The Opera Tattler
Reviews of Performances and their Audiences
Month: July 2015
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* Notes *My review of West Edge Opera's Lulu and As One is on KQED Arts. The singing was all very strong, especially the leads. I don't focus on the voices in the review, but feel I should mention here that Brenda Patterson (Hannah After in As One) has unreal abilities, she did not seem…
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At the end of Tosca, the title character climbs to a fortress parapet of the Castel Sant'Angelo and leaps to her death. Details of Painting | Performance Review of Tosca
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* Notes * The Merola Opera Program recently returned to Cowell Theater with a double-bill of The Medium and Gianni Schicchi. Directed by Peter Kazaras and conducted by Mark Morash, the Saturday afternoon performance was engaging and energetic. The Medium is a stark, tense work, and Donald Eastman's simple scenery was enhanced by the Kazaras' straightforward…
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We have Last Chinese Unicorn as a special guest on The Opera Tattler, as she encountered an impressively ill-behaved audience member at Nadine Sierra's concert at the Napa Valley Festival del Sole on Friday, July 17. * Notes * A review of the performance is posted on GBOpera. * Tattling * The person next to me in…
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Baritone Gerald Finley, who was to perform the title role of Sweeney Todd (pictured left, photograph courtesy of Marie-Noëlle Robert/Théâtre du Châtelet) at San Francisco Opera, has withdrawn from the production in order to be at home in Great Britain with his wife for the expected birth of their child in mid-September. Brian Mulligan replaces…
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* Notes *My review of Festival Opera's Ariadne auf Naxos is on San Francisco Classical Voice. * Tattling * It did not seem appropriate to mention this in a review, but at this performance I realized that Richard Strauss' music really does make me feel a little queasy. I also got an inkling of why…
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