The Opera Tattler
Reviews of Performances and their Audiences
Month: November 2001
-
We went to the Hungarian State Opera twice to see La Bohème and Manon Lescaut. They were having a Puccini Festival, so now I’ve seen more Puccini than anything else as far as opera goes. The opera house is so gorgeous, inside and out, though I’ve only been on the inside of five opera houses.…
-
Two weekends ago I went to see Falstaff with a friend who graduated in Linguistics with me. It was much fun, the opera is funny and the staging was excellent. They had a wonderful model landscape background that included minute houses and even cows, and they did a fabulous rainy scene at the beginning. The…
-
Halloween is my favorite holiday, though I think I could do without the time change that always happens before it. We went to Tosca with our lovely friends and had a splendid time. The opera was beautiful, all the singing was adequate. Eva Urbanov has a pretty voice. It was odd seeing the same production…
The Opera Tattler 