The Monkey King opened last week at San Francisco Opera, and hoo boy, we have a series of well-earned raves by everybody who was there. My friend Rob remarked afterward that he wasn't sure whether it was a great opera, but it is certainly a great show. I think the music is excellent, but there is so much going on visually that the music isn't the first thing you'll remember about it.
The run of performances is completely sold out; I've been checking multiple times a day, and there are maybe five tickets total available right now. This is astounding; it's too bad that SFO has no record of adding performances, not, at least, since the first run of Dead Man Walking 25 years ago.
You can, however, catch the livestream for $25 on Tuesday, Nov. 18 or watch the stream on demand from Sunday, Nov. 23 at 10 a.m. to Tuesday, Nov. 25 at 10 a.m.
- Joshua Kosman, SF Chronicle
- Joshua Barone, NY Times
- Heidi Waleson, WSJ (includes a review of Parsifal)
- Lisa Hirsch, SFCV
- Gabe Meline, KQED
- Michael Anthonio, Parterre Box
- Thomas May, Opera Now
- Caroline Crawford, Local News Matters
- Elsa Tranter, Classical Voice
- Charlise Tiee, Opera Tattler
- Patrick Vaz, The Reverberate Hills
- Michael Strickland, SF Civic Center
- Yoshi Kato, preview, SFCV and SF Chronicle
- Tony Bravo, SF Chronicle, fabulous feature on the puppets and scenery
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