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Teatro San Diego Makes a Big Entrance

By David Dixon | August 10, 2021 |

As more shows are being produced, both live and virtually, on a regular basis, it is a perfect time for a new company to make a big introduction to the San Diego theatre community. Teatro San Diego is currently presenting their inaugural production of Jason Robert Brown’s 1995 musical, Songs for a New World.

Opera NEO’s Mozartean Vocal Feast: the Company Attempts Once Again to Get Poor Figaro Properly Married

By Ken Herman | August 10, 2021 |

Opera NEO opened its annual Summer Opera Festival Friday, August 6, with a spirited production of Mozart’s opera buffa “The Marriage of Figaro,” the opera that launched this enterprising San Diego company ten years ago.

San Diego Symphony Gala Concert Opens the New Rady Shell With Style

By Ken Herman | August 7, 2021 |

An exuberant crowd turned out Friday, August 6, for Music Director Rafael Payare and the San Diego Symphony’s opening concert at its new $85 million bay-side facility, the Rady Shell at Jacobs Park.

String Quartets Rule at Thursday’s SummerFest 2021 Concert

By Ken Herman | August 6, 2021 |

Thursday’s SummerFest 2021 program (August 5) offered two autobiographical string quartets, Bedřich Smetana’s E Minor Quartet “From My Life” and Dmitri Shostakovich’s Quartet No. 8 in C Minor, Op. 110.