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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 our […]
2023-09-22 18:12:00
Breaking: SFS Planning Major Davies Renovations
[…] this would be awesome in some ways: Davies has had acoustical problems throughout its history, even with the big renovation funded by Gordon Getty, and Lake Louise is a major waste of valuable real estate.On the other hand, does Civic Center need yet another recital hall? I say this knowing absolutely nothing about what the theoretical new hall would be like. But the larger Civic Center area already has Herbst Theater (renovated a few years ago), the Taube Theater, the Veterans Building Green Room, SF Jazz, three halls in the old bulding at SFCM and two in the new, St. Mark's, and Old First. That's eleven small concert halls within three-quarters of a mile of each other, and I'm not even counting Zellerbach A, the space in Davies used for SFSoundBox, or the Nourse Theater, which SF Performances used while Herbst was under construction.Can SFS sell tickets for programs in this potential new […]
2023-04-24 21:19:09
* Notes * Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra and Music Director Richard Egarr did a run of Händel's Amadigi di Gaula last weekend at the Taube Atrium Theater in San Francisco. The soloists (pictured) were all really impressive and the small space...
2022-11-28 20:36:00
[…] • Gabrielle Beteag, Emilia “Ich weiss ein wildes Geschlecht” from Die Walküre (Richard Wagner)Stefan Egerstrom, Hunding “Lied der Lulu” from Lulu (Alban Berg)Elisa Sunshine, Lulu “Sorgi, o padre” from Bianca e Fernando (Vincenzo Bellini)Esther Tonea, Bianca • Mikayla Sager, Eloisa “Ah, vieni! Nel tuo sangue” from Otello (Gioachino Rossini)Victor Cardamone, Rodrigo • Edward Graves, Otello “Tu ne chanteras plus ... chère enfant que j'appelle” from Les Contes d'Hoffmann (Jacques Offenbach)Anne-Marie MacIntosh, Antonia • Gabrielle Beteag, Mother’s Voice • Stefan Egerstrom, Dr. Miracle SAN FRANCISCO OPERA CHORUS IN CONCERTSunday, December 4, 2022, at 2 p.m.Dianne and Tad Taube Atrium TheaterDiane B. Wilsey Center for OperaVeterans Building, 4th Floor, 401 Van Ness Avenue, San Francisco General Admission: $42 San Francisco Opera ChorusChorus Director John Keene, conductorAssistant Chorus Master Fabrizio Corona, piano “From harmony, from heavenly harmony” from Ode for St. Cecilia’s Day (George Frideric Handel)“The many rend the skies with loud applause” from Alexander’s Feast (George Frideric Handel) Choeur des Bergers from L’Enfance du Christ (Hector Berlioz) Selections from Guillaume Tell, Act I (Gioachino Rossini) “Quel jour serein le ciel présage” “Pasteurs, que vos accents s’unissent” “Près […]
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