The Opera Tattler
Reviews of Performances and their Audiences
Category: Frederica von Stade
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* Notes * Last Sunday and Monday San Francisco Conservatory Opera Theatre presented works by Robert Schumann, Clara Schumann, and Johannes Brahms. The performance, entitled Trio Appassionato, was held as a salon in which the biographies of aforementioned musicians were covered. Frederica von Stade (pictured left) hosted, with Darryl Cooper and Curt Pajer accompanying four…
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Dawn Harms is conducting Symphony Parnassus in a spring concert this weekend with guest artist Frederica von Stade at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. Harms also plays violin in the San Francisco Opera Orchestra and is Associate Concertmaster of New Century Chamber Orchestra. She spoke with The Opera Tattler on March 19, 2012. How…
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* Notes * A performance of recent songs by Jake Heggie closed Music at Meyer's 2009 Season on Monday. Emily Albrink began the evening by singing Rise and Fall, four songs set to texts by Gene Scheer, accompanied by Heggie himself on piano. Albrink's soprano is cold and bell-like, she was particularly good in the last…
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* Notes * NPR's Wait Wait… Don't Tell Me! returned to Cal Performances last night. Host Peter Sagal was as entertaining as ever, as was official judge and scorekeeper Carl Kasell. Kasell was particularly cute when he high-fived panelists Tom Bodett, Paula Poundstone, and Mo Rocca. The show ran long, so for 2 hours instead of 90…
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The world premiere of Jake Heggie's Last Acts (Three Decembers) occurred on Leap Day at Houston Grand Opera, the first of eight performances. The reviews do not look favorable so far, laughter was mentioned, as was Broadway. The same cast is set to sing when the production comes to Zellerbach Hall in Berkeley at the…
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February 17-19 2008: Orpheus & Euridice March 14-16 2008: Enoch Arden and Frankenstein!!May 9 2008: Frederica von Stade RecitalJune 4-8 2008: The Diary of Anne Frank Long Beach Opera opens its 2008 season next weekend with Ricky Ian Gordon's Orpheus & Euridice with Todd Palmer and Elizabeth Futral in the title roles.
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September 5-27 2008: Simon BoccanegraSeptember 6 2008: Angela Gheorghiu in ConcertSeptember 13- October 3 2008: The Bonesetter's DaughterSeptember 23- October 12 2008: Die Tote StadtOctober 15-31 2008: IdomeneoOctober 15-November 15 2008: Boris GodunovOctober 29- November 26 2008: L'Elisir d'AmoreNovember 16- December 7 2008: La BohèmeDecember 11-14 2008: Three DecembersJanuary 10, 2009: Salvatore Licitra in ConcertMay…
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* Notes * Monteverdi’s L’incoronazione di Poppea was performed at Los Angeles Opera from November 25th to December 16th this year. I had the opportunity to attend the penultimate performance in the Grand Circle. All in all, the experience was moving. The music is amazing and the production did not detract from it. Harry Bicket…
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The last opera of the season was Così fan tutte, which also had opened it last Fall. The co-production, owned by Opera Monte Carlo and San Francisco Opera, was produced by John Cox and directed by Jose Maria Condemi. Robert Perdziola’s charming set was updated to a WWI era resort, which worked splendidly. Fiordiligi does…
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