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Who Was that Masked Man? Don Giovanni Revisited

By Ken Herman | February 10, 2015 |

Stage Director Nicholas Muni has an unconventional take on San Diego Opera’s upcoming “Don Giovanni” production: “Don Giovanni can easily become a one-joke piece: sex. But it’s not about sex, in my view. Sex is just the hook.”

NVA’s Fair ‘Stage Kiss’ Has a Hard Time Coming Up for Air

By Martin Jones Westlin | February 9, 2015 |

Farce is pretty cool when it doesn’t look like farce, and that’s pretty much the case in the first act of New Village Arts’ West Coast premiere of ‘Stage Kiss.’ The mystery is that there’s not much play to illuminate it.

Soprano Nicole Cabell: the Last Word on the Strauss “Four Last Songs”

By Ken Herman | February 8, 2015 |

Richard Strauss on life and death matters was San Diego Symphony Music Director Jahja Ling’s theme in three concerts (Feb. 6-8) at Copley Symphony Hall will soprano Nicole Cabell . . .

Kodo’s Rigorous Drumming with Carnival Trimmings

By Ken Herman | February 7, 2015 |

For several decades, the popular Japanese performing ensemble Kodo has coupled the austere traditional discipline of taiko drumming with the requirements of commercial entertainment. Friday (Feb. 6) this enterprising team brought its latest traveling show One Earth Tour 2015: Mystery to San Diego’s Balboa Theatre . . .

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