January 19, 2018
Two one-act operas in Alameda
A wintry beauty…
In a surprisingly polished pair of performances, Island City Opera, Alameda’s resident opera company, opened two one-act operas by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov last Friday, Jan. 19. While known for his powerful use of orchestral color and deep sympathy for native Russian folk themes, Rimsky-Korsakov wrote these two operas in very different styles.
Mozart and Salieri, composed to a libretto by Alexander Pushkin, offered the idea that the composer Salieri...