Join us at the West Coast Premiere of Sophia’s Forest An immigrant family’s story of hope & the healing power of imagination. February 24, 2022 – 8:00pm February 25, 2022 – 8:00pm February 26, 2022 – 5:00pm & 8:00pm Grace Cathedral, San Francisco Music by Lembit Beecher and libretto by Hannah Moscovitch. Featuring soprano Maggie Finnegan as Sophia; mezzo-soprano Kindra Scharich as Anna; baritone Bradley Kynard as Wes; young sopranos Victoria Ko* and Samantha Fung-Lee* as Emma; and actor Charlotte Fanvu as Young Sophia. Musical score performed by the Del Sol Quartet. *Member of the San Francisco Girls Chorus

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Sound Sculptures -- Literal Mechanisms of Storytelling Sophia’s Forest explores the effects of the immigrant experience on families, through the story of Sophia, a nine-year-old recent immigrant to the US. Sound is an important mechanism for the character of Sophia to process memory and grief, as she tries to understand the trauma of the escape from her homeland resulting in the death of her sister. Composer Lembit Beecher collaborated with the ExCITe Center at Drexel University to create nine electronically-controlled sound sculptures placed across the stage as literal mechanisms of sound and storytelling.

Follow the sound sculptures from Philadelphia to SF

Sophia's Forest Composer Lembit Beecher calibrates the sound scuptures in preparation for their transport to San Francisco

Sound sculptures packed, loaded and ready for their journey west.

See and hear the sound sculptures in action

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Opera Parallèle takes you to the top of the world in the groundbreaking film production of Joby Talbot’s Everest – A Graphic Novel Opera. Based on the true stories of an ill-fated summit attempt known as the 1996 Mt. Everest disaster, this cutting-edge work fuses the aesthetics of the graphic novel with the power of the operatic voice.

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Available through Philip Glass’ Days and Nights Festival In the Penal Colony is based on a story by Franz Kafka set at the turn of the 20th century on a remote island, where a high-ranking visitor arrives to witness the use of a strange machine in the execution of a prisoner. Most of what you pay will go directly to the artists.

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