The Opera Tattler
Reviews of Performances and their Audiences
Category: Thomas Hampson
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* Notes * A fourth performance of San Francisco Opera‘s A Masked Ball this season was held yesterday. The orchestra and singers were more synchronized, but there were times when the former was slightly ahead of the latter. At times this was excitingly chaotic. There were lovely soli from the cello, English horn, and clarinet. The…
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* Notes * The world premiere of Heart of a Soldier (Act II pictured left, photograph by Cory Weaver) given by San Francisco Opera last night. The opera is about the life of Rick Rescorla, the director of security of Morgan Stanley who lost his life as the in the September 11th attacks after evacuating 2,700…
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* Notes * On Friday Michael Tilson-Thomas lead San Francisco Symphony in a program about the origins of the Adagietto from Mahler's 5th Symphony. MTT talked quite a bit and gave musical examples, as he was being filmed for the public television show Keeping Score. He even had Thomas Hampson come out to sing bits from…
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Baritone Thomas Hampson has an iPhone application in conjunction with his "Song of America" project. More Information from Instant Encore | Official Site
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September 9 2009: Gala with Lang Lang (Liszt, Ravel, Rodgers, Prokofiev) September 10-12 2009: Liszt, Ravel, Rodgers, Prokofiev September 16-20 2009: Susan Graham sings Rückert-Lieder, Mahler's 1st September 23-26 2009: Thomas Hampson sings Mahler September 30- October 3 2009: Scelsi's Hymnos, Mahler's 5thOctober 7-10 2009: Brett Dean, Haydn's 94th, BrahmsOctober 11 2009: Murray Perahia, pianoOctober 14-18…
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September 8- October 4 2008: Don GiovanniSeptember 16-29 2008: La fanciulla del WestSeptember 23- October 10 2008: La CalistoOctober 11-18 2008: La BohèmeOctober 23- November 11 2008: Matilde di ShabranNovember 9-24 2008: ElektraNovember 25- December 13 2008: Les Contes d'HoffmannDecember 9 2008- January 1 2009: Hänsel und GretelDecember 22- January 23 2008: TurandotJanuary 20-31 2009:…
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* Notes * Every performance of La Traviata has been sold-out at Lyric Opera of Chicago this January. I was unconvinced I could finagle a ticket for yesterday's matinée, as craigslist only had people who wanted tickets and Lyric Opera does not have standing room. Yesterday the Lyric Opera site still had the warning "Individual…
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* Notes * Last night I was invited at the last minute to hear Macbeth again, from box seats, so I gave the opera another try. Of course there was no booing this time, so I did laugh a good deal less. From Box O, I was able to see the green slime on Duncan…
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* Notes * It was as expected, the audience at the Macbeth opening was, on the whole, discontent with the production and even booed the members of production team that dared to take bows. That is quite a feat, the last time I heard Americans boo at a production was five years ago at Alcina.…
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* Notes * Verdi’s Macbeth opens tonight at San Francisco Opera, with Thomas Hampson in the title role. I was fortunate enough to attend the final dress rehearsal last Sunday, and was at least impressed with Hampson. David Pountney’s production, directed by Nicola Raab, is the consummate Regieoper that San Francisco seems to dislike so.…
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