Rossini’s ‘Barber of Seville’ with comedic twist comes to Opera San Jose
By Khalida Sarwari When ‘The Barber of Seville’ premiered at Rome’s Teatro Argentina in 1816, it was met with the kind of response no composer …
Category: Bay Area Arts Scene
San Jose is alive with ‘The Sound of Music’
By Khalida Sarwari It will be San Jose’s Center for the Performing Arts, not so much the hills, that will be alive with the sound …
Nothing ‘dhol’ about Discovery Museum’s Diwali Festival
By Khalida Sarwari The faces at the Children’s Discovery Museum’s Diwali Festival change year after year, but one is turning into a mainstay: that of …
‘Phantom of the Opera’ comes to Center for the Performing Arts on Sept. 15
By Khalida Sarwari In London, it turned 30 years old this year and in New York, it’s just a few years shy of turning 30. …