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Paola Prestini’s Opera ‘Aging Magician’ Finally Makes Its San Diego Debut
Although the COVID endemic cancelled San Diego Opera’s 2020 production of Paola Prestini’s contemporary chamber opera “Aging Magician,” the company will open ‘Aging Musician’ at Balboa Theatre on May 13 & 14, 2022.
Read MoreOpera Neo Collaborates with Hungarian State Opera in 2022 Summer Opera Festival
San Diego’s Opera NEO has announced the repertory for its 2022 Summer Opera Festival: Mozart’s early comic opera ‘La finta giardiniera’ and Handel’s esteemed but rarely staged ‘Ariodante’.
Read MoreTenor Pene Pati Ready to Impress San Diego Opera Audiences in Gounod’s ‘Roméo et Juliette’
On his crowded spring performance schedule, tenor Pene Pati is sandwiching San Diego Opera in between gigs at the Vienna Staatsoper, the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées in Paris, and Berlin’s Staatsoper Unter den Linden to sing Gounod’s ‘Roméo et Juliette’.
Read MoreSan Diego Opera’s Dramatic Saga Bringing the Frida Kahlo Opera to the Stage
San Diego Opera General Director David Bennett talks about the process of developing a new opera about Mexico’s most celebrated artistic couple, Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera.
Read MoreSan Diego Symphony Announces $125 Million Renovation of the Jacobs Music Center
In a press conference on February 23, 2022, held at the Jacobs Music Center in downtown San Diego, leaders of the San Diego Symphony announced a $125 million renovation of Copley Symphony Hall and adjacent sections of the Jacobs Music Center.
Read MoreVenezuelan Trumpet Virtuoso Pacho Flores Brings Latin Flair to the San Diego Symphony
Pacho Flores will perform with the San Diego Symphony under Music Director Rafael Payare Saturday, February 26, in San Diego Civic Theatre in a program that includes works by Andrew Norman, Paquito D’Rivera, Johann Neruda, as well as Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 4.
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