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Reworked ‘Harvey Milk’ opera returns to SF stage

Editorial Board Published May 28, 2025
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The yr was 1978, and baritone Michael Kelly wasn’t even born but when San Francisco Supervisor Harvey Milk and Mayor George Moscone have been murdered by Dan White.

In recent times, although, Kelly’s realized greater than he imagined attainable about Milk, the primary overtly homosexual elected official in California historical past.

Now a longtime voice within the opera world, Kelly’s making his San Francisco debut within the title function of “Harvey Milk Reimagined.” Opera Parallèle’s new  manufacturing, tailored from the 1995 opera “Harvey Milk” by composer Stewart Wallace and librettist Michael Korie, makes its West Coast premiere Could 31 at San Francisco’s Yerba Buena Heart for the Arts. The brand new staging is helmed by Parallèle director Brian Staufenbiel and music director Nicole Paiement.

Very long time residents all through the Bay Space and past will recall the shock and sorrow of Nov. 27, 1978, when White walked into Metropolis Corridor and shot Milk and Moscone. Their deaths marked a turning level, one that may intensify the motion for homosexual rights around the globe.

“Milk’s story really colors my generation’s experience,” Kelly remarked in a current interview. “His assassination brought a huge movement — a catalyst for coming out. Growing up as I did, being gay meant death. His story showed me there was so much more.”

Opera Parallèle’s manufacturing distills Wallace’s opera in a brand new retelling of the crimes that rocked the town. For Staufenbiel, the title “Reimagined” means decreasing the grand opera dimension of the unique. It’s a streamlined staging, he says, one which honors historical past, music and activism; it additionally reduces the forged dimension and unique opera’s prolonged working time to 2 hours and 20 minutes, with one intermission.

Singers within the forged embody Bay Space artists Christopher Oglesby as Dan White, Matt Boehler as George Moscone, and Marnie Breckenridge as Dianne Feinstein. The manufacturing marks what would have been Milk’s ninety fifth birthday, and ushers within the begin of Satisfaction Month; the corporate is also providing talks, movie showings, immersive projections, a foyer exhibition, and extra.

Staufenbiel says the opera nonetheless makes fairly an affect. “I find it very eclectic,” he mentioned. “It has some lovely jazz elements, minimalism as well; at times it’s very uplifting, rhythmical, with a beautiful expansive sound world.”

Wallace, he notes, continued to work on the rating after the unique work’s San Francisco debut. “He came back to it,” mentioned Staufenbiel, “to really improve it. When you go from a giant orchestra to a chamber orchestra, if you do it right it can sound equally powerful. In some ways, it can really help to focus in on the intimate moments.”

These moments give the opera its affect, he mentioned. “There’s this beautiful lineage throughout Harvey’s life; it’s a very succinct journey, and you really get to know him along the way, his perfections and imperfections. He was a very brave man who connected his Jewish heritage with being gay, at a time in his life when he needed to fight for gay rights, fight for liberty, as a politician and as a Jewish man.”

Kelly, deep in rehearsals, agrees. “We’ve been talking about this throughout,” he mentioned. “I can easily say I’ve spent my life admiring Harvey Milk. As a gay man myself, the knowledge of what he did for gay life, gay rights, the gay movement as a whole has always been a part of my personal identity. It’s an awareness that has affected me throughout the trajectory of my artistic life.”

That consciousness, he mentioned, colours his complete technology’s expertise. “Harvey’s assassination made a huge movement in that direction, a catalyst for coming out of the closet. To me, ‘reimagined’ means changes to the piece as it was 25 years ago. Now it’s shorter, more concise. And I think ‘reimagined’ also means presenting Milk’s story to a generation that doesn’t know who he was or what he did. That’s important, too.”

‘HARVEY MILK REIMAGINED’

Composer, Stewart Wallace; librettist, Michael Korie; introduced by Opera Paralèlle

When: Could 31 by means of June 7

The place: Yerba Buena Heart for the Arts, San Francisco

Working time: two hours, 20 minutes

Tickets: $50 and up; operaparallele.com

 

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