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Among his important productions: La fanciulla del West in San Francisco and Liege, Adriana Lecouvreur in Seville and Bilbao, Macbeth in Athens, Don Giovanni and Cosi fan tutte at the MMF, Il Barbiere di Siviglia and La Traviata at the Baths of Caracalla, and Cavalleria Rusticana and Pagliacci in Almaty, Kazakhstan.
Edsel Ford Fung (often spelled Fong) (May 6, 1927 – April 24, 1984) was an American restaurant server from San Francisco, California. [1] He was called the "world's rudest, worst, most insulting waiter " and worked at the Sam Wo Chinese restaurant .
Chorus and orchestra of the San Francisco Opera: Live, 24 November 1972 Premiere 1916 [17] 1973 Meyerbeer: L'Africaine: Nelusko Mittelmann, Shirley Verrett, Plácido Domingo, et al. Jean Périsson Chorus and orchestra of the San Francisco Opera: Live Opera d'oro [18] 1974 Verdi: La traviata: Germont Mittelmann, Antigone Sgourda, Barry Morell ...
The restaurant remained a family business, with his wife serving as general manager and his brother as sommelier. [9] La Folie steadily gained in reputation until, by 2000, it was one of only several restaurants in the San Francisco Bay Area, California, to earn a "four star" review from the San Francisco Chronicle. [10]
The restaurant uses Masataka's nickname, Masa, for its title. [2] Upon its opening, the restaurant had a six-month waiting list for reservations. [1] Kobayashi was murdered in 1984, [3] [4] and sous-chef Bill Galloway ran the kitchen until Julian Serrano became executive chef. [2] [5] He was chef for 14 years.
In Search of the Perfect Meal, by Roy Andries de Groot, St. Martin's Press, New York, 1986, ISBN 0-312-41131-6, "The Finest Regional Dish in America", pages 238–245.De Groot was a Dutch-born gourmet and bon vivant who wrote about food and drink for many years after World War II in a variety of magazines and newspapers as well as writing several books.
The Washington Square Bar & Grill was a landmark restaurant adjoining Washington Square in San Francisco's North Beach neighborhood (Powell at Union streets). Known widely as the Washbag, so named by columnist Herb Caen as a play on words, it was a favorite gathering place for a generation of writers, politicians, musicians, and social elite.
The original 75-seat restaurant occupies an unobtrusive windowless mid-block storefront on Sutter Street near Jones Street in the Tendernob neighborhood of San Francisco. The restaurant first opened in the late 1950s. Maurice Rouas, then Maître d', purchased the restaurant from its original owner in 1970 and remained active as of 2012.