Opera Warhorses

Five decades ago, the San Francisco Opera company would conduct a Southern California tour at the conclusion of its Fall season. The addition of the San Diego to its list of visited cities permitted me to see my first opera, Gounod’s “Faust” in November, 1955 (see my comments for the fiftieth anniversary of that experience [...]

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Rossini’s “L’Italiana in Algeri” had been a once a decade opera for me. I had seen five performances (two in the 1960s, one in the 1970s, one in the 1990s) the fifth being the Santa Fe production at San Francisco Opera, reviewed elsewhere on this website, with William Burden as Lindoro, the object of the [...]

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