[Note from William: Continuing my interviews with persons involved in producting live operatic performances, we begin a two-part series with Ian Campbell, General and Artistic Director of the San Diego Opera.] [Below: San Diego Opera's Ian Campbell; edited image of a photograph, courtesy of San Diego Opera.] Wm: You commissioned and are personally directing a [...]
Entries from February 2009
An Interview with San Diego Opera’s Ian Campbell, Part I
February 10th, 2009
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Grimsley Memorable in San Diego Opera’s Quasi-Traditional “Tosca” – January 27, 2009
February 4th, 2009
As the first offering of its 2009 season, San Diego Opera mounted Puccini’s “Tosca” in the historic Jean-Pierre Ponnelle production that it came to own. The “Tosca” performances, occurring just a month after the 150th birthday of the Tuscan composer’s birth, starred French soprano Sylvie Valayre in the title role, with Americans Marcus Haddock as the painter Mario [...]