![]() ![]() ![]() And I’m going to enjoy every bit of it, because of the people that thankfully I get the opportunity to work with again. But now I… I know I’m just going to have fun. “I think if I were making this role debut elsewhere, I would feel a lot more nervous. It’s like this 14-year-old girl has transformed into maybe a 25-year-old woman, who has so many different pressures being presented to her.” Sierra says San Francisco has always been welcoming to her, from when she was in the Merola and Adler programs to recent performances. “The poison aria is completely different. And she hasn’t even met Romeo yet.” But later on, she sings an aria (which for many years wasn’t sung after the soprano for whom it was written didn’t like it) that shows great depth. Listen online at or on FM 90.3 San Francisco, Los Gatos and. “Ah je veux vivre” in the beginning is a bit lighter, it’s a bit more coquettish, I suppose, because Juliet is 14, it’s her coming out party, and she really hasn’t been exposed to anything yet. San Francisco Opera and the San Francisco Giants invite you to Opera at the. You do have to be a grown woman, I think, to basically showcase yourself to the best of your abilities. “The role itself, yes, it’s displaying a young girl, there’s a lot of youthfulness associated with the part. She says the roles can require more from the singers, even the young Juliet. “I’ve never had the opportunity to sing it, and honestly, I never took the opportunity to sing it if it had been presented to me in the past, because French music is a little bit heavier, maybe a little bit more dramatic… Just from the basics of the orchestration being a lot more there, as opposed to in Bel Canto, when you can sort of get away with singing things a bit lighter.” This year, though, she’s already taken on another French role, in Massenet’s Manon. ![]() “It’s my debut in the role,” Sierra says. There’s more information about the upcoming season at the San Francisco Opera website. 12:00 AM The newly-announced San Francisco Opera 2019-2020 season has eight productions showing a diverse collection of composers, eras, and, as General Director Matthew Shilvock describes it, depictions of relationships between people. ![]()
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