The Opera Tattler
Reviews of Performances and their Audiences
Category: Alcina
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* Notes * The English Concert, conducted by Maestro Harry Bicket, has been touring Händel's Alcina with a first-rate cast. Yesterday afternoon the group came to Cal Performances in Berkeley with the splendid soprano Karina Gauvin (pictured, photograph by Julien Faugere) in the title role. The singing was uniformly wonderful, from bass Wojtek Gierlach's grave, authoritative…
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December 4 2008- January 15 2009: Don CarloJanuary 16- February 3 2009: The Makropoulos CaseFebruary 5-25 2009: Tristan und IsoldeMarch 10-27 2009: AlcinaMarch 24- April 4 2009: I Due FoscariApril 7- May 10 2009: Il Viaggio a ReimsApril 24- May 17 2009: The Rake's ProgressMay 22- June 12 2009: Assassino nella CattedraleJune 6-17 2009: A…
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A production of Händel's Alcina from Stuttgart opened yesterday at San Francisco Opera. It garnered enthusiastic and cheerful (perhaps that was just me) booing at the end when the production designer, Anna Viebrock, came out for her curtain call. What a self-indulgent, pretentious, inaccessible staging! It wasn't so much the modern dress, or the little…
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