Matthew Travisano
Matthew is a San Francisco-based educator and actor. He has taught and lectured on the performing arts for more than two decades. He has trained a generation of actors in the greater Bay Area at both Oakland School for the Arts and Ruth Asawa School of the Arts, where he has also taught literature, composition, literary theory, and aesthetics. He holds a BA in English from UC Berkeley and a Master's in Teaching (MAT) from San Diego State University.
In his new production that opens at San Francisco Opera this weekend, Matthew Ozawa is creating a Parsifal for the cancel culture age.
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Parterre Box concludes the thrilling first year of Talk of the Town by inviting your lightning rod opinions on several more categories of operatic argumentation.
The 25th anniversary revival of Dead Man Walking at San Francisco Opera is most moving in its quietest moments
Matthew Travisano takes on Mimì’s Act III aria from La bohème — not that one, the other one — in the latest installment of the “Perspectives on an Aria” series
