A dreamlike forest in an abandoned train station: The Cunning Little Vixen at West Edge Opera

Von Ilana Walder-Biesanz, 07 August 2016

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“the musical world of the forest was lush and engrossing”

Rezensierte Veranstaltung: Oakland Central Station, Oakland, am 7 August 2016

Janáček, Das schlaue Füchslein

West Edge Opera

Jonathan Khuner, Musikalische Leitung

Patrick Diamond, Regie

Christine Cook, Kostüme

Philip Skinner, Förster

Amy Foote, Füchslein Schlaukopf

Nikola Printz, Fuchs

Nikolas Nackley, Pfarrer

Joseph Meyers, Schulmeister, Fliege

Carl King, Háraschta

Deborah Rosengaus, Hund

San Francisco's Volti chorus

Piedmont East Bay Children's Choir

West Edge Opera’s Snapshots of the future

Jaime Robles, 25th February

The program presented excerpts from five new works in a riotously diverse selection, from an adaptation of the unfinished Fitzgerald novel, The Last Tycoon, to Death of a Playboy, an imaginary reenactment of Hugh Hefner’s funeral.

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Sex with a side of brilliant opera

Ilana Walder-Biesanz, 13th August

Thomas Adès’ Powder Her Face has plenty of sex written in, and West Edge Opera's production adds even more. But it's the music and drama that sell.

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The “other” Bohème delights at West Edge Opera

Ilana Walder-Biesanz, 20th March

Leoncavallo's rarely produced La bohème offers enchanting musical variety, delivered in a well-cast concert staging by West Edge Opera.

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Opera Medium Rare presents Rossini’s Zelmira

Jaime Robles, 17th February

West Edge Opera has come up with a means to engage and develop opera audiences in that home of West Coast radicalism, the San Francisco Bay Area.

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Anna Netrebko glänzt in Wiens zeitloser Tosca

Laura Servidei, 18th April

In einer Welt, in der Operninszenierungen oft ins Abstrakte abgleiten, bietet die „Tosca“ der Wiener Staatsoper eine erfrischende Rückkehr zur Tradition – und Anna Netrebko liefert eine großartige Darbietung.

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Liebeswirren in Mozarts La finta giardiniera in Nürnberg

Michael Vieth, 14th April

Die Regisseurin Brigitte Fassbaender beweist einen grünen Daumen für Mozarts frühes Dramma giocosa und lässt neben mitreißend witzigem Szenenspiel einfühlsame Charakterporträts entstehen.

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Ilana Walder-Biesanz

Ilana Walder-Biesanz is a product manager for Yahoo, a theatre and opera critic, and a classically trained mezzo-soprano. She explored theater and opera stagings as a Gates Scholar at Cambridge and as a Fulbright Scholar in Germany. She currently writes for Bachtrack, San Francisco Classical Voice, and Stark Insider. Twitter: @ilana_wb.