Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: Luisa Miller At SF Opera (And More) We round up some reviews of classical and modern music events. Luisa Miller at SF Opera, the Merola Grand Finale concert, Santa Fe Opera commission of a Steve Jobs opera, and the American
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: A Streetcar Named Desire at the Merola Opera Center The opera A Streetcar Named Desire, adapted from the Tennessee Williams play by librettist Philip Littell and composer Andre Previn, premiered in 1998 at SF Opera and was revived last week by the
Arts & Entertainment SFist Interviews: Merola Opera's Sheri Greenawald After a long lyric soprano career on the world's most famous stages, Sheri Greenawald hung her hat in San Francisco to become artistic director of the Merola program. She now auditions a bazillion
Arts & Entertainment SFist Review: the Merola Grand Finale To conclude the Merola program - this summer camp for talented young opera singers - they borrowed the SF Opera orchestra, the opera house with the Moby-Dick set on the stage, and they
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: La Finta Giardiniera and Postcard from Morocco We attend a Merola opera performances through the prism of: which singer will become a star. Some will. And when they do, we can be insufferable opera snobs and say we knew it
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: Merola Grand Finale The curtain opened Saturday night at the War Memorial Opera House on the David Hockney designed set of Turandot. Turandot? Had anyone surreptitiously advanced the SF Opera season opening night? Rather, the Merola
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: The Barber of Seville We love to see the future of opera in action, so we embarked onto the Noah's Ark of the Merola program's Il Barbiere of Siviglia last week-end: we saw two performances, two casts,
Arts & Entertainment Merola Program Grand Finale this Saturday How do you sing your goodbyes? So long, farewell, Auf wiedersehen, of course. Not the artists in the Merola program, they'll stick to what they know best: arias by Mozart, Strauss, Donizetti. They'll
Arts & Entertainment Free Opera Concert at Yerba Buena Gardens, Sunday The kids are alright. Every summer, about twenty under-thirty singers get selected after an arduous audition process to participate in the Merola opera program, a ten-week training camp with singing, diction and acting
Arts & Entertainment The Merola's <i>Don Giovanni</i> The bad news: The Don Giovanni we witnessed last weekend seemed too big a task for the Merola program. Sure, the singing was stellar. And Donna Anna, Leporello, and the Don himself were
Arts & Entertainment Merola's Schwabacher Summer Concert Pictures courtesy of SF Opera/Kristen Locken; above Rene Barbera, Leah Crocetto, Ben Wager, David Pershall, Nathaniel Peake; below YoungJoo An
