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West Bay Opera
Performance Reviews

- The
Threepenny Opera: An Epic Opera,
June 3, 2005
- Lucia
di Lammermoor: Of passion and sentiment,
February 25, 2005
- Lucia
di Lammermoor: When love and hate
meet,
February 18, 2005 (preview)
- Don
Giovanni: A Dazzling ‘Don’,
February 20, 2004
- The
Barber of Seville: A
Cut Above,
February 20, 2004
- La
Périchole: Opera for Everyone,
May 30, 2003
- La
Périchole: Comedy
Central, May 23, 2003 (preview)
- A
Masked Ball: Verdi unmasked,
February 21, 2003
- A
Masked Ball: Love triangle,
February 14, 2003 (preview)
- Tosca: Tosca tantalizes,
October 18, 2002
- Tosca: The
Passion of Puccini, October 11, 2002 (preview)
- La
Bohème: Pathos without bathos,
May 31, 2002
- La
Bohème: Bohemian rhapsody,
May 24, 2002 (preview)
- Marriage
of Figaro: A young ‘Marriage’,
February 22, 2002
- Faust, A
date with the devil, October 2001 (preview)
- Contes
d’Hoffmann: Seduced by
Hoffmann, June 1, 2001
- Contes
d’Hoffmann: Looking for
love in all the wrong places, May 25, 2001 (preview)
- Tartuffe: Get ‘Tartuffified’,
February 16, 2001
- Tartuffe: Of
shamans and charlatans, February 23, 2001 (preview)
- La
traviata: Sheer power, October
20, 2000
- La
traviata:
Love in an era of turbulence, October 6, 2000 (preview)
- The
Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny: Viva
Las Vegas, May
26, 2000
- Così fan
tutte: Tales from the Enlightenment, February 25, 2000
- Madama
Butterfly: Madama Butterfly soars, October 22, 1999
- The
Consul: A stunning take on a modern
work, June 4, 1999
- The
Consul:
An up-to-date conductor for a 20th-century
work, May 28, 1999 (preview)
- Carmen:
Hidden treasures, February
26, 1999
- Italian
Girl in Algiers: Proper disrespect, October
23, 1998
- Italian
Girl in Algiers:
First pick, October 16, 1998 (preview)
- The
Turn of the Screw: Getting your gooses
bumped and your spine chilled, May 29, 1998
- Il
Trovatore: Il Trovatore’s muscular trio, February
20, 1998
- Don
Pasquale: Diluting Donizetti, Oct. 1997
- The
Magic Flute: A whimsical take on Mozart’s Magic Flute, May
30, 1997
- Tosca:
Tosca: a feast of political turmoil
and love,
February 21, 1997
- The
Barber of Seville: A stylish cut of The Barber of Seville,
October 18, 1996
- Candide: Virtual
Voltaire, May 31, 1996
- Rigoletto:
A countess, a cuckold, a curse, February
23, 1996
- Suor
Angelica & Gianni Schicchi: Puccini
on good and evil, October
20, 1995
- 40th
Season Preview, Sepember 22, 1995
- La
Bohème: Bohemian rhapsody, June 2, 1995
- Lucia
di Lammermoor: Mad for Lucia, February 24, 1995
- Lucia
di Lammermoor:
Marriage can be murder, February 17,
1995 (preview)
- La
Cenerentola: Having a ball, October 21, 1994
- La
Traviata: Re-creating a classic, February 18, 1994
- La
Traviata:
The tale of ‘the woman gone astray’, February 11, 1994 (preview)

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