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Calling Out Power and Privilege, Mozart’s ‘The Marriage of Figaro’ Proves a Timely Offering to Open San Diego Opera’s Season

By Ken Herman | October 13, 2018 |

The curtain will go up on San Diego Opera’s production of “The Marriage of Figaro” on Saturday, October 20, 2018, at 7:00 p.m. in the San Diego Civic Theatre. Stage director Stephen Lawless gives his take on the politics and social criticism in Mozart’s beloved opera.

Family Dynamic Comes to Call in TPN’s Earnest ‘Guadalupe in the Guest Room’

By Martin Jones Westlin | October 9, 2018 |

Television stakes its own reality, often at the expense of real life. In Teatro Pueblo Nuevo’s good ‘Guadalupe in the Guest Room’, a Mexico native and her former son-in-law learn this indelibly — and two cultures come away a little wiser.

Joyce Yang and the San Diego Symphony Triumph in the Grieg Piano Concerto

By Ken Herman | October 8, 2018 |

In the first program of the San Diego Symphony’s Jacobs Masterworks Series, October 6, 2018, guest conductor Edo de Waart offered Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony and Edvard Grieg’s evergreen Piano Concerto in A Minor with Joyce Yang as soloist.