Photo credit by Clive Barda & San Francisco Opera We love it when our friends visit other cities. And that's because they love telling us all about the amazing operas they saw! D.S. Spring and Diana Herbst spent last week in San Francisco and was at the opera. Three nights in a row! That's devotion. D.S. and Diana thoroughly enjoyed the San Francisco Opera and were literally blown away by both...
Some productions at the San Francisco Opera are better seen from the top balcony's standing room section rather than a good seat in the downstairs orchestra section. It is easier from far away to suspend disbelief while watching an older, hefty opera singer playing a slim, youthful character, and to ignore excessive mugging or a wooden performance. Above all, there is the sound which travels up from...
Diana Damrau in La Fille du Regiment, picture SF Opera/Corey Weaver. The SF Opera production of La Fille du Regiment definitively put to rest the notion that opera is not the proper format for comedy: who needs agonizing arias when you can get a wild, fun party. We do not recall have laughed that much in an opera house, ever. Italian composer Gaetano Donizetti wrote Regiment during a stay in Paris,...
By Seán Martinfield Sentinel Editor and Publisher Photo by Lynn Imanaka Donizetti’s La Fille du Regiment (The Daughter of the Regiment) is not among the great masterworks nor is it the very best work of the composer. But the comic opera does offer to the best singers in the operatic world a marvelous range of possibilities to display [...]
Soprano Diana Damrau makes her debut as “Marie” with San Francisco Opera By Seán Martinfield Sentinel Editor and Publisher Photo by Lynn Imanaka San Francisco Opera presents Gaetano Donizetti’s comic opera La Fille du Régiment (The Daughter of the Regiment), opening October 13th with six subsequent performances through October 31st at the War Memorial Opera House. Tenor...
Before we headed out to Aida last night, I realized that I was going to be adding a new opera to my “list” of works I’ve seen. I’d never actually written them all down, though, so this morning I’ve been going through my memory (and opera company archive websites), and I think I’ve come up with most of them: 67! Not bad, I think. Do any of you do this? Maury ? JSU...
Photo by yan.da If you're jonesing for some opera, the Lyric Opera of Chicago is your enabler. Maybe you can wait until the season preview concert on September 21. Maybe you can even hold out until the opening night gala on September 26. But if you need a taste of that sweet, sweet opera - and don't have the do-re-mi to be a subscriber (one of the requirements for the exclusive preview) or to afford...
Laurent Pelly's delicious new production of Donizetti's "La Fille du Régiment," complete with its stunning star duo, Natalie Dessay and Juan Diego Flórez, is a full-blown comic romp.
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