(Photo credit: Cory Weaver) The West Coast premiere of “The Handmaid’s Tale“, by composer Poul Ruders and librettist Paul Bentley fills the War Memorial Opera House with a performance as harrowing as the dystopic story itself. Delayed by the pandemic from its originally scheduled debut, the co-production of San Francisco Opera (SFO) and the Royal Danish Theatre runs through October {…}
(Photo credit: Kristen Loken) San Francisco Opera concludes its fall season with concerts by the Adler Fellows and the San Francisco Opera Chorus. “The Future Is Now” features the 2023 Adler Fellows, sopranos Arianna Rodriguez, Mikayla Sager and Olivia Smith, mezzo-sopranos Gabrielle Beteag and Nikola Printz, tenors Victor Cardamone, Edward Graves and Moisés Salazar, bass-baritone Jongwon Han, and pianists Yang {…}
It was an intimate setting for a chorus, the Taube Atrium Theater in San Francisco. Rows of benches slanted on either side of the polished grand piano that stood like wings. Thirty-five chorus members all dressed in black, took their places in a formal procession. Ian Robertson, San Francisco Chorus Master, and Fabrizio Corona, Associate Chorus Master, followed. While immediate {…}