Jason Victor Serinus
Jason Victor Serinus is a professional whistler and lecturer on opera and vocal recordings. He is editor of Psychoimmunity and the Healing Process: A Holistic Approach to Immunity & AIDS, and he has written about music for Opera News, Opera Now, American Record Guide, Stereophile, Carnegie Hall Playbill, Gramophone, AudioStream, San Francisco Magazine, Stanford Live, Bay Area Reporter, and other publications.
Articles by this Author
Opera REVIEW
November 15, 2012
After diva Angela Gheorghiu is stricken with terrible nausea and intestinal flu, SFO favorite Melody Moore steps in after Act 1 to make her role debut as Tosca in a production otherwise wanting for drama.
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November 14, 2012
On his second solo album for British label Avie, Still Falls the Rain, American tenor Nicholas Phan again turns to the music of Benjamin Britten.
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November 10, 2012
There were many beautiful moments in Kate Royal’s recital, some offered unqualified success, others made clear that are still lessons to be learned.
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Upcoming Concert
Nov. 9-11
A feast of operatic traditions is served up by top-flight musicians from many cultures, in a rare and hopeful collaboration.
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November 6, 2012
Soprano Patricia Racette digs deep to describe her vision of the juicy, neurotic, “over-the-top” Tosca.
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Critics' Picks
November 15 - December 2
The second mainstay opera of SFO’s season to feature equally strong alternating casts, this Tosca, thanks to the company’s shrewd General Director David Gockley, gives us the dueling divas Angela Gheorghiu and Patricia Racette.
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Critics' Picks
November 10
Esa-Pekka Salonen, the composer/conductor who until recent years led the Los Angeles Philharmonic, brings to the Pacific shore the same Philharmonia Orchestra whose many recordings with some of the greatest conductors of the latter 20th century have achieved legendary status.
More about Cal Performances »CD REVIEW
November 2, 2012
Yannick Nézet-Séguin and a superb cast prove we can never have too many recordings of Don Giovanni.
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Critics' Picks
Oct. 26 - 28
The current revival tour, which began this year in France, heads to Italy, London, Toronto, and Brooklyn before reaching Berkeley. Catch this radical work while you can — you may not get another chance.
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Critics' Picks
Oct. 10 - Nov. 2
Given the fabulous reviews that composer Jake Heggie’s and librettist Gene Scheer’s latest opera has received in Dallas and San Diego, why wouldn’t you want to see the SFO premiere of this heralded work by our local-boy-made-good?
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October 15, 2012
The great Cecilia Bartoli breathes new life into arias by a nearly unknown 17th-century Italian composer, Agostino Steffani, and triumphs in the process.
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Critics' Picks
October 13
Canadian soprano Karina Gauvin has made her mark in two contrasting art forms: Baroque repertoire, in which she excels in rapid-fire coloratura, and song, in which her gift for lyric expression comes to the fore.
More about Sonoma State University »Chamber Music REVIEW
October 6, 2012
In their concert British tenor Mark Padmore and American pianist Jonathan Biss fused words and music in a supreme partnership that conveyed emotions with transcendent, eye-opening profundity.
More about San Francisco Performances »Artist Spotlight
October 5, 2012
The golden tones of Karina Gauvin will soon be heard in her beloved French song repertoire, this time in Green Music Center’s Weill Hall.
More »News Report
October 2, 2012
The recording company acknowledges the decline in popularity of CDs, signaling its future strategy with a classical, download-only recording.
More "Full Stream Ahead: Can Naxos Download the Future?" »
Critics' Picks
September 29 - October 19
Based on the Italian story that yielded Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, this opera features some exquisite arias, especially Giulietta’s “Oh quante volte” from Act 1.
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Critics' Picks
October 4
In the time it has taken Mark Padmore to make his recital debut in San Francisco, he has grown into a lieder singer to be reckoned with.
More about San Francisco Performances »Opera REVIEW
September 29, 2012
The singing at S.F. Opera makes I Capuleti e i Montecchi
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September 26, 2012
In a Skype chat With SFCV, tenor Mark Padmore reflects on the arc of his career, his chosen repertoire, and the artistic importance of art song.
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September 21, 2012
The dissolute knight Falstaff sings out in Gordon Getty’s concert version of Plump Jack.
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