This website has reviewed productions that are scheduled for performance (in each of the cases listed below) at other opera houses. Our reviews gave high marks to these productions and strongly recommends each for the consideration of opera goers with an opportunity to see them. Our reviews of each of these productions are cited.
Simon Boccanegra (Verdi), San Francisco Opera, September 5, 9, 12, 17, 21, 24 and [...]
Entries from August 2008
Best Bet Revivals of “World Class” Operatic Productions - 2008-09
August 31st, 2008
Tags: Quests and Anticipations
A Year in the Life of an S. F. Opera Chorister - An Interview with Frederick Matthews
August 28th, 2008
In December 2007, joining members of my family and my Opera Warhorses colleague, Tom, I attended one of the annual Christmastide Bracebridge Dinners at the Ahwahnee Hotel in Yosemite National Park. As it turned out, several of the San Francisco Opera choristers were spending the latter half of December in Yosemite, as performers for the [...]
Tags: William's Interviews
Superlative: Original 1951 “Billy Budd” Catches the Santa Fe Wind - August 14, 2008
August 24th, 2008
Santa Fe Opera, now well into its second half-century, finally has chosen to include Britten’s 57 year old opera, ”Billy Budd”, into its repertoire. Although it is hardly appropriate to say it was worth the wait for the first presentation of an opera that many other opera companies have presented several times, there are features about [...]