We're two weeks away from opening our West Bay Opera production of Saint-Saëns' Samson et Dalila in Palo Alto. We have a fabulous cast, wonderful dancers, and a juicy chorus part. This is a great opera that isn't done often - don't miss it! Tickets are available at www.wbopera.org/tickets-page...

In honor of Iga Świątek’s Wimbledon singles championship, I made pasta with strawberries for dinner. With peak season farmer’s market strawberries, this was a grand slam. Thinking also of tennis fan @vancegilbert.com and wishing him the best.

Hey, I finally saw I Confess on the big screen. So much better than seeing it on my iPad. I thought @3gjane.bsky.social would like to know. 🙂

Esa-Pekka Salonen’s final concert as San Francisco Symphony music director was a fabulous performance of Mahler 2 with Sasha Cooke and Heidi Stober as soloists. The ovation afterwards wouldn’t stop until Salonen spoke a few words to the audience.

We open Otello at West Bay Opera this Friday! It's an amazing opera and we have a wonderful cast for it. There's nothing like seeing a dramatic Verdi opera in an intimate 400-seat house. Best availability is for the Friday and Saturday shows. Tickets here: www.wbopera.org/tickets-page...

Last night we had a wonderful stumble-through for La sonnambula, which is our first time hearing the principals. They are fantastic! Some we've sung with before, others are new to the company. This should be a wonderful show so get your tickets soon.

Two weeks until our Stanford Symphonic Chorus concerts with Peninsula Symphony! Hanson's Sea Symphony has been on my bucket list; I attended the premiere at Interlochen. Copland's Canticle of Freedom was written for the dedication of MIT's Kresge Auditorium. Tickets at www.stanfordlivetickets.org.

Want to hear what the amazing Leandra Ramm does with this phrase from Peter Shin's "Bits Torn From Words"? Come to our Voices of Silicon Valley concert this Sunday at 6:00 pm at Tateuchi Hall in Mountain View. Tickets are available online: www.eventbrite.com/e/gladiator-...

Here comes Voices of Silicon Valley's 10th anniversary concerts! In addition to highlights from movie and video game scores, we'll sing a premiere from Alexander Frank, Peter Shin's Bits Torn from Words, Schoenberg's Friede auf Erden, and more. Tickets are available at www.voices-sv.org/upcoming

At the tomb of Gioachino Rossini.

At the tomb of Claudio Monteverdi.

We open Corpus Evita at West Bay Opera a week from Friday! Come see this powerful opera about Argentina in the 1970s and the lasting effects of populism. Plus you can hear me sing 9 high B-flats in one performance for the first time. Tickets are available online: www.wbopera.org/tickets-page...

For my genealogy and family history friends who also like contemporary art, the Inheritance exhibit at the Whitney Museum in NYC is for you! It’s on thru February. Here’s one example: Sadie Barnette’s Family Tree II. #InheritanceWhitney

Here's the other concert I'm singing in October with Voices of Silicon Valley. It features the premiere of a new work by Cyril Deaconoff dedicated to Yolanda López. The program also includes music by Kaija Saariaho, Pamela Z, and Flannery Cunningham. www.eventbrite.com/e/visions-of...

We've started staging rehearsals for Madama Butterfly at West Bay Opera and it's going to be great. Toni Marie Palmertree will be an amazing Butterfly, and the rest of the cast is also very fine. Tickets are available now: www.wbopera.org/tickets-page...