In her exit interview with the San Francisco Chronicle, before she left the San Francisco Opera at the end of the Fall 2005 season, former General Director Pamela Rosenberg responded to the charge that she served up ‘Eurotrash” opera. ‘I keep telling people they have to sort it out”, she exclaimed. ‘There are so many [...]
Entries from January 2006
Separating Art from “Eurotrash”: S.F.’s “Rodelinda” & Stuttgart’s “Alcina”
January 13th, 2006
Tags: 2005-2008: William's Reviews
2006-07 SF Opera Season: the Gockley Era Begins
January 12th, 2006
The ten productions and principal casts of the San Francisco Opera’s 2006-07 season were announced on January 12th. An analysis of the prospective season, with my comments, is displayed here.
Recognizing that most decisions on casts (and therefore operas) were made several years back, well within the tenure of the maximally controversial former S. F. Opera [...]
Tags: Quests and Anticipations
Correspondence with Stephen
January 5th, 2006
November, 2005
I enjoyed the site very much. Looking forward to reading more. I think we were both at that Faust; some of them are still alive. Wild horses couldn’t drag me to a performance of that opera these days, though. It just hasn’t worn well with me. But of course then, it was sheer [...]
Tags: General correspondence