November 2015 – Repeat Performances

November 28, 2015

The Jewelry Box: A Christmas gift

The Christmas season is notorious for old chestnuts, like The Nutcracker and Dickens’ Christmas Carol, It’s a Wonderful Life and White Christmas. “Rudolf the Red-nosed Reindeer”. OMG. – Christmas carols. They...

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November 27, 2015

Mummenschanz at Cal Performances

The playfulness of silence Garbed entirely in velvety black unitards, the four performers who currently comprise Mummenschanz delighted an audience of the perpetually young at Cal Performances Zellerbach Hall this past...

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November 22, 2015

Danish String Quartet at UC’s Hertz Hall

Teaching taste and timelessness… Cal Performances hosted the dynamic Danish String Quartet for a weeklong residency followed by a concert, held last Sunday at Hertz Hall on the UC campus. Their attentive reading of a modern work and edgy performance of two older works was a reminder of the timelessness of great art. They warmed up with Joseph Haydn’s String Quartet in C Major, Op. 54, No. 2, an ingenious work from Haydn’s middle...

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November 19, 2015

Cavalia’s “Odysseo” at AT&T Park

A stunning odyssey of horse and rider With 65 horses, 45 riders and acrobats, 10,000 tons of rock, earth and sand, and a lighting rig to put the Rolling Stones to shame, Odysseo rode into town last...

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November 18, 2015

An entertaining five hours at San Francisco Opera’s “Die Meistersinger”

It was a good week for opening nights, including San Francisco Opera’s production of Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg. Wagner’s only comedy, Die Meistersinger is an engaging story with complex characters that demands a cast of...

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November 14, 2015

“Date Night at Pet Emergency” at The Marsh Theatre

Storytelling. It must be one of our oldest social engagements. Children practice it, unwinding long and uninspired retellings of movies they have seen and occasionally...

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