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San Francisco Opera's Der Fliegende Holländer opens without director

By Jeffery S. McMillan, 10 November 2013
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Reviewed at War Memorial Opera House, San Francisco on 22 October 2013
Programme
Wagner, Der fliegende Holländer (The Flying Dutchman)
Performers
San Francisco Opera
Patrick Summers, Conductor
Petrika Ionesco, Director
Lise Lindstrom, Senta
Ian Storey, Erik
Greer Grimsley, Dutchman
Kristinn Sigmundsson, Daland
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Jeffery S. McMillan
Jeffery S. McMillan
Jeffery holds an MA in Jazz History and Research from Rutgers University and spent ten years as an archivist for the Metropolitan Opera, where he helped develop the MetOpera Database. He currently lives in the San Francisco Bay Area and writes about opera and jazz for publications including Opera News and Musical America.