Nicola Luisotti, the San Francisco Opera’s newly installed Music Director opened the company’s 87th season, conducting Verdi’s “Il Trovatore”. By tradition in American opera houses, the season opener is preceded by the orchestra accompanying the audience in singing the Star-Spangled Banner. All were aware that this first official act of the new Music Director was [...]
Entries from September 2009
Lyrical Luisotti Leads Triumphant “Trovatore” – San Francisco Opera September 11, 2009
September 13th, 2009
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Tom’s Tips for the Los Angeles Opera Scene
September 5th, 2009
Los Angeles Opera opens its 2009 Fall season with Donizetti’s “L’Elisir d’Amore” on Saturday evening, September 12th, conducted by James Conlon, with Giuseppe Filianoti as Nemorino, debuting soprano Nino Michaidze as Adina, and Nathan Gunn as Belcore. Other highlights of the Fall season (September through December) include a new production of Wagner’s “Siegfried”, the third [...]
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Tom’s Tips on the San Francisco Opera Scene
September 2nd, 2009
The San Francisco Opera 2009 fall season mounts six productions opening with a gala cast in Verdi’s “Il Trovatore” conducted by newly installed music director Nicola Luisotti. Following are productions of Puccini’s “Il Trittico” (featuring Patricia Racette in all three operas and Paolo Gavanelli in two; of Mozart’s “Abduction from the Seraglio”, Donizetti’s “La Fille [...]
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