by Robert Boyd | Aug 27, 2016 | 2017 Season, L'heure espagnole
Yefim Maizel directs a comic gem, L’heure espagnole, by Maurice Ravel, September 25th, 2016 3PM. Produced by Opera Academy of California, and, presented by Island City Opera. Yefim Maizel has more than 30 years of experience directing opera and musical theater...
by Robert Boyd | Aug 16, 2016 | 2017 Season, L'heure espagnole
Julia Hunt Nielsen performs Francis Poulenc’s one-woman lyric tragedy for soprano and piano La dame de Monte Carlo. In a story with a kaleidoscope of emotions, a woman, betrayed by her lovers and luck – finds refuge in the elation of gambling. Poulenc...
by Robert Boyd | Aug 16, 2016 | 2017 Season, L'heure espagnole
Bradley Kynard stars as Ramiro, in Opera Academy of California’s production of Maurice Ravel’s hilarious L’heure espagnole, a farce about a lusty Spanish wife juggling lovers while her husband is preoccupied with clockwork mechanisms. Hilarity...