Opera Warhorses

San Francisco Opera’s General Director David Gockley became the sixth person in history to hold that position at the beginning of Calendar Year 2006, technically midway in the 2005-06 season. For the San Francisco Opera’s administrative purposes (including the important function of selling season tickets), the opera “season” is considered to run from September to [...]

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Before too much longer, I will be posting a review of a very successful San Francisco Opera production of Puccini’s “La Rondine” with Angela Gheorghiu starring as Magda.  In preparing the review, it seemed like a supplementary commentary page on the opera, independent of the particular performance being considered, was warranted.
The case against, and for, [...]

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This website has memorialized the great opera stars of the past half century through pages of content on 1) their contributions to the history of opera performance and 2) the assessment of performances seen by myself and guest reviewers.
This website has not attempted to post obituary pages, per se, even though some of those [...]

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