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Posts Tagged ‘Walter DuMelle’

San Diego Opera Celebrates the Season with Live Choral Music at Drive-in Screening of Its 2018 Christmas Choral Opera

By Ken Herman | December 22, 2020 | 0

The current pandemic has largely suspended choral performance, but San Diego Opera came to the rescue Monday with its drive-in “Holiday Sing-Along and All Is Calm” presentation at the Del Mar Fairgrounds.

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San Diego Opera Brings a New Production of ‘All Is Calm: the Christmas Truce of 1914’ to the Balboa Theatre

By Ken Herman | November 24, 2018 | 0

San Diego Opera’s upcoming production of Peter Rothstein’s choral chamber opera “All Is Calm: the Christmas Truce of 1914” at the Balboa Theatre sheds light on the impromptu Christmas Day truce of 1914, an event early in World War I that offered a glimpse of humanity in that otherwise merciless combat.

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Piazzolla’s Tango Opera: A Smoldering Surrealist Portrait

By Ken Herman | January 27, 2018 | 1

Friday’s opening night performance of San DIego Opera’s production of Ástor Piazzolla’s tango opera “María de Buenos Aires” offered a surrealist story and the tantalizing allure of Piazzolla’s brilliant music . . .

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Music Brings Peace to War: Bodhi Tree Concerts’ ‘All Is Calm’

By Ken Herman | November 19, 2017 | 0

Bodhi Tree Concerts and the men of Sacra/Profana produced “All Is Calm: the Christmas Truce of 1914” November 17-19, 2017, in San Diego’s Veterans Museum at Balboa Park. The 2:00 p.m. performance on November, 18, 2017, was viewed for this review.

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A Mad Monarch–Could This Musical Drama Have Any Contemporary Relevance?

By Ken Herman | June 26, 2017 | 4

Peter Maxwell Davies amazing monodrama “8 Songs for a Mad King” brought together avant-garde music, Expressionist drama, and political commentary in one powerful vehicle–precisely what any San Diego International Fringe Festival contribution should do!

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Soprano Corinne Winters Soars Magnificently in San Diego Opera’s ‘La Traviata’

By Ken Herman | April 24, 2017 | 2

San Diego Opera opened its updated production of Verdi’s evergreen “La Traviata” at Civic Theatre on April 22 . . .

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