The Opera Tattler
Reviews of Performances and their Audiences
Category: Die Entführung aus dem Serail
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Die Entführung aus dem Serail again on Sunday afternoon and Otello again with Tuesday evening. I was struck by how different the former opera’s set looks up close and how consistent and monolithic the latter one’s set was even when immediate. The delicate projections used on the palace in Die Entführung aus dem Serail were…
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Mozart’s Die Entführung aus dem Serail opened last night at San Francisco Opera, with Peter Schneider conducting, and a whole gaggle of singers, and one actor, from the Germanic realms. The production seemed to not have confidence in either Mozart’s music to enchant or the audience’s ability to attend to this music, and the beautiful…
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We went to the Hungarian State Opera twice to see La Bohème and Manon Lescaut. They were having a Puccini Festival, so now I’ve seen more Puccini than anything else as far as opera goes. The opera house is so gorgeous, inside and out, though I’ve only been on the inside of five opera houses.…
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