The Opera Tattler
Reviews of Performances and their Audiences
Month: October 2007
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Donald Runnicles, the current music director at San Francisco Opera, will become the next general music director at Deutsche Oper Berlin, starting August 1, 2009. Press Release (In German) | Biography | Official Site
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June 27- August 23 2008: FalstaffJune 28- August 22 2008: Le Nozze di FigaroJuly 12- August 21 2008: Billy BuddJuly 19- August 20 2008: RadamistoJuly 26- August 12 2008: Adriana Mater The next season at Santa Fe Opera includes the US premiere of Kaija Saariaho‘s newest opera. Naturally the production of Händel is from David…
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* Notes * Tonight was the last of eight performance of Iphigénie en Tauride at Seattle Opera.This co-production with the Met is yet another Wadsworth/Lynch collaboration, this one tending more toward the elaborately overwrought (Rodelinda) rather than the staid clean lines (Lohengrin). The stage was had a claustrophobic feel, as it was divided into three…
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* Notes * Appomattox ended its 7 performance run yesterday. Sara Jobin conducted well, and the only weak points I noticed were when the orchestra overwhelmed Brian Leerhuber (Robert E. Lee) at the end of Act I Scene 2 and during the choral "Clap your hands all you people" in Act I Scene 4. Brian…
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* Notes * Last night was the fifth performance of Die Zauberflöte at San Francisco Opera, just over halfway through the run, which closes November 3rd. From standing room in the balcony, one can appreciate the colorful designs on the floor, but sadly, only the arms of the Queen of the Night were visible in…
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Don Giovanni at Merola Opera Program (August 2, 2024) Pelléas et Mélisande at Münchner Opernfestspiele (July 23, 2024) Tannhäuser at Münchner Opernfestspiele (July 22, 2024) Parsifal at Münchner Opernfestspiele (July 21, 2024) Tancredi at Bregenzer Festspiele (July 19, 2024) Der Freischütz at Bregenzer Festspiele (July 18, 2024) Fellow Travelers at Opera Parallèle (June 23, 2024)…
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A fortnight ago I was reading E.M. Forster’s Where Angels Fear to Tread (1905) and laughed quite heartily at the following scene in Chapter 6 at a performance of Lucia: Harriet, meanwhile, had been coughing ominously at the drop-scene, which presently rose on the grounds of Ravenswood, and the chorus of Scotch retainers…
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Asher Fisch has been appointed the new Principal Guest Conductor of Seattle Opera. He debuted at there in 2003 with Parsifal last season and returns on August 16, 2008 to conduct the International Wagner Competition. Press Release [PDF] | The New Israeli Opera | Biography
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* Notes * Peter Hall's 1992 production of Die Zauberflöte opened at San Francisco Opera last Saturday. It certainly was odd to see all of Gerald Scarfe's funny designs again, for this production was my first at Los Angeles Opera, and I did not enjoy it particularly then, as I was even crankier in my…
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* Notes * Late in September, Oakland Opera Theater was forced to move from their location on Broadway at 2nd Street to 3rd Street at Martin Luther King Junior Way. Nonetheless, the company presented Benjamin Britten’s The Turn of the Screw (1954) from October 5 to 14. The production was set in Louisiana instead of…
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