Janos Gereben

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Music News: October 13, 2009

Janos Gereben - October 13, 2009

Global Opera

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

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Music News: October 6, 2009

Janos Gereben - October 6, 2009

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.
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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

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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.

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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.

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Music News: September 15, 2009

Janos Gereben - September 15, 2009

Free Opera at Its Richest

What a great lineup it was Sunday, at the San Francisco Opera in the Park. Read and weep (if you missed it ...

Music News: September 8, 2009

Janos Gereben - September 8, 2009

A Grand Symphonic Doubleheader

Thanks to technology and time difference, you may now attend the San Francisco Symphony

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The Season Ahead: A Preview of Fall Concerts

David Bratman, Georgia Rowe, Janos Gereben, Jason Victor Serinus, Jeff Dunn, Lisa Hirsch, Michelle Dulak Thomson, Scott Cmiel - September 6, 2009

With autumn upon us, the Bay Area's classical music groups are tuning up for hundreds of intriguing events. San Francisco Classical Voice asked several of our critics and editors to comb through the performance announcements available to date and pick their favorite choices for September through December.

Music News: August 25, 2009

Janos Gereben - August 25, 2009

YouTube Your Way to Pianistic Fame

Oakland's Esfir Ross in the Cliburn amateur semifinals

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