A MONODRAMA FOR SCENERY-CHEWING
Paying a generous end-of-season dividend, the San Francisco Symphony provided the patrons with a triple bill: Orchestra, a colossal vocal drama and a modern dance troupe, all compressed into a single program. And the vocal part unleashed the most exciting operatic voice heard all year, Mary Elizabeth Williams, acting out the Arnold Schoenberg monodrama “Erwartung” (Expectation) in passionate, semi-coherent detail. Music director Esa-Pekka Salonen carried off this budget-busting cornucopia of musical treats in the last month of his penultimate season,…