by Robert Boyd | Oct 20, 2018 | Behind Curtain, LIttle Women, News
Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women as an opera? A moralizing story about four New England sisters who face life with obedient attitudes, hard work, respect for religious and parental authority, and a cheerful determination to make the best of the problems they face? How...
by Robert Boyd | Oct 5, 2018 | 2019 Season, News
Igor Vieira, Stage Director for Little Women Igor Vieira will direct Island City Opera’s January 2019 production of Little Women. Igor is well known to San Francisco opera audiences as both a fine baritone and an insightful stage director. Igor made his Island...
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 | Jul 30, 2016 | News
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”1892″ img_size=”full”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text]Darron Flagg will sing the role of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov’s...
