POSTPONED Little Opera at Grace Benefit Concert

Due to the SF Department of Public Health's current alert advising the cancellation of non-essential large community events, this concert has been postponed. New concert date is TBD.

Once a year we come together to celebrate Little Opera’s work teaching students to write, compose, design, rehearse, and perform original opera.

Our 2020 benefit concert, hosted by Grace Cathedral, will feature performances by students and professional singers as they showcase our favorite pieces written in Little Opera classrooms during the last five years.

100% of funds raised will go to benefit our student scholarship fund.

Schedule: Sunday, March 8th

• 4:00 pm: Concert — Performance by students and guest artists.
• 4:45 pm: Reception and Q&A with students and alumni.

Guest Performers

Singer and composer Matt Boehler has been hailed by The New York Times as “a bass with an attitude and the goods to back it up,” and by the San Francisco Classical Voice for music that “harnesses considerable expressive power.” As a bass, he has appeared with The Metropolitan Opera, Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie, Canadian Opera Company, Dallas Opera, Opera Philadelphia, Prototype Festival, New York City Opera, Theater St. Gallen, Ravinia Festival, and the New York Philharmonic, among many others. A frequent collaborator in contemporary classical music, his discography features many world premieres. He has premiered works by Mark Adamo, Erin Bregman, William Bolcom, Mark Campbell, Michael Gordon, John Musto, Kevin Puts, and will premiere a new opera by John Corigliano at Santa Fe Opera in 2021. As a composer, his recent commissions include works for Washington National Opera, Victory Hall Opera, and Left Coast Chamber Ensemble. A native of Minneapolis, Minnesota, he trained as an actor at Viterbo College, an opera singer at Juilliard, and as a composer at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music.

Malikha Mayes, soprano, was recently featured as Prima Donna in Richard Strauss’ Ariadne auf Naxos (Prologue) with the San Francisco Conservatory of Music during the 2019/2020 season. In recent years, she has had the pleasure of performing the role of Donna Elvira from Don Giovanni in the San Francisco Conservatory of Music Opera Scenes production and Mutter in Texas Tech
Opera Theatre's production of Engelbert Humperdinck's Hänsel und Gretel.  In the spring of 2016, Malikha performed as Dido in the Texas Tech University Singer’s staged production of Dido and Aeneas. She has performed the role of Mrs. Hayes in Texas Tech Opera Theatre's production of Susannah by Carlisle Floyd, as well as an ensemble member in Le Nozze di Figaro and in The
Phantom of the Opera. Malikha recently received her Bachelor of Music in Vocal Performance from Texas Tech University and is currently pursuing a Master of Music in Vocal Performance at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music.