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• Posted SFist Interviews Susan Graham to SFist
  Susan Graham will be Dido with the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra in Purcell's Dido and Aenas, photo credit Dario Acosta. Grammy-award winning mezzo-soprano Susan Graham just headlined a concert series six weeks ago with the San Francisco Symphony, which will be released on a CD as part of the SFS Mahler project. Obviously, we can't get enough of her: she returns this week to star in a concert version of Purcell's opera Dido and Aenas,...
• Posted SFist Interviews Gabriela Lena Frank to SFist
  "The Lion", papier-mâché sculpture for the Dia de los Muertos celebration, courtesy SF Symphony. As part of its family activities, the SF Symphony organizes a Dia de los Muertos celebration on Sunday, November 1st. There will be vivid, animated displays of spooky papier-mâché figures (you can already see some through the windows of Davies Symphony Hall as we speak), and tons of fun kids activities as a prelude for the concert. Writer Laura Esquivel...
• Posted SFist Interviews Vadim Repin to SFist
  Vadim Repin and his 1736 "Von Szerdahely" Guarnerius violin (photo credit DG). Russian violin superstar Vadim Repin chatted with us from Helsinki, quite appropriately, since he'll perform the violin concerto from Finnish composer Jean Sibelius this week with the San Francisco Symphony. He'll partner with another Finn, conductor Osmo Vänskä, who came a week earlier, and already garnered rave reviews for his lead in Tchaikovsky and Bruckner. Looking forward to the pairing, who came...
• Posted SF Reviews: SF Opera's <em>The Daughter of the Regiment</em> to SFist
  Diana Damrau in La Fille du Regiment, picture SF Opera/Corey Weaver. The SF Opera production of La Fille du Regiment definitively put to rest the notion that opera is not the proper format for comedy: who needs agonizing arias when you can get a wild, fun party. We do not recall have laughed that much in an opera house, ever. Italian composer Gaetano Donizetti wrote Regiment during a stay in Paris, commissioned in 1840...
• Posted Puppet Opera: La Liberazione di Ruggiero to SFist
  Alcinia and Minion will "sing" La Liberazione di Ruggerio" La Liberazione di Ruggiero is arguably the first opera written by a woman, and features strong feminist themes and a challenge to patriarchal society, but honestly, they had us at Puppet Opera. And not just any kind of puppets: three foot tall, forty pound puppets from Sicily, getting into sword fights and romance. It is actually quite common that your opera singers act stiff and...