San Francisco's Pocket Opera is celebrating its 30th anniversary season by doing what Artistic Director Donald Pippin has been doing for a good deal longer than the three decades since he founded the ...

There are plenty of opportunities around the Bay Area for opera on a grand scale. But local opera doesn’t get much more winningly intimate than the in-your-lap productions that Pocket Opera has been ...

Composer John Eaton has always wanted his pocket operas to reach an audience broader than the crowd at a typical opera house–his hour-long productions, which require minimal sets and only a small ...