The Opera Tattler
Reviews of Performances and their Audiences
Category: San Francisco Opera
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* Notes * Jun Kaneko's production of Madama Butterfly (Patricia Racette as Cio-Cio-San, Brian Jagde as Pinkerton, and Brian Mulligan as Sharpless in Act I pictured left; photograph by Cory Weaver) had a fifth performance at San Francisco Opera last night. The set and costumes have an elegant guilelessness. The staging, directed by Leslie Swackhamer, is…
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* Notes * San Francisco Opera‘s 1987 production of La Traviata (Saimir Pirgu as Alfredo and Nicole Cabell as Violetta in Act I pictured left, photograph by Cory Weaver) was revived again last night. Originally conceived by John Copley, Laurie Feldman is the director this time. The set, designed by John Conklin, is splendid, as are…
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Production Web Site | SF Opera's Blog Reviewers are fairly positive about San Francisco Opera's Show Boat (Act II pictured left, photograph by Cory Weaver). Performance Reviews: San Francisco Chronicle | San Francisco Classical Voice | San Jose Mercury News
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* Notes * Show Boat (Heidi Stober as Magnolia Hawks, Patricia Racette as Julie La Verne, Angela Renee Simpson as Queenie and Morris Robinson as Joe with chorus in Act I, Scene 2 pictured left; photograph by Cory Weaver) opened at San Francisco Opera today with a matinée performance. The production, directed by Francesca Zambello,…
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Soprano Sonya Yoncheva, who was scheduled to appear at San Francisco Opera as Violetta in six performances of La Traviata this summer and as Mimì in seven performances of La Bohème this fall, has withdrawn from the productions because she is expecting a baby. She is to be replaced by Nicole Cabell (pictured left) in…
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The 2014 winners of the Metropolitan Opera (pictured left) National Council Auditions are sopranos Julie Adams and Amanda Woodbury; tenor Yi Li; bass-baritone Ao Li; and bass Patrick Guetti. Four of these five are associated with the Merola Opera Program. Adams and Woodbury are Merolini this year. Yi Li was in Merola in 2012 and…
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* Notes * The artistic director of New York Festival of Song, Steven Blier, presided over a Schwabacher Debut Recital entitled In the Memory Palace yesterday evening. The program included diverse selections from song cycles and vocal quartets with an underlying theme of courtship. Blier accompanied four Adler Fellows on piano. The structure of the evening…
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San Francisco Opera‘s Costume Shop Sale Preview was held as a donor event yesterday, complete with valet parking and cocktails. The array of clothing and accoutrements is stunning. I contemplated getting the armor Susan Graham wore in Ariodante (2008), but had to concede that it probably took up too much space and certainly is too…
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* Notes * San Francisco Opera's Annual Meeting for 2014 was held Thursday afternoon at Zellerbach Rehearsal Hall in San Francisco. Chairman of the Board John A. Gunn, Board of Directors President Keith B. Geeslin, CFO Michael Simpson, and General Director David Gockley all spoke. Both Geeslin and Gockley expressed concern over San Diego Opera's…
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San Francisco Opera is having a costume shop sale on March 23-24, from 10:30 am to 5 pm on Saturday and 10:30 am to 4 pm on Sunday at 800 Indiana Street in San Francisco. This is only the fifth time in the company's history that such a sale is taking place. Costumes from The…
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