Monthly Archives: June 2012

What follows here is Long Beach Opera‘s official press release. Long Beach Opera Announces Plans for 2013 BORDERLINE LBO Calls in The Police for a Killer Season: Five Premieres and Five New Productions June 29, 2012 (Long Beach, CA) – Long … Continue reading →

MICHAEL NYMAN: The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat Libretto by Oliver Sacks/Christopher Rawlence/Michale Morris Long Beach Opera (performance run completed) Review by David Gregson June 26: Normally I attend the first performances of each Long Beach Opera … Continue reading →

Friday, June 22 Editor’s note: Bartok’s Duke Bluebeard’s Castle is one of my favorite Bartok works, and I would have loved to have heard this semi-staged version of it with Michael Tilson Thomas leading the San Francisco Symphony and with … Continue reading →

Mozart’s The Magic Flute at San Francisco Opera June 13, 2012 Review by JANOS GEREBEN Advertising for the new San Francisco Opera production of Mozart’s The Magic Flute focuses on the design by Jun Kaneko, and it’s small wonder. The … Continue reading →

San Francisco Opera, June 12, 2012 Verdi’s Attila By JANOS GEREBEN With excellent timing, David Gockley presented Chorus Director Ian Robertson the San Francisco Opera Medal tonight at the conclusion of the premiere of Verdi’s “Attila.” After 25 years on … Continue reading →

Review by JANOS GEREBEN, San Francisco, June 9 Perhaps the best aspect of the San Francisco Opera premiere of John Adams’ Nixon in China is in the ear of the beholder. Twenty-five years ago, at the Herbst Theater workshop, most … Continue reading →

Adams: The Gospel According to the Other Mary (World Premiere; LA Philharmonic commission) This work was presented four times, May 31 through June 3 in Disney Hall. Picture shows brilliant tenor Russell Thomas in a memorable outburst as Lazarus. All … Continue reading →