Napa Valley Opera House Event List
Napa Regional Dance Company's Spring Showcase highlights choreography from our gifted instructional staff while unveiling the strong technical progress of our dancers. We strive to foster individual confidence through performance and diverse styles of artistic creativity for our students enrolled in classes ranging from pre-ballet through advanced.
Singer/pianist Marcia Ball knows how to raise roofs and tear down walls with her infectious, intelligent and deeply emotional brand of southern boogie, rollicking, roadhouse blues and heartfelt ballads. Over the course of her three-decade career, Ball has earned a huge and intensely loyal following all over the world. Her exquisite piano playing and passionate, playful vocals fuse New Orleans and Gulf Coast R&B with Austin's deep songwriting tradition into a sound No Depression described as "a little rock, a lot of roll, a pinch of rhythm and a handful of blues."
George Cukor draws magnificent performances from his stars in this powerfully guided study in obsession. GASLIGHT is a suspenseful, atmospheric mystery that perfectly captures the smoky, smoggy feel of Victorian London. Ingrid Bergman won an Academy Award for her role as a meek, uncertain heiress courted and married in a whirlwind romance by the debonair Charles Boyer. But when they move back into her childhood home she begins losing her grip on reality and becomes convinced that her husband is trying to drive her insane.
• Running Time: 114 min.
THE SILENCE ("Das letzte Schweigen") begins 23 years ago on a hot summer day, when a young girl is brutally murdered in a field of wheat. Now, in the present day, on the exact same date, 13-year-old Sinikka is missing, her bicycle abandoned in the same spot, leading police to suspect the same killer may be at work again.
• German with English subtitles
• Running Time: 118 min.
The Battle for a Living Planet is the first big-picture exploration of the environmental movement – grassroots and global activism spanning fifty years from conservation to climate change. Directed and written by Mark Kitchell, Academy Award-nominated director of Berkeley in the Sixties, and narrated by Robert Redford, Ashley Judd, Van Jones, Isabel Allende and Meryl Streep, the film premiered at Sundance Film Festival 2012, has won acclaim at festivals around the world, and in 2013 begins theatrical release as well as educational distribution and use by environmental groups and grassroots activists.
• Running Time: 101 min.
Please visit www.napavalleyjazzgetaway2013.com for details and tickets.
ROCKSHOW is a 1980 concert film by Wings, filmed during their 1976 North American tour. It features 30 songs from four concerts of the tour: New York, May 25 (four songs); Seattle, Washington, June 10 (five songs); Los Angeles, California, June 22 (15 songs); and Los Angeles, California, June 23 (six songs). This was part of the Wings Over the World Tour that also spawned the triple live album Wings Over America. McCartney remained reluctant to make the entire film available to the general public until now.
• Running time: 141 minutes (includes exclusive 12-min interview with Paul McCartney)
The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert is a 1994 Australian comedy-drama film written and directed by Stephan Elliott. The plot follows the journey of two drag queens and a transsexual woman, played by Hugo Weaving, Guy Pearce, and Terence Stamp, across the Australian Outback from Sydney to Alice Springs in a tour bus that they have named "Priscilla", along the way encountering various groups and individuals.
• Rated - R
• Running Time: 104 min.
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Napa Regional Dance Company's Spring Showcase highlights choreography from our gifted instructional staff while unveiling the strong technical progress of our dancers. We strive to foster individual confidence through performance and diverse styles of artistic creativity for our students enrolled in classes ranging from pre-ballet through...
Singer/pianist Marcia Ball knows how to raise roofs and tear down walls with her infectious, intelligent and deeply emotional brand of southern boogie, rollicking, roadhouse blues and heartfelt ballads. Over the course of her three-decade career, Ball has earned a huge and intensely loyal following all over the world. Her exquisite piano...
George Cukor draws magnificent performances from his stars in this powerfully guided study in obsession. GASLIGHT is a suspenseful, atmospheric mystery that perfectly captures the smoky, smoggy feel of Victorian London. Ingrid Bergman won an Academy Award for her role as a meek, uncertain heiress courted and married in a whirlwind romance by...
THE SILENCE ("Das letzte Schweigen") begins 23 years ago on a hot summer day, when a young girl is brutally murdered in a field of wheat. Now, in the present day, on the exact same date, 13-year-old Sinikka is missing, her bicycle abandoned in the same spot, leading police to suspect the same killer may be at work again.
• German with...
The Battle for a Living Planet is the first big-picture exploration of the environmental movement – grassroots and global activism spanning fifty years from conservation to climate change. Directed and written by Mark Kitchell, Academy Award-nominated director of Berkeley in the Sixties, and narrated by Robert Redford, Ashley Judd, Van Jones,...
