The Opera Tattler
Reviews of Performances and their Audiences
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THE DO LIST By Charlise Tiee Feb 8, 2017 | Updated Jan 11, 2024 Scene from Ted Hearne’s oratorio ‘The Source’. (Photo: Noah Stern Weber) There are so many contemporary operas happening in the Bay Area in February, it looks like we might have an all-out regional festival on our hands. While this operatic flowering is more or…
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ARTS & CULTURE By Charlise Tiee Dec 16, 2016 | Updated Sep 19, 2024 Indian Springs in Calistoga boasts an Olympic sized hot mineral pool. (Photo: Indian Springs) Let’s face it, 2016 has been a tough year. If your friends and family are anything like mine, they’ve been stressed out by the untimely deaths of David Bowie and…
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THE DO LIST By Charlise Tiee Oct 28 2016 | Updated Sep 19, 2024 Heklina, host of SF Opera Lab’s ‘Drag Queen of the Opera’ pop-up event at Oasis. (Photo: José Guzman-Colon) A spectacularly-adorned creature — all glitter, lashes, hair, and curves — commands the stage with her bearing alone. Watching Trannyshack founder Heklina open her mouth and unleash…
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THE DO LIST By Charlise Tiee Sept 8, 2016 | Updated Jan 11, 2024 Tim Yip, Bright Sheng and Stan Lai: Three of the key creatives behind SF Opera’s new world premiere ‘Dream of the Red Chamber’ (Photo: Scott Wall) Why has Asia — and China in particular — held such a fascination for western opera composers…
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ARTS & CULTURE By Charlise Tiee Sept 8, 2016 | Updated Sept 19, 2024 Opera Parallèle’s Hands-on-Opera program works with elementary schools to produce children’s operas. In 2013, Opera Parallèle’s Hands-on-Opera program produced ‘The Spider’s Revenge’ with Daniel Webster Elementary. (Photo: Courtesy of Opera Parallèle) A few weeks ago my 2-and-a-half-year-old son asked to go to the…
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THE DO LIST By Charlise Tiee Sept 1, 2016 | Updated Jan 11, 2024 A scene from Act III of Erling Wold’s ‘Uksus’ as performed by the Oakland Opera Theater. (Photo: Oakland Opera Theater) Opera is a difficult business. So much can go wrong. Even if you have a fine composer, excellent musicians, a strong conductor, and…
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* Notes * West Edge Opera's 2016 festival continued at the Oakland 16th Street train station Sunday afternoon with Powder Her Face. Maestra Mary Chun conducted Thomas Adès' chamber opera with precision. The production from Elkhanah Pulitzer is characteristically racy but somehow does show a little compassion for these very unlikable characters as well. The music…
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ARTS & CULTURE By Charlise Tiee Jul 1, 2016 | Updated Sept 19, 2024 Members of the Bay Area-based chorus Cappella SF and composer Lisa Bielawa in a cell block on Alcatraz, the setting for Episode 9 of Bielawa’s new serialized made-for-video opera, ‘Vireo’ (Photo: David Soderlund) Alcatraz has been the setting of many Hollywood blockbusters from Escape…
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THE DO LIST By Charlise Tiee Jun 16, 2016 | Updated Jan 11, 2024 Malin Byström in the title role of Jenůfa at San Francisco Opera. (Photo: Cory Weaver) In the wake of a fascinatingly gritty Carmen hampered by lackluster singing and a Don Carlo that counterbalances a great cast against boring staging, San Francisco Opera saves the best for last with a brilliant production of…
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Diane B. Wilsey Center for Opera in the Veterans Building's fourth floor and basement opens February 28, 2016. The 300 seat theater named for Dianne and Tad Taube will host the Schwabacher Debut Recital Series, three performances from the newly formed producing division of the San Francisco Opera called SF Opera Lab, two concerts of…
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