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.
San Francisco Opera hosts an exuberant tribute to queerness past and present.
Matthew Travisano has such doubts about Douglas Cuomo‘s opera recently seen at Opera Parallèle.
Opera San José‘s La Traviata has all the buzz and energy of a world premiere.
An invigorating double bill at the San Francisco Symphony challenges how Bach “should” be performed.
A sublime Reginald Mobley and the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra are a balm for troubled times in a program of baroque selections and spirituals.
American Bach brings out the operatic side of Bach in a program featuring sparkling vocal talents.
Under the baton of Nicholas McGegan, Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra & Chorale proves they have a magic touch in a program of Rameau and Handel.
In an all-Mozart program with the San Francisco Symphony, Golda Schultz shows that her soubrette days are behind her.
In his new production that opens at San Francisco Opera this weekend, Matthew Ozawa is creating a Parsifal for the cancel culture age.
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
Tell us: Filth or dementia?
Hasten thee to feed another quarter of conversation for The Talk of the Town!
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