The Opera Tattler
Reviews of Performances and their Audiences
Month: June 2002
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Da tempeste il legno infranto,se poi salvo giunge in porto,non sa più che desiar.Così il cor tra pene e pianto,or che trova il suo conforto,torna l’anima a bear. * * * I managed to get a standing room ticket for last night’s performance of Giulio Cesare, though I was somewhat intimidated by figuring out the…
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Last night I attended San Francisco Opera’s production of Bizet’s Carmen with a certain friend. We agreed that the program’s cover, which has been used on every program all season, is hideous. The work featured is Diebenkorn’s Blue Surround (1982), that involves color aquatint, spit bite aquatint, etching offset, and drypoint with scraping. The dimensions…
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The San Francisco Opera performance that I had been waiting for all season finally arrived, and I was not disappointed. Händel’s Giulio Cesare has quite a lot of beautiful and compelling music in it. It is an opera seria that premiered in 1724 at London’s Royal Academy of Music, and the title role was created…
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