Latest Standings Announced For The 2024 BWW San Diego Awards
by BWW Awards - Dec 9, 2024
Don't miss your chance to vote for the 2024 BroadwayWorld San Diego Awards! Voting ends on 12/31 at midnight. Don't miss out on making sure that your favorite theatres, stars, and shows get the recognition they deserve!
First Standings Announced For The 2024 BWW San Diego Awards
by BWW Awards - Dec 2, 2024
Check out the first stats for the 2024 BroadwayWorld San Diego Awards! Voting ends on 12/31 at midnight. Don't miss out on making sure that your favorite theatres, stars, and shows get the recognition they deserve!
Review: Splendid Singing, Erratic Direction Mark the Met's New DON GIOVANNI from Van Hove
by Richard Sasanow - May 12, 2023
While I’ve always been bothered by the cruelties and misogyny of the main character, Mozart’s DON GIOVANNI has (musically) been my favorite of the composer’s operas, though either casting or design has been a regular issue in bringing off the work at its best. Happily, the Met’s new production by Belgian provocateur Ivo van Hove is a success for me, with a cast filled with wonderful singers--and the Met orchestra and chorus sounding great under debutante Nathalie Stutzmann.
CHOCOBAR CORTES-Popular Caribbean Chocolate Restaurant Opens in the South Bronx
by Marina Kennedy - Jan 11, 2022
Chocobar Cortés, the restaurant brand of Chocolate Cortés, a 92-year old family-owned Puerto Rican and Dominican chocolate manufacturing company known for its rich hot chocolate, is a dining and cultural experience that celebrates the company’s Caribbean chocolate tradition, its culture, and the delicious flavors of the Caribbean.
BWW Feature: SAN DIEGO'S CLASSICAL MUSIC SCENE
by Ron Bierman - Jul 7, 2021
San Diego’s classical music scene coped with the COVID-19 invasion by trading shuttered concert halls for parking lots and online media. Appreciative bravos and bravas were replaced by either honking horns, flashing headlights or painful silence.
The city’s Mainly Mozart was an early adopter of drive-in performances. Its first was in July of last year with an audience of 150 vehicles voicing raucous automotive approval for San Diego Symphony Concertmaster Jeff Thayer and seven musicians from the Los Angeles Philharmonic, including Concertmaster Martin Chalifour. The musicians, delighted to be playing in person under any circumstances, delivered lively versions of an early Mozart divertimento and the Mendelssohn octet.
Norton Museum of Art Announces 'For the Record: Celebrating Art by Women'
by Chloe Rabinowitz - May 20, 2021
On view June 11 through October 3, For the Record features work by Emma Amos, Teresita Fernández, Helen Frankenthaler, Gertrude Käsebier, Käthe Kollwitz, Maria Martinez, Mariko Mori, Alison Saar, Mary Sibande, and Carrie Mae Weems, among others.
Pérez Art Museum Miami Announces THE ARTIST AS POEM: Selections from PAMM's Collection
by A.A. Cristi - Feb 5, 2021
Pérez Art Museum Miami has announced The Artist as Poet: Selections from PAMM's Collection, a multi-media group exhibition of rarely-seen works from PAMM's extensive permanent collection that addresses Surrealism, the subconscious, and poetic language in contemporary art, opening March 25, 2021. Spanning ten decades between 1917 and 2017, the works represent how language––specifically poetry––is used in contemporary art, while shedding light on Surrealism's profound influence.
BWW Feature: ONLINE VIRTUAL OPERA TOUR at Home Computer Screens
by Maria Nockin - Dec 19, 2020
This holiday week the Virtual Opera Tour’s Magic Opera Flying Carpet is making its first stop at Opera San Jose for their magnificent online performance of Three Decembers. It costs $40 to watch on demand.The price is a bit steep, but the story is affecting, the music is fabulous and the performances are riveting.
BWW Review: PASIÓN LATINA at Home Computer Screens
by Maria Nockin - Dec 14, 2020
On Sunday afternoon, December 12, 2020, well known operatic soprano Ana Maria Martinez hosted a concert of song from many parts of the world where Spanish is spoken. The singers, from Spanish speaking backgrounds, were at one time or are currently members of the young artist program at Lyric Opera of Chicago.