Posts Tagged ‘Mozart’
Dream 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 . . .
Read MoreTrifonov Takes Over in La Jolla
La Jolla Music Society opened its Celebrity Recital Series with a program by noted violinist Gidon Kremer and upcoming pianist Daniil Trifonov, although the young Russian rising star managed to rule the stage at Sherwood Auditorium . . .
Read MoreSummerFest Chamber Orchestra in Smart Finale
Violinist Cho-Liang Lin turned what is usually a pleasant journey through the rococo traceries of Mozart’s Second Violin Concerto on Friday’s SummerFest Finale Concert into a profound spiritual journey. . .
Read MoreSan Diego Opera Is Back and Offers an Impressive 2015 Season
Although that storied operatic cliché of the sobbing final aria before the heroine’s sad demise was scripted by the San Diego Opera Board of Directors on March 19 when it voted to shutter the company, Board President Carol Lazier was not singing a farewell aria in her press conference Monday (May 19) in the plaza in front of Civic Theatre where she jubilantly announced the reversal of the Board’s March decision to terminate the company and the raising of $2,116,376 of new money to support the 2015 season . . .
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