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 | Jan 8, 2018 | 2018 Season, Behind Curtain
Dr. Michael Shahani made his Island City Opera debut conducting the March 2015 double-bill production of Puccini’s Il Tabarro and Rossini’s Il Signor Bruschino. This year, Dr. Shahani will conduct the Friday, January 26th performance of Island City...
by Robert Boyd | Dec 22, 2017 | 2018 Season, La Sonnambula, Past Production
Jonathan Khuner: Music Director for La Sonnambula Jonathan Khuner returns to Island City Opera as Music Director for Vincenzo Bellini’s La Sonnambula. Jonathan Khuner is a well-known conductor in the San Francisco Bay area, where he has spent most of his...
by Robert Boyd | Dec 19, 2017 | 2018 Season, News
Lidiya Yankovskaya, Music Director Russian-born conductor Lidiya Yankovskaya will conduct Island City Opera’s production of two Rimsky-Korsakov operas in January 2018. Yankovskaya’s work has been hailed as “superb,” “expert,” and “coax[ing] every possible expressive...
by Robert Boyd | Dec 16, 2017 | 2018 Season, Behind Curtain, La Sonnambula, News
The Sleepwalker Who Wasn’t There: Writing and Rewriting La sonnambula An old saw in the world of writing has it that “There is no writing—just rewriting”. Composer Vincenzo Bellini and librettist Felice Romani found this to be abundantly so in the twisting tale of how...
by Robert Boyd | Dec 9, 2017 | 2018 Season, Behind Curtain
There is a universe of outstanding opera beyond the most popular two dozen that you may know well. But, sometimes, unfamiliar plots can be a bit tricky to navigate. This season’s Kashchey the Immortal by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov is certainly beyond the usual....
