3/9/2023 0 Comments San francisco opera turandot![]() ![]() Put this together with the timeless Hockney Turandot and you hit remarkable pay dirt - the current Turandot in San Francisco! ![]() Specifically it is the quixotic Italian conductor Nicola Luisotti who makes every score he touches vibrate with color, energy and sometimes questionable theatricality. There is a stamp of a different sort, it is musical and it too pushes the envelope. These days it is a bit different in San Francisco. ![]() San Francisco has put its unique stamp solidly on Turandot as well.†The 1977 Jean-Pierre Ponnelle production had its massive stone Buddha that gestured and wept blood when the steely Monserrat CaballÈ succumbed to Luciano Pavarotti in their role debuts, this back in the days when San Francisco Opera pushed the progressive opera envelope in the U.S.† Like this National Historic Monument, the Hockney Turandot vibrates in theatrical shapes and Chinese red, and by now it too is an historic monument. is famously the Hockney muse, thus the specific muse for the technicolor Hockney Turandot has to have been Grauman’s Chinese Theater. Meanwhile that same year (1992) Los Angeles artist David Hockney bestowed a Turandot upon San Francisco (and Chicago) that is pure Tinseltown. ![]()
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