Opera: Cimarosa, Il Matrimonio Segreto, Luçik Aprahämian, Guest Conductor

Tent Concert Hall 45035 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United States

Guest conductor Luçik Aprahämian Stage director Erin Neff The original setting is Bologna in the 1700s. Geronimo is a cranky older man with two daughters, Carolina and Elisetta. He also has a hearing problem and constantly misunderstands everything he's told. Carolina has recently married Geronimo's clerk, Paolino, without telling anyone because Geronimo would never have ...

$15 – $50

Pre-Concert Lecture, Erin Neff 2018

Tent Concert Hall 45035 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United States

Enhance your experience of this evening's opera performance with a pre-concert lecture by director Erin Neff. Mezzo-soprano Erin Neff’s dynamic performance abilities and radiant sound have earned her the veneration of her musical peers and made her an audience favorite throughout the country. Equally at home in the operatic, lied and oratorio repertoires, Ms. Neff ...

Barefoot Movement 2018

Tent Concert Hall 45035 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United States

Heartfelt, energetic, and down home, The Barefoot Movement has been heralded by CMT Edge as “one of the most promising new bands on the bluegrass scene.” Selected as showcase artists at conferences of both the International Bluegrass Music Association and the Americana Festival, this acoustic band takes listeners back to another place and time with ...

$15 – $40

Eric Bibb 2018

Tent Concert Hall 45035 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United States

With a career spanning five decades, three dozen albums, countless radio & television appearances, and concerts all over the globe, Eric Bibb is one of the leading bluesmen of his generation. A fiery singer with soul, gospel and folk roots, his blues are honest and powerful. Born in New York and raised in a musical ...

$15 – $40

Calder Quartet 2018

Tent Concert Hall 45035 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United States

Welcomed for a sixth year of sensitive and eloquent playing, the Calder will perform the Beethoven String Quartet No. 10, Op. 74, The Harp; Webern's Five Movements for String Quartet, Op. 5; and the Beethoven String Quartet No. 16, Op. 135. Performances like these — freshly rethought, impeccably played — do more than provide enjoyable ...

$15 – $40

Lucia Micarelli 2018

Tent Concert Hall 45035 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United States

Event Sponsor Violinist Lucia Micarelli journeys through many musical influences from classical to jazz to traditional fiddle music and Americana, all bound together by her trademark vulnerability and technical wizardry. Called “a violinist of heart-melting talent” by the Wall Street Journal, Micarelli is best known for her collaborations with Josh Groban, Chris Botti, and classic ...

$15 – $40

Festival Orchestra 1: Shawnette Sulker, soprano; Livia Sohn, violin 2018

Tent Concert Hall 45035 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United States

Festival Orchestra with violinist Livia Sohn and soprano Shawnette Sulker The season opens with Bernstein’s energetic and rhythmic Candide Overture; Copland’s inspiring and melodic Appalachian Spring; Barber’s Violin Concerto; Bernstein songs “New York New York,” “A Little Bit in Love," “Some Other Time,” “Glitter and be Gay”; and dances from Bernstein’s West Side Story. CHOOSE ...

$15 – $50

The StepCrew 2018

Tent Concert Hall 45035 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United States

Bringing together three styles of exhilarating dance forms—Ottawa Valley stepdance, Irish stepdance, and Tap—these dancers and musicians take you on an amazing dance journey. As if dancing weren’t enough, The StepCrew boasts world-class fiddlers backed by an ensemble of some of the most talented musicians in the Celtic music scene today. The StepCrew is a ...

$15 – $50

Soloists Together: Geoff Nuttall, Livia Sohn, Stephen Prutsman 2018

Tent Concert Hall 45035 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United States

Before their solo turns later in the week, this afternoon Geoff Nuttall, violin, and Livia Sohn, violin, join Stephen Prutsman, piano, to play Telemann’s Gulliver Suite, Cesar Franck’s Sonata in A Major, instrumental versions of familiar arias by Bizet, Verdi, and Gluck, and Hubay’s Carmen Fantasie. the Jon Stewart of chamber music" Sohn simply makes ...

