Meet opera's 'bawdy women'

Sunday Salons at Two presents a program on "The Bawdy and Bodacious Women of Opera" at 2 p.m. Sun., May 4 at The Globe Theater, 1909 N. Topanga Canyon Blvd., Topanga.

This concert features the music of opera's "baddest girls and punctures the myth that all of opera's women are consumptive maidens perishing for love."

A narrator and three singers will present the "naughty, nasty, and just plain not nice antiheroines of opera."

The pianist and music director is Valery Ryvkin, artistic director of Opera Santa Barbara and the Greensboro Opera, as well as a regular guest conductor at the San Diego Opera.

Soprano Teresa Brown, mezzo soprano Sara Campbell, and contralto Victoria Hart will perform.

Tickets are $25 for adults, and $20 for seniors and students. For reservations, call (310) 455-9400 or go to www.shakespeareusa.com.