Original Director Richard Jones and revival director Benjamin Davis have created a staging that veers wildly between fascinating and fatally flawed.
This may be Karita Mattila’s greatest role.
As I mentioned in a previous post, one of my two favorite operas is Les Troyens,
Edgar Allan Poe’s The Fall of the House of Usher is heavy on macabre atmosphere and light on action.
With a primary color, projection-heavy English-language Magic Flute that’s going to feel like a matinee whenever you see it, the SFO season has lived up to its initial promise.
Tell us: Filth or dementia?
Hasten thee to feed another quarter of conversation for The Talk of the Town!
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