The Opera Tattler
Reviews of Performances and their Audiences
Category: San Francisco Opera
-
The Adler Fellows for 2010 will be announced next week, but it is good fun trying to figure out which of the Merolini are coming back to San Francisco next season. It is quite likely that we won't see any of the Merola apprentice coaches as Adlers, given that both Dennis Doubin and Allen Perriello…
-
Production Web Site | Press Photographs Performance Reviews: The Opera Tattler | Not For Fun Only | Civic Center | SFist | SFCV | San Jose Mercury | San Francisco Chronicle
-
* Notes * Il Trittico opened at San Francisco Opera last night with Patricia Racette singing all three of the major soprano roles. The production, directed by James Robinson, is clean and simple. Allen Moyer's sets are unostentatious, the three are not tied together in an obvious way, yet still look like they match each other. Patrick…
-
Production Web Site | Press Photographs Performance Reviews: The Opera Tattler | Iron Tongue of Midnight | Civic Center | SFist | SF Examiner | EBAR | San Jose Mercury | San Francisco Classical Voice | San Francisco Chronicle | New York Times
-
* Notes * San Francisco Opera's Opera in the Park performance this year was rather charming. Incoming Music Director Nicola Luisotti conducted with great enthusiasm, and to begin he faced the audience for the National Anthem and conducted us. Both the overture to La Forza del Destino and the intermezzo to Manon Lescaut sounded grand and…
-
* Notes * The 2009-2010 season at San Francisco Opera opened with Il Trovatore last night. David McVicar's production is elegant, and Charles Edwards' rotating set made the scene changes straightforward. Maestro Luisotti's debut as music director was effervescent, and the orchestra sounded fine. The chorus was clear and together. Renée Tatum and Andrew Bidlack, the…
-
Another report from our friend Don Curzio. * Notes * It is a promising sign for the future of opera that this year's Merolini were such a strong group. Their finale concert was, with a few exceptions, an exciting and enticing evening, and I think I can look forward to hearing these singers many times in…
-
* Notes * Soprano Tracy Dahl and pianist Mark Morash gave a small private recital to benefit the Merola Opera Program last night at Metropolitan Club in San Francisco. Apparently both were Merolini in the eighties, and both now train young singers and pianists themselves at the program. The evening started with an alternate aria for Le Nozze di Figaro…
-
* Notes * The Merola Opera Program's production of Così fan tutte opened at the Cowell Theater last Friday. The singing was fine, though mezzo-soprano Caitlin Mathes stood out as Despina, her voice was almost too sweet for that comic role. She was very funny when pretending to be a notary, affecting an outrageous accent. For…
-
The casting for the Merola Grand Finale was announced today. The performance, staged by Fernando Parra Bortí, is to take place August 22, and will be conducted by Antony Walker. Pagliacci Tonio: Aleksey Bogdanov Die Entführung aus dem Serail Belmonte: Alex Mansoori / Eleazar Rodríguez Osmin: Benjamin LeClair MignonMignon: Ellie Jarrett Lothario: Evan Boyer Giulio Cesare Cornelia:…
The Opera Tattler 