Upcoming Performances

The Three Feathers

For 2023, Solo Opera presents, The Three Feathers, a family friendly chamber opera with music by award winning composer, Lori Laitman, and libretto by local poet laureate, Dana Gioia. Based on a fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm, the opera follows Princess Dora, not as a damsel in distress, but as a heroine. A magic feather leads the shy, self-doubting princess to an enchanted Underworld ruled by a giant Frog King. Here, she summons her courage and compassion to face a series of mysterious and comic adventures that change her life. Completing her quest, she saves her father’s kingdom from the plots of her selfish sisters and earns her right to the crown.

September 8, 2023, 8:00pm and September 10, 2023, 2:00pm

Lesher Center for the Arts. 1601 Civic Drive, Walnut Creek, CA 94596
Running time: 85 minutes in length / No intermission.

$25-Youth 17 and under / $45-Senior / $55-Adult
Reserved Seating – Group Discounts Offered
For tickets, call (925) 943-7469, or visit the Ticket Office at the address above.
People with disabilities may request assistance accessing our programs and services by emailing us at solomail@pacbell.net or calling us at 925-685-4945.

KING: Eugene Brancoveanu
DORA: Shawnette Sulker
GILDA: Chelsea Hollow
TILDA: Hope Nelson
FROG KING: Kirk Eichelberger
FROG PRINCE: Samuel Faustine
CHAMBERLAIN: Jonathan Spencer
BARON DE BEAUCOUP/CHORUS (and “Frog Prince” cover): Caleb Alexander
CAPTAIN SIEGFRIED von WINTERSTURMEN/CHORUS  
(and “King” cover): Joseph Calzada
CHILDREN’S CHORUS: The San Francisco Girls Chorus

(Members of San Francisco Girls Chorus School, Valérie Sainte-Agathe, Artistic Director). 

CHORUS/OTHER COVERS:
SOPRANO (and “Dora” cover): Jayne Diliberto
SOPRANO (and “Gilda” cover): Natalia Hulse
MEZZO-SOPRANO (and “Tilda” cover): Leah Finn
MEZZO-SOPRANO (and Children’s Chorus rehearsal cover): Joy Graham
TENOR/SNAKE/GUARD (and “Baron” cover): Sidney Ragland
BARITONE/SNAKE/GUARD (and “Captain” cover): Michael Villarreal
“FROG KING” cover: Isaiah Musik-Ayala
 
COMPOSER: Lori Laitman
LIBRETTIST: Dana Gioia
MUSICAL DIRECTOR/CONDUCTOR: Alexander Katsman
STAGE DIRECTOR/PRODUCER: Sylvia Amorino
STAGE MANAGER: Sarah Terman
SUPERTITLES: Ari Bocian
REHEARSAL AND ORCHESTRA PIANIST: Cesar Cancino
SCENIC/PROJECTION DESIGNER: Peter Crompton
LIGHTING DESIGNER: Patrick Toebe
COSTUME DESIGNER: Callie Floor
MAKE-UP/WIG DESIGNER: Consuelo T. Lopez-Robbins
FIGHT DIRECTOR: Brandon DiPaola
PRE-SHOW LECTURE: Dana Gioia
MARKETING PHOTOGRAPHY: Vero Kherian Photography
 

Photo credit: Vero Kherian Photography
Shawnette Sulker as “Dora” in Solo Opera’s The Three Feathers