Please join us for an afternoon among the vines in support of the Napa Valley Opera House and the great artistry it has provided throughout the year. Prepare to get your hands dirty at a table replete with a bounty of fresh boiled lobster paired with St. Supery Estate wine. Groove to live music of The Max Bonick Trio while you dine and be the first to get a sneak peek of the highlights coming up in the 2013 schedule of performances as presented by Artistic Director, Peter Williams.
Featuring Opener: Marianne Sierk
A favorite on the nationally syndicated Bob & Tom Radio Show, Greg has appeared on Late Night with Conan O'Brien, Comedy Central, CBS, ABC, FOX, MTV and CMT. Greg has parlayed his absurdly energetic, all-out style of physical humor, one-liners and crowd work into an act with no waiting, just immediate pandemonium and panic. His wild, likable stylings have led to numerous television, club, corporate and now theater appearances throughout the country.
Documentary Film: Precious Knowledge provides a clear-eyed portrait of students, teachers and their community struggling to deal with the nation's most unnerving campus witch hunt in recent memory and the program's own mandate and success to alleviate the longtime achievement gaps among Latino students. Precious Knowledge's riveting pacing and compelling portraits will astonish, infuriate and inspire viewers.
Calling all greasers, Pink Ladies, Sandra Dees, teen angels, beauty school dropouts, football heroes, class nerds, kooky teachers, and perky cheerleaders! Join the action and sing along with the gang at Rydell High when the hip-swiveling 1978 movie version of the musical comedy comes to NVOH. Host Andrew Moore, versatile performer and Napa audience favorite, will warm up the crowd and give out a guide to accompanying actions so that everyone will feel like they're in the movie! Audience members will receive a 'fun pack' of props to use! And come in your 1950s outfit for the costume parade and contest!
The iconic and profoundly influential Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, often cited as a catalyst for an entire movement in Country Rock and American Roots Music, continues to add to their legendary status.
With multi-platinum and gold records, strings of top ten hits such as "Fishin' In The Dark" and "Mr. Bojangles," multiple Grammy, IBMA, CMA Awards and nominations, the band's accolades continue to accumulate.
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock, THE BIRDS does for our fine feathered friends what PSYCHO did for showers. As wealthy San Francisco socialite Melanie Daniels (Tippi Hedren) rolls into Bodega Bay in pursuit of brash young lawyer Mitch Brenner (Rod Taylor), she is inexplicably attacked by a seagull. Suddenly thousands of birds are flocking into town preying on residents in a terrifying series of attacks. Hosted by Richard Miami.
For over four decades, Inti-Illimani has intoxicated audiences around the world. In their homeland of Chile and greater Latin America, they are a veritable institution, a cultural icon famous for their unique poetic and socio-political history. Their music, wedded in traditional Latin American roots, captures at once the very personal colors of their experiences while simultaneously appealing to the universal in us all.
No group of child musicians has won more renown than the incomparable Wiener Sängerknaben, founded by Emperor Maximilian I in 1498. Six centuries later, the famed Vienna Boys' Choir continue to delight music lovers across the globe with their purity of tone, distinctive charm and a diverse, crowd-pleasing repertoire that encompasses Austrian folk songs and waltzes, classical masterpieces, beloved pop songs, holiday favorites and medieval chant. Gifted musicians with voices of unforgettable beauty, they carry on the Vienna Boys' Choir’s illustrious tradition as the world’s preeminent boy choir.
In a career that has already spanned a half-century, Jorma Kaukonen has been the leading practitioner and teacher of fingerstyle guitar, one of the most highly respected interpreters of American roots music, blues, and Americana, and at the forefront of popular rock-and-roll. He was a founding member of two legendary bands, The Jefferson Airplane and the still-touring Hot Tuna.
Hailed by The New York Times as “something extraordinary,” the Grammy Award-winning Parker Quartet has rapidly distinguished itself as one of the preeminent ensembles of its generation. The quartet began its professional touring career in 2002 and garnered international acclaim in 2005, winning the Concert Artists Guild Competition as well as the Grand Prix and Mozart Prize at the Bordeaux International String Quartet Competition in France. In 2009, Chamber Music America awarded the quartet the prestigious biennial Cleveland Quartet Award for the 2009-2011 seasons.
The vivacious trumpeter and bandleader Doc Severinsen’s latest project is classical Spanish with a jazz flair. It is gorgeous ballads, both Latino and American, plus some great movie music and the popular gypsy jazz, a la Django Reinhardt. Classical guitarist Gil Gutierrez is a virtuoso who consistently delivers energetic, electric performances. Add the soaring trumpet of Doc Severinsen, and the experience is indescribably brilliant.
