The Opera Tattler
Reviews of Performances and their Audiences
Category: San Francisco Opera
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Greg Weber was just appointed Director of Production at San Francisco Opera and starts on February 1, 2011. Mr. Weber left his post as managing director of the Geva Theatre Center last July. He succeeds Drew Landmesser, who is returning to Lyric Opera of Chicago. Press Release | San Francisco Opera
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Maestro Nicola Luisotti (pictured with San Francisco Opera‘s General Director David Gockley and President of the Fondazione Festival Pucciniano Paolo Spadaccini; photograph by Cory Weaver) is currently conducting the centennial performances of La Fanciulla del West at the Met, including the upcoming HD simulcast on January 8th. He has been met with success in New…
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This year's subscriber survey from San Francisco Opera was a little bit boring, so here are the funniest ones, with answers from the Opera Tattler filled in, of course. To be perfectly honest, I should have checked all of the boxes for question 6, but somehow that did not seem helpful, so I picked ones that I…
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* Notes * Today the Communications Department of San Francisco Opera held a press conference on Heart of a Soldier, which will have a world premiere on September 10, 2011. General Director David Gockley told us a bit about how this came to be an opera. An array of individuals were introduced: Susan Rescorla, one of…
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* Notes * The November/December run of Aida at San Francisco Opera opened last night with Maestro Giuseppe Finzi at the helm and a bevy of new principal singers. The orchestra sounded rather pretty but not perfectly secure, there was some slight squeaking from the woodwinds, brief fuzzy moments in the brass, and the finale…
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Tonight I am off to the third performance of San Francisco Opera's The Makropulos Case. It is so wonderful, I regret not being able to attend every performance. During the fourth performance on next Saturday I will be in Berkeley hearing Bryn Terfel sing Schumann, Finzi, and Ibert. Since I have never heard Terfel before,…
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Production Web Site | Press Photographs Reviews: Civic Center | FT.com | Not For Fun Only | The Opera Tattler | Out West Arts | San Francisco Chronicle | SFCV | San Francisco Examiner| The Wall Street Journal
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Production Web Site | Press Photographs With Luisotti and Vassileva: The Opera Tattler | San Francisco Chronicle | SFCV | San Francisco Examiner With Kovatchev and Dessì: Not For Fun Only | The Opera Tattler | San Francisco Chronicle | SFCV | SFist
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* Notes * The November performances of Madama Butterfly at San Francisco Opera star Daniela Dessì in the title role. Dessì's vocal entrance was muted, at least on the orchestra level, and one could barely make out the lines of her voice. Once she was on stage, she was audible, though not terribly robust. She…
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* Notes * The opening performance of San Francisco Opera’s The Makropulos Case was spectacular. The co-production with Finnish National Opera, from Frank Philipp Schlössmann, is stylish, the set design employs cross-hatching that recalls the work of Edward Gorey. The set is on a quiet turntable that was spun during the first overture. The use…
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