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Meeting God on stage As part of its summer season West Edge Opera presented three operas in its experimental theater site at the Ed Roberts campus in Berkeley. Experimental because the campus atrium was not designed specifically for...

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Vocal works of charm and diversity Fresh Voices XIV, the fourteenth annual festival of new works sponsored by Goat Hall Productions, was held last Friday and Saturday, July 11 – 12, in the Community Music Center in San Francisco’s Mission district. Encouraging short works of contemporary opera and new music theater by local composers, this year’s festival was titled “Taken,” a provocative subject that was used very differently by six...

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SF Giants sponsor magic on the field – and a surprise score! One often hears speculation on the relevance of opera in our modern day, an age of information overload and plummeting literacy. According to 26,000 fans at San Francisco’s AT&T Park on Saturday night, July 5, opera is indeed relevant. ...

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Extraordinary experience as climax of Britten festivities Some operas need all of the glitter they can find. Such was not the case at Davies Symphony Hall on Friday, June 27, where Michael Tilson Thomas led a concert version of Benjamin Britten’s Peter Grimes that emphasized the powerful music and several extraordinary voices, shunning the usual expectation of costumes, staging, sets and lights. I once saw a Met production of Peter...

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Stunning show in unusual treatment For regular readers of these reviews, a word of caution: this is a rave, pure and simple. The San Francisco Opera’s...

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