Among the great delights of the Bay Area’s musical scene is Pocket Opera, which has spent nearly 40 years presenting mainstream operatic repertoire in intimate and wonderfully engaging productions.

Pocket Opera returns to Napa on June 17 at 7 p.m. with a performance of Jacques Offenbach's "The Grand Duchess of Gerolstein." When a handsome young soldier catches the eye of the most powerful woman ...

Offenbach turns the well known myth upside down in this Pocket Opera and Napa Valley Opera House presentation of "Orpheus in the Underworld." Orpheus, whose songs could draw tears from a stone, indeed ...