You won’t catch Vagabond Opera performing in jeans and T-shirts. Since its formation in 2002, the U.S. ensemble has always donned stylish togs that evoke vaudeville and the European cabaret scene of ...

As someone who accessorizes with top hats and mustachioed swag, it’s no surprise that Eric Stern is spending his day off from touring in a Berkeley coffee shop called the Royal Ground. He leads a ...

Vagabond Opera will come to Temple B’nai Torah in Bellevue on April 2 in a free concert that is open to all. Vagabond Opera’s Jewish Cabaret music has been described as European Cabaret, Vintage ...

How many musical genres can one band incorporate into its sound? Portland-based sextet Vagabond Opera, a self-proclaimed Bohemian cabaret ensemble, manages to play at least 10. The musically catholic ...

“I wish I was Marlene Dietrich,” the man croons, to the sounds of saxes honking and accordions wheezing. No, he isn’t a wannabe drag queen Marlene — he’s a member of that ragtag-Gypsy crew of ...

Eric Stern isn't sure if Vagabond Opera has stopped in Colorado before, but after living in New Mexico years ago and spending "quite a bit" of time in Colorado, the opera singer and accordion player ...

When Eric Stern was a young music student he was thrilled with opera and attended many concerts featuring operatic music. He was disillusioned however, because there was no venue for opera outside of ...

Are the words “vagabond” and “opera” mutually exclusive? Not in Eric Stern’s eyes. The European-trained operatic tenor cast aside all the formalities associated with classical opera by marrying it ...

Eric Stern began as an opera singer and became a vagabond. The end result? A wildly imaginative and entertaining troupe called Vagabond Opera. The eclectic, eccentric neo-cabaret sensations create ...