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2006—2007 Season

• Come to the Cabarets—Every other last Sunday of the month

  • Hallowe’en Party
    Sunday, October 29, 2006, 8:00 PM

    The Three Weird Sisters host a Walpurgisnacht of spoken word and music on the dark side. Come in costume!

  • Operetta for New Year’s Eve
    Sunday, December 31, 2006, 8:00 PM

    Celebrate the New Year with friends and beautiful music from The Merry Widow, Die Fledermaus, Candide, Beggar’s Opera, and more—sung by company members and surprise guests.

  • 2nd Annual Musical Matchmaker Event for Fresh Voices VII
    Sunday, February 25, 2007, 2:00 PM

    Composers present excerpts of their operas, singers present their vocal talents, the two groups seek each other out and before you know it Fresh Voices VII is cast. An exciting event to which you are seriously invited.

  • Easter Hangover
    Sunday, April 29, 2007, 2:00 PM

    Eclectic spiritual works from religious texts by composers mark Alburger, John partridge, and others. A revelatory experience.

• Exciting Main Events

  • Fresh Voices VII Festival of New Music
    Fridays, June 15, 22; Saturday, June 16; Sunday, June 24 (last Sunday of the month!)

    Our acclaimed annual presentation of fully produced new operas by Bay Area composers and librettists returns to Goat hall for four performances in June 2007.

  • Goat Hall Productions Premieres new Works: Dionysus and Playboy of the Western World
    Oakland Metro Opera House @ Jack London Square
    201 Broadway, Oakland
    August 23—26, 2007

    The opera Dionysus, music by Steven Clark with words from several ancient texts, explores the many aspects of the androgynous and seductive God of Wine and Madness, focusing on the ancient pagan religion or Mystery Cult in which Dionysus was worshiped as a God of seasonal death and rebirth, sexuality, and dark earth-magic.The score of the opera will include ancient Greek instruments and practices, modern opera and musical theater, as well as rock and electronic music. Graphic-novelesque designs, video projections and live multi-instrumentalists will be employed as well.

    In Playboy of the Western World, music by Mark Alburger from the play by J.M. Synge, the composer combines vernacular and cultivated traditions in a world of tuneful yet twisted melodies mapped onto pre-existent musical structures in a post-minimalist context. Playboy is an Oedipal/Monty Pythonesque/coming-of-age fairytale of love and loss. It takes place in a three-ring-circus barroom where musical suggestions of Irish drinking songs appear throughout. Further, the opera will be performed in the Oakland Metro Operahouse, an actual bar/theater space.

• Goats Gambol with Friends

  • Harden Not Your Hearts
    Trinity episcopal Church, San Francisco (a benefit for GHP)
    November 10, 2006, 7:00 PM
    El Cerrito United Methodist Church, El Cerrito
    November 12, 2006, 8:00 PM

    An Oratorio by John Partridge.

  • Cats, Dogs, & Divas
    Women on the Way Festival
    Dance Mission
    3316 24th St. @ Mission St., San Francisco January 18—19, 2007, 8:00 PM

    Mark Alburger/Harriet March Page’s powerful, moving and often humorous story of three ages of woman (child, mother, crone) will be performed at the Women on the Way Festival.

  • Halfway Mark Old First Church
    1725 Sacramento St. @ Van Ness, San Francisco Friday, April 20, 2007, 8:00 PM

    A 50th-Anniversary Concert/Party of music by Mark Alburger featuring members of San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra and Goat Hall Productions. For information call Old First Church Box Office at 415-474-1608. This performance is a benefit for GHP and SFCCO.