The Opera Tattler
Reviews of Performances and their Audiences
Month: August 2018
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* Notes * West Edge Opera's third production this summer is Luca Francesconi's Quartett, based on the 1980 play by Heiner Müller, which in turn is based on Les Liaisons dangereuses. Both music and drama here are utterly disturbing. The piece debuted at La Scala a scant seven years ago, but has seen great success, and…
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* Notes * Nomadic West Edge Opera is performing this summer in yet another alternative space, this time in Richmond at the Craneway Conference Center, once a Ford plant. The opening show is Debussy’s very wonderfully weird Pelléas et Mélisande. The music is utterly beautiful, the singing was very good, and the production sleek and inventive.…
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* Notes * The Merola Opera Program‘s second opera this year is The Rake’s Progress, performed at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music on August 2 and 4. The singers (pictured left, photograph by Kristen Loken) gamely performed this challenging music in a sleek Baroque meets modern production that suits Stravinsky’s music. The stage is…
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