There is great joy in the War Memorial Opera House this week — mighty SFOpera has struck a home run in the 26th annual TheWebbyAwards.
Samoan tenor Pene Pati, pictured with his brother Amitai Pati, talks about how music was embedded in his culture growing up in New Zealand in his episode of ‘In Song.’ There is great joy in the War Memorial Opera House this week — mighty San Francisco Opera has struck a home run in the 26th annual Webby Awards.
Launched in March 2021 in collaboration with the New York-based arts media company Lumahai Productions, the Opera’s “In Song” series was filmed in locations as diverse as Nashville, Tennessee, and Cairo, Egypt. Though each episode is less than 20 minutes long, as a whole, they offer viewers not only a display of these singers’ immense talents but also some keen insights, through touching anecdotes or snippets of their interactions with other performers, into what motivates them.
The third “In Song” artist was mezzo-soprano Jamie Barton, who described her upbringing in rural Georgia and her first experiences with classical music as a “rebellious” teenager, but returned to her roots here in collaboration with banjo virtuoso Bela Fleck, winner of 15 Grammy Awards. Together they play both music by Henry Purcell and traditional Appalachian folk ballads, in an episode made in partnership with the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass festival.
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