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Making his San Diego Opera debut in the upcoming drive-in production of “The Barber of Seville” is bass singer Peixin Chen.
Chen, who plays Don Basilio, is a rising opera talent from China who recently graduated from the Houston Grand Opera Studio and was part of San Francisco Opera’s prestigious Merola Program.
The singer was born in Inner Mongolia, but went to college in Beijing. That’s where he’s been for much of the past year due to the pandemic. When he returns to live performances, it will be under unique circumstances singing for people in their cars, and using amplification on his voice.
Lois Kirschenbaum, the ultimate opera superfan, dies at 88
By Corey Kilgannon New York Times,Updated April 9, 2021, 4:57 p.m.
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Lois Kirschenbaum backstage at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York in June 2012.JULIE GLASSBERG/NYT
For more than a half-century, nearly every prominent singer to perform at New York Cityâs Metropolitan Opera could expect to be approached backstage afterward by a wispy woman in thick glasses, who held piles of memorabilia to be autographed while she praised their performance in a raspy Brooklyn accent.
That was Lois Kirschenbaum, one of New Yorkâs biggest and longest-standing opera buffs and a nightly staple at the opera since the late 1950s, before Lincoln Center was built, when the Met was located in Midtown.
Inspired by the success from their safe drive-in performances of La bohème in the Fall, which heralded the return of live, in-person, opera to San Diego County since the start of the pandemic, and provided over 300 jobs to many who had not worked since March of 2020, San Diego Opera has announced a Spring season of safe, socially-distanced, drive-in performances.
The Spring Season opens on Saturday, April 24, 2021 at 7:30 PM with One Amazing Night, San Diego Opera s annual concert of arias and duets with the San Diego Symphony. Titled When I See Your Face Again: Unmasking the music of notorious pandemics, this year s one-night-only event will explore great works inspired by, and composed in response to, cataclysmic moments in history such as 1918 Influenza Pandemic and the HIV Crisis of the 1980s. Special guest performer Angelina Réaux will join guest performers Allison Spratt Pearce and James Newcomb along with members of the exceptional San Diego Opera Chorus and the San Diego S
INTA presents a new nectarine cultivar
The National Institute of Agricultural Technology (INTA) presented the second nectarine cultivar evaluated and selected in the Jujuy region. The cultivar is Sunraycer, which has been nominated as Don Tonco, and which is already registered with the National Seed Institute (INASE). Obtaining our own materials that are adapted to the local agroecological conditions is of fundamental importance because there is a high dependence on cultivars developed in other production sites, stated Viviana Curzel, a specialist in fruit trees from INTA Perico -Jujuy-.
Don Tonco continues to harvest the Don Basilio nectarine, selected and registered in 2017. Don Basilio opens the nectarine supply season in the country in the second half of September, followed by Sunraycer in the first half of October, said Curzel.
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