By Town Crier Staff Report

The Los Altos Town Crier will again be the exclusive media sponsor for West Bay Opera’s fall performance.

Music Director Henry Mollicone and Stage Director Christopher Harlan will open the Opera’s 46th season Oct. 12 with Gounod’s “Faust.” The lyric drama, inspired by Goethe’s poetic setting of the Faust legend, brings an abundance of lustrous melodies, brilliant arias and duets, the mocking songs of a sardonic Mephistopheles and the sweeping melodies of the famous Waltz.

Mollicone conducted “The Tales of Hoffmann” in May and “Madame Butterfly” in 1999. Performances are 8 p.m., Fridays and Saturdays; 2 p.m., Sundays, at the Lucie Stern Theatre, 1305 Middlefield Road, Palo Alto.

Season subscriptions are $105, available now. Individual tickets are $38 and will be available starting Sept. 5.

For more information, call 424-9999 (summer hours are 1-4 p.m., Wednesday through Friday, through Sept. 5) or go online at wbopera.org.