Weekly update — thru June 9, 2022

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Diving right in

It's a big week of season finales, with organizations all over the Southland bringing out fun and exciting programs that will welcome summer with gusto. Don't miss the much-anticipated reboot of one of Mozart's best operas, as Salastina brings Cosi into a more enlightened time. Be sure to check out your local community choir, and enjoy the wealth of choral music that our orgs present every year. That connective spirit gets special focus on programs like Artes Vocales' "Prisms of Our Community" on Sunday. There are also exciting new music programs like Ted Hearne's "Place", coming to Disney Hall through the LA Phil, and the Synchromy Music Festival at Boston Court. While the calendar will have less on it as the summer takes full hold, we're going out with a bang.

Come on in... the water's fine!

Featured events

Salastina

OC fan tutte

Mozart's music for Così fan tutte has stood the test of time for hundreds of years. Its plot, however, hasn't aged quite so gracefully.

Librettist Vid Guerrerio's OC fan tutte leaves every note of Così fan tutte intact -- and hits refresh on the plot. Set in the Culture Wars battleground that is Orange County today, OC fan tutte replaces Così's 18th-century misogyny with current issues of gender equality and marriage rights.

Where Così fan tutte sends a message that “all women are alike” in their fickleness, OC fan tutte says that truly all of us - no matter our gender identity, orientation, or politics - have a lot more in common than we may want to admit. This up-to-the-minute adaptation exposes how much all sides have to learn about the nature and value of true fidelity, commitment, and humility.

Friday, June 3 at 7:30pm

Pasadena

Saturday, June 4 at 8pm

Downtown LA

Sunday, June 5 at 8pm

Santa Monica

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Synchromy Opera Festival

Contemporary opera gets a double bill at Boston Court this weekend...

The Double by Vera Ivanova (Libretto by Sarah LaBrie) uses satire and comedy to question how our outward depiction of ourselves impacts our perceptions of reality, while bringing to light how much we isolate those struggling with their mental health.

Roman, a multimedia opera in two acts by Ian Dicke, questions the morality of designing intelligent machines to exhibit human-like behaviors.

Both casts are chock-full of Listers, and there are two performances to choose from. (Get tickets asap - this venue sells out!)

Saturday, June 4 at 7pm

Sunday, June 5 at 2pm

Pasadena

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Additional vocal-related events this week...

7:30pm - Salastina OC fan tutte — Pasadena

(Also Sat & Sun, all at different locations)

9:55am - Met Live in HD: 'Hamlet' — Multiple locations

7pm - Synchromy Opera Festival — Pasadena

7pm - Choral Spectacular — Camarillo

8pm - Salastina OC fan tutte — Downtown LA

(Also Fri & Sun, all at different locations)

2pm - Met Live in HD Lucia di Lammermoor — Santa Barbara

2pm - LA Phil - Still and Negrón with Dudamel — Downtown LA

2pm - Synchromy Opera Festival — Pasadena

3pm - The Festival Singers presents "Broadway, Ballads, and Blues" — Mission Viejo

3pm - Choral Spectacular — Camarillo

4pm - Beethoven 9 - Southland Symphony Orchestra and Chorus — Ontario

4pm - Artes Vocales -- Prisms of our Community through Liebeslieder (Love Songs) — Los Angeles

4pm - Moreno Valley Master Chorale -- America In Song — Moreno Valley

4pm - Santa Clarita Master Chorale presents the Roaring 20s — Santa Clarita

7pm - San Fernando Valley Master Chorale presents "To Music" — Encino

8pm - Salastina OC fan tutte — Santa Monica

(Also Fri & Sun, all at different locations)

8pm - Ted Hearne's "Place" — Downtown LA

7:30pm - LA Opera -- Verdi's 'Aida' — Downtown LA

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Our next Lister events

6/13 — Launching our "21 Notes" email course

6/18 — Group Coaching: Self-promotion 101

6/27 — Summer schmooze in Pasadena

7/6 — Annual General Meeting (online)

7/17 — unSUNg returns in Glendale

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We'll offer this again soon -- stay tuned!

From our Open Calls board

Listings from our public forum

Music Academy Store Front Desk

6/15 (Online) -- Starting & Sustaining a New Nonprofit

ICYMI: On-demand webinars from Americans for the Arts

Two editorial positions for Journal of Singing

Center for Nonprofit Management opens virtual Open Hours on various dates

6/8 -- CCI - Emergency Prep 101 for Artists

SF Symphony Free-Streams a Bold, Multimedia The Soldier’s Tale

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