Russell Maliphant Company’s AfterLight is a one-hour meditation on Vaslav Nijinsky, an extended composition lovely to look at, yet ultimately disappointing.
If you want to see a literal corps de ballet, or body of the ballet, you have to see the Mariinsky; the company has returned to Cal Performances with a Swan Lake.
If the prolonged cheers and standing ovation of the opening-night audience
are any indications, the outlook for Jake Heggie’s latest opera Moby
Dick is smooth sailing.
Starting to settle into its beautiful new hall, with its superb acoustics, the Santa Rosa Symphony launches its current season with high hopes and fine playing.
In their concert British tenor Mark Padmore and American pianist Jonathan Biss fused words and music in a supreme partnership that conveyed emotions with transcendent, eye-opening profundity.
