Now in its 41st year, the Schwabacher Recital Series, presented by Merola Opera Program and San Francisco Opera Center, returns this spring with a series of three recitals at San Francisco Opera’s Dianne and Tad Taube Atrium Theater (February 13 and April 10) and San Francisco Conservatory of Music’s Barbro Osher Recital Hall at the Bowes Center (March 19). The series presents emerging and esteemed artists from around the globe, all alumni or faculty of Merola Opera Program, performing an eclectic selection of song literature in the intimacy of a recital setting.
The series opens on February 13 with five Merola alumni and second-year San Francisco Opera Adler Fellows: sopranos Georgiana Adams and Caroline Corrales, tenor Thomas Kinch, baritone Samuel Kidd and pianist Julian Grabarek.
The evening’s program, curated by tenor Nicholas Phan, includes works by Amy Beach, Vítězslava Kaprálová, Rebecca Clarke, Richard Strauss, George Butterworth, Alma Mahler, Claude Debussy and Kurt Weill.
Tickets (general seating) are $30; a series package for all three recitals is $75.
Tickets can be purchased at the San Francisco Opera Box Office (301 Van Ness Avenue) in person, by phone at (415) 864-3330 and online at sfopera.com/srs.