Modesto Jane Con

Our Becoming Jane Austen Book Club totally supports Opera Modesto with our attendance, literacy, enthusiasm, and… A chance to dress up for the opera! 🎭🎶

Check out our costume fun from past years, and we will see you on Sunday at Tosca!
Tosca tix at: https://tickets.galloarts.org/9518/9540

A fabulous way to support Story into Song! 🎶

https://www.operamodesto.org/supportoperamodesto/

Amazing opportunity for Story into Song! 🎶 You can help! ❤️📚🎶

As soon as I heard, we were doing Hansel and Gretel for our next opera, I immediately thought of the very talented artist The Art of Scott Gustafson!

Not only did he allow us to use his incredible illustration of Sherlock Holmes last year, his artwork continues to mirror our Story into Song operas.

I knew he must have a Hansel and Gretel illustration! He did. 😍

Check out his amazingly illustrated, classic fairytale book at our downtown library!

Story into Song 2024: Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Fallen Giant! 🕵️Our two wonderful casts for our opera!

Smooshing these two pictures together, I realized the text (The End) behind them was sharing an E! So clever!

PC: David Schroeder

Year 3 (2022) for Story into Song was a double bill opera treat of Dulcinea and Bless Me, Ultima. A feast for the eyes and ears. 🎶📚🌅🌌

Photo credit: David Schroeder

Story into Song…2021~ THE RACE! This amazingly creative opera captured on film, captivated all of us! A mashup of five Aesop Fables. Such fun! 🏁

Thank you to David Schroeder for the photos!

Creating a teaser video for Story into Song led me through the archives from 2019 to the present! 🎶📚

As always, many thanks to David Schroeder for his amazing photos! 📷

Today was our last performances of Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Fallen Giant! Thank you Merced for hosting us! 🎭🔎🎶

Day #14 of our Sherlock Road Tour ends today in Merced! It has been an amazing run of 22 performances over two weeks with two casts in 5 different theatre locations! Over 4,000 school children have enjoyed these performances all over the Central Valley!

Get Caught Reading with Nathan Stark who has double duty today as the Giant in the morning and Inspector Lestrade in the afternoon performances.

Day 14 of our Central Valley Road Tour for Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Fallen Giant. Today we are in Merced, for several performances, using both our casts!

Get Caught Reading with Dan Gibbs who will be playing Dr. Watson in the morning performances in Merced.

Day 13 of our Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Fallen Giant Road Tour!! 🚙 Today is our turn around day as we set up in Merced for our final day of performances tomorrow! It has been a long and winding road but we are almost at the finish line! 🏁

Get caught reading with Alicia Hurtado who will be Jack in the Monday afternoon performances in Merced. 📚🫘🔎

Yes! She is GRAND! Gorgeous theater! One more public performance of Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Fallen Giant tonight at 7pm.

Tickets: https://atthegrand.org/events/sherlock-holmes-and-the-case-of-the-fallen-giant/

Day #11 Road Tour for Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Fallen Giant! Today we are in Tracy at the Grand Theatre!!  We have the best of both worlds going on today! During the afternoon one cast will be performing for the school children. In the evening the other cast will do the public performance! The game is afoot!

Get Caught Reading with Erin Rosales who is performing Anne Bale in the evening public performance! 🕵️🎭😍🔎🎶📚

Road Tour Day #10 Today was a transition/set up day from one town (Newman) to the next (Tracy).

But yesterday… was an amazing four performance day🎶📚🔎🎭 in Newman at the Westside Theatre! Over 1000 children saw Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Fallen Giant! What an experience!! 😍

Day #9 of our Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Fallen Giant Road Tour! Today we are at West Side Theater in Newman and we will doing FOUR performances for over 1,000 children! So exciting!

Get Caught Reading with John Ames who is our GIANT today! 🕵️🔎📚

The game was afoot in Denair today! 🕵️🔎🎶📚

Day #8 of our Road Show tour of Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Fallen Giant! Today is a transition day as we leave Denair and head over to the West Side Theatre in Newman to begin stage and projection set up for our school performances tomorrow.

Get Caught Reading with E.M. Lewis our librettist for our Sherlock opera! 🎶📚🕵️

Day #7 of our Readers performances for Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Fallen Giant. We have performances today at the Gaslight Theatre in Denair.

Get Caught Reading with Ariel Downs! 😍🔎🕵️📚🎶 Ariel will be Zamira in today’s performances. ❤️

Day #6 of our Readers performances for Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Fallen Giant. We are taking the show on the road! We are in Denair setting up our opera at the Gaslight Theatre where there will be school performances tomorrow!

Get Caught Reading with Emily Gallagher who is our assistant Director plus Tour manager! 😍🔎🕵️📚🎶

A wonderful article on our harpist, Matthew Verona! 🎶🎼

Tracy harpist takes on role of storyteller in Grand production In addition to his experience as a musician and music teacher, Matthew Verona and his harp are also storytellers.