The Opera Tattler
Reviews of Performances and their Audiences
Month: February 2017
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* Notes * Yesterday SF Opera Lab opened a second season with Ted Hearne's disturbing oratorio The Source. The 2012 piece concerns Chelsea Manning's disclosure to WikiLeaks of classified material about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Unconventionally staged with the four singers dispersed in the audience (Isaiah Robinson pictured left, photograph by Stefan Cohen)…
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* Notes * Last weekend San Francisco Symphony continued celebrations for John Adams' 70th birthday with The Gospel According to the Other Mary. The oratorio was tastefully semi-staged (Daniel Bubeck, Brian Cummings, Nathan Medley, Jay Hunter Morris, Kelley O'Connor, and Tamara Mumford pictured left; photograph by Stefan Cohen) and featured a truly resplendent cast. The…
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September 25- December 16 2017: NormaSeptember 26- October 28 2017: Les Contes d’HoffmannSeptember 27- October 14 2017: Die ZauberflöteOctober 2 2017- March 10 2018: La BohèmeOctober 12 2017- April 5 2018: TurandotOctober 26- November 21 2017: The Exterminating AngelNovember 2 2017- March 16 2018: Madama ButterflyNovember 11- December 2 2017: Thaïs November 24- December 2…
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* Notes *The Pulitzer Prize winning Silent Night by Kevin Puts and Mark Campbell is a fine choice for Opera San José, which gave the West Coast premiere last night. It was a worthy challenge for the company, which has a many youthful repertory members, all of whom seemed to rise to the occasion. Campbell's…
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* Notes *Opera Parallèle has opened another near impeccable production with Jonathan Dove's Flight, which has a three performance run this weekend at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco. Featuring an ensemble of 10 vocalists, the cast, mostly alumni of the Merola Opera Program, is incredibly strong. The small orchestra of 29…
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June 11 2017: Merola Opera Program 60th Anniversary Gala & ConcertJuly 6-9 2017: Schwabacher Summer ConcertJuly 20-22 2017: La Serva Padrona/ Savitri/ The BearAugust 3-5 2017: La CenerentolaAugust 19 2017: Merola Grand Finale The Merola Opera Opera program announced its 60th anniversary season this afternoon at the John M. Bryan Education Studio in San Francisco.…
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September 23- October 15 2017: Orphee et EurydiceOctober 7- November 3 2017: RigolettoNovember 1-30 2017: Die WalküreNovember 19- December 10 2017: The Pearl Fishers December 5 2017- January 27 2018: TurandotFebruary 4-28 2018: I PuritaniFebruary 17- March 16 2018: Così fan tutteMarch 3-21 2018: Faust April 27- May 20 2018Jesus Christ Superstar Nov. 1-30 The…
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THE DO LIST By Charlise Tiee Feb 8, 2017 | Updated Jan 11, 2024 Scene from Ted Hearne’s oratorio ‘The Source’. (Photo: Noah Stern Weber) There are so many contemporary operas happening in the Bay Area in February, it looks like we might have an all-out regional festival on our hands. While this operatic flowering is more or…
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