SEASON 2025 / 2025

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VERISMO OPERA, SF BAY AREA

Suor Genovieffa - SUOR ANGELICA - PUCCINI (3/29 - 4/13, Role-Specific Performance Dates: 3/29 & 4/6)

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SERVINO’S NIGHT AT THE OPERA, TIBURON, CA, March 12, 2025

VERISMO OPERA, SF BAY AREA

Giulietta - I CAPULETI E I MONTECCHI - BELLINI
Performances: Saturday, Nov 30 at 7:00pm and Sunday, December 13 at 3:00pm

A brand new role…

Hi friends!!

My Verismo Opera colleagues and I have been working hard preparing for Bellini’s I Capuleti e i Montecchi opening later this month.

I'm very honored to be debuting the role of Giulietta! This beautiful opera is not performed very often and Bellini offers a different perspective than Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet, centering on the final hours before the tragedy and how political rivalry seals their fate.

This Verismo Opera production run opens from Nov 29 and closes Dec 14th at the Mira Theater Guild in Vallejo. 

My performance dates in this multi-cast production are Sunday, November 30th and Saturday December 13th.  You’ll find info and ticket information on my schedule page.

In the meantime and in the spirit of Giving Tuesday, I'm sharing a donation link to crowdsource support for this production. PLEASE consider **donating and sharing this email with others who value the arts. Your support helps ensure that opera continues to thrive—not just in grand opera houses, but in the heart of our own neighborhoods.

**If you are able to make a donation at the link above, and would like to apply your contribution specifically to our singers, please also send a quick email to verimo.opera.ca@gmail.com and specify ‘singer contribution’ in your note.

I hope to see you at one of my performances!

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About Kristin

Kristin Genis-Lund, lyric coloratura soprano, has performed extensively throughout Northern California in musical theatre, oratorio, opera and recitals.

Ms. Genis-Lund has been active in mainstage productions of West Bay Opera, Opera San Jose, Bay Shore Lyric Opera and Opera Cultura, to name a few.  Roles include Gilda in Verdi’s Rigoletto, Sophie in Massenet’s Werther, Susanna in Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro, Oscar in Verdi's Un Ballo in Maschera, Zerlina in Mozart's Don Giovanni, Manon in the title role of Massenet's opera, Norina in Donizetti's Don Pasquale and Frasquita in Bizet's Carmen.  More recently, she made her debut in Opera Cultura’s production of Rodriguez’s Frida singing the role of Cristina Kahlo/Mrs. Ford.  In April, she will sing Sister Genovieffa in Puccini's Suor Angelica with Verismo Opera. 

Musical theatre roles include Laurey in Peninsula Musical Theater’s Oklahoma! and Maria in Peninsula Center Stage’s West Side Story. In 2015, Ms. Genis-Lund sang as soprano soloist with the orchestral ensemble Rosin Coven for the world premiere of The Stupid Joke, an original staged mini-opera based on one of Edward Gorey's illustrated stories for the 16th Annual Edwardian Ball in San Francisco & Los Angeles.

Concert appearances include Brahm’s German Requiem, Mozart’s Vesperae Solennes de Confessore, Haydn's Lord Nelson Mass in D, Beethoven's Mass in C, Dvorak's Te Deum, Handel's Messiah, Mozart's Vesperae Solennes de Confessore, Coronation Mass and the Exultate Jubilate and Bruckner's Te Deum, in addition to Dr. Ron Kean's The American Hymn Mass with The Choral Project.  Ms. Genis-Lund recently made her Bing Concert Hall debut at Stanford singing the soprano solo in the World Premiere of Giancarlo Aquilanti’s Te Deum.  

Ms. Genis-Lund was the first place winner in 3 consecutive NATS Competitions for Art Song and Opera and a finalist in the San Francisco Concerto Orchestra Vocalist Competition. She presently studies with Pamela Fry in Palo Alto