The Pacific Guitar Ensemble began in 2010 when two friends, classical guitarist David Tanenbaum and steel-string guitarist Peppino D’Agostino, decided they wanted to form a larger guitar ensemble that could perform a wide variety of repertoire. After they gathered together members of the guitar faculty from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music with some of its most exceptional alumni, and combined nylon strings with steel, electric basses with 17th century theorbos, a new eclectic group of pluckers was born.
In The Footsteps Of Django brings together the best of the new Gypsy Jazz masters of Europe— LULO REINHARDT, a third generation German master, whose group the Latin Swing Project combines Gypsy Jazz with Latin rhythms. LES DOIGTS DE L'HOMME, France's leading contemporary Gypsy Jazz group, stunning musicians with a great sense of flair and humor on stage. And NORIG GADJI, a French singer with a Celtic name and Catalan roots, and a gift for bringing out the full range of feelings in Gypsy music, who will make her American debut accompanied by the gifted SEBASTIEN GINIAUX on guitar.
The second annual Festival will light up the entire Napa Valley with walkable villages in the picturesque towns of Napa, Yountville, St. Helena and Calistoga. Featuring 100 new independent films and studio sneak previews, including the World Premiere of SOMM. Please visit www.NapaValleyFilmFest.org for tickets and information
The second annual Festival will light up the entire Napa Valley with walkable villages in the picturesque towns of Napa, Yountville, St. Helena and Calistoga. Featuring 100 new independent films and studio sneak previews, including the World Premiere of SOMM. Please visit www.NapaValleyFilmFest.org for tickets and information
The second annual Festival will light up the entire Napa Valley with walkable villages in the picturesque towns of Napa, Yountville, St. Helena and Calistoga. Featuring 100 new independent films and studio sneak previews, including the World Premiere of SOMM. Please visit www.NapaValleyFilmFest.org for tickets and information
The second annual Festival will light up the entire Napa Valley with walkable villages in the picturesque towns of Napa, Yountville, St. Helena and Calistoga. Featuring 100 new independent films and studio sneak previews, including the World Premiere of SOMM. Please visit www.NapaValleyFilmFest.org for tickets and information
A play by Celeste Raspanti. A total of 15,000 children under the age of fifteen passed through the Terezin concentration camp between the years 1942-1944; less than 100 survived. Based on the true story of a girl named Raja, the play is a powerful story about the strength of hope.
A play by Celeste Raspanti. A total of 15,000 children under the age of fifteen passed through the Terezin concentration camp between the years 1942-1944; less than 100 survived. Based on the true story of a girl named Raja, the play is a powerful story about the strength of hope.
A play by Celeste Raspanti. A total of 15,000 children under the age of fifteen passed through the Terezin concentration camp between the years 1942-1944; less than 100 survived. Based on the true story of a girl named Raja, the play is a powerful story about the strength of hope.
A play by Celeste Raspanti. A total of 15,000 children under the age of fifteen passed through the Terezin concentration camp between the years 1942-1944; less than 100 survived. Based on the true story of a girl named Raja, the play is a powerful story about the strength of hope.
The second annual Festival will light up the entire Napa Valley with walkable villages in the picturesque towns of Napa, Yountville, St. Helena and Calistoga. Featuring 100 new independent films and studio sneak previews, including the World Premiere of SOMM. Please visit www.NapaValleyFilmFest.org for tickets and information
This unique show features the best of Broadway and the holiday season with Broadway veteran Clark Sterling, “Holiday Divas” Danielle Kane and Michelle Jordan, cabaret stars Wesla Whitfield and Mike Greensill, and well-known Napa vocalist Robert Dornaus. Audiences can expect show-stopping hits from WICKED, THE LION KING and THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA among others. Clark Sterling appeared on Broadway in SEVEN BRIDES FOR SEVEN BROTHERS, the national tour of LES MISERABLES, and has starred in musicals throughout the country. Kick off the holiday season right with this festive musical tour of Broadway...
Reception at 5:30 p.m.
Hors d'oeuvres, Wine and Bell Ringing Competition
Show to start at 7:00 p.m.
Performances by: Napa High Chamber Choir, The Napa Youth Symphony, The Napa Valley Ballet, The Heavenly Sweet Adeline Quartet, St. John's Lutheran Youth Quartet AND MORE…
Punch Brothers are the New York City-based quintet of mandolinist Chris Thile, guitarist Chris Eldridge, bassist Paul Kowert, banjoist Noam Pikelny and violinist Gabe Witcher. Their new album Who�s Feeling Young Now?, produced and engineered by Jacquire King, contains some of the most exhilaratingly direct, sonically daring performances the group has ever recorded.
