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Review: ‘Carmen’ returns to S.F. Opera with a top-drawer cast
Nov 17, 2024 · Mezzo-soprano Eve-Maud Hubeaux, making her U.S. debut in the title role, is a tremendously inventive actor, both vocally and physically. Though her instrument is a shade less full and warm than ideal for the part, she compensated with an array of vocal colors on Saturday.
Review: Familial dysfunction soars in ‘Cult of Love’ - Datebook
Feb 2, 2024 · Review: Familial dysfunction soars in ‘Cult of Love’ Most families dread the holiday season. The Dahls in Berkeley Repertory’s latest drama, written by “Russian Doll” co-creator Leslye Headland, are no different.
Review: ‘Wicked’ is the best movie musical in years | Datebook
Nov 19, 2024 · You’ll notice “Wicked” does not rely on the quick cuts and digitally enhanced or downplayed vocals of those other movies. “Wicked” shows big groups of people, including the lead actors, dancing in unison while being shot from multiple angles.
Review: S.F. Opera taps into the transcendent power of ... - Datebook
Oct 20, 2024 · Review: S.F. Opera taps into the transcendent power of ‘Tristan and Isolde’ Richard Wagner’s epic of love and death comes to glorious life in a dramatically sung production led by Music Director Eun Sun Kim.
A sweet celebration of Ramblin’ Jack Elliott, still moving
Jan 24, 2024 · For a guy who’s never stopped moving, Ramblin’ Jack Elliott has put down a vast and world-shaping web of musical roots. A master of folk blues and various fingerstyle and flatpicking guitar idioms, he’s the direct link between American folk singer-songwriter Woody Guthrie, with whom he apprenticed and toured as a teenager in the early 1950s, and the legendary Bob Dylan, whose early sound ...
Review: Esa-Pekka Salonen keeps S.F. Symphony on course in
Oct 5, 2024 · With his signature flair for the theatrical, Shostakovich ups the ante in the concerto’s linked third and fourth movements. As Salonen and the Symphony laid the groundwork for the Passacaglia’s variations, Shoji offered a nostalgic glance, both melodically and temperamentally, back toward the Nocturne.
Why Tamara de Lempicka is suddenly all the rage a century after …
Sep 26, 2024 · Rubio, the president of Women in Film San Francisco Bay Area and founder of East Meets West Productions (2014’s “East Side Sushi”), got some invaluable celebrity help of her own in making her de Lempicka film.Noted collector Barbra Streisand provided Rubio with high-resolution images of the artist’s work, and the legendary singer and filmmaker OK’d the sections featuring her ...
Review: ‘The Wild Robot’ may be DreamWorks’ finest ... - Datebook
Sep 25, 2024 · As Roz learns feelings, her look evolves through dings, moss and carbon-based replacement parts into that of a more organic being. Still, this contraption remains a whiz-bang wonder of swirling, detachable appendages and vibrant lights that go into action with such lithe speed, Transformers look like clanking rust buckets by comparison. And it’s not just Roz; every frame is saturated in ...
Review: ‘Babylon’ is Damien Chazelle’s brilliant fever ... - Datebook
Dec 16, 2022 · “Babylon” isn’t a perfect film. But it’s a great film, great enough that a lot of people are going to absolutely hate it. When I walked out of the theater, I heard two guys raving about how this was the worst movie they’d ever seen.