The St. Louis Symphony Orchestra under conductor Stéphane Denève plays up the schtick in a concert performance of The Magic Flute – and obscures Mozart’s magic in the process.
The Monkey King at San Francisco Opera combines spectacle and sentiment.
A muted and merry carousel ride out of feudalism in the Met’s production of Le nozze di Figaro
Overall, this was a superb achievement and a thrilling season opener for the San Francisco Opera.
There are no words superlative enough to describe this celebration of Orpheus’ grief, and I truly applaud San Francisco Opera for presenting such food for thought that will definitely resonate long after with me.
The second act of Dream of the Red Chamber reached the apex and provided the audience with soul-stirring fulfillment.
Saturday’s performance of Le nozze di Figaro at the Met mined the humor from Mozart’s divine setting of Beaumarchais’s play about a crazy day in the Almaviva household.
This past weekend was a busy one for operas in San Francisco (and Bay Area).
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