Opera News, September 1st, 2003
NORTH AMERICA
SAN FRANCISCO
A three-opera "festival" in June and July brought to a close Pamela Rosenberg's first year as San Francisco Opera's active producer (and second as general director). Not all has gone well lately for the eighty-year-old company. Money problems have imposed an all-around belt-tightening, with effects on repertory and staff that will echo into future seasons and threaten Rosenberg's early, glowing proclamations of "Animating Opera," her five-year plan to lend fresh luster to the look, as well as the substance, of the medium.
Even so, the bottom line - artistically a...
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