Saturday, February 11, 2023

A Female View of the French Revolution

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  Girondines Wilmington Concert Opera Composer Sarah Van Sciver and librettist Kirsten C. Kunkle have created a stirring, intriguing concert...
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Monday, December 5, 2022

Chutzpah and Genius

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Sunday in the Park with George San Jose Playhouse December 3, 2022 “Writing about music is like dancing about furniture.” * I would have lov...
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Monday, November 14, 2022

A Fitting Cinderella

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Opera San Jose Alma Deutscher's Cinderella November 12, 2022 “Act your age, not your shoe size.” – Prince It could be that the distinct ...
Sunday, September 11, 2022

Opera San Jose: Bollywood Meets Figaro

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The Marriage of Figaro September 10, 2022 Maya Kherani as Susanna. Photos by David Allen. Opera San Jose's re-setting of Figaro into the...
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Thursday, August 25, 2022

Mermaids' Tears (the story)

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In my latest novel, Mermaids' Tears, my twelve-year-old protagonist, Rusty, writes the title story as a way to console his older housema...
Monday, June 13, 2022

San Francisco Opera: Don Giovanni

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Amitai Patti as Don Ottavio, Adela Zaharia as Donna Anna. Photos by Cory Weaver. June 10, 2022 This production of Giovanni is the third in M...
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Sunday, April 17, 2022

Opera San Jose: Bernstein's West Side Story

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Teresa Castillo as Anita, Noah Stewart as Tony. All photos by David Allen. April 16, 2022 If West Side Story teaches us anything, it’s that ...