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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 Ron...

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 extraordinar...

Artist Ali Blum features her work at Napa County Library, Napa Valley Unitarian Universalists screens a documentary about preteen mental health and more in this week's Napa Valley Art Notes.

From the deepest love to the most crushing loss, all of it can seemingly be found in an opera performance.