| Date and venue | Title |
|---|---|
| 3-Jun-2012 UC Berkeley, Zellerbach Hall | Luisotti and SF Opera Orchestra in Concert |
 Anticipation is running high for the kick off of San Francisco Opera’s summer season on Friday, June 8, 2012, with the local premiere of John Adams’s Nixon in China. As a sort of appetizer to the five-week season music director Nicola Luisotti and his players gave an orchestral concert on June 3 at Zellerbach Hall in Berkeley. The idea of showcasing the San Francisco Opera Orchestra was initiated last fall when, in the midst of a busy opera schedule, they performed Beethoven’s fifth and seventh symphonies at Zellerbach under Luisotti’s baton.
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| 17-Sep-2011 La Monnaie | De Munt: Grand Hall | Rousset and Les Talens Lyriques light up a powerful Médée |
 Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned. Scorned womanhood has no better archetype than Euripides's Medea. And you're unlikely to see a more powerful or affecting Medea than Nadja Michael's performance in Cherubini's opera Médée, in the first production of the new season at La Monnaie in Brussels (De Munt, if you're a Flemish speaker.)
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| 6-Aug-2011 Alice Busch Opera Theater | 'Medea' at Glimmerglass a summer scorcher! |
 The opera is way too dark. It runs far too long. It’s requires a soprano with vocal cords of amalgamated steel to sing the title role. No wonder Cherubini’s Medea is rarely performed. According to OPERA America records, the opera hasn’t been performed in the United States in nearly 20 years.
That’s why if you are remotely close to the Glimmerglass Festival in Central New York this summer, you need to drop everything and buy yourself a ticket—right now. If you’re across the pond and have a private jet, start fueling it.
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