San Diego Opera opened its 2025-26 season on a Halloween night with an appropriately disturbing opera about a murderous clown. Its unsavory plot hasn’t kept Ruggero Leoncavallo’s Pagliacci from ...
San Diego Opera kicked off its 2025-26 season on Halloween night, where many audience members at the San Diego Civic Theatre showed up in costume, and horror movie-style drama unfolded onstage in ...
Leoncavallo’s Pagliacci and Ravel’s L’enfant et les sortilèges were both originally slated to be conducted by Aleksandar Markovic when he was the company’s music director. But the entire enterprise is ...
Through 11/23: Tue 11/4 7 PM, Fri 11/7 7 PM, Sun 11/9 2 PM, Wed 11/12 2 PM, Sat 11/15 7:30 PM, Thu 11/20 2 PM, Sun 11/23 2 PM; audio description and SoundShirts available Sun 11/9; Lyric Opera, 20 N.
When it comes to challenging operatic roles for tenors, the clown troupe leader Canio in Leoncavallo Ruggero’s beloved 1892 “Pagliacci” is right up there. It requires power-singing, vocal range and ...