Verdi’s “Un Ballo in Maschera” (“A Masked Ball”) opened San Francisco Opera’s 102nd season on Friday at the War Memorial Opera House, with many of the nearly 3,000 attendees sporting masks (decorative, not KN95) and applauding the well sung, richly staged performance. Written in the composer’s prime, “Ballo” is possibly the most inventive of Verdi’s works, […]
