Jaime Robles – Page 44 – Repeat Performances

July 17, 2010

‘Foresight’ at Southside Theater

Fantasies for the Information Age Southside Theater is a tiny black box theater in Building D of Fort Mason, just across the hall from the Magic Theater, another favorite venue the Bay Area’s up-and-coming playwrights and...

Categories: theater

July 9, 2010

‘Madama Butterfly’ at Festival Opera

It’s clear from the opening scene of ‘Madama Butterfly’ what the story’s conclusion will be. Even if one doesn’t know the opera, Pinkerton’s cavalier and unabashed sexual exploitation of the delicate...

Categories: opera

July 7, 2010

Joe Goode’s ‘Traveling Light’

Converting currency to gold The word ecology is derived from the...

Categories: dance

June 24, 2010

Kitka’s ‘Singing Through Darkness’

An ancient sound Kitka, which started out as an informal group accompanying the dance company Westwind, has traveled many paths since 1979 as both a musical ensemble and a...

Categories: theater

June 17, 2010

San Francisco Symphony’s “The Rite of Spring”

The wonders of Spring Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring has often been named one of the musical works that defined and separated the Romantic era of the 19th century from the Modernist era of the 20th century. Certainly it transformed classical dance as it was known in Europe at the time, and since then almost every noted choreographer of the 20th century—from Nijinsky to Béjart, from Kenneth...

Categories: music

June 10, 2010

San Francisco Opera’s ‘Die Walküre’

Invoking the Elemental There were times when I felt as if we were sitting in a movie theater, everyone’s vision directed toward large images splashed across the scrim at the...

Categories: opera