The Opera Tattler
Reviews of Performances and their Audiences
Month: March 2017
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* Notes *Filter Theatre brought a manic 90-minute multi-media version of Twelfth Night to Cal Performances last night as part of a tour of the state. Directed by Sean Holmes, Shakespeare’s comedy — already chock full of love triangles, cross-dressing, and mistaken identity — involves a lot of music and takes audience participation to a…
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* Notes * The first U.S. tour of Hamilton started in San Francisco on March 10 and already looks like a huge success. There are only two more previews before the show official opens this Thursday but it very much seems like most of the kinks have been worked out, Sunday's evening performance was tight…
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San Francisco Opera is having its first pop-up (pictured left, photograph by Kristen Loken/San Francisco Opera) in the East Bay at the Uptown Nightclub in Oakland. Entitled "Hands-on Opera," there will be lots of audience interaction at this event on Thursday March 23, 2017 at 7:30pm. Curated by Adler stage director Aria Umezawa, the evening will…
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* Notes * Last night the arresting soprano Anna Caterina Antonacci (pictured left, photograph by Cory Weaver/San Francisco Opera) gave the first of three performances of songs by Berlioz, Debussy, and Poulenc paired with a piano version La Voix Humane at SF Opera Lab. Antonacci gave a compelling renditions of the various French songs, all…
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September 14 2017: MTT conducts Saint-Saëns, Tchaikovsky, Bernstein, Ravel; Yo-Yo Ma, celloSeptember 22-24 2017: MTT conducts Bernstein October 6-8 2017: Krzysztof Urbański conducts PendereckiOctober 13-15 2017: Jakub Hrůša conducts Dvořák, Smetana, and Janáček October 26-28 2017: Osmo Vänskä conducts SibeliusOctober 31 2017: Zubin Mehta conducts Israel Philharmonic OrchestraNovember 2-5 2017: MTT conducts Bernstein's The Age…
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