Although not exactly unknown, why she isn’t a big star is mysterious to me.
Overall, this was a superb achievement and a thrilling season opener for the San Francisco Opera.
Winter weather has taken a toll on the cast of Lyric Opera of Chicago’s revival of Puccini’s Madama Butterfly.
The San Francisco Opera, perhaps incidentally, continued their exploration of operas based on literary works by mounting the revival of Giacomo Puccini’s first success, Manon Lescaut.
San Francisco Opera opened their 2018-19 Season Friday with a double bill of Italian verismo operas, Cavalleria rusticana and Pagliacci, which made a welcome return to War Memorial Opera House after 15 years.
In one important respect, a great production of Puccini resembles a great production of Wagner.
That Placido Domingo and James Levine, the Met’s inexorable septuagenarians, would team up yet again—on April Fools’ Day, no less—for a revival of Verdi’s Simon Boccanegra occasioned an uncomfortable degree of doubt and dread.
The San Francisco Opera is batting a thousand where young singers are concerned this season.
Tell us: Filth or dementia?
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