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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Merolini 2009, exhibiting personality and intelligence and billed by SFO as the newest young opera talent, quipped and laughed their way through a Q...
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Anna Netrebko live and in person at SFO, the legend motoring on stage and into the Paris jazz age like royalty. Diva diamond tiara and...
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Summer Opera Events in San Francisco and the East BayIf you enjoyed the warm summer night at the ballpark with the free simulcast of Tosca by SFO, the...
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Director Francesca Zambello's Porgy & Bess received a standing O when it opened last night at SFO, a big production with a big heart. Siggy...
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The Gershwins' Porgy & Bess. It’s not a Black opera. It’s the bigtime. Dr. Marcia Green talked Porgy & Bess at the intimate and...
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Lester Lynch will perform the role of the womanizing Crown in Porgy & Bess instead of Gregg Baker, who plays Crown in the DVD. Here's...
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When does David Gockley call upon Francesca Zambello to direct? When an opera has a history of being not only spectacular but racially controversial?...
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Obama’s inauguration speech creates an historic environment for an historic American classic, as Porgy & Bess comes to the San Francisco...
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Fred Matthews sang Porgy & Bess in 756 performances. He probably needs little rehearsal when Gershwin's American classic comes to San Francisco...
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