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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