World class ballet dancers, top flight wines, seasoned jazz musicians, divine fare from fine restaurants — even on this, its final weekend, the Napa Valley Festival del Sole 2015, continues to impress with the...
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Pauline Adamek
Napa Valley Festival del Sole 2015 – Annual Gala 2015 Auction Preview – travel festival report
Countdown! The Napa Valley Festival del Sole 2015, a non-profit organization dedicated to enhancing the region’s cultural vitality, is happening soon! The 10-day festival runs from July 17-26, 2015 and is comprised of...
“The Trojans” – San Francisco Opera mounts spectacular production of Berlioz masterpiece – Opera review
Hector Berlioz felt a strong connection to Virgil’s epic poem Aeneid and so when he began to compose his opera The Trojans / Les Troyens, based on Books 2 & 4 of the poem, it was a labor of love. Berlioz wrote the...
Ash Revell
Le Salon de Musiques, June – “Russian and Czech Masters” – Los Angeles musical concert review
This season’s final concert features an exquisite Russian and Czech Masters program, with works by Mikhail Glinka, Mikhail Gnesin, Iosif Andriasov, and one Czech Composer, Vitezslav Novak. The program includes two...
Le Salon de Musiques, May – “Masters Rediscovered” – Los Angeles musical concert review
“From the city of Oranienbaum-Russia, where he was born in 1882, until his last journey to the Island of San Michele-Venice in Italy where he was buried in 1971, Igor Stravinsky spent almost 28 years in Los Angeles...