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West Edge Opera: Who is the Hero of Your Story?
American Apollo 2026 Summer Festival — Oakland Scottish Rite Center on Lake Merritt
The world saw his art and marveled. The image endured, celebrated, immortalized. The relationship was real. The admiration was real.
But the man who stood in that studio, who gave his body to that vision?
The world never saw him.
The west-coast premiere of American Apollo closes West Edge Opera's 2026 Summer Festival — a season built around one relentless question: who controls the story? For Thomas, the answer is not cruelty. It's something quieter, and harder to name.
Witness it for yourself. Get your tickets now.
August 1–16 | Oakland Scottish Rite Center Part of a trio: also featuring Britten's The Turn of the Screw and Handel'sRinaldo.
