Music critic and journalist
     Cheryl North :: Reviews

October 2, 2012
Review of the California Symphony, Opening Concert of the 2012-2013 Season
Bay Area News Group and Inside Bay Area

February 15, 2011
Review of Dmitri Hvorostovsky Recital, Davies Hall, San Francisco, February 13, 2011>
Bay Area News Group and Inside Bay Area
under headline, 'Slavic Soul' on display at Davies Hall

November 15, 2010
Review of the Berkeley West Edge Opera's Production of Georg Frederic Handel's Xerxes
Bay Area News Group and Inside Bay Area

October 3, 2010
Review of the California Symphony, Opening Concert of the 2010-2011 Season
Bay Area News Group and Inside Bay Area

June 7, 2010
Review of the San Francisco Opera Production of Faust
Bay Area News Group and Inside Bay Area

February 22, 2010
Review of the Berkeley Opera Production of Don Giovanni
Bay Area News Group and Inside Bay Area

January 22, 2010
Review of the Oakland East Bay Symphony Orchestra "Notes from Armenia"
Bay Area News Group and Inside Bay Area

November 16, 2009
Review of the Oakland East Bay Symphony Orchestra "Night at the Opera"
Bay Area News Group and Inside Bay Area

October 2, 2009
Review of the San Francisco Opera Production of The Abduction from the Seraglio
Bay Area News Group and Inside Bay Area

July 17, 2009
Review of The Ballad of Baby Doe by the Berkeley Opera
Bay Area News Group and Inside Bay Area

February 18, 2009
Review of Sofia Gubaidulina's The Light of the End and Anton Brucker's Symphony No. 4, Conducted by Kurt Masur
Bay Area News Group and Inside Bay Area

November 16, 2008
San Francisco Opera Production of La Boheme, Conducted by Nicola Luisotti
Bay Area News Group and Inside Bay Area

November 14, 2008
Opening Concert of the 2008-2009 Season of the Oakland East Bay Symphony; World Premier of Nathaniel Stookey's Zipperz
Bay Area News Group and Inside Bay Area

October 17, 2008
Philharmonia Baroque's Concert of J.S. Bach Reconstructed
Bay Area News Group and Inside Bay Area

October 11, 2008
Livermore Vally Opera Production of The Barber of Seville
Bay Area News Group and Inside Bay Area

September 23, 2008
Production of Die Tote Stadt by the San Francisco Opera
Bay Area News Group and Inside Bay Area

September 5, 2008
The 2008 Opening Night of the San Francisco Opera with Dmitri Hvorostovsky in the Title Role of Simon Boccanegra
Bay Area News Group and Inside Bay Area

May 2007
World Premiere of David Conte's One-Act Opera, America Tropical, Thick House, San Francisco
The Oakland Tribune and Other ANG Newspapers

February 24, 2006
Dmitri Hvorostovsky with the Philharmona Orchestra of Russia, in concerts at Davies Hall, San Francisco, and Barbican Hall, London
The Oakland Tribune and Other ANG Newspapers

September 30, 2005
The San Francisco Symphony Performing Mahler's Fifth Symphony
The Oakland Tribune and Other ANG Newspapers

May 23, 2005
The Oakland East Bay Symphony Performance of Leonard Bernstein's Mass
The Oakland Tribune and Other ANG Newspapers

November 22, 2004
The Opening Concert of the 2004-2005 Season of the Oakland East Bay Symphony
The Oakland Tribune and other ANG Newspapers

October 22, 2004
Tristan und Isolde at the Stuttgart State Opera, Stuttgart, Germany
Classical Music Column for the ANG Newspapers Preview Section

January 16, 2004
Dido and Aeneas at the Crucible, Oakland, California
Classical Music Column for ANG Newspapers Cue Sections

October 24, 2002
Kurt Masur Conducting the San Francisco Symphony in Benjamin Britten's War Requiem
The Oakland Tribune and other ANG Newspapers

February 23, 2001
The San Francisco Symphony at Carnegie Hall, 2001
Classical Music Column for ANG Newspapers Cue Sections

November 15-16, 1999
Orchestre de Paris, Benefit Concert for the Mahler Library
Classical Music Column for ANG Newspapers Cue Sections

April 2, 1997
Dmitri Hvorostovsky with the San Francisco Symphony
Classical Music Column for ANG Newspapers Cue Sections

April 8, 1994
Luciano Pavarotti - Selling the Audience Short
Concert Review from The Oakland Tribune and Other ANG Newspapers




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