The Opera Tattler
Reviews of Performances and their Audiences
Month: July 2009
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Remarkably, mezzo-soprano Zheng Cao seems to be recovering from her Stage IV cancer. Chronicle Article | Journal
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* Notes * The Merola Opera Program's production of L'Amico Fritz opened at the Cowell Theater last night. The offstage chorus sounded angelic and the supporting cast was strong. Even the tiny part of Caterina was sung and acted well by Susannah Biller. Eleazar Rodríguez and Yohan Yi were amusing as the rakish Federico and Hanezò.…
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Jürgen Flimm is leaving the Salzburger Festspiele a year early, leaving them without an artistic director for 2011. AFP Article | Official Site
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Dmitri Hvorostovsky's ex-wife Svetlana is to receive £195,000 annually instead of £170,000. Guardian Article | Dmitri Hvorostovsky's Official Site
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Quinn Kelsey is replacing Dmitri Hvorostovsky in the last 2 performances (October 4 and 6) of Il Trovatore at San Francisco Opera this Fall.
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* Program * Thomson's "A Prayer to Saint Catherine"Alex Mansoori, tenor and Tamara Sanikidze, piano "Voici des roses" from La Damnation de FaustEvan Boyer, bass and Suzy Smith, piano Duparc's "Phidylé"Paul Scholten, baritone and Miaomiao Wang, piano "Piangete voi…Al dolce guidami" from Anna BolenaLara Ciekiewicz, soprano and Keun-a Lee, piano Weill's "J'attends un navire"Caitlin Mathes, mezzo-soprano and Stephanie Rhodes,…
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Baritone Thomas Hampson has an iPhone application in conjunction with his "Song of America" project. More Information from Instant Encore | Official Site
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* Notes * Today's Day at Merola was certainly educational. The event began with a lunch in the opera house, and some members of the Opera Standees Association were kind enough to share a table with me. Bass-baritone Yohan Yi joined us and good-naturedly spoke about working with Dawn Upshaw at Bard College's Graduate Vocal Arts Program…
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Robert Brill will replace Michael Yeargan as the scenic designer for Moby-Dick, which opens in Dallas on April 30, 2010. Dallas Opera | Robert Brill Biography
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* Notes * The 14th San Francisco Silent Film Festival happened last weekend at the Castro Theatre. I attended three of the programs: Amazing Tales from the Archives, Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, and La Chute de la maison Usher. The first program featured the newly-restored Screen Snapshots: 7th Series, a short film The Actor's Children (1910),…
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