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Singing The Heart of Darkness: Tarik O’Regan’s opera premieres in America
The effect was like raindrops falling on the surface of the world, transforming it from the dull white of fog and industry into saturated colors of fecund leaf and flower.
Kurt Weill meets Francis Poulenc in Opera Parallèle's innovative production
Opera Parallèle combines Kurt Weill's Mahagonny Songspiel and Francis Poulenc's Les Mamelles de Tirésias in a riotous opera-within-an-opera production.
NCCO's Donizetti's Rita
Donizetti's darkly comic one act opera Rita is the first fully staged opera presented by San Francisco's New Century Chamber Ensemble.
Matthew Polenzani is superb in San Francisco Opera's Tales of Hoffmann
The return of Offenbach’s Les Contes d’Hoffmann to the stage of San Francisco Opera on Wednesday night was a welcome and long overdue event.
The Met in HD, Doctor Atomic, 2008
Read our review of Penny Woolcock's production of Doctor Atomic by John Adams, in its 2008 broadcast from the Met Opera in New York.