Opera Cocktales Celebrates the many shades of Human!

It may be  rainy and cold out on those mean streets but it’s always warm and friendly at the piano bar!!!!

So come on down to Martuni’s (4 Valencia St., San Francisco)
and indulge in an oh-so-human performance of arias and ensembles with your friends at Opera Cocktales!
Indulge in the best martini in town.(….bring along your favorite special humans to keep you company at the piano bar!)
(We promise you a performance worthy of that 2nd specialty martini)
…sit back and enjoy the company of great composers as we SING for you – now what could be more human that that?

March 1st Performers
Vismaya Lhi – spinto soprano
Tristan Robben – baritone
Rachel Warner – contralto
and special guests:
Ellen Yeung – lyric coloratura soprano
Zoltan diBartolo – tenor

with the extraordinary Osvaldo de Leon Davila at the piano
in a surprising, richly abundant and very human Cocktale of famous and not so famous arias and ensembles…..

Admission: Free (with cocktail purchase!)

Opera Cocktail
Ingredients:
1½ ounces gin (use “London” dry gin; see Notes)
½ ounce Dubonnet (the rouge—red—variety)
¼ ounce maraschino liqueur
a dash of orange bitters (optional, but improves the drink, IMO)
twist of orange or lemon peel as garnish (optional)

Opera Cocktale
Ingredients:
3-5 exceptional opera singers
1 – 4 opera scenes (the flaming hot variety)
1-5 arias of exquisite passion and extraordinary range
dash of acting (optional, but improves the experience, IMO)
twist of plot or unexpected ornamentation or high notes as garnish (optional)