Included in her recent productions for San Francisco Opera are Der Ring des Nibelungen, Aida, Luisa Miller, Show Boat, Porgy and Bess, and the world premieres of Heart of a Soldier and Two Women ( La Ciociara). This internationally recognized, multi-award-winning director of opera and theatre is hugely popular.

He didn’t live to see how successful his Carmen would become – nor did he know of the prediction of Tchaikovsky that within 10 years, it would become “the most popular opera in the world”.Ī Francesco Zambello production at the War Memorial Opera House is always keenly anticipated. Bizet’s Carmen with the San Francisco Opera Dance Corps, J’Nai Bridges as Carmen (center), Natalie Image as Frasquita (left) and Ashley Dixon as Mercédèsīizet, who had taken a lot of care to familiarize himself with the music of Andalusia – the region in which Carmen is set – was devastated by this reception, and at the time of his death from a heart condition three months after the premiere, he was certain that he’d written the greatest failure in the history of opera.

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