Posts Tagged ‘Mozart’
SummerFest 2023 Continues with a Dozen Miniatures that Chart the Cycle of Dawn to Nightfall
Like Friday’s Opening Night La Jolla SummerFest concert, Saturday’s concert sported a programmatic theme: a dozen works that described or were inspired by the daily cycle of dawn to dark.
Read MoreOpera Neo Stages ‘Mitridate’ — a Surprisingly Accomplished Work by Mozart at Age 14
This weekend at the UC San Diego Park & Market facility in the East Village, Opera Neo produced Mozart’s early opera ‘Mitridate,’ which climaxed the company’s successful 2023 Summer Opera Festival.
Read MoreOpera Neo Brings Sparkling ‘Barber of Seville’ to Balboa Park’s Spanish Village Art Center
On Friday, Opera Neo Artistic Director Peter Kozma fulfilled a longtime dream of staging Rossini’s ‘The Barber of Seville’ al fresco in Balboa Park’s Spanish Village Art Center.
Read MoreEdo de Waart and the San Diego Symphony Give a Winning Account of Rachmaninoff’s Second Symphony
Edo de Waart, San Diego Symphony’s esteemed Principal Guest Conductor, led the orchestra in a probing, beautifully detailed account of Sergei Rachmaninoff’s Symphony No. 2 in E Minor Friday at San Diego Civic Theatre.
Read MorePianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard Offers a Festival of Fantasias at The Conrad
Pierre-Laurent Aimard’s intentionally unconventional program at The Conrad was devoted exclusively to the musical genre of the fantasia.
Read MoreOpera Meets Gospel Music in Joyful Collaboration at the St. James Music Series
Sunday’s concert presented by La Jolla’s St. James Music Series featured operatic soprano Janai Brugger and the Martin Luther king Jr. Community Choir of San Diego.
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