Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: <i>Jenůfa</i> and <i>Don Carlo</i> at SF Opera The SF Opera Summer Season concludes with three productions: a steamy Carmen by provocactive director Calixto Bieito, which we won't review but you can check for yourself for free tonight (Saturday) at 7:
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: Crissy Broadcast, Joshua Roman, Edwin Outwater and more... What a busy last week-end, with Lisa Bielawa's Crissy Broadcast at Crissy Field, rising star cellist Joshua Roman with the SF Chamber Orchestra, former SF Symphony resident conductor Edwin Outwater's return at the
Arts & Entertainment The Classical Music Week in Review Classical music hit for the cycle last week, with a solo recital, an orchestral performance and an opera that were all exceptional. András Schiff: the Hungarian pianist and scholar returned to share his
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: Aida at the SF Opera If no one else has stolen this lede for Aida, we will: Costumes Almost As Loud as Singers. British fashion designer Zandra Rhodes [link to her page, but as we write this, hacked
Arts & Entertainment SF Opera's Il Trovatore 2nd Cast and L'Abduction from the Seraglio We enjoyed two performances at SF Opera, the 2nd cast of Il Trovatore in the last performance of that run, and Mozart's Abduction from the Seraglio, which continues for three more performances. The
Arts & Entertainment SFist Interviews Soprano Sondra Radvanovsky Soprano Sondra Radvanovsky made an incandescent San Francisco Opera debut this month as Leonora in Il Trovatore, prompting reviewers to glow about her, and rediscover their faith in the workhorses of the Italian
Arts & Entertainment SFist Interviews: Soprano Anna Netrebko No one can sell out the War Memorial Opera House faster than Anna Netrebko. Just try and get a ticket for Saturday night's La Traviata, if you want to see why for yourself.
Arts & Entertainment This Weekend's Vocalises We learned yesterday that star soprano Patricia Racette had to withdraw from singing today in the Verdi Requiem at the SF Opera house, and will be replaced by Adler fellow Heidi Melton. Racette,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Interviews Stephanie Blythe We're not too sure what to think of this lede: Some singers travel with their pets, a poodle or a dachshund, perhaps. Stephanie Blythe, one of the hottest properties in opera today, is
Arts & Entertainment A Tale Full of Vile Sounds, Weird Fury So foul and poor a play we haven't seen. At least, not during this San Francisco Opera season. That is, until now: behold, the vile production that is Macbeth. It's easier to count
