The Opera Tattler

Reviews of Performances and their Audiences

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Month: October 2022

  • Ars Minerva’s Astianatte

    * Notes * Ars Minerva was back with a seventh modern world premiere last weekend, this time Leonardo Vinci‘s 1725 Astianatte at ODC Theater in San Francisco. The Sunday matinée featured lots of beautiful singing from some familiar voices. The plot concerns the aftermath of the Trojan War, specifically focusing on Astyanax (Astianatte in Italian), son…

  • SF Opera’s Dialogues of the Carmelites

    * Notes * Poulenc's Dialogues des Carmélites (Act II pictured, photograph by Cory Weaver) opened at San Francisco Opera last weekend after an absence of forty years on the War Memorial stage. The stark production from Olivier Py that features a lot of flat cut outs, shadows, and chalk was moving. The music and singing were…

  • PBO’s Theodora

    * Notes * Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra and Chorale opened the new season with Händel's Theodora last night at Herbst Theatre in San Francisco. There was much beautiful singing about fruit and lack there of, though not from the brilliant soprano Julie Roset (pictured, photograph by David Noles) in the title role. Maestro Richard Egarr has a…