We're Nominated! Pocket Opera has several nominations in the San Francisco Classical Voice Awards. We need your support to take home the win again! Please consider throwing your weight behind this slate of choices. Several of them also support our sister organizations, like Opera Parallèle, Ars MInerva, Quinteto Latino, SF Civic Symphony, Rex Wheeler (our very own Lady Camden!), and more. If all of these wonderful organizations come together, we can have a huge impact and take home the wins! You can vote from different email addresses on different browsers. :) Click on the San Francisco Bay Area link at the SFCV Awards page here: https://www.sfcv.org/articles/music-news/finalists-are-here-vote-now-sfcvs-2025-audience-choice-awards And consider casting this slate of choices: 1. Favorite Opera Singer – Eugene Brancoveanu 2. Favorite Chamber Ensemble – Quinteto Latino 3. N/A 4. Favorite Dance Soloist – Rex Wheeler 5. Favorite Early Music – Ars Minerva 6. N/A 7. N/A 8. San Francisco Civic Symphony 9. Favorite Conductor – Kyle Naig, Pocket Opera 10. N/A 11. N/A 12. Favorite Opera Perf. – Pocket Opera, The Marriage of Figaro 13. N/A 14. N/A 15. N/A 16. Favorite Early Music Perf – Ars Minerva: La Flora 17. Favorite New Music Perf – Opera Parallele, Harvey Milk 18. N/A 19. N/A 20. N/A 21. Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts 22. Favorite Small Venue – John A & Cynthia Fry Gunn Theater 23. N/A 24. N/A 25. Best Discovery – Tartuffe, by Kirke Mechem Thank you for helping Pocket Opera! (fb)

𝐏𝐨𝐜𝐤𝐞𝐭 𝐎𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐚 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟔 𝐒𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐨𝐧 𝐀𝐮𝐝𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 On August 24 (12-4pm) and August 29 (6-10pm) Pocket Opera will hold auditions for our 2026 season. Qualified, professional opera singers should submit a color headshot and digital resume to 𝐚𝐮𝐝𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬@𝐩𝐨𝐜𝐤𝐞𝐭𝐨𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐚.𝐨𝐫𝐠 . Pay ranges from $1200 - $2100 per production, depending on the role. There are a few, limited opportunities for patron-sponsored awards that offer additional pay. Our production of Madam Butterfly is the Pacific Opera Project version, where Japanese characters sing in Japanese, and American characters sing in English. Pocket Opera is especially looking for Japanese or Japanese-American singers to audition, and will then prioritize Asian/Asian American singers for the other Japanese roles. 𝐏𝐞𝐫𝐟: 𝐅𝐫𝐢𝐝𝐚𝐲, 𝐅𝐞𝐛𝐫𝐮𝐚𝐫𝐲 𝟐𝟎; 𝐒𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐚𝐲, 𝐅𝐞𝐛𝐫𝐮𝐚𝐫𝐲 𝟐𝟐; 𝐒𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐚𝐲, 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡 𝟏; 𝐑𝐞𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬𝐚𝐥𝐬 𝐉𝐚𝐧𝐮𝐚𝐫𝐲 𝟏𝟗- 𝐅𝐞𝐛𝐫𝐮𝐚𝐫𝐲 𝟏𝟖 Our production of Midsummer Night’s Dream is an orchestral reduction that is newly commissioned by Pocket Opera. With the permission of the Britten-Pears estate, Pocket Opera’s Midsummer will be a world premiere of this magnificent opera in a chamber version. 𝐏𝐞𝐫𝐟: 𝐅𝐫𝐢 𝐀𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐥 𝟏𝟕; 𝐒𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝐀𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐥 𝟏𝟗; 𝐒𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝐀𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐥 𝟐𝟔; 𝐑𝐞𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬𝐚𝐥𝐬 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡 𝟏𝟔- 𝐀𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐥 𝟏𝟓 Pocket Opera’s Don Pasquale will be a 90-minute, one-act version of the Donizetti opera, featuring only the 5 main characters. There is only one performance of this opera. 𝐏𝐞𝐫𝐟: 𝐌𝐚𝐲 𝟏𝟕; 𝐑𝐞𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬𝐚𝐥𝐬 𝐌𝐚𝐲 𝟒 – 𝐌𝐚𝐲 𝟏𝟓 Our production of La Rondine is presented in co-production with Mercury Theater in Petaluma. They will rehearse in May and then present up to 6 performances in June in Petaluma. Then there will be a brush up rehearsal before Pocket’s 3 performances. 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐫𝐨𝐥𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐌𝐚𝐠𝐝𝐚 𝐢𝐬 𝐩𝐫𝐞-𝐜𝐚𝐬𝐭. 𝐏𝐞𝐫𝐟: 𝐅𝐫𝐢𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝐉𝐮𝐥𝐲 𝟏𝟕; 𝐒𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝐉𝐮𝐥𝐲 𝟏𝟗; 𝐒𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐚𝐲, 𝐉𝐮𝐥𝐲 𝟐𝟔 As a smaller, local company, Pocket Opera does not provide housing or transportation here in the Bay Area. As such, we generally prioritize local, Bay Area singers. Final Auditions timeslots will be sent no sooner than August 15. Submitting video links is encouraged for all to help secure an audition. 𝐚𝐮𝐝𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬@𝐩𝐨𝐜𝐤𝐞𝐭𝐨𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐚.𝐨𝐫𝐠 (fb)