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Showing posts with label John Adams. Show all posts
Showing posts with label John Adams. Show all posts
Friday, January 09, 2026

Amplification

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Shotgun Players Illustration for Sunday in the Park with George I saw two shows by Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine recently, Sunday in the...
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Wednesday, January 22, 2025

Adams and (Shudder) Orff at SFS

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David Robertson, John Adams, and   Víkingur Ólafsson Davies Symphony Hall January 16, 2025 Photo: Brandon Patoc, courtesy of San Francisco S...
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Thursday, March 02, 2023

Stuff I Expect to See in SF

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Walt Disney Concert Hall Garden March, 2017 Photo by Lisa Hirsch Between this year's and next year's goings-on at the LA Phil, I wou...
Monday, September 19, 2022

Antony and Cleopatra: Media Round-Up

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Amina Edris and Gerald Finley in the title roles of Antony and Cleopatra. Act 2, before the Battle of Actium Photo: Cory Weaver / San Franci...
Wednesday, August 31, 2022

Antony and Cleopatra: Pre-Performance Media Roundup

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Director Elkhanah Pulitzer, Composer John Adams, and  SFO General Director Matthew Shilvock Atrium Theater, SF Rehearsal for Antony & Cl...
Monday, June 27, 2022

Adams, Stucky, and Sibelius at San Francisco Symphony

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Pianist Víkingur Ólafsson performs John Adams’ Must the Devil Have All the Good Tunes? with Music Director Esa-Pekka Salonen leading the Sa...
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Monday, May 23, 2022

News of the Day, Julia Bullock Edition; Media Round-up of History's Persistent Voice

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History's Persistent Voice Julia Bullock, seated left; Christian Reif, conducting Photo courtesy of San Francisco Symphony, (c) Kristen ...
Wednesday, January 19, 2022

SFO 100

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War Memorial Opera House Photo by Lisa Hirsch It's finally here: the San Francisco Opera centennial season announcement . It's kind ...
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Saturday, January 06, 2018

The Year in Review

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This was one very weird year, in so many ways. Personally, it was pretty good! My job went reasonably well, and I have the best colleagues p...
Thursday, December 07, 2017

Girls of the Golden West, San Francisco Opera World Premiere

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Davóne Tines (Ned Peters) and Julia Bullock (Dame Shirley) Cory Weaver photo, courtesy of San Francisco Opera AND it's Dec...
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Friday, November 17, 2017

Girls of the Golden West: Go See It!

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If you read this blog, you know that next week San Francisco Opera will present the premiere run of performances of Girls of the Golden West...
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Tuesday, November 14, 2017

Anxiety Dreams

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Historically, I don't have a lot of nightmares or anxiety dreams, and the ones I have tend to be of the crumbling-teeth variety. The oth...
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Sunday, September 17, 2017

I am not sure whose idea this was...

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....but I did laugh. Screen shot from San Francisco Opera web site; click the screen shot to see what I laughed at.
Tuesday, May 09, 2017

Santa Fe Opera, 2018

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Santa Fe Opera announced its 2018 season today : Candide , Bernstein, new production (Laurent Pelly), company premiere. Bicket/Rae, Shrad...
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Wednesday, January 04, 2017

Gospel According to the Other Mary Cast Change

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Joana Carneiro was originally scheduled to conduct the John Adams oratorio The Gospel According to the Other Mary  at San Francisco Symphony...
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Thursday, August 25, 2016

Thursday Miscellaney

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Too many things make a post, or, why do I have 34 open tabs in my phone's browser? No, I am not putting 34 items in this blog post. Gi...
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Tuesday, June 14, 2016

San Francisco Opera Admits It: "We're trying to sow confusion."

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      John Adams and Peter Sellars ©Terrence McCarthy/San Francisco Opera Okay, that's a lie. What's really going on is t...
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