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Friday, October 31, 2008
San Francisco Opera's Elixir of Love
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October 29, 2008 Toward the end of a season packed with ambition but also heavy with tragedy, SFO has landed on a welcome respite, a vivacio...
Monday, October 27, 2008
Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov
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San Francisco Opera, October 22 One of the more popular debates in opera circles is that of music vs. theater, and I have always been unwil...
Monday, October 20, 2008
Mozart's Idomeneo
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San Francisco Opera, Oct. 15, 2008 One might consider Idomeneo a "connoisseur's opera." Giambattista Varesco's libretto i...
Sunday, October 12, 2008
Confessions of an Opera Addict, Part XII
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The School of Barbie, Part Two As my friendship/fanship with Barbara Divis grew, I inevitably began to draw comparisons with my first sopra...
Saturday, October 11, 2008
Confessions of an Opera Addict, Part XI
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The School of Barbie The late '90s was, for me, a cornucopia of opera: trips to SFO, Jennifer der Torossian and the Bay Shore Lyric, and...
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Thursday, October 9, 2008
Confessions of an Opera Addict, Part X
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The Opera Wars When my soprano pal Jennifer der Torossian and her family founded Bay Shore Lyric Opera in Capitola, they were savvy enough t...
Wednesday, October 8, 2008
Confessions of an Opera Addict, Part IX
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The Birth of Gabriella's Voice The result of all my research and backstage spywork (along with two years of writing) was Gabriella's...
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