Placido Domingo’s 20th century career was built on a tenor repertory encompassing an amazing breadth of lyric, spinto and dramatic tenor roles. In the new millennium, with widespread recognition as the greatest and most famous of contemporary opera stars, he has concentrated his still formidable vocal resources on a smaller group of roles, of which Siegmund [...]
Entries from November 2009
Domingo’s Towering “Tamerlano” Bajazet: Los Angeles Opera – November 22, 2009
November 24th, 2009
Tags: 2005-2012: William's Reviews
An Interview with San Francisco Opera’s David Gockley, Part II
November 18th, 2009
[Below: San Francisco Opera General Director David Gockley; edited image, based on a photograph, courtesy of the San Francisco Opera.] Wm: You have had a long association with Francesca Zambello, and, in a difficult period, stepped in to assure that her conceptualization of Wagner’s “Ring of the Nibelungs” would be completed and ready to be [...]
Tags: 2008-2012 William's Interviews
An Interview with San Francisco Opera’s David Gockley, Part I
November 17th, 2009
[A note from William: this website began its existence in November 2005, less than two months before David Gockley became the sixth General Director in the history of the San Francisco Opera. Over the past four years, I have reviewed each of the productions that has been presented in San Francisco during the "Gockley Era". [...]