The Opera Tattler
Reviews of Performances and their Audiences
Month: June 2008
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* Program * “Per me giunto” from Don CarloYoung Joo An, baritone and Allen Perriello, piano “Sgombra è la sacra selva” from NormaNatasha Flores, mezzo-soprano and Alan Hamilton, piano “La donna è mobile” from RigolettoNathaniel Peake, tenor and Dennis Doubin, piano “Tu che di gel sei cinta” from TurandotRena Harms, soprano and Carl Pantle, piano…
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* Notes * If the final dress rehearsal of Ariodante last night was any indication, I will likely go to as many performances of it as possible. The cast is strong, of course Susan Graham and Ruth Ann Swenson are wonderful, but debuting Sonia Prina, Veronica Cangemi, and Richard Croft are not disappointing either. The…
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Yesterday evening Kip Cranna moderated the last San Francisco Opera Insight Panel Discussion of the season. The three panelists were conductor and Houston Grand Opera's Music Director Patrick Summers, mezzo-soprano Susan Graham (Ariodante), and bass-baritone Eric Owens (King of Scotland). Kip Cranna began the evening by asking which opera this summer was in Italian, set in Scotland,…
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Opera Boston has commissioned Zhou Long to compose Madame White Snake, a new opera based on a Chinese legend. Cerise Lim Jacobs' libretto for the opera is in English and the work will premiere on February 24, 2010. Press Release [PDF] | Madame White Snake | Opera Boston Official Site
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Opera director Lindy Hume will be the Festival Director of the Sydney Festival for 2010-2012. ABC News Article | Sydney Festival Official Site
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The 29 Merolini for 2008 were interviewed by San Francisco Opera Center Director Sheri Greenawald and Merola Opera Board of Directors Chairman Jayne Davis yesterday evening, in the Green Room of the War Memorial Veterans Building. We learned that baritone Young Joo An went to high school with current Adler Fellow Ji Young Yang and…
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Dr. Clifford (Kip) Cranna began his 30th year with San Francisco Opera on June 4, 2008. He will receive the San Francisco Opera Medal before the second performance of Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor this season, on Friday, June 20. Cranna was named director of music administration for San Francisco Opera at the end of last month, and was…
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Matthew Shilvock has been appointed Assistant General Director of San Francisco Opera. Press Release [PDF] | San Francisco Opera
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Charles Wuorinen's operatic version of Brokeback Mountain will premiere in 2013 at New York City Opera. AP Article| Press Release
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* Notes * Alessandro Striggio's Missa sopra "Ecco sì beato giorno" in cinque corri divisa had its American premiere this evening at the First Congregational Church of Berkeley. The evening began with His Majestys Sagbutts and Cornetts playing three pieces from 1618 by Giovanni Battista Grillo (c.1565?-1622): Canzon Quarta, Canzon in Ecco, and Sonata Prima.…
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