Please visit www.napavalleyjazzgetaway2013.com for details and tickets.
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Pianist Richard Glazier, a leading authority on the music of George Gershwin and the star of two award-winning PBS television specials, brings his new concert program, “Great Movies, Great Music” to the Napa Valley Opera House. Musical selections include the theme from “Auntie Mame”, two themes from Alfred Hitchcock's “Vertigo”, a “My Fair Lady” medley, “So In Love” by Cole Porter, and Gershwin’s “An American in Paris”. Known as a master storyteller, Glazier combines fascinating movie history and backstage stories, rare audio/video presentations and brilliant piano performances in an exciting show you won’t want to miss.
When describing Cherish the Ladies, the critics say it best – “It is simply impossible to imagine an audience that wouldn’t enjoy what they do,” The Boston Globe, “An astonishing array of virtuosity,” The Washington Post, “Expands the annals of Irish music in America…the music is passionate, tender and rambunctious,” The New York Times – and for the past twenty five years, Cherish the Ladies have proven themselves worthy to live up to these accolades and in doing so have become one of the most engaging ensembles in the history of Irish music.
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock.
From its cleverly choreographed opening sequence to its heart-stopping climax on a rampant carousel, this 1951 Hitchcock classic readily earns its reputation as one of the director's finest examples of timeless cinematic suspense. It's not just a ripping-good thriller but a film student's delight and a perversely enjoyable battle of wits between tennis pro Guy (Farley Granger) and his mysterious, sycophantic admirer, Bruno (Robert Walker), who proposes a "criss-cross" scheme of traded m...
• Running Time: 101 min.
"The music says it all. Mozart is cool." So said the self-confessed "opera ignoramus" Doris Dorrie before she grabbed hold of one of the sacred cows of the operatic repertoire and transformed it into a "hippie musical." Mozart's Cosi fan Tutte ("Thus Do They All") was first staged in Vienna in 1790; it is a timeless opera, one that in fact became increasingly popular in the twentieth century as accusations of its triviality were replaced by greater recognition of its depths. Mozart's delight in juggling the comic and the serious is on full display here, and the opera's adaptability is proof of its strength. Under the motto "To cheat on your partner or not, that is the question," Dorrie stamped an originality on the work which impressed even the skeptical critics.
• In Italian with English Subtitles
• Running time: 203 minutes incl. 15 minute intermission
John Pizzarelli has had a multi-faceted career as a jazz guitarist, vocalist, and bandleader. Brother Martin Pizzarelli on bass, Larry Fuller on keyboards, and Anthony Tedesco on drums will comprise the quartet on-stage for an evening of fine jazz. This time around, he’ll be joined by his wife; the dynamic vocalist Jessica Molaskey.
Called the Simon & Garfunkel of Hawaii, HAPA returns to the Opera House! One of the most successful Hawaiian music groups in recent history, HAPA is an acoustic duo consisting of the guitarist-singers Barry Flanagan and Nathan Aweau. If you miss the islands, don’t miss this show!
Conceived from vocalist Ravid Kahalani's vision, Yemen Blues mixes music of Yemen and West Africa with contemporary grooves from funk to mambo and the deep soul of old chants. Conjuring up a rich and diverse aural palette with the use of percussion, oud, horns, and strings, Yemen Blues coexists in both the past and present, at once timeless and modern.
Zoë Keating is a one-woman orchestra. She uses a cello and a foot-controlled laptop to record layer upon layer of cello, creating intricate, haunting and compelling music. Zoë is known for both her use of technology - which she uses to sample her cello onstage - and for her DIY ethic which has resulted in the sale of over 60,000 copies of her self-released albums and a devoted social media following.
A robust, down to earth, tune-filled opera based on a favorite comedy by Shakespeare. Flamboyant Sir John Falstaff, sometimes known as Plump Jack, larger than life, hard up as usual for cash, meets his match when he rashly sets out to woo two spunky women with identical love letters and famously winds up in a laundry basket.
Our new project takes the best of the gipsy kings rumba and fuzes it with Indian instruments “ we are tagging it Bamboleo meets Bollywood.
The musicianship is exquisite with Zakir Hussein protege Salar Nader and Cuban bassist Carlitos del Puerto as well as a flamenco superstar Manuel Gutierrez¦ So we are the next level/ generation on and most importantly the audiences are going WILD with this music as we re-imagine the Gipsy Kings rumba and continue to create new music which is divinely inspired.
