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The Trouble with Traviata

In a La Traviata production that lacked verve on the whole, Soprano Jouvanca Jean-Baptiste carried the night. Opera San Jose audiences might...
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Two Slices of Life

Opera San Jose presented two operas this Saturday night: La Voix Humaine (1959) by Francis Poulenc (1899-1963) and Jean Cocteau (1889-1963)...
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OSJ's La Bohème Carries to Opera's World

At its best, Opera transports us to another reality. It is an existence in which passion rules and every emotion is expressed through song. It is a...
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Anna Karenina's West Coast Premier

Driving back from the Opera, I heard on NPR that money can actually buy happiness, albeit up to a certain point ($75,000). All the money in the...
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Rarely Performed "Rondine" Stirs the Soul

We are used to hearing Puccini in epic tragedies set in exotic locales or infused with verismo political undertones. La Rondine is about the...
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Opera San José's 'Swallow' soars like a hawk

This season of Opera San José comes to a close with Puccini’s La rondine (The Swallow), which opened at the California Theatre on...
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