The USC Annenberg School for Communication and the National Arts Journalism Program presented a first-of-its-kind virtual National Summit on Arts Journalism last Friday, October 2, 2009 at the Annenberg Auditorium on the University of Southern California campus in Los Angeles.
“We feel that a performance of an opera shown in movie theaters,” said Giovanni Cozzi, managing partner of Emerging Pictures, a distributor of opera movies from Europe, “is a new art form.” And it is.
San Francisco Lyric Opera Artistic Director Barnaby Palmer announced on Thursday that the company is suspending operations, effective immediately, because of lack of funds.
Last November, as the economy came crashing down, San Francisco Opera General Director David Gockley stepped onstage before a matinee performance of La bohème and told the audience how the company was coping with the money crunch.
Normally the way you get a story is of no interest to the reader, but this one is different — "pertinent data" was especially difficult to find ... about something that should
A night like this could get to be a habit. Saturday’s simulcast of San Francisco Opera’s Il trovatore was the seventh free, live simulcast in a tradition instituted by General Director David Gockley in 2006 and the fourth to be held at AT&T Park. The staid glamour of the opera house was happily exchanged by many for a jovial, picnic setting and a ticket price that can’t be beat. (It’s free.)
The very existence of San Francisco Opera's 2011 Der Ring des Nibelungen, confirmed in a company announcement today, is a hard-won, delightful surprise.
What a great lineup it was Sunday, at the San Francisco Opera in the Park. Read and weep (if you missed it ...