In preparation for the debut of Birds & Balls, Opera Parallèle today announced its popular Bullhorn Community Programs, the company’s ancillary events and opportunities for the public to delve deeper ...

Later in the season, Opera Parallèle will salute LGBTQ Pride Month with the West Coast debut of the nationally acclaimed (“heart wrenching”) opera, Fellow Travelers, by composer Gregory Spears* and ...

Suddenly Last Summer,” the composer Courtney Bryan’s first opera, adapts Williams’s play for Bard SummerScape.

Opera Parallele, the Bay Area's distinguished producer and champion of contemporary opera, and SF JAZZ present the world premiere of Birds & Balls, a novel pairing of two witty operas examining the ...

"Birds & Balls" is lighter in tone, but there are layers of meaning in both of the upcoming shorter pieces. Grammy Award-nominated composer David T. Little and Pulitzer Prize-winning librettist Royce ...

Sports and opera have a lot of overlap, including spectacle, devoted fandom and a system of elaborately arcane rules and rituals. (Happily, we have yet to see any gambling scandals in the world of ...