Renowned tenor Christopher Oglesby explores the concept of “home” through time, place, heritage, and circumstance with the music of Ralph Vaughn Williams, Richard Strauss and the Appalachian folksong repertory. Christopher sings in a wide range of vocal styles, from operatic, to jazz, to folk and rock. Larger works include Vaughan Williams’ On Wenlock Edge, and Strauss' 6 Lieder aus Lotosblätter, Op 19.
This season, Christopher is appearing in numerous San Francisco Opera productions, including La Bohème Out of The Box, Innocence, The Magic Flute, Un Ballo in Maschera, The Handmaid's Tale, Tristan und Isolde and Carmen. But nowhere can you hear him sing in such an intimate setting, or to such effect, (or for such a price!) as at Calliope: East Bay Music & Arts!
Christopher is a San Francisco Opera Adler Fellowship graduate currently residing in San Francisco.
For this program, he will be collaborating with the noted pianist, Kseniia Polstiankina Barrad, who is also a graduate of the San Francisco Opera Adler Fellowship, a full music staff member at San Francisco Opera, and a guest assistant conductor at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City.