The Opera Tattler
Reviews of Performances and their Audiences
Month: March 2008
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Mezzo-soprano Helene Joseph-Weil and composer Benjamin Boone have put together an "ethno-historical cantata" based on the oral history of one Ascencion Solorsano, the last known fluent speaker of Mutsun. NPR Story | The Mutsun Language
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* Notes * San Francisco Opera‘s Annual Meeting was held yesterday afternoon. Board of Directors President George H. Hume, General Director David Gockley, and CFO Michael Simpson all gave reports. Things seem to be going well, the endowment is up to $125 million from $45 million in 2002-2003, and though subscriptions are slightly down from…
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Next season the Royal Opera, London will show live performances of both ballet and opera in movie theaters across the UK. As for this season, ROH will present pre-recorded a performance of Carmen, along with the ballets Sylvia, Romeo and Juliet, The Tales of Beatrix Potter, and Sleeping Beauty. Telegraph | CBC News |Official Site
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"I had to look it up," said Renée Fleming of the Central Asian country Kazakhstan in an interview with Manuela Hoelterhoff. (Apparently she didn't watch the terribly informative film Borat.) Fleming is singing an opera ball in Almaty this summer.
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September 8- October 4 2008: Don GiovanniSeptember 16-29 2008: La fanciulla del WestSeptember 23- October 10 2008: La CalistoOctober 11-18 2008: La BohèmeOctober 23- November 11 2008: Matilde di ShabranNovember 9-24 2008: ElektraNovember 25- December 13 2008: Les Contes d'HoffmannDecember 9 2008- January 1 2009: Hänsel und GretelDecember 22- January 23 2008: TurandotJanuary 20-31 2009:…
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Padmâvatî opened last Friday at Théâtre du Châtelet. In English: IHT | Times of India | Reuters India | The Telegraph En Français: webthea.com | Le Monde | ResMusica.com | AFP
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The chief executive of the Royal Opera House Tony Hall recently reviewed youth dance in the UK and dance is to receive £5.5 million from the Departments for Culture, Media and Sport and Children, Schools and Families and Arts Council England. Press Release | BBC Article
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* Notes * The 2008 season of Berkeley Opera opened last Saturday with a performance of the very silly opera L'Elisir d'Amore. The production is sweet, and the set only seemed to have two modes, one with one arch in the background and a few feet of stone wall, and another with three arches and…
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* Notes * Despite my lack of enthusiasm for Benjamin Britten's music, I did attend today's simulcast of Peter Grimes. Some of Britten's rhythms in this opera were of interest, particularly the sea shanty at the end of Act I. Unlike the protagonists of Billy Budd or The Turn of the Screw, the character of…
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* Notes * A charming production of La Bohème opened at San Francisco Lyric Opera at Cowell Theater last night. The orchestra was not quite together, and at times the singers were not with the orchestra either. For the first act I was unable to stop listening to the orchestra, as it was on the…
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