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Lisa Hirsch

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Music writer (SFCV, SF Chron, Opera News RIP). Stream is various fractions of opera, music, politics. She/her. Queer. Martial artist. Former tech writer.
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At the Berkeley Festival, Sequentia Makes Ancient Music Feel Alive

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By Lisa Hirsch
| San Francisco Classical Voice Verified
Left to right: Benjamin Bagby, leiken, Jasmina Črnčič, and Norbert Rodenkirchen | Credit: Daniel Cullen At St. Mark's Episcopal Church on Thursday, June 11, the venerable early music ensemble Sequentia offered a mesmerizing program of 11th-century German songs, interspersed with purely instrumental works, exploring the Muses of classical antiquity and the art of music itself. It was the group's first appearance at the Berkeley Festival & Exhibition since 2018.
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SF Opera’s Elektra is a Shocking, Brilliant Horror Show of an Opera

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By Lisa Hirsch
| San Francisco Classical Voice Verified
Elena Pankratova as Elektra, left, and Elza van den Heever as Chrysothemis in Strauss's Elektra. | Credit: Cory Weaver Revenge is a dish best tasted cold, or so the saying goes. But Richard Strauss’ 1909 Elektra, a tale of intergenerational violence and bloody revenge, is anything but chilly — especially in San Francisco Opera’s devastating, cathartic revival of Keith Warner’s brilliant night-at-the-museum production.
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S.F. Opera’s ‘Elektra’ is a shocking, brilliant horror show of an opera

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By Lisa Hirsch
| San Francisco Chronicle Verified
Revenge is a dish best tasted cold, or so the saying goes. But Richard Strauss’ 1909 “Elektra,” a tale of intergenerational violence and bloody revenge, is anything but chilly — especially in San Francisco Opera’s devastating, cathartic revival of Keith Warner’s brilliant night-at-the-museum production. Eun Sun Kim’s incendiary conducting and the Opera Orchestra’s magnificent playing drive this revival, which opened at the War Memorial Opera House on Sunday, June 7.
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