Exploring opera: “Tenderhooks"

About Left Coast Chamber EnsembleBy pairing new works with traditional masterpieces, The Left Coast Chamber Ensemble reveals the expressive intent of composers from every age.Our VisionA concert hall without boundaries.Our MissionWe forge connections through stirring presentations of chamber music across the Bay Area. Left Coast Chamber Ensemble makes connections between composer and performer, performer and audience, audience and music, and between musics of all eras by staging a spectrum of imaginative programs that enchant and delight the listener, and gives diverse audiences multiple entry points for engaging with the music.Founded in 1992, Left Coast Chamber Ensemble communicates with audiences through inspiring performances of new and old chamber music. By embracing both musics, we enrich the audience’s experience — we reawaken a feeling of immediacy in performances of familiar masterpieces and we reveal the powerful expressive intentions in the music of our time. The ensemble’s fourteen musicians, many of whom have played together since the 1980s, perform in different combinations, using strings, winds, guitar and piano to present a wide range of repertoire.The group has commissioned over 55 new works, sponsors an annualcomposition contestthat draws over 150 applicants each year, and carries on a tradition of performing the very best that the composers of today (whether established or emerging) have to offer.“...like all of Left Coast’s endeavors, the evening married standard repertoire and contemporary works in provocative and beguiling ways... — Georgia Rowe, San Francisco Classical Voice

Left Coast Chamber Ensemble

Discover new opera Tenderhooks by composer Anthony R. Green via musical excerpts & open discussion on the various issues the work explores.

Bayview Opera House

Excerpts from new chamber opera Tenderhooks by composer Anthony R. Green will be used to open up a discussion about the issues addressed in this work, including issues of identity, isolation, and dating in the pandemic age. The bar will be open for drinks, including a signature Tenderhooks cocktail. Composer Anthony R. Green and librettist Mark Labowskie will be part of the discussion. Please note that Tenderhooks includes sexual content.

About Tenderhooks by Anthony R. GreenSaturday, April 29, 2023 • 7pm Sunday, April 30, 2023 • 4pmAT THE HISTORIC BAYVIEW OPERA HOUSE, 4705 3RD ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94124Tenderhooks, Anthony R. Green’s new chamber opera, is the story of Nora and Sebastian, housemates struggling with enforced isolation during the pandemic. Things get complicated when they experiment with the eroticized technology of dating apps. Presented in a satirical mode, the performance is intended to amuse but also to provoke thought and to reveal unexamined assumptions.This program opens with Sarah Hennies’ Everything Else. Hennies’ music explores creativity, perception, and queer and trans identity.Audience Advisory: Please note that Tenderhooks includes sexual content.This concert is sponsored, in part, by grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, San Francisco Arts Commission, and San Francisco Grants for the Arts.

About Left Coast Chamber EnsembleFounded in 1992, Left Coast Chamber Ensemble (LCCE) is a consortium of 16 San Francisco Bay Area musicians who create exciting performances of all types of classical music for all types of audiences. We work as a cohesive collective of artists who share values of integrity, quality, inclusion, service, curiosity, and advocacy. LCCE centers the music of our time in conversation with musical influences of the past, combining a vast repertoire into thematic performances in our established and well-received concert series. We are also committed to continuing and evolving our broad-based education program, sponsoring our annual composition contest, championing new music through the commissioning of new works, and collaborating with current and diverse artists, thinkers, and scholars.LCCE brings all types of music including small ensemble, vocal, orchestral, multi-media, and operatic productions to our listeners, conveying an essential and profound experience. With Left Coast Chamber Ensemble, nothing is out of bounds, and anything is possible.

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