The Opera Tattler
Reviews of Performances and their Audiences
Category: San Francisco Opera
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* Notes * The Schwabacher Debut Recital Series continued yesterday with an unusual twist: Adler Fellow Aria Umezawa directed a narrative for mezzo-soprano Renée Rapier and bass Anthony Reed entitled The Woods: A Rom-Com Recital. Set in a bar called "The Woods," the plot (put together by Reed) involves an encounter between a lovelorn barkeeper…
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San Francisco Opera is having its first pop-up (pictured left, photograph by Kristen Loken/San Francisco Opera) in the East Bay at the Uptown Nightclub in Oakland. Entitled "Hands-on Opera," there will be lots of audience interaction at this event on Thursday March 23, 2017 at 7:30pm. Curated by Adler stage director Aria Umezawa, the evening will…
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* Notes * Last night the arresting soprano Anna Caterina Antonacci (pictured left, photograph by Cory Weaver/San Francisco Opera) gave the first of three performances of songs by Berlioz, Debussy, and Poulenc paired with a piano version La Voix Humane at SF Opera Lab. Antonacci gave a compelling renditions of the various French songs, all…
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* Notes * Yesterday SF Opera Lab opened a second season with Ted Hearne's disturbing oratorio The Source. The 2012 piece concerns Chelsea Manning's disclosure to WikiLeaks of classified material about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Unconventionally staged with the four singers dispersed in the audience (Isaiah Robinson pictured left, photograph by Stefan Cohen)…
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June 11 2017: Merola Opera Program 60th Anniversary Gala & ConcertJuly 6-9 2017: Schwabacher Summer ConcertJuly 20-22 2017: La Serva Padrona/ Savitri/ The BearAugust 3-5 2017: La CenerentolaAugust 19 2017: Merola Grand Finale The Merola Opera Opera program announced its 60th anniversary season this afternoon at the John M. Bryan Education Studio in San Francisco.…
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September 8- December 9 2017: TurandotSeptember 9-27 2017: ElektraSeptember 23- October 17 2017: La Traviata November 4-22 2017: ManonNovember 21- December 10 2017: Girls of the Golden West June 12-26 2018: Das RheingoldJune 13-27 2018: Die WalküreJune 15-29 2018: SiegfriedJune 17-July 1 2018: Götterdämmerung General Director Matthew Shilvock announced the 2017-2018 season at San Francisco Opera…
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* Notes *San Francisco Opera's Adler Fellows had an especially impressive annual concert at Herbst Theater last Friday. Supported by the talents of the San Francisco Opera Orchestra and Maestro Jordi Bernacer, the new resident conductor, the singers gave one electrifying performance after another. San Francisco Opera has been keeping the Adlers busy this fall,…
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It's A Wonderful Life, a new opera by composer Jake Heggie (pictured left, photograph by Art & Clarity) and librettist Gene Scheer is based on Frank Capra's 1946 film and will have a West Coast premiere at San Francisco Opera in the 2018-19 season. The work has a world premiere at Houston Grand Opera this…
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Production Web Site | SF Opera's Blog Reviews of San Francisco Opera's Aida (Act III pictured left, photograph by Cory Weaver) look positive as far as singing is concerned. Performance Reviews: San Francisco Chronicle | San José Mercury News | San Francisco Examiner | San Francisco Classical Voice | The Rehearsal Studio | Berkeley Daily Planet
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Production Web Site | SF Opera's Blog Reviews of San Francisco Opera's Butterfly (Act I pictured left, photograph by Cory Weaver) agree on soprano Lianna Haroutounian. Performance Reviews: San Francisco Chronicle | San José Mercury News | San Francisco Classical Voice
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