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San Francisco Opera's "Butterfly" has a little bit of everything: a stylized 1982 production from famed Broadway director Haro...

September 21, 2010 There was a bit of celebrating in San Francisco, as British stage director John Copley opened his 30th production with t...

Sept. 19, 2010 The great challenge of Werther - based on the novel by Goethe - is that so much of the conflict takes place inside the minds...

September 16, 2010 With help from co-producers Houston Grand Opera and English National Opera, SFO pulled out the bells, whistles and any n...

Sept. 11, 2010 Opera San Jose launched its 27th season with one of the more lavish productions in its history, the third-ever production o...

One of the payoffs to a well-executed shift of setting and locale is a higher level of humanity from your characters, as if the big medieval...

I once asked Salvatore d'Aura - a former assistant to Puccini - why La Fanciulla del West isn't performed more often. He replied tha...