Fostering new opera is an expensive and difficult endeavor, and success can be elusive. Leave it to the fearless, small-budget West Edge Opera to wade in where other companies of its size barely dip a ...

Berkeley-based West Edge Opera has built a memorable brand by making good on its meaningful name. Since 2014 risk-taking and adventure have marked every production and the East Bay organization on the ...

It’s been years in the making, but West Edge Opera is finally presenting the world premiere of “Dolores” — and the opera’s namesake, the renowned activist and labor leader Dolores Huerta, will be in ...

That gutsy little company known as West Edge Opera is in the middle of its annual summer festival, held this year at the Scottish Rite Temple in Oakland, and this weekend offers opportunities to see ...

West Edge Opera premiered "Dolores," an opera based on the life of activist Dolores Huerta at Oakland's Scottish Rite Center, with the work's subject in the house. Farmworker Huerta, along with César ...

When West Edge Opera opens its summer season this weekend with a world premiere, it’s already bound to feel like a classic. “Bulrusher,” the award-winning 2006 play by Eisa Davis about a young ...