The Opera Tattler
Reviews of Performances and their Audiences
Category: News
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Soprano Lisette Oropesa (pictured left, photograph by Matthew Murphy) will replace Heidi Stober as Nannetta in Falstaff on October 15, 2013. Stober is ill but expects to recover by the October 20 performance. Production Web Site | San Francisco Opera Press Releases
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Soprano Lise Lindstrom (pictured left) will have her San Francisco Opera debut as Senta in Der fliegende Holländer, which opens on October 22, 2013. Lindstrom replaces Petra Maria Schnitzer, who has withdrawn from the production for health reasons. Production Web Site | San Francisco Opera Press Release
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The Metropolitan Opera has announced the addition of three new composers to its Met/LCT New Works Program: Matthew Aucoin, David T. Little, and Joshua Schmidt. Two new premieres were also announced, namely Thomas Adès' The Exterminating Angel, to be seen in the 2017-18 season and Osvaldo Golijov's adaptation of the Euripides play Iphigenia in Aulis,…
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San Francisco Opera has some new staff members, including Human Resources Director Randy Kyle, Chief Information Officer Jarrod Bell, Technical Director Erik Walstad, Resident Lighting Designer Gary Marder, and Assistant Technical Director Ryan O’Steen. San Francisco Opera Press Releases
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Lotfi Mansouri, San Francisco Opera’s fourth general director and a leading opera stage director, has passed away after a brief illness with pancreatic cancer at his San Francisco home. Mansouri made his San Francisco Opera debut in the 1963 season directing productions of Dialogues des Carmélites, Die Walküre, La Sonnambula, La Traviata, Mefistofele, and Samson…
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Mezzo-soprano Dolora Zajick has withdrawn from the world premiere Dolores Claiborne, which opens on September 18, 2013 at San Francisco Opera. Zajick found the title-role of this new opera too challenging given her ongoing knee problems. Patricia Racette is to sing the first four performances of the opera instead, and Catherine Cook will sing the…
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Aidan Lang (pictured left) has been named Seattle Opera‘s third General Director effective September 1, 2014. He will replace Speight Jenkins, who became General Director in 1983. Beginning immediately, Lang will be included in planning for the 2015-2016 season, working towards his first fully programmed season in 2016-2017. Seattle Opera’s Official Site | Press Releases
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Physicists from the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory at Stanford have uncovered the lost notes of "Du trouble affreux qui me dévore" (pictured left, photograph courtesy of Uwe Bergmann / SLAC) from Cherubini's Médée. X-ray Science at SLAC | Stanford News
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Alexander Pereira has been named General Manager of La Scala, starting in 2015. Pereira is currently the Artistic Director of the Salzburg Festival. Biography | Reuters
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The musicians of San Francisco Symphony are returning to work as of March 31, 2013. They have reached a tentative agreement for a new 26-month contract. Official Site | Press Release
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