AN INTIMATE EVENING OF OPERA

Performance Showcase 2007
presents
AN INTIMATE EVENING OF OPERA
at New Performing Arts Venue in San Francisco

Friday, September 7th
8:00pm
St. Aidan’s Episcopal Church, San Francisco,
101 Gold Mine Drive at Diamond Heights Boulevard

#52 bus stops across the street - building is wheelchair-accessible.
Plenty of Street Parking.

Suggested donation: $20 general admission, $15 seniors & student.
Tickets available at the door.


Featuring:
Madeline Abel-Kerns - Soprano
Brian M. Kerns - Tenor/Composer
Dr. Bryan Baker - Pianist/Conductor

Presented in an intimate new venue for the performing arts in the
Diamond Heights neighborhood of San Francisco, PS2007 is
an evening of classic and new opera. Works from Mozart, Wagner,
Verdi, Puccini and Strauss will be paired with the San Francisco
premiere of selections from Mr. Kerns’ new opera “Imajica – Part 1 –
Awakening,” based on the novel Imajica by Clive Barker. Romantic
yet contemporary, this work is exciting in scope, lush in color, and full
of challenging ideas and thrilling images of five Dominions (Earth being
only one), and the forces attempting to unite them in communion or rip
them apart into chaos and darkness.


Performance Showcase, now in its third year of presenting arts
performances, was the inspiration of three members of St. Aidan’s:
television producer and writer Dee LaDuke, dance & event producer
Doug Baird, and writer Darlene Frank. After a recent renovation, the
trio was struck by the church building’s wonderful acoustics and its
potential as an intimate performance space. They conceived a vision
of a new venue that would offer artists in the Bay Area a much-needed
option for affordable performance space and provide audiences in
Diamond Heights and surrounding neighborhoods with the opportunity
to experience performing arts close to home. Performance Showcase
has presented opera, spoken word, new music and contemporary dance.

http://www.performanceshowcase.com
http://www.saintaidan.org/contact.html