In a new production of Wagner's Lohengrin at the San Francisco Opera everyone is a star — great soloists, Ian Robertson's Opera Chorus, and Nicola Luisotti leading an orchestra on fire.
Conductors matter. This week, Vladimir Jurowski made his SFS debut, and under his baton the orchestra and Ragnar Bohlin's SFS Chorus were as powerful as Siberian tigers, as majestic as the Volga flooding at springtime.
