Tobias Picker's dark new opera Dolores Claiborne: A world première in San Francisco

By Grant Damron, 20 September 2013

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Reviewed at War Memorial Opera House, San Francisco on 18 September 2013

Picker, Dolores Claiborne

San Francisco Opera

George Manahan, Conductor

James Robinson, Director

Patricia Racette, Dolores Claiborne

Susannah Biller, Selena St George

Elizabeth Futral, Vera Donovan

Wayne Tigges, Joe St George

Greg Fedderly, Detective Thibodeau

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