Pride weekend events at San Francisco Opera and Festival Opera are fabulous starts to the Bay Area summer
In terms of wild applause, it was Donna Murphy as Aurelia who was front and center, exciting the audience to a fervor with each re-emergence on the stage.
The New York City Opera has become an elusive “now you see it, now you don’t” presence in the New York opera scene since the departure of main sponsor and chairman of the board Roy G. Niederhoffer in 2019.
Time heals almost everything, as Jerry Herman’s best score is stylishly resurrected.
Dolly definitely did not have me at Hello!
Tell us: Filth or dementia?
Hasten thee to feed another quarter of conversation for The Talk of the Town!
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