$15 – $40

Festival Orchestra 3, featuring the Festival Chorus 2017

Tent Concert Hall 45035 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United States

Featured wines at this performance The season closes with Verdi’s dramatic Requiem, a “mass written by an agnostic opera composer in memory of a dear friend and public hero.” Four soloists and the Festival Chorus will sing the monumental work. Julie Kierstine, soprano Donna Olson, mezzo soprano Alex Boyer, tenor Phil Meyer, bass Ticket includes ...

$12 – $50

Pre-Concert Lecture, Daniel Lockert 2017

Tent Concert Hall 45035 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United States

Daniel Lockert has collaborated with singers past and present of the Metropolitan Opera, such as Deborah Voight, as well as current young recitalists, including Christopheren Nomura. As a coach and teacher, he has been on the staffs and faculties of the Juilliard School, the San Francisco Opera, Opera San Jose, the San Francisco Conservatory of ...

San Jose Taiko 2017

Tent Concert Hall 45035 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United States

Acknowledged as one of the premier taiko ensembles in the world, San Jose Taiko has mesmerized audiences and critics alike with the powerful, spellbinding and propulsive sounds of taiko, the Japanese drum.  Founded in 1973 by young Asian Americans searching to convey their experiences as third generation Japanese Americans, and inspired by traditional Japanese drumming, ...

$12 – $50

Julian Pollack and J3P0 2017

Tent Concert Hall 45035 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United States

Featured wines at this performance Julian Pollack brings his project and band J3P0 to the Festival stage this summer. Pollack will be joined by Cale Hawkins, Justin Golder and Adam Jackson. These jazz musicians explore popular songs from the later part of the 20th century as well as originals, through the lens of talk box ...

$12 – $40

Festival Orchestra 2 2017

Tent Concert Hall 45035 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United States

Featured wines at this performance Our inquiry into Schubert concludes with one of his most deeply felt orchestral works, the Symphony No. 8 in B minor (Unfinished); Richard Strauss’ Burleske in D minor for piano and orchestra features dazzling keyboard work; and Brahms’ Symphony No. 1 in C minor, Op. 68 closes the concert with ...

$12 – $50

Pre-Concert Lecture, Kayleen Asbo, Ph. D. 2017

Tent Concert Hall 45035 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United States

Kayleen Asbo is a passionate scholar: a cultural historian, musician, writer and teacher who weaves myth, music, psychology, history and art with experiential learning. A faculty member of the San Francisco Conservatory of Music for seventeen years, Kayleen also teaches regularly for the Osher Life Long Learning Institutes at UC Berkeley, Sonoma State University and ...

Richie Goods and Nuclear Fusion 2017

Tent Concert Hall 45035 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United States

Featured wines at this performance Bassist Richie Goods, the youngest person ever inducted into the Pittsburgh Jazz Hall of Fame, has toured with a variety of jazz and popular artists including the Headhunters, Lenny White, and Whitney Houston, among others. Goods’ lengthy discography also includes Grammy award-winning and platinum albums of Alicia Keys and Common. ...

$12 – $40

Kanekoa, Joan Soriano: Double Bill 2017

Tent Concert Hall 45035 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United States

Featured wines at this performance Born in the rural countryside near Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic, Joan Soriano fashioned his first guitar from a tin can and fishing line and has never looked back. Soriano plays steel string bachata with equal parts romance and grit. The Afro-infused rhythm that permeates his music has made ...

$12 – $40

Understanding Schubert: Multimedia Lecture 2017

Tent Concert Hall 45035 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United States

In Susan Waterfall’s multi-media exploration of Franz Schubert’s life, you will learn how the Vienna of Mozart and Beethoven changed with an increasingly large, restricted and regimented urban middle class. Schubert’s potent settings of Romantic lyric poetry thrived in bourgeois settings where there was a growing need for personal emotional outlet. The inwardness and subjectivity ...

