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New Strategies for San Diego Opera

By Ken Herman | June 3, 2014 |

In a recent radio interview, San Diego Opera’s newly appointed Artistic Advisor William Mason asked for suggestions from the local arts community to expand the vision and outreach of the opera company as it charts its future beyond the 2015 season. Here is how the resident critics of San Diego Story are responding to Mason’s invitation . . .

Faded Glory Celebrates a Blackguard’s American History

By Bill Eadie | June 2, 2014 |

Daniel Edgar Sickles’ life should have been a movie – or perhaps a television mini-series…The Sickles story is the equivalent of a blackguard’s American history, and its sweep is all but guaranteed to enthrall…It’s too bad, then, that Tim Burns’ play about Sickles, Faded Glory, now in its world premiere production at North Coast Rep, trades sweep for being shut up with a grumpy old man at the end of his life…

Twelfth Night Goes Navy at Hotel Del for Lamb’s Players

By Welton Jones | June 1, 2014 |

Twelfth Night lands in the Hotel del Coronado around 1949 and all is intact, especially the songs.

Early Handel Oratorio a Rewarding Surprise in La Jolla

By Ken Herman | May 31, 2014 |

It is no secret why the world’s major opera houses do not present the earliest operas of Wagner, Verdi, and Puccini–they’re terrible. It took these great composers several attempts to hone their craft on the road to becoming great composers, but George Frideric Handel was brilliant from the get-go, as his 1707 IL TRIONFO del TEMPO e del DISINGANNO, presented by Ruben Valenzuela’s Bach Collegium San Diego on May 30, clearly proves . . .

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