Back by popular demand, “A Baroque New Year’s Eve at the Opera” will usher in the new year within San Francisco’s beautiful Herbst Theatre. Start an early night on the town with a delightful program of arias, duets, and instrumental music from Baroque opera and concert, with plenty of time left for more celebrations in the evening or an early return home for a peaceful night. Bring your family and friends to celebrate a New Year full of wonderful music.
Liv Redpath is one of the most promising young sopranos on the opera and concert stage today. During the 2021-22 season, she returns to the Metropolitan Opera and will make her debut at Switzerland’s Verbier Festival. She has performed with Gustavo Dudamel and the Los Angeles Philharmonic at the Hollywood Bowl, and with Sir Andrew Davis at the Edinburgh International Festival. A long list of engagements include those with The Santa Fe Opera, Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, Seattle Symphony, Cincinnati Opera, Aspen Music Festival, Scottish Opera, New York Festival of Song, Wolf Trap Opera, Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, and Los Angeles Master Chorale.
Alex Rosen has quickly risen to international prominence in concert, operatic, and song repertoire. Recent engagements include Haydn’s Creation with Orchestre National de Metz, Handel’s Radamisto with Opera Lafayette, and Bach’s Saint John Passion with Les Arts Florissants and the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra under the direction of William Christie. He has appeared in Handel’s Messiah with the Houston Symphony, and has sung the role of Seneca in Monteverdi’s L’incoronazione di Poppea with Cincinnati Opera, Polyphemus in Handel’s Acis and Galatea with Les Arts Florissants, and the dual roles of Somnus/Cadmus in Handel’s Semelewith Opera Philadelphia.
Together these dynamic and vocally gifted singers will perform beautiful and thrilling excerpts from theatrical works by Handel (Giulio Cesare, Radamisto, Terpsichore, Semele, Apollo & Dafne), Purcell (King Arthur), Rameau (Hippolyte et Aricie), and Vivaldi (La fida ninfa), along with orchestral works performed by American Bach Soloists conducted by Jeffrey Thomas, who “...draws crisp, vital playing from the ace baroque instrumentalists of American Bach Soloists, who provide galvanizing vigor but also caress the gut strings of their period instruments with unusual beauty.” - Opera News