This series of memorializations of San Francisco Opera performances of a half-century ago has described my very first subscription series at the San Francisco Opera – row V Orchestra Center Aisle seats on the six opera Thursday night series. I had attended the first four operas of the series on their designated performance nights, but, [...]
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50 Year Anniversaries: Bastianini’s “Nabucco”, with Tozzi, Cioni and Janis Martin – San Francisco Opera, October 23, 1961
December 6th, 2011
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50 Year Anniversaries: Schoeffler, Della Casa, Uhl, Geraint Evans in “Die Meistersinger” – San Francisco Opera, October 21, 1961
December 3rd, 2011
Having become a subscriber in Fall 1961, as a college Freshman, to San Francisco Opera’s fall season six opera Thursday night series, I had gloried in opera performances for four Thursday nights in a row. When it came to the fifth and sixth Thursday night offerings, I used the subscribers’ privilege (that existed in 1961) [...]
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50 Year Anniversaries: Brouwenstijn, Bastianini, Zampieri in “Ballo in Maschera” – San Francisco Opera, October 12, 1961
November 30th, 2011
On the fourth night of my 1961 San Francisco Opera series subscription, I attended my first performance of Verdi’s “Un Ballo in Maschera”. This was my fifth Verdi opera and sixth Verdi performance (having seen “Simon Boccanegra” in both 1956 and 1960). Between San Francisco Opera’s 1956 and 1960 seasons (including its Southern California tours) [...]
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