Arts & Entertainment SFist Interviews Violinist Gil Shaham, Plus Reviews Of <i>Partenope</i> And <i>Tosca</i> At SF Opera First, a few classical music items: After 38 years of companionship, SF Symphony musical director and most famous acronym MTT has tied the knot with his partner Joshua Robison. Congratulations, Michael! It looks
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 Interviews: Tenor Brian Jagde As with Rigoletto earlier this season, the SF Opera is experimenting with a double header format for Tosca, which opened last night. Namely, two casts will alternate nightly for twelve performances of the
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 SF Opera's Il Trittico Even though it's Puccini, the SF Opera has run Il Trittico (the triptych) only twice before Wednesday night's opening. And for the first time on this stage, the same soprano, Patricia Racette, is
Arts & Entertainment SF Opera's Tosca The last Tosca here was in 2004. Considering that Tosca is The Show That Build SFOpera, with 12 runs over in the first 18 years of the company, and since only twice in
