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Stage Review
At SF Ballet, two very different sides of ‘British Icons’
Charles Lewis III
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February 14, 2024
Notoriously difficult, dissimilar pieces by Kenneth MacMillan and Frederick Ashton showed the company's versatility
Stage Review
‘Mere Mortals’ drowns its provocative beauty in noise and lights
Charles Lewis III
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January 29, 2024
SF Ballet takes on the promise/threat of Artificial Intelligence, but the digital onslaught is all too much.
Performance
The best (and the rest) on local stages in 2023
Charles Lewis III
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January 9, 2024
A wealth of productions highlighted the vitality of Bay Area theater in a year of protest and continued pandemic.
News + Politics
Our top stories of 2023, from Dianne Feinstein to Japanese sandos
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December 29, 2023
Your support helped us produce 1100 stories this year, showing an unmatched breadth of news, arts, and cultural coverage
Stage Review
SF Opera’s ‘The Elixir of Love’ presents case for resuscitating problematic ‘classics’
Charles Lewis III
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November 30, 2023
'Nice guy' trope and love drugs aside, are you drinking the potion?
Stage Review
‘Omar’ is pretty to look at, but opera treats slavery with kid gloves
Charles Lewis III
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November 13, 2023
New work by Rhiannon Giddens and Michael Abels traces the tempestuous life of enslaved African scholar Omar ibn Said.
Stage Review
A man, a plan, a swan: SF Opera’s ‘Lohengrin’ shimmers despite Wagner’s bloat
Charles Lewis III
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October 24, 2023
Striking sets, strong company, and excellent conducting by Eun Sun Kim enliven this epic journey through German folklore.
Music
In SF Opera’s ‘The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs,’ a dial-up portrait of a complex Goliath
Charles Lewis III
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October 2, 2023
The trademark jeans and turtleneck are there, but details are as thin as an iPhone in new opera
Stage Review
‘Il Trovatore’ offers vengeful bloodlust, mystic kidnappers, and a sprint to the finish
Charles Lewis III
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September 25, 2023
SF Opera's new production of Verdi's overstuffed, time-jumping, ethnically problematic opera goes for the entertainment factor
Stage Review
SF Opera’s ‘Frida y Diego’ was a bold step into another world
Charles Lewis III
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July 7, 2023
The company's first main-stage work by a woman composer and first in Spanish made the real world seem magical
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