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Isabella Bywater, a set and costume designer from the UK, is the director of San Diego Opera's production of Puccini's La boheme . In this fascinating, in-depth interview, she talks about her mentor Jonathan Miller (the original director of this particular production) and about her approach to both design and stage direction. This is a wonderful conversation with Education Director Nicolas Reveles and will be a great introduction to this wonderful production, never before seen in San Diego.

A new season, new leadership, and new board of directors, well, at least some things stay the same. Wednesday's rehearsal of La boheme brought our official unofficial cartoonist back to San Diego Opera to live sketch the opera. Eric Shanower was the artist that started Comic Artist Night at the Opera a few years back and he was back this week in full form. You can see some of his sketches below. Eric is still writing Age of Bronze, his comic book series that tells the complete story of the Trojan War, published by Image Comics. Currently being puclished by IDW also is a four-issue comic book series that he wrote, Little Nemo: Return to Slumberland with artwork by Gabriel Rodriguez. IDW is also currently re-packaging his Oz graphic novels in oversize volumes as Adventures in Oz. Forthcoming in September 2015 from HarperCollins is his short comics story "Love Packs Heat" in the anthology Taking Aim: Power and Pain, Teens and Guns edited by Michael Cart. Also coming i

Debut artist Harold Meers talks about his background, his experience with the role or Rodolfo and roles he sees for himself in the future in an interview with Nicolas Reveles.

As we look forward to opening night of  La boheme,  let's hear a few words from our Mimi, soprano Alyson Cambridge, in an interview conducted by our Director of Education and Community Engagement, Nicolas Reveles.

Rehearsals for our first opera of the season are underway! In this podcast Dr. Nic sits down with conductor Karen Keltner to talk about the music of La boheme .

Dr. Nic Reveles takes a look at San Diego Opera's upcoming season, The Company's 50th in this podcast.

Nicolas Reveles, Director of Education and Community Engagement for San Diego Opera, looks forward to the 50th Anniversary Season with a 'thank you' to all of our supporters over the past year.