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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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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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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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From fluff to frozen in West Oakland. Experts at reinvention, the West Edge Opera has returned for a summer festival in an industrial wasteland in West Oakland, the abandoned facilities of Pacific Pipe Company.  This resilient opera company, formerly Berkeley Opera, has inhabited a series of venues over the last ten years, most recently at West Oakland’s abandoned train station for two startling and brilliant summers. Dealing with the freedoms and rigors...

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  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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