Posts Tagged ‘Don Giovanni’
Impressive Opera NEO Production Brings Mozart Up to Date
Opera NEO’s compelling “Don Giovanni” production brimmed over with insights and creative approaches that have marked the company’s sparkling previous productions. A cast of young, well-trained singers proved more than equal to the challenges of one of Mozart’s most daunting scores . . .
Read MoreOpera NEO to Present Purcell and Mozart in 2016 Summer Festival
Opera NEO Artistic Director Peter Kozma announced the company’s upcoming summer festival will include Purcell’s ‘The Fairy Queen’ and Mozart’s ‘Don Giovanni’ . . .
Read MoreFerruccio Furlanetto Fabulous in Concert with Orchestra
Saturday’s Copley Symphony Hall audience fell in love with celebrated Italian opera bass Ferruccio Furlanetto in his exceptional concert with full orchestra . . .
Read MoreDream Cast Soars in San Diego Opera’s Stunning Mozart Production
Beethoven dismissed the theme of Mozart’s Don Giovanni as too frivolous for consideration, but philosophers and theologians have treated the opera as a treasure close to Divine revelation. San Diego Opera’s stunning production of “Don Giovanni” at Civic Theatre not only made an air-tight case for the opera’s dramatic potency, but offered a roster of accomplished singers who gave Mozart his due and then some . . .
Read MoreWho Was that Masked Man? Don Giovanni Revisited
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.”
Read MoreOpera Alfresco in Downtown San Diego
Shoppers and downtown workers on their lunch break Thursday (Jan. 29) were startled to hear strains of “Bess, you is my woman now” from Gershwin’s opera “Porgy and Bess” floating across the wide plaza in front of San Diego Civic Theatre . . .
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