$12 – $30

Festival Big Band, featuring Kim Nalley 2017

Tent Concert Hall 45035 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United States

Featured wines at this performance, and sponsoring Kim Nalley's performance. Event Sponsor Kim Nalley has pipes to burn, packing a 3½ octave range that can go from operatic to gritty blues on a dime, projection that can whisper a ballad yet is capable of filling a room with no microphone. She has been compared to ...

$12 – $55

Opera: Don Pasquale 2017

Tent Concert Hall 45035 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United States

Featured wines at this performanceGuest conductor Jason Sherbundy Stage director Ann Woodhead Donizetti’s effervescent opera is generally regarded as one of the greatest comic operas and a melodic masterpiece. A young couple in love schemes to thwart the plans of an old buffoon who wants to marry the girl himself. , Sara LeMesh, Norina Sergio ...

$12 – $50

Band of Heathens 2017

Tent Concert Hall 45035 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United States

Featured wines at this performanceThe term "Americana" was practically invented to describe the Band of Heathens' sound, rich with lyrical content and supported by soaring guitar work and a rock-solid rhythm section. Hailing from Austin, Texas, and together ten years, the group fuses Lone Star blues, rock, and soul sounds with influences from Southern boogie-woogie, ...

$12 – $40

Pine Leaf Boys 2017

Tent Concert Hall 45035 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United States

Featured wines at this performance Event Sponsor Four-time Grammy-nominated, the world-renowned Pine Leaf Boys have made a name presenting their own inimitable brand of music with youthful exuberance, reviving ancient songs and bringing them to the bandstand. Hailing from southwest Louisiana, they are known for their wild shows, thoughtful arrangements, and breathing new life into ...

$12 – $40

Laurie Lewis, Rita Hosking 2017

Tent Concert Hall 45035 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United States

A key figure in bluegrass, traditional and folk music circles, Berkeley’s Laurie Lewis has established herself as one of the finest and most diverse talents in music today. A winner of the International Bluegrass Music Association award for Female Vocalist of the Year, multiple times and a Grammy winner for her contribution to True Life ...

$12 – $40

Festival Orchestra 1, featuring Jeremy Cohen 2017

Tent Concert Hall 45035 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United States

Soloist Jeremy Cohen Featured wines at this performance Event Sponsor The season opens with the exotic rhythms and sinuous melodies of Gershwin’s Cuban Overture; Piazzolla’s Four Seasons of Buenos Aires; and Rimsky-Korsakov’s Sheherazade. CHOOSE SEATS AND BUY

$12 – $50

The House Jacks 2017

Tent Concert Hall 45035 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United States

Featured wines at this performance Describing themselves as a “rock band without instruments,” The House Jacks have been leaders in the contemporary a cappella world for 25 years. Their arrangements were used for the smash hit movie Pitch Perfect and their music has been the soundtrack for NBC’s The Sing-Off and ESPN’s Monday Night Football. ...

$12 – $50

Calder Quartet 2017

Tent Concert Hall 45035 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United States

Back for a fifth year of insightful and moving playing, the Calder will perform the Mendelssohn String Quartet No. 2 in A minor, Op.13; and the Beethoven String Quartet No. 15 in A minor, Op. 132. Performances like these — freshly rethought, impeccably played — do more than provide enjoyable listening. They reveal hidden dimensions, ...

$12 – $40

Festival Orchestra 3, featuring the Festival Chorus 2016

Tent Concert Hall 45035 Main Street, Mendocino, CA, United States

The season closes with Bach’s moving and magnificent Mass in B minor, a sublime choral experience with orchestra, chorus. The Mass in B minor shows Bach at the height of his powers, expressing the grandeur of heartfelt spiritual expression as no one else has ever been able to do.  Nothing can compare to the glory ...

$12 – $49