Opera Warhorses

Before too much longer, I will be posting a review of a very successful San Francisco Opera production of Puccini’s “La Rondine” with Angela Gheorghiu starring as Magda.  In preparing the review, it seemed like a supplementary commentary page on the opera, independent of the particular performance being considered, was warranted.
The case against, and for, [...]

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San Francisco Opera is not quite at the trailing edge of productions contracted for by its former General Manager, Pamela Rosenberg. Her successor, David Gockley, is in a period where he benefits from the good choices for the company’s future that she made, while being able to distance himself from some of her commitments that [...]

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While additional lengthy reviews of opera performances by the San Francisco and Houston Grand Operas are prepared, as a change of pace, we are posting Tom’s review of a delicious presentation of Lehar’s “The Merry Widow” at the Cerritos Center for the Performing Arts, as the 2007 Czech Opera Prague’s tour journeys to the Far [...]

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