Opera Wine Dinner - Becker Vineyards 8/20

Enjoy a wonderful Texas Hill Country evening with extravagant opera, sumptuous cuisine, and beautiful wines at Becker Vineyards with August E's Restaurant, Sunday, Aug. 20.

Becker Vineyards wines will be paired with August E's four course dinner and American-born lyric tenor, Paul Alexander Just, will perform various arias from his favorite Italian operas, such as: La boheme, Turandot, Cosi fan tutte, L'elisir d' Amore, Don Giovanni, Rigoletto, and other arias from Pucini and Verdi.

Originally hailing from South Dakota, Paul Alexander Just, 23, a graduate of St. John's University, Minnesota, is in his first year of the Masters in Opera Performance program at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver. He is currently under the tutelage of Dutch tenor, Roeolf Oostwoud, and studied previously with American soprano, Marcie Hagen.

The Opera Wine Dinner is $75 per person, plus tax.

Directions: Becker Vineyards is 11 miles east of Fredericksburg, 3 miles west of Stonewall off US Hwy 290 on Jenschke Lane.

Reservations: Becker Vineyards 830-644-2681.