| Date and venue | Title |
|---|---|
| 20-Oct-2012 War Memorial Opera House | Lohengrin returns to San Francisco in effective new production |
 Wagner’s Lohengrin was the last work the master completed before settling into a mid-career six-year slump. During this compositional hiatus, he wrote the poems for his Ring operas and ruminated in print on various topics, musical and otherwise, but work on the music dramas essentially ceased.Read full review... | |
| 29-Jun-2012 War Memorial Opera House | An English Magic Flute at San Francisco Opera |
 In keeping with its summer season of novelties, San Francisco Opera have produced a new English-language production of Mozart's The Magic Flute. Advertisements for the production showed baritone Nathan Gunn in a green, full-body leotard as a sort of frogman of a Papageno, leaping in the air and wearing a manic expression. This image on posters and direct mailing salvos implied a Romper Room-styled Magic Flute was coming to town: bring the kids for some good-ol' family fun.Read full review... | |
| 6-Aug-2011 Lincoln Center: Rose Theater | An enduring Don Giovanni |
 Librettist Lorenzo Da Ponte billed Don Giovanni a “dramma giocoso,” literally a “jocular drama,” and, unsurprisingly, finding the balance between comedy and drama is the key to any good production. As part of the Mostly Mozart Festival at the Rose Theater, Iván Fischer’s production held to the traditional precepts of the opera except for an ensemble of sixteen actors from the Budapest Acting Academy who served as both chorus and set.Read full review... | |
