The Opera Tattler
Reviews of Performances and their Audiences
Month: May 2009
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June 7 2009: The Bonesetter's DaughterJuly 5 2009: L'Elisir d'AmoreAugust 2 2009: IdomeneoSeptember 6 2009: ToscaOctober 4 2009: Opera in the ParkDecember 6 2009: La Traviata Radio broadcasts of San Francisco Opera performances air the first Sunday of each month on Classical KDFC. San Francisco Opera | KDFC
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Oakland Opera Theater‘s new house is nearly finished, though the façade is not complete and some Health Department requirements need to be met. The next production, Händel’s Agrippina, is slated for July 24-26, 2009.
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August 29 2009- April 5 2010: Tristan und IsoldeSeptember 6- October 10 2009: La TraviataSeptember 5- November 14 2009: Il Barbiere di Siviglia September 7-22 2009: Die Entführung aus dem SerailSeptember 15-17 2009: Così fan Tutte September 23- October 25 2009 : Der RosenkavalierOctober 1- April 23 2010: SalomeOctober 24 2009- March 30 2010: Simon Boccanegra November 1-15 2009: LohengrinNovember…
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* Notes * In his second week of performances with San Francisco Symphony, Bernard Labadie conducts an all-Händel program. The Thursday performance in San Francisco started quite impressively with Zadok the Priest. The piece ranged from beautifully stately to entertainingly bombastic. The trumpets were very fastidious, and the chorus perfectly lucid. My heart is inditing lacked the immediacy of the…
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* Notes * A performance of recent songs by Jake Heggie closed Music at Meyer's 2009 Season on Monday. Emily Albrink began the evening by singing Rise and Fall, four songs set to texts by Gene Scheer, accompanied by Heggie himself on piano. Albrink's soprano is cold and bell-like, she was particularly good in the last…
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January 30- February 7 2010: La Bohème February 20-28 2010: Nabucco March 13-21 2010: Roméo et Juliette April 17-25 2010: La Traviata San Diego Opera is only having four operas next year instead of the usual five, but the casting remains strong. Piotr Beczala sings Rodolfo in Bohème, as he did in San Francisco last…
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* Notes * A revival of Madama Butterfly closes San Diego Opera's 2009 season. Musically, the opening last night was very strong. Edoardo Müller roused a vigorous performance from the orchestra, the tempi were never sluggish, but never overly taxing either. The chorus was together and created a straightforwardly lucid sound. The principals were also quite…
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* Notes * This week Bernard Labadie conducts San Francisco Symphony in a program of Haydn and Mozart. The Friday performance in San Francisco began with Haydn's Sinfonia concertante in B-flat major. The strings sounded precise and the brass clear, the overall effect was refined but jaunty. Dan Nobuhiko Smiley (violin), Peter Wyrick (cello), Jonathan Fischer…
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Hardly on the ball here, but The Opera Tattler puzzled to see mezzo-soprano Catherine Cook in the role of Tosca in the movie Milk. One supposes it would be even weirder if she had been actually singing. Cathy Cook’s Official Site | Milk
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