The Opera Tattler

Reviews of Performances and their Audiences

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Month: January 2020

  • LA Opera’s 2020-2021 Season

    September 26- October 18 2020: Il TrovatoreOctober 18– November 7 2020: TannhäuserNovember 21–December 13 2020: La CenerentolaJanuary 30– February 21 2021: Don GiovanniFebruary 27- March 21 2021: Missy Mazzoli’s Breaking the Waves April 15-18 2021: Du Yun’s In Our Daughter’s EyesApril 30 2021: Tamerlano (concert version)May 15- June 5 2021: Aida Los Angeles Opera announced…

  • PBO’s Aci, Galatea e Polifemo

    * Notes * Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra and Maestro Nicholas McGegan (pictured, photograph by Suzanne Karp) opened a run of Händel's Aci, Galatea e Polifemo last night at the ODC Theater in San Francisco. The fully-staged co-production with the Brooklyn-based National Sawdust is absolutely menacing but beautifully acted, sung, and played. The short piece is not a…

  • SF Opera’s 2020-2021 Season

    September 11 2020: Opening Night Concert with Albina Shagimuratova, Pene Pati, and Eun Sun KimSeptember 12– October 1 2020: FidelioSeptember 13– October 4 2020: RigolettoOctober 6–28 2020: Così fan tutteOctober 29- November 22 2020: Poul Ruders’ The Handmaid’s TaleNovember 15–December 6 2020: La Bohème April 25- May 16 2021: Il Barbiere di SivigliaApril 27- May…

  • Seattle Opera’s 2020-2021 Season

    August 8-22 2020: Cavalleria rusticana & PagliacciOctober 17-31 2020: The Elixir of LoveJanuary 16-30 2021: Don Giovanni February 27- March 13 2021: Johnathan Dove's Flight May 8-23 2021: Tosca Seattle Opera announced the 2020-2021 season today. Lidiya Yankovskaya conducts Don Giovanni with Daniel Okulitch and Jared Bybee sharing the title role. Creative Director of Opera…