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2023-12-20 21:12:00
Hand-Colored Vintage PostcardWar Memorial Opera House and Veterans Building, San FranciscoCollection of Lisa HirschGordon Getty turns 90 this month, and San Francisco Opera has presented Getty, a longtime patron of the company as well as a composer, with The Spirit of the Opera Award. From the press release:At the conclusion of San Francisco Opera’s December 9 fall season final performance of The Elixir of Love, the Company honored composer and philanthropist Gordon Getty in an onstage ceremony. Standing amidst the cast of Donizetti’s opera, San Francisco Opera Dianne and Tad Taube General Director Matthew Shilvock presented Mr. Getty with the Company’s Spirit of the Opera award in recognition of extraordinary artistic excellence and philanthropic leadership. Shilvock said: “Gordon Getty is one of the great champions of this art form and someone who has devoted his life to the creation, enrichment and vitality of opera in America. As a composer, he brings to […]
2023-01-18 02:12:00
New York Philharmonic. Santtu-Matias Rouvali, conductor; Nemanja Radulovic, violin. January 12, 2023.
David Geffen Hall at Lincoln Center. Tier 1 Parterre. (Seat EE201, $59.)ProgramCatamorphosis (2021) by Anna Thorvaldsdottir (b. 1977).Violin Concerto No. 2 in G minor, Op. 63 (1935) by Prokofiev (1891-1953).La Sacre du printemps (The Rite of Spring) (1911-13) by Stravinsky (1882-1971).Yes, these two weeks constituted an audition for Rouvali as the next New York Philharmonic music director. Indeed if one does a search on the subject, one finds many other contenders, including Dudamel and Malkki. And (unfortunately), the Parterre seats aren't that good when it comes to a solo violin either.If those were my only take-aways from the two concerts I attended, that would be pathetic. The highlight of the evening was actually Prokofiev's second violin concerto.This is a piece I have known since I was a teenager, and over the years I have heard it a few times (not often programmed), and have enjoyed every single performance. The same […]
2022-11-17 22:35:00
War Memorial Opera House & Veterans Building, SFHand-colored postcardLisa Hirsch CollectionA press release from SF Opera announces the 2023 Adler Fellows. Here they are, with hearty congratulations; I'm most familiar with the work of mezzo-soprano Nikola Printz, whom I've reviewed a couple of times, including their magnificent recital in the spring.FIRST-YEAR ADLER FELLOWS: Jongwan Han (Seoul, South Korea)Bass-baritone Jongwon Han began the 2022–23 season with debuts at Dayton Opera in Handel’s Messiah and Palm Beach Opera as Bonze in Madame Butterfly. Han was an Apprentice Artist with Santa Fe Opera. His operatic credits include the title roles of Don Giovanni and Le Nozze di Figaro, Masetto in Don Giovanni, Schaunard in La Bohème, Baron Douphol in La Traviata and Dr. Miracle in Les Contes d’Hoffmann. Having a deep connection to sacred music, Han has been featured in Bach’s Cantata BWV 140, Mozart’sSparrow Mass and Haydn’s Theresienmesse. Han was a 3rd Prize winner of 2022 Operalia The World Opera Competition and Grand Finalist in the 2021 Metropolitan […]
2022-09-21 19:37:00
War Memorial Opera House and Veterans BuildingProbably around 1932Hand-colored postcard, Lisa Hirsch collectionFirst it was Julia Bullock, now it's Christina Gansch:SAN FRANCISCO, CA (September 21, 2022) — San Francisco Opera announced today a cast change for its upcoming new production of Christoph Willibald Gluck’s Orpheus and Eurydice (Orfeo ed Euridice), opening November 15. Soprano Meigui Zhang will make her role debut as Eurydice, replacing Christina Gansch who is expecting her second child and has withdrawn from the production. Meigui Zhang made her Company debut this past summer as Dai Yu (“sung with brightly quivering intensity,” San Francisco Chronicle) in Bright Sheng and David Henry Hwang’s Dream of the Red Chamber. The fast-rising soprano is featured in San Francisco Opera’s award-winning video portrait series, In Song. Released in June 2022, In Song: Meigui Zhang features Zhang reconnecting with her family in Chengdu, China and performing Eva Dell'Acqua's "Villanelle," Mozart’s “Das Veilchen” (“The Violet”) and the Kazakh folk song "A Lovely Rose." Though Zhang’s […]
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