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Click on the link below to read Operaville's review of our most recent production of The Barber of Seville https://operaville.blogspot.com/2023/11/a-barber-with-style.html  

https://datebook.sfchronicle.com/classical/review-opera-san-jose-barber-18481647

By Larry HancockLess than three months after Mozart died, Gioachino Rossini was born in Pesaro, a small port town on the eastern coast of Italy, south of Ravenna. Rossini’s father, Giuseppe, who played French horn and trumpet, arrived in Pesaro from nearby Lugo in...

Kip CrannaDramaturg Emeritus of San Francisco Opera“Fi-ga-ro! Fi-ga-ro!” That name called out in brilliant baritone braggadocio represents the focal point in some of the most universally recognizable music in the world of opera. It’s so much part popular culture that...

Amid the busy fall schedule; debuting and performing as Romeo in our most recent production of Gounod's Romeo and Juliet, a quick jaunt to cover last minute as Don Ottavio in Don Giovanni at LA Opera, and now diving head first into Barber of Seville rehearsals, Tenor...

Adrienne L. Eastwood, Ph.DProfessor of English & Comparative LiteratureSan Jose State UniversityWhen William Shakespeare sat down to work on Romeo and Juliet, the story he decided to tell was hardly original. Tales of star-crossed lovers had been told and retold...

Opera San José sat down with Artist-in-Residence soprano Melissa Sondhi to talk all things Romeo and Juliet, being the first recipient of the Wadhwani Chair for South Asian Artists endowment, and what it takes to tackle some of the most well known and demanding roles of the soprano repertoire.

Read the Opera Tattler’s review of our 2023 production of “Romeo and Juliet”

Read Operaville’s review on our 2023 production of “Romeo and Juliet”