Salon Series
Resident Artist Showcase
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Sunday, September 27, 2026 - 4:00 PM
Piedmont Center for the Arts
801 Magnolia Avenue, Piedmont, CA​​
Celebrate the launch of Festival Opera's new Resident Artist Program with a concert of arias and scenes featuring the exceptional talents of our inaugural class of resident artists. Casting and program to be announced in May, 2026.
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Lila Khazoum
soprano
Aura Veruni
soprano
Daniel Lockert
pianist
Mad Scenes
Lila Khazoum, soprano
Aura Veruni, soprano
Daniel Lockert, pianist
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Sunday, October 25, 2026 - 4:00 PM
Piedmont Center for the Arts
801 Magnolia Avenue, Piedmont, CA
Acclaimed sopranos Aura Veruni and Lila Khazoum are joined by pianist Daniel Lockert to perform diabolical scenes from Idomeneo, Macbeth, The Magic Flute, Anna Bolena, Hamlet, and Lucia di Lammermoor; with costumes by designer Marina Polakoff and props to help with the storytelling. This concert will lean into the macabre and unhinged elements of opera, just in time for Halloween.
Come in costume if you like, and witness all of opera’s great mad scenes in one performance!
Juan Sebastián Cardona Ospina
composer
Michael Colbruno
librettist
Andry's Story
Juan Sebastián Cardona Ospina, composer ​
Michael Colbruno, librettist
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Sunday, November 22, 2026 - 4:00 PM
Piedmont Center for the Arts
801 Magnolia Avenue, Piedmont, CA
An afternoon of music featuring a new commission by composer Juan Sebastián Cardona Ospina highlighting the story of Andry Hernández Romero.
The centerpiece of this program will be the premiere of Festival Opera’s new commission of a song cycle by Juan Sebastián Cardona Ospina, lifting up the voice of Andry Hernández Romero, the gay makeup artist wrongfully deported to the notorious CECOT prison in El Salvador. Information on Andry’s case and story can be found online at https://www.freeandry.org/
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Other artists and program to be announced soon.