Fresno Famous

August 1st Saturday at 2 PM Opera Espanol * Un Dia Caliente * Fresno Art Museum, Bonner Auditorium * 2233 North First Street * (Between Clinton & McKinley)

An annual festival opera favorite, this year’s event highlighting the Latino arts and culture will feature opera artists of Mexico, Brazil and the US performing opera art and folk songs along with members of the *Fresno Brisa Espanola in a fiery melodrama Un Dia Caliente (One Hot Day) featuring contemporary, traditional, and classical Latin and Spanish flamenco music, dance, and song. *Anne Young, the California Opera Association resident choreographer and a castanet virtuoso, continues almost 30 years of performing and choreographing Spanish dance. Daniel Ocampo is currently majoring in Instrumental Performance w/emphasis on Flamenco Guitar at CSUF. He has studied in Italy, Spain, and with renowned flamenco guitarists such as Gerardo Nunez of Spain. Teresa Deleon-Gomez offers over 15 years of flamenco dance and music experience, performing & collaborating with distinguished international artists with a current focus on introducing vintage flamenco to the public schools. Joyce Vasquez is an aficionado for over 25 years, credited with initiating and organizing flamenco projects various forms of music and dance, and she is known for her creativity and dramatic style. Kirk Cruz has studied playwrights and various aspects of stage-acting theory and adds drama and original story lines to performances.

Festival Events are Free with donations welcome at the door in order to promote a greater interest in, exposure to, and attendance of opera in Fresno -made possible, in part, through the Community Enrichment Program of the Fresno Arts Council, the Bonner Family Foundation, Exxon Mobile, Bank of the West, Fred Schlotthauer Memorial Education Fund, AZCAL Management, and Pure Sense, among other individual and corporate sponsors of the Annual International Vocal Competition, and the Festival Finale performances! For more information, please see http://www.calopera.org/opera_events.html

Location: Fresno Art Museum, Bonner Auditorium * 2233 North First Street, 2233 North First Street, Fresno
Starts: 2009 Aug 1 - 2:00pm
Ends: 2009 Aug 1 - 4:00pm
Website: http://www.calopera.org