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Category: Don Pasquale
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Production Web Site | SF Opera’s Blog Reviews of San Francisco Opera’s Don Pasquale (Act III pictured left with Maurizio Muraro and Lucas Meachem, photograph by Cory Weaver) are positive. Performance Reviews: San Francisco Chronicle | San José Mercury News | San Francisco Examiner | San Francisco Classical Voice | Not For Fun Only |…
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* Notes * After an absence of over thirty years from the War Memorial stage, a new production of Don Pasquale opened Wednesday at San Francisco Opera. Inspired by Italian comedic movies from the 50s and 60s, the slapstick staging from Laurent Pelly features a charming turntable set (Act II pictured left, photograph by Cory Weaver)…
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* Notes * Don Pasquale was performed by the Merola Opera Program at Cowell Theater recently. Warren Jones conducted a swift and lively performance on Saturday afternoon. The production from Nic Muni was entertaining but not entirely coherent. Muni's direction involved the action taking place on a film set, complete with tempestuous starlet and mollifying director…
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* Notes * At first glance, the revival of Don Pasquale (Act II, Scene 2 pictured left, photograph by Ken Howard) at San Diego Opera simply looks like someone took a set and costumes for Fanciulla del West and used it for Donizetti's work. Thankfully, there is much more to director David Gately's elaborate production, which…
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* Notes * Don Pasquale had its 133rd performance at the Metropolitan Opera on Friday night. From what I could see at Score Desk 2, the sets and costumes, designed by Rolf Langenfass, were entirely traditional. One can only imagine Otto Schenk's 2006 production was likewise. The orchestra sounded lucid under James Levine. The trumpet solo…
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October 18-26 2008: Samson et DalilaNovember 15-23 2008: The Grapes of WrathFebruary 7-15 2009: Don PasqualeMarch 28- April 5 2009: La BohèmeMay 2-10 2009: L'Italiana in Algeri Mezzo-soprano Stephanie Blythe is singing Dalila, which should be interesting. Vivica Genaux and William Burden sing the lead roles in L'Italiana, as they did in San Francisco a…
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November 14-22 2008: Le Nozze Di FigaroDecember 5-13 2008: Die FledermausJanuary 23-21 2009: Roberto DevereuxFebruary 13-21 2009: La BohèmeMarch 6-14 2009: L'Italiana in Algeri James Valenti is having his Dallas Opera debut as Rodolfo. William Burden is singing Lindoro in L'Italiana in Algeri, in the production San Francisco Opera audiences saw in 2005, directed by…
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The Merola Opera Program is an 11-week summer program of performance and study under the auspices of the San Francisco Opera. The program culminates in two fully staged and costumed productions, in this case, Donizetti’s Don Pasquale and Britten’s The Rape of Lucretia. The two performances of the former production were held at the Yerba…
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