by Barry Lenson | Mar 24, 2022 | Donna Weng Friedman, Kim D. Sherman, Uncategorized
Peaceful, vibrant images enter your mind as you listen to Donna Weng Friedman’s recorded performance of Quiet Poems, three piano works by the composer Kim Sherman. How did these two highly creative women find each other and cooperate to produce this very moving...
by Barry Lenson | Mar 17, 2022 | Bellini, Festival Opera, Norma, Uncategorized
How does a small, highly innovative opera company not only bounce back from the Covid-19 pandemic, but return in triumph? To find out – as well as to learn about some performances that you won’t want to miss if you live in northern California – you...
by Barry Lenson | Mar 2, 2022 | Liszt, Sebastien Dupuis
Several weeks ago we received a cordial email from the pianist Sebastien Dupuis. It included a link to a YouTube video of him playing “Chaisse-Neige,” No. 12 of Liszt’s Transcendental Études. Would we watch and listen to this video? Of course we would. We love the...
by Barry Lenson | Jan 13, 2022 | Maria Ewing
If you love opera singers who exert a highly personal imprint on the roles they perform, chances are you are already a longtime fan of Maria Ewing, who passed away several days ago. Ewing performed both soprano and mezzo roles in Carmelites, Carmen, le Nozze di...
by Barry Lenson | Dec 18, 2021 | Uncategorized
Two-time Emmy nominee Andrew Giles Buckley took time from the California shore, where his newest documentary is having its West Coast premiere, to talk to Opera Joe of Classical Archives. The new documentary is called “Stephano: The True Story of...
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