Concord Clayton Pioneer , June 21, 2024
Concord’s Juneteenth celebration features Solo Opera soprano Shawnette Sulker. The annual event takes place noon-4 p.m. June 23 at Todos Santos Plaza. Sulker will be singing between noon and 12:30 p.m ….
East Bay Times, June 3, 2024
A Juneteenth celebration at Todos Santos Plaza features Solo Opera soprano Shawnette Sulker. The annual event takes place June 23 from noon to 4 p.m. at Todos Santos Park. ….
Concord Clayton Pioneer , May 24, 2024
Solo Opera is looking forward to 2025, which will be their 25th Anniversary. For their 2024-2025 Season, the company has prepared some special multi-cultural family-friendly events. This includes an opera/outreach project called Lucinda y las Flores de la Nochebuena by Evan Mack and Joshua McGuire. ….
Aisle Seat Reviews, September 10, 2023
This summer, we’ve had hot and muggy days. But overnight, a front can move through quickly and by sunrise we’re treated to clear, cool air with gentle breezes. Such was the refreshing joy of Solo Opera’s production of The Three Feathers. ….
San Francisco Chronicle, September 5, 2023
Most of the operatic world is pitched toward adults, which hardly seems fair. After all, if anyone is poised to appreciate the art form’s magical blend of music, narrative and stagecraft, it’s the younger set….
Diablo Magazine, September 5, 2023
Solo Opera’s latest production at the Lesher Center for the Arts in Walnut Creek is rooted in a Brothers Grimm story. The narrative highlights the introverted Princess Dora as she encounters a mystical frog king…
East Bay Times, September 6, 2023
“The Three Feathers”: Solo Opera director Sylvia Amorino brings this enchanting, family-friendly opera by Lori Laitman and librettist Dana Gioia to Walnut Creek for two performances. ….
SFGATE, September 1, 2023
September is when the big guns on the Bay Area classical music scene roll out their grand season openers, but a small and plucky opera company based in the East Bay deserves attention for mounting its most ambitious production yet…….
San Francisco Classical Voice, August 28, 2023
Composers and librettists have long looked to fairy tales for inspiration and material. When Lori Laitman was commissioned by the Center for the Arts at Virginia Tech to write a work for classical singers,……
East Bay Times, August 28, 2023
Also in Walnut Creek: The long-awaited performance of Lori Laitman and Dana Gioia’s opera “The Three Feathers” takes place Sept. 8 and 10 at the Lesher Center……
Concord/Clayton Pioneer, August 22, 2023
“Never been to an opera? Don’t worry!” Sylvia Amorino, Executive Director of Solo Opera explains. “Our upcoming opera, The Three Feathers, is very accessible for all ages…..
Concord/Clayton Pioneer, July 18, 2023
Also at the Lesher Center, Solo Opera presents its most ambitious opera to date. It’s the West Coast premiere of the full version ….
East Bay Times, July 17, 2023
Solo Opera is set to present the West Coast premiere of Lori Laitman and Dana Gioia’s “The Three Feathers” this September. ….
Opera Wire, April 26, 2023
Solo Opera is set to present the West Coast premiere of Lori Laitman and Dana Gioia’s “The Three Feathers” this September. ….
East Bay Times, July 15, 2023
Concord opera company Solo Opera is preparing its largest, most ambitious opera to date, “The Three Feathers,” with music by award-winning composer Lori Laitman and a libretto by former poet laureate Dana Gioia.. ….
Concord/Clayton Pioneer, June 29, 2023
Solo Opera will produce their largest, most ambitious opera to date, The Three Feathers, with music by award winning composer, Lori Laitman and libretto by former CA poet laureate, Dana Gioia. ….
Broadway World, June 11, 2023
Solo Opera will produce their largest, most ambitious opera to date, The Three Feathers, with music by award winning composer, Lori Laitman and libretto by former CA poet laureate, Dana Gioia. ….
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….
