Jaime Robles – Page 17 – Repeat Performances

September 12, 2017

Love is a force in San Francisco Opera’s “Turandot”

As the opening opera of San Francisco Opera’s season, Turandot, Puccini’s final and famously incomplete opera, provides all the grandeur and lavish orchestration needed, stating that opera, finally, is a world seething with color, violence and love. This is stated...

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September 10, 2017

A cozy Così at Opera San José

The delectable charm of Mozart ... The second title for the Mozart–Da Ponte opera Così Fan Tutte is La scola degli amanti, or The school for lovers. It could just have easily been...

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September 9, 2017

San Francisco Opera’s electrifying “Elektra”

The first collaboration between composer Richard Strauss and poet Hugo von Hofmannsthal was an operatic remake of the poet’s drama, Elektra, derived from Sophocles’ tragedy of familial murder and revenge. The resulting lengthy – nearly two-hour –...

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September 2, 2017

Wit and Love at Marin Shakespeare

Love’s Labour’s Lost closes the summer festival Some of my favorite lines in Shakespeare are from the winter section of “The Cuckoo and Owl,” the closing song from Love’s Labour’s Lost: “Then nightly sings...

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August 12, 2017

West Edge Opera’s “Hamlet”

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West Edge Opera takes on the Monster

Mary Shelley’s enduring Frankenstein There have been many adaptations of Mary Shelley’s novel, Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus. In the past...

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