Il maestro di cappella ("The Maestro") at Sierra Madre Playhouse

Sierra Madre Playhouse continues its inaugural opera series with Domenico Cimarosa's short comic intermezzo Il maestro di cappella, reimagined and produced by Source/Filter Music. Baritone Caleb Yanez Glickman stars as a self-important conductor who lectures and berates his orchestra while becoming hilariously tangled in language, rhythm, and pride, in a new hybrid English–Italian libretto by Source/Filter Artistic Director Britta Sterling. Performed without microphones by a 17-piece orchestra, the production is preceded by a first-half program of works for stage and screen by Italian and Italian-American composers, featuring soloists Rachel Yeo, Rae Shrum, and Eric Castro, alongside pianist Milena Gligić.