The Opera Tattler
Reviews of Performances and their Audiences
Month: April 2016
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* Notes *Opera Parallèle has opened yet another impressive production with Peter Maxwell Davies' chamber work The Lighthouse, which has a three performance run this weekend at Z Space in San Francisco. Scored for only about a dozen instrumentalists and three singers, the music is rich and vivid. The tense atmosphere of the narrative, which…
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* Notes *SF Opera Lab hosted a cine-concert version of Les Triplettes de Belleville in mid-April. The 2003 animated film was projected on the south wall of the Atrium Theater as composer-conductor Benoît Charest not only lead seven instrumentalists and the chanteuse Doriane Faberg, but also played guitar. The last evening of the run, on…
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* Notes *Opera San José's 2015-2016 season ends with a musically impressive but dramatically wanting A Streetcar Named Desire (pictured left with Matthew Hanscom, Ariana Strahl, and Stacey Tappan; photograph by Pat Kirk), which opened last weekend. The orchestra has never sounded better and there is much fine singing, but the minimalist production is not completely…
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October 22-30 2016: La CenerentolaNovember 11-13 2016: David T. Little's Soldier SongsFebruary 18-26 2017: FalstaffMarch 10-12 2017: Peter Brook's La tragèdie de Carmen April 22-30 2017: La traviata The 2016-2017 season at San Diego Opera was announced April 16. 2016-2017 Season | Official Site
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* Notes *SF Opera Lab had its first new production premiere last night with Svadba-Wedding last night. The a cappella opera for six female voices by Serbian Canadian composer Ana Sokolović is the perfect scale for the Atrium Theater and director Michael Cavanagh's made use of the whole space. Sokolović's opera is pretty without being…
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