UPDATED ** Two Orchestra Nexus Performances To Benefit Trinity s Little Food Pantry Postponed newtownbee.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from newtownbee.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Gina Galati’s wonderful Winter Opera company continues its 17th season with Puccini’s Manon Lescaut. This work, which opened in 1893, was Puccini’s first great hit. It was rather daring of Puccini to present this piece, based as it was on a novel that had already been adapted to opera by two other composers first by Daniel Aubert (1856), and then in a hugely successful work by Jules Massenet 1884. But it was an archetypically operatic story an emotional tug-of-war between a rich old man and a poor young one for the affections of a beautiful young woman (viz. La Traviata, La Rondine, Don Pasquale, et alia).
It’s the Three Tenors. No, not Luciano, Placido and Jose. That crew made their debut on the eve of the 1990 World Cup in Rome. It’s a new Three Tenors: Alex, Taylor and Spencer. That crew will perform in concert Saturday at the Empress Theatre in Vallejo with the Vallejo Festival Orchestra. Its leader, conductor […]
It’s the Three Tenors. No, not Luciano, Placido and Jose. That crew made their debut on the eve of the 1990 World Cup in Rome. It’s a new Three Tenors: Alex, Taylor and Spencer. That crew will perform in concert Saturday at the Empress Theatre in Vallejo with the Vallejo Festival Orchestra. Its leader, conductor Thomas Conlin, bills them as “The Next Generation.” In a brief telephone interview Sunday, Conlin a Grammy Award-winning conductor with international performance credits on his resume called Alex McKissick, Taylor Comstock and Spencer Hamlin extraordinary tenors who are on the verge of stardom. […]
Conductor: Three Tenors ready for as many standing ovations as audience wants dailyrepublic.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from dailyrepublic.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.