ARTS NEWS
San Diego Opera Expands Its Latinex Engagement
With the popular and critical success of San Diego Opera’s commissioned opera, Gabriela Lena Frank’s ‘El último sueño de Frida y Diego’ the company is confidently expanding its embrace of the Latinex community and its rich culture.
Read MoreGabriela Lena Frank’s Story Behind ‘El último sueño de Frida y Diego’
Composer Gabriela Lena Frank is eagerly awaiting San Diego Opera’s world premiere of her opera ‘El último sueño de Frida y Diego’ on Saturday, October 29, at San Diego Civic Theatre.
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 MorePaola 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’.
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