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Opera NEO’s Mozartean Vocal Feast: the Company Attempts Once Again to Get Poor Figaro Properly Married

By Ken Herman | August 10, 2021 |

Opera NEO opened its annual Summer Opera Festival Friday, August 6, with a spirited production of Mozart’s opera buffa “The Marriage of Figaro,” the opera that launched this enterprising San Diego company ten years ago.

Opera NEO’s gift of Early Mozart Splendor: ‘Idomeneo’

By Ken Herman | August 11, 2018 |

Opera NEO produced a musically sparkling although spare production Mozart’s early opera “Idomeneo” as part of this year’s Opera NEO Summer Opera Festival and Workshop at the outdoor Palisades Presbyterian Amphitheater in Allied Gardens

Opera NEO’s Aria Marathon Opens the Summer Opera Season on Many, Many, Many High Notes

By Ken Herman | July 17, 2018 |

Encountering Opera NEO’s annual Aria Marathon Sunday, July 15, at Palisades Presbyterian Church in Allied Gardens signaled that Opera NEO’s summer festival is again at hand. This marathon is a ritual that gives each singer participating in the five-week festival the opportunity to sing their best opera aria to a captive audience.