This event has been canceled due to unforeseen circumstances.

Bring in the new week and bid farewell to Shabbat with some glorious voices! On the last Shabbat of the month, Cantor Toby Glaser will lead us in Havdallah followed by a recital from esteemed operatic artist Esther Tonea and pianist Andrew King.

Esther Tonea 

Praised for her “powerful, gleaming tone, effortless precision and expressive immediacy,” Romanian-American soprano Esther Tonea has appeared in concert and recital across North America and Europe. As Diana in the world premiere of Jake Heggie and Gene Scheer’s If I Were You, Tonea stunned audiences and critics alike with “magnificent singing — an ardent, tonally plush performance.” She performed Fiordiligi with “gleaming tones and impeccable dynamic control.” 

In 2021, she performed in “The Adlers: Live at the Drive-In” and “The Adler Fellows in Concert” with the San Francisco Opera Orchestra. No stranger to sacred music, Tonea has appeared as soloist in Nelson’s Missa in Angustiis, Haydn’s The Creation, Mahler’s Symphonies No. 4 and 2, and Mozart’s Exsultate, Jubilate and Requiem. 

Tonea is a Richard F. Gold Career Grant recipient and an Adler Fellow at San Francisco Opera. She holds a Master of Music in Voice from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and Bachelor of Music degrees in Vocal Performance and Cello Performance from the University of Georgia. This April, she will compete as a semi-finalist in the Metropolitan Opera Laffont Competition in New York. esthertonea.com

Andrew King

Currently a third year Adler Fellow at San Francisco Opera, pianist Andrew King has performed extensively throughout the United States. As a 2019 Apprentice Coach with the Merola Opera Program, he helped prepare the world premiere of Jake Heggie’s 2019 opera, If I Were You. 2018 included performances of Wagner’s Wesendonck Lieder, Barber’s Knoxville: Summer of 1915 and continuo for Le Nozze di Figaro with James Conlon, all at Music Academy of the West. King debuted at Carnegie Hall in 2018 in Marilyn Horne’s The Song Continues, performing in master classes taught by Horne, Graham Johnson and Renée Fleming. He returned to Carnegie Hall the following year for SongStudio, under the leadership of Renée Fleming.