IL TROVATORE OPERA

For Immediate Release

Opera Comes to the Fox Theater, Redwood City

IL TROVATORE

wrapped in REVENGE       BETRAYAL         LUST

by Giuseppe Verdi
Performance: April 28, Sunday, 2:00pm The Fox
Theater, 2223 Broadway St., Redwood City, CA 94063

Tickets & information: 650-369-7770
or www.foxrwc.com

Ticket
Prices $22-42 (seniors, students, children 18 & under $22.00)

Fully Staged, Piano and Chamber Orchestra

Company Information <www.verismoopera.org>

“…BSLO
ranks shoulder-to-shoulder with the much longer established opera
companies in the Bay Area.” Keith Kreitman, San Mateo County Times

"The production (Die Fledermaus)
received an extended standing ovation from that first night audience
and deserved every moment and handclap.This is not minor league stuff.
They (BSLOC) are batting in the majors."

(SM
County Times, April 9, 2002)

On the 200th anniversary of the
great opera composer Giuseppe Verdi’s birth the FOX THEATER in REDWOOD CITY
will host the opera IL TROVATORE on April 28, 2013 at 2pm.One of the composer’s
greatest masterpieces, this is an event sung by a stellar cast who has sung on
the stages of San Francisco Opera, Los Angeles Opera, Carnegie Hall, the
Lincoln Center, and in Europe. The opera will be produced with the
collaboration of two regional opera companies: Bay Shore Lyric Opera and
Verismo Opera with orchestra and English supertitles.  With ticket prices approaching $100 for a seat at the San Francisco Opera, it's no wonder opera is often perceived
as an elite, acquired taste of the well to do. For a parody of the fanciness,
think of the Marx Brothers' 1935 classic "A Night at the Opera."So what
do you get for a mere $22-42? What you get is a labor of love provided by the
excellent talent of Verismo Opera. Verismo Opera was founded by long-time San
Francisco Opera chorister Fred Winthrop who has performed in over 5,0000 opera
productions with: Opera Pacific, Long Beach Opera, Los Angeles Opera, San Diego
Opera, Honolulu Opera and San Francisco Opera and has sung on stage alongside
international vocal celebrities such as Pavarotti, Carreras and Domingo and
even sang in one of their famous Three Tenor Concerts.   Fred
developed an ambition to bring opera to the community at affordable prices.
Marsha Sims, the Associate Director of Verismo Opera is a resident and music
teacher, right here in Redwood Shores.

Big companies like SF Opera or the
New York Met spend millions on elaborate sets and large orchestras. Verismo
Opera necessarily follows a chamber music tradition of a small orchestra and
modest sets.  But the most important
aspect of an opera production is the quality of the singers, and Verismo Opera
boasts a first rate level of  talent:  Jennifer der Torossian, Frederick Winthrop,
Liliane Cromer, Christopher Wells, Eric Coyne and Marsha Sims. Few places in
the world are blessed with the number of gifted singers found in the Bay Area.  Hear some of Verdi’s most melodious
music including his exciting Anvil Chorus sung by Spanish gypsies. Set in Spain
in the early 15th century, the opera is full of dramatically powerful scenes:
tales of flames at the stake, kidnapping and revenge master-minded by Azucena,
the conniving gypsy woman; a mysterious troubadour and Leonora who loses her
heart to him; the drama of war waged on a castle fortress; and two brothers
separated at birth who unknowingly become mortal enemies