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This week on Open Air, KALW’s radio magazine for the Bay Area Performing Arts in Times of Corona, host David Latulippe welcomes a live storyteller to the virtual stage of our Corona Radio Theater,
M.J. Kang (pictured). Also,
Hershey Felder returns to discuss his upcoming program on composer Giacomo Puccini; and we talk with event producers Corey Ross and Svetlana Dvoretsky about the West Coast premiere of
In a new feature for Open Air’s Corona Radio Theater initiative, we are happy to welcome Canadian playwright, actor, director and storyteller M.J. Kang to the show. As a storyteller, she has won three Moth slams, a National Storytellers slam and a Story Collider slam. She will be performing virtually as part of the Women s Storytelling Festival from March 19-21, produced by Better Said Than Done and the National Storytellers Network.
This week on Open Air, KALW’s radio magazine for the Bay Area Performing Arts in Times of Corona, host David Latulippe welcomes a live storyteller to the
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On Sunday, San Diego Repertory Theatre will present the world premiere of “Hershey Felder: Puccini,” the Canadian-born playwright/pianist/actor’s latest composer-based play with music, streaming live from his home in Florence, Italy.
The production will feature an international cast of leading opera singers that include American baritone Nathan Gunn, American tenor Charles Castronovo, Russian soprano Ekaterina Siurina and Canadian soprano Gianna Corbisiero.
Felder wrote the script and will co-star in the production as its title subject, Italian opera composer Giacomo Puccini. The production will feature on-location film shoots in Lucca, the Tuscan city where Puccini was born and raised, and Felder playing the piano on which Puccini composed “Turandot.” The production will feature sung scenes from “La bohème,” “Tosca,” “Madama Butterfly” and “Turandot.”