Singer-stage director-Festival Opera artistic director Olivia Stapp *never*
criticizes her colleagues, but - bless her - she blew a gasket at the San
Francisco Opera Center's EuroTrashy "La Finta" -
"The stage director of San Francisco Opera Center's La Finta
Giardiniera, Roy Rallo, assures us in his program notes that the
eighteen-year-old Mozart and his librettist `quite successfully
explore the nature of sadism, self hatred, murderous jealousy and
downright insanity, alongside the more conventional expressions of
affection, and freely mix the comic with the macabre.' Who knew?"
...
See www.sfcv.org
Janos Gereben/SF
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