Posts Tagged ‘Oscar Hammerstein II’
Opera Neo’s Cabaret brings Exciting Moments from Opera and Music Theatre to Bread & Salt
At Friday’s Cabaret held at Bread & Salt, Opera Neo’s local followers experienced this year’s cadre of young singers performing together in an array of ensembles from opera, operetta, and musical theater.
Read MoreLise Lindstrom and Greer Grimsley Easily Exceed the Billing of ‘One Amazing Night’ for San Diego Opera
Let no one claim that San Diego Opera does not know how to have a good time! The Saturday, May 5, concert–“One Amazing Night”–at the Balboa Theatre featured opera stars soprano Lise Lindstrom and bass-baritone Greer Grimsley accompanied the San Diego Symphony in a program that ranged from arias and scenes from grand opera to Viennese operetta and American musical theater.
Read MoreCriminal ‘Sound of Music’ Has Way with Broadway SD
Broadway San Diego’s ‘The Sound of Music’ is the latest installment in the show’s criminally overrated stature. Just because something’s called a classic, after all, doesn’t mean everybody pulled his weight in making it one.
Read MoreMoonlight’s Good ‘Sondheim’: It’s the Thought
Stephen Sondheim is 84 now, exploding with human insight in Moonlight Stage Productions’ good ‘Sondheim on Sondheim,’ a multi-media entry with decent singing and some fascinating interview footage to boot.
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