The Opera Tattler
Reviews of Performances and their Audiences
Category: Doctor Atomic
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* Notes * Penny Woolcock's new production of Doctor Atomic was shown as a simulcast over the weekend. The set design, by Julian Crouch, was somewhat busy, and involved a wall of cubbyholes meant to be offices. Andrew Dawson's choreography was likewise overwrought at times, as when dancers held contortions within the small office spaces. Video…
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Agnes Varis and Karl Leichtman bought $500,000 worth of prime orchestra seat tickets for Doctor Atomic at the Met. These tickets will be resold for $30 apiece. The opera opens on Monday. Press Release | Official Site
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Bass-baritone Eric Owens is currently singing the role of the King of Scotland in Ariodante at San Francisco Opera until July 6. The Opera Tattler spoke to Owens last Sunday in San Francisco. You started piano at 6, oboe at 10, and now you are an opera singer. Did you come from a musical family?No, there…
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September 22 2008: Gala September 23- October 16 2008: SalomeSeptember 24- October 9 2008: La GiocondaSeptember 27-December 19 2008: Don GiovanniOctober 3-25 2008: Lucia di LammermoorOctober 13- November 13 2008: Doctor AtomicOctober 20- November 20 2008: La TraviataOctober 24- November 22 2008: Madama Butterfly November 7- December 4 2008: La Damnation de FaustNovember 21- December…
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* Notes * Doctor Atomic had its last performance this season at Lyric Opera of Chicago yesterday. The first half of the opera seemed much like what audiences saw in San Francisco two years ago, besides a few minor changes in the libretto and a soprano as Kitty Oppenheimer, instead of a mezzo. I had…
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John Adams' Doctor Atomic had its world premiere on the first day of this month at San Francisco Opera. The opera is in English and is set in New Mexico in July 1945. It starts off with the chorus singing something like "Energy! Matter can neither be created nor destroyed!" It was difficult not to…
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