shopping, wrapping, cooking, cleaning, partying, caroling, and otherwise making merry ….
Like the ”Nutcracker” and “A Christmas Carol,” ”Amahl and the Night Visitors” is one of those seasonal masterpieces that never fail to move an audience…..
Solo Opera’s “Amahl and the Night Visitors” was named one of the “Top Five: Classical Music” for the Bay Area Holiday Season for 2002 and 2003….
–Georgia Rowe of The Contra Costa Times
Opera is notoriously difficult and expensive to produce – which is why, when one is starting a new company, it helps to start on a small scale….
