The Opera Tattler
Reviews of Performances and their Audiences
Category: 2016-2017 Season Previews
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* Notes *My Fall guide of performing arts for children in the Bay Area is up on KQED Arts. * Tattling * My son (pictured with San Francisco Opera's Magic Flute shirt and Fafner stuffed animal, photograph by Scott Grieder) really won't stop listening to Cecilia Bartoli's Mozart Arias CD from 1991. It might be…
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October 22-30 2016: La CenerentolaNovember 11-13 2016: David T. Little's Soldier SongsFebruary 18-26 2017: FalstaffMarch 10-12 2017: Peter Brook's La tragèdie de Carmen April 22-30 2017: La traviata The 2016-2017 season at San Diego Opera was announced April 16. 2016-2017 Season | Official Site
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September 10–25 2016: Lucia di LammermoorNovember 12–26 2016: Il barbiere di Siviglia February 8–24 2017: Kevin Puts' Silent NightApril 15–30 2017: La bohème There are four operas scheduled for next season at Opera San José, including the West Coast premiere of Kevin Put's Silent Night.
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September 7 2016: MTT conducts Steve Reich, Rossini; Renée Fleming, soprano and Susan Graham, mezzo-sopranoSeptember 8 2016: MTT conducts Copland, Vivaldi, Rossini; Susanna Phillips, soprano and Alexander Barantschik, violin September 9-10 2016: MTT conducts Copland, Reich; Susanna Phillips, soprano and eighth blackbird, chamber ensembleSeptember 11 2016: MTT conducts Steve Reich 80th Birthday CelebrationSeptember 14-17 2016:…
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September 26- October 27 2016 : Tristan und IsoldeSeptember 27 2016- May 11 2017: Don GiovanniSeptember 28 2016- January 14 2017: La BohèmeOctober 4-29 2016: L'Italiana in Algeri October 18- November 12 2016: Guillaume TellOctober 28- November 17 2016: JenufaNovember 5 2016- April 20 2017: Aida November 14- December 10 2016: Manon Lescaut December 1-29…
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September 17- October 16 2016: MacbethOctober 19-23 2016: Ted Hearne’s The SourceOctober 29-31 2016: Nosferatu with score from Matthew AucoinNovember 5-27 2016: AkhnatenDecember 2-5 2016 Bernstein’s Wonderful Town (semi-staged)January 28- February 19 2017: The Abduction from the SeraglioFebruary 18- March 19 2017: SalomeMarch 25- April 8 2017: The Tales of HoffmannApril 22- May 13 2017:…
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September 9-30 2016: Andrea ChénierSeptember 10-29 2016: Dream of the Red ChamberSeptember 28- October 15 2016: Don PasqualeOctober 14-29 2016: The Makropulos CaseNovember 5- December 6 2016: AidaNovember 6- December 4 2016: Madama ButterflyMay 31- July 1 2017: RigolettoJune 4-30 2017: Don GiovanniJune 10-July 2 2017: La Bohème David Gockley announced the next season at…
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August 6-20 2016: Le comte OryOctober 15-29 2016: Hansel & GretelJanuary 14-28 2017: La traviataFebruary 25- March 11 2017: Katya KabanovaMay 6-20 2017: The Magic Flute Seattle Opera announced the 2016-2017 season today. The company goes back down to five operas. Official 2016-2017 Site
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My Q&A with composer Mason Bates about his forthcoming Steve Jobs opera commissioned by Santa Fe Opera is on KQED Arts. The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs has a world premiere in 2017. The opera will be workshopped next month in San Francisco in collaboration with Cal Performances and additional support from the San Francisco Conservatory…
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Lyric Opera of Chicago‘s 2014-2015 season includes The Passenger, which will be performed from February 24 to March 15, 2015. The company will also present a new Ring production, directed by David Pountney, starting on October 1, 2016 and continuing in consecutive seasons, followed by three complete cycles in April 2020. The conductor is Sir…