by Robert Boyd | Jan 15, 2022 | 2017 Season, Don Quixote, News
Click here to read Charlise Tiee’s complete review. Vladimir Nabokov famously said that Miguel Cervantes’ Don Quixote is “a veritable encyclopedia of cruelty.” But cruelty is banished from Island City Opera‘s current production of Jules Massenet’s last work, Don...
by Robert Boyd | Jan 15, 2022 | 2017 Season, Don Quixote
Click here to read Sam Hurwitt’s complete review at The San Jose Mercury News. There’s something about the character Don Quixote that remains deeply resonant more than 400 years after Miguel de Cervantes’ seminal 1605 novel that introduced the deluded old man...
by Robert Boyd | Jan 15, 2022 | 2018 Season, Kashchey, News
Click here to read Nicholas Jones’ complete review at San Francisco Classical Voice. Pairing two short operas by one composer would seem to offer an evening of stylistic consistency. The two Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov one-acts that Island City Opera chose for its...
by Robert Boyd | Nov 16, 2019 | None
Dear Opera Lover, This March, we will bring Ethel Smyth’s fabulous but rarely performed opera, The Wreckers, to the Elks Ballroom stage, and we need your help to make it happen! The Wreckers is a vibrant and exciting opera that tells the tale of pious villagers...
by Robert Boyd | Aug 3, 2019 | News
Auditions for chorus and covers for Island City Opera’s March 2020 production of Ethel Smyth’s The Wreckers will be held by appointment on September 14 from 2pm to 6pm at Christ Episcopal Church, 1700 Santa Clara Ave, Alameda CA. Auditions for chorus will...
