San Francisco Opera Center Presents THE FUTURE IS NOW: ADLER FELLOWS GALA CONCERT, 12/04

San Francisco Opera Center presents the culminating concert of the 2014 Adler Fellowship season, The Future is Now: Adler Fellows Gala Concert, on Thursday, December 4 at 7:30 p.m. at the Scottish Rite Masonic Center in San Francisco. The concert showcases the acclaimed Adler Fellows from San Francisco Opera Center's prestigious young artist training program in a gala concert of opera scenes and arias-including works by Mozart, Bizet, Strauss, Debussy and Dvo'ák-with Stephen Lord, music director of Opera Theatre of St. Louis, leading the San Francisco Opera Orchestra.

The Future is Now features sopranos Julie Adams (Burbank, California), Erin Johnson (Washington, New Jersey), Jacqueline Piccolino (Chicago, Illinois) and Maria Valdes (Atlanta, Georgia); mezzo-soprano Zanda Šv?de (Valmiera, Latvia); tenor A.J. Glueckert (Portland, Oregon); baritones Hadleigh Adams (Palmerston, New Zealand) and Efraín Solís (Santa Ana, California); bass-baritone Philippe Sly (Ottawa, Ontario); and pianists Noah Lindquist (Brooklyn, New York) and Sun Ha Yoon (Seoul, South Korea). This concert marks the final performance by Erin Johnson, A.J. Glueckert, Hadleigh Adams, Philippe Sly and Sun Ha Yoon as San Francisco Opera Adler Fellows.

Named for former San Francisco Opera General Director Kurt Herbert Adler, the Adler Fellowship Program is a performance-oriented residency offering advanced young artists intensive individual training, coaching, professional seminars and a wide range of performance opportunities throughout their fellowship. Adler Fellows also gain valuable professional experience by performing supporting roles in San Francisco Opera's mainstage productions. The Adler Fellows are selected from the young artists who have participated in the Merola Opera Program. The prestigious resident artist training program has nurtured the development of more than 150 young artists since its inception.

Tickets for The Future is Now: Adler Fellows Gala Concert are priced from $30 to $65 and may be purchased at sfopera.com or by calling the San Francisco Opera Box Office at (415) 864-3330. $15 Student Rush tickets are available on the day of the performance with valid ID (subject to availability).

The Scottish Rite Masonic Center is located at 2850 19th Avenue in San Francisco. For more public transportation information, visit bart.gov and sfmuni.com.

The program includes:

La Clemenza di Tito
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Overture

Pelléas et Mélisande
Claude Debussy
"Ah, ah, tout va bien"
Maria Valdes, soprano
Philippe Sly, baritone

Ariadne auf Naxos
Richard Strauss
"Es gibt ein Reich"
Erin Johnson, soprano

The Rake's Progress
Igor Stravinsky
"No word from Tom"
Maria Valdes, soprano

I Lombardi
Guiseppe Verdi
"Non fu sogno"
Jacqueline Piccolino, soprano

Carmen
Georges Bizet
"Parle-moi de ma mère!"
Julie Adams, soprano
A.J. Glueckert, tenor

"C'est toi! C'est moi"
Zanda Šv?de, mezzo-soprano
A.J. Glueckert, tenor
tutti Adler Fellows

Samson et Dalila
Camille Saint-Saëns
"Mon coeur s'ouvre à ta voix"
Zanda Šv?de, mezzo-soprano

Rodelinda
George Frideric Handel
"Tirannia gli diede il regno"
Efraín Solís, baritone

Dom Sébastien
Gaetano Donizetti
"Sur le sable d'Afrique," "O Lisbonne, o mie patrie!"
Efraín Solís, baritone

Idomeneo
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
"D'Oreste, d'Ajace"
Erin Johnson, soprano

Così fan tutte
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
"Rivolgete a lui lo sguardo"
Hadleigh Adams, baritone

Rusalka
Antonín Dvo?ák
"Pisen Rusalky O Mesiku" (Song of the Moon)
Jacqueline Piccolino, soprano

Les Pêcheurs de Perles
Georges Bizet
"L'orage s'est calmé"
Hadleigh Adams, baritone

San Francisco Opera is sponsored, in part, by Norby Anderson, Ann and Gordon Getty Foundation, John A. and Cynthia Fry Gunn, Franklin and Catherine Johnson, Edmund W. and Jeannik Méquet Littlefield Fund, Steven M. Menzies, Bernard and Barbro Osher, Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem, Phyllis C. Wattis Endowment Funds and Diane B. Wilsey. San Francisco Opera is supported, in part, by a grant from Grants for the Arts/San Francisco Hotel Tax Fund.

Wells Fargo is San Francisco Opera's Season Sponsor. San Francisco Opera is proud to recognize its corporate partners: United Airlines, the Official Airline of San Francisco Opera, and Chevron, fueling great performances everywhere.

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