OperaGlass Performance Reviews

Note: As a regular feature, OperaGlass publishes notices by our resident reviewer, Judy Richter, who covers events in the San Francisco Bay Area. We accept contributed reviews of events of world-wide interest, premieres of new works in particular, or significant revivals or restorations.

(most recent reviews listed first)

The Richter Scale

Judy Richter's reviews of opera in the San Francisco Bay Area

Show Boat - San Francisco Opera 2013–14

Faust - San Francisco Opera 2009–10

Appomattox - San Francisco Opera 2007–08

Rigoletto - San Francisco Opera 2006–07
Un ballo in maschera - San Francisco Opera 2006–07
Die Fledermaus - San Francisco Opera 2006–07

Le nozze di Figaro - San Francisco Opera 2005–06
Madama Butterfly - San Francisco Opera 2005–06
The Rake's Progress - West Bay Opera 2005–06
Fidelio - San Francisco Opera 2005–06
Norma - San Francisco Opera 2005–06
Die Zauberflöte - West Bay Opera 2005–06
Doctor Atomic - San Francisco Opera 2005–06

Così fan tutte - San Francisco Opera 2004–05
The Pearl Fishers - San Francisco Opera 2004–05
Tosca - San Francisco Opera 2004–05
La traviata - San Francisco Opera 2004–05
Le nozze di Figaro - Opera San José 2004–05

Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk - San Francisco Opera 2003–04

Giulio Cesare - San Francisco Opera 2001–02
Faust - West Bay Opera 2001–02

Semele - San Francisco Opera 2000–01
Dead Man Walking - San Francisco Opera 2000–01 (world premiere Oct. 7, 2000)

The Consul - West Bay Opera 1998–99
Carmen - West Bay Opera 1998–99
The Italian Girl in Algiers - West Bay Opera 1998–99

Peter Grimes - San Francisco Opera 1998–99
Norma - San Francisco Opera 1998–99
Manon - San Francisco Opera 1998–99
A Streetcar Named Desire - San Francisco Opera 1998–99
Turandot - San Francisco Opera 1998–99

Carmen - San Francisco Opera Summer 1998
L'incoronazione di Poppea - San Francisco Opera Summer 1998
Lulu - San Francisco Opera Summer 1998
Der fliegende Holländer - San Francisco Opera 1997–98
Le nozze di Figaro - San Francisco Opera 1997–98
Death in Venice - San Francisco Opera 1997–98
Rigoletto - San Francisco Opera 1997–98
Tosca - San Francisco Opera 1997–98
75th Anniversary Gala - San Francisco Opera

The Turn of the Screw - West Bay Opera 1997–98
Il trovatore - West Bay Opera 1997–98

Madama Butterfly - San Francisco Opera Summer 1997
Aida - San Francisco Opera 1996–97
Salome - San Francisco Opera 1996–97
Les Contes d'Hoffmann - San Francisco Opera 1996–97
Harvey Milk - San Francisco Opera 1996–97
Carmen - San Francisco Opera 1996–97
Il barbiere di Siviglia - San Francisco Opera 1996–97
Hamlet - San Francisco Opera 1996–97
Prince Igor - San Francisco Opera 1996–97

La bohème - San Francisco Opera Summer 1996

Contributed Reviews

Coyote Tales - world premiere in Kansas City, March 7, 1998
The Picture of Dorian Gray - world premiere in Monte Carlo, May 8, 1996

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7 Jun 2014