(Credit: Stacey Bode) San Francisco Opera is in the midst of its month-long festival dedicated to Wagner’s “Ring Cycle.” In the coming weeks, Lois Silverstein will explore her experience not only revisiting the 2018 opera production but several of the events and panels presented by the company. San Francisco Opera’s (SFO) recently concluded “Virtual Ring Festival” continues to delight, even if {…}
A few weeks back, we did a word search tasking you to find the names of these iconic producers and directors. Well, we’re back for part two and this time, the onus is on you to recall or investigate for the names in order to fill out the crossword puzzle. Instructions: You are free to solve the crossword directly on {…}
San Francisco Opera is in the midst of its month-long festival dedicated to Wagner’s “Ring Cycle.” In the coming weeks, Lois Silverstein will explore her experience not only revisiting the 2018 opera production but several of the events and panels presented by the company. Paul Thomasen and Anika E. Englehart gave a fine lecture on foremost Wagnerian soprano of the 2oth {…}
San Francisco Opera is in the midst of its month-long festival dedicated to Wagner’s “Ring Cycle.” In the coming weeks, Lois Silverstein will explore her experience not only revisiting the 2018 opera production but several of the events and panels presented by the company. Grace Bumbry! Soprano eccellente! Magnifica! Barrier Breaker! Phenomenon. Kenneth Overton, Grammy-winning Baritone, interviewed the iconic diva for {…}
San Francisco Opera is in the midst of its month-long festival dedicated to Wagner’s “Ring Cycle.” In the coming weeks, Lois Silverstein will explore her experience not only revisiting the 2018 opera production, but several of the events and panels presented by the company. The landscape of the American West became the environmental directive for the 2018 Ring for Francesca Zambello. {…}
For this week’s edition of the word search, we shine a spotlight on opera’s famed librettists. Here’s part one. Instructions: You are free to solve the word search directly on your mobile or desktop device; just click the first and last letter of each word for it to appear on the screen. For those using a mobile device, we highly {…}
San Francisco Opera is in the midst of its month-long festival dedicated to Wagner’s “Ring Cycle.” In the coming weeks, Lois Silverstein will explore her experience not only revisiting the 2018 opera production, but several of the events and panels presented by the company. San Francisco Opera Director Matthew Shilvock moderated an excellent panel on the World of the “Ring” orchestra. {…}
When it comes to operatic forces in the directing space, few have been as potent as Francesca Zambello. One of the few women to shine on the directorial scene during a time when directors were virtually all men (especially in the opera world), Zambello not only established her own signature style and voice but rose to leadership positions at several {…}
San Francisco Opera is in the midst of its month-long festival dedicated to Wagner’s “Ring Cycle.” In the coming weeks, Lois Silverstein will explore her experience not only revisiting the 2018 opera production, but several of the events and panels presented by the company. Three Brünnhildes at one go! That’s what the Virtual Ring Festival cooked up before streaming “Siegfried.” And {…}
