Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: SF Opera's 'A Masked Ball' All good things must end. David Gockley, the Giants-hat-wearing genial host of the free Opera in The Park concert announced last Friday he would end his tenure as SF Opera General Director after
Arts & Entertainment SF Opera Forecasts End of Global Economic Crisis by 2nd Half of 2011 In a gloomy economic projection, the SF Opera seemed skeptical about the impact of the economic recovery package being discussed right now in Congress. SF Opera announced yesterday that the New Great Depression
Arts & Entertainment SF Opera: La Bohème When the SF Opera 08-09 season was announced, we were all excited by the weirder stuff, the Bonesetter's Daughter, or die tote Stadt. "Who needs another La Bohème?" we shrugged at the time.
Arts & Entertainment Opening Night at the Opera: Simon Boccanegra Yet, the performance still caught our attention, thanks to two amazing Slavic singers. Verdi's Simon Boccanegra is a story of curses, kidnappings and misplaced children. It mostly hinges on the love of Simon
Arts & Entertainment SF Opera's Ariodante Oh, and all of these roles are sung by women. How appropriate. We attended a show later in the run, so here's a brief round-up of the other reviews: Unanimous agreement says that
Arts & Entertainment Happy Birthday, Pooch! You'll want to see other, um, microphones, too, when the provocative Angela Gheorghiu, who we were so smitten with in La Rondine, comes back for more Puccini via La Boheme. It seems that
misc SF Opera Passes the Popcorn Dude, why can't we all just get along. It's not like people in Chico are saturated with opera. They see eight performances from the Met. We think there's room enough for the six
Arts & Entertainment Tannhäuser We were wrong. Thank God. And the allusion to fedoras was not a dig at the previous general director (even though she indulged in them) but to last year’s LA opera production
Arts & Entertainment Iphigénie en Tauride This season was the last that Rosenberg planned (before her successor at the helm, SF Opera general director David Gockley tweaked it a bit), and the operas on display during the short summer
Arts & Entertainment The Philistine: Don Giovanni Was it, as this Berkely Daily Planet op-ed conjectured, due to the new media suite, which will record every performance on high definition from this Don Giovanni on and thus will put some
Arts & Entertainment The Philistine Salivates on the Opera's Next Season. Gockley had made changes, some good like moving the subtitles back to the top; some great like the live videocast on the civic center plaza; some so-so, like the redesign of the visual
Arts & Entertainment Philistine: Madame Butterfly As for the 3,000 inside, they were treated to a glorious show. Madame Butterfly is a crowd pleaser, as far as tragedies go, and this production came up with a recipe for
misc Philistine: To Catch a Free Butterfly Tomorrow, for the first opera of new director David Gockley's era, the SF Opera will experiment with a live broadcast of the performance playing inside the War Memorial Opera House, outside on the
Arts & Entertainment SFist Goes to the Opera: the 2006-07 Season Gone is the modern -- tacky, screamed the purists -- feel from the brochures and the web site: Glamour is back, with the "emphasis placed on the singers," said Gockley. The Opera unveiled
