A sure sign that the economy is turning around, besides IPOs raining gazillionaires on Noe Valley, the resurrection of the San Francisco Lyric Opera. We were sad when they suspended operations, we liked what we had seen for sure. So when we heard that not only they'd start staging shows again, but that they had picked David Lang's The Little Match Girl for their return, we had to be very excited. more ›

Despite the Petit Prince's warning that anything essential is invisible to the eye, the SF Opera production of the namesake opera by Rachel Portman is all eye candy. Pastel costumes inspired by Le Petit Prince's author, more ›

All serious writers who review Die Fledermaus make bad puns and comparisons: Johan Strauss ' operetta, which contains a few songs to "King Champagne," is like champagne, it is fizzy and bubbly and sparkly and easy to ingest and you come out inebriated. It also contains an aria called "Chacun à son gout," French for to each his own taste. Gosh, what a hook for a reviewer to hang his coat. Some will like it, some might not, chacun à son gout! more ›