Monday, November 9th, 2009
Verdi’s Otello, based on Shakespeare’s Othello, remains Verdi’s most challenging opera while San Francisco’s production on...
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Patricia Racette earned atonement for all with her heart rendering performance of a young mother torn from her family and baby in Suor Angelica, the...
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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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DER RING DES NIBELUNGEN (THE RING OF THE NIBELUNG) SAN FRANCISCO OPERA ANNOUNCES CASTING FOR RING CYCLE JUNE–JULY 2011 THREE CYCLES OF...
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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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SAN FRANCISCO OPERA PRESENTS VERDI’S IL TROVATORE FEATURING SONDRA RADVANOVSKY, STEPHANIE BLYTHE, MARCO BERTI AND DMITRI HVOROSTOVSKY SEPTEMBER...
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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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Tweeting your own song? Have you made your contribution to the line-by-line Covent Garden opera being composed on Twitter? The ROH will set the web-...
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Play opera!Garlic fries and beer and the roar of the crowd when the diva delivers her kiss of Tosca to the evil Scarpia, those are things you...
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