This unique show features the best of Broadway and the holiday season with Broadway veteran Clark Sterling, “Holiday Divas” Danielle Kane and Michelle Jordan, cabaret stars Wesla Whitfield and Mike Greensill, and well-known Napa vocalist Robert Dornaus. Audiences can expect show-stopping hits from WICKED, THE LION KING and THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA among others. Clark Sterling appeared on Broadway in SEVEN BRIDES FOR SEVEN BROTHERS, the national tour of LES MISERABLES, and has starred in musicals throughout the country. Kick off the holiday season right with this festive musical tour of Broadway...
Born in Benin (West Africa), Angelique Kidjo is a Grammy Award-winning music recording artist deemed "Africa's premier diva" by Time Magazine. Kidjo's internationally acclaimed repertoire includes collaborations with various recording artists such as Carlos Santana, Peter Gabriel, Alicia Keys, Josh Groban, Branford Marsalis, Joss Stone, and many more.
MACHOMER'S FINAL PERFORMANCE!
This one-man vocal spectacular features impressions of over 50 voices from TV’s The Simpsons in a hilarious performance of Shakespeare’s Macbeth! With a script that remains 85% Shakespeare, MacHomer will leave you "exhausted with laughter" (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette). Rick Miller has performed MacHomer to capacity crowds across the U.S. and Canada. The show has also toured the world to rave reviews and awards in Scotland, England, Australia, and New Zealand.
Featuring Opener: Dave Mencarelli
Kat Simmons is a 25-year veteran of the international comedy club circuit. You may have seen her at The Improvs, Catch A Rising Star, The Comedy Channel, Fox’s Comedy Tonight, or on Candid Camera. She is currently a regular cast member of the national comedy hit, The Three Blonde Moms. She is also a recurring guest on the blog talk radio show called Thrive Teachers, helping people lighten up with her segment, Laugh It Off With Kat Simmons.
An evening of Gypsy jazz in the style of Django Reinhardt and the Hot Club of France as interpreted by a European band led by Gypsy guitarist Dorado Schmitt, featuring the accordion genius of Ludovic Beier.
Olivia Newton-John stars in this fantastical musical odyssey as a Greek muse who visits Earth as a human and, with the help of a roller-skating Gene Kelly, inspires young artist Michael Beck to open a glitzy disco roller rink. Lively updating of 1947's "Down to Earth" features songs by Newton-John and The Electric Light Orchestra, including "Suddenly," "Magic" and "All Over the World." Hosted by Richard Miami.
Upcoming Concerts & Shows
On her debut album, singer/songwriter Fatoumata Diawara — called “the most beguiling talent to hit the world music scene in some time” — uses elements of jazz, pop, and funk along with her ancestral Wassoulou tradition, accompanying her voice with rhythmical guitar playing and her own percussion work. Her lyrics touch on such serious and personal subjects as a woman’s right to choose her spouse, and the songwriter’s own painful experience with the African practice of being raised away from her parents.
Directed and founded by trumpet player Cindy Shea in 1999, Mariachi Divas have made big waves on the national and international music scene. Mariachi Divas are a unique, multi-cultural, all female ensemble, imbued with the true flavor of Los Angeles and have been represented by women of a wide variety of descents. In 2009, Mariachi Divas won the Grammy Award for Best Regional Mexican Album of the year for their release, Canciones De Amor.
Successful attorney Amanda Bonner (Katharine Hepburn) decides to defend Doris (Judy Holliday), who stands accused of the attempted murder of her husband (Tom Ewell) and his mistress (Jean Hagen), while Bonner's lawyer husband, Adam (Spencer Tracy), signs on as the prosecuting attorney. The sensational trial that ensues finds them sitting at opposing sides of the courtroom -- and the dinner table. Not only do Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy throw comedic sparks , but their exquisite verbal jousting was scripted by the outstanding husband-wife team of Garson Kanin and Ruth Gordon. The result is one of Hollywood's greatest co... • Running Time: 101 min.
Mark Hummel’s Blues Harmonica Blowout returns to the Opera House, this time paying tribute to Blues Harp great, Little Walter. For the past 22 years, Mark Hummel has been putting together these great all-star performances. On this, his third trip to the Opera House, Mark joins forces with Corky Siegel, James Harman & Little Charlie Baty along with the Blues Survivors paying tribute to the great Little Walter.
Greg Brown was born in the Hacklebarney section of southeastern Iowa and raised by a family that made words and music a way of life. His seasoned songwriting, storytelling, and music are deeply rooted in that place. He moves audiences with warmth, humor, a thundering voice and his unpretentious musical vision.
