The Opera Tattler
Reviews of Performances and their Audiences
Month: January 2026
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* Notes * This week Finnish conductor John Storgårds led the San Francisco Symphony in the U.S. premiere of Outi Tarkiainen’s The Rapids of Life (2023). The concise piece concerns child birth and has all kinds of interesting textures and shapes in it. Tarkiainen (pictured, photograph by Stefan Cohen) learned about the death of fellow…
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* Notes * British conductor Edward Gardner led the San Francisco Symphony in an audience-pleasing concert of Holst’s The Planets and Bruch’s Violin Concerto No. 1 in G minor last night. Gardner has a lot of energy and ideas, and the orchestra sounded wonderfully shimmery. I had never heard The Planets live, and the piece…
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