Sylvia Anderson, Founder and Artistic Director - Bay Area Summer Opera Theater Institute
 
 
Die Zauberfloete
Overture
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A BIT OF BASOTI HISTORY
 
Bay Area Summer Opera Theater Institute fundraiser in San FranciscoBASOTIopened in 1992 serving students of the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. The following year we opened it up to the rest of the U.S. and abroad, catering to students from Boston, San Francisco, and Germany.  The following years we expanded our auditions to New York City, Baltimore, Chicago and Paris, France, and increased our faculty and staff.   We have toured from Marin County, to the University of San Francisco, to Oakland and now back to San Francisco where we have found our home at the new San Francisco Conservatory of Music. We have performed over 40 operas and countless opera scenes and arias.  BASOTI has proven itself over nearly two decades.  We understand that the next generation will either preserve the finest of the opera profession or carve a new vision for it into the future.  We are all listening and are committed to supporting the exciting new talent emerging from our conservatories and universities!
 
 
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Dates of Institute
June 16 - July 27th
 THIS WILL BE OUR 21st SEASON!
 
 
REPERTOIRE
 
OPERAS being considered for full production in 2012
 
"FALSTAFF" BY  VERDI
 
"ADMETO" or "SILLA" BY HANDEL
    
"MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM"
by Benjamin Britten or
 
TURN OF THE SCREW by Benjamin Britten
 
 
 
 
 
 
OPERA SCENES  chosen from: 
 
DIE ENTFUEHRUNG AUS DEM SERAIL, DIE ZAUBERFLOETE, COSI FAN TUTTE, LE NOZZZE DI FIGARO,  MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR, L'ITALIANA IN ALGIERI, IL BARBIERE DI SEVILLIA, DIE ZAUBERFLOETE, , LES PESCHEURS DE PERLE, LA BOHEME, MITRIDATE, LA FORZA DEL DESTINO, TROUBLE IN TAHITI, FORZA DEL DESTINO, IL TROVATORE, AND OTHERS
 
BASOTI reserves the right to change any repertoire.
 
SOME PAST PRODUCTIONS AT BASOTI include:  HANDEL'S "XERXES", PURCELL'S "DIDO AND AENEAS," CAVALLI'S "LA CALISTO," MOZART'S "LE NOZZE DI FIGARO," "COSI FAN TUTTE," 
 
"DIE ENTFUEHRUNG AUS DEM SERAIL," "IDOMENEO," "LA CLEMENZA DI TITO," "DIE ZAUBERFLOETE," "DER SCHAUSPIELDIREKTOR," PUCCINI'S "SUOR ANGELICA," "GIANNI SCHICCHI," "IL TABARRO," 
 
OFFENBACH'S "LES CONTES D'HOFFMANN," MECHEM'S "TARTUFFE," BARBER'S "HAND OF BRIDGE" AND MANY OTHERS.