The Friday and Sunday performances are sold out, but tickets are still available for the dress rehearsal slated for 7 p.m. Wednesday, May 11. Tickets are $15 and sold at Vashon Bookshop and at vashonopera.com.

Vashon Opera and members of the Vashon Island Chorale will perform a joint concert, “Pagliacci Palooza,” on the new stage at Vashon Center for the Arts at 7:30 p.m. Friday, May 13, and at 2:30 p.m. Sunday, May 15.

While “I Pagliacci,” written in 1892, is a one-act opera complete with beginning, middle and end, “Palooza,” according to Vashon Opera Artistic Director Jennifer Krikawa, “is a fake name for a greatest hits opera program.” The collection of arias and ensembles will be sung by the chorale with a 20-piece orchestra playing scores individually arranged by Dr. James Brown.

During intermission, while a troupe of Seattle acrobats perform in the VCA lobby, risers on stage will be replaced by the set for “I Pagliacci.” About 28 members of the chorale will change into 19th century costumes and sing the choruses in the opera, along with a chorus of 10 children.

“Knowing that this production would be the first in the new Katherine L White Hall, we wanted to include the chorale, and we’ve always wanted to do a ‘night of the stars,'” Krikawa said. “It all came together.”

Norm Hollingshead will give a preview lecture on “I Pagliacci” at 2 p.m. Sunday, May 8, at the Vashon Library.

“I think (his talks) really help people’s understanding (of the operas),” Krikawa said. “And it’s fun and free.”

— Juli Goetz Morser