Alexander Katsman / Rezensionen

Eliza O’Malley, Berkeley Chamber Opera’s founding Artistic Director, wrote that in the present Covid pandemic, she searched for two one-act operas she could present in a program that wouldn’t require an audience be confined in a small theatre space over more than two hours. As a further caution, she asked patrons to wear N95 face masks that were handed out at the door of Berkeley’s Hillside Club on the nights of performance. Thus, two one-act Russian operas, Maddalena by Sergei Prokofiev, and Mavra by Igor Stravinsky, were given three performances over the weekend of June 17-19