Arts & Entertainment Oakland's West Edge Opera Creates a Monster In 'Frankenstein' Frankenstein, by Libby Larsen is an opera in fifteen scenes based on the well known Mary Shelley story: Victor Frankenstein in his lab, possessed with the hubristic desire to create life, animates a
Arts & Entertainment SF Opera Co-Commissions Opera About Steve Jobs The San Francisco Opera has just co-commissioned an opera (that's already been written) about the late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs. Along with the Seattle Opera, "The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs" will premiere
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: <i>Sweeney Todd</i> At SF Opera My esteemed colleague Cedric recently suggested that SF Opera's recent staging of a production detailing "the evil scheming of a morally corrupt upper class against the noble instincts and the steady moral compass
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: 'Middlemarch In Spring' At Z Space Feminism viewed through the prism of Victorian literature seems so quaint today. Composer Allan Shearer and librettist Claudia Stevens picked up one of the story lines from George Eliot's 1872 classic Middlemarch, appended
Arts & Entertainment Hits And Misses At SF Opera's Summer Season, Plus Free Opera At The Ballpark On Saturday On July 5, head to AT&T Park for a free simulcast of the SF Opera's production of Verdi's La Traviata. We're no baseball analytics money ball experts, but signing up for
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: 'The Classical Style' at the Ojai North Festival To discuss "The Classical Style," the witty, charming, exhilarating new opera by Steven Stucky for the music and Jeremy Denk for the libretto, based upon the eponymous 1971 musicology treatise by Charles Rosen
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: Tricky 'Mefistofele' At SF Opera Arrigo Boito's opera Mefistofele is an odd duck to open the season. It clocks at three and a half hours (thus an eternity before getting to the post-performance opening-night parties). It's not a
Arts & Entertainment Jennifer Siebel Newsom Stands Up For Russian Gays, Looks Smashing During Friday's SF Opera gala, hordes fancy-smelling types sporting their finest threads showed up at City Hall to kick off the opera company's newest season. Jennifer Siebel Newsom, documentary filmmaker/wife of Lieutenant
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: 'Trouble In Tahiti' & 'Winterreise' Two one-act mini-operas staged in April by Ensemble Parallele (Leonard Bernstein's Trouble in Tahiti and Barber's Hand of Bridge) at Z Space showed couples wallowing in conjugal misery and midlife crisis. Yet, through
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: Peer Gynt And Marnie Breckenridge Two reviews from shows last week, Peer Gynt at the SF Symphony, and a recital by soprano Marnie Breckenridge at the Conservatory. Peer Gynt started off as a collaboration between two 19th century
Arts & Entertainment The Best Cultural Events In San Francisco While San Francisco is best known for its acclaimed food scene and unyielding political righteousness, it is also known to hold some pretty swank and artful events boasting worldwide talent. Highbrow enrichment, if
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 3/19: 'S.F. And The Bay Area: The Haight-Ashbury Edition' PHOTOGRAPHY: Ben Fong-Torres will be in attendance at The Booksmith's celebration of the release of their new book, San Francisco and the Bay Area: The Haight-Ashbury Edition, a collection of photos taken from
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, 9/19: Low, Theater Pub, 'Turandot' Talk MUSIC: Beloved "slowcore" trio Low will be at Great American tonight in support of their latest album, C'Mon, which was "[r]ecorded in an old church in Duluth, MN and mixed in an
Arts & Entertainment SF Opera's Ring des Nibelungen Part IV: die Götterdämmerung Die Götterdämmerung concluded last night the SF Opera's first run though the Ring cycle (part I, part II, part III, two more cycle performances 6/21-26 and 6/28-7/3). We listened to
Arts & Entertainment SF Opera's Ring des Nibelungen Part III: Siegfried Three down, one to go. We caught Siegfried, the third part of Wagner's Ring tetralogy, last night at the SF Opera (part I: Rheingold; part II: Walküre). We admit we're getting to the
Arts & Entertainment SF Opera's Ring des Nibelungen Part II: die Walküre Act II of the Ring Cycle at SF Opera: last night, die Walküre. Das Rheingold was two and a half hours, just a teaser compared to the next three heavy weight operas, all
Arts & Entertainment SF Opera's Ring des Nibelungen The Ring has arrived: Richard Wagner's four-operas-in-a-week cycle kicked off last night and you could see in the audience that this was not the regular season anymore, it's playoff time. You could feel
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Cooler Heads Prevail: Singer Waiter Approved in North Beach Because certainly you were waiting on the edge of your seat to see how this one turned out: a meeting of the Planning Commission last Thursday approved Colosseo's amplified sound permit. None of
Arts & Entertainment Catch SF Opera on KQED Thursday Evenings This Month Four San Francisco Opera performances, which were recorded in high definition at the War Memorial Opera House, will air on KQED tonight and every Thursday through September 23, along with additional airings each
Arts & Entertainment Hear the Opera Andrew Lloyd Webber Allegedly Plagiarized Now at the SF Opera The Girl of the Golden West (La Fanciulla del West), Puccini's oft-forgotten opera that's being billed as "the original Spaghetti Western," has a few more performances at the War Memorial Opera House, and
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight OPERA: San Francisco Opera presents Giacomo Puccini’s La Fanciulla del West (The Girl of the Golden West) in celebration of its 100th anniversary, featuring a cast of the world’s leading singers
Arts & Entertainment It's Not Over Until... Before James Cameron there was Richard Wagner as our leading triumphalist craftsman of overwrought epic entertainments. Since the blue face paint from your seventh trip to see has probably washed off by now,
misc Photo du Jour 611 "Solitary Confinement" by Troy Holden. (For more information on Litz the Opera Lady, go here.)
Arts & Entertainment SFist Interviews: <em>House in Bali</em>'s Evan Ziporyn One of the most intriguing musical events of the new season is coming up this Saturday and Sunday: the American premiere of A House In Bali, a new opera by composer Evan Ziporyn
