Artistic Director Nuvi Mehta, cousin of the famous conductor, has been interweaving genres and acts here for two decades.
The Walnut Creek company is staging Francis Poulenc’s La voix humaine in dialogue with Henry Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas.
Christopher Alden’s witty production is matched with brilliant singing and acting in this top-notch staging.
The organization may have new executive and artistic leadership, but the music of J.S. Bach naturally still reigns supreme.
Played simultaneously on a rotating turntable, the double production invites speculation on power relations and much more.
