The Reverberate Hills; or The Apotheosis of the Narwhal

Handel's Alcina is such a great opera, & I feel very fortunate to have experienced it live three times. The first, in 2002, was at S...

The San Francisco Opera season is well underway, but the one genuinely exciting, do-not-miss production is coming up in a few weeks: Karita...

This is what I get for thinking I could knock off two months at once! Here’s some extra stuff for August: As noted earlier, Festival Opera ...

These are the doldrums months for theater, and as such perhaps a bit of a relief, though there’s always something tempting: Here’s some long...

I often wonder what exactly people mean when they say they “love opera.” Usually it means they saw Boheme/Butterfly/Traviata once, and it ma...

Festival Opera in Walnut Creek offered me tickets to last night's opening of Il Trovatore, an opera I love. For years I happily sailed a...

Decades of reading plays and seeing them live, and somehow, without deliberately avoiding it, I have never seen or read Our Town. Probably m...