Reviews
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Spell of Fire and Darkness — Yefim Maizel Directs "Il Trovatore" in Kazan Reviewed by Anna Naumova
“Il Trovatore” is a successful synthesis of the stage director’s musical interpretation and theatrical ideas…” [Click to Read More] Aida Review — West Bay Opera Presents a Gem of a Production Reviewed by Philip Hodge "All is darkness and silence…… Until…… The audience bursts into wild applause." [Click to Read More] L'italiana in Algieri The Richter Scale reviewed by Judy Richter "Maizel, an assistant stage director at the San Francisco Opera, sets the story in the 1920s and interprets it as a ‘tongue-in-cheek adventure story,’ according to his program notes..." [Click to Read More] Manon Lescaut The Argus by Sheryl North "...the most luminous of the gems in Berkeley’s ‘Manon’ were the music itself and the stage direction by Yefim Maizel..." [Click to Read More] The Demon The Sunday Times reviewed by Hugh Canning "...sung in Russian without surtitles, the action was always crystal clear, the subtext subliminal..." [Click to Read More] Attending a Master Class by Yefim Maizel Grade A Entrepreneurs by Marylene Delbourg-Delphis "Through his coaching, Maizel allowed the rest of us to "look under the hood" of the well-staged opera and learn a thing or two about what can effectively turn opera into storytelling at its best..." [Click to Read More] A Stunning End of Season SF Classical Music Examiner reviewed by Stephen Smoliar "...the audience was thoroughly energized by Maizel's skills in ending the program with a bang..." [Click to Read More] Narrative in Theory and Practice SF Classical Music Examiner reviewed by Stephen Smoliar "Last night's Bay Area Summer Opera Theater Institute (BASOTI) master class took a fascinating and informative departure from its predecessors..." [Click to Read More] La Calisto SF Classical Music Examiner reviewed by Stephen Smoliar "In Aristotelian terms the opera was originally conceived with a priority for spectacle..." [Click to Read More] Don Pasquale Metroactive reviewed by Philip Collins "Director Yefim Maizel brought out the sheer playfulness of Donizetti and librettist Giovanni Ruffini's three-act buffa. The singers relished their assignments..." [Click to Read More] |
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