The Opera Tattler
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ARTS & CULTURE By Charlise Tiee – Dec 20, 2017 | Updated Sep 19, 2024 As a busy mom, I am constantly amazed how many clothes, books, and toys accumulate in our house. And of course, my picky toddler is ridiculously discerning, with his favorites that he’s completely devoted to — his red cardigan, Richard Scarry’s What…
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ARTS & CULTURE By Charlise Tiee Apr 26, 2017 | Updated Jan 11, 2024 A scene from ‘The Temple of Glory,’ an 18th century French opera that carries a strong political message for U.S. audiences today. The work is being revived by the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra and Cal Performances at the end of the month. (Photo: Jeff…
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THE DO LIST By Charlise Tiee Feb 8, 2017 | Updated Jan 11, 2024 Scene from Ted Hearne’s oratorio ‘The Source’. (Photo: Noah Stern Weber) There are so many contemporary operas happening in the Bay Area in February, it looks like we might have an all-out regional festival on our hands. While this operatic flowering is more or…
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ARTS & CULTURE By Charlise Tiee Dec 16, 2016 | Updated Sep 19, 2024 Indian Springs in Calistoga boasts an Olympic sized hot mineral pool. (Photo: Indian Springs) Let’s face it, 2016 has been a tough year. If your friends and family are anything like mine, they’ve been stressed out by the untimely deaths of David Bowie and…
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THE DO LIST By Charlise Tiee Oct 28 2016 | Updated Sep 19, 2024 Heklina, host of SF Opera Lab’s ‘Drag Queen of the Opera’ pop-up event at Oasis. (Photo: José Guzman-Colon) A spectacularly-adorned creature — all glitter, lashes, hair, and curves — commands the stage with her bearing alone. Watching Trannyshack founder Heklina open her mouth and unleash…
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THE DO LIST By Charlise Tiee Sept 8, 2016 | Updated Jan 11, 2024 Tim Yip, Bright Sheng and Stan Lai: Three of the key creatives behind SF Opera’s new world premiere ‘Dream of the Red Chamber’ (Photo: Scott Wall) Why has Asia — and China in particular — held such a fascination for western opera composers…
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ARTS & CULTURE By Charlise Tiee Sept 8, 2016 | Updated Sept 19, 2024 Opera Parallèle’s Hands-on-Opera program works with elementary schools to produce children’s operas. In 2013, Opera Parallèle’s Hands-on-Opera program produced ‘The Spider’s Revenge’ with Daniel Webster Elementary. (Photo: Courtesy of Opera Parallèle) A few weeks ago my 2-and-a-half-year-old son asked to go to the…
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THE DO LIST By Charlise Tiee Sept 1, 2016 | Updated Jan 11, 2024 A scene from Act III of Erling Wold’s ‘Uksus’ as performed by the Oakland Opera Theater. (Photo: Oakland Opera Theater) Opera is a difficult business. So much can go wrong. Even if you have a fine composer, excellent musicians, a strong conductor, and…
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ARTS & CULTURE By Charlise Tiee Jul 1, 2016 | Updated Sept 19, 2024 Members of the Bay Area-based chorus Cappella SF and composer Lisa Bielawa in a cell block on Alcatraz, the setting for Episode 9 of Bielawa’s new serialized made-for-video opera, ‘Vireo’ (Photo: David Soderlund) Alcatraz has been the setting of many Hollywood blockbusters from Escape…
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THE DO LIST By Charlise Tiee Jun 16, 2016 | Updated Jan 11, 2024 Malin Byström in the title role of Jenůfa at San Francisco Opera. (Photo: Cory Weaver) In the wake of a fascinatingly gritty Carmen hampered by lackluster singing and a Don Carlo that counterbalances a great cast against boring staging, San Francisco Opera saves the best for last with a brilliant production of…
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