July 22, 2011
Lamplighters enlighten the ‘HMS Pinafore’
We sail the ocean blue ...
For some ten years W.S. Gilbert was a reviewer for the Victorian weekly Fun, which was known as the “poor man’s Punch”; the magazine’s jester,...
Jaime Robles
July 16, 2011
Meridian Gallery presents 8213 Physical Dance Theater
Not just another number
The Meridian Gallery is located in a narrow, elegantly designed Victorian at Powell and Sutter streets in San Francisco. Not simply a gallery, the lively Meridian...
July 3, 2011
San Francisco Opera concludes their Ring Cycle
The End of a World
The final curtain came down on Götterdämmerung, the closing opera in San Francisco Opera’s production of Wagner’s The Ring of the Nibelung, and moments later the...
July 1, 2011
A post-modern “Siegfried” at San Francisco Opera
An American "Siegfried"
Our culture—that of American post-modernism—is less...
December 6, 2010
“Mathis le peintre” at L’Opéra National de Paris
Painting with music
On November 16, the Opéra National de Paris, debuted a production of Paul...
November 24, 2010
English National Opera’s “A Dog’s Heart”
“6 January (entries made partly in pencil, partly in violet ink): Today, after the dog’s tail had fallen out, he quite clearly pronounced the word ‘liquor.’ Recording apparatus switched on. God knows what’s happening. (Total...