opera company in San José, California
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2023-12-31 18:04:00
[…] SchattenStravinsky, The NightingaleVerdi, Il TrovatoreVerdi, FalstaffWagner, Die Fliegende HollanderWagner, LohengrinWallen, Dido's GhostTwenty-six operas, twelve of them new to me. I saw multiple performances of the operas I reviewed at San Francisco (Frida y Diego, Frau, Omar, Lohengrin) and the LAO Pelléas. Looking forward to 2024, most companies haven't announced their seasons, but there are Der Zwerg and Highway 1 at LAO, Bulrusher at West Edge Opera, Bluebeard's Castle at SFS, The Cunning Little Vixen and The Merry Wives of Windsor at Pocket Opera, Florencia en el Amazonas at Opera San José, The Finch Opera, Balls, and Fellow Travelers at Opera Parallele, the Barrie Kosky Magic Flute at SFO, and above all, the American premiere of Kaija Saariaho's Innocence, also at SFO. I expect to see all of the Santa Fe operas but it's more individual performances than the particular operas that I'm looking forward to.
2023-12-20 18:01:00
[…] by Rolando Villazon in the title role and everyone else in the production.Pelléas et Melisande in Los Angeles; James Conlon conducted, magnificently, a fine McVicar production, with an explosive Golaud from Kyle Ketelsen and beautifully sung and acted performances by Will Liverman and Sydney Mancasola in the title roles.Osmo Vänskä's Sibelius at the LA Phil.Dalia Stasevska's Sibelius at SFS.Gabriel Kahane's emergency shelter intake form at SFS, on a program where Conrad Tao played Gershwin, brilliantly, as well.Falstaff at Opera San José. Yes, too too many fat jokes, but oh! what a lovely performance.Michel van der Aa's Blank Out, an opera with one character on video and the other live. A beautiful and moving work. I hope to hear more of his music in the future.Adriana Mater at SF Symphony.Pan, by Marcos Balter, performed by Claire Chase.JACK Quartet playing music of John Luther Adams.Thomas Conlin and the Vallejo Festival Orchestra in Sibelius. Some beautifully-sung songs […]
2023-10-06 20:43:25
2023-05-20 17:09:00
If you're a smallish, but reasonably well-funded, opera company, why would you go to the trouble of printing a fancy eight-page, folding, color brochure for your four-opera season....and omit any mention of who the singers are? Yes, I am looking at you, Opera San José.I mean, the question applies to any opera company, and it seems inexplicable. For one thing, the casting was included in the season announcement in March. (Although I have to say that it's weird that the title character of one of the operas has not yet been announced, and I'd bet that there are many, many lyric baritones with this particular role in their repertory.) For another, this is a company that largely features singers whose careers are centered in the Bay Area. The opera audience knows these folks, and honestly, the presence of certain singers IS enough to get me to a performance that's 50 miles away.Another […]
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