You are bidding on a gift certificate for 2 tickets to any one performance of Pocket Opera's 2013 36th Anniversary Season 3/3/13 - 7/21/13.

Don Giovanni (Mozart), Orpheus in the Underworld (Offenbach), Romeo and Juliet (Gounod), The Merry Wives of Windsore (Nicolat) Plus Handel's Orlando in concert.

Baby Grand

Many cities have grand opera, but only San Francisco has POCKET OPERA. These past 24 years, budget impresario Donald Pippin has staged in miniature over 75 productions - some classic warhorses, others bona fide rarities - usually in his own English translations, leading a chamber orchestra and narrating from his piano. To attend is to experience opera not as formal spectacle but as congenial musical theater. Stylishly sung by excellent local casts, the productions not only open up the often forbidding world of opera to newcomers, they afford die-hard aficionados a chance to hear unfamiliar works in English.

-- by Dana Gioia
from The Best of the Bay Area,
San Francisco Magazine (July 2000) page 62
Posted with permission of San Francisco Magazine.