Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: The Flying Dutchman At SF Opera The Flying Dutchman ran aground. This SF Opera production did not take off, at least it did not fall off a cliff. Wait, that's what it was supposed to do! Spoiler alert: the
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: A Week of Classical Grooves Reviews of a few performances over the past week or so: Andras Schiff co-hosted by the SF Symphony and SF Performances; the first SF Opera production of Lohengrin in sixteen years; and the
Arts & Entertainment SFist Wraps Up the 2010-11 Classical Music Season A few things to wrap up the 2010-11 classical music season: Walküre: the SF Opera Ring Cycle keeps on going strong, it's almost done with its third and final circling of the bases.
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 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
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: die Walküre at the SF Opera If the fat lady with a Viking helmet became a symbol for opera, it's both a compliment and a condemnation of Richard Wagner. His staging of the Norse mythology has been influential and
Arts & Entertainment Lang Lang at the SF Symphony Lang Lang's appeal draws beyond the boundaries of classical music. Our Chinese friend wanted to come with us because, says she, Lang Lang is "the Yao Ming of the piano." You don't get
Arts & Entertainment SF Opera's Rheingold But! You can't predict whether this production will work, if the American angle will infuse the operatic sequence a juicy underlying story. Das Rheingold is a prequel of sorts. And insofar as opera
