Wednesday, November 18th, 2009
John F. Martin supered at San Francisco Opera many years before he took this season off from acting to photograph. He opens a new show on December...
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Wednesday, November 18th, 2009
Joyce DiDonato sang in San Francisco Monday evening and my fellow opera supernumerary Pam DeWeerd sends her bravas. A former Merolini of San...
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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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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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