The Opera Tattler
Reviews of Performances and their Audiences
Month: March 2010
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James Conlon has received a Lifetime Achievement Award from Istituto Italiano di Cultura in Los Angeles. James Conlon | Istituto Italiano di Cultura
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The winners this year are sopranos Leah Crocetto, Lori Guilbeau, and Rachel Willis-Sørensen; tenor Nathaniel Peake; and baritone Elliot Madore. Official Site | Press Release from SF Opera [PDF]
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Francesca Zambello will be the next general and artistic manager of Glimmerglass Opera, starting September 1, 2010. Press Release [PDF] | Official Site
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* Notes * Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France played a program consisting only of Ravel in San Francisco last Sunday evening. Myung-Whun Chung had the musicians well in hand, he was always ahead of them, and his cues seemed quite precise, despite the fact that he did not use a score for any of the pieces.…
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* Notes * San Francisco Symphony just finished 4 performances a program that included a world premiere of Kissine's Post-scriptum and Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto with Christian Tetzlaff. The musicians seemed quite focused during the Kissine, they were clearly paying a good deal of attention to Michael Tilson Thomas on the podium. The result was a diaphanous…
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September 7 2010: Gala with Jessye Norman September 22-25 2010: Harrison, Copland, Tchaikovsky September 29- October 3 2010: Ravel, Debussy, Berlioz October 7-9 2010: Revueltas, Villa-Lobos, Varèse, Beethoven October 14-17 2010: Bychkov conducts Ravel, Rachmaninoff, Walton October 21-24 2010: Conlon conducts Wagner, Bruch, Dvořák; Joshua Bell, violin October 24 2010: Dresden Staatskapelle plays Beethoven and…
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