The Opera Tattler
Reviews of Performances and their Audiences
Month: March 2016
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* Notes *SoundBox's latest program, titled Outré, featured French avant-garde music over seven centuries. Beautifully curated, the engaging music ranged from Pérotin's polyphonic Sederunt principes with a cappella male voices and portative organ to Messiaen's Couleurs de la cité celeste for solo piano and instrumental ensemble, including the many gongs seen in the photograph to…
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* Notes *SF Opera Lab began with visual artist William Kentridge's production of Winterreise last weekend. His beautiful meditations on Schubert's Lieder are deeply immersive and the incredible performers, baritone Matthias Goerne and pianist Markus Hinterhäuser though very talented, seemed almost incidental to the work. The effect Kentridge gets with mostly black and white projections…
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My preview of San Francisco Opera's series at the Taube Atrium Theater and new audience initiatives for classical music organizations such as SoundBox, PIVOT, and Berkeley RADICAL is up on KQED Arts. I heard no less than three performances at the Wilsey Center for Opera: the first iteration of ChamberWORKS that I already described, an…
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September 10–25 2016: Lucia di LammermoorNovember 12–26 2016: Il barbiere di Siviglia February 8–24 2017: Kevin Puts' Silent NightApril 15–30 2017: La bohème There are four operas scheduled for next season at Opera San José, including the West Coast premiere of Kevin Put's Silent Night.
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September 7 2016: MTT conducts Steve Reich, Rossini; Renée Fleming, soprano and Susan Graham, mezzo-sopranoSeptember 8 2016: MTT conducts Copland, Vivaldi, Rossini; Susanna Phillips, soprano and Alexander Barantschik, violin September 9-10 2016: MTT conducts Copland, Reich; Susanna Phillips, soprano and eighth blackbird, chamber ensembleSeptember 11 2016: MTT conducts Steve Reich 80th Birthday CelebrationSeptember 14-17 2016:…
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