Three diverse one-acts gave Merola’s singers a chance to strut their stuff.
Donald Pippin’s rhymed libretto in English brings the opera’s charming lyrics to the fore.
Confident performances abounded in the Merola Program’s Schwabacher Summer Concert.
Composer Joseph M. Columbo’s new opera challenges the conventional perceptions of the genre.
A festive cavalcade of opera talent pitches in to fete the venerable training program.
S.F. Opera unveils a revival with spotty singing, less effective acting.
The success of this summer “reboot” hinges on the music, not the production.
The baritone created something special out of a shopworn production.
Strauss’s complex, modern opera is lifted by strong performances on stage and in the pit.
Philip Glass’s beautiful dance-opera adaptation of a thorny Jean Cocteau theme gets the first-rate production and performance it deserves.
