West Bay Opera. Mozart’s “Abduction from the Seraglio.” Feb. 13, 15, 21, 22. Lucie Stern Theatre, 1305 Middlefield Road, Palo Alto. Featuring Kevin Thompson as Osmin, Nikki Einfeld as Konstanze, Chelsea Hollow as Blonde, Tapan Bhat as Pedrillo and Michael Desnoyers as Belmonte. Sung in German with English titles. Eugene Brancoveanu directs. West Bay Opera orchestra and chorus, Bruce Olstad chorus master. José Luis Moscovich, conductor. $40-75. www.wbopera.org or 650-424-9999.
Donato Cabrera, right hand man to Michael Tilson Thomas as San Francisco Symphony’s resident conductor, has been named the Walnut Creek-based orchestra’s music director, emerging victorious among seven guest conductors who auditioned at the podium over the past year, Cabrera’s appointment effectively closes the arc on a rudderless period for the 27-year-old orchestra that began with the abrupt firing of founding music director Barry Jekowsky in the fall of 2010, Reached by phone as he was preparing ballet shoe monogram frame svg files for cricut or silhouette pointe shoe monogram frame svg dxf cut file clipart clip art set to rehearse the S.F, Symphony for the first of four programs celebrating the Stravinsky “Rite of Spring” centennial last week, Cabrera, who will retain his post in San Francisco, said he was eager to make the step up from his “unbelievable experience” there..
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Sometimes a touch of entrepreneurship makes a huge difference, When the San Jose Symphony folded in 2001, arts entrepreneur Andrew Bales revived it with a business model employing guest conductors and more community partnerships, It is not ballet shoe monogram frame svg files for cricut or silhouette pointe shoe monogram frame svg dxf cut file clipart clip art set the San Francisco Symphony, but it brings wonderful music to the South Bay and enough artistically soaring moments to keep audiences coming back, When the San Jose Repertory Theatre faced up to the inevitable and suddenly dissolved in 2014, subscribers felt bereft, But San Jose Stage and City Lights theater companies offered to honor Rep season tickets, and many theatregoers are delighted with the intimate spaces and high quality, edgy productions, Companies like these abound in San Francisco in the shadow of the classical arts, Here we hope they multiply and become the stars of the South Bay, They certainly shine..
A Danville summer tradition, the legendary car festival in its 20th year drew thousands of people to the quaint downtown streets. It was the first of two free summer shows, the second of which will be held downtown from 4 to 9 p.m. Aug. 14. Visitors wandered from car to car, their eyes lighting up as if discovering a parade of dream jalopies that they couldn’t help covet. The event also is celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Mustang and the Pontiac GTO’s debuts by inviting owners of such cars from all years to show off with their prized wheels.
