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2024-02-07 00:24:00
Raehann Bryce-Davis in Recital
Raehann Bryce-Davis | Credit: Isamar Chabot Mezzo-soprano Raehann Bryce-Davis gave a spectacular recital about ten days ago at Herbst. My review is on the formal side and missed out in one area: I'd actually wanted to mention what she and pianistJeanne-Minette Cilliers were wearing after the intermission, because Bryce-Davis's fiancé Allen Virgo designed both outfits and they were spectacular. But, I also didn't manage to grab a curtain call photo. The only disappointing thing about the recital was the turnout; the audience was tiny. This might have been because of Michael Tilson Thomas's valedictory Mahler 5 down the block, but I know there are plenty of opera folks who didn't turn out for this wonderful recital.Lisa Hirsch, SFCVPatrick Vaz, The Reverberate Hills
The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2024-01-24 01:17:22
[…] the same. Boris and Zinovy are domineering; it’s a stretch to call them despotic. Here too, Stalin might have wondered whether Shostakovich’s target wasn’t so much 19th-century Russian merchants as 20th-century Soviet culture. That leaves the music. Pravda’s “From the first minute, the listener is shocked by deliberate dissonance, by a confused stream of sound” is its own muddle, since Lady Macbeth opens in an atmosphere of brooding, woodwind-saturated melancholy that recalls “Der Einsame im Herbst” from Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde. Then the first of Katerina’s four great arias follows. At first listen it might seem that Shostakovich gives the all the tender yearning lyricism to Katerina and “all that surrounds her a darkly satirical character.” But there’s nothing parodic about Boris’s wistful recollection of his youthful indiscretions (at least until the Viennese waltz kicks in), or the poignant hymn the convicts sing as they trudge along, verst […]
2023-11-20 00:56:00
San Francisco Opera 2024 Adler Fellows; Adler Concert
[…] Yang Lin continue in the program as second-year fellows. The Adler program has trained any number of young singers who went on to good careers in opera. It's always nice to be able to say "I knew them when," and the annual Alder concert is a great opportunity to hear these talented singers. Here are the details for the concert, which has a very interesting program:THE FUTURE IS NOW: ADLERS IN CONCERTSaturday, December 2, 2023, at 7:30 p.m.Herbst Theatre, Veterans Building, 401 Van Ness Avenue, San Francisco San Francisco Opera Adler FellowsSan Francisco Opera OrchestraRamón Tebar, conductor Tickets for The Future Is Now range from $34–$69. PROGRAM (subject to change) Overture from Norma (Vincenzo Bellini)San Francisco Opera Orchestra "Va, crudele … Vieni in Roma!" from Norma (Vincenzo Bellini)Gabrielle Beteag, Adalgisa • Moisés Salazar, Pollione "Che più t'arresti … Tacea la notte ... Di tale amor" from Il Trovatore (Giuseppe Verdi)Nikola Printz, Inez • Mikayla Sager, Leonora "Amor ti vieta" from Fedora (Umberto Giordano)Edward Graves, Count Loris "Ch'il bel sogno di Doretta" from La Rondine (Giacomo Puccini)Olivia Smith, […]
2023-11-09 23:53:00
Veterans Building, with Herbst Theater, in the distance; War Memorial Opera House, foregroundVintage post card, collection of Lisa HirschSan Francisco Performance sent out a press release this afternoon with postponements of two upcoming concerts:Stephen Hough: was November 14, 20223, 7:30 pm; new date TBACastalian String Quartet: was November 15, 2023, 7:30 pm; new date TBABoth concerts were at Herbst Theater. "Travel difficulties" is the reason for both postponements.I was going to get a ticket to see the Castalian; they played a tremendous concert earlier this year at Cal Performances (Haydn, Saariaho, Schubert) and I was very much looking forward to the planned SFP program (Janacek, Beethoven, Turnage). Ah, well; later in the season, I hope.
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