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If the fabled Americas had been conquered by burlesque, hip-hop and bad puns, we’d be studying this stuff in history class.
The trick in staging Amadeus is not to let it become overblown. Director Richard Baird has turned that trick marvelously for the opening of North Coast Repertory Theatre’s 38th season.
On Friday, August 30, Australian guest conductor Christopher Dragon adeptly refurbished the San Diego Symphony’s familiar but fading end-of-summer ritual at their outdoor site on San Diego Bay, the all-Tchaikovsky grand finale.
The performance by the Mark Morris Dance Group at Summerfest last week was like a loaf of artisan rye bread—dense, complex, chewy. The evening at the Conrad Prebys Performing Arts Center was so packed with dance, music, and ideas, I would have like multiple viewings: once to focus on Morris’s choreography and brilliant movers, once for the world-renowned Summerfest musicians, and a third time to lose myself in the thrilling voice of countertenor John Holiday.
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