Opera Warhorses

San Francisco Opera’s “Trittico”, utilizing sets from the New York City Opera, continued with “Suor Angelica”, the second opera of the evening. “Suor Angelica” is the least performed of the Puccini operas written since the Tuscan Maestro hit his stride with “Manon Lescaut” in 1893. Debuted around the period of the Great War, it presented [...]

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San Francisco Opera General Director David Gockley, on assuming his position at the beginning of 2006 stated that all of the operas of Puccini’s maturity would be seen at the San Francisco Opera in the next few seasons. Thus began a series of great Puccini performances, including Karita Mattila and Mischa Didyk in “Manon Lescaut” [...]

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An opera company often builds its “opening nights” of a season around the presence of major opera stars.  An opera is selected for them that will appeal to opening night audiences, which include a considerable representation of those patrons on whose support the company depends.  It is important that everything go well. Los Angeles Opera [...]

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