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The San Francisco Opera opened a new-to-San Francisco production of Richard Wagner’s sprawling Romantic opera "Lohengrin" last week to cheers and general audience approval for an appealing cast well-suited to a somewhat daring concept.

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"Swan Lake" is a poetic tragedy told as a moving picture with only the power of personal beauty, scenic effects, sincerity of gesture, and music to take your heart and wring you out.

Amazingly, the production team has fashioned a cogent and artistically satisfying distillation of a vast and complicated work of prose.

The Vincenzo Bellini opera, based on Shakespeare’s "Romeo and Juliet," is a co-production with the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich, where it premiered last year.