Janos Gereben

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Mansouri Unveiled

Last-Minute Word About a First-Class Event

Yes, it's tonight at 8 p.m. in the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, but if you're a timely reader of Music News, you can still make it.

Global Opera

Karita Matilla and Marcelo Álvarez<br>in Met's HD telecast<br>Photo by Ken Howard

Being part of a full theater in San Francisco's Century-9 complex on Saturday for the

Preview

Our Italian Maestro's German-Opera Debut

Janos Gereben - October 8, 2009

Is it possible to think of Richard Strauss' 1905 Salome as a great, overwhelming wall of sound, with singers struggling to be heard?

Feature

UPDATE: S.F. Lyric Opera Suspends Operations

San Francisco Lyric Opera Artistic Director Barnaby Palmer announced on Thursday that the company is suspending operations, effective immediately, because of lack of funds.

Feature

Music News: September 29, 2009

Janos Gereben - September 29, 2009

Atherton's Self-Effacing New Concert Hall

Normally the way you get a story is of no interest to the reader, but this one is different — "pertinent data" was especially difficult to find ... about something that should

Review

Mozart 'Musical' at the War Memorial

Janos Gereben - September 26, 2009

Grand and glorious as Mozart's 1782 Die Entführung aus dem Seraglio (The Abduction from the Seraglio) is, it's not a through-composed, sung-only "grand opera." Now onstage at the San Francisco Opera, in a new coproduction with Chicago's Lyric Opera, "Abduction" is an early forerunner of the Broadway musical, a "singspiel" with a great deal of spoken dialogue.

Feature

Music News: September 22, 2009

Janos Gereben - September 22, 2009

San Francisco Ring: Confirmed and Surprising

The very existence of San Francisco Opera's 2011 Der Ring des Nibelungen, confirmed in a company announcement today, is a hard-won, delightful surprise.