Leah Crocetto (Liù) gave perhaps the finest performance of the evening. Though the staging for his exit with Liù's corpse in Act III was awkward, Aceto sang with beauty and feeling. Yun's baritone is warm, and for the most part, Fedderly and Montenegro have sufficient brightness to be heard over the orchestration.
Our Ping, Pang, and Pong ( Hyung Yun, Greg Fedderly, and Daniel Montenegro) were winsome. The playing was florid, but shimmered when necessary. Even still, the orchestra, conducted by Music Director Nicola Luisotti, only occasionally overwhelmed the singers.
Musically, this performance of Turandot was rather robust, especially in volume. The choreography was not synchronized, and oddly, the dancers as acrobats made the most glaring errors of this type.
This keeps the backstage noise negligible, and lighting made for smooth transitions. David Hockney's production is as garish as ever, but quite functional, as the sets only move minimally for the scene changes. San Francisco Opera's 89th season opened last night with a revival of Turandot ( Iréne Theorin, Marco Berti, and Joseph Frank in Act III pictured left, photograph by Cory Weaver).
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