Composer Joseph M. Columbo’s new opera challenges the conventional perceptions of the genre.
A festive cavalcade of opera talent pitches in to fete the venerable training program.
S.F. Opera unveils a revival with spotty singing, less effective acting.
The success of this summer “reboot” hinges on the music, not the production.
The baritone created something special out of a shopworn production.
Strauss’s complex, modern opera is lifted by strong performances on stage and in the pit.
Philip Glass’s beautiful dance-opera adaptation of a thorny Jean Cocteau theme gets the first-rate production and performance it deserves.
The lauded basso cantabile talks about his background, his technique, and his ongoing quest to inhabit his roles.
Decades of imagining and four years of “construction” culminate in a splendid production of Jean-Philippe Rameau’s opera-ballet.
Despite four delightful, beautifully performed works, the program left the listener wanting more.
