Monkey business Monkey business

The Monkey King at San Francisco Opera combines spectacle and sentiment.

The unkindest Kind The unkindest Kind

Madison Schindele on loving Die Frau ohne Schatten as a “woman of childbearing age”

Down by the bay Down by the bay

Michael Anthonio crunches the numbers on San Francisco Opera’s recent seasons and goes straight to the top to General Director Matthew Shilvock for a look at where SF Opera has been and where it’s headed

Golden wreck Golden wreck

I really wished to avoid joining the pig pile of derision that has fallen on SF Opera’s premiere of John Adams and Peter Sellars’ Girls of the Golden West.