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Piazzolla’s Tango Opera: A Smoldering Surrealist Portrait

By Ken Herman | January 27, 2018 |

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 . . .

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

By Ken Herman | November 19, 2017 |

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.

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

By Ken Herman | June 26, 2017 |

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!

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

By Ken Herman | April 24, 2017 |

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