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September "Anna Karenina": Opera San Jose opens its season with a bold stroke, presenting the West Coast premiere of David Carlson's 2007 opera based on the Tolstoy classic. Sopranos Jasmina Halimic and Jouvanca Jean-Baptiste share the title role. ...
There are few cycles in the natural world as reliable or inexorable as those of the cultural calendar. With the arrival of each fall, the leaves turn colors somewhere else, while here in the Bay Area, the artistic world renews itself like some ...
RATING: (POLITE APPLAUSE) New Music The seven chamber works by composer Zack Browning on this disc are built around some kind of constructive process involving magic squares, feng shui and the movement of the planets. The details hardly matter, and in ...
The San Francisco Opera's fall season may be best thought of as a coiled leap into summer; the company seems to be husbanding its resources for next year's explosion of Wagner's "Ring" cycle. In the meantime, the six operas include their share of ...
To experience the full tingle of relief at not being in someone else's shoes, it's only necessary to hear Irene Dalis tell about the young soprano who arrived 10 minutes late for an opera rehearsal. "I told her," says Dalis, fixing her listener with a ...
Philip Eisenberg, who spent three decades shepherding the world's greatest opera singers through performances from his spot in the prompter's box at the San Francisco Opera and other prominent houses, died Aug. 16 of natural causes. He was 74. Mr. ...
There are few cycles in the natural world as reliable or inexorable as those of the cultural calendar. With the arrival of each fall, the leaves turn colors somewhere else, while here in the Bay Area, the artistic world renews itself like some ...
The San Francisco Opera's fall season may be best thought of as a coiled leap into summer; the company seems to be husbanding its resources for next year's explosion of Wagner's "Ring" cycle. In the meantime, the six operas include their share of ...
