Ending it’s current season, Opera San Jose’s new production of Gounod’s Faust felt a lot like leftovers. No doubt budget limitations had something to do with the minimalist set designs.
Articles by Scott MacClelland
Opera San Jose stages a double bill featuring dramatic operas by Leoncavallo and Poulenc.
Opera San Jose presents an opulent production of Mozart’s operatic spectacle at the California Theatre through September 25.
In Opera San Jose’s production of ‘La boheme,’ the tragedy of Mimi’s doom—of hope and love against loneliness and certain death—momentarily interrupts the carefree antics of the men in their youthful self-indulgence.
You may have heard the singular crack of a slapstick at the start of Ravel’s Piano Concerto in G. But once begun, the slapstick in “The Barber of Seville” at Opera San Jose goes totally viral. Argentine-born stage director José Maria Condemi left no sight gag or comedic epiphany unflipped.
Opening Ballet San Jose’s 25th anniversary season, company veteran Karen Gabay took the starring role on Sunday at the San Jose Center for the Performing Arts in company director Dennis Nahat’s two-decades-old choreographic update of the story ballet ‘Giselle.”
Four of eight works heard during the second weekend of the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music took a decidedly retrospective look back that—big surprise—seduced audiences long-used to confronting the avant-garde’s cutting edge.
