I’m
David L. Coddon,
and here’s your guide to all things essential in San Diego’s arts and culture this week.
The Los Angeles of the ‘60s was fertile ground for the evolution of rock ‘n’ roll, film and pop art. At the same time, on Tamarind Avenue in Hollywood, a workshop under the leadership of printmaker June Wayne was pumping new life into the forgotten craft of lithography. Artists from other disciplines would enjoy residencies at the Tamarind Lithography Workshop, producing works that expanded their creativity and revived printmaking.
Four of them Anni Albers, Ruth Asawa, Gego and Louise Nevelson are highlighted in a
SAN DIEGO (KUSI) – San Diego Symphony and Music Director Rafael Payare have curated a special 2021 digital season that strives to inspire and connect with its audience while in-person performances cannot occur due to the COVID-19 pandemic. From January to May 2021, the San Diego Symphony will release monthly orchestral virtual concerts featuring Music Director Rafael Payare and San Diego Symphony musicians. The monthly concerts will be livestreamed for at-home viewing launching January 29.
Kicking off the series on Friday, January 29, at 7 p.m. is Wagner Meets Mozart, led by Music Director Rafael Payare. The San Diego Symphony’s brass section resounds throughout Copley Symphony Hall with works by the great opera composer Richard Wagner. The program begins with Wagner’s Prelude to Act III from Die Meistersinger and the deeply moving and powerful Siegfried’s Funeral March from Götterdämmerung. The program closes with Mozart’s intimately charming Symphony No. 29.
Verdi’s
Un Ballo in Maschera. Starring Aprile Millo, Harolyn Blackwell, Florence Quivar, Luciano Pavarotti, and Leo Nucci, conducted by James Levine. From January 26, 1991. View here and for 24 hours.
Wagner’s
Das Rheingold. Conductor: Adam Fischer, director: Sven-Eric Bechtolf. With Tomasz Konieczny, Norbert Ernst, Jochen Schmeckenbecher, Herwig Pecoraro, and Michaela Schuster. Production from January 2016. Register for free and view here.
Sunday, January 3 Handel’s
Semele. First streamed on OperaVision at its premiere in Berlin on May 12, 2018. Barrie Kosky’s production returns as part of the Komische Oper winter streaming festival. Konrad Junghänel conducts a cast including Philipp Meierhöfer, Nicole Chevalier, Katarina Bradic, Eric Jurenas, Allan Clayton, Ezgi Kutlu, and Nora Friedrichs. View here for one month.
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Three months after it canceled its entire fall 2020 concert season, the San Diego Symphony has announced that COVID-19-induced restrictions has forced the cancellation of in-person performances through May of 2021.
“Since the COVID-19 pandemic closed Copley Symphony Hall at Jacobs Music Center’s doors to audiences in March 2020, the San Diego Symphony has continuously prioritized the health and safety of its musicians, staff, audiences, as well as its social responsibility,” according to a statement released this week. “The organization (has announced) a continued commitment to sharing music virtually while in-person performances cannot occur, with all previously scheduled events canceled through May 2021.”