Opera Warhorses

Opera Pacific’s Musical Director and Conductor, John DeMain, is associated with major performances of the two most popular American operas - Gershwin’s “Porgy and Bess” and Floyd’s “Susannah”. DeMain was the principal conductor of “Porgy” in both its Houston Grand Opera production from 1976 (seen in San Francisco in three different decades, as well as at [...]

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In 2004, San Diego Opera mounted a new production of Bizet’s “Les Pecheurs de Perles” (The Pearl Fishers), that since has traveled to Detroit (Michigan Opera Theatre, which co-owns the production), San Francisco, New York City Opera and Miami (Florida Grand Opera).  It returned to the San Diego Civic Theatre, this May, with Zandra Rhodes’ [...]

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Many California-based opera lovers are discovering the fact that Orange County (the California county whose coastline to the South borders San Diego County and, to the North,  Los Angeles County) now has superb grand opera in a magnificent opera house surrounded by unsurpassed amenities. Your Tipster has resided in Orange County, 17 minutes from the opera [...]

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