Opera Fresca Located at Various Venues, Performing throughout Mendocino, Lake, Sonoma, and Monterey counties, this opera company performs a rich variety of opera and musical events, including fully staged operas in English with a full orchestra and Night at the Opera concerts featuring best loved arias, duets, and ensembles in an intimate setting. , 707-937-0420, 888-82-OPERA

Mendocino Theatre Company 45200 Little Lake Street, Mendocino, CA 95460, Producing high quality theatre since 1977, this company performs in the intimate 88 seat Mendocino Theatre and it produces a variety of plays ranging from great literary classics to modern comedies, and from much performed chestnuts to original dramas., 707-937-4477

Mendocino Music Festival Held at the Headlands, Summer after summer, an enormous tent magically appears on the majestic Mendocino Headlands, equipped with heat, lighting, a sound system, concert stage, an opera stage, technicians, ushers, volunteers, musicians, and stage crews. Wonderful music pours forth from this tent, such as orchestral and chamber, opera, jazz, and Big Band. Audiences sit perched on a cliff overlooking one of the most beautiful settings in the world during this 12-day music festival. The Mendocino Music Festival will take place July 12-26, 2008., 707-937-2044