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Goat Hall Productions is an opera company based in San Francisco, California, United States. Presenting programs under the names San Francisco Cabaret Opera, Fresh Voices Festival of New Works, and The Kurt Weill Project -- it was established in 1997 and is dedicated to the performance of opera and song, with a special interest in contemporary music, presenting works by Henry Purcell, John Pepusch, W.A. Mozart, Franz Schubert, Robert Schumann, Johann Strauss (Jr), Gustav Mahler, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Igor Stravinsky, Francis Poulenc, Kurt Weill, Gian Carlo Menotti, Benjamin Britten, Leonard Bernstein, Stephen Sondheim, and living composers -- particularly those of the San Francisco Bay Area.

The group has presented new music (often world, U.S., and San Francisco premieres) by Jean Ahn, Mark Alburger, Greg Bartholomew, John Beeman, John Bilotta, Nancy Bloomer-Deussen, Dawn Chambers, Ray Christiansen, Steven Clark, Sondra Clarke, Allan Crossman, Patrick Dailly, Robert Denham, Sanford Dole, David Michael Famiano, Daniel Felsenfeld, Gary Friedman, David Garner, Warren Gooch, Lorie Griswold, David Heuser, JJ Hollingsworth, Brian Holmes, Alden Jenks, Warner Jepson, Peter Josheff, Amy Beth Kirsten, Michael Kimbell, Scott King, Edward Knight, Veronika Krausas, Lan-Chee Lam, Elizabeth Lim, Hugh Livingston, DC Meckler, John McGrew, Sarah Michael, Helena Michelson, Jeff Myers, Sheli Nan, Mark Narins, Matthew Owens, John Partridge, Chris Pratorius, Lisa Scola Prosek, Mona Lyn Reese, Paul Siskind, Nolan Stolz, Connie Tyler, Mary Watkins, Zachary M. Watkins, Stefan Weisman, Robert Weiss, Cynthia Weyuker, and Chris Whitaker.

The organization's Artistic Director and Founder is Harriet March Page. Mark Alburger is Music Director. Goat Hall's Board of Directors includes John Bilotta, Sarita Cannon, John McGrew, and Eliza O'Malley. Accompanists have included Alburger, Robert Ashens, Skye Atman, Martha Cooper, Allan Crossman, Dietrich Erbelding, Dave Hurlbert, Alexander Katsman, Monroe Kanouse, Allison Lovejoy, Hadley McCarroll, Masai Nagai, Keisuke Nakagoshi, and Lisa Scola Prosek. Chamber orchestras -- typically Pierrot ensembles -- have been utilized in some productions. Guest artists have included Maureen Chowning, Janis Martin, and Erling Wold.

Among Goat Hall's numerous singers have been a number to be featured in more than one lead role over the years, including Mark Alburger, Laurie Amat, Kimberly Anderman, Jennifer Ashworth, Robert Benda, Ken Berry, Kate Bautch, Kristen Brown, Sarita Cannon, Susan Clark, Karl Coryat, Michael Desnoyers, Zoltan DiBartolo, Meghan Dibble, Micah Epps, Elizabeth Finkler, Elizabeth Henry, Sarah Hutchison, Michelle Jasso, Alix Jerinic, Heather Klein, Diana Landau, Miriam Lewis, William Loney, Douglas Mandell, Nathan Marken, Justin Marsh, Robert Martin, Eileen Meredith, Maria Mikheyenko, Richard Mix, Suzanna Mizell, Eliza O'Malley, Harriet March Page, Leticia C. Page, Crystal Philippi, Randall Powell, Marilyn Pratt, Brian Rosen, Cary Ann Rosko, David Saslav, Bianca Showalter, Maggie Tenenbaum, Aurelio Viscara, Indre Viskontas, Cynthia Weyuker, and Natalie Wilson.

Productions have been stage directed by Page, Alburger, Clark, Sylvia Amorino, Jim Cave, Meghan Dibble, Rolene Au Claire, Victoria Holder, and Dean Loumbas. Music direction has been provided by Alburger, Robert Ashens, John Kendall Bailey, Dietrich Erbelding, Dave Hurlbert, Monroe Kanouse, Hadley McCarroll, and Martha Stoddard. Choreographers have included Loumbas, Loney, and Dalyte Kodzis.

Goat Hall was founded in the venue of that name, located at 400 Missouri Street in San Francisco's Potrero (a.k.a. Goat) Hill district -- the former home of the Pickle Family Circus. Since 2001 GHP has also presented productions elsewhere in San Francisco (Cafe Royale, Community Music Center, Dance Mission, Exit Theatre, The Next Stage, Noh Space, Old First Church, Potrero Hill Neighborhood House, Revolution Cafe, Stage Werx, and Thick House), as well as Berkeley (Berkeley Arts Festival, Julia Morgan Chamber Arts House, and Live Oak Theatre), Oakland (Chapel of the Chimes, Flux 53, and Oakland Metro Opera), and San Rafael (Dominican University).

A significant number of these venues have allowed for the Goat Hall tradition of audience members seated at cabaret tables, provided with food and drink during the performances.

GHP has been covered by Berkeley Daily Planet, Commuter Times, East Bay Express, Northside San Francisco, San Francisco Bay Guardian, San Francisco Chronicle, and San Francisco Classical Voice.

Goat Hall has received support from the Ann and Gordon Getty Foundation, William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, Marra Foundation, Meet the Composer, Met Life, Theatre Bay Area CASH Grants, and the Zellerbach Family Foundation.

With its annual Fresh Voice programs (Roman numerals usually corresponding to the years of the 21st Century), Goat Hall Productions is at the forefront of presenting new operas and songs in the San Francisco Bay Area, having showcased more than 120 new works in the past 12 years.

Goat Hall Productions [Goat Hall Website]