The Opera Tattler
Reviews of Performances and their Audiences
Month: November 2010
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The Opera Tattler is pleased to announce an exclusive collaboration with GBOpera, the Italian-based online opera magazine. Founded in 2008 by Giorgio Bagnoli, the publication features reviews of shows staged in the major theaters of Northern and Central Italy, the latest stories in the opera world, and interviews with some of the most prominent singers and personalities…
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Whilst the Opera Tattler attended the opening performance of The Makropulos Case at the War Memorial Opera House last Wednesday, the Last Chinese Unicorn was at the nearby Herbst Theatre for a program presented by San Francisco Performances. * Notes * As soon as the lovely Measha Brueggergosman stepped on stage she lit up the entire…
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* Notes * Michael Francis is currently conducting San Francisco Symphony in a program of Milhaud’s La Création du monde, Rufus Wainwright’s Five Shakespeare Sonnets, and Weill’s Symphony No. 2. Last night’s performance began with the jazz-influenced piece by Milhaud. The small ensemble did not appear to include a viola. The saxophone, clarinet, and oboe were particularly…
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Production Web Site | Press Photographs Reviews: Civic Center | FT.com | Not For Fun Only | The Opera Tattler | Out West Arts | San Francisco Chronicle | SFCV | San Francisco Examiner| The Wall Street Journal
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Production Web Site | Press Photographs With Luisotti and Vassileva: The Opera Tattler | San Francisco Chronicle | SFCV | San Francisco Examiner With Kovatchev and Dessì: Not For Fun Only | The Opera Tattler | San Francisco Chronicle | SFCV | SFist
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* Notes * The November performances of Madama Butterfly at San Francisco Opera star Daniela Dessì in the title role. Dessì's vocal entrance was muted, at least on the orchestra level, and one could barely make out the lines of her voice. Once she was on stage, she was audible, though not terribly robust. She…
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* Notes * The opening performance of San Francisco Opera’s The Makropulos Case was spectacular. The co-production with Finnish National Opera, from Frank Philipp Schlössmann, is stylish, the set design employs cross-hatching that recalls the work of Edward Gorey. The set is on a quiet turntable that was spun during the first overture. The use…
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* Notes * A meal was arranged for a certain pernicious Belgian at The French Laundry. The attendees included the authors of Not For Fun Only, Dig Dug, Something Something This Way Comes, plus the Opera Tattler and Miss LCU. We made our way to Yountville, tasted a bit of wine at the Girard Winery tasting room,…
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* Notes * The Mutter-Bashmet-Harrell Trio played a program of Beethoven yesterday night at Davies Hall in San Francisco. The performance started with a charming rendition of the String Trio in C minor, Opus 9, No. 3. Anne-Sophie Mutter, Yuri Bashmet, and Lynn Harrell all have a different shape to their playing, but it seemed they had…
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