West Edge Opera is an opera company in the San Francisco Bay Area, based around Oakland and Berkeley. It became known for a summer festival of bold stagings at extraordinary "post-industrial" venues – such as a disused railway station or a former printing plant. Its profile is emphatically contemporary and curatorially daring: West Edge presents new music, US premieres and reimagined classics for audiences seeking opera beyond the establishment. It ranks among the most distinctive independent operatic voices on the West Coast.
Did you know?
Its festival has taken place in an abandoned train station and a former printing plant – opera in "post-industrial" spaces.
At a glance
- Type
- Opera house
- Location
- Oakland, USA
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