The urgency of the music-making and acting were special as live opera emerged from the pall of the pandemic.
The company links song cycles by Arnold Schoenberg and Kate Soper.
But despite the star soprano, the recording has weaknesses.
New commissions by Gabriela Lena Frank and Sean Shepherd respond to the fires that devastated Santa Cruz County last year.
With loads of bells and whistles, the Rady Shell at Jacobs Park promises to be a nearly perfect venue for the energized orchestra.
This second entry in ABS’s summer festival reveals both the pinnacles and pitfalls of reinterpreting the master.
The show has a lot of twists and turns, musically and dramatically, but the opera’s careful construction makes it a fun evening in the theater.
Francesco Cavalli’s bawdy critique of political corruption gets a fresh (live) take at the Bruns Amphitheater.
Good performances of early pieces by a composer who later forged his own distinctive language.
Louise Farrenc’s Third Symphony is a revelation on a program that also happens to be Morgan’s conducting debut with the orchestra.
