Best Opera Company Oakland Near Me

4worldlovers: On May 5, 2019, Company Members from the Oakland Theater Project took the stage at TedX Palo Alto for a performance and talk exploring how theater can bridge divides in a broken America.


Amid the dense arts scene of California’s Bay Area, Ubuntu Theater Project has proudly distinguished itself with a mission statement of being “radically inclusive.”

As I learned more about Ubuntu from talking with its leadership, I began to see this three-year-old company as an heir to the movement in American theater that began in 1931.

“One of the most exciting young companies to emerge in the Bay Area in the past decade”

“The Ubuntu Theater Project’s absolute belief in community leads them into strange and revelatory productions… Oakland’s most dynamic theater company“

“One of the leading art theatres in the Bay area, and, quite possibly, in the entire United States of America”

4worldlovers: Music Director Eun Sun Kim conducts a new staging of Puccini’s heartbreaking drama from director Amon Miyamoto. Each night, the young Cio-Cio-San looks out over the port of Nagasaki, eagerly waiting the return of her husband, U.S. Naval officer Lieutenant B.F. Pinkerton. Alongside her is their young son, Trouble, who has never met his father.

This bucket-list opera is a must-see for every opera lover! For the ultimate opera experience immerse yourself in a story about a half-spirit and half-mortal, the Empress who lives in fear of a curse: If she doesn’t acquire a human shadow in three days’ time, the spirit world will reclaim her—and turn her husband to stone.

Journey through this bold world of desire and release in a pioneering new opera by Bay Area composer Gabriela Lena Frank and the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Nilo Cruz. It's been three years since she passed. Now on the Day of the Dead in 1957, a lonely, ailing Diego Rivera makes a final wish: to see his wife Frida Kahlo once more. And the underworld heeds his call.

Mark your calendars for San Francisco Opera's biggest fundraiser of the year! The War Memorial Opera House beckons you as the curtain rises on the 2023-24 season beginning with a 90-minute concert featuring superstar tenor Roberto Alagna and Soprano Aleksandra Kurzak with the San Francisco Opera Chorus and Orchestra, conducted by Music Director Eun Sun Kim. Following is an after-party that is the toast of the town!

Familial revenge runs deep in Giuseppe Verdi’s towering opera of grand passions stymied at every turn. Music Director Eun Sun Kim continues her Verdi cycle with Il Trovatore, a work of sublime arias, passionate ensembles, and the rousing Anvil Chorus.

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Starring Awele, Jamella Cross, Cheri Miller, Dezi Solèy, and Jasmine Williams