2022-23 Season
Current scheduled performances for the 2022-2023 season. Schedule is subject to change. Pending productions will be added when announced. Click photos for more information.
Arnold Geis creates the role of Mr. Marks in Ricky Ian Gordon and Lynn Nottage's new opera Intimate Apparel directed by Bart Sher. Click picture to stream on PBS.
Prima Voce Emerging Artist Recital
Arnold’s mother was a successful opera singer who received her master’s in Psychology just before her untimely death due to breast cancer on September 11th, 2002. His personal tragedy inspired this autobiographical program of how music, faith, and singing have literally saved his life. An emotionally powerful and heartfelt story of loss, healing and forgiveness features the music of Robert Schumann, Richard Strauss, Mozart, and a world premiere by composer and fellow PVEA singer Joel Balzun. Featuring Grant Gershon on piano.
OPERA Laguna in Concert
Discover the Power of the Voice in the intimate setting of the Sanctuary of Neighborhood Congregational Church when soprano Oriana Falla, and tenor Arnold Livingston Geis, take you on a musical journey with bel canto as the guide. Featuring works by Mozart, Puccini, Verdi, Britten, and Schumann.
Recital: Songs My Mother Taught Me
Arnold’s mother was a successful opera singer who received her master’s in Psychology just before her untimely death due to breast cancer on September 11th, 2002. His personal tragedy inspired this autobiographical program of how music, faith, and singing have literally saved his life. An emotionally powerful and heartfelt story of loss, healing and forgiveness features the music of Robert Schumann, Richard Strauss, Mozart, and Missy Mazzoli. Featuring Cathy Miller on piano. Performance at El Camino College on March 30th, 2023 at 8pm.
Recital: Songs My Mother Taught Me
Arnold’s mother was a successful opera singer who received her master’s in Psychology just before her untimely death due to breast cancer on September 11th, 2002. His personal tragedy inspired this autobiographical program of how music, faith, and singing have literally saved his life. An emotionally powerful and heartfelt story of loss, healing and forgiveness features the music of Robert Schumann, Richard Strauss, Mozart, and Missy Mazzoli. Featuring Grant Gershon on piano. Performance at El Camino College on March 30th, 2023 at 8pm.
Traveler's Prayer
Arnold Geis sings Tenor I soloist in Steve Reich's Traveler's Prayer with the Los Angeles Philharmonic New Music Group at the Walt Disney Concert Hall. This all-Reich concert culminates with a remarkable collaboration between composer Steve Reich and artist Gerhard Richter. Richter will provide a computer-generated film of his painting 946-3. The result: a stream of images interpreted by music and a musical composition visualized by film images.
A Little Night Music
Mr. Erlanson in A Little Night Music with the Pasadena Playhouse. Recipient of three Tony Awards including Best Musical, A Little Night Music is a sumptuous, sexy, laugh-out-loud masterpiece that will leave you thoroughly enchanted. Performances begin April 25th through May 21st, 2023.
Sweeney Todd
Pirelli in Sweeney Todd with Chautauqua Opera. A dark tale riddled with ghoulish humor set in Victorian London, Sweeney Todd returns from exile to seek revenge on the lecherous Judge Turpin, who destroyed what was once a happy life. When Sweeney reunites with the devious Mrs. Lovett, the owner of a failing meat pie shop, they hatch a plan that will help her with her business struggles and satisfy his hunger for revenge. Performances are June 30, July 7, 12, & 21 in Norton Memorial Hall.