Luisotti discloses Puccini’s orchestral virtues
Related topics classicalSan Francisco OperaOpera Advertisement When you think of it, there is not much to the story of Tosca, either in the original play by Victorien Sardou or in the libretto for...
View ArticleReview: 'Tosca' at San Francisco Opera
Compared with the night before, when responsibility for the title role changed hands between the first two acts, Friday's "Tosca" at the San Francisco Opera was a comparatively smooth undertaking. The...
View ArticleThe Week Ahead – Lincoln, Lion King, Tosca, Beethoven and Wilson Phillips
Related topics Daniel Day-LewisSally FieldbeethovenLion Kingpuccini Advertisement The week ahead in Music and Theatre runs the gamut from a sensational film biography of Abraham Lincoln to music of...
View ArticleTosca opened at SF Opera with affectionate Angela Gheorghiu, Massimo Giordano
Related topics OperaToscapucciniAngela GheorghiuCindy Warner Rating for Tosca at SF Opera, European cast 5 Advertisement Tosca Time returned to San Francisco Opera with a European cast and an American...
View ArticleSan Francisco Opera to conclude fall season with another double-cast classic
Related topics classicalSan Francisco OperaOpera Advertisement This year San Francisco Opera (SFO) began its 90th season by double-casting Harry Silverstein’s staging of one of the major classics of...
View ArticleTosca returns with Angela Gheorghiu, Patricia Racette, Mark Delavan, Brian...
Related topics OperapucciniPatricia RacetteCindy Warner Advertisement It's Tosca time again at San Francisco Opera, with the traditional set designed by Thierry Bousquet and two international casts...
View ArticleTosca review: Moore comes to the rescue
Before her knockout performance at the San Francisco Opera on Thursday night, soprano Melody Moore had never sung the title role of "Tosca." She still hasn't gotten around to Act 1. Moore, a former...
View Article'Tosca' review: Melody Moore riveting
Before her knockout performance at the San Francisco Opera on Thursday night, soprano Melody Moore had never sung the title role of "Tosca." She still hasn't gotten around to Act 1. Moore, a former...
View ArticlePatricia Racette – A Definitive 'Tosca' at San Francisco Opera
Related topics Music and TheatrePatricia RacetteToscaSan Francisco Opera Rating for Tosca at San Francisco Opera 5 Advertisement Soprano Patricia Racette was in glorious form this past Friday night in...
View ArticleSan Francisco Opera: Angela Gheorghiu stars in Tosca
Related topics Performing ArtsSan Francisco OperaAngela GheorghiuToscaOperaSan Francisco Advertisement This week, San Francisco Opera brings to the War Memorial Opera House the opening performances of...
View ArticleAngela Gheorghiu & Patricia Racette alternate as 'Tosca' at SF Opera,...
Related topics pucciniToscaAngela GheorghiuPatricia RacetteSan Francisco Opera Advertisement San Francisco Opera presents Puccini’s Tosca, conducted by SF Opera Music Director Nicola Luisotti. Two...
View Article'Mephistopheles' opens San Francisco Opera's new season (Photos)
San Francisco Opera’s 91st season opens on September 6, with a performance of Arrigo Boito’s Mephistopheles, described as “one of the most impressive productions ever seen at the War Memorial Opera...
View ArticleAuditions: NJ Association of Verismo Opera's 'La Traviata' and 'La Bohème'
The New Jersey Association of Verismo Opera (Verismo Opera) under the leadership of Artistic Director Lucine Amara invites professional, amateur, and retired professional soloists of all vocal...
View ArticleFavourite fare for 2014 NZ Opera season
Friday, 18 October 2013, 12:26 pm Press Release: MEDIA RELEASE Issued by New Zealand Opera EMBARGOED until 1:00pm, Thursday 17 October 2013 Favourite fare for 2014 NZ Opera season Click for big...
View ArticleS.F. Opera expands season, including 5.5-hour epic
Making good on a year-old promise to broaden the San Francisco Opera's offerings, General Director David Gockley announced an expanded 2014-15 schedule that features 10 productions - up from eight in...
View ArticleSuntory Hall to feature Puccini in opera repertory
Mami Tsukahara Daily Yomiuri Staff Writer An increasingly popular opera concert series at Suntory Hall will feature the work of Puccini over the next three years. This year, Tosca will be performed....
View ArticleNew cast enlivens Met's reviled 'Tosca'
Click photo to enlargeThis image provided by the Metropolitan Opera shows Bryn Terfel as Scarpia in Act 1 of Puccini's "Tosca" at the Metropolitan Opera, Wednesday April 14, 2010. The boos heard 'round...
View ArticleSan Francisco Opera's radio broadcast season opens with Verdi's "Il...
SAN FRANCISCO OPERA ANNOUNCES WINTER-SPRING 2010 RADIO BROADCASTS ON CLASSICAL 102.1 KDFC Winter-Spring 2010 Broadcast Season opens January 3 with Verdi’s Il Trovatore conducted by Music Director...
View ArticleTaking the plunge into opera
Click photo to enlargeSoprano Cynthia Clayton as the fiery diva Floria Tosca and baritone Guido LeBron as the corrupt and sexually predatory chief of police Baron Scarpia in "Tosca."Never been to an...
View ArticlePatricia Racette divine in Guonod's "Faust" at San Francisco Opera; Relyea...
SF Opera Examiner rates this: Guonod’s Faust at San Francisco Opera on Sunday afternoon made a good substitute for those who skipped church that morning, offering a good deal of mischief and mayhem set...
View ArticlePatricia Racette and John Relyea of "Faust" at Stern Grove Festival on...
