ARTS NEWS
Inon Barnatan’s Boundary-Crossing Vision for SummerFest 2023
Music Director Inon Barnatan has filled La Jolla’s month-long SummerFest 2023 with numerous delectable surprises, including the noted British composer Thomas Adès as composer-in-residence and programming Barnatan’s own arrangement of Freddie Mercury’s ‘Bohemian Rhapsody.’
Read MoreOperatic Baritone Greer Grimsley: Villains Are His Calling Card
San Diego Opera presents a production of Puccini’s ‘Tosca’ with baritone Greer Grimsley in the role of Baron Scarpia, the opera’s black-hearted villain.
Read MoreWelton Jones: Curtain Call
Our colleague friend and chief cheerleader at SanDiegoStory.com, Welton Jones, passed away this last December 2022. He is co-founder of Critics LLC, publisher of sandiegostory.com, along with Ken Herman, Bill Eadie, Kris Eitland and Mark Burgess. He wrote our site history (in the menu above) and published over 137 reviews since we debuted in July 2012.
Read MoreThe San Diego Symphony Returns to the Renovated Jacobs Music Center with an Exciting 2023-24 Jacobs Masterworks Season
Music Director Rafael Payare will celebrate the return of the San Diego Symphony to its newly renovated home at the Jacobs Music Center this November with a 2023-24 season of astonishingly bold and inviting programing
Read MoreSoprano Marina Costa Jackson Brings Her Puccini Passion to San Diego Opera
When I tell San Diego opera buffs that Marina Costa Jackson will make her local debut in San Diego Opera’s upcoming Puccini double bill, several have replied, “Wait, wasn’t she our knockout Carmen in the company’s 2019 production of Carmen?”
Read MoreOpera Neo Announces New Operas and Venues for 2023
Peter Kozma, Artistic Director of Opera Neo, announced his company’s ambitious 2023 season.
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