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Arts & Culture Newsletter: At Lux, Baseera Khan explores identity

I’m David L. Coddon, and here’s your guide to all things essential in San Diego’s arts and culture this week. To say that there’s more than meets the eye when observing the artwork of Baseera Khan would be an understatement. Deep within the materials Khan uses in multidisciplinary projects are both inner explorations and experiences with and within a complex world. “I think about material and its production and infrastructure and how it influences economies,” said Khan, who is th...
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San Diego Opera's back at the drive-in, and it's a feast for the eyes and ears

Print San Diego Opera returned to the Pechanga Arena parking lot over the weekend for a spring festival with a pandemic-themed recital and a colorful production of “The Barber of Seville.” The festival — which continues with three more performances of “Barber” this week — takes place in the same spot as the company’s last drive-in opera last fall, “La bohème,” but it improves on the formula. This time there’s better video screen placement, more live close-ups of the singer...
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'The Barber of Seville' gets a trimmed-down, pandemic-friendly San Diego Opera production

Print Last October, San Diego Opera became one of the first opera companies in America to return to production during the pandemic, with a well-attended “La bohème” presented for an audience of 4,200 people seated in their cars in the Pechanga Arena parking lot. Next weekend, the company will return to the Pechanga lot for its spring opera festival, with a pandemic-inspired “One Amazing Night” concert on Saturday night, followed by a four-night run of Gioachino Rossini’s “The Barb...
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Three More Chances To Listen To "Arias In April" From IPR Classical

An aria is one of the building blocks of an opera. The word is used to describe a piece for voice. This month on IPR Classical, were showcasing great ones in our "Arias In April" series. Even if you’ve never formally heard someone refer to an “aria,” it’s likely you’ve heard one. Arias can pop up when you least expect them to in unusual places like commercials or movies. For example, the aria “Nessun Dorma” from the opera "Turandot" is an intricate part of the “Mission: Impossi...
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San Diego Opera Announces Live, Drive-In, Spring Season

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 Operas annual concert of arias and ...
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San Diego Opera announces spring drive-in opera festival

Print Following on the success of its outdoor productions of “La bohème” and “All is Calm” last fall, San Diego Opera has announced a two-weekend drive-in opera festival this spring in the Pechanga Arena San Diego parking lot. Running April 24 through May 1, the festival will include an opera concert and a pared-down version of Gioachino Rossini’s “The Barber of Seville,” both accompanied by the San Diego Symphony. They will be presented on elevated outdoor stages with additional...
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