The Opera Tattler

Reviews of Performances and their Audiences

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Month: February 2009

  • Mendelssohn at PBO

    * Notes * Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra played an all-Mendelssohn program in honor of his 200th birthday last week. The playing was quite clean and détaché, which was fine for the Three Motets, Op. 39, but was perhaps less appropriate for A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Op. 21 & 61. The evening began with The Hebrides (Fingal’s Cave), Op. 26,…

  • Werner Herzog and La bohème

    Werner Herzog has made a short film that features "O soave fanciulla" from La bohème and footage from south-west Ethiopia. Telegraph Article

  • Dallas Opera’s 2009-2010 Season

    October 23- November 8 2009: Otello February 12-28 2010: Così fan tutte February 19- March 7 2010 : Don Pasquale April 30- May 16 2010: Moby-Dick May 7-23 2010: Madama Butterfly Star-Telegram Article | Official Site

  • Friedkin Withdraws

    William Friedkin will not direct the opera An Inconvenient Truth. NY Times Article