Online 3-concert series kicks off next week with favorite performers
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Ten stars are lined up for Livermore Valley Opera s Triple Treat, which was popular with online audiences in late 2020. (Contributed photo)
Livermore Valley Opera is again offering an operatic extravaganza with a series of free online concerts on LVOpera Channel on YouTube.
Livermore Valley Opera presented Mozart s The Abduction from the Seraglio in the fall of 2018 with (left) tenor Michael Kuhn as Pedrillo and bass Kevin Langan as Osmin in a major stage production. Despite the closing of theaters, the music continues online as the opera company presents a Triple Treat featuring performers local audiences know and love. (Photo by Barbara Mellon)
San Francisco Opera stages live operas at a popular drive-in-theater 17/02/2021
San Francisco Opera is going to the drive-in-theater at Marin Center Marin in San Rafael, California, this spring, mounting a new live production of The Barber of Seville to be presented to audiences in vehicles in April and May. From April 23 to May 15, the company will stage 11 performances of a 90-minute of Rossini’s opera.
The live presentations are being done with safety protocols in place, with collaboration from doctors and health professionals.
Conductor Roderick Cox will lead a socially distanced ensemble of San Francisco Opera Orchestra musicians in a production with no chorus. The cast includes baritone Lucas Meachem as Figaro, mezzo-soprano Daniela Mack (alternating with Laura Krumm) as Rosina, tenor Alek Shrader as Almaviva, bass Philip Skinner as Dr. Bartolo, bass Kenneth Kellogg as Don Basilio and mezzo-soprano Catherine Cook as Berta.
Plans for more than 300 new homes to be built on the edge of Exmouth have been given the go-ahead despite the scheme ‘lacking vision and being fit for the 20th, not 21st century.’ East Devon District Council’s planning committee on Wednesday morning almost unanimously backed the recommendation of officers to approve the scheme for the Goodmores Farm site at Hulham Road. Outline planning permission for the scheme was granted for up to 350 homes back in June 2018, which included only five per cent of the homes being affordable. And while councillors were upset with the lower than 25 per cent policy requirements, there was nothing they could do to change it as the principle of the development had previously been agreed.