This weekend is huge for Opera San Antonio! It’s finally returning to the stage at the Tobin Center for live in-person performances starring internationally celebrated singers in Gaetano Donizetti’s famed opera “Lucia de Lammermoor.” Grand arias, high-intensity drama, tragic family conflicts, and above all, beautiful voices – this opera has it all! (May 6 & 8, Tobin Center for the …
By JASMINA WELLINGHOFF, Editor For a young opera company like Opera San Antonio, not performing live on stage for more than a year was a huge challenge. But this week, OSA will be back with a production of “Lucia di Lammermoor” starring soprano Brenda Rae, tenor Scott Quinn and San Antonio’s native son, baritone Scott Hendricks. This return to normalcy …
Opera San Antonio is ready to return to live, in-person performances and it’s doing it with verve and panache by staging “Lucia di Lammermoor” on May 6 and 8 at the Tobin Center for the Performing Arts. “Lucia” is a beautiful bel-canto opera depicting a tragic story of love in a hostile environment, similar to the iconic tale of “Romeo …
By JASMINA WELLINGHOFF, Editor In her letter to members of the San Antonio Arts League & Museum, president Dona Waltson included a special note for Laurin McCracken, the juror of SAALM’s 91st Annual Juried Artist Exhibition, currently on view at the museum. “Thank you, Laurin McCracken, for creating this stunning exhibit,” she wrote. The “stunning” show that features 64 artworks, …
By JASMINA WELLINGHOFF, Editor One silver lining of spending a lot of time at home – as we all did last year and still do – is time to learn new things or improve the skills that we already have. And that’s exactly what flamenco artist Tamara Adira did for a number of months. Once it became clear that live …
While the name, Pabst Brewing Company, makes you think of beer, the venerable beer maker has other interests and goals, too, including supporting the arts across the United States. The company moved its headquarters to San Antonio in 2020 and it’s making its presence known through several initiatives – a new gallery in Southtown (1112 S. St. Mary’s) and a …
By JASMINA WELLINGHOFF, Editor The Luminaria Artist Foundation has just announced the winners of its annual grant program which awards funds to individual artists for the creation or completion of new original work in their discipline. The grants are given in three categories: Literary Arts, Visual Arts and Performing Arts, from moneys provided by the City of San Antonio, prominent …
The poems we are publishing this week were written in response to a painting by one of the most prominent contemporary Western artists, Mark Maggiori. The image was chosen by the Briscoe Western Art Museum. This concludes the 2021 National Poetry Month Ekphrastic Poetry series. 2021 EKPHRASTIC POETRY WINNERS – BRISCOE WESTERN ART MUSEUMArtwork: Once Upon a Time, Mark Maggiori …
Lots of good music is in the works for the weekend and beyond. Musical Bridges Around the World (MBAW) will be presenting its annual International Music Festival again this spring but it will be a virtual fest, taking place on a single day, April 21, from 12, noon, to 4:45 p.m. The event will feature performances by a range of …
By JASMINA WELLINGHOFF, Editor Please describe your job.I oversee the McNay’s curatorial department, which includes our collection, our exhibitions program and our archives. It’s the content part of what we do.Our work involves working with the art, working with collectors, working with artists, working on acquiring and presenting works of art. And we work closely with our education department that …
