Opera Warhorses

Readers of this website know that we regularly review the productions of the San Francisco Opera and provide the reviews in the context of the history of this international center for opera performance.
Over the next several weeks, this website will present a four-part series entitled “The Remaking of San Francisco Opera” in which we discuss [...]

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The San Diego Opera premiere of Donizetti’s “Maria Stuarda” will be considered a milestone in the performance history of this relatively unknown masterpiece of Italian opera. It was the California debut of Albanian singer Ermonela Jaho, already familiar to American audiences in Philadelphia, Baltimore and Detroit. She is scheduled to alternate performances of Violetta in [...]

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There are a number of shorter operas that have been performed together as a single operatic evening (i.e., two operas for the price of one).  Puccini even wrote three operas (collectively known as “Il Trittico”) that he intended for performance on a single evening. We will highlight the “Trittico” when the Los Angeles Opera presents [...]

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