A Flawed but Elegant "Arabella" Returns to SF
/American soprano Ellie Dehn, making her role debut. She is tall and elegant, and has a clear soaring voice.
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American soprano Ellie Dehn, making her role debut. She is tall and elegant, and has a clear soaring voice.
Read MoreItalian soprano Carmen Giannattasio makes her much heralded San Francisco Opera debut and her role debut. She was a credible diva with a sparkling voice to match.
Read MoreSinging Queen Elizabeth is soprano Sondra Radvanovsky. She can go from haughty and regal sovereign to aging (and almost bald) pitiful lovelorn woman and still keep our attention and our sympathy.
Read MoreDirector José Cura sets the two operas in the same Italian barrio of La Boca, in Buenos Aires, in his home country of Argentina.
Read MoreThe gala program covered masterpieces by George Gershwin and Franz Liszt, film scores from Schindler’s List, Cinema Paradiso, Out of Africa, and Scent of a Woman.
Read MoreOn Thursday July 5th many of this year’s crop of recent arrivals gave a semi-staged concert at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music.
Read MoreMusic Director Michael Tilson Thomas, like a master painter, gave vivid portrayals of the symphony’s six movements in bold and soft colors. It was every bit as great as his Mahler Fifth in Los Angeles three months ago.
Read MoreFor each of the three cycles of Wagner’s Ring in San Francisco, the Opera Chorus gave a concert on the ‘off’ night between Walküre and Siegfried…
Read MoreThe singers were uniformly excellent, led by Greer Grimsley as Wotan, Falk Struckmann as Alberich, Stefan Margita as Loge, Jamie Barton as Fricka…
Read MoreMusically, there was an excellent, large cast of mostly Eastern European singers. Heading it was bass Stanislav Trofimov as Boris
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