Sumi Hwang News
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2023-12-20 21:12:00
[…] four decades, Gordon Getty and his late wife, Ann, have been stalwart supporters of San Francisco Opera. Their generosity has enabled the Company to maintain its position among the art form’s leading institutions throughout the nation and world. Ann and Gordon Getty’s commitment to the Company has helped bring to the War Memorial Opera House stage the world premieres of many new works, including John Adams’ Girls of the Golden West, Bright Sheng and David Henry Hwang’sDream of the Red Chamber, Marco Tutino’s Two Women and Tobias Picker’s Dolores Claiborne along with bolstering the core repertoire with new productions of Strauss’ Der Rosenkavalier, Puccini’s La Bohème and Madama Butterfly, among others and epochal revivals including the 2018 presentations of Wagner’s Ring cycle. Mr. Getty has been awarded the Gold Baton of the American Symphony Orchestra League, honored as an Outstanding American Composer at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, received the European Culture Prize and was Legacy Honoree and Artist […]
2023-01-18 02:12:00
New York Philharmonic. Santtu-Matias Rouvali, conductor; Nemanja Radulovic, violin. January 12, 2023.
[…] call "Variations on a Theme by Paganini." Perhaps it's a tribute to Rachmaninoff's take for the piano? Here it is only the solo violin. The original caprice is already difficult, the variations make it impossibly so. There were quite a few sloppy passages, and it reminds me of how Repin played Ravel's Tzigane: a controlled train wreck. But for the sections that work, it was surely great and impressive.Radulovic acknowledging the orchestra, with Rouvali and Hwang looking on.The Program Notes makes the Thorvaldsdottir piece very interesting. The title, Catamorphosis is a word made from catastrophe and metamorphosis, and the piece (per the composer) is inspired by "the fragile relationship we have with our planet." She further describes it as "... revolves around a distinct sense of urgency, driven by the shift and pull between various polar forces - power and fragililty, hope and despair, preservation and destruction;" and that "it […]
2022-11-17 22:35:00
[…] double major in voice and French horn. He completed additional coursework at Ball State University, before earning his Master of Music in Vocal Performance and his Artist Diploma in Opera Studies from the University of Cincinnati, College-Conservatory of Music. Sponsored by Valerie Crane Dorfman Edward Graves (Oxon Hill, Maryland)Noted by Opera News for his "stunningly sweet tone," tenor Edward Graves joined San Francisco Opera’s Adler Fellowship Program in 2022. His Company appearances include Stone/Eunuch in Bright Sheng and David Henry Hwang’s Dream of the Red Chamber and Gastone in La Traviata. Other recent performances include Policeman 2 in Jeanine Tesori and Tazewell Thompson’s Blue at Detroit Opera and the title role of Judas Maccabaeus with Berkshire Choral International. In 2023 he will make his Spoleto Festival USA debut as Anatol in Vanessa. As a 2021 participant in the Merola Opera Program, he was featured in a recital entitled What the Heart Desires and a filmed project entitled Back Home: Through the Stage Door. Graves has previously appeared […]
2022-09-21 19:37:00
War Memorial Opera House and Veterans BuildingProbably around 1932Hand-colored postcard, Lisa Hirsch collectionFirst it was Julia Bullock, now it's Christina Gansch:SAN FRANCISCO, CA (September 21, 2022) — San Francisco Opera announced today a cast change for its upcoming new production of Christoph Willibald Gluck’s Orpheus and Eurydice (Orfeo ed Euridice), opening November 15. Soprano Meigui Zhang will make her role debut as Eurydice, replacing Christina Gansch who is expecting her second child and has withdrawn from the production. Meigui Zhang made her Company debut this past summer as Dai Yu (“sung with brightly quivering intensity,” San Francisco Chronicle) in Bright Sheng and David Henry Hwang’s Dream of the Red Chamber. The fast-rising soprano is featured in San Francisco Opera’s award-winning video portrait series, In Song. Released in June 2022, In Song: Meigui Zhang features Zhang reconnecting with her family in Chengdu, China and performing Eva Dell'Acqua's "Villanelle," Mozart’s “Das Veilchen” (“The Violet”) and the Kazakh folk song "A Lovely Rose." Though Zhang’s journey […]
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