Writing Opera Today: An Afternoon of Arias and Songs with Jake Heggie and Suzanna Guzman October 3, 2010

FanFaire Foundation is proud to present acclaimed American composer Jake Heggie and mezzo-soprano Suzanna Guzman in the second of its unique music appreciation concerts to be held at the Neurosciences Institute Auditorium in La Jolla on Sunday, October 3, 2010 at 2:30 pm.

These world-renowned personalities in the world of opera and song today, will take you inside the art form - from inspiration to exposition (or from the writing to the singing) - in an enjoyable concert format that will both educate and entertain. The program will include informative and delightful commentaries by both composer and singer.

Jake Heggie will provide the piano accompaniment to the arias and songs and play the prelude to his latest opera, Moby Dick, which recently world-premiered to unanimous acclaim at the season opening of the new Dallas Opera House, and will come to San Diego and San Francisco in the 2012 international season. It will also be staged by Calgary Opera and the State Opera of South Australia.

Among the pieces Suzanna Guzman will sing are arias from Heggie's operas Dead Man Walking (which is well on its way to perhaps becoming the world's most performed American opera after Gershwin's Porgy and Bess) and Three Decembers as well as some of his folk song arrangements and selections from his song-cycle Paper Wings.

If you've always been afraid of opera (or worse, hate it), after this event you'll never run away from it again (or better, even begin to love it!). And if you enjoyed “Sunday Afternoon with the Rossetti Piano Trio,” FanFaire Foundation’s first Music Appreciation Concert, you’ll have a ball at this music appreciation concert!

Tickets: $30 – General Admission / $27 – Senior / $12 - Student
Available online at http://www.fanfairefoundation.org

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Only $25 – General Admission & Senior