Posts by Ken Herman
SummerFest 2022 Explores the Bach Family and Their Wide Influences in Western Music
Beyond Bach, Sunday’s SummerFest 2022 program, offered a clever potpourri of works that inspired—or might have inspired—J. S. Bach, as well as a few works inspired by the Leipzig master himself.
Read MoreCygnet Brings Back ‘Cabaret’ and the Menacing Allure of Berlin in the Waning Days of the Weimar Republic
Cygnet Theatre’s impressive revival Kander and Ebb’s ‘Cabaret’ will run through September 4, 2022, at the Theatre in Old Town.
Read MoreLa Jolla SummerFest 2022 Opens with a Grand Display of Virtuosity
The La Jolla Music Society’s 2022 SummerFest opened Friday with a well-performed but assemblage of unusual quartets. The festival continues through August 26, 2022, in The Conrad.
Read MoreTwo Singers Contemplate Opera Neo’s Early Mozart Production of ‘La finta giardiniera’
Opera Neo’s production of a rarely staged early Mozart opera, a collaboration with the Hungarian State Opera, as seen by two American singers.
Read MoreOpera Neo’s Cabaret brings Exciting Moments from Opera and Music Theatre to Bread & Salt
At Friday’s Cabaret held at Bread & Salt, Opera Neo’s local followers experienced this year’s cadre of young singers performing together in an array of ensembles from opera, operetta, and musical theater.
Read MoreEdo de Waart Leads the San Diego Symphony in Beethoven and Kabalevsky at The Rady Shell
Under Edo de Waart, Yao Zhao and the San Diego Symphony performed Dmitri Kabalevsky’s G Minor Cello Concerto Friday at The Rady Shell at Jacobs Park.
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