The Opera Tattler
Reviews of Performances and their Audiences
Month: December 2003
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Staatsoper Stuttgart’s production of Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk came to San Francisco for six performances last November. The set was stark and geometric. The choreography was highly artificial and omnipresent, at times it was effective. Soprano Solveig Kringelborn was excellent as the lead, Katerina Lvovna Ismailova. Her voice was powerful, but she had good control…
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Les cités nouvellesOù Dieu me guidaNe me semblaient pas belles,Tu n’étais pas là;Tout durant l’absenceEst indifférence. Fromental Halévy’s La Juive, a grand opera in five acts, premiered in 23. February 1835. Günter Krämer’s production just finishing up now at the Metropolitan Opera first premiered on 23. October 1999 at the Wiener Staatsoper. I attended the…
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Way back in November 2003 I attended a couple performances of Don Carlos at San Francisco Opera. They did a five act French version, which is unusual. The two leads, Marina Mescheriakova as Elisabeth and Mark Duffin as Don Carlos, were not particularly impressive. The former was shrill and stiff, the latter was too quiet.…
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