The Opera Tattler
Reviews of Performances and their Audiences
Category: Oakland Opera Theater
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* Notes *My review of Oakland Opera Theater's Uksus up on KQED Arts. * Tattling * People next to me and behind me took photographs and videos of the opera, heedless of the sounds their devices made.
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Plucky little Oakland Opera Theater is presenting the new opera Dark River, composed by Mary Watkins. The opera opens tonight at the Oakland Metro Opera House and centers on Fannie Lou Hamer and the Civil Rights Movement. More Information | Official Site
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Oakland Opera Theater‘s new house is nearly finished, though the façade is not complete and some Health Department requirements need to be met. The next production, Händel’s Agrippina, is slated for July 24-26, 2009.
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* Notes * Last night's press opening of L'Histoire du Soldat and Renard at Oakland Opera Theater was highly entertaining. Both pieces are based on Russian folk tales but were translated into English for this production. This works well, especially for L'Histoire du Soldat, which does not include any singing. Reset to the present day by Rebecca Lenkewicz, the work is meant…
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October 2008: Igor Stravinsky's L'Histoire du SoldatMay 2009: Mary Watkin's Dark RiverOctober 2009: Cornelius Boots' An American Faust Official Site
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* Notes * Duke Ellington's Queenie Pie closes this afternoon at Oakland Opera Theater. The unfinished work was arranged and orchestrated by Marc Bolin and the libretto completed by Tommy Shepherd. The opera was extremely charming, especially the first half, which takes place in Harlem. The sets looked great, especially the city scene back drops.…
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April 25- June 8 2008: Figaro (Inspired by Mozart and Beaumarchais) at Berkeley RepMay 2-11 2008: San Francisco Opera‘s The Little Prince at UC BerkeleyMay 3-11 2008: Bluebeard’s Castle and L’enfant et les sortilèges at Berkeley OperaMay 9-25 2008: Queenie Pie at Oakland Opera Also, Sacramento Opera‘s Tosca closes tonight. This weekend, instead of going…
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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 * Late in September, Oakland Opera Theater was forced to move from their location on Broadway at 2nd Street to 3rd Street at Martin Luther King Junior Way. Nonetheless, the company presented Benjamin Britten’s The Turn of the Screw (1954) from October 5 to 14. The production was set in Louisiana instead of…
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The Oakland Opera Theater's production of Philip Glass' La Belle et la Bête was fully-staged instead of using Jean Cocteau film. Tom Dean & Garrett Lowe's set took inspiration from the film, but the staging also had a bit of a circus influence. There was stilt walking and contorting, which may have been my favorite…
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