The Opera Tattler
Reviews of Performances and their Audiences
Month: December 2016
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ARTS & CULTURE By Charlise Tiee Dec 16, 2016 | Updated Sep 19, 2024 Indian Springs in Calistoga boasts an Olympic sized hot mineral pool. (Photo: Indian Springs) Let’s face it, 2016 has been a tough year. If your friends and family are anything like mine, they’ve been stressed out by the untimely deaths of David Bowie and…
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* Notes *San Francisco Opera's Adler Fellows had an especially impressive annual concert at Herbst Theater last Friday. Supported by the talents of the San Francisco Opera Orchestra and Maestro Jordi Bernacer, the new resident conductor, the singers gave one electrifying performance after another. San Francisco Opera has been keeping the Adlers busy this fall,…
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* Notes *Los Angeles Opera's recent Akhnaten, which closed last Sunday with a matinee performance, was nothing short of spectacular. With Philip Glass' hypnotic score, an excellent cast, and a grand production featuring acrobats and a flexible, multi-level set, it was hard to look away from the stage for even a second. This is the…
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* Notes * The day before Thanksgiving last week I went to hear Maestro Simon Rattle and the Berlin Philharmonic play a second performance at Davies Hall on their current tour. The concerts mark Rattle's farewell as principal conductor as he will not extend his contract when it ends in 2018. The orchestra sounded clean…
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