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Tenor Scott Quinn May be the Villain in San Diego Opera’s ‘Rigoletto’–but He Has the Best Music

By Ken Herman | January 25, 2019 |

Tenor Scott Quinn, a gregarious Texan, can hardly wait for the curtain to go up on San Diego Opera’s production of Giussepe Verdi’s popular opera “Rigoletto.” “The reward of playing the Duke of Mantua in this opera is that I get to sing Verdi’s great music, and the Duke gets all of the best music–or at least the most tuneful music–in this opera.”

Threadbare Writing Hobbles Cygnet’s Wannabe Bio ‘Marie and Rosetta’

By Martin Jones Westlin | January 21, 2019 |

Modern gospel stylist Sister Rosetta Tharpe was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2018 — and if her followers’ pedigrees are any indication, the honor is a little late in the game. Eric Clapton and Keith Richards couldn’t get enough, sitting mesmerized at one of her concerts in 1963. Elvis, Chuck, Jerry Lee and Jimi freely nodded to her influence as their careers unfolded. She toured Britain with Muddy Waters in 1957 and happened on Little Richard Penniman singing her songs ten years before, when she was just 32. Indeed, behind every good music man, there’s…

Many ‘Jewels’ Sparkle in Lamb’s Tribute to Itself

By Bill Eadie | January 20, 2019 |

Lamb’s Players Theatre is celebrating 25 years in its Coronado theater, and it’s throwing itself a party, in the form of a “greatest hits” show. The company certainly deserves to praise itself, as it has proved to be a major theatrical presence in both the city of Coronado and in San Diego more generally…

Guest Conductor Michael Francis Brings His Panache to the San Diego Symphony

By Ken Herman | January 19, 2019 |

With numerous 20th-century and newer works played in the San Diego Symphony’s current “Hearing the Future” festival, I felt a sense of backsliding attending Michael Francis’s program of familiar standard repertory from the early 19th century Friday, January 18, at the San Diego Symphony.

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