By Carol Davis SAN DIEGO— The West Coast Premiere of Jake Heggie’s long waited Moby-Dick finally anchored at The Civic Center for at the opening night production on Feb. 18 and from my seat in row U it was a visually splendid sensation. From the time the theatre went dark and Donald Holder’s brilliant light [...]
By Carol Davis SAN DIEGO —Every year at this time, I feel that the opera season is ready to give me another early holiday gift. Before we know it, it will be January 28th and opening night of Richard Strauss’ fiery Salomé. In mid February the long awaited west coast premiere of Moby Dick” by [...]
SAN DIEGO–The San Diego Opera’s 2011 production of Puccini’s Turandot is the gift that keeps on giving that found this opera lovers heart pounding from the first sounds of conductor Edoardo Müller’s detail to Puccini’s music in leading the San Diego Opera Orchestra, to the exceptional way the large chorus, including a long procession of [...]
By Carol Davis SAN DIEGO — There is nothing quite as exciting as an opera. It has all the elements you would want to see and hear in theatre. Beautiful music, dance, drama (oft times melodrama) comedy, tragedy, stunning costumes and scenery and of course acting are all combined to make this wonderful medium unique. [...]
By David Amos SAN DIEGO–I quote to you a couple of paragraphs from the Musical America Worldwide website of October 29, 2010: CAPE TOWN OPERA TO GO TO ISRAEL Johannesburg. Cape Town’s Opera troupe is rejecting a call from retired Anglican archbishop Desmond Tutu to cancel a performance in Israel scheduled for November of [...]
SAN DIEGO (Press Release)– Giuseppe Verdi’s opera Nabucco is based on the exile to Babylon of the Jews from Jerusalem. In the Bible, the Babylonian King Nabucco is known as Nebuchadnezzar. San Diego Opera will be presenting “Nabucco” Feb. 20, 23, 26, 28 at the San Diego Civic Theatre. Prior to that time, Dr. Nicolas [...]
LA JOLLA, California (Press Release)–David Amos and Erica Miner, on-air personalities for classical radio station XLNC1, will present a series of lectures at the Athenaeum in April on “crossover composers.” These two experts will examine the different genres in which Beethoven, Mozart, and Tchaikovsky worked. Amos also is a music critic for San Diego Jewish [...]
SAN DIEGO (Press Release)– San Diego Opera has announced a $1 million gift from Erna and Andrew Viterbi. The first $500,000 of the gift will be used to underwrite the “Community Conversations on Faith and Freedom” lecture series in conjunction with Verdi’s opera Nabucco, the second opera in the San Diego Opera 2010 season. Portions of the gift will also [...]
