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Article: San Francisco Opera Center. (United States: San Francisco; Opera in Review).
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- Opera Canada
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- September 22, 2002
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The San Francisco Opera Center offers intimate productions each year to spotlight its Adler Fellows, younger singers who train with the company and assume smaller roles on the main stage. This year's spring offering, Mozart's La Finta Giardiniera, took intimate pretty literally. Roy Rallo, part of the company's new production team, tested the youth, stamina and tolerance for embarrassment of his singers in antics that cast many a piece of clothing aside and left none unmolested. A worn-out community rec room in 1950s colors and a scraggly house plant framed the tawdry doings.
Amazingly, the music still glistened under the baton of Canadian conductor Judith Yan, ...