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Featuring the UC Davis Symphony Orchestra and singers from the acclaimed San Francisco Opera Center performing a wide range of great arias with full orchestral accompaniment.
Since its inception in 2010, Rising Stars of Opera has featured vocal artistry, stirring melodies, and a glimpse at the opera stars of tomorrow, and every ticket has been free to the public thanks to Barbara K. Jackson.
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- To be announced.
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About the Artists
Matilda Hofman is Music Director of the Diablo Symphony Orchestra, conductor-in-residence for the Empyrean Ensemble at UC Davis and Artistic Director of the Left Coast Chamber Ensemble. Matilda also serves as a cover conductor for the San Francisco Symphony. Guest engagements in California include Festival Opera, the Fremont Symphony Orchestra, Sierra Summer Festival, San Francisco Ballet, Sacramento Ballet, Earplay, and Stanford University. She has also worked at Sacramento Opera as assistant to Michael Morgan. In Europe Matilda has performed at the Salzburg Festival, Berliner Festspiele, Holland Festival, Ruhrtriennale, Luzern Festival, Paris Autumn Festival, and at the Guggenheim in Bilbao. She has worked with Ensemble Modern, Ensemble Recherche, SWR Sinfonie-orchester, Bochumer Symphoniker and Kammerakademie Potsdam and has performed alongside Maestro Ingo Metzmacher in several performances of Luigi Nono’s Prometeo. In 2018 she was on the faculty for the soundSCAPE new music festival in Italy. Matilda works with both instrumental and choral groups and prepared Chorwerk Ruhr for their tremendously successful debut with the Berlin Philharmonic in MusikFest Berlin, with George Benjamin conducting.