The Opera Tattler
Reviews of Performances and their Audiences
Month: August 2014
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Mezzo-soprano Daveda Karanas, who was scheduled to appear at San Francisco Opera as Adalgisa in Norma this fall, has withdrawn from the production for personal reasons. She is to be replaced by Jamie Barton (pictured left) for five of the opera's seven performances. A casting update for the September 19 and 23 performances will be…
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Act I, Scene 8 of Dolores Claiborne takes place on July 4, 1963. The annual lawn party at Vera’s estate is being held. Details of Painting | Performance Review of Dolores Claiborne
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The Met has secured a new labor agreement with IATSE Local One, the union representing the company’s stagehands. Final negotiations are to take place with eight smaller unions representing behind-the-scenes Met personnel. All are expected to reach agreements, preventing a potential labor crisis at the nation’s largest performing arts organization. Press Release | Official Web…
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According to a press release from this morning, the Met has reached agreements with two of its largest unions, AGMA and Local 802. The contract deadline has been extended through midnight on Tuesday, August 19 to allow Local One and the other remaining unions with unsettled contracts more time to secure new deals with the…
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* Notes * The Merola Opera Program concluded 2014 with the Merola Grand Finale last night. The standouts were certainly sopranos. Amanda Woodbury’s Ophélie was translucent in “Hélas! votre âme” and her duet (“Doute de la lumière”) with Edward Nelson as Hamlet. Karen Chia-Ling Ho made for an impressively deranged Margherita in “L’altra notte in…
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Soprano Krassimira Stoyanova, who was scheduled to appear at San Francisco Opera as Amelia in six performances of Un Ballo in Maschera this fall, has withdrawn from the production because of health reasons. She is to be replaced by Julianna Di Giacomo (pictured left), who was to sing Amelia on October 22. Production Web Site…
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San Francisco Conservatory of Music alumna Julie Adams (pictured left) was one of the winners of Met Council Auditions this year. She sang the role of Blanche DuBois in André Previn’s A Streetcar Named Desire as a participant of the Merola Opera Program this summer. The program concludes this Saturday with the Grand Finale. What…
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In Act II, Scene 2 of Mefistofele, we observe that a witches' sabbath is about to take place. Details of Painting | Performance Review of Mefistofele
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* Notes * West Edge Opera‘s summer festival continued at the Ed Roberts Campus in Berkeley last weekend. Yesterday was the Bay Area premiere of Jake Heggie’s The End of the Affair. Again West Edge Opera was able make the most of the venue, despite the fact that the space is unconventional. The production, from…
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* Notes * Merola Opera Program‘s latest production of Don Giovanni (pictured left, photograph by Kristen Loken) opened with the first of two performances on Thursday night. Director James Darrah’s production goes against the text and the drama, with most of the action taking place in an artist’s studio, designed by Emily MacDonald and…
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