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Opera tranforms: The Merola Opera Program presents Susa’s Transformations

By Jaime Robles, 23 July 2016
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Reviewed at San Francisco Conservatory of Music, San Francisco on 21 July 2016
Programme
Susa, Transformations
Performers
San Francisco Opera: Merola
Neal Goren, Conductor
Roy Rallo, Director
Marsha Ginsberg, Set Designer
Teresa Castillo, Soprano
Shannon Jennings, Soprano
Mary Evelyn Hangley, Soprano
Chelsey Geeting, Soprano
Boris Van Druff, Tenor
Brian Michael Moore, Tenor
Andrew Manea, Baritone
Isaac Frishman, Tenor
Matthew Anchel, Bass
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Jaime Robles
Jaime Robles
Jaime Robles has previously written in the San Francisco Bay Area, including for the San Francisco Classical Voice. Also a poet, she has written song lyrics and librettos for several one-act operas, including Inferno (music by Peter Josheff), staged in 2009 by San Francisco Cabaret Opera, and Vladimir in Butterfly Country (music by Anne Callaway), staged in 2012.