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• S.F. Ballet Masters the Joy and the Tragedy in Heavy Russian Onegin

  By Lauren Smiley | Thu, February 2, 2012

  ​It's winter in San Francisco, it's cold (or at least gray), and the San Francisco Ballet's 2012 season has kicked off this week with a heavy, Russian tragedy. (Save the whimsical Don Quixote fo More >

• Shen Yun Stages Its Own Chinese Cultural Revolution on a Grand Scale

  By Keith Bowers | Wed, January 4, 2012

  China is living through an intellectual and creative dark age. While the nation's economy booms and consumer culture thrives, the totalitarian government has "overhauled" the nation's arts communitie More >

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  Resistance Movements

  By Keith Bowers | Wed, December 28, 2011

  China is living through an intellectual and creative dark age. While the nation’s economy booms and consumer culture thrives, the totalitarian government has “overhauled” the nation’s arts communities to bring them in line with its political dogma... More >

• SF Opera Breathes Dark and Lusty Life into 200-Year-Old Don Giovanni

  By Emily Hilligoss | Mon, October 17, 2011

  ​Within the past three years, local audiences have had the opportunity to experience productions of Mozart's Don Giovanni on a small scale (SF Parlor Opera), a medium one (SF Lyric Opera), and n More >

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  "Heart of a Soldier": Opera Set on 9/11 Inert, Cluttered, and Inane

  By Emily Hilligoss | Wed, September 14, 2011

  Here's a small yet telling detail in the continuing drama of America's response to the Sept. 11 attacks: the premiere of an opera that deals with those events yet lacks a tangible antagonist. As evidence of healing, or at least as evidence of a mo... More >

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