Past performance highlights

Autonoe. Conducted by Philippe Jaroussky, Directed by Benjamin Lazar. Cast includes Arianna Vendittelli, Ana Quintans, Kangmin Justin Kim, Zachary Wilder, David Webb, Yannis François, Paul Figuier, Renato Dolcini, Gaia Petrone. Featuring Ensemble Artaserse.

HANDEL Messiah (Foundling Hospital Version) / Maya Kherani, soprano / Aryeh Nussbaum Cohen, countertenor / James Reese, tenor / Christian Pursell, bass-baritone / Jeffrey Thomas, conductor

as Barbarina (Susanna, cover) -- Raphaël Pichon, conductor / James Darrah, stage director / Krzysztof Bączyk, bass (Figaro) / Ying Fang, soprano (Susanna) / Scott Conner, bass (Bartolo/Antonio) / MaryAnn McCormick, mezzo-soprano (Marcellina) / Paula Murrihy, mezzo-soprano (Cherubino) / Cody Quattlebaum, bass-baritone (Count Almaviva) / Zachary Wilder, tenor (Don Basilio/Curzio) / Jacquelyn Stucker, soprano (Countess Almaviva) with the H+H Orchestra and Chorus

Opera San Jose's season commences with the highly anticipated, all-new production of Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro, transported to colonial India during Victorian Imperial rule. Sexual politics and class resentments play out through the prism of shifting power and revolution, culminating in a celebratory Indian wedding that brings the exuberance and festivity of Bollywood to the California Theatre stage.

Maya Kherani, soprano as Nitocris, mother of Belshazzar / Sarah Coit, mezzo-soprano as Daniel, a Jewish prophet / Eric Jurenas, countertenor as Cyrus, Prince of Persia / Matthew Hill, tenor as Belshazzar, King of Babylon / Mischa Bouvier, bass-baritone as Gobryas, an Assyrian Nobleman / Jeffrey Thomas, conductor

Drusilla/Fortuna (Poppea Cover). Conducted by Leonardo García Alarcón, Directed by Ted Huffman. Cast includes Jacquelyn Stucker, Jake Arditti, Fleur Barron, Paul-Antoine Bénos-Djian, Julie Roset, Alex Rosen, and Miles Mykkanen.

Title role

Soprano Soloist

Opera San José is thrilled to present an intimate outdoor recital, featuring nationally lauded soprano Maya Kherani, held in the courtyard of the historic California Theatre.

Semi-finalist