SF Opera programming has descended into tepid mediocrity
This is the second year in a row that the most exciting opera in San Francisco is being staged by the SF Symphony, not the SF Opera, which has become a boring, stuffy forum for turgid Italian melodrama. The Symphony, on the other hand, is doing Britten’s Peter Grimes this year, and Fidelio next year.
I blame the SF Opera for replacing the brilliant Donald Runnicles with the puffy, supercilious Nicola Luisotti, whose idea of progressive opera is Mozart. It’s a horrendous downturn for the company that staged the first American production of Messiaen’s Saint Francis.
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I’M WATCHING FAUST, NO SOUL, NO HEART, NO ACTING, JUST STONES BLABBERLING AND SINGING FLATLY – GOOD FOR MONITOR ADDICTED FLAT PEOPLE.
EL DAVIDSON
September 25, 2014 at 8:21 pm
MEANING MADE FALSE?
EL DAVIDSON
September 25, 2014 at 8:25 pm