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 | 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 | 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...
by Robert Boyd | Jan 13, 2019 | Behind Curtain, LIttle Women, News
Opera Beyond the Usual: Little Women Edition There is a universe of outstanding opera beyond the most popular two dozen that you may know well. Island City Opera is making a habit of finding those brilliant though seldom performed works. In 2018, we produced...
by Robert Boyd | Nov 23, 2018 | Behind Curtain, LIttle Women, News
Meet Maestra Dana Sadava and hear her insights into lyrical and modern elements of Adamo’s American masterpiece in this brief interview. WATCH INTERVIEW “Mark Adamo understands our musical traditions and all the harmony we are used to hearing. He chooses...
by Robert Boyd | Oct 27, 2018 | Behind Curtain, La Rondine, News
Widely touted as history’s most popular opera composer, Giacomo Puccini is not often thought of as a modernist in the way we think about Richard Strauss, Stravinsky, Schoenberg, Debussy, or Alban Berg. But of Puccini’s 12 operas (treating Il trittico as 3 operas...
