The Opera Tattler
Reviews of Performances and their Audiences
Month: July 2008
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October 16 2008: Piotr Anderszewski October 29 2008: Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra November 17 2008: Thomas Adès December 2 2008: Christian Tetzlaff January 24 2009: San Francisco Symphony February 19 2009: Cecilia Bartoli March 18 2009: Academy of Ancient Music March 26 2009: Estonian National Symphony April 22 2009: Australian Chamber Orchestra May 2 2009: Los…
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June 11-13 2009: Le Nozze di Figaro June 25- 27 2009: Don Carlo July 9-11 2009: Ainadamar July 23-31 2009: Carmen Cincinnati Opera’s 2009 season includes Michelle DeYoung singing Princess Eboli in Don Carlo, Dawn Upshaw as Margarita Xirgu in Ainadamar, and William Burden as Don José in Carmen. Cincinnati Opera Official Site | 2009…
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* Notes * A friend of mine, harpsichordist and organist Vince Ho, is having a concert series at St. Alban’s over in Albany, CA. The latest installment was yesterday’s “Cantatas, Songs, and Arias from the Time of the English Restoration and the Glorious Revolution.” The music performed was from the time of Charles Stuart‘s exile…
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Damon Albarn’s Monkey: Journey to the West finished a short run at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden from July 23rd to 26th. The work is in Mandarin but was first performed last year in Manchester, and has since appeared at the Théâtre du Châtelet and the Spoleto Festival USA. Reviews of ROH Performances: Daily…
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I'm being kept quite busy with non-opera activities, so I present to you an opera painting from 2003. This acrylic on paper work was painted after I had gone to a performance of Händel's Serse at the Bavarian State Opera. It was one of the few times in Munich that I wasn't in standing room. The…
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Soprano Marnie Breckenridge has been released from her contract to sing Tytania in A Midsummer Night’s Dream at Festival Opera next month. She will be replaced by former Meronlina Ani Maldjian. Breckenridge will cover the role of Sierva Maria in Love and Other Demons at Glyndebourne. News Blaze Article | Festival Opera Official Site
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Opening night tickets for Don Giovanni at Covent Garden will be only available to readers of The Sun. BBC Article | Royal Opera House | The Sun
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* Notes * Yesterday’s matinée performance of Tosca ended Berkeley Opera’s 2008 season. The main conceit of the production, directed by Barbara Heroux, was an upstage pentagon screen on which images were projected. The images alternated between representing the physical scene and showing the internal state of the characters. The latter were invariably paintings from…
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Composer Ned Rorem has withdrawn from Little Nemo in Slumberland, which was to have a world premiere at the Sarasota Youth Opera on May 8, 2009. Herald Tribune Article | Sarasota Opera
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The Met’s sputnik chandeliers are being dismantled and repaired this summer. Lobmeyr director Hans Harald Rath designed these chandeliers for the opening of the Met at Lincoln Center in 1966. Article in the New York Times | Slide Show | The History of Lobmeyr | Lobmeyr’s Official Site | The Metropolitan Opera’s Official Site
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