Enjoy a thrilling concert of music specially curated for the event by our musicians while you revel in a feast for all the senses in Nancy Quinn's & Tom Driscoll's beautiful Mission Revival home nestled atop a hill in San Francisco’s St. Francis Wood neighborhood with a spectacular view of the city. Enjoy a private tasting tour of Tom’s famous wine cellar!
From Greek mythology and Ovid’s Metamorphoses comes the bittersweet love story of Galatea, a sea-nymph, and Acis, a shepherd from Sicily. They fell madly in love, but the one-eyed cyclops Polyphemus, upon seeing the couple lying beside the sea, wanted Galatea for his own, crushing Acis with a boulder. Heartbroken but determined to not let their love die, Galatea transformed the defeated Acis into an immortal river spirit. Handel composed his beautiful pastoral opera, Acis and Galatea, during his first years in London, and it became his most often performed work during his lifetime. Famous for its exquisite arias, Jeffrey Thomas and a quartet of superlative singers will bring this treasure to life.
Beatific visions of a heavenly alternative to life on earth found voice when Bach revealed his personal imagining of Paradise in one of his earliest cantatas, Gottes Zeit ist die allerbeste Zeit, scored for the exquisite sonority of violas da gamba and recorders. Another early cantata, composed for Easter, Christ lag in Todesbanden, further demonstrates Bach’s confidence in celestial immortality. And yet another, written for Palm Sunday, presents a ravishingly beautiful entrance into the heavenly city. This is a program of breathtakingly gorgeous music.
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