2002 Press Releases

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Barbara Webb
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San Francisco's Brown Bag Opera to Perform
In the 2002 Yerba Buena Gardens Festival
Friday, July 12, 2002, 12:30 pm

San Francisco, CA June 27, 2002. Operatic favorites will be performed in a free concert Friday, July 12 at 12:30 pm in the Esplanade of Yerba Buena Gardens as part of the 2002 Yerba Buena Gardens Festival. The singers from San Francisco Opera's Adler Fellowship Program include sopranos Tiffany Abban and Greta Feeney, Andrew Truett, tenor, and baritone Brad Alexander. They will be accompanied by pianist Monica Vanderveen.

San Francisco Opera Center's Brown Bag Opera was created in 1974 to provide free, live operatic entertainment wherever people might gather. The Adler Fellowship Program is a performance-oriented residency for advanced singers that offers individual training as well as roles in San Francisco Opera's Season.

The program includes arias and duets from Beethoven's Fidelio, Donizetti's Don Pasquale and L'Elisir d'Amore, Puccini's La Bohème, Mozart's Die Entführung aus dem Serail, Strauss's Ariadne auf Naxos, Weber's Der Freischütz, Britten's Billy Budd, and Strauss's Die Fledermaus.

Free artistic and cultural programming in Yerba Buena Gardens is made possible through the generous support of The San Francisco Redevelopment Agency, Arts International, the San Francisco Marriott, KTB Management Group, the Zellerbach Family Fund, the Fleishhacker Foundation, and other sponsors.

Yerba Buena Arts & Events is located at 760 Howard Street, San Francisco, CA 94103. Phone (415) 543-1718; Fax (415) 543-1755; e-mail: ybgf@ybgf.org
http://ybgf.org

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