Tchaikovsky’s Star-Crossed Lovers at Empress Theatre

Grammy award-winning Maestro Thomas Conlin will conduct the Vallejo Festival Orchestra for this singular event, which will feature the full orchestra, as well as internationally renowned opera stars soprano Sarah Tucker and baritone Michael Adams.

Tchaikovsky’s Star-Crossed Lovers will include three masterpieces that Tchaikovsky himself considered among his very best works: musical portrayals of Romeo and Juliet and Francesca da Rimini, along with the most romantic excerpts from his greatest opera, Eugene Onegin. These compositions are characterized by his signature voluptuous melodies embedded in classical forms and his brilliant use of the orchestra.