Posts Tagged ‘Vanessa Stewart’
Opera NEO’s gift of Early Mozart Splendor: ‘Idomeneo’
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
Read MoreA Handel Triumph for Opera NEO
If you are going to produce a rarely staged G. F. Handel opera, it is a good thing to have a few Handel operas under your belt. Opera NEO’s vibrant, superbly sung “Partenope” this past weekend (August 3 & 5) revealed how confidently this company has succeeded in making these Baroque operas as dramatically engaging as the popular verismo warhorses.
Read MoreOpera NEO’s ‘Merry Widow’ Waltzes into Town with Style
Opera NEO launched its summer season with a flashy, kinetic, cleverly updated production of that warhorse of operettas, Franz Lehár’s The Merry Widow. Forget about Paris of 1905–the widow returns to Las Vegas of today.
Read MoreGluck’s Rarely Seen Opera ‘Armide’ — A Feast For Ear and Eye
Opera NEO Artistic Director gave San Diego opera buffs a chance to experience Christoph Willibald Gluck’s rarely staged 1777 tragedy “Armide” . . .
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