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Composer Gabriela Lena Frank’s Engaging Sampler of New Music at SummerFest

By Ken Herman | August 17, 2021 |

Curated by Gabriela Lena Frank, SummerFest 2021 offered an engaging sampler of five newer composers Sunday, August 15, at The Conrad’s JAI Hall.

Humor and Serious Drama Cohabit Amiably in Opera NEO’s Production of Handel’s ‘Serse’

By Ken Herman | August 15, 2021 |

On Friday, August 13, Opera NEO opened G. F. Handel’s opera ‘Serse’ based on the Fifth Century B.C. Persian King usually called Xerses I.

Marc Neikrug’s ‘A Song by Mahler’ Brings the Dramatic Conventions of Opera to SummerFest

By Ken Herman | August 13, 2021 |

Marc Neikrug’s ‘A Song by Mahler’–a probing new stage work for two singers and chamber ensemble–opened Thursday, August 12, at La Jolla SummerFest 2021.

Amazing Performances of Berio and Tchaikovsky at La Jolla SummerFest

By Ken Herman | August 11, 2021 |

Tuesday’s SummerFest 2021 concert featured Tchaikovsky’s Piano Trio in A Minor, Op. 50, withpianist Daniil Trifonov, cellist Alisa Weilerstein, and violinist Stefan Jackiw, as well as a Lucian Berio song cycle with mezzo-soprano Jennifer Johnson Cano

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