Grand spectaculars of opera and musical theater are on tap for the San Francisco Opera’s 2013-14
season.
General director David Gockley announced Monday that the season will open Sept. 6 with Arrigo Boito’s 1868 mighty, ultra-romantic, Wagner-scale “Mefistofele” in Robert Carsen’s sensational production last seen here in 1994.
The work fits well into 2013’s Verdi-Wagner bicentennial in that it was composed by Verdi librettist Boito and admired by Verdi.
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While 2011 is still young, it’s already been a banner year for Dmitri Hvorostovsky.The great Siberian bass-baritone has been in New York, singing the title role of Verdi’s “Simon Boccanegra” at the Metropolitan Opera. Critics and audiences alike have been lavish with praise; the New York Times called him “a magnificent Simon.”
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In Shakespeare's "Othello," the first act of more than 1,000 lines sets the scene, establishes relationships and motivation in the seminal drama about the "green-eyed monster" of jealousy.
In Verdi's "Otello," that entire act disappears, the curtain rises on a storm from which the hero emerges telling the crowd to celebrate a great victory.
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