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Friday, November 18, 2005

La Forza del Destino, San Francisco Opera

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To Forza last night, where I was pleasantly surprised. I had thought the old warhorse not too stageworthy, based mostly on recordings, a vi...
Thursday, November 17, 2005

Applauding the Scenery

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My review of Fidelio at SFO is up at SFCV. It's a pan and largely in agreement with the reviews I've read by Joshua Kosman and Jan...
Wednesday, November 16, 2005

Applauding the Scenery 2

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Anthony Tomamsini reviewed the Met's new Roméo et Juliette in today's Times; he called out some issues with the set and staging tha...
Tuesday, November 15, 2005

Dear Sara:

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(A full review of the Sunday, November 13, 2005 performance of Norma will follow, but in the meantime, a few words to conductor Sara Jobin....

Anne Midgette on American Voices and Vocal Training

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Anne Midgette has a provocative article in the Sunday NY Times Arts & Leisure section called "The End of the Great Big American Vo...
Wednesday, November 09, 2005

Daniel J. Wakin on LHL

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Ace N. Y. Times reporter Daniel J. Wakin tackles the unfortunate string of cancellations this year by the great Lorraine Hunt Lieberson. Ca...
Tuesday, November 08, 2005

The Reviewer's Art

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I wrote the lead article for this week's edition of San Francisco Classical Voice ; I'd originally considered a blog posting on the ...
Tuesday, November 01, 2005

Happy Birthdays All Around

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vilaine fille was a year old on Halloween and (ahem) so was Iron Tongue of Midnight. Happy birthday to us both! I had a different sort of ...

Fallout

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The Standing Room reports on the last night And so does Robert Gable. Reviewers on Doctor Atomic : Anthony Tommasini in the N.Y. Times Joshu...
Monday, October 31, 2005

Doors Opening

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My dojo decided to stay on its summer schedule through at least the end of the year, and so I've joined a chorus for the first time in m...
Tuesday, October 25, 2005

Fashion Notes, ASvO

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My review of Anne Sofie von Otter and Bengt Forsberg is up at SFCV. For this review, I had to give some though to whether to break one of m...
Sunday, October 23, 2005

Never Had a Chance

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I planned to be at the last Doctor Atomic performance, I really did. I went into S. F. with what normally would have been plenty of time fo...
Friday, October 21, 2005

Doctor Atomic, and Balances, Revisted

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I returned to Doctor Atomic on Tuesday, October 18. This time, I sat in ZZ-101. It's in the very last row of the orchestra section, and...
Wednesday, October 12, 2005

Lost and Found

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Daniel J. Wakin reports in the NY Times that a lost Beethoven autograph - the working score of a piano version of the Grosse Fugue - has be...
Monday, October 10, 2005

Rodelinda Second Cast

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For the last two performances of Rodelinda at San Francisco Opera, tenor Paul Nilon was replaced by Kobie van Rensburg and bass Umberto Chi...

Balances

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There's a discussion in the comments to Fallout , below, about the balances in the orchestra section of War Memorial Opera House. I saw ...
Sunday, October 02, 2005

Going Nuclear: Doctor Atomic Arrives

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I was lucky enough that even subscribing very late to SF Opera, I was able to get a ticket to the opening night of John Adams and Peter Sell...
Monday, September 26, 2005

Rodelinda, San Francisco Opera

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Handel's great opera seria Rodelinda has reached San Francisco, following an acclaimed production in 2004 at the Met. We got David Dani...
Sunday, September 04, 2005

Another Doctor Atomic Cast Change

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I haven't seen an announcement of this and there's nothing in the Press section of the SF Opera Web site yet, but on the cast page i...
Tuesday, August 23, 2005

Sigh...

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If you're expecting or hoping to see me in Seattle for the Ring, alas, work pressures caught up and I am in Oakland working working wor...
Sunday, August 07, 2005

Dress Codes: Free the Men of Music@Menlo!

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There's been plenty of discussion in the blogosphere about the sometimes-stulifying atmosphere of classical concerts. I myself am on the...

Music@Menlo's Steinway

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To the Beethoven, Schumann, Brahms program at Music@Menlo last night (see my SFCV review on Tuesday), and I must comment on the piano - I wi...
Thursday, August 04, 2005

Semi-Hiatus

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Some blog postings are in the works, but delayed by the fact that for the rest of the month I'm in system release heck, if not hell. I k...
Friday, July 29, 2005

Minor Fame

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Yesterday when I got home, I found that a copy of a book called Reviewing the Arts, by Campbell Tichener, had arrived in the mail. It's...
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Tuesday, July 19, 2005

Doctor Atomic Cast Change

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Playbill reports that San Francisco Opera has announced Lorraine Hunt Lieberson's withdrawal from Doctor Atomic on doctors' orders...