Axel Feldheim

Blogger of performing arts & enlightening activities in San Francisco

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Gave myself the afternoon off & headed to @alamodrafthouse so I could catch theatrical release of @donhertzfeldt 's ME + It's Such a Beautiful Day. Really worth seeing, though it was a somewhat traumatizing 90 minutes. #donhertzfeldt #animation

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@HellOnFriscoBay I noticed this too & was indeed thrown off by the clue.

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@owenthomas @sfexaminer @AlexanderBookCo I worked downtown in the 1990s & 2000s & fondly remember patronizing Alexander Books as well as the shops mentioned in the last 2 paragraphs. Article made me very nostalgic!

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At @SFOpera Medallion Society Luncheon, heard bass-baritone Simon Estes describe making his professional debut in the 1950s at the Deutsche Oper Berlin in a role he had just 4 days to learn. I can’t imagine something like that happening today.

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Heard @OneFoundSound premiere Herbert Franklin Mells’s 1938 Symphony No. 1 in @HeronArts gallery. The acoustics of the small space were harsh, but the audience was spirited.

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Saddened to hear of the passing of Stephen Salmons, one of the founders of @sfsilentfilm. I recall in an early year of the festival visiting their tiny office to buy a festival pass & getting into a conversation with him about silent westerns.

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Sharing information here about the short-notice cancellation of our recent concert in Florida:

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Saw lively production of Verdi’s Falstaff at @OperaSanJose . Darren Lekeith Drone was a great physical comedian in the title role. We got a Super Bowl update via the supertitles before act II.

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Violinist Midori’s 2nd @sfperformances recital at Herbst featuring solo Bach was sunnier in mood but no less deeply affecting. All I can hear in my head right now is the sound of her Bach.

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Heard violinist Midori play a phenomenal solo recital at Herbst Theater. Could feel her sound pressing my chest & am still awash in the intense emotions channeled through her solo Bach.

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Good of @operatattler to goad me into attending @SFConservMusic undergraduate performance of Handel’s Acis & Galatea. It was rather sweetly done.

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For today's NYT Spelling Bee word puzzle, I feel like "bytecode" should be a valid pangram.

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Attended matinee of Orpheus & Eurydice at @SFOpera . Dancers & singers were well-integrated. Countertenor @OrlinskiJozef provided extra spectacle by going vertical with ease.

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Got quite engaged by the trio of soloists for Traviata at @SFOpera as the evening progressed. Felt like I lived through the story with them.

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Nice to witness Catherine Cook, Philip Skinner & Dale Travis, all former Adlers, receive the @SFOpera Medal on the stage following the performance of Dialogues of the Carmelites.

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@operatattler @SFOpera I was delighted to drop by & see Tchaikovsky’s youngest fan!

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Eugene Onegin at @SFOpera has many strengths. Tenor Evan LeRoy Johnson is thrilling & heartbreaking in act 2. Enjoyed hearing mezzo Aigul Ahkmetshina’s wonderful low notes & expressive singing. Bass Ferruccio Furlanetto is a welcome bit of luxury casting as Prince Gremin.

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With a group of friends at @SFOpera to see John Adams’s Antony & Cleopatra. On the plus side, fine singing, orchestra sounded great, & we all had the same reaction to the opera.

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A pleasure to see @OperaSanJose ‘s bright, fun & colorful staging of Marriage of Figaro, set in colonial India. The appealing cast is full of fine voices.

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Gaetano Merola photographed by Dorothea Lange in 1921. This is currently on the website of the Scott Nichols Gallery. #SFOpera