Once again, thanks to the good graces of the San Diego Opera, I (along with cartoonist Eric Shanower) was invited to sit in and sketch an opera’s dress rehearsal. This time, the opera was a 20th Century one: John Adams’s Nixon in China. I have to confess that I approached this one with some trepidation…
Once again, thanks to the good graces of the San Diego Opera (now celebrating it’s 50th season, thank you very much!), I was invited to do sketches of Mozart’s opera, Don Giovanni. This opera has long been a favorite of mine (I even parodied it– along with Geo. Bernard Shaw’s “sequel,” Don Juan in Hell– in…
Little Fish Studios of Ocean Beach in San Diego (under the auspices of San Diego Comic Fest), hosted an exhibit of sketches and illustrations done at the San Diego Opera by such local cartoonists as Scott Benefiel, Marty Davis, Rebecca Hicks, Joe Sanabria, Eric Shanower, and yours truly. The operas included A Masked Ball, Don…
Here are some sketches I did as a result of watching the dress rehearsal of the San Diego Opera’s production of Don Quixote. Thanks to a brainstorm from SD Opera’s ace PR Director, Ed Wilensky, I got the gig along with several other cartoonists in the San Diego area. Ed’s a longtime comics fan and thought…