Arts & Events

Mozart's last opera, La Clemenza di Tito, will be presented on Sunday, June 7 at 8 PM by The Handel Opera Project in conjunction with The Berkeley Chamber Opera. In the cast are Eliza O'Malley, Elizabeth Baker, Kathleen Moss, Shannon Latimer, Martin Bell and Michael Desnoyers as Tito, accompanied by a chamber orchestra conducted by William G. Ludtke. -more-

The San Francisco Silent Film Festival celebrates its 20th anniversary at the Castro Theater in San Francisco May 28–June 1 with an expanded program that adds an additional full day to the event. -more-

If you are looking for a total break from movies involving wise-cracking action heroes battling it out in Hollywood's latest CGI-fest, you might want to seek out Counting from Infinity—a quiet, simple, and smartly seductive documentary about a humble mathematician named Yitang Zhang.

The film—produced by Oakland-based director George Csicsery and partly shot in Berkeley—was screened at a special one-night event at Berkeley's Elmwood theatre on May 21, with the director and a panel of local mathematicians on hand to celebrate the event.

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