The Opera Tattler
Reviews of Performances and their Audiences
Month: May 2008
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* Notes * San Francisco Lyric Opera's production of The Turn of the Screw opened last night at Cowell Theatre. The singing was very good all across the board. Interestingly, half of the singers were also in the Oakland Opera Theater production from last October. Brooks Fisher (Miles) has grown quite a bit in the intervening months,…
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Summer Season Press Release | SF Opera’s Official Site | Francesca Zambello’s Official Site for this Production | Bloomberg Preview Summer Season Previews: San Francisco Chronicle | Sentinel | Examiner Interviews of Former Adler Fellow Mark Delavan (Wotan): KQED’s The Do List [MP3] | San Francisco Chronicle | San Jose Mercury News | Contra Costa Times Events: Opera Insight Panel Discussion (June 2, 2008) | Gold Rush…
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WSJ.com Article | The Guardian Article
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The Berlin Philharmonic is to play in Flughafen Tempelhof tonight. Sir Simon Rattle conducts Berlioz’s La Mort de Cléopâtre and Symphonie fantastique, with Susan Graham as the soloist for the former. The damage to the Philharmonic’s building last week was not as bad as feared, and the Grosser Saal was not harmed. AP Article | AFP Article
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Lincoln Center has mice. Read more from Perez Hilton | AP Article
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December 4 2008- January 15 2009: Don CarloJanuary 16- February 3 2009: The Makropoulos CaseFebruary 5-25 2009: Tristan und IsoldeMarch 10-27 2009: AlcinaMarch 24- April 4 2009: I Due FoscariApril 7- May 10 2009: Il Viaggio a ReimsApril 24- May 17 2009: The Rake's ProgressMay 22- June 12 2009: Assassino nella CattedraleJune 6-17 2009: A…
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In case one may have forgotten, San Francisco Opera's season returns next week to the War Memorial Opera House. They've put up new banners and posters, and are sponsoring public radio again. I've looked at my schedule for June 2nd through July 6th, and even if I only hear Das Rheingold and Lucia twice apiece, I…
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Dominique Meyer, Vienna State Opera's director designate, finds tenor Johan Botha "too fat." Read More from Mostly Opera… | OE24 Article (in German) Botha with Nina Stemme in Vienna State Opera's Die Walküre (2007):
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October 2008: Igor Stravinsky's L'Histoire du SoldatMay 2009: Mary Watkin's Dark RiverOctober 2009: Cornelius Boots' An American Faust Official Site
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* Notes * Duke Ellington's Queenie Pie closes this afternoon at Oakland Opera Theater. The unfinished work was arranged and orchestrated by Marc Bolin and the libretto completed by Tommy Shepherd. The opera was extremely charming, especially the first half, which takes place in Harlem. The sets looked great, especially the city scene back drops.…
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