This is it if you want a feel-good movie where your feet can’t hold still, thanks to the immortal Michael Jackson. Whether you are fifty or...
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Nessun Dorma, Pavarotti's song, reaches the soul and constitutes a highpoint in the enjoyment of opera or of art so if...
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Verdi’s Otello, based on Shakespeare’s Othello, remains Verdi’s most challenging opera while San Francisco’s production on...
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Salome’s stunning opening this Sunday afternoon at San Francisco Opera attracted the usual, an audience of white hair, so I had to wonder how...
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SAN FRANCISCO OPERA PRESENTS RICHARD STRAUSS’ SALOME STARRING NADJA MICHAEL OCTOBER 18–NOVEMBER 1, WAR MEMORIAL OPERA HOUSE...
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The importance of being virtuous A jovial and colorful Salome panel with bass baritone Greer Grimsley, conductor Nicola Luisotti...
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Il Trittico's Il Tabarro (the cloak): As in La Boheme and Butterfly, Puccini strikes me as a misogynist who targets innocent women only to have them...
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Opera at the Baseball Park means a celebration of friends and family, like my first evening with the Krizmans. The couple follow opera and have been...
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Do women still desire a hero? In Wagner’s Die Walkure, our heroine Valkyrie Brunnhilde’s worst nightmare would be to suffer a forced...
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Seattle Opera had 5.9 million in ticket sales and two million in donations according to Alvin in marketing on closing night of the epic Ring series....
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