SAN FRANCISCO OPERA CELEBRATES INDEPENDENCE DAY AT STERN GROVE FESTIVAL WITH A CONCERT FEATURING PATRICIA RACETTE, JOHN RELYEA, SAN FRANCISCO OPERA’S ADLER FELLOWS AND THE SAN FRANCISCO OPERA...
View ArticleIngvar Wixell obituary
Swedish baritone who was an imposing presence on the operatic stage Ingvar Wixell as Mandryka and Kiri Te Kanawa as Arabella in Strauss's Arabella at the San Francisco Opera House in 1980. Photograph:...
View ArticlePittsburgh Opera presents Puccini’s dramatic Tosca
Giacomo Puccini’s Opera Tosca Benedum Center for the Performing Arts 7th Street and Penn Avenue Pittsburgh, PA 15222 Saturday, March 24 8:00 PM Tuesday, March 27 7:00 PM Friday, March 30 8:00 PM...
View ArticleRacette's Angelica memorable triumph at Metropolitan Opera revival of...
NEW YORK - Patricia Racette had just sung her moving final notes in "Suor Angelica" and fallen to the stage. Around the Metropolitan Opera House, a significant segment of the audience was sniffling and...
View ArticleThree cheers for three roles in "Tosca"
Soprano Sondra Radvanovsky, as Floria Tosca, and bass-baritone Greer Grimsley, as Baron Scarpia, rehearse last week for their roles in Opera Colorado's production of "Tosca" at Ellie Caulkins Opera...
View Article'Tosca' soars as the 2006 season opens
Cincinnati Opera gave its audience what they like best Thursday night at Music Hall: an A-list opera, with spectacular romantic-realistic sets, great singing and a genuine diva. Starring in Puccini's...
View Article"Tosca" at Opera in the Baseball Park but diva refuses to play ball; Timeout...
Take me out to the op-er-a . . . come on everybody sing! It’s probably fun to see anything on a summer night at the baseball park, even over the top pathos like Puccini's Tosca. Ah, the aroma of...
View ArticleLeah Crocetto and Michael Fabiano headline SF Opera at Stern Grove, 8/19
Related topics San Francisco Operaturandot Advertisement San Francisco Opera returns to the beautiful outdoor setting of Sigmund Stern Grove on Sunday, August 19 at 2:00 pm. This annual admission-free...
View ArticleFrancesco Demuro & Arturo Chacón-Cruz share tenor lead in SF Opera's 'Rigoletto'
Related topics Verdi's RigolettoRigolettoSan Francisco OperaFrancesco DemuroNicola Luisotti Advertisement San Francisco Opera has announced a casting change for the Company’s season-opening production...
View ArticleRacette's Angelica a triumph at Met Opera
Patricia Racette had just sung her moving final notes in "Suor Angelica" and fallen to the stage. Around the Metropolitan Opera House, a significant segment of the audience was sniffling and wiping...
View ArticleA traditional 'Tosca,' in Callas's shadow
No less than the Metropolitan Opera of New York, the Royal Opera House at Covent Garden has long counted on Franco Zeffirelli's lush and safely traditional productions to fill the house for yet another...
View ArticleNext Opera season to tempt with a range of tastes and world of fanfare for...
The San Francisco Opera's 2008-09 season will boast a rich mix of repertoire - including two premieres and a classic work new to the company - as well as a number of debuting singers alongside...
View ArticleFamed soprano Racette prepares for HGO's Tosca
"Puccini is my thing," Patricia Racette says - so enthusiastically that she might be singing the words. "It suits me, vocally and dramatically, more than anything I can think of. I love it." That's a...
View ArticleSeason blends debuts, classics
Three commissioned works mark the San Francisco Opera's 2012-13 season, including the much-awaited Jake Heggie opera "Moby-Dick." A total of nine productions will be offered in the season, the...
View ArticleSoprano Patricia Racette Talks About Tosca as Washington National Opera...
Patricia Racette, a soprano renowned for her vocal radiance and skilled acting, returns to Washington National Opera this Saturday as the company launches its first season under the aegis of the...
View ArticleSan Francisco Opera announces summer-fall 2009 radio broadcasts on classical...
Anna Netrebko's sings Verdi's La Traviata with her signature bittersweet longing SAN FRANCISCO OPERA ANNOUNCES SUMMER-FALL 2009 RADIO BROADCASTS ON CLASSICAL 102.1 KDFC The Bonesetter’s Daughter by...
View ArticleSF Opera presents Charles Francois Gounod's "Faust" with Secco, Racette,...
SAN FRANCISCO OPERA PRESENTS CHARLES FRANÇOIS GOUNOD’S FAUST STARRING STEFANO SECCO, PATRICIA RACETTE, AND JOHN RELYEA JUNE 5–JULY 1, WAR MEMORIAL OPERA HOUSE SAN FRANCISCO (May, 2010)—San Francisco...
View Article'Rigoletto' to Open 2012-13 Season of SF Opera, Friday, September 7th
Single (non-subscription) tickets for San Francisco Opera’s 2012–13 Season go on sale to the public on Monday, July 2nd at 10 am. Giuseppi Verdi's Rigoletto opens the season on Friday, September 7th....
View ArticleDavid Gockley announces Season 2012/13 for San Francisco Opera
San Francisco Opera General Director David Gockley today announced the Company’s 2012–13 repertory season, the guest artists, performance schedules, and three world premiere commissions slated for...
View Article'Les Troyens' opens San Francisco Opera's Summer Season
One of the most significant and impressive works in the entire repertoire of opera heralds the opening of San Francisco Opera’s Summer Season this weekend. Les Troyens (The Trojans), Hector Berlioz’s...
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