Last year, San Francisco Opera opened its fall season with Bellini's Norma, starring Sondra Radvanovsky, followed by Carlyle Floyd's Susannah, with Patricia Racette; the previous summer saw a terrific production of Show Boat, by Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II, with a well-cast mix of opera and Broadway stars. So: Italian bel canto from 1831, an American opera from 1955, preceded by a famed 1927 musical that some opera aficionados thought a dismal selection, no matter how well done. Some fe...
Last year, San Francisco Opera opened its fall season with Bellini's Norma, starring Sondra Radvanovsky, followed by Carlyle Floyd's Susannah, with Patricia Racette; the previous summer saw a terrific production of Show Boat, by Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II, with a well-cast mix of opera and Broadway stars. So: Italian bel canto from 1831, an American opera from 1955, preceded by a famed 1927 musical that some opera aficionados thought a dismal selection, no matter how well done. Some fe...
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