The Opera Tattler
Reviews of Performances and their Audiences
Category: San Francisco Opera
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September 11 2020: Opening Night Concert with Albina Shagimuratova, Pene Pati, and Eun Sun KimSeptember 12– October 1 2020: FidelioSeptember 13– October 4 2020: RigolettoOctober 6–28 2020: Così fan tutteOctober 29- November 22 2020: Poul Ruders’ The Handmaid’s TaleNovember 15–December 6 2020: La Bohème April 25- May 16 2021: Il Barbiere di SivigliaApril 27- May…
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San Francisco Opera's next music director is Eun Sun Kim (pictured, photograph by Nikolaj Lund). The company has been without a head conductor since Nicola Luisotti left in 2017. Kim conducted a memorable Rusalka last June and is conducting the Adler concert tomorrow. She is one of the only female music directors of a major…
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* Notes * San Francisco Opera's second performance of Hansel and Gretel (Sasha Cooke and Heidi Stober in Act II pictured, photograph by Cory Weaver) yesterday afternoon was a fine introduction to opera for young audiences. The title characters are winsome and powerful singers. Adler Fellow soprano Mary Evelyn Hangley replaced mezzo-soprano Michaela Martens as…
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* Notes * An amusingly spooky production of Hansel and Gretel (Act III pictured, photograph by Cory Weaver) opened at San Francisco Opera last night. The cast features many lucid, high voices and the orchestra sounded great. This creepy set is inspired by Alfred Hitchcock, and this works surprisingly well — the darkness of the…
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* Notes * A very loud revival of Manon Lescaut opened at San Francisco Opera last night. All the singing was strong, and the orchestra sounded exuberant under the baton of former San Francisco Music Director Nicola Luisotti. My main memory of this production way back in 2006 is of Karita Mattila in the title…
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The incoming 2020 Adler Fellows are sopranos Anne-Marie MacIntosh, Elisa Sunshine, and Esther Tonea; tenor Victor Starsky; baritone Timothy Murray; bass Stefan Egerstrom; and apprentice coach Andrew King. They join current Adlers mezzo-soprano Simone McIntosh; tenors Zhengyi Bai, Christopher Colmenero, Christopher Oglesby; and pianist Kseniia Polstiankina Barrad. The outgoing 2019 Adler Fellows are sopranos Mary…
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* Notes * Le Nozze di Figaro opened at San Francisco Opera yesterday in a fresh new production, the first in decades. The performance marks the start of revamps for all three Mozart/Da Ponte operas from director Michael Cavanagh and set designer Erhard Rom, each set in the same American estate over the course of…
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Soprano Nicole Heaston (pictured) makes her San Francisco Opera debut as Countess Almaviva in Le Nozze di Figaro on October 11. She replaces Jennifer Davis, who has withdrawn due to illness. Le Nozze di Figaro | San Francisco Opera Press Release
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* Notes * A new to San Francisco Opera production of Billy Budd opened last night. The performance was dramatically satisfying and had absolutely solid cast. The Michael Grandage's production comes to us from Glyndebourne and is directed here by Ian Rutherford. The set (pictured left, photograph by Cory Weaver), from Christopher Oram, is tiered…
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* Notes * The curtain came up on the latest season of San Francisco Opera with Gounod's Roméo et Juliette (pictured left, photograph by Cory Weaver) yesterday evening. The youthful cast sounded great, but the production was simply clunky. From the very first moment there were familiar faces on stage, there are a lot of…
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