With megawatts of renewable energy, the San Francisco Opera orchestra and chorus gave a memorably robust performance on the company's 90th season opening Friday.
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The San Francisco Opera’s 90th season opens Friday with a romantic crowd-pleaser so popular that General Director David Gockley has scheduled 12 performances. The production of Verdi’s 1851 “Rigoletto,” a sweeping melodrama of love and betrayal, is a revival of a Michael Yeargan-designed work. San Francisco Opera Music Director Nicola Luisotti (“who makes every Verdi opera he conducts into an event,” Gockley says) leads the orchestra.
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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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