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There are few young-singer programs as successful as those at San Francisco Opera, and the faithful gathered this week to welcome back one o...

Every great once in a while, a critic faces that most daunting of tasks, writing about a production that has no flaws. Such a one is San Fra...

Tosca can be a physically brutal little opera, and SFO's latest production takes this notion to the hilt, stressing pure power in both i...

About the 30th time you see La Boheme, you begin to focus on the itty-bitty particulars. Thus, I am here to report that Sacramento Opera sta...

Sometimes it takes all night to figure out a voice, and such was certainly the case with Opera San Jose's Alexander Boyer, whose powerfu...

Chapter Four, Part II Trauma at the Space Needle After watching Tosca take her stunningly awkward dive from the parapets of the Castel Sant’...

Chapter Four, Part I Potato Voice It was nearing seven o’clock on a Thursday, and I was flat-footing the pavement down Fifth Avenue, seeking...