The Opera Tattler
Reviews of Performances and their Audiences
Category: Minutiae
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Last weekend was the first time in five weeks that I did not see at least one opera. Not bad, considering it is not opera season in San Francisco. However, there was scant rest, somehow I ended up stage managing performances of Shahrzad Dance Company, as I was only the last piece. I pretty much…
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Last June I went to San Francisco Opera sixteen times (seventeen if one counts the rehearsal of Der Rosenkavalier I went to), and while that is excessive, one should note that there were only three productions, and only twenty-one performances. I only missed one performance of Don Giovanni because one of my best friends was…
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* Notes * The alternate cast of Madama Butterfly performed the first of two performances at San Francisco Opera yesterday evening. Julian Smith did not take the tempi as fast as Runnicles, and though the orchestra was together, some of the woodwinds and horns did not sound their best. I believe the oboe sounded especially…
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A couple of weeks ago I left my credit card at the North Box Bar, I think I must have been overwhelmed by the opening of Macbeth. The card was turned into lost and found, but I did not manage to get there in time, so they supposedly sent it to the War Memorial Executive…
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