Saturday, February 21
| 10:00AM
American Canyon Library
300 Crawford Way | American Canyon
Admission-free. Entrada gratuita.
All children must be accompanied by an adult.
Tenor Sidney Ragland and soprano Angela Ragland share a few of their favorite duets and invite young audience members to discover opera.
A Festival Napa Valley Arts for All program, supported in part by the Peter A. & Vernice H. Gasser Foundation and the Napa County Library.
Este programa cuenta con el apoyo y los fondos Arts for All del Festival Napa Valley, la Peter A. & Vernice H. Gasser Foundation, y la Biblioteca del Condado de Napa.
Performers
Coloratura soprano Angela Ragland is a frequent performer with companies including Marin Oratorio, Berkeley Chamber Opera, and the Handel Opera Project. Favorite roles include Semele in Semele, Amy in Little Women, and Cunegonde in Candide. Angela holds degrees from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and Roosevelt University.
Sidney Ragland, an accomplished Californian tenor praised for his “exquisite voice” and “rich vibrato,” has recently performed with Soli Deo Gloria, Pocket Opera, Ars Minerva, and the Handel Opera Project. In 2022, he made his European debut in Die Fledermaus at Lyric Opera Studio Weimar. Mr. Ragland is an alumnus of the San Francisco Conservatory of Music.
Venue
300 Crawford Way, American Canyon
The American Canyon Library opened on August 14, 2012, in the newly remodeled Crawford Building, a location used previously as the American Canyon City Hall. Originally established in 1959, the community had been served by a leased storefront location and the Napa County bookmobile prior to that.