Tommy Castro is one of music's most notable and talented blues artists. His innate charisma and skills as a supremely talented guitarist, vocalist, and engaging songwriter prove why he has achieved lasting success. "A gifted lead guitarist firmly in touch with his lyrical voice, Castro writes an alluring blend of straight ahead blues and Memphis-style soul." - Blues Revue
For more than three decades as both a leader and a sideman, conguero PONCHO SANCHEZ has stirred up a fiery stew of straightahead jazz, gritty soul music, and infectious melodies and rhythms from a variety of Latin American and South American sources.
“The only thing that matters is the song,” says singer-songwriter Madeleine Peyroux. That conviction along with a ‘one of a kind’ voice, has carried the Jazz artist from busking on the streets of Paris, all the way to mainstream recognition.
When the US government ignored repeated warnings by its own scientists and allowed untested genetically modified (GM) crops into our environment and food supply, it was a gamble of unprecedented proportions. The health of all living things and all future generations were put at risk by an infant technology. After two decades, physicians and scientists have uncovered a grave trend. The same serious health problems found in lab animals, livestock, and pets eating GM foods are now on the rise in the US population. And when people and animals stop eating genetically modified organisms (GMOs), their health improves. This seminal documentary provides compelling evidence to help explain the deteriorating health of Americans, especially children, and offers a recipe for protecting ourselves and our future.
Ferris is a street-wise kid who knows all the tricks. Today he decides to take the day off school. When Ferris takes the day off, so must his best friends, Cameron and Sloane. Cameron is reluctantly persuaded to borrow his father's Ferrari, and together they hatch a plan to get Sloane out of class. Suspicious dean of students Ed Rooney knows all about Ferris, but can never catch him. Ferris' sister Jeanie is also frustrated that Ferris always gets away with his tricks and she doesn't. Furthermore, Ferris is an 'angel' in his parents eyes. It's Ferris' day off, he's out to enjoy himself, and he does!
Oliver Mtukudzi has written and performed some of the most heart rending music against hatred and violence. He has composed music appealing for restraint, for tolerance…music about self-discipline and peace amongst the people of the world. His music has continued to touch people in many different ways, guiding and stirring past generations in the same manner the compositions will impact on the future. In this abridgement of Oliver Mtukudzi: The music…the man…the story, SHEPHERD MUTAMBA attempts an insight into the work and philosophy of one of music’s own legends.
Show starts at 7:00/ Sorry, no discounts or passes.
A special event celebrating the 10th anniversary of the Opera House. VIP tickets include a post show meet and greet with Ms. Moreno, food catered by Feast Catering and wine provided by Crocker and Starr, and it benefits the Opera House.
Rita Moreno was the first performer to play upstairs after the Opera House was renovated. We're thirlled to have her back to celebrate our 10th anniversary. Ms. Moreno is a force of nature, she can sing, she can dance, she's an actress, and now she's an author as well. Her new book "Rita Moreno: A Memoir" has just been published to great reviews.
"The free man must be his own maker" Richard Wagner's Ring of the Nibelung reflects the composer's autobiography as much as the political turmoil of his times. As work progressed, another figure grew to be as important as the hero Siegfried, the god Wotan, the mouthpiece for Wagner's ideas. "He's exactly like us: he is the sum of today's intellectual consciousness, whereas Siegfried is what we hope the human being of the future will be, but who cannot be fashioned by us, and who must make himself by means of our destruction!" Wagner dressed this Herculean task musically in the spreading, shimmering web of his leitmotivic working (there are approximately 20 distinct motives in Die Walküre). Dramaturgically, the conversational style of Das Rheingold gives way to the tone of bourgeois tragedy: incestuous passion, more than one form of deep-seated marital antagonism, and a lot of talk, a lot of self-justification in the form of recapitulation.
• German with English Subtitles
• 237 min.
Directed by Howard Hawks
Help the Free French? Not world-weary gunrunner Harry Morgan (Humphrey Bogart). But he changes his mind when a sultry siren-in-distress named Marie asks, "Anybody got a match?" That red-hot match is Bogart and 19-year-old first-time film actress Lauren Bacall. Full of intrigue and racy banter this thriller excites further interest for what it has and has not. Written by William Faulkner and Jules Furthman, it doesn't have much similarity to the Ernest Hemingway novel that inspired it. And it strongly resembles Casablanca: French resistance fighters, a piano-playing bluesman (Hoagy Carmichael) and a Martinique bar much like Rick's Cafe Americaine. But first and foremost, it showcases Bogart and Bacall, carrying on with a passion that smolders from the tips of their cigarettes clear through to their souls.
• Running Time: 100 min.