The Opera Tattler
Reviews of Performances and their Audiences
Category: Billy Budd
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* Notes * A new to San Francisco Opera production of Billy Budd opened last night. The performance was dramatically satisfying and had absolutely solid cast. The Michael Grandage's production comes to us from Glyndebourne and is directed here by Ian Rutherford. The set (pictured left, photograph by Cory Weaver), from Christopher Oram, is tiered…
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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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Britten’s Billy Budd returned to San Francisco Opera for the second time in twenty years. Willy Decker’s sedate and elegant production was designed by Wolfgang Gussmann and staged by Sabine Hartmannshenn. The music was certainly more charming than Britten’s work Death in Venice, particularly the absurd duet "Don’t Like The French!," whose words include "hoppity-skippity…
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