opera – Page 13 – Repeat Performances

May 31, 2016

San Francisco Opera presents “Carmen”

With its often frenzied rhythms, gripping dynamics, haunting minor key and exotic melodies, Carmen offers operatic moments that are undeniably musically compelling. That despite the fact that many of us grew up with cartoon versions of...

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May 25, 2016

Madama Butterfly in Palo Alto

An opera gem, cut and polished… At West Bay Opera’s production of Madama Butterfly, a large cast squeezed huge drama onto a small stage. And that shoehorning of high passions and choice vocals is often the case for this opera company that dreams big in Palo Alto’s intimate Lucie Stern Theater. Conductor and General Director José Luis Moscovich stepped onto the stage to greet us, and particularly those new to opera....

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April 29, 2016

Opera Parallèle’s compelling production of “The Lighthouse”

This past weekend Opera Parallèle presented another of their finely produced operas at Z Space in San Francisco. The venue’s 50-foot-deep stage allowed the directors to create the illusion of a storm swept Scottish...

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April 15, 2016

SF Opera Lab’s Cine-Concert

Le Hot Jazz The third production of SF Opera Lab was the 2003 animated film by French-born filmmaker Sylvain Chomet, Les Triplettes de Belleville. What makes the film...

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April 3, 2016

SF Opera Lab’s intriguing first season

“Milica, friend, you are leaving home forever!” And so opens the a cappella opera, Svadba-Wedding, presented by SF Opera Lab as its second program in its...

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March 6, 2016

Island Opera Company performs “La Bohème”

Bohemians in Alameda! A friend once complained to me that Berlin had four opera houses, as if that were unconscionable. An outrageous waste! It never occurred to me that there could be too much...

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