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2020-06-30 19:39:00
Upcoming Streams at San Francisco Opera
Janáček’s "The Makropulos Case" with Karita Mattila as Emilia Marty Photo: Cory Weaver/San Francisco Opera Well. San Francisco Opera will have two superb productions streaming in July: July 18, 2020: La Cenerentola (Cinderella), Rossini Cast: French soprano Karine Deshayes as Angelica (Cenerentola) opposite American tenor René Barbera as her Prince Charming, Don Ramiro. The cast includes baritone Efraín Solís as Dandini, baritone Carlos Chausson as Don Magnifico, bass-baritone Christian Van Horn as Alidoro and soprano Maria Valdes and mezzo-soprano Zanda Švēde as Angelica’s stepsisters, Clorinda and Tisbe, respectively. Jesús López-Cobos conducts. (Regular readers and friends of mine know I'm not a big fan of the Rossini comedies, but for this cast....Deshayes was a wonderful Urbain in the Paris Huguenots, René Barbera is one of the great bel canto tenors of our time, and Efraín Solís stole the show as Golaud in the WEO Pelleas two seasons ago. So I'll be watching!) July 25, 2020: Vec Makropulos (The Makropulos Case), Janáček Cast: Finnish soprano Karita […]
2020-01-23 01:23:00
San Francisco Opera announced the 2020-21 season today. Some of the news was already out there, owing to giveaway biographies, news items in Opera Magazine, and the announcement of Eun Sun Kim as the incoming music director.Here's the short version, shamelessly copied from Joshua Kosman's Chronicle article on the season.FIDELIO (Ludwig van Beethoven) Sept. 12-Oct. 1. Elza van den Heever, Simon O’Neill, Falk Struckmann, Eric Owens, Alfred Walker. Eun Sun Kim, conductor; Matthew Ozawa, director; Alexander V. Nichols, set and projection designer; Jessica Jahn, costume designer; Jax Messenger, lighting designer; Ian Robertson, chorus director. RIGOLETTO (Giuseppe Verdi) Sept. 13-Oct. 4. George Gagnidze, Nina Minasyan, Pene Pati, Zanda Svede, Alfred Walker, Reginald Smith, Jr. Sir Mark Elder, conductor; Mark Lamos, production; Jose Maria Condemi, revival director; Michael Yeargan, set designer; Constance Hoffman, costume designer; Justin Partier, lighting designer; Lawrence Pech, choreographer; Ian Robertson, chorus director. COSÌ FAN TUTTE (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart) Oct. […]
2018-01-02 23:35:00
[…] Mayes* (Jan. 13, 19, 23, & 26) Ferrando Adam Lau Inez Nerys Jones* Ruiz John Marzano* The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs, Bates. Feb. 23-March 9, 2019. Nicole Paiement (GOOD NEWS). Steve Jobs John Moore Laurene Powell Jobs Emily Fons* Steve Wozniak Garrett Sorenson* Kōbun Chino Otogawa Adam Lau Chrisann Brennan Madison Leonard* Paul Jobs Morgan Smith. Carmen, Bizet. May 4-18, 2019. Giacomo Sagriponti. Carmen Ginger Costa-Jackson (May 4, 8, 12, & 17) Zanda Švēde* (May 5, 11, 15, & 18) Don José Adam Smith* (May 5, 11, 15, & 18) Escamillo Rodion Pogossov Micaela Vanessa Goikoetxea* (May 4, 8, 12, & 17) Emily Dorn* (May 5, 11, 15, & 18) Le Remendado John Marzano Frasquita Madison Leonard Mercédès Sarah Coit
2016-11-18 16:00:35
All night long
In one important respect, a great production of Puccini resembles a great production of Wagner. The music of both composers has what we might call “a heavenly length”—musical phrase and direction that can be mapped out in the tens of minutes, even hours. In Puccini’s massive musical landscapes, all participants—singers, players, conductor, production designer, and even lighting designer—must feel the work in concert with one other, identifying and emphasizing its climaxes, ebbs, and points of inflection. Otherwise it risks becoming—as Arnold Toynbee described the drudgery of everyday human existence—“one damned thing after another.” The near total success of the San Francisco Opera’s current run of Jun Kaneko’s production of Madama Butterfly came down to this one factor: the people behind the production understood how to make sense of Puccini’s musical immensity. While such a success requires the investment of every person involved, the vision behind it nearly always comes […]
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