Opera Warhorses

This website has reviewed several live operatic performances over the past two years that I believe are worthy of the attention of the wider community of opera aficionados. Some I have characterized as “world class”, suggesting that it would have been worth the effort for an opera aficionado to have gone to some considerable trouble [...]

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Forward by William:
In my most recently posted review, I proposed that the wider world begin to recognize the San Francisco Opera as one of a limited number of the world’s opera companies with the capacity to produce Richard Strauss’ “Der Rosenkavalier” as it should be presented.
Tom, who has contributed his own reviews on this website [...]

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One of the late 20th century buzz-phrases still very much in 21st century currency is the “center for excellence” - applied to academic institutions, hospital services, aircraft design teams and any other human activity that can be done so exceedingly well that it is worthy of the attention of a wider community. I have not [...]

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