Madeleine Peyroux, Tommy Castro and More Set for Napa Valley Opera House, Aug 2013

The Napa Valley Opera House has announced the following schedule of performances taking place throughout the month of August.

Tickets are available for all shows and can be purchased online at NVOH.org or by calling the box office at (707) 226-7372.

August Performances:

Documentary: Genetic Roulette

Tuesday, August 6, 2013, 7 p.m.

Tickets are available for $10 per person.

When the U.S. government ignored repeated warnings by its own scientists and allowed untested genetically modified (GM) crops into the environment and food supply, it was a gamble of unprecedented proportions. The health of all living things and all future generations were put at risk by an infant technology. After two decades, physicians and scientists have uncovered a grave trend. The same serious health problems found in lab animals, livestock, and pets eating GM foods are now on the rise in the U.S. population. When people and animals stop eating genetically modified organisms, their health improves. This documentary provides compelling evidence to help explain the deteriorating health of Americans, especially children, and offers a recipe for protecting the future.

Running Time: 85 minutes

De Corda EM Corda

Thursday, August 8, 2013, 7 p.m.

Event is free to public.

Um Canto de Amor: It is our pleasure to be able to introduce American audiences to the inspiring music of some of Portugal's best contemporary composers. Highlighting these two programs are beautiful love songs for voice, piano and cello, set to texts by Portuguese and Brazilian poets, along with a selection of instrumental works by Spanish and Brazilian composers. Live commentary will be provided before each work and the texts of the songs with translation included in the programs.

Madeleine Peyroux

Friday, August 9, 2013, 8 p.m.

Tickets are available starting at $50 per person.

"The only thing that matters is the song," says singer-songwriter Madeleine Peyroux. That conviction along with a one-of-a-kind voice has carried the jazz artist from busking on the streets of Paris, all the way to mainstream recognition.

Gypsy Allstars - Return to Rajasthan

Saturday, August 10, 2013, 8 p.m.

Tickets are available starting at $30 per person.

A recent all-star collaboration in the India sub-continent featuring Gipsy Kings' family, Mario Reyes and Georges Reyes, has spawned an exciting new project called the Gypsy Allstars which will explore the origins of gypsy culture in Rajasthan, India and see the gypsies return to their ancestral home for a Discovery Channel special, merging Indian and Gypsy rhythms. A portion of the monies raised from the project will be used to support Jaipur Virasat Foundation - A Rajasthani Foundation supporting the preservation of its musical traditions.

Opera Film: Wagner's Die Walkure

Sunday, August 11, 2013, 4 p.m.

Tickets are available for $7 per person

Wagner dressed this Herculean task musically in the spreading, shimmering web of his leitmotivic working (there are approximately 20 distinct motives in Die Walküre). Dramaturgically, the conversational style of Das Rheingold gives way to the tone of bourgeois tragedy: incestuous passion, more than one form of deep-seated marital antagonism, and a lot of talk, a lot of self-justification in the form of recapitulation.

Poncho Sanchez

Friday, August 16, 2013, 8 p.m.

Tickets are available starting at $35 per person.

For more than three decades as both a leader and a sideman, conguero Poncho Sanchez has stirred up a fiery stew of straight ahead jazz, gritty soul music, and infectious melodies and rhythms from a variety of Latin American and South American sources. His influences are numerous, but among the more prominent figures that inform his music are two of the primary architects of Latin jazz - conga drummer and composer Chano Pozo and trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie.

Rita Moreno - A 10th Anniversary NVOH Benefit Performance

Saturday, August 17, 2013, 7 p.m.

Tickets are available starting at $50 per person.

Rita Moreno remains one of only nine performers ever to win all four major artistic awards: the Oscar, the Emmy, the Grammy and the Tony. Most recognized for her Academy-Award winning role as Anita in West Side Story, Rita's career has spanned over fifty years of stage, film and television triumphs, including seminal hits such as The Electric Companyon PBS and HBO's Oz.

Film: Ferris "Bueller's Day Off" (1986)

Friday, August 23, 2013, 7 p.m.

Tickets are available for $7 per person.

Ferris is a street-wise kid who knows all the tricks. Today he decides to take the day off school. When Ferris takes the day off, so must his best friends, Cameron and Sloane. Cameron is reluctantly persuaded to borrow his father's Ferrari, and together they hatch a plan to get Sloane out of class. Suspicious dean of students Ed Rooney knows all about Ferris, but can never catch him.

Tommy Castro

Saturday, August 24, 2013, 8 p.m.

Tickets are available starting at $20 per person.

Award-winning guitarist/vocalist/songwriter and Alligator Records recording artist Tommy Castro has been playing his signature brand of rocking rhythm and blues professionally for more than 25 years, thrilling fans around the world with his incendiary live performances.

Tuesday Night Flicks: To Have and Have Not (1944)

Tuesday, August 27, 2013, 7 p.m.

Tickets are available for $7 per person.

Written by William Faulkner and Jules Furthman, To Have and Have Not doesn't have much similarity to the Ernest Hemingway novel that inspired it. And, it strongly resembles Casablanca - French resistance fighters, a piano-playing bluesman (Hoagy Carmichael) and a Martinique bar much like Rick's Cafe Americaine.

About the Napa Valley Opera House

The Napa Valley Opera House is located in the heart of Downtown Napa and is one the city's only event venues. The Opera House originally opened its doors in 1880 and remains one of Napa's most important cultural icons. During the 1980's and 1990's the Opera House experienced a multi-million dollar renovation and reopened for performances in 2003. Since the reopening, the Opera House has recaptured its original grandeur and then some. Drawing the biggest names in music, the venue has welcome talents such as Shawn Colvin, Chris Botti, Wynston Marsalis and the renowned Emerson String Quartet. For more information about the Napa Valley Opera House or to purchase tickets to a show, visit www.NVOH.org. You can also "like" the Opera House on Facebook at www.Facebook.com/NapaValleyOperaHouse and follow the event venue on Twitter at @NVOH.