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Month: December 2022

Grading San Francisco Opera Performances for Calendar Year 2022

December 18, 2025December 30, 2022 by William Burnett
Libiamo scene from La traviata at San Francisco Opera, 2022.

Since the year 2006, I have reviewed each of the opera productions mounted by the San Francisco Opera in the War Memorial Opera House, providing each with a letter grade. Like the seminars associated with Ph.D. programs, I do not grade “on a curve”, but, instead expect that a San Francisco Opera performance of any opera, like … Read more

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