The Opera Tattler
Reviews of Performances and their Audiences
Month: November 2002
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On Friday, May 3, 1996 I saw half of Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice, with dance choreographed by Mark Morris, at Zellerbach Hall. This was my first operatic foray. I liked Euridice’s blazing orange colored shift. On Friday, September 27, 1996 I went to San Francisco Opera’s production of Thomas’ Hamlet at the Orpheum Theatre. Ruth…
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A production of Händel's Alcina from Stuttgart opened yesterday at San Francisco Opera. It garnered enthusiastic and cheerful (perhaps that was just me) booing at the end when the production designer, Anna Viebrock, came out for her curtain call. What a self-indulgent, pretentious, inaccessible staging! It wasn't so much the modern dress, or the little…
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San Francisco Opera’s current production of Leoš Janáček’s Káťa Kabanová starts off with words projected on the scrim, from Alexander Ostrovsky’s The Storm, on which the libretto of Káťa is based. This is during the overture, which could not be more than 5 minutes long. I found the staging to be quite ugly, something about…
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