Eleazar Rodriguez Joins Livermore Valley Opera at Firehouse Matinee

By Barbara Lewis

The will host internationally acclaimed tenor Eleazar Rodriguez, along with singers from the Livermore Valley Opera, in an afternoon of passion-stirring music at 2 p.m. Sunday, May 20.

The Firehouse Arts Center is located at 4444 Railroad Avenue in downtown Pleasanton.

The program will include arias and duets from Gaetano Donizetti, Giacomo Puccini, Giuseppe Verdi, and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. A reception will follow the performance.

A native of Piedras Negras, Mexico, Rodriguez is a recipient of the Placido Domingo voice scholarship given by Sociedad Internacional de Valores de Arte Mexicano, Mexico’s most renowned young artist program. In addition, he is a top prize winner in the Carlo Morelli National Competition in Mexico City. This season, he is an ensemble participant at the Badisches Staatstheater Karslruhe, singing leading roles. Last season, he was a member of the ensemble at Theater Heidelberg (Cornelius Meister, GMD), where he gave acclaimed performances as Tamino in Die Zauberflöte, Jaquino in a new production of Fidelio, and Cassio and Rodrigo in Otello.

Rodriguez was a member of the San Francisco Opera’s Merola Opera Program in 2009 and 2010. He earned a Bachelor of Music Degree from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music where he received the Outstanding Achievement Award in opera from the San Francisco Conservatory in 2007 and 2010.

San Francisco Classical Voice wrote, “Among Merolini, already well-recognized, it proved to be a special night for Rodriguez, whose voice rang out in the 3,200-seat War Memorial Opera House, in a heartwarming ‘Quoi! Vous m’aimez?’ from The Daughter of the Regiment."

Tickets are $20. Group discounts are available. Tickets may be purchased online at www.firehousearts.org up to three hours prior to the performance, by phone at (925) 931-4848, or in person at the Firehouse Arts Center Box Office.  Box Office hours are Wednesday - Friday, noon - 6 p.m.; Saturday 10 a.m.-4 p.m., and for two hours prior to the performance. 

The entrance to free parking is on Spring Street near First Street.