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Reviews, Stage Reviews

Pocket Opera 2024 Review: The Cunning Little Vixen

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(Photo credit: Pocket Opera) More than earning its cult following, San Francisco Bay’s Pocket Opera continues to enchant music-lovers of all ages and varying attention spans. Armed with the mission embraced by its founder Donald Pippin, the Pocket Opera breathes life into rare, under-appreciated, and flat out delightful operas. Sculpting them within a chamber setting—the final performance of Leoš Janáček’s {…}

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Pocket Opera Unveils 2024 Season

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California’s Pocket Opera has announced its 2024 season. The season opens with “La Cenerentola.” Performance Dates: Feb. 25- March 10, 2024 Next up is “Cunning Little Vixen” with Amy Foote, Spencer Dodd, and Hope Nelson. Donald Pippin provides a new translation of the Janacek opera. Performance Dates: April 14 – 28, 2024 Third on the schedule is “The Merry Wives of Windsor” {…}

Reviews, Stage Reviews

Herbst Theater 2023 Review: Prospero’s Island

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(Credit: Jeremy KNight) “Prospero’s Island,” a brand-new opera from Allen Shearer and Claudia Stevens, opened Saturday night at San Francisco’s Herbst Theater. Original, thought-provoking, engaging musical richness and full of ideas, “Prospero’s Island” was greeted by great applause. A co-production of InTandem and Ninth Planet, it was the tenth chamber opera Shearer and Stevens have composed and produced together. As {…}

Behind the Scenes, Interviews

Singing Penguins – Composer Allen Shearer & Librettist Claudia Stevens on the Inspiration for ‘Prospero’s Island’

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“O brave new world that has such creativity in’t!’ “Prospero’s Island,” the forthcoming chamber opera by composer Allen Shearer and librettist Claudia Stevens, tells the tale. Ninth Planet, in co-production with InTandem, will present the world premiere at San Francisco’s Herbst Theater on March 25, 2023. It is to be performed by a cadre of young and exceptionally talented musical {…}

News

Renée Fleming, Bryn Terfel, Angel Blue, Elizabeth Llewellyn, Cecilia Bartoli Headline Top 10 Operas to Stream this Week

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This week, audiences worldwide will get a unique opportunity to experience multiple opening night events from several major companies. The recommendations also extend to unique new opera experiences as well as some famed classics featuring opera’s biggest stars. Deceiver of Citizens (Now) Music and video director Jonathan Khuner and composer/librettist Michael Senturia’s short opera tells the story of a Deceiver {…}

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Jonathan Khuner & Michael Senturia Unveil Digital Mini-Opera ‘The Deceiver of Citizens’

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Music and video director Jonathan Khuner and composer/librettist Michael Senturia have released their new opera “The Deceiver of Citizens” online. The work focuses on the titular Deceiver and his interactions with two Enablers and a young allegorical character known as “Innocence.” The opera, which lasts a little over 14 minutes, was filmed in five different locations and features Alex Boyer, {…}

Reviews, Stage Reviews

Royal Opera House 2023-24 Review: Der fliegende Holländer

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(Photo: © ROH 2024. Photo by Tristram Kenton) It’s 35 years since Bryn Terfel delivered a barnstorming, roof-raising rendition of “Die Frist ist um” from “Der fliegende Holländer” at Cardiff Singer of the World. His battle then with the late Dmitri Hvorostovsky was as titanic as the great oceanic, cosmic forces that suffuse Wagner’s 1843 opera. Much has changed vocally, {…}

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Carnegie Hall 2021-22 Review: Jonas Kaufmann in Recital

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Credit: Jennifer Taylor Way Back Before Times, in Sept. 2019, violin virtuoso Anne-Sophie Mutter stopped mid-concerto to confront an audience member filming during her performance. Her beef with the velvet-chair concert documentarian centered on rudeness, lack of respect, and the fleeting nature of live music. But since there isn’t a second chance to experience the magic once the notes have {…}