The Reverberate Hills; or The Apotheosis of the Narwhal

Years ago I read Manon Lescaut , the novel by Abbé Prévost that launched the charmer on her notorious career; it struck me as more of a paro...

As an addition to its summer festival, West Edge Opera headed over to the Wattis Theater at SFMOMA to present a preview concert, minimally ...

The third & final opera of the 2026 West Edge Opera Festival was American Apollo , a new opera with music by Damian Geter to a libretto...

I cannot gush enough about West Edge Opera 's witty & astute production of Handel's Rinaldo . I have been going to Handel operas...

The West Edge Opera Festival is in full swing; as I did last year, I will be seeing each show twice, as I volunteer at the Saturday matinee...

The morning of the last performance of San Francisco Opera 's Elektra , which was also the last performance of the season, I was lucky e...

One of the more exciting & unexpected developments in my now four decades plus of opera-going is the resurgence, not just in specialty f...

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 other day I was at the second of the six performances of San Francisco Opera 's Elektra , a revival of Keith Warner's 2017 ...