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Showing posts with label Runnicles. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Runnicles. Show all posts
Monday, December 22, 2025

The Best of 2025

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Kang Wang as the title character The Monkey King San Francisco Opera Photo: Cory Weaver, courtesy of SFO   SFCV published the writers' c...
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Saturday, September 27, 2025

Runnicles at San Francisco Symphony

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Donald Runnicles Courtesy of his website Well, I was extremely  happy with this week's SFS program, which featured Donald Runnicles cond...
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Monday, November 27, 2023

There's Runnicles

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Tannhäuser A scene from Act 2 Photo: Evan Zimmerman / Met Opera He's conducting the Met's Tannhäuser, which opens this week. The pro...
Monday, September 04, 2023

Where's Runnicles Going?

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  Donald Runnicles Photo: Simon Pauly / Courtesy of San Francisco Opera News you can use: Donald Runnicles will be stepping down a year earl...
Tuesday, June 06, 2023

Die Frau ohne Schatten at San Francisco Opera

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Johan Reuter (Barak) and Nina Stemme (Dyer's Wife) Die Frau ohne Schatten , Act 3 Photo: Cory Weaver, courtesy of San Francisco Opera Di...
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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Friday, March 05, 2021

San Francisco Opera Ring Festival

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Ring  Festival Trailer Courtesy of San Francisco Opera As I mentioned a couple of weeks ago, San Francisco Opera is streaming its 2018 Ring ...
Sunday, July 07, 2019

Goings-On at the Paris Opera

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Bastille Opera February, 2019 Photo by Lisa Hirsch UPDATE, 7/5/2019:   The COC is denying the report, but  the Globe & Mai...
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Sunday, September 16, 2018

Runnicles and Luisotti

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I did a summing up the other month of Nicola Luisotti's career at San Francisco Opera, but I omitted something I'd consider importan...
Tuesday, June 19, 2018

O heilige Götter!

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Closing scene of Die Walküre Greer Grimsley (Wotan), Iréne Theorin (Brünnhilde) Photo: Corey Weaver / San Francisco Opera My r...
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Monday, September 26, 2016

SF Opera 2018 Ring Announcement

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No time until later for a full discussion and comparison with my predictions, but here are some of the leading roles. What was known C...
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Saturday, October 24, 2015

Just Where is He?

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Via Where's Runnicles? , a charming ditty about the eponymous conductor, much missed in San Francisco:
Monday, June 29, 2015

Les Troyens: 2.5 and Counting

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Back in the fall - this seems a million years ago now - I swapped my Troyens subscription seats from a night assigned to Davida Kar...
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Saturday, June 01, 2013

Where's Runnicles?

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There's Runnicles : in China conducting the Philadelphia Orchestra on their tour. Read all about it on the orchestra's blog.
Tuesday, November 16, 2004

The Maestro's Birthday Party - What's on the Menu?

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Donald Runnicles, music director of the San Francisco Opera, turns 50 and celebrates tonight with a gala all-Wagner concert. The artist list...