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Wed – Sun: Noon – 6:00pm
Mon – Tues: Closed*

Calls: 925-943-7469

Walk Up: 1601 Civic Drive, Walnut Creek, CA  94596



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*In addition to the hours noted, the Ticket Office is also open one hour prior and thirty minutes after curtain for ticketed performances, including performances on Mondays, Tuesdays, and most City holidays.

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Fresh Voices XVI "Memories & Desires"

Fresh Voices XVI


Ticket Office


Open Tuesday – Sunday

Closed Monday*

 

Open for Calls

Tuesday – Sunday: Noon – 6:00pm

Friday – Saturday: Noon – 7:30pm
(925) 943-7469

 

Open for Walk Up

Tuesday – Thursday: 11:00am – 6:00pm

Friday – Saturday: Noon – 7:30pm

Sunday: Noon – 6:00pm
1601 Civic Drive
Walnut Creek, CA  94596

 

*In addition to the hours noted, the Ticket Office is also open one hour prior and thirty minutes after curtain for ticketed performances, including performances on Mondays.

Presented by Goat Hall Productions
August 12 - 27, 2016

Join Goat Hall Productions for Memories & Desires; two new chamber operas by American and European composers, and performed by an outstanding cast of Bay Area singers and musicians.

Running Time: approx. 2 hours, with one intermission
Memories & Desires

Rosetta's Stone
A chamber opera in two acts
Music: John G. Bilotta & Jostein Stalheim
Liberetto: John F. McGrew & Odded Ben Horin

Every man's condition is a solution in hieroglyphic to those inquiries he would put.  He acts it as life, before he apprehends it as truth.
- R. W. Emerson

Rosetta's Stone is an international effort, a collaborative opera about one man's descent into Alzheimer's created by a team of writers and composers in the U.S. and Norway.


Alma Maria Schindler Mahler Gropius Werfel, Op. 232
An opera in 85 years
Music: Mark Alburger
Libretto: After Alma Maria Schindler Mahler Gropius Werfel

Whoever falls, should also be given a push!
- Friederich Nietzsche

Alma Maria Schindler Mahler Gropius Werfel, Op. 232 (2014), is an adultery of post-modern musics, inspired by the beautiful Viennese, Los Angelino socialite-composer, and her lovers - including theatre director Max Burchard; artists Gustav Klimt and Oskar Kokoshka; composers Alexander Zemlinsky, Gustav Mahler, and Hans Pfitzner; architect Walter Gropius; biologist Paul Kammerer; novelist Franz Werfel; and theology professor Johannes Hollnsteiner - as well as associates Sigmund Freud, Arnold Schoenberg, Igor Stravinsky, Anton Webern, Alban Berg, Ernst Krenek, Dmitri Shostakovich, and Benjamin Britten.  As her autobiography has increasingly been revealed to be false, misleading, and unreliable - so the opera...

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