“This is the very ecstasy of love”
The grand illusion is that we know it all. From four hundred years of opera, we’ve distilled the worthy survivors.
4 pieces since 2016 — in 4 roles, at 3 companies, most often at San Francisco Opera.
The grand illusion is that we know it all. From four hundred years of opera, we’ve distilled the worthy survivors.
Politics and romance entangled in a spectacular fashion at San Francisco Operas’s Roméo et Juliette.
It is not easy for an opera company to follow a spectacular production of La Traviata with Massenet’s Manon.
Annapolis Opera presented a celebration of Leonard Bernstein’s reflections on love, relationships, and marriage, pairing a fully staged production of Trouble in Tahiti with a collection of songs from other Bernstein compositions.
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