A few concerts for the week-end: Stanford Lively Arts presents the West Coast premiere of Uri Caine's The Othello Syndrome, based upon Verdi's opera Othello. We have tried to get into Uri's reinterpretation of Gustav Mahler, and we admit we struggled. But we're sure it's better live, and we appreciate effort to bring in new life and new audiences to Verdi. And when your singers are named Josefine and Bunny, it can't go wrong.
