The Opera Tattler
Reviews of Performances and their Audiences
Month: September 2016
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* Notes *My Fall guide of performing arts for children in the Bay Area is up on KQED Arts. * Tattling * My son (pictured with San Francisco Opera's Magic Flute shirt and Fafner stuffed animal, photograph by Scott Grieder) really won't stop listening to Cecilia Bartoli's Mozart Arias CD from 1991. It might be…
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* Notes *My preview of San Francisco Opera's Dream of the Red Chamber up on KQED Arts. The opera, by Bright Sheng and David Henry Hwang, premieres on Saturday. * Tattling * Co-chairwoman of the committee for the world premiere Doreen Woo Ho (pictured left at a press event with designer Tim Yip, General Director…
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THE DO LIST By Charlise Tiee Sept 8, 2016 | Updated Jan 11, 2024 Tim Yip, Bright Sheng and Stan Lai: Three of the key creatives behind SF Opera’s new world premiere ‘Dream of the Red Chamber’ (Photo: Scott Wall) Why has Asia — and China in particular — held such a fascination for western opera composers…
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ARTS & CULTURE By Charlise Tiee Sept 8, 2016 | Updated Sept 19, 2024 Opera Parallèle’s Hands-on-Opera program works with elementary schools to produce children’s operas. In 2013, Opera Parallèle’s Hands-on-Opera program produced ‘The Spider’s Revenge’ with Daniel Webster Elementary. (Photo: Courtesy of Opera Parallèle) A few weeks ago my 2-and-a-half-year-old son asked to go to the…
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* Notes *My review of Oakland Opera Theater's Uksus up on KQED Arts. * Tattling * People next to me and behind me took photographs and videos of the opera, heedless of the sounds their devices made.
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THE DO LIST By Charlise Tiee Sept 1, 2016 | Updated Jan 11, 2024 A scene from Act III of Erling Wold’s ‘Uksus’ as performed by the Oakland Opera Theater. (Photo: Oakland Opera Theater) Opera is a difficult business. So much can go wrong. Even if you have a fine composer, excellent musicians, a strong conductor, and…
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