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Specialties
Our specialty is to present a wide range of work from the experimental, contemporary and rarely-performed classical repertory in the operatic, classical and ethnic music, and theatrical genres; works which remain relevant to contemporary life and challenging to professionals and audience members alike, both on the level of technique and art and on the level of life and living. To create an intimate setting for the experimentation and exploration necessary to execute high-quality performances, so that professionals and audiences may attain an all-encompassing theatrical experience. To train young people in the above-mentioned performing arts.
Today Cinnabar Arts Corporation, in addition to producing Drama, Opera, Choruses and the Young Repertory program, also produces the annual Petaluma Summer Music Festival, the Opera in the Schools program, and the work of Fred Curchack as well as Cinnabar Intimate Evenings of Comedy Events called Comics Stripped.
History
Established in 1974.
In the summer of 1970, Marvin and Jan Klebe bought a vintage 1908 two-room schoolhouse, located on the outskirts of Petaluma. A successful baritone who had sung with the San Francisco Opera and had been featured at the Spoleto Festival of Two Worlds, Marvin had become disenchanted with the grand opera scene: So the international opera singer turned his hand to carpentry and, with the help of his four sons, transformed the old building into a theater.
Klebe’s goal was to create a performance space for the local community to collaborate and experiment. He invited artists from other disciplines to join him at the red schoolhouse. In 1974, Cinnabar Arts Corporation received its nonprofit status.
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Meet the Manager
Elly L.
Manager
Elly Lichenstein (Executive/Artistic Director) joined Cinnabar in 1975 after a short career as principal cellist with the Antwerp Chamber Orchestra. Studying voice with Cinnabar’s founder Marvin Klebe, drama with Fred Curchack and Richard Blake, and movement with Ann Woodhead, she sang at least 50 roles with the company until she retired in 1999. She assumed the title of General Manager for Cinnabar in 1978, Executive Director in 1994 and Artistic Director in 1999 following Klebe’s untimely death. She oversaw the creation of Cinnabar Young Repertory Theater Company in 1983 and has championed and produced dozens of world premieres of operas, dramas and children’s musicals and plays. An accomplished actress, she was last seen on the stage in Terrence McNally’s Master Class in the role of Maria Callas. She also directs operas and musicals for her home theater as well others throughout the North Bay Area.
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