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

Par Ilana Walder-Biesanz, 07 août 2016

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

Critique faite à Oakland Central Station, Oakland, le 7 août 2016

Janáček, La Petite Renarde rusée

West Edge Opera

Jonathan Khuner, Direction

Patrick Diamond, Mise en scène

Christine Cook, Costumes

Philip Skinner, le Garde-Chasse

Amy Foote, la Renarde

Nikola Printz, le Renard

Nikolas Nackley, le Prêtre

Joseph Meyers, l'Instituteur, le Moustique

Carl King, Le vagabond Harašta

Deborah Rosengaus, Lapák

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.

****1

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.

*****

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.

****1

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.

***11

Billy Budd ou le triomphe de la beauté à l'Opéra de Lyon

Stéphane Lelièvre, 21st March

L'Opéra de Lyon propose pour la première fois le chef-d'œuvre de Britten à son public : une réussite tant visuelle que musicale, accueillie avec enthousiasme par les spectateurs.

****1

Une Manon Lescaut en demi-teinte à l'Opéra de Lyon

Stéphane Lelièvre, 20th March

Proposée dans le cadre du festival annuel de l'Opéra de Lyon, la nouvelle production de l'ouvrage de Puccini ne prend pas vraiment, et laisse l’impression d’une promesse incomplètement tenue.

***11

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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.