The Opera Tattler
Reviews of Performances and their Audiences
Category: William Burden
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Yesterday someone pulled the fire alarm at just ten minutes before curtain time for the last performance of L’Italiana. Everyone filed out in an orderly fashion, but it took quite a long time to get back inside and settled in again. During the performance I wanted to note that in Act II, Vivica Genaux does…
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The alternate in the title role for San Francisco opera’s production of L’Italiana in Algeri is excellent. I was not impressed by mezzo-soprano Vivica Genaux in Il Ritorno d’Ulisse in Patria, but I think her voice is better suited to something airy and light like L’Italiana. Her voice was incredible in the role of Isabella,…
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The production of Rossini’s The Italian Girl in Algiers currently at San Francisco Opera belongs to Santa Fe Opera, where it was premiered in 2002. The style of director Christopher Alexander is possibly more suited to this comic opera. The last opera he directed at San Francisco was Turandot in 2002, which looked like something…
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