tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11380345.post6897934603455154013..comments2024-03-17T12:16:42.048-07:00Comments on Civic Center: To The Guillotine with Andrea ChenierCivic Centerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12362422142667230626noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11380345.post-11204040794946384592016-10-01T22:43:54.180-07:002016-10-01T22:43:54.180-07:00Dear Hattie: The real irony, which I didn't br...Dear Hattie: The real irony, which I didn't bring up, is that this was the Opening Night Opera of the season, where San Francisco's version of Old Society struts their stuff at $15,000 per person dinners before and after the actual opera. The theme this year was "La Revolution et L'Amour," which felt so tin-eared in terms of current political realities that it made me laugh. I was hoping there would be guillotines at the exits to the tent parties. And that was part of the problem with the opera, too. It starts sympathetic to the poor, starving peasants but quickly devolves into a story about a beleaguered aristocrat with a cute poet lover who die together because of the excesses of those dirty sans-culottes in charge of La Revolution.Civic Centerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12362422142667230626noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11380345.post-69348345154852602682016-10-01T16:51:13.679-07:002016-10-01T16:51:13.679-07:00Great review. I really wonder about all the money ...Great review. I really wonder about all the money and effort going into productions like this. Hattiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13297404386730167834noreply@blogger.com