Contemporary Opera Marin is an opera company based in Marin County, California, just over the Golden Gate Bridge, north of San Francisco. Specializing in smaller opera/music theater works of the 20th and 21st century, as well as forgotten gems from past times, it draws on the vast talent pool of professional, pre-professional and dedicated amateur singers in the San Francisco Bay Area, performing in intimate venues throughout Marin County, with occasional forays to London.

Specializing in smaller works that fit the mostly intimate performance spaces, a few of the many outstanding productions included Heaven Ablaze in His Breast by Judith Weir, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat by Michael Nyman, Sister Amy by Odaline de la Martinez, both the chamber and grand opera versions of Gomora by HK Gruber, The Music Programme by Roxanna Panufnik, The Triumph of Death by Frederic Rzewski, Send for Mr. Plim by Mischa Spoliansky, Hydrogen Jukebox by Philip Glass, and Frida by Robert X Rodriguez.

In addition, a number of works have been commissioned by Marin County composers, as well as ‘scenic etudes’ based on the music of Libby Larsen, Bela Bartok, Francis Poulenc, Ludwig van Beethoven, ‘degenerate composers’, and the suffragette movement. 

This is Contemporary Opera Marin’s third visit to London.

Basin in California, award-winning soprano Morgan Harrington has performed throughout the Bay Area on opera, theatre and concert stages.

Roles include Mimì (Puccini’s La Bohème), Donna Elvira (Don Giovanni), Cecily Pigeon (The Odd Couple),

Alice Beineke (The Addams Family), Grace Farrell (Annie), Mother (A Christmas Story, The Musical) and Sharon Graham (Master Class), which earned her an SFBATCC nomination for Best Featured Performance - Drama.

National concert highlights include Samuel Barber’s Knoxville: Summer of 1915 with the Sonoma County Philharmonic, and iSING! San Francisco: Hao Jiang Tian with iSING! International Singers at the Herbst Theatre in San Francisco.

In 2022, Harrington was the Gold Winner in the International Friends Division of the Cultures of China Water Cube Cup Chinese Songs Contest.

Internationally, Harrington has performed Donna Elvira at the Banff Centre’s Opera as Theatre Program in Canada and has participated twice in the iSING! International Young Artists Festival in China, which included performances with the Hangzhou Symphony Orchestra, the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra, and a concert in Beijing at the Great Hall of the People.

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Tara Flandreau
violin
Steven Machtinger
viola
Myra Chachkin
cello
Paul Smith
piano