Joe Goode manages in Transformation, this summer's first fully-staged production of the SF Opera Merola program, the opposite trick as in his own shows: instead of getting dancers to sing, he got singers to dance. It helps that his cast is youthful, -- Merola singers are between 20 and 34-- full of energy, and willing to take risks. But his direction enlivened an opera which, since it is a sequence of a prologue plus nine little stories without an overarching narrative line, only a common theme, could potentially feel repetitive. more ›

We saw MTT conduct Mahler's Symphony No. 8 on Saturday, and ran into him again the day after -- he was the composer of the music for the first half of Joe Goode's new show, and Sunday was the first night his schedule let him attend Stay Together, at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. more ›

Some people cross dress, and some artists cross genres. more ›