Opera

SFCV’s perceptive writers report on topics relevant to opera.

Richard S. Ginell - June 24, 2024

The composer’s latest opera, recorded shortly after its 2023 premiere, has a spare but intriguing setup.

Steven Winn - June 18, 2024

The company’s current production of Otto Nicolai’s 1849 singspiel might have just a little too much of everything.

Lev Mamuya - June 17, 2024

Played simultaneously on a rotating turntable, the double production invites speculation on power relations and much more.

Lisa Hirsch - June 17, 2024

Lisa Mezzacappa and Beth Lisick’s The Electronic Lover captures the world of emotions that can exist in the chat room.

Tom Jacobs - June 16, 2024

Opera Parallèle stages Spears’s Fellow Travelers this month, while Santa Fe Opera is set for the world premiere of The Righteous later this summer.

Victoria Looseleaf - June 11, 2024

In the director’s latest opus, a vintage W.E.B. Du Bois story and a classic Baroque opera collide. Here’s why they go together.

Lev Mamuya - June 11, 2024

Beth Morrison Projects commissioned 14 composers to work on this operatic setting of Marie Howe’s book of poems about womanhood.

Jim Farber - June 4, 2024

Kate Soper’s “philosophy-opera” gets an outstanding production from director James Darrah and Long Beach Opera.

Lisa Hirsch - June 4, 2024

The Finnish composer’s late masterpiece, about a school shooting and its enduring effects, premieres at SF Opera.

Jason Victor Serinus - June 3, 2024

Hear how composer Paul Moravec and librettist Mark Campbell approached the adaptation in a new recording from Lyric Opera